217 stories by "CARA JOY DAVID"
In terms of musicals, there are two that have opened already this spring, the Roundabout revival of She Loves Me and the jukebox musical Disaster!
As nice as the Broadway community is -- and it is a small close-knit community -- it's not all sunshine and rainbows. It's a competitive place. There is a natural vying for attention, both o…
I sometimes consider myself a bad feminist. Last year when folks I greatly respect expressed outrage that Manhattan Theatre...
As of late, I get a lot of questions on what to take a preteen to from adults who want something they see as slightly more...
Every week when the grosses come in, I think: "Wow, look at Aladdin go." I thought this even last winter, the winter not...
For you parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. out there -- please bring a child to the theater.
Is it going to forever change your life? No. Is it going to make you laugh? Very likely so.
I think we've all gotten too used to actors doing less than eight performances a week. And we're also all too accepting of my least favorite trend -- the whole "s/he'll only do 6 perfor…
Of course, the season has already crowned one giant hit, Hamilton, that will inevitably define it. But there is still much to come.
This isn't Lavin's first visit to 54 Below, though it's the first time I've had the opportunity to enjoy it. Lavin's Starting Over is so named because she says "that's what I've been do…
It was just last month I was saying goodbye to my favorite new summer show, Lifetime's UnREAL, and welcoming back a favorite of mine from last season, USA's Playing House. Playing House is a…
The new release does indeed make the show sound more like a revival with some bonus extras. There are three possible explanations I can think of for this change in slant.
I met Donna Lynne Champlin in 2002 and I've seen basically everything she has done in New York since, which means I have...
I am going to estimate that 95 percent of audience members going into An Act of God believe it is a one-person show starring Jim Parsons as God. (While he doesn't like you to take his name i…
What makes a show fail? Many in the industry have pondered that question. If we knew the answer, shows wouldn't fail. Even veteran producers with a string of hits sometimes stumble. For ther…
A few years after I began covering the theater, I was introduced to Joe Iconis through a mutual friend. Though he...
It's approximately 24 hours since the Tony Awards ended -- and, while most of the community is at a Bombshell party, I...
After the telecast (discussed in my post here), Broadway is all about the after-parties. There is the official Tony...
If you ask me, On The Town, which is currently slightly trailing both other contenders in my Tony polling, deserves the win. I, like most, was worried when the show was announced for that ba…
If you ask me, <em>On The Town</em>, which is currently slightly trailing both other contenders in my Tony polling, deserves the win. I, like most, was worried when the show was …
If I had to choose the one featured performer in a play or musical, on or off-Broadway, who I thought was giving the best...
If I had to choose the one featured performer in a play or musical, on or off-Broadway, who I thought was giving the best performance this season, it would be Ruthie Ann Miles in Lincoln Cen…
An American in Paris is about many things: Paris after the war, the joy of new experiences, romance, love, dance and...
An American in Paris is about many things: Paris after the war, the joy of new experiences, romance, love, dance and the relationship between three friends.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for supporting the theater. You seem like someone who paid full price, or at least almost full price, for your tickets. I appreciate that. Thank you for your patronage of the arts.
