242 stories by "Dei Lewison"
Five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury will return to Broadway in a revival of Enid Bagnold’s play The Chalk Garden, set for the 2017-18 season. Lansbury, 90, last appeared on the New Y…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the author and star of the smash hit Hamilton, will reportedly leave the show on July 9, 2016, less than a month after the Tony Awards. Hamilton is nominated for a rec…
Musical comedy is very freeing to my soul, especially dancing and singing. I haven’t done it in a while, and I miss it. There comes a time where you just can’t. You say, “I…
Two years into it, James Monroe Iglehart is still reveling in what he calls the role of a lifetime: Genie in Disney’s Aladdin, which is still playing to sell-out crowds at BroadwayR…
Get ready for a theatrical summer adventure. From the charming Waitress to the nostalgic She Loves Me to the soaring Cirque du Soleil Paramour, Broadway is heating up with a wonderful variet…
Each of the women played by the Tony nominees for Best Actress in a Play is in a difficult situation to put it mildly. Whether battling drug addiction, holding a best-selling novelist captiv…
Doing Shuffle Along is a magical experience — both in terms of the human beings that I get to deal with on a regular basis and the spirits that we get to conjure and bring to the stage…
The Tony Awards have grabbed the spotlight during this NYC theater award season, but they only include Broadway shows in their list of nominations. The Drama Desks, presented by an organizat…
I was raised in Brooklyn — Coney Island. Food parallels the way I was raised right after the Depression. Nobody was rich. So, we had to rely on ourselves and one another. Families came…
All four of the Tony nominees for Best Revival of a Musical are familiar to Broadway audiences. Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me have had multiple productions on the Main Stem over the y…
This year marks 15 years since Heather Headley wowed audiences in Aida. It also marks the first time that she returns to doing the eight-shows-a-week routine " in May, she replaced Jennifer …
My favorite song is “For Good” from Wicked, because it’s so personal and true. People come into our lives and we sometimes take them for granted. It’s nice to t…
Hamilton and The Humans were among the top winners at the 82nd annual Drama League Awards, presented May 20 at the Marriott Marquis in a gala event hosted by Zachary Levi (She Loves Me) and …
A raucous backstage farce. A nearly four-hour journey into one family’s anguish. Raging conflict in a New England village and on the docks of Brooklyn, both seen through the eyes of a …
New York is epic. New York has always been a place that for some reason I feel like I fit. Even though I don’t look like I fit here. People always made me feel like I fit here. Eve…
Futurity and Exit Strategy have won the top awards from the Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing professi…
Tony and Emmy winner David Hyde Pierce will join Bette Midler in the new production of Hello, Dolly!Set to begin preview performances at the Shubert Theatre on March 13, 2017 in advance of a…
Casting director James Calleri has been around the Broadway block and then some. It’s a little unusual for someone on the casting side of the table to rattle off their resumé (that…
My mother says I was born a New Yorker. I just happen to be born in Pittsburgh — go Steelers! My first trip to New York was during spring break of my freshman year at Carnegie Mellon. …
I had visited New York many times, but never to live here. I moved to the city when we started rehearsal for Hamilton at the Public Theater.  The Public found an apartment for me in Re…
Yes, Hamilton is the elephant at this year’s Tony Awards with its staggering 16 nominations — the most for any Broadway show in history  — making it the heav…
Jane Krakowski and Savion Glover were among the winners at the 2016 Astaire Awards, honoring excellence in dance in New York theater and in film. The awards, named for iconic film dancer Fre…
Joe Morton was technically a senior citizen when he won his first major acting award — an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, for his piercing role as the diabolical…
A cocktail in a glamorous New York bar can be the perfect prelude to a Broadway show or the perfect cap to a memorable evening. At the Tony nominees press event, we asked the honorees for th…
My favorite Broadway song would have to be “The Music of The Night” from Phantom of the Opera. I absolutely love this musical! The way Norm Lewis sang to Sierra Boggess was b…
