It's a question that prospective leading ladies have been asking themselves for two decades now: Are you an Elphaba or a Glinda? The two witches " neither wicked, but both accessibly imperfe…
Wicked opened on Broadway on Halloween Eve 2003, just a few years into my tenure as music and theater critic at USA Today. I arrived at a press preview filled with hopeful anticipation, havi…
It was back in the late 1990s that pop icon Barry Manilow and lyricist and librettist Bruce Sussman first began work on a musical tracing the rise and fall of the Comedian Harmonists, a Germ…
As we look forward to seeing Broadway stars back on stage, they have continued to be recognized during this unusual awards season for their efforts on the big screen, in music, and on our TV…
On April 2, more than a year after the COVID pandemic forced the shutdown of all Broadway theaters, 150 lucky people filed into the St. James Theatre to enjoy a pair of short sets by Savion …
The theater community is facing an unprecedented obstacle this year in the form of COVID-19, the virus that shuttered Broadway last March and has proven equally devastating for the touring i…
The Tony Awards honoring the 2019-20 season were supposed to have been handed out on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, in an annual ceremony that has been a joyous ritual since 1947 and has b…
It goes without saying that the theater industry has been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. But stage folk have never been known to let a crisis get them down, and with New …
About a dozen years ago, when Duncan Macmillan wrote the foundation for what would become Lungs, the celebrated British playwright and director had not yet become a parent. But the subject w…
When actress Claire Foy was sent a copy of Duncan Macmillan's acclaimed play Lungs, "I absolutely loved it," she remembers. "I thought it was extraordinary. But at the time, I'd been working…
Boy meets girl, boy forms rock group to impress girl, boy and girl embark on journeys of self-discovery, accompanied by friends and bandmates and exuberant song and dance. Welcome to Sing St…
If you're wondering how John Carney and Gary Clark collaborated to craft songs for Sing Street " the music-packed 2016 film that became an acclaimed Off-Broadway musical and arrives on Broad…
When orchestrator, arranger, and musical supervisor Alex Lacamoire met composer and lyricist Justin Paul for dinner back in 2013, Lacamoire recalls, a "mutual admiration society" was created…
Over the past decade, director Marianne Elliott has scored a string of critical and commercial triumphs bringing both highly original works"the Tony Award-winning plays War Horse and The Cur…
In recent years, Katrina Lenk has gained the attention of Broadway audiences " and a Tony Award. She originated roles in daring new works that premiered Off-Broadway and in regional theater …
More than 35 years after winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play is at long last headed to Broadway. The cast is led by a pair of veteran stage and screen sta…
Three years ago this November, one of Broadway's most beloved stars declared her own affection for the Great White Way with Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway. It was a live conce…
When Scottish stage and screen actor Brian Cox was first approached about playing American president Lyndon Baines Johnson in The Great Society, it was for a dramatic reading. Cox was wrappi…
Harry Connick Jr. has gotten a kick out of Cole Porter's music since he was a child piano prodigy. He discovered its essential role in jazz repertoire while he grew up in New Orleans " where…
For the celebrated Irish playwright Conor McPherson, Girl From the North Country represents a number of firsts: his first musical, his first work set in the United States, and, oh yes, his f…
She's a veteran stage and screen actress, a singer/songwriter, and she has several albums, two Emmy Awards, and Tony and Oscar nominations under her belt. He's an eminent musician, composer,…
As the fall theater season approaches, a number of popular and beloved productions are preparing to hit the road, bringing notable musicals from Broadway and beyond to a national audience. T…
Long before they were cast as the two sisters who drive the plot of Disney's Frozen in the new touring production of the musical, Caroline Bowman and Caroline Innerbichler were fans of the w…
David Byrne " singer/songwriter, frontman of the groundbreaking band Talking Heads, author, composer, director " is poised to add another title to his collection: Broadway star. This fall, B…
Choreographer Annie-B Parson says that in her latest work, the upcoming Broadway production American Utopia, "the music and dance are the protagonists." And the leading players providing the…