With Jennifer Hudson, American Idol season 3 seventh place finisher, about to make her Broadway debut in the revival of The Color Purple this fall – the same season that American Idol …
Noah Tarnow makes a living being quizzical. The creator of The Big Quiz Thing, he is bringing his act to The New-York Historical Society for a night of Broadway trivia August 7th. Bonu…
Hamilton is NOT the only show opening this month. There are new plays at the Signature by both Annie Baker, winner of last year's Pulitzer Prize for The Flick, and the 84-year-old A.R. Gurne…
"Stella!!" the first performer yelled. "Stella!!!" he repeated more dramatically. "STELLAAAAAA!!!!!!," he shouted yet again, desperately, and he crouched down on the makeshift stage on Jacks…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in July? Take these 10 quiz questions — about Hamilton, “Charge-gate,” new performers in old rol…
Late Night with Seth Meyers featured the six minute scene and song from Fun Home, when Medium Alison (Emily Skeggs), a freshman college student, kisses a classmate, Joan (Roberta Colindrez),…
“Claudio Quest,” about a super-hero on a mission to overcome killer eggplants; “Single Wide,” about a single mother living in a trailer park with her own single mothe…
The Associated Press film and video archives, put up last week on YouTube, means 1.7 million stories to choose from, including these involving Marilyn Monroe; a demonstration by Broadway per…
A 14-year-old boy is reported missing, and eventualy found dead. Chuck DeSantis, who worked the case as a tough-talking detective "in a half-ass town down the Jersey shore," begins to tell u…
Jerry Maguire, hang up your cell phone; Ari Gold, park your Ferrari. Make room for the super sports agent of "King Liz," portrayed vibrantly by Karen Pittman in a new play by Fernanda Coppel…
Although it doesn't open until August 6, Hamilton couldn't be doing better at the box office, with more than 100 percent attendance, and 110 percent of "gross potential." Securing an afforda…
Manuel Versus the Statue of Liberty, we are told, is inspired by the true story of Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an undocumented and once-homeless immigrant from the Dominican Republic who got …
In the first season under the new artistic director Niegel Smith, the Flea is offering new works by in-your-face playwright Thomas Bradshaw (whose previous play include the sex-explici…
When he was in the cast of “Jersey Shore” (and making $100,000 an episode) Vinny Guadagnino described himself on his Twitter profile in six words: “I get paid to be me.R…
Taye Diggs returned tonight to a New York stage after a ten-year absence to star as the title character in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the Tony winning best musical revival. The…
“The Broadway community is one that stands for freedom and civil rights, and human rights really,” Brandon Uranowitz, Tony nominee for An American in Paris, explains in the video…
To see President Obama break into "Amazing Grace" at the June funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney was to witness the continuing force of a hymn written more than two and a half centuries ago.…
To see President Obama break into "Amazing Grace" at the June funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney was to witness the continuing force of a hymn written more than two and a half centuries ago.…
Take this quiz and find out whether you’re Aaron Burr (Leslie Odom Jr.) Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs) King George III (Jonathan Groff) George Washington (Christopher Jackson) or Alex…
It didn't seem possible to like Hamilton more than I already do — until they announced that there would be a ten dollar lottery for front-row seats at every public performance on Broad…
Bernadette Peters and Andrew Rannells play host to Broadway Barks 17 on July 11, 2015, with dozens of Broadway stars helping local animal rescue and adoption agencies find permanent homes fo…
Roger Rees, the Tony winning actor and director, died on July 10 at age 71, after a short illness. A familiar face on television — he was the snobbish Robin Colcord on  “Cheer…
In some ways, the Pan Asian Repertory Theater's wonderfully choreographed and beautifully designed production of "Sayonara" could not be better timed. The 1987 musical, adapted from James Mi…
Instead of looking back at my life in years since I graduated from college, I look at them in terms of those four shows,” Matt Shingledecker says in the video below, recorded after he …
"Well, where can I charge it?" the theatergoer at Hand to God allegedly asked after the usher gave him back his phone. It had been confiscated because he had tried to plug it into a (fake) o…