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It turns out that Marco Rubio has a HISTORY of drinking water.
Alan Cumming accompanied the installation of the marquee for “Macbeth” The stars were not present when Orphans went up All four shows are opening in April: &…
Should the stage reflect the demographics of the city in which it is located? That is the assumption of the second annual report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, the AAPA…
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that "the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but …
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “Kinky Boots,” the Broadway musical based on the 2005 film that tells the true story of a man who saves his family’s shoe factory by…
Best Musical Theater Album:Â Once: A Musical, Steve Kazee & Cristin Milioti, principal soloists; Steven Epstein & Martin Lowe, producers (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, compos…
New York City was lucky this time. The blizzard that the Weather Channel dubbed Nemo saved the worst of its ire for other regions, allowing all Broadway and most Off-Broadway shows to remain…
I have just reviewed two plays for Backstage that could both be called Spanish plays, although they could not be more different. One, “Fuenteovejuna,” at Repertorio Espanol, w…
Some theaters are offering snow deals Roundabout Theater: Picnic and the Mystery of Edwin Drood, as well as Tally’s Folly at the Roundabout’s Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theater, wil…
Here is a picture of Father Duffy Square in Times Square at 6 a.m., February 9, 2013. Manhattan clearly was not the hardest-hit by Winter Storm Nemo (as the Weather Channel insists on callin…
‘Lucky Guy’: From left to right: Christopher McDonald, Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks making his Broadway debut, Maura Tierney, Richard Masur, Courtney B. Vance and Peter Gerety. The l…
“….there is no end to this accursed snow…” “…until the snow is cleared, you must shovel…” “I dreamed a dream in time gone by when snow w…
The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for New York City and the metropolitan region for today and tomorrow, predicting heavy snow of up to 14 inches and strong winds, an…
“These are the cookies my mom is serving at her #Smash party in Pittsburgh. She’s a diva, “Andy Mientus Tweeted before the premiere of  the second season of Sma…
Al Pacino stars with Helen Mirren in HBO film “Phil Spector,” written and directed by David Mamet, about the legendary music producer (Wall of Sound, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Tu…
If ever a TV series did not need professional reviews, it’s Smash, the backstage musical about Broadway that begins its second season tonight on NBC at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. I’d n…
http://www.nbc.com/smash/video/meet-jeremy-jordan/n31999 Jeremy Jordan, who made a splash on Broadway in “Bonnie and Clyde” and especially “Newsies,” plays Jimmy, an …
The beer commercial that made grown men cry. A little background: The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company owns six teams of horses, which they call The Budweiser Clydesdales, that they use for pr…
While it is true that there is not a single Broadway show scheduled to open in the month of February, and there will surely be more new commercials broadcast during the Super Bowl than stage…
By the end of the first scene of the first-ever revival of "Moose Murders," which attained legendary status as the worst flop in Broadway history, I thought to myself: This is really not any…
Clockwise from top left: Phantom of the Opera, Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Barry Manilow, scene from Picnic, Rebecca producer Ben Sprecher
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not address the theatergoers at City Center on the first night of the Encores! appealing if not thrilling production of the 1959 musical "Fiorello," and he did no…
Anton Chekhov was born today in 1860, and died at age 44. He was a Russian physician, a short story writer and a playwright, whose best-known plays, written in the last few years of his life…
Before Randi Zuckerberg spoke at the second annual TEDx Broadway, offering some  suggestions at how to use technology to transcend the limitations of Broadway, the former official a…
Vincent Gassetto does not work in the theater; he is the principal of a middle school in the Bronx, M.S. 343. Yet he had something worthwhile to say at today's day-long conference about Broa…
