Molly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life " turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on screen …
What's most remarkable about Ivo van Hove's shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director's ruinous choices " chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video projectio…
What's most remarkable about Ivo van Hove's shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director's ruinous choices " chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video projectio…
Eighteen thousand New York City public school students went to Madison Square Garden this afternoon to watch a performance of "To Kill A Mockingbird," becoming reportedly the largest audienc…
We're all in pain " because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness " and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given the t…
We're all in pain " because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness " and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given the title…
Natalie Portman is Keyonna's imaginary friend, and also her crush. The 16-year-old has other crushes " all white actresses, pictures of whom she has cut out of magazines and pasted into a co…
As Black History Month comes to an end, a new edition of a book about the white supremacy of Broadway musicals (with the too obviously ironic title of The Great White Way) has been published…
Below are some of the latest posts from the few still active New York City theater bloggers: About Last Night and Broadway Journal tell two different West Side Stories; Broadway and Me analy…
"Generator" is part art installation, part dance theater that evokes the evolution of life forms on earth. It starts with performers as single cell organisms dressed in hazmat suits, playing…
In the course of his four-decade career, the Belgian director Ivo van Hove has created more than 100 productions of theater, opera, and movies  throughout the world, with more of them in …
This fifth Broadway revival of "West Side Story," opening tonight, is different from the previous productions of the modern-day version of Romeo and Juliet, with its multiracial cast of 50 (…
Are Broadway musicals covert vehicles for white supremacy? That's more or less the argument that theater writer Warren Hoffman made in his 2014 book. The title apparently proved popular enou…
The calendar for the 74th annual Tony Awards,: Thursday, April 23rd:Â Official cut-off for 2019-2020 Tony Eligibility Tuesday, April 28th: Nominations announced April 30th: Meet the nomine…
The current president of the United States has been depicted largely satirically on out-of-the-way New York stages, Â but nearly every past president has made it to Broadway over the last …
Twists on "Romeo and Juliet" are big this month in New York " in West Side Story on Broadway, of course, but also Beyond Babel, and Romeo and Bernadette, and Juliet and her Romeo It's …
How much do you know about the 41 Broadway theaters? In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Broadway Up Close , a company that gives a variety of walking tours of these theaters, foun…
For the fourth year in a row, the Trump budget proposes shutting down the National Endowment for the Arts, along with many other cultural agencies " the National Endowment for the Humanities…
The audience is invited to sing and dance along with the performers in an actual fandango, which is a lively, spontaneous, communal musical celebration. But that's only after the 100 minutes…
Parasite was the biggest winner at the 92nd Academy Awards, and Broadway veterans were the biggest losers. Below is the list of the winners. (Check out the full list of nominations). An aste…
Ten of the 19 performers nominated for the Academy Awards in 2020 are Broadway veterans, four of them Tony winners. Click on the photographs below to learn details.
Trilobites were actual crab-like creatures of the sea who lived on earth 150 million years before the first dinosaurs " and, like dinosaurs, are long extinct. But they remain as sturdy fossi…
God I blew that answer I blew that answer He hates my single-payer plan So sing the candidates in the Iowa Stage Theatre Company's production of "Adore Us! Line," a musical that uses A Choru…
Although Kirk Douglas, who died yesterday at the age of 103, was known primarily as a movie star, he was also a veteran of Broadway. (Obituaries in CNN, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times) B…
As he's done for close to 40 years, Charles Busch sprinkles his latest campy melodrama with Oscar Wilde wit, Barbara Stanwyck grit, Marlene Dietrich glamour and Mae West shtick: "I don't usu…