Hamilton won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Lin-Manuel Miranda accepting the award with – what else? — a rap: That the winner of the musical theater catego…
The cast of Hamilton will perform their show’s opening number live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers Theater sometime during the 2016 Grammy broadcast, which will air starting at …
"Hamilton" the musical currently presents three U.S. presidents every night " George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison " but nearly every one of the 43 presidents has been portr…
Kiss Me Kate; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Stage Kiss: There sure are a lot of kisses in the theater. Below: Elizabeth Taylor kisses John Culllum in Private Lives in 1983, and Tallulah Bankhead…
Robert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Pa…
Robert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Patrick S…
Below is a two minute video from Papermill Playhouse’s world premiere production of A Bronx Tale: The Musical, with music by Alan Menken (Newsies, Aladdin, Little Shop of Horrors,) whi…
Five years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in …
Five years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in …
Allee Willis has a special interest in the cast album of the Broadway revival of The Color Purple that will be released on February 12th. She wrote the music and lyrics, along with two fello…
A stage adaptation of Frozen, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, will arrive on Broadway in 2018, Disney Theatrical announced. The stage musical, featuring the songs of the husb…
The Woodsman, a nearly wordless play with puppets that tells the story of how the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz lost both his human body and his heart, arrives at New World Stages after seve…
If you were to donate your brain to science, science would return it. So stop it.” So says Dame Helen Mirren, before taking a sip from a bottle of Budweiser. Tagged: Budweiser commerci…
Those looking to unlock the secret to the success of "Then She Fell," the Third Rail Projects' immersive take on Lewis Carroll and his writings now entering its fourth year, might start with…
The Alving Estate, an intriguing and instructive if ultimately unsatisfying experiment, promises an immersive staging of Ibsen's Ghosts. The two companies that conceived the show, Journey La…
“Sleep No More” is Punchdrunk Theater's staging of Macbeth, as if retold by Alfred Hitchcock and Isadora Duncan. It has been running since 2011 in a formerly abandoned club in Ch…
"The Grand Paradise" can be a fun, hip and sensuous two-hour holiday with a cast of 20, all attractive, some barely clad, in a cleverly designed beach resort from the hedonist 1970s. It can …
Late Late Show host and Tony winner James Corden will be the host of the 70th Tony Awards June 12th. He won his Tony for One Man, Two Guvnors. Grease Live, the fourth live television …
Actor Forest Whitaker and playwright Stephen Karam make their separate Broadway debuts this month in the only two Broadway shows opening in February — a revival of Eugene O’Neill…
Grease Live was so smartly cast and so inventively staged — and so much communal fun — that it was easier to forgive the fact that it was still Grease, a dopey, dated, leather-de…
Below is the tracklist for Grease live broadcast on Fox today January 31, 2016, 7 to 10 p.m. The song titles are linked to lyrics as performed either in the original 1972 Broadway production…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in January? Answer these dozen questions —  about BroadwayCon and the blizzard and Hamilton and which Al P…
In "Sojourners," a curious kind of love story among oddly carved characters, a man visits the hospital room of a woman he just recently met who's given birth to the child of her absent husba…
I and You, Lauren Gunderson's two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…
I and You, Lauren Gunderson's two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…