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World Theatre Day, created in 1961, is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? International Message by Bretty Bailey The 2014 World Theater Day International Message i…
"Time is the longest distance between two places." — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 — he would be 103 years old today ̵…
Toni Braxton and Babyface are the guest stars of the Broadway musical After Midnight, which offers an evening of the kind of entertainment that was in Harlem’s Cotton Club in the 1930s…
In "Mothers and Sons," Terrence McNally's well-acted, sometimes touching new play, Tyne Daly as Katherine Gerard pays an unexpected visit to Cal (Frederick Weller) the lover of her son Andre…
Broadway’s big guns fired the first volley this week of what will be a month-long assault — 13 more shows are opening within the next month, ending the 2013-14 Broadway season. B…
The Book of Mormon opened three years ago today. It won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Costing about $9.1 million to mount, it has earned nearly $250 million on Broadway alone (with…
When the grim-faced actors in the revival of “Les Miserables” man the barricades and wave the red flag at the Imperial, to my surprise, I didn't just see red. For this third prod…
New teaser for Aladdin
Stephen Sondheim turns 84 today, and in honor of his birthday, a poll that shows the extraordinary range of Broadway plays and musicals, world-famous and completely obscure, with which he ha…
Idina Menzel, who is starring on Broadway in the new musical “If/Then,” which opens on Sunday, Â is on the cover of Billboard next week. It says: “It’s taken her 18…
In Aladdin, the new Disney musical on Broadway, the genie grants theatergoers the first of their wishes " to be entertained. The genie is James Monroe Iglehart, and he is the one who provide…
Peter Michael Marino once got hit in the face with a garbage can in Stomp — but that was nothing compared to the damage caused by his first musical. The musical he wrote based on th…
The cast recording of the Broadway musical Beautiful will be released digitally by Ghostlight Records (Sh-K-Boom) April 1, 2014 and in stores May 13.  Beautiful - The Carole …
“I wish I could transmute my middle aged gay pain into some zombie vampire Lena Dunham comedy superhero reboot movie but I can't,” Mike Albo says in his one-man show “The J…
Has an actor ever actually chewed the scenery? Is there a company that makes edible backdrops? Something tells me we’re going to find out in the next six weeks, where a new play opens …
The cast and orchestra of Aladdin perform the songs together for the first time during the rehearsal period. That’s called Sitzprobe, a Broadway word adopted from the German; it litera…
Halfway through Rocky, a crowd-pleasing musical that's a faithful stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1976 movie, the lights flicker to show Rocky Balboa, his face shrouded in a grey hoodi…
Bryan Cranston made his Broadway debut in All The Way, about LBJ, one of five shows I reviewed this week in a season that's heating up. Â Fiddler on the Roof will play once more on Broadwa…
"If you went away for a week and I spent the whole time in bed with a photographer, would you be mad?" nosy neighbor Marge asks her husband Charlie in "The Bridges of Madison County," the ne…
“Everybody wants power; and if they say they don’t, they’re lying,” Bryan Cranston snarls in “All The Way,” Robert Schenkkan’s play about President …
“Antony and Cleopatra,”which is being given a colorful and ambitiously reworked production at the Public Theater, has a tragic/romantic ending reminiscent of “Romeo and Jul…
“Hello, Dolly is a piece of shit.” This is the voice of Louis Armstrong, after the final concert of his life, as depicted in Terry Teachout's first play, "Satchmo at the Waldorf,…
David Letterman joined the chorus of those making fun of John Travolta’s mispronunciation of Idina Menzel’s name on the Academy Awards. You too can Travoltify your name, via Slat…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Daniel Radcliffe in his third show on Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, opening at the Cort Theater on April 20, 2014. (Previe…
By the end of Stage Kiss, the man and the woman have kissed 288 times. This is according to the woman's husband, who is a banker and loves numbers, and has not been in on the kissing. In Sar…
