The 271 words of the Gettysburg address, which President Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19, 1863 (150 years ago today), are read in this Ken Burns video by 25 people: Presidents Barac…
Win the original cast album and  two free tickets to see Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, a musical adaptation of a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace by …
All The Way, the play about LBJ starring Bryan Cranston that has announced it will open on Broadway this season, doesn’t have a Broadway theater or an opening date yet, but it does hav…
Jefferson Mays dies eight times in "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a musical now opened on Broadway whose story is familiar to those who have seen the 1949 Alec Guinness movie, "Ki…
Aladdin, Disney's new stage musical with music by Alan Menken (Newsies, etc.) currently playing in Toronto, will begin performances on Broadway at the New Amsterdam on February 26, an…
Billy Crystal reprises his autobiographical one-person show, 700 Sundays, through January 5, that he presented on Broadway in 2004. Many of the reviews are positive, although some feel the s…
Win two free tickets to see The Winslow Boy, a well-reviewed play currently on Broadway about the true story of a father who fought to clear his son’s name, and the effect it had on hi…
Fun Home, a remarkable musical now running at the Public Theater through December 15,  swiftly lays out what it seems to be about, when a middle-aged Alison compares herself to her fa…
“Before something can be brilliant, it first has to be competent” — from list of lessons learned in Song of Spider-Man, newly published memoir by Glen Berger, book writer o…
After a Romeo on a motorcycle, Macbeth in an insane asylum, and Julius Caesar in a women's prison, Mark Rylance decided to bring his own high concept to Shakespeare's plays " presenting …
"Domesticated," Bruce Norris's comedy about the aftermath of a political sex scandal, stars Jeff Goldblum as the politician and  Laurie Metcalfe as his wife, but the clue to assessing …
"Il Divo, A Musical Affair: The Greatest Songs of Broadway Live" is playing for just six performances at the Marquis Theater, and coincides with their release of a new album. The group, whic…
Here is a 31-second video (not counting the 30-second ad) of Carrie Underwood in NBC’s production of Rodger and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, which will be broadcast o…
"The Jacksonian" by Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart) is the second play debuting in New York this season to feature a murder taking place in Mississippi. The first, A Time To Kill, b…
A Disney video that presents the music and lyrics of the song from Newsies, Seize the Day in an artful way: “Now is the time to seize the day / Stare down the odds and seize the day / …
Win two free tickets to see Murder for Two, Â a musical comedy/ murder mystery with a twist: One actor investigates the crime. The other plays all of the suspects. They both play the piano…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in October? Answer these ten questions to find out. Consider this the special Lion King, Wicked, Les Miz edition of my monthly the…
“After Midnight” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” opened during the week in New York theater: We are clearly in the middle of the theater season. I reviewed thes…
Syncopated or synchronized; scatting, swinging or serenading; in white satin or black silk, the more than three dozen supremely talented entertainers of "After Midnight" " singers, dancers a…
There is something terrifically apt in director Julie Taymor, so loved after creating The Lion King, and so hated after Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, inaugurating a beautiful new theater in…
There is a moment in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, which stars Daniel Craig (007) and his wife Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) as a couple who cheat on one another, that may well determine …
When she was ten years old, two seminal events happened to the girl who would become Dr. Ruth, celebrity sex therapist, as we learn in the funny, touching, lovely solo show "Becoming Dr. Rut…
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Wicked on Broadway, Monday’s broadcast of Jeopardy featured an entire category given over to the musical, with cast members such as Lindsay Me…
A video for Paul McCarney’s new song “Queenie Eye” shows the former Beatle playing the piano in Abbey Studio, as one by one other celebrities fill the room: actors Johnny D…
The revival of Harold Pinter's adultery drama Betrayal comes as close to being critic-proof as is possible, with record-breaking ticket sales before it opened because of its two stars " Dani…