This week features two ticket giveaway contests — Â one ending today, the other beginning. What is your favorite play or musical about a political figure? Why OR What current or hist…
Ticket Giveaway:Â Win two tickets to see "Romeo and Juliet," Â Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy, in its first production on Broadway in 36 years. Directed by David Leveaux, it stars …
Over the course of the evening that unfolds in "First Date," a slight but often charming musical about a blind date, the more experienced Casey (Krysta Rodriguez) offers Aaron (Zachary Levi)…
At the end of "Money Lab," the entertaining and enlightening "economic vaudeville" playing too briefly at The Brick Theater, one of the performers led us in a hymn to money. "Turn to pag…
Romeo and Juliet as biker and his chick? It was just a photo op. Orlando Bloom zoomed in a motorcycle onto the sidewalk in front of the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway, where a new bi-ra…
Bruce Vilanch, successful Hollywood writer (and Hollywood Square), has never even seen a show at the New York International Fringe Festival before, much less performed in one. “I live …
Midway through "Harbor," Chad Beguelin's uneven but ultimately rewarding comedy at Primary Stages, Ted is boasting about his boyfriend Kevin to Kevin's 15-year-old niece. "A few years af…
A video under six minutes that substitutes candy for crystal meth and uses adolescent actors, but is otherwise quite accurate about the TV series that is in its last season. Tagged: Breaking…
Ticket Giveaway: Â With Zimbabwe’s 89-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe last week extending his 33-year rule for five more years, there is no better time to see the “rivetingR…
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have,” Maya Angelou has said. “Talent can’t be taught, but it can be awakened,” said Wallace Stegne…
“Hey, man, it’s Woodstock,” somebody said at the Broadway in Bryant Park concert on August 1, looking at the rain and the mud and the yellow flowers everywhere. Ok, I said …
Below is a transcript of  playwright Mark Ravenhill’s opening speech at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — necessary because the BBC reports it this way: “One of Britain…
Age is just a number, as we learned in July, though “too old” was a phrase that some bandied about concerning certain performers in certain roles. But also during the month, seve…
At the Broadway in Bryant Park concert, the rain took a breather to listen to two songs from a musical that is coming to Broadway in the Fall. Norbert Leo Butz sings Fight the Dragons in Big…
Zachary Levi ("Chuck") and Krysta Rodriguez ("Smash" and "The Addams Family") star in "First Date," a musical about a blind date, which will open at Broadway's Longacre Theater on August 8. …
Below are the shows scheduled to open in the Fall, arranged chronologically in order of their opening. For more information about the shows, see Broadway New Season Guide.
Denzel Washington has confirmed that he will play the frustrated son Walter Lee Younger in "A Raisin in the Sun" next year on Broadway. "We start previews in March." When Sidney Poitier play…
Sure “Smash” was killed after two season because of steadily decreasing viewers. But that hasn’t stopped the merchandising for the TV series about the backstage story of a …
Billy Magnussen — Casey Hughes in the soap opera “As The World Turns,” Tony-nominated for Spike in “Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike,” guitarist for the rock group…
Denzel Washington wants to return to Broadway " in a role that had some ….howling. Tracy Letts is planning a return to Broadway " in a play in which characters…howl. The Prince of Cambri…
“Crossing Swords” and “Volleygirls” will the biggest award-winners in the 10th annual  New York Musical Theater Festival. “Crossing Swords,” a musical …
Cirque de Soleil zoomed into town this past week for a handful of performances of  "Quidam," a production the Montreal-based company is taking on a five-nation tour.  The show, which w…
Storyville, the musical revival bursting forth from the York Theater Company for a too-short five weeks, is a fascinating exercise in nostalgia, several times over. On stage, we experien…
In an essay I've written for Howlround, I ask  ” Is New York City part of America?“ Next year for the first time, theaters within the five boroughs of New York City will…
“Avenue Q” began when Bobby Lopez, a recent college graduate still living with his parents, and Jeff Marx, a recent law school graduate working as an intern and trying to start a…