A 22-song album of the music from "Bombshell" will be released on February 12, a week after the Tuesday, February 5th premiere of the second season of Smash. The first season of this Broadwa…
This week in theater includes news about “Wicked,” and about an older musical by the same composer; the longer life of “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a hoped-for life f…
“Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy”, 90-minute documentary by Michael Kantor (Broadway: The American Musical.) aired on PBS New Year’s Day Here’s the link Wat…
Vanessa Redgrave paired with Jesse Eisenberg ("The Social Network") in a play he's written? A new musical by David Byrne of Talking Heads fame about ex-dictator spouse Imelda Marcos, famous …
Theater, the original social media, meets its digital counterparts in form-breaking new live/virtual experiments: "As a theatre artist, I love space," Whit MacLaughlin is saying as we leave …
Tom Hanks, Shia LaBoeuf, and Cyndi Lauper are all making their Broadway debuts, and Scarlett Johansson returns, during Spring 2013, a season that promises at least two big hits, both of …
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 " exactly 150 years ago. There is no greater evil in U.S. history than slavery, with the possible exception …
Here are the ten most-read articles from this blog this year: Will Slings and Arrows Return To TV? I uncovered startling news for the many fans of "Slings and Arrows," the cult Canadian T…
It is hard not to be sentimental about the theater at the end even of a so-so year. There ARE Broadway shows with performances on New Years Eve: Mary Poppins, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatc…
“Bullying is an unfortunate part of our society,” writes Ahmed Shayef,  seventh-grader at M.S. 577 in Brooklyn, who won a walk-on role in A Christmas Story as a result o…
"What to do on New Year's Eve is always the puzzlement," Harvey Fierstein wrote this week. "But I think pot luck here at the barn with friends sound sanest. Music. Giggles." But what about N…
How much you were paying attention to New York theater this month… and this year? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
In 1885, at the age of 20, Wilson Alwyn Bentley hooked up a large camera with a microscope and photographed his first snowflake.
People the world over know tomorrow as Christmas. But Les Miz fans know it as the U.S. release of the movie Les Miserables. My review of the movie. It is never too late to give a gift for th…
Playwright Tony Kushner (“Angels in America”) wrote the screenplay of Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg. He talks about it with Bill Moyers, in-between clips from the movie.
This Oscar-winning 2002 documentary about America’s romance with gun violence is centered on the mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The film is funny, sad, insig…
The video was created by Raymond J. Lee. The song “Always” is by Scott Alan. The song is performed by Eden Espinosa, Jane Monheit, and Christiane Noll Participating in the vidoe:…
 After I compiled the top ten lists of top ten theater of 2012, a reader asked me to point out which of these shows you can still see. It occurred to me that the answer was — almost…
Near the end of "Les Miserables,"Â Eddie Redmayne, his face filling up the screen, sheds a tear as he sings: Oh my friends, my friends, don’t ask me What your sacrifice was for Empt…
One day remains to enter my contest for free tickets and merchandise to Les Miserables, the movie opening on December 25. A week left to shop for holiday gifts for theater lovers I've got tw…
26 Names by Jason Robert Brown When I first heard of the shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, I was reading the chapters on the debate over slavery in…
There are several great pleasures in "Golden Boy," the play by Clifford Odets about gifted Italian-American violinist Joe Bonaparte who gives up his art for the life and quick fortune of a b…
When did it become unfashionable for Americans to call ourselves "workers"? Certainly, it goes back way before 1978. That was when "Working" opened on Broadway, a musical co-conceived by the…
Right up there with being told there is no Santa Claus is the news, suddenly prevalent, that “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is not just a sweet duet for the holidays. First some…
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