403 stories by "Jose Solis"
You've got to give it to Scott Siegel, he always knows how to surprise you. His Broadway by the Year series, now in its landmark fifteenth season, is a perennial reminder that Broadway is mu…
According to The Broadway League, since 1984 there have been between 28 to 46 new shows on Broadway each season, which is why it's astounding to realize that between June 1,1963 and May 31,1…
While moviegoers continued flocking to the theaters to see Thor, Captain America and the Hulk battle it out against Ultron in The Avengers sequel, on May 4th at Carnegie Hall there was a dif…
April 8, 2015 marked a unique occasion as some of Broadway's greatest composers got together in a showcase of their chorale pieces conducted by the one and only Judith Clurman of Essential V…
It was a night to remember. One could pretty much use that expression about every single performance of The New York Pops, and yet it seems that with their tribute to Frank Sinatra on April …
After his breakthrough role in The Nance, Jonny Orsini's career seems to be in constant ascent; in less than three years he has appeared on Broadway three times, has done Shakespeare on both…
A New York legend by all means, Julie Halston has become synonymous with show business; having appeared on stage, film and television she simply seems to have done it all. And yet, she is co…
Beyond his fascination with dead presidents, as seen in the likes of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and the workshop of Here’s Hoover! The Historic Herbert Hoover 2014 Comeback Special, …
The legendary Marilyn Maye is returning to 54 Below for a salute to Frank Sinatra. A thirteen day residency at the Manhattan supper club will give fans the opportunity to delight themselves …
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Gigi was last seen on Broadway more than forty years ago in 1973, a mere four years before 25-year-old Dee Hoty would move to New York City from Clevela…
No one puts on a show like The New York Pops; as the largest independent pops orchestra in America, they bring the best of film, theatre and television music to Carnegie Hall, which serves a…
With the voice of an angel and the acting chops to match, Ryan Silverman is poised to have quite the bright future on the Great White Way. In just a few years he's gone from playing supporti…
The statuesque Luba Mason commands any room she's in, just recently at Broadway by the Year where she performed "Come Rain or Come Shine", she made the Town Hall feel as intimate as a smoky …
The notes of George Gershwin's "Summertime" filled Birdland Jazz on March 23, as Anika Larsen took the stage to celebrate the release of her first album, Sing You to Sleep, a collection of s…
The Memory Show tells a simple story: a daughter (Leslie Kritzer) moves back home to take care of her mother (Catherine Cox) who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The two women have clash…
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be headlining her first solo show at Carnegie Hall on March 13. The show, titled One Night Only: Sutton Foster, will feature the New York Pops u…
From Glee to Godspell, and Pacific Overtures, Telly Leung has become one of the most beloved musical theatre actors of his generation, having lent his pristine voice to a varied array of cha…
Shortly before 9/11, playwright Brian Sloan placed an ad looking for a roommate. Little did he imagine how much his neighborhood would change in just an instant. Inspired by the responses he…
A few years before he became famous for his comedic turns in Ugly Betty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the delightful Buyer & Cellar, a fresh-out-of-college Michae…
The Last Five Years first made its Off-Broadway debut in 2002 – it ran at the Minetta Lane Theatre for two months – and while critics adored it, perhaps not many expected it to b…
Tony-winner Lillias White has the kind of voice that's both majestic and soothing, qualities that perfectly fit the real-life character she's currently playing onstage, in Alan Govenar's Tex…
In Rasheeda Speaking, Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins plays Jaclyn, an office worker pitted against her co-worker Ileen (played by Oscar winner Dianne Wiest) when claims of arrogance and incompete…
Another year means another season of the acclaimed series Broadway by the Year, which is now celebrating its fifteenth year. Organized, produced and hosted by the remarkable pop culture crit…
In Sheila Callaghan's Everything You Touch, Christian Coulson plays Victor, a seemingly sadistic fashion designer living in 1970s New York, whose transgressive creative outbursts are only ov…
Pulitzer Prize finalist, Adam Rapp is one of the most prolific artists in America; in 2015 alone he has a new novel coming out, called Know Your Beholder, he's planning on bringing two shows…
