I tell Mary Testa that the very first time I saw her was when she did a cameo in Sex and the City, playing a cabaret singer who performs "All That Jazz" as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and …
Going to see The Nutcracker during the holidays is a tradition as old as eggnog and fruit cake, but most productions of the ballet have been clearly, and snobbishly, aimed for adults, or at …
Editor’s Note: As we look back at 2014, we are highlighting some of the best shows, performances, theater-related products and experiences the year gave us; for we will surely be talki…
There is probably not a single musical theater lover unfamiliar with the 1987 production of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. The James Lapine-directed show became the ultimate how-to-make …
Dropping a mere two weeks after the broadcast, Peter Pan LIVE! (Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event) was released on December 16, and surprisingly it's among the best cast record…
West Side Story is such a New York institution that the idea of a West Coast production overshadowing anything heard on Broadway sounds downright sacrilegious, yet that is precisely what the…
Jory (Karen Pittman) has just one scene, yet days, weeks even, after you've seen Disgraced, it's she who haunts you. Not to say that the other characters aren't interesting, or that their is…
Tobly McSmith, Co-Writer, Director and Producer of Bayside! The Musical! (And Showgirls! The Musical) took some time out of his busy schedule (decorating the homeless like Christmas trees) t…
Anika Larsen's first number in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical has her character, composer Cynthia Weil, change the words to "Happy Days Are Here Again" to highlight her brilliant improvi…
Described in the words of its own creator Chazz Palminteri, A Bronx Tale is a show you "have to see to believe". The show tells the story of Calogero Anello, a working class boy who gets inv…
John R. Waters has been playing John Lennon for more than two decades. In Lennon: Through a Glass Onion he becomes a version of the late singer without relying on makeup or costumes to help …
At the beginning of his show Bad With Money, Ben Rimalower sings a bit from Judy Garland's "I'd Like to Hate Myself in the Morning", in which the legendary performer declared she would "rais…
Tamar of the River is a unique musical theater piece which combines different music genres, singing styles and cultural elements to tell the story of Tamar (played by Margo Seibert), a coura…
Most of us celebrate our birthdays with a few close friends, one too many tequila shots, and cake (on which we'll subsist for the next couple of days as well), but Emmy-award-winning compose…
In Dirt, Austrian-American actor Christopher Domig plays Sad, an Iraqi immigrant living illegally in an unnamed metropolis. Sad spends his days selling roses to people who more often than no…
With titles like Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary?, A T Stop Named Denial and All About Christmas Eve, Ryan Landry and his Gold Dust Orphans have turned the parody into a formidable art…
In Grind writer/director Zachary Halley poses the question: do we ever really know who we’re talking to? Using a Grindr-like app to frame his story, he introduces us to the awkward, bu…
Who knew that if it wasn't for Robert Redford we wouldn't have Spring Awakening, The Light in the Piazza, Fun Home or A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder? Yes, that Robert Redford, the sa…
The year is 1988 and 12-year-old Fiona (Lori Prince) is trying her best to understand why she feels a certain way about her classmate Margo (Autumn Hurlbert), the feisty redhead who keeps in…
Renaissance man Trav S.D. truly does it all; as actor, author, comedian, cartoonist, producer, playwright and renowned vaudevillian, he has continuously helped promote independent theater, w…
Few performers are as generous onstage as Leslie Kritzer. With a larger than life personality and the pipes to match (damn, she can sing!), she effortlessly steals every show she’s in.…
We hear the notes of a piano, the clinking of glasses, the murmurs of a crowd and then a voice, "good evening ladies and gentleman, welcome to Philadelphia's liveliest spot in South Philly: …
Tony nominee Norm Lewis (Porgy and Bess) has just taken on duties as the title character in the record-breaking The Phantom of the Opera and at least judging from the performance we attended…
Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan was one of the most delightful surprises to open during the last Broadway season (read our review here). In the title role, Daniel Radcliffe …
After a stellar New York run in 2012 at Lincoln Center’s LCT3, Disgraced is finally making its way to Broadway and we couldn’t be more thrilled. The play which deals with Islamop…