35 stories by "Kimberly Kaye"
A record number of shows are closing, with producers millions in the hole.
There may be no more significant moment in an adult's life than the minute you realize everyone's faking being a grown-up, or at least feeling like one. It's a subject that makes for good do…
Marisa Cerveris is fixated on the man in the ribbon tie. She examines his greying hair, receding and combed back off the forehead, a sloping nose, and two delicately poised hands. "It's like…
"Don't explain it in that little section below the headline," Ciarán Hinds instructs while organizing tea for the two of us in his dressing room at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. "It should…
Musical theater devotees looking for a contemporary American musical that doesn't revolve around starving artists, New Yorkers, or stories you've already seen on film, rejoice: a new star-sp…
Ever have a song that, like, totally gets you, man? The cast of the explosively titled new musical F#%king Up Everything does, and it's a good thing. In the rock tuner by David Eric Davis an…
There's prime real estate for a "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" line here, but it's better replaced with a question: Would you want to teach an old dog new tricks? If your dogs are B…
Belleville, now at New York Theatre Workshop, begins with all the trimmings of a standard-issue millennial relationship drama. An apartment door opens, a failed-actress-turned-yogi stumbles …
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway in the upcoming musical If/Then, set to hit an as yet unnamed Nederlander stage in Spring 2014. The new show will begin its trek to New…
Show host Seth MacFarlane may have devoted the opening of the 85th Annual Academy Awards to beating his critics to the punch, Eminem-in-8 Mile-style (all that was missing was a "I'm outtie/h…
Some people say "musical theater geek" like it's a bad thing. (Because reading treble clef, singing in parts, and feeling feelings are way worse than slaying elves 18 hours a day?) To become…
Complete casting has been announced for the Broadway to off-Broadway transfer of five-time Tony Award winner Peter and the Starcatcher. Rick Holmes and Kevin Del Aguila are among five origin…
Harold Pinter and Vivien Merchant, David Mamet and Rebecca Pidgeon, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. (Okay, not so much the Miller/Monroe nightmare union, but, you know, lists of three.) Ac…
[Warning: The following interview contains "Picnic" spoilers.] Broadway newcomer Maggie Grace is trying to keep the conversation from being about her looks"which is difficult when you're a …
Over 80 student faces packed the stage of The Palace Theater on January 28, mugging, grinning, and switch-kicking throughout Tony Award winning Hairspray hit "You Can't Stop The Beat," along…
The roller derby is "a Godless place," a Catholic priest warns early in The Jammer, Pulitzer Prize finalist Rolin Jones' high-octane new comedy, now at The Atlantic Theater Company's Stage T…
Every show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. In 2012, Argentinean theater star (and Olivier Award winn…
Every show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. In 2012, Argentine theater star Elena Roger--an Olivier A…
Tony Award nominees Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggert will join previously announced two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz in the Broadway debut of new musical Big Fish, producers have a…
Bobby Cannavale, Billy Crudup, Chris Rock, and Zoe Kazan will be among the all-star players going head-to-head at Labyrinth Theater Company's annual Celebrity Charades Benefit. The yearly fu…
Cotton Club Parade, the musical revue conceived by Jack Viertel, will debut on Broadway this coming fall. No theater, casting or dates have been released at this time. Warren Carlyle, who he…
Thank god for Jake Gyllenhaal. Annie Funke is one of the stage's brightest emerging stars. A veteran of pop musicals like Broadway's Hairspray, Funke recently made her breakout straight pla…
When composer Stephen Sondheim and book writer John Weidman's fiercely provocative Assassins hit Broadway in 2004 it landed with a "bang," sweeping in five Tony Awards (including Best Reviva…
Theresa Rebeck is calling New York City on its bullshit. "Good god, the level of superiority in this city!," she says, laughing. "You step out of a cab and people on the street immediately s…
Theresa Rebeck is calling New York City on its bull. "Good god, the level of superiority in this city!" she says, laughing. "You step out of a cab and people immediately start lobbing bullsh…
