Liza Minnelli's Uncharacteristic Pivot to Self-Disclosure
In a new memoir, Minnelli discusses her life more candidly than she has before. But her truest self has always emerged on stage.
In a new memoir, Minnelli discusses her life more candidly than she has before. But her truest self has always emerged on stage.
A meeting of the minds between Broadway’s original Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.
The A-gays loved it; McCarthyites loathed it. Find out why the 1954 musical The Golden Apple—opening at Encores! tonight—still entrances.
If Kander could see one of his collaborations brought back to life, this is what he chooses.
Big River, now at Encores!, isn’t the author’s only connection to the theatre.
What draws Rachel Chavkin, Dave Malloy, Michael John LaChiusa, and Daryl Waters to tackle impossible stage adaptations?
The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is now at City Center in a series of benefit concerts starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. We look back at how the show was written and how it r…
As Encores! prepares to revive the first collaboration between Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, we take a look behind the scenes at how the musical was born.
Annie Oakley used to sit in her tent and knit, rather than striding through the country with a rifle in hand. So how did Irving Berlin turn that woman into a sharp-tongued heroine in a m…
Andrew Lippa's jazz-age musical The Wild Party, which is receiving a revised mounting as part of City Center's Encores! Off-Center series, began with a casual walk through Ba…
Jonathan Groff, who recently headlined the Encores! Off-Center production of A New Brain, recalls waiting in the cold for an autograph Sutton Foster, who will star in the upcoming produc…
Playbil.com offers a look at the history of The Band Wagon, the Encores! special event featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tracey Ullman and Laura Osnes.