Garth Drabinsky, one of Broadway's most flamboyant " some would say notorious " producers of the 1990s, is staging a comeback with "Sousatzka," a new Broadway-bound musical now gearing up fo…
Nothing like a boycott promoted by conservative Republicans to send the Broadway grosses soaring. The boycott of "Hamilton," Lin-Manual Miranda's mega-smash, was started, you'll recall…
In the Spring of 1985, the actor and playwright Calvin Levels was taking in Jean-Michel Basquiat's exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery when he spied the artist, who had lately become hugely…
As everyone who's been awake this week knows, a Twitter tempest was set off when the cast of "Hamilton," at the curtain call of last Saturday evening's performance, addressed a patron seated…
Charity Valentine, the indomitable dance hall hostess is back, and in the parlance of classic movie ads, the New Group has got her. Now in its 20th year, the non-profit off-Broadway company,…
The legal salvos flying over the program billing in "The Great Comet of 1812" were happily resolved just before that Broadway musical opened to very strong notices. But then just over …
When the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky " written in 1919 just before he was committed to a Zurich sanatorium " were first published in 1936, the writer Henry Miller praised them as "a communica…
As part of research into her new show "Sell/ Buy/ Date," about prostitution, Sarah Jones enticed johns from a window in the red light district of Amsterdam, recalled how she felt when L.A. p…
NBC-TV, the network which has turned live broadcasts of Broadway musicals into a bonanza, recently announced that Jennifer Lopez would be starring in "Bye, Bye, Birdie," its 2017 holiday off…
In the brilliant new revival of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," the protagonists, French aristocrats played superbly by Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer, face off over dueling agendas. The …
There'll be few rear-view glances when, at 83, Chita Rivera makes her Carnegie Hall debut on Monday, November 7. The show is titled "Nowadays," after the song written for her and Gwen Verdon…
One of the most heartening developments for those who yearn for a bolder commercial theater has been the success of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812." The innovative musical, d…
Whenever Broadway has a hot ticket"and in recent history no ticket has been hotter than "Hamilton""there is always the temptation to indulge in what Donald Trump has called "truthful hyperbo…
Brandon Uranowitz quickly cops to the fact that Mendel, the psychiatrist he plays in the new Broadway revival of "Falsettos," is wildly inappropriate. His conduct is little short of indefens…
A star-studded roster of Broadway performers has given a hand to Hillary Clinton's campaign while giving the finger to Donald Trump. Headlined by Billy Crystal, the fundraiser "Stronge…
There wasn't a lot of Burt Bacharach on the jukebox in Bud's on Broadway, a blues bar in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a favorite hangout of local Kyle Riabko, a musician who gravitated to Eric C…
Christine Ebersole admits that when she was young, she wanted to be famous. The blond beauty now describes herself as daughter, mother, wife, and animal lover. In that order.Talk about under…
From 2002 to 2012, director Michael Grandage was the head of London's Donmar Warehouse. The position he inherited from Sam Mendes was long on prestige, artistic achievement, and honors. But …
Kevin Kline, one of the most gifted stage actors of his generation, is notorious for being choosy about his roles. However, the actor who long ago earned the nickname of "Kevin Decline" rece…
One of the rock world's great unknowns is the huge influence that Sister Rosetta Tharpe, an African-American gospel singer and guitarist, had on Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Chuc…
Sitting down with Edward Albee for a chat was as stimulating, provocative and entertaining as experiencing one of the many plays which made him one of the greatest artists of the 20th centur…
There will probably be at least ten new musicals unveiled on Broadway in the course of next season. But all anybody is talking about this Spring's revival of "Hello, Dolly!," starring Bette …
In 1979, at the age of 28, Jack Hofsiss was the youngest director to ever win the Tony Award for his brilliant direction of Bernard Pomerance's "The Elephant Man." Handsome, talented and cha…
The recent and lamentable passing of Gene Wilder, one of the most beloved actors of his generation, precipitated a re-cap of his career, including his performances in "The Producers," "Young…
Those Aussies are at it again. No sooner did Carmen Pavlovic, the CEO of Global Creatures, announce that the company had acquired the rights to "Moulin Rouge!", Baz Luhrmann's 2001 roc…