114 stories by "Patrick Pacheco"
Shows that are grossing nearly a million dollars a week and playing at over 99% capacity " as "Shuffle Along" did recently " don't usually close precipitously. But the curtain will ring down…
The Tony Award-winning musical "Fun Home" will close on September 10, but it leaves in its wake a number of encouraging and positive signs for Broadway. Namely, a modest musical …
For a play about a family struggling through loss, Stephen Karam's "The Humans" is a winner. Riding on its Tony Award victories, including one for Best Play, the drama is now a virtual sell-…
The post-Tony Awards fallout has claimed "Bright Star," the charming and winsome bluegrass musical that marked the Broadway debuts of star Carmen Cusack and the writing team of Steve Martin …
The enormity of the mass murders in Orlando at a bar frequented by LBGTQ community " "a cornerstone of the theater" as someone described them " cast a shadow over the Tony Awards on Sunday, …
One of the few directives that Lin-Manuel Miranda gave to designer Paul Tazewell about his costume for Alexander Hamilton was that he be represented in green - because "green is the color of…
According to the pundits, the Tony Award for best actor in a musical will go to "Hamilton" when Broadway's highest honors are announced on June 12. Indeed, most of the special, hosted by Jam…
Tony voters like to make history. They did so in 2001 when they garlanded "The Producers" with a record-breaking twelve awards. They did so again in 2014 when they gave a sixth Tony Award to…
When "Buck White," a musical by Oscar Brown, Jr. and produced by Zev Buffman, opened on Broadway in December of 1969, there were picketers protesting outside the theater while the mood insid…
Barbra Streisand just signed on to present an award at the Tony Awards ceremony, to be televised on CBS on June 12, and you can bet the category won't be best lighting design. Though it wasn…
James Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" has never been bettered as a noir tale of murder and lust. So much so that there have been seven film adaptations of the 1930s novel, as well as…
Graced with only two Tony nominations (for lighting and sets), "American Psycho" will be one of the most high-profiled flops of the 2015-2016 Broadway season. The stylish $14-million m…
Powered by the thrust engines of a rocket known as "Hamilton," Broadway ended the current season on an all-time high in attendance and ticket sales. According to figures released by the Broa…
The theater season is now awash in awards, some silly and some significant. Among the latter are the Obies, created in 1955 by the Village Voice, to honor Off-Broadway. They were announced o…
After half-century on Broadway, Frank Langella has received his seventh Tony nomination for a heartrending performance as a man disintegrating into senility in "The Father," while the Britis…
Despite the perpetual success of "Hamilton," a name you will hear a lot when the Tony Awards are doled out on June 12, there will still be more than enough suspense in the tightly competitiv…
When "She Loves Me" originally bowed in the spring of 1963, the musical received bouquets from critics and shrugs from the general public. The show, about bickering shop clerks by day and an…
David Rockwell, one of the world's leading architects, feels most at home in the theater. Chalk that up to his mother, Joanne, who was a vaudeville dancer and choreographer who establi…
There is a galvanic moment in the new Broadway musical "Shuffle Along" when Audra McDonald, playing actress Lottie Gee, is trying to goose a new song, "I'm Just Wild About Harry," with a pro…
Darko Tresnjak arrived in this country from the former Yugoslavia at age 10, during the many 1976 bicentennial celebrations. He and his mother, Maria, saw the festivities and fireworks first…
Ever since the TV series "Smash" spawned a narrow but rabid fan base before going off the air in 2013, the question has lingered: Would "Bombshell," the fictional Marilyn Monroe musical that…
Micah Stock in Terrence McNally's "It's Only A Play"
Those eyes. That voice. That bruise.
The story behind the rise of playwright Rick Elice is as distinct as his Broadway hit 'Peter and the Starcatcher,' set to open in L.A.NEW YORK — Playwright Rick Elice calls the memorab…
With 'Big Fish,' John August joins a cadre of writers who have tried to set their films to music. It isn't easy, as '9 to 5' and 'Ghost' found.NEW YORK — Recently, writer John August w…
