360 stories by "Philip Boroff"
Mike Birbiglia likes lists. Early in his irresistible one-man comedy The New One, he cites seven reasons why he never wanted a child. “Number 1: I’ve never felt like there should…
With a top-ticket (so far) of $119, Lin-Manuel Miranda and three co-producers are mounting an engagement early next year of Freestyle Love Supreme, Â the improv hip-hop group that the Hami…
The set designer and Yale professor Ming Cho Lee is officially synonymous with excellence in theatrical design. Last week at the Palm West Side restaurant, Lee was recognized for lifetime ac…
Ninety minutes, no intermission has its appeal. But Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, with two dozen actors, a rabbit, goose, and a real-life baby dramatizing plot lines that explosiv…
Derren Brown‘s challenge: make a vacant Broadway theater appear out of thin air. In a conversation with Adam Green at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday, the British illusionist s…
EXCLUSIVE: Can’t afford to spend $1,551, including Ticketmaster fees, for two center orchestra seats to Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre? How about 12 monthly payments of …
CHICAGO — “Being a woman is no job for a man,” Michael Dorsey (Santino Fontana) concludes in the winning but inconsistent Broadway-bound musical comedy Tootsie, Â which o…
Shane O’Regan is going places — for starters, Philadelphia, Chicago and Austin, Texas. He and the 24 characters he plays in the World War I drama Private Peaceful tour the…
Sales of Frozen and Mean Girls took a hit last week as children returned to school from summer vacation and Broadway contended with oppressive heat and competition from the latter rounds …
EXCLUSIVE:Â Investors in Scott Rudin’s celebrated revival of Hello, Dolly! have earned a profit of 5 percent, according to two people familiar with the production. In a flop-filled b…
Pulitzer Prize-winning collaborators Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey have a new musical that airs tonight on the Disney Channel. The pair say their adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel Fre…
INTERVIEW: The last five weeks have been busy for Jason Robert Brown, the 48-year-old composer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator and performer. There was an acclaimed Encores! run of his 199…
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO — The main event here: 502 Ford Mustangs, both late-model show cars and immaculately restored classics. The 30th-annual Rocky Mountain Mustang Roundup compe…
There’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikva and Petah Tikva. The Band’s Visit, a drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and ennui of everyday life, won 10…
There’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikvva and Petah Tikvah. The Band’s Visit, a quietly political drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and banality of e…
EXCLUSIVE: On Broadway, selling out isn’t a prerequisite for cleaning up. The Band’s Visit, which is considered a lock for best new musical at the Tony Awards tomorrow, has repai…
EXCLUSIVE: Conventional wisdom dictates that a new play needs an off-Broadway or out-of-town tryout before it’s Broadway-ready — unless it’s by David Mamet or stars Bette M…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Jed Bernstein, a Broadway producer and former leader of the industry’s trade association, earned $3.3 million in pay and benefits during the 27 months he ran Lincoln Cent…
The Broadway season that ended on Sunday was strong but not stellar. Overall attendance: up 4 percent to 13.8 million, according to the Broadway League. Grosses rose 17 percent, to $1.7 bill…
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle voted not to give a prize for best musical this season, implicitly endorsing The Band’s Visit‘s Tony Award ambitions and rejecting Broadw…
BEST MUSICAL SUSPENSE: There were just seven new musicals on Broadway this season, the fewest in at least a decade. Only one received “Critic’s Pick” from the New York Time…
EXCLUSIVE: Maybe Frozen isn’t critic-proof after all. Following mixed reviews and turmoil in the secondary market, Disney has been slashing prices for the musical — one of the mo…
LAST OF A SERIES: When the cast of Hamilton visited the White House on March 14, 2016, President Obama joked that the musical was the only thing he and Dick Cheney agreed on. The excursi…
SECOND IN A SERIES:Â Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop juggernaut is the first single-author show to win a Tony Award for best new musical since Jonathan Larson’s Rent, in 1996. Wit…
PART ONE OF A SERIES: Nearly three years after storming Broadway, Hamilton remains unrivaled in its moneymaking. The original production, which began previews at the Richard Rodgers Th…
