Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine…
The transition from Broadway to pop stardom isn’t what it once was. A few go the way of Heather Headley to the top of the charts; most go the way of Ethel Merman’s disco album to…
Well, shiver me timbers but the gang at Peter and the Starcatcher are going all out for “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. On this Wednesday, September 19, the first 100 …
Picture > 1000 words. Or so they say. Well, we’re going to put that little maxim to the test today with a theater news round-up that’s all about the image. And what nice imag…
On October 11 & 12, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (a service organization made up of some of the top producers, presenters and theatrical educators in the nation) will presen…
If the fall season’s crop of musicals is a sparse and eccentrically planted lot, the roster of plays is lush with big ideas, big stars and must-see events (if a few too many “did…
CHAPLIN: THE MUSICAL Silent film’s beloved “tramp” gets the full Funny Guy treatment in a new bio-musical directed by Warren Carlyle (Follies) and written by Thomas Meehan …
It might be nice if they eased us into a new theater season but, no, it’s full speed ahead! So today’s news roundup is going to be a light speed round the world tour… New Y…
And another hundred actors just got off of the train… OK, so that isn’t the correct lyric, but there are times when it seems like New York is awash in a steady stream of young Br…
Buckle up, boys and girls! The theater season is about to get up and rolling so we’ve got a two part preview of the tunes and tears the Great White Way has to offer through the end of …
Happy Back to School! And as is our tradition at The Broadway Blog (does twice count as a tradition or just lazy repetition), we celebrate this turning of the page toward fall and a new thea…
“You got big dreams? You want fame? Well, here is where you start paying. In sweat.” When a stick-thumping Debbie Allen spoke those immortal words in the opening credits of Fame,…
HEARTLESS Iconic American playwright Sam Shepard returns to New York with a world premiere play set in a troubling Los Angeles limbo of abandoned spouses, dark family secrets and a mute nurs…
I loved Roald Dahl as a kid. In James and the Giant Peach or The Witches, his wit and cruelty always seemed a more accurate reflection of childhood than some bright-eyed fantasy. So IR…
I’m back from my hiatus only to discover that the theater world continued on without me. The nerve! So let’s catch up with a few of the biggest stories in a slam bang news round-…
Every fourth Wednesday of the month, the "VIP Access" column will serve up advice on how to make your theater-going experiences cheaper, easier and more fulfilling with inside scoop from the…
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Liza Minnelli will be together again on September 5 when the Oscar-winning actress presents the dance icon with an Ambassador for the Arts Award at the NYC Dance Alli…
Every third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For August,…
The 2012 New Works Festival at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto is in full swing and that means: An eclectic collection of writers, directors and actors are busily rehearsing, performing and rewrit…
You’ve heard of An Actor’s Nightmare? Well, Jenny Bacon is living an actor’s dream. An accomplished veteran of stage and screen with a resume that includes some of the grea…
Anyone who knows me, knows that I wanted to make a silly, smutty double entrende in the title of this post with every bone in my body. I love double entendres. I have since I was a small chi…
BRING IT ON “Inspired” by the fabulously fizzy Kirsten Dunst film, rival cheering squads square off in a musical written by some of the biggest new school talent in the business,…
Every first Wednesday of the month, get caught up with what's on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That's me tossin…
Sun, sand and soutenu. That’s the enticing combo served up at last week’s Fire Island Dance Festival, the annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS via the amazing …
Where do you go when you’ve just divorced your mega-star husband in a very public surprise split? Disneyland? If you’re Katie Holmes, you’re going to Broadway. This fall, s…