275 stories by "Tom Mizer"
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…
Drugs. Bad hips. Worse husbands. You just can’t keep Liza Minnelli down. Even her long lost albums have a way of making comebacks. After almost 40 years out of circulation, Liza Minnel…
You can’t choose your family. The old cliche rang insistently through my mind as I watched Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy/drama currently receiving i…
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR After acclaimed runs at the Stratford Festival and La Jolla, Director Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys) brings his signature quick-cut, pop flash to a Broadway revival of the …
Our casting cup runneth over this week with theater news featuring big doings from big casts: The blockbuster gang at The Book of Mormon is ignoring their Momma’s advice and giving …
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 March, …
It’s the vernal equinox so, as Oscar Hammerstein once wrote, I might as well post Spring.
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 tossing in my two cents… ONCE The Os…
It’s raining men in a drenched round-up of the week’s theater headlines: The superstar combo of director Mike Nichols, Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield&…
Yesterday, I said that Show Folk this month was “getting epic;” you thought it was just a lame Homer joke. Truth is, we’re doubling up on great interviews with another lead…
Once a month, a member of the theater community will pull up a chair to our cyber table and join us for a little conversation. I'll edit the transcripts (removing the truly libelous parts) a…
We’ve been so busy with our anniversary that we haven’t done a news round-up in a while–so let’s hit the gas and catch up on the last week and a half of theatrical ha…
The theatrical adaptation of the Irish indie film Once doesn’t open on Broadway until this Sunday, March 18 (St. Patty’s Day weekend, don’t ya know) but the cast album is a…
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last year of editing The Broadway Blog, it’s this: theater people like looking at cute guys. One year and 252 posts later, the mo…
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 tossing in my two cents. This month, it…
Family. No matter how distanced or strained, the bond between family is a thin but neon-glowing thread, unmistakeable to anyone watching two family members interact. The bond between sibling…
In our continuing series, we’re taking a look at songs cut from Broadway musicals to see what happens in the making of a show. Next up, the first song finished–and revised–…
Extra! Extra! We’ve got your quick and tasty theater news headlines for the week that was: Music theater deity Stephen Sondheim let slip to London’s Evening Standard that he is w…
Carrie Stephen King’s tale of a prom queen with a nasty temper, one of the most infamous musical flops of all time, returns from the grave with new material by the original writers and…
When there's a month with a fifth Wednesday, I'll be heading Way-Off-Broadway for a look at theatrical happenings outside New York City. This Leap Day, we’re hopping around the country…
February’s Most Valuable (Theatrical) Player works hard for the money. Actually, given the Off-Broadway venues she performed in this month, I’m guessing she worked hard for not a…
Celebrities must hate youtube. All it takes is a few clicks and we can see video proof of their most embarrassing moments. (To understand, imagine someone followed you around high school wit…
Find some room on the proverbial couch because we’ve got some casting news to report: Ready to make your Broadway debut? The sashaying folks at Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Tic…
Get ready for more music of the night–just not on Broadway. Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Weber’s smash musical The Phantom of the Opera (which celebrated its 10…
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…
