34 stories by "Wayman Wong"
I was the New York Daily News reporter who broke the historic story about the casting controversy over Jonathan Pryce in Miss Saigon. That led to protests and a dramatic showdown between Act…
In fall 1981, previews of Merrily We Roll Along started out with a song. In fact, a whole wonderful score of them by Stephen Sondheim. Plus, a book by George Furth and direction by Hal Princ…
"... I was fortunate enough to befriend Sondheim, and here are a few memories I've got of the amazing man behind the music and lyrics."
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's 'Soft Power,' a new musical satire that takes a hard look at America and China, hopes to go out with a bang this Fourth of July weekend.
Conrad Ricamora is best-known to millions of TV viewers as Oliver, the cute computer whiz, on ABC's 'How to Get Away With Murder.' But this 2013 Theatre World Award winner also can slay an a…
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that marriage equality would be the law of the land in America. Three days later, Tom Andersen, an award-winning, out singer-songwriter released a m…
Jeremy Jordan plays Winn on the CW's 'Supergirl,' but he proved to be a superguy himself as he raised thousands for charity Sunday at a Broadway the Herbst concert in San Francisco. The Ton…
When David Moscow made his 'Big'-screen debut in 1988, it was huge. Penny Marshall had plucked this precocious, 11-year-old kid from the Bronx to play the younger version of Tom Hanks' chara…
'Monsoon Wedding,' the new musical based on Mira Nair's acclaimed 2001 movie, has been showered with praise at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, Calif. Karen D'Souza of the San Jose Me…
Stephen Sondheim says his new musical with David Ives was never called 'Bunuel,' and he criticized Michael Riedel's 'misreporting' of the title in the New York Post last fall.
Here's how I slept with dozens of guys and galson Wednesday, April 19... to get bargain tickets to 'Sundayin the Park With George.'It's called 'rush,' and many Broadway shows offer discounte…
Jeffrey Brian Adams and Monique Hafen really know how to make beautiful music on stage and off in She Loves Me, opening November 30 at San Francisco Playhouse.
... I'm so bummed that I'm 6-4 and will never be able to play Huck again.
Nicholas Rodriguez is best known as Nick Chavez, the out-and-proud soap stud of ABC's One Life to Live. For his role in the first gay love triangle on American daytime TV, he was honored wit…
In a breakthrough performance, Resnick, 28, charts Berns' rise and fall in the world of music execs, the mambo and the mob. Laura Collins-Hughes in the New York Times hailed the Carnegie Mel…
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark has survived so many delays, debacles, accidents and legal battles that it's time to truly "marvel" at Reeve Carney's superheroic efforts as it…
Lucas Steele struts and swaggers with a magnetic "czar quality" as Prince Anatole in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. In Dave Malloy's Obie-winning "electro-po…
He's in the new play by Tony-nominated Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Tony-winning director Jack O'Brien and starring two-time Tony winner Nathan Lane.
Charles Strouse's Broadway musicals keep getting revived like there's no "Tomorrow."
With his all-American looks and 6-foot-4, fit physique, the robust baritone appears well-suited to wear Superman's cape and tights to a tee.
Broadway star Ryan Silverman has been singing with passion all of his life. But nowadays, the 6-foot-2, charismatic Canadian, 35, is singing in Passion at Classic Stage Company.
He'll star Off-Broadway in Classic Stage Company's version of the Tony-winning musical
For the past several years in New York, Jay Armstrong Johnson has been a working actor, but this month, he's an actor in Working, the Prospect Theatre Company's rousing and revised revival a…
What happens when two Broadway tenors and an opera singer from Boston Conservatory work in harmony? In the case of Kevin Massey, Jamison Scott and Patrick Massey, they formed Shubert Alley, …
For nearly two years, aspiring young actor Zak Resnick says, "I grew a ton as a performer" working as a singing waiter at Ellen's Stardust Diner.
