Originally published on Playbill.com View this story online Sara Bareilles, the acclaimed singer-songwriter who penned the pop hits “Love Song” and “Brave,” is making…
Originally published on Playbill.com View this story online There’s no question who Savvy Crawford’s biggest fan is. The nine-year-old actress, who plays the young incarnation of…
Originally published on Playbill.com View this story online “The Spice Girls are my coping mechanism,” Lauren Pritchard said matter-of-factly. This admission might come as a surp…
Originally published on Playbill.com View this story online If New York theatregoers can’t snag a ticket to see the Donmar Warehouse production of Henry IV at St. Ann’s Warehouse…
Originally published on Playbill.com View this story online A Tony-winning actor with more than a dozen plays and musicals under his belt, Chuck Cooper can seemingly do anything " except dec…
Originally published on Playbill.com View this story online Even when she’s not onstage, Victoria Clark can still be heard singing. The Tony Award winner, most recently seen on Broadwa…
Originally published on Playbill.com View this story online When award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl attended the first-ever Lilly Awards ceremony, honoring the accomplishments of women in t…
Originally published on Playbill.com View this story online Renee Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo and Jasmine Cephas Jones, who star as the pivotal women in Alexander Hamilton’s life in…
It is good to have Matthew Morrison back on Broadway. Last seen on Broadway in 2008’s South Pacific, the musical theatre star has been occupied by the hit FOX show “Glee” f…
There's no shortage of energy at the St. James Theatre, where the new musical Something Rotten! has danced its way onstage – and doesn't stop dancing. Directed and choreographed by Cas…
The Tony-winning musical theatre dream team is at it again. Bartlett Sher, who first teamed with Kelli O'Hara in The Light in the Piazza and breathed new life into the 2008 revival of South …
Who knew folk music could be so sad? Who knew it could leave you feeling like you'd been both punched in the stomach and embraced in a warm, comforting hug? Apparently Benjamin Scheuer, the …
Cynics, take note. Romance is alive and well at the Palace Theater, where An American in Paris, the lush, unapologetically old-fashioned musical has hung up its beret. Directed and choreogra…
The newest star of Broadway defies all physical expectations of a leading man. He is neither tall nor muscular, and his vocal talents seem limited. (To be fair, we only hear him singing "Jes…
Who knew a one-night stand could be so romantic? As a theatergoer, I'm sadly unfamiliar with much of Neil LaBute's work. I've seen and read a few of his works, but I'm not nearly as accustom…
There are those rare occasions when life and art mirror each other so perfectly you can't help but get goosebumps. Watching Grounded, the one-woman show starring a remarkable Anne Hathaway a…
I've never been a big fan of vampires. The Twilight books bored me, and the movies even more so. And while I enjoyed the book "Let the Right One In," I was skeptical as to how it would trans…
Tortured relationships between fathers and daughters are nothing new to drama. They are, of course, a more recent aspect of the canon to be explored after centuries of fathers and sons strug…
Anyone who sees Rasheeda Speaking, the intriguing new play by Joel Drake Johnson that explores dangerous dynamics in the workplace, may find themselves calling out sick to work the day after…
Few things are more charming than Kristin Chenoweth in a great role. The multi-talented actress is back on Broadway, starring in a revival of On the Twentieth Century, the Comden-Green-Colem…
It isn't the supernatural that is haunting the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where a shocking and shattering production of Ghosts is presented at the Harvey Theater. Directed by Richard Eyre, H…
It is both enlightening and depressing how relevant The Heidi Chronicles still is, more than a decade after its premiere on Broadway. Wendy Wasserstein's look at the life of feminist art his…
When writing about Helen Mirren's performance as Queen Elizabeth in The Audience, a new play by Peter Morgan, opportunities for puns abound, but I will do my best to resist. Mirren is no str…
Originally published on Alternet.org View this story online "It just got scarier and scarier," Anna Haas said, describing a recent visit to the doctor. But instead of a medical procedure, Ha…
I was invited to participate in the Row J Roundtable with Meredith Ganzman and Jesse Oxfeld, where we discussed the spring Broadway season.