The Hollywood strikes last year are now turning into a big win for Broadway. Both George Clooney and Robert Downey Jr are coming to town next in plays for the first time. Clooney will star i…
Amy Herzog's tender play, "Mary Jane," about a mother raising an ill child, demands that we slow down, take in the drama of the day-to-day. Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams, a movie star " plays…
A little more from last night's elegant and funny one night only performance for Lincoln Center Theater (1000 times better than that low class Met Gala). Sigourney Weaver was deftly funnier …
Wow! Tuesday night Lincoln Center Theater put on the kind of star studded event that was a throwback to the good old days. To raise money, LCT produced " in two days " a retro staging of Chr…
In the world of the Tony Awards, musicals like "The Great Gatsby," "The Notebook," and "Back to the Future" are considered, well, "bad," and get no nominations. But in Broadway.com's Audienc…
I gather Sting's "Message in a Bottle," directed and choreographed by the remarkable Kate Prince, has had runs in the UK, Australia, and in some US cities. Last night it arrived at City Cent…
Alex Edelman is the toast of Broadway this morning. After one short run on Broadway in the summer of 2023, Edelman has been awarded an honorary Tony. "Just for Us," which lasted two months, …
The 2024 Tony Nominations are out, and it's not great for "The Great Gatsby." The musical based on the famed novel by F Scott Fitzgerald received just one nod. Its death is secured. On the h…
I don't know what the surviving members of Fleetwood Mac have made of "Stereophonic." The play about a mid 70s rock band taking three years to record their masterpiece has opened at the St. …
EXCLUSIVE A lot of A-listers and stars packed their way into the two opening nights of "Cabaret" this weekend. The show is sizzling, so it's understandable that it required two premieres. La…
On Broadway, The Drama League is not the Drama Desk. They're an outlier group like the National Board of Review that nominates everything so everyone will come to their dinner. So ouch! Toda…
By 10am you will not be able to get a ticket for the six month run of "Cabaret" on Broadway. The sensational revival, imported from London, features a thrilling and award winning performance…
Alicia Keys's musical, "Hell's Kitchen" " opening tonight " could not have more entertaining performers. Does its story hold up? Not so much. But don't think about it too hard. There's a lot…
Last night I attended a press preview for Alicia Keys's lively Broadway musical, "Hell's Kitchen." The Shubert Theater was packed except for two house seats just across the aisle. At the sam…
Jack Antonoff is making his Broadway debut. The Grammy winning pop producer of Taylor Swift, Lana del Rey, and many others will supply music for a new Broadway production of "Romeo and Julie…
You may have heard: Alicia Keys is debuting a Broadway musical this month. It's called "Hell's Kitchen." The show is the story of her life leading up to signing with Clive Davis's J Records …
"Monty Python" star John Cleese is on a short tour to eclectic cities, from the West Coast to Medford, Massachusetts. The tour began just six days ago, in Portland, Oregon, but already there…
I would guess a lot of people my age are suckers for The Who's rock opera, "Tommy." We loved it in 1969 as a double album, the 1974 movie, and in 1992 on Broadway with Michael Cerveris's ele…
The Tony Awards are back on CBS on June 16th. This year's host will the same as last year's " Ariana DeBose, an Oscar winner and Tony nominee. De Bose was a big hit last year hosting the sho…
Thursday night, the elephants got their water on Broadway. A new musical based on the book and movie, Water for Elephants, stormed the Imperial Theater. A magnificent lifesize puppet elephan…
There's going to be a line outside the Park Avenue Armory today. That's where "Illinoise" is playing for another week. Theater fans are going to want to see this unusual musical before it ma…
Henrik Ibsen wrote "An Enemy of the People" in 1882. He could never guess how timely it would be in 2024 " and in its 11th production on Broadway since 1895! Sam Gold's revival at Circle in …
Now we know why Al Pacino was a presenter at the Oscars. The Oscar and Emmy winner is publishing a memoir this fall, on October 8th It's called "Sonny Boy," from Penguin. The book will undou…
For a while there, Broadway was getting a musical called "A Star is Born." A script was being worked on, and Bill Condon was going to direct. This was announced in 2017. Then in 2018 Bradley…
It's time to say goodbye to "Beautiful Noise." The Neil Diamond Broadway musical will shut down on June 30th after an 18 month run. It will have played 657 performances. The show has been ru…