REMEMBERING THE BRILLIANCE OF JEROME ROBBINS by Ted Chapin
The musical theater lost one of its few choreographic geniuses this summer when Jerome Robbins died.
The musical theater lost one of its few choreographic geniuses this summer when Jerome Robbins died.
In June, as part of its ongoing series on the 100 most influential people of the 20th Century, Time Magazine devoted a special issue to 20 ""Artists & Entertainers.""
After more than 30 years, Irving Berlin's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN is returning to Broadway and for the first time without The Merm...
napshots of London, Summer 1998: Tourists flock to Buckingham Palace and Harrod's, the Millennial Dome begins to rise in nearby Greenwich, and at the austere Royal National Theatre on the So…
Rodgers and Hart's BABES IN ARMS has never been quite what everyone thinks it is.
Among the newest cast albums on the market this Fall are two cherished classics: the 1949 original Broadway cast recording of SOUTH PACIFIC, and the 1959 original Broadway cast recording of …
It was the Depression's version of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and POLITICALLY INCORRECT.
The roster of cartoons turned into Broadway musicals is a long and successful one. But what about the transformation of a Broadway musical into a cartoon?
It won the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and nine Tony Awards.
Last summer's production of OKLAHOMA! at Britain's Royal National Theatre broke house records and made RNT history during its sold-out, three-month engagement there...
NNIE GETS YOUR GUN returns to Broadway in February, starring Bernadette Peters as sharpshooter Annie Oakley and Tom Wopat as Frank Butler.
The hit Royal National Theatre production of OKLAHOMA! leads our charge of new recordings... Produced by Grammy Award winner David Caddick, and released in mid-January, this recording from F…
For her debut solo album, WAY BACK TO PARADISE, on the remarkable Nonesuch label, Audra McDonald eschews Broadway and pop standards in favor of new music that shimmers at the close of this c…
"We're halfway through the last year of the century.
Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts were signed by Williamson Music in 1997. Their first venture, I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE, opened Off-Broadway three years ago and is still going st…
They came from as far away as Australia and London, and from all over the United States, drawn to New York to mark an extraordinary milestone...
The Broadway revival of THE SOUND OF MUSIC marked its first anniversary in March, with changes afoot in the von Trapp household
Williamson songwriter Adam Guettel is flying high this spring...
Sharpshooter Annie Oakley hits her targets in the new 1999 Broadway cast recording of Irving Berlin's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Angel), starring Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat, produced for recor…
She blasted her way onto the Great White Way in 1946, and came back again twenty years later. Now, for the first time since, Irving Berlin and Herbert & Dorothy Fields' classic ANNIE GET YOU…
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER: What sets the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals apart for me is their directness and their awareness of construction..
Well, we can't avoid it. As the clocks click, pulse, or sweep past midnight at the end of December 31st this year, the calendar will change to 2000
MARY RODGERS: Theatre, and theatre only, turned [my father] on and cheered him up --
Eyewitnesses Recall Five of this Century's Most Memorable Premiere - I wasn't any more scared this time than before.
Broadway's latest revival of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN is officially a rip-roarin' success...