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By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 23, 2024: David Adjmi's play, Stereophonic, with music by Will Butler (formerly of Arcade Fire), is now on Broadway at the Golden Theatre after its Off-Broadway…
By: David Sheward
April 23, 2024: After examining the reverberations of the Lincoln assassination in The America Play and Topdog/Underdog, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori P…
By: Iris Wiener
April 24, 2024: The new musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton's classic novel The Outsiders and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film of the same name is a quiet, though gut-…
By: Alix Cohen
April 23, 2024: Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando, her most popular, was written for lover, Vita Sackville West. its noble protagonist changes from man to woman over …
By: David Sheward
April 22, 2024: "Oh my God! It's cardboard," exclaims one of the characters in The Heart of Rock and Roll, the latest jukebox musical to hit Broadway, now at the James E…
By: Iris Wiener
April 23, 2024: Rachel Chavkin's quite unique stamp on the trope of theatre is on fine display at Broadway's Lempicka, a beautifully constructed musical about an artist …
By: David Sheward
April 19, 2024: When it opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater for a relatively short run in 2022, Suffs, Shaina Taub's sweeping musical history of the women's suffra…
Nostalgic picks from Broadway Babe include Sondheim, Jule Styne, Do re Mi and more.
April 21, 2024:  Broadway Babe, Randie Levine Miller has some truly nostalgic finds"with some g…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 19, 2024: S.E. Hinton began writing the coming-of-age novel, The Outsiders, when she was fifteen and finished it when she was a junior in high school. Viking …
By: David Sheward
August 17, 2024: There are a few bumps on the yellow brick road in the new revival of The Wiz at the Marquis Theater, but this shiny new rendition of the Tony-winning 19…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 17, 2024: The scandalous, and dangerous life of art deco artist, Lempicka fuels this exciting new Broadway musical. And a smashing Broadway debut for the writers Ca…
By: Maryann Lopinto
April 23, 2024: The 38th edition of the MAC AWARDS was held on Monday, April 15th at 7pm at Symphony Space. The show was produced by Julie Miller and directed…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 15, 2024: We were pushing our way through the excitedly buzzing crowd leaving the Longacre Theatre after just having seen Lempicka, the new musical about Polish …
By: Alix Cohen
April 15, 2024: "The sideshow as a separate, specialized variety form begins around the same time as dime museums (mid 1800s)… relatively wholesome alternative for a wor…
Opening reception for METAMORPHOSIS now on view at The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue East Hampton, through May 19.
April 14, 2024: Andrea McCafferty & Kat O'Neill, co-owners, an…
By: Alix Cohen
April 13, 2024: The hammer lane is the one used for passing. Truckers in North America came up with the term which references slamming the accelerator with a foot like h…
Vintage Musical Theater finds from Broadway Babe & A Day in the Life of Kristin Chenoweth.
April 14, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has come up with some musica…
Patti LuPone, Mia Farrow, Tom Holland.
By: David Sheward
April 13, 2024: According to the New York Post, Tony winner Patti PuPone and Mia Farrow will return to Broadway in a two-person p…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 11, 2024: As is well known, sports writer Mitch Albom's 1997 book, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson, one of the best-sel…
By: David Sheward
April11, 2024: In her classic YA novel The Outsiders, SE Hinton's teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis explains the difference between "tough" and "tuff": "Tough and tuff …
By: David Sheward
April 11, 2024: Playwright, performer and drag legend Charles Busch is back and Henrik Ibsen's got him. This may seem like an unlikely pairing, but Ibsen's Ghost, Busch'…
By: Iris Wiener
April 11, 2024: Just as powerful as it was when it debuted in 2005, Broadway's current production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt has stood the test of time well. Th…
DOCS EQUINOX April 12-13-14 at Southampton Arts Center.
April 9, 2024:Â Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Doc Fest greet Spring with DOCS EQUINOX, a 4-film festival on April 12, 13, &…
