By Liz Lombardi We hear about the hero. Theirs is the story that always gets told, regardless if they live or die. But what about the other players in the story? The many other characters, s…
BY MEREDITH GANZMAN (@MGANZMAN) "Has turning 30 always sucked?" Jonathan asks in Tick, Tick…Boom! I don't know. But as I personally prepare for this milestone birthday in less than two…
By Meredith Ganzman (@MGanzman) Germs and fear, rather than romance, are likely to spread by surprise and an unfamiliar kiss at a train station. Consider it a perfect and cruel way to fright…
By Anne-Allegra Bennett (@aab_artiste) In honor of his 80th birthday, Ira Lee Collings lights up the room at Don't Tell Mama with his show Simply, Ira Lee (a Gay Geezer Celebration Through t…
This week, Center On The Aisle’s CENTER VIEW correspondents Jamie deRoy and Stephen Sorokoff headed to Feinstein’s/54 Below for the club’s latest press preview. There, they…
Nat Turner in Jerusalem can't quite acquit itself. By Doug Strassler (@DougDawg13) Get ready to hear a lot about Nat Turner this fall. The executed leader of one of the better-known slave re…
By Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) The mise en scène: an audition waiting room. Allen, an actor (Anthony Franqui) enters, picks up a piece of paper, and begins rehearsing his character's s…
By Meredith Ganzman (@MGanzman) It's George and Gil's world- we're just living in it. Meet the two 70 something senior citizens of the Upper West Side in the new Broadway two-man play Oh, He…
A Broadway Heart to Heart: Stay Close, in Luxury and in Love. Falsettos is back on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater for a limited time only! To celebrate the return of this groundbreaking…
By Adam Cohen Mel Brooks' Tony award-winning musical comedy The Producers, based on his 1968 film, has been winningly and lovingly revived at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey…
By Meredith Ganzmann (@MGanzman) America's biggest drama is its current political theatre, and it's increasingly become an unbearable show to watch. There's no real intermission either. You …
By Meredith Ganzman The Encounter may be the first Broadway show where upon taking your seat you must put on headphones rather than take them off. In fact, without them you won't be able to …
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) On Tuesday, September 27, Tony winner Laura Benanti (She Loves Me, Gypsy, "Supergirl") will make her Café Carlyle deb…
By Doug Strassler (@DougDawg13) Two years ago, Amas Musical Theater resurrected a mostly forgotten chestnut, "Red Eye of Love". Fortunately, those who may have missed its brief run on the Up…
By Anne-Allegra Bennett (@aab_artiste) The disco world of the seventies was recently brought back to life in the jukebox musical, "Disaster!" at the Nederlander Theater. Featuring some of th…
By R. Jones The Robber Bridegroom revival cast recording is like opening up a good book that you can’t put down. You are immediately transported to the world in which the charact…
Tonight, iconic performer Tony Danza and Tony Award nominee Carmen Cusack will each headline at Feinstein’s/54 Below; Danza, in the latest in a series of dates at the club for his show…
By Steve Schonberg  (@CntrOnTheAisle) Last month, Puerto Rican actor, singer, and artist, Ektor Rivera assumed the role of Emilio Estefan in Gloria Estefan's autobiographical musical, "On…
Now at Feinstein’s/54 Below, two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz has returned with his hit show, “Girls, Girls, Girls.” Recently, CENTER VIEW correspondent Jamie…
By Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) It's not always easy being blonde"we've all heard the jokes. But like iconic blonde megastar Dolly Parton"who once quipped: "I'm not offended by all the d…
"I’m just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing," Carmen Cusack said, sounding carefree, in a recent interview about her solo concert debut at NYC'…
By Meredith Ganzman (@MGanzman) For a certain generation of theatergoers, from 1982 to 2000, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats was a part of their musical upbringing. It was not a part of mine, oth…
By Adam Cohen “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” Kurt Vonnegut's novel that was adapted into a musical by the legendary songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken is currentl…
By Doug Strassler Class has been in session at Hell’s Kitchen’s 777 Theatre ever since Matt Murphy’s raucous show Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man began educating…
By Anne Carr New technology and a nostalgia for an older America made for a wonderfully imaginative and unique evening at the Sheen Center last week. Bridgman|Packer is Art Bridgman and…