351 stories from The AndyGram
Editor Robert Viagas and his team at Playbill have done it once again. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook for the 2010 " 11 Broadway season has just arrived. It's formatted like a yearbook, b…
The Mountaintop, a new play by young playright, Katori Hall, is largely bubbly and fun with plenty of swearing and even a pillow-fight. Therein lies the problem. The play is …
Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy, now on stage at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre, has one undeniably excellent reason to see the show, the performance of its lead…
That high-priestess of drag, Joey Arias and master puppeteer, Basil Twist's new endeavor, Arias with a Twist at the Abron's Arts Center at the Henry Street Settlement is Hedwig meets Betty…
The cast of the recently transferred Kennedy Center production of Stephen Sondheim's and James Goldman's Follies has more combined years of theatre experience than the rest of the Broadway s…
Follies
Previews Begin: August 7, 2011 Opening Night: September 12, 2011 Limited Run Playwright: James Goldman Music: Stephen Sondheim Director: Warren Carlyle Starring: Bernadette Peters,…
The Woodshed Collective's latest production is a monumental project at the run-down West-Park Presbyterian Church on 86th Street and Amsterdam. The Tenant is an adaptation of a 1964 no…
I first saw Rent opening night on Broadway, April 29, 1996. I was seated in the very last row of the theatre and I hated the show. To all you Rent-heads out there, I know this is…
Things were so hot at the Empire Room at Gotham on Tuesday night that by the time Gregory Generet and his four-man combo finished, it practically felt brisk by comparison as I walked out int…
Peg o' My Heart has seen its share of iterations since it first premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre almost one-hundred years ago. Its latest incarnation was part of the 12th Midt…
I'm planning on taking some time off this summer to soak up a little sun (not too much) and read a few good theatre books. Below are a few that are on my summer reading list.
Most of the bo…
Tyne Daly as Maria Callas in the revival of Terrence McNally's Master Class is really two master classes in one: one with La Divina (Callas); and the other with an actress who has earned her…
Cirque Du Soleil started in 1984 with just 20 street performers. Today, the company is a major player in live entertainment with 20+ shows around the world. It employs 5,000 peop…
It's important to me when I write my reviews to be fair and keep the snarkyness to a minimum. Unfortunately, the second half of that, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that with …
When I first moved to New York in the fall of 1982 the AIDS epidemic was already well on its way to becoming the great plague of the 20th Century. I first heard about AIDS when a frien…
David Zippel's new musical revue The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman which just opened at 59E59 Theaters is one of the best musical revues I've ever seen. The cast is perf…
The new Broadway musical Baby It's You consists of bits of chopped up Shirelles songs, tossed with bits of musical historical facts, assembled into a jukebox musical salad. And that's not a …
The new Broadway musical Baby It's You consists of bits of chopped up Shirelles songs, tossed with bits of musical historical facts, assembled into a jukebox musical salad. And that's not a …
When someone from the press department at Jazz at Lincoln Center ("JALC") asked me to review the second in their new series Jazz and Popular Song, I was a bit nervous. As you may or ma…
John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves is a dark play, both sad and funny. Â The play is set in Sunnyside, Queens the day in 1965 that Pope Paul VI has come to New York. Â
Artie…
If you thought it impossible to find an actress who could equal Judy Holliday's performance as Billie Dawn in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, think again. Broadway, meet Nina Arianda. &…
Sister Act answers the question theatre queens everywhere have been asking for generations, "what if nuns had sequins?" This show has more sequined habits than either Nunsense's Da…
Just before the house lights went to half on Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, I was speaking with a colleague about London transfers and their oft-times hit or miss track record with New Yor…
Séance for a Wet Afternoon represents Stephen Schwartz's first run at writing an opera. Schwartz is more known for his work on Broadway, think Godspell, Wicked, The Magic Show, and Pi…
Catch Me If You Can, the new Broadway musical is an extremely well constructed musical with a terrific cast. But the show has a couple of problems with it, for starters its book is humor…
