We love it when Broadway show costumes send our minds spinning. Wouldn’t we all love to have those high-waisted pants that Sutton Foster rocked in the title number of Anything Goes …
Is the new Will Eno play The Realistic Joneses " starring Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Marisa Tomei & Michael C Hall " going to unpack the emotional and psychological impact of attemptin…
The Mick (l) and Lucky (r) say some things on stage at LPR. They say it takes a village to raise a child. You know what else takes a village? Producing a concert. Which is kind of an appropr…
I loved the book Mozart in the Jungle. A tell-all about the sordid offstage universe of classical music, it made headlines in 2005 for exactly one reason: In it, author Blair Tindall —…
So, we’re having a concert on February 10Â – holy shit that’s tonight –Â at Le Poisson Rouge wherein your favorite Broadway stars tell stories and sing songs abou…
It’s at (Le) Poisson Rouge on February 10th and it’s going to be so amazing we don’t even have words. Sometimes we get so excited we cry a little bit when we think about it…
This week, Encores! kicks off its 21st season with Little Me, a jazzy musical comedy — emphasis on comedy — which features a hysterical book by Neil Simon specifically crafted…
In December, we hung out backstage before Drew Gasparini’s first gig at 54 Below kicking asses and taking names asking questions and making people play games with us. One of the people…
Love Broadway musicals but hate having to sit through all that talking between the songs? You’re in luck. In the next couple of months, you can catch the New York Philharmonic doingÂ�…
As ever, the world of theater lovers and creators continues to rail against “criticism” and “critics.” Because Isherwood and Brantley — and their ilk — ar…
To the shock of exactly no-one, Disney has confirmed that they’ll be bringing Frozen to the stage. Things are clearly still early days — there’s no mention of timeline, etc…
There don't seem to be enough hyphens in the English language to keep up with multi-hyphenate U.K. artist Kate Tempest. Â Her work runs the gamut from hip hop, to poetry, to storytelling a…
On December 29, 2013, my mom, Lois Levy, passed away at age 67. (Read my eulogy for her.) In her memory, I’d like to offer a different kind of Broadway history: a short history of the …
The bests… Alex Timbers Is God This was a great year for us. Want to know why? Because Alex Timbers was everywhere. Uptown, downtown, across the country, seriously, the man was putting…
Alex Timbers The thing about putting Alex Timbers on this list — on any list, really — is that it doesn’t make much sense, given Alex’s acute duel tendencies toward b…
Patina Miller Never mind the accolades. Never mind that she was Tony-nominated two years in a row, won once, and showed up to both ceremonies in easily the best dress of the night. Let’…
I’m not sure when gift cards became a controversial gift (are they lazy? are they thoughtless?) Â because frankly, I think they’re the actual best. Seriously. The only thing be…
Stressed because you have deadlines at that thing you call a job and you still haven’t finished Christmas shopping and your whole damn family is fucking everything up by celebrating Ch…
On Friday night, I read Tony Kushner’s speech about being a writer, given at the Whiting Writers Awards, and I cry. This is not wildly out of character for me. I was raised by a woman …
Every so often, a show that flops hard on Broadway leaves in its aftermath a corps of fans devoted to keeping its memory alive. With shows like Candide, Merrily We Roll Along, Carrie, and co…
Ah, the internet, how it brings people together. Like Lucky and I, for example. We met as… well. That’s another story for another party, best told when everyone’s slightly …
As the extensive wreckage in our Twitter feed last night will testify, we attended a Spring Awakening cast reunion last night at Atlantic Theater. It was pretty fun. Jonathan Groff and John …
HAHA LOL Remember that time at the dinner table on Thanksgiving when your uncle pretended he was about to make an hilarious joke, but instead he jabbed you with a condescending comment about…
So I wandered into a Twitter conversation the other day with our noble Twitter friend, @Adam807, about the impending demise of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. His basic position: That the sho…
So yesterday we found out this guy is playing Enjolras on Broadway, which we’re sure is all fine and dandy but it still kind of broke our hearts. Because why, you ask? Because over the…