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Lempicka, the highly anticipated sweeping new musical portrait celebrating the gripping true story of renowned artist Tamara de Lempicka, released a new portrait of the principal company,…
SoHo Playhouse's U.S. premiere of Epidermis Circus, The Weirdest Puppet Show You've Ever Seen!, co-created and performed by Ingrid Hansen (Puppeteer for Jim Henson Company's Fraggle Rock and…
Pigs Do Fly Brings a Second Course of Canadian-based Laughter to Fort Lauderdale's Empire Stage Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Ever heard of the playwright Norm Foster? If you lik…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . It's always a pleasure to anticipate whatever popular playwright-drag artist-actor Charles Busch is cooking up for his next comedic endeavor. O…
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . We've all heard that love is a drug. But can a drug cause love? That's the big practical question being posed"alongside a host of philosophical o…
Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director) announces Emmy & Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth in KRISTIN: AN EVENING WITH FRI…
Scott Siegel's BROADWAY BY THE SEASON returns for its second year at Merkin Hall with an All-Star line-up for three Spring concerts: March 25, April 29, and June 17. For the first show, Broa…
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . There are two main reasons I accepted the invitation to review Joyce Griffen's The Script In The Closet: A) My desire to spend my latter years as a…
by Meredith Heyman . . . . Broadway leading man, Andrew Samonsky, is returning to the boards in the new musical, Lempicka, playing Tamara de Lempicka's husband, Tadeusz Lempicka. In a video …
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Marilyn Wick is simply amazing. She produces one wonderful entertainment after another on her perpetually twirling Wick Theater stage. Her latest? An en…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . It's hard to believe that it's been fifty-three years since A Little Night Music first opened on Broadway. Though a teenager at the time and with a few …
by Meredith Heyman . . . . Writer Carson Kreitzer is preparing to make her Broadway debut in the new musical, Lempicka. Kreitzer wrote the show's book and lyrics and also came up with the or…
By Sandi Durell . . . . She's got that thing That sexy thing Long blonde hair and . . . A saxophone? A lady with a sax, that's a real fact! And, by the way, not only can she toot This jazz b…
Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young returns to the Café Carlyle, May 14-18, with one of his most-popular sets. Original Jersey Boys screen and stage star, John Lloyd�…
Cabaret review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When last we saw young French Canadian crooner David Marino, in July 2023, he was making his New York cabaret debut downtown (read HERE). He was quite…
Philadelphia, Here I Come!, presented by Irish Repertory Theatre. Philadelphia, Here I Come! is the third production in The Friel Project, a retrospective of the work of renowned…
Great Barrington's Historic Firehouse at 20 Castle Street is nearing completion of its restoration by Warrior Trading. Following a multi-million-dollar refurbishment, including a new r…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Amongst his thirty-eight plays, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is something of a redheaded stepchild in Shakespeare's canon. Its authorship is not entirely t…
The New Group has announced complete casting for All of Me, by Laura Winters, with Lily Mae Harrington, Florencia Lozano, Brian Morabito and Kyra Sedgwick joining,…
MCC Theater presents THE LONELY FEWÂ April 27 thru June 2, a New York premiere rock musical about the forces that launch us from home and the gravitational pull that can bring us back. By …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 1973, Len Cariou created the role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music. Playing a man described in the …
MAKE ME GORGEOUS!' 100th performance was celebrated on March 7th.  Darius Rose aka Jackie Cox ("RuPaul's Drag Race"), who stars as Kenneth "Mr. Madam" Marlowe, was joined by spec…
The Wooster Group/Symphony of Rats " Out Of the Box Theatrics/Krysta Rodriguez " Othello/Denzel Washington & Jake Glyllenhaal " Jamie Lozano & La Familia " SoHo Playhouse/Messy White…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . At Pangea last month, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Gretchen Cryer and Richard Malby, Jr. converged on this intimate venue to reprise their popular …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 2005, I sat in the sixth row of the orchestra at the Walter Kerr Theatre and luxuriated in the tall talents of Cherry Jones, BrÃan F. O'Byrne, Hea…
