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By Marilyn Lester . . . Star quality is ineffable, yet an attribute unmistakable in someone who possesses it. Is it a gift from the gods? Genetic? Is it teachable? No matter"star quality is …
The Tonys have a new home! CBS presents "The 77th Annual Tony Awards," which began in 1947, will broadcast live from The David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Ne…
By Andrew Poretz … Writer, dramatist and concert/revue creator Deborah Grace Winer continued her popular Songbook Sundays series at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club with more than a d…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Stage and film writers often find inspiration in familiar locales where a broad assortment of people congregate, among them bars, hotels, schoolrooms, and barbersho…
By Marilyn Lester . . . Autumn in New York brings the annual New York Pops Underground cabaret at 54 Below, a mini gala hosted by Pops Music Director and Conductor, Steven Reineke, that m…
Fergie L. Phillipe " Antonia Bennett " Laura Benanti " Sally Mayes " Emily Skinner Tony-winner Laura Benanti will bring an all-star female lineup to Joe's Pub for a Benefit Concert of the ne…
By Myra Chanin . . . I usually arrive at the theater with varying amounts of trepidation, greater when an unfamiliar drama by a world-renowned playwright is being performed by a comparativel…
By Melissa Griegel . . . Watching Josh Rhodes' version of Cabaret is like drinking a full-bodied glass of red wine, aged to perfection, rich, and filled with subtle notes of complex arom…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, who appeared at the Q&A after the press screening at Lincoln Center, highlighted a key point about the making…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Despite its title, don't expect Bite Me, Eliana Pipes's new Off-Broadway play at the WP Theater, to be about vampires (although there actually is a 2019 vampire mov…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . On Monday, October 4, Tony Award winner Betty Buckley received the American Songbook Association's Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual gala, held at Merkin…
Broadway Sings Queen " join Broadway talents including Christine Dwyer (Wicked, Waitress), Tony Nominee Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages), and Keri René Fuller (Six, Jagged Little Pill) t…
On October 9th at Sony Hall at the Paramount Hotel, Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV), is hosting the "Hope In Harmony: Award Ceremony & Fundraiser Cocktail Party." The evening's guest…
The 35th Annual Festival of New Musicals will be presented at New World Stages in New York City on October 26th & 27th, 2023. Register now! This is the place where you will see everyt…
by Yani Perez . . . Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares by Christine Stoddard directed by Fiamma Piacentini played this September at The Tank. Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American writer, …
A gala fundraiser is scheduled Monday November 13th at the Actor's Temple (339 W. 47th St. NYC) from 7:30 " 9:30 pm in a Salute to Broadway honoring Joe Benincasa (Entertainment Community Fu…
Following Mischief's critically acclaimed Broadway run of Peter Pan Goes Wrong and the ongoing production of The Play That Goes Wrong Off-Broadway, Mind Mangler: A Night of Tr…
Brandon Victor Dixon/Classical Theatre of Harlem " Ballad of Dreams New Musical " NY Stage & Screen Annual Gala/Billy Porter " Spamalot- All the Devils Are Here/Patrick Page The unoffici…
By Adam Cohen . . . George Street Playhouse presents the world premiere of The Pianist, a play with music, based on the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman and directed and adapted for the stag…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his most brilliant, inventively surrealistic film to date, award-winning Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things displays the artistic genius of the fant…
By Ron Fassler . . . When Golden Rainbow opened in early 1968, this eleven-year-old future critic had only recently seen his first Broadway show, I Do! I Do!, which was playing two blocks aw…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his latest film, May December, director Todd Haynes (Safe, Carol) constructs a thought-provoking, uniquely American story that highlights the culture's fascin…
Judi Mark " Florencia Cuenca " Steve Ross, Mauricio Martinez " John Manzari " Jason Sweetthooth Williams/Jeremy Morse " Ellyn Marsh/Joey Taranto Mauricio Martinez returns to 54 Below with "5…
Runs through September 30th . . . By Melissa Griegel . . . The second annual Phoenix Festival in Nyack, New York, kicked off on Thursday, September 28th with a production of Fyodor Dostoyevs…
By Myra Chanin . . . Marcie Gorman, the philanthropic co-founder, Executive Producer and Artistic Director of the MNM Theatre Company, formerly toiled in the corporate sector as the long…
