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Thomas Bernhard plays La MaMa, courtesy of Canadians
P.S.122 and the Goethe-Institut New York host a curious promenade production
The class menagerie on Broadway
Talking with all-around Broadway fanatic Seth Rudetsky! Plus Charles Busch.
The playwright serves up another savorless meringue
A play or two from outer space, but some hit closer to home
Throughout history, musicals have come with some pretty outrageous premises. But it's safe to say that none before REVOLUTION IN THE ELBOW OF RAGNAR AGNARSSON FURNITURE PAINTER -- a rock mus…
This spunky monologue, equal parts stand-up comedy and reality confessional, delivers a winning tale thanks to author and actor Qurrat Ann Kadwani's dead-on impersonations of New Yorkers and…
After the success of their "America's Got Talent" run, iLUMINATE arrives on the New York stage to tell this story of a struggling artist and his magical paintbrush.
Stage heavy BrÃan F. O'Byrne confronts a "slight" romantic comedy
But while most have entered these hallowed halls to listen to the lullaby of Broadway, historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper decided to write about it. In her new book, The Untold Stories of Broa…
It's a fitting farewell, and at the after party at the Maritime Hotel's Cabanas, Chiemi gave me some of the backstory. "Was anything off-limits for Stritchie as far as filming?" I wondered. …
Douglas Carter Beane and I were getting along pretty well--I did a nice interview with him, which was included in my last book--but when I didn't rave about Sister Act, calling it "rote but …
I'm basically bowing and scraping before your fabulous feet and saying "I'm so sorry".
"I march to my own drum," Alan Cumming told me last week, and though he was referring to his iconoclastic dancing style, it could have been about any aspect of his non-boring existence. The …
A well made play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square, The Heiress is back in a sturdy if not revelatory production.
The play was last on Broad…
I hear that Broadway producer Jordan Roth (who's President of Jujamcyn Theaters) is marrying agent/producer Richie Jackson (who produces Nurse Jackie) this Saturday onstage at one of Jordan'…
There are plenty of folks with the cash and the gumption and the taste for something great and white up on the Way.
But when I ask people who'd rather go to funerals than to a Broadway sh…
The last blog on this topic was an even bigger hit than Springtime For Hitler, so it's led to the inevitable sequel.
Here are the five most Tony-deserving types of annoyances that lurk on the show boards that I happen to spend half my life on:
She dazzles as Clarice in Silence!: The Musical, she startled as the Wicked Witch at Night of 1000 Judys, and she costars in a new movie called Gayby. And she was all mine for a tell-all Q&A…
I just performed a little conversational duet with myself and picked the best of the musical twosomes. We both agreed that these are the finest:
In 2007, Joel Vig--who played various roles in Hairspray--sued the show for $1.5 million, claiming they fired him after he had surgery on a knee he'd injured onstage.
I've seen almost everything this season except Magic/Bird--which to me sounds like a wildlife puppet show, and it's quite possible that's what it is--and I'm ready to tell you who will defin…
Twenty-two-year-old theater performer Jason Wise wasn't thrilled to read the New York Times piece lamenting the fact that Judy's greatness is lost on young gays (in the context of a discussi…
