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Entertainment Weekly reported this week that everybody's favorite absorbent, porous and yellow invertebrate, SpongeBob SquarePants, may someday come to Broadway. At its annual "upfront" pres…
Entertainment Weekly reported this week that everybody's favorite absorbent, porous and yellow invertebrate, SpongeBob SquarePants, may someday come to Broadway. At its annual "upfront" pres…
From the African-American experience to the choppy waters of international adoption, award-winning playwright Tanya Barfield is not afraid of a challenge. Her courageous writing has been awa…
The Last Five Years first made its Off-Broadway debut in 2002 – it ran at the Minetta Lane Theatre for two months – and while critics adored it, perhaps not many expected it to b…
Tony-winner Lillias White has the kind of voice that's both majestic and soothing, qualities that perfectly fit the real-life character she's currently playing onstage, in Alan Govenar's Tex…
In Rasheeda Speaking, Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins plays Jaclyn, an office worker pitted against her co-worker Ileen (played by Oscar winner Dianne Wiest) when claims of arrogance and incompete…
For his theatrical debut in New York City, Austin Smith is hitting the ground running in a big way. His lead role in An Octoroon at Theatre for a New Audience encompasses not one but thre…
Actor, writer, director, and producer Glenn Quentin sat down with us to discuss his latest theatrical venture, the world premiere of CrackBaby, now playing at The Griot Festival. It is a pie…
Overnight, "will it or won't it?" has turned into "when will it?" Even before Lin-Manuel Miranda's new musical, "Hamilton", opened at off-Broadway's Public Theater last night, the buzz was h…
Another year means another season of the acclaimed series Broadway by the Year, which is now celebrating its fifteenth year. Organized, produced and hosted by the remarkable pop culture crit…
Have you ever met a person who’s the Mayor of something? You know, THAT GUY. The one people might know as the Mayor of East 3rd street. Or the Resident Emperor of the local bagel shop.…
Christina Bianco finally gets to speak in her own voice. I recently had the chance to interview the multi-impressionist actress, singer and star of the Off-Broadway one-woman play Applica…
In Delirium’s Daughters, a world premiere from the award-winning filmmaker and playwright Nicholas Korn, a father believes that his deceased wife has forbidden his three daughters t…
In Sheila Callaghan's Everything You Touch, Christian Coulson plays Victor, a seemingly sadistic fashion designer living in 1970s New York, whose transgressive creative outbursts are only ov…
The newly released soundtrack for the film adaptation of The Last Five Years is an important album. Important for me because the Original Cast Recording of the musical on which it is based w…
Taking a date (or spouse, or significant other or affectionate parolee) out to a Broadway show is a no-brainer for Valentine's Day. A show is both social and personal, the experience allowin…
Originally conceived by visual artist Brian Michael Reed, A Matter Of Heart is a performance-based installation that combines elements of nature, art, dance, and music. In January 2015, Reed…
Roses are red, violets are blue, take your one and only to the theater this Valentine's Day and they will surely love you! What could be better this February than cozying up to your sweethea…
Sometimes a star just has it. Not just talent, not just a special quality, but a presence that will make theatergoers (especially female theatergoers) throw money at the opportunity to be in…
At 27 years old, Justin Peck is now Resident Choreographer of New York City Ballet, where he has set several acclaimed ballets on the company. (His newest, choreographed to Aaron CoplandR…
Are you looking for a way to spend a Sunday evening that is guaranteed to entertain you and not break the bank? The Cabaret Showdown is your ticket. Part live karaoke, part Jeopardy, and all…
MUSIC DIRECTOR STEVEN REINEKE LEADS THE ORCHESTRA'S FIVE CONCERT SUBSCRIPTION SERIES AT CARNEGIE HALL, OPENING OCTOBER 9, 2015 New York, NY " On October 9, 2015, The New York Pops " a …
Since 1983, the Olivier Award-winning Complicite theater company has been building a reputation for creating theater that pushes boundaries and challenges audiences to examine their world an…
What were you doing 57 years ago? Well, like me, the vast majority of people reading this probably weren't doing anything but floating in heaven somewhere before popping up in a scrotum, but…
This winter, Stage Left Studio is hosting an encore engagement of Margaret Morrison’s critically acclaimed love story Home in Her Heart. Set in 1939, the play tells the story of …
It's no small thing for Tom Dulack to claim that putting on The Road to Damascus at 59E59 has been "the best theater experience of his] entire life." A professor of English Literature at Uni…