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Broadway-Bound The Sting, Starring Harry Connick Jr.,
Receives Rousing Premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse
By:Â Ellis Nassour
Is Broadway ready for a high stakes street con? No, not the t…
By: David Sheward
Recycling continues to be the main mode of operating on Broadway. Two American plays (Three Tall Women, Lobby Hero) are making their belated Main Stem debuts after success…
By: Iris Wiener
You may not know John Rando by name, but if you have experienced intelligent, entertaining theatre in the past few decades, you have certainly taken in some of his work.
By: Isa Goldberg
April 5, 2018. As humorous and unpretentious as Lobby Hero is, in its portrayal of everyday urban life, it's a delving piece of theater, about the stories we tell ourselv…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 5, 2018. While Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, his 1994 Pulitzer Award-winning drama, is full of sadness, Joe Mantello's revival plays on its underlying and uncann…
Warren Carlyle: Living the Dream and Going Places " For Now, Seguing from Hello, Dolly! to the Premiere of The Sting
By:Â Ellis Nassour
British-born choreographer/ director Warren Ca…
The 63rd Annual Drama Desk Awards will be hosted by Michael Urie at The Town Hall.
Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie, who won his award for Buyer and Seller and starred in Torch Song …
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 3, 2018 - The Berlin collective Gob Squad works collaboratively with performance, video installation and interactive theater to produce innovative and challengi…
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert: a Colossal, Moving, and Defining Project for TV
By: Ellis Nassour
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has stated, "Jesus Christ Superstar has always bee…
By: Lauren Yarger
March 30, 2018
An exquisite and tasteful staging of the New York premiere of Babette's Feast serves up this week's Easter message of love and grace.
      Part Two
   By: Ellis Nassour
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber worked in earnest on the Jesus Christ project. From the very beginning Lloyd Webb…
   Long before Manhattan began moving uptown, the theatre district made its home on 14thStreet, where performance halls provided magnificent shows, just as they do today in Times …
On Thursday, April 26 from 1-4pm Linda Amiel Burns will be moderating a panel on the tools needed to sustain your career in the Business of Cabaret with knowledgeable abnd talented expert…
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
By: David Sheward
It's been over 20 years since Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic two-part dramatic response to the AIDS crisis, b…
By: Iris Wiener
It was all about the fun at MCC's annual Miscast gala on March 26th. Some of Broadway's best were in attendance, performing songs from roles in which they would never be …
         Part One
By: Ellis Nassour
With the 1968 release of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonelyhearts Band, not only a mega sales blockbuster but…
NBC Presents Salute to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Career Prior to Easter Sunday Live Telecast of Jesus Christ Superstar
By: Ellis Nassour
Ten-time Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Golden Globe winner J…
By: Paulanne Simmons
In 1953, at the height of the American film and television industry's fascination with the West, Warner Brothers released Calamity Jane, a musical loosely based on the …
By: Isa Goldberg
That Admissions, Joshua Harmon's new play at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E Newhouse Theater, feels like it's stuck in banalities, is much to the playwright's point. Here, at Hil…
By: Paulanne Simmons
Despite its somewhat misleading title, A Letter to Harvey Milk is not about the gay activist who was shot and killed in San Francisco by Dan White. Although Milk does m…
By: David Sheward
Let me confess that margaritas are my cocktail of choice. Having one while watching the new Broadway musical Escape to Margaritaville certainly put me in the appropriate…
By: Iris Wiener
Fans of the film Frozen will experience the musical adaptation as though they are at a rock concert; it's a waiting game for the hit songs and now iconic characters, with m…
By: Isa Goldberg
An epic gaze into the love of wealth, Bruce Norris' new play The Low Road at The Public Theater is dramatically quite fabulous. In it, the prophet of free market economy,…
By: Paulanne Simmons
It's the fourteenth century in Jordan Harrison's new play, The Amateurs. A troupe of feisty actors drag their pageant wagon across Italy, preparing their version of "No…
By: David Sheward
The Pershing Square Signature Center is currently housing a diverse array of theatrical attractions Off-Broadway, one from the resident Signature Theater Company and a p…
