NJTV, New Jersey's public television network, takes to stages across the Garden State in a new documentary that that captures the vitality and diversity of the local high school arts communi…
Massey Hall, Toronto, presents a live performance by the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, on May 12, 2017.'The Jesus and Mary Chain' emerged from Lanarkshir…
The Arabian Nights is perhaps the quintessential Constellation Theatre show, and therefore ideal for them to revisit ten years after they first presented it, as part of their anniversary sea…
The music of Abbey Lincoln was The Kennedy Center's choice for its 22nd Annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival. Showcasing the best in old and new jazz artistry, this year's tribute presente…
Yale Repertory Theatre concludes its 50th Anniversary Season with the world premiere of MARY JANE by Amy Herzog, directed by Anne Kauffman, nowthrough May 20 at Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 C…
Mary Beth Peil has only one number all to herself in Anastasia, but it’s a killer, and almost certainly what earned her a second Tony Award nomination 32 years after the first one. …
Hollywood star Mary Astor (Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, 1906-1987) is a May 3 baby. If you’re like me, you know her primarily, maybe entirely, be her LATE roles, most especially B…
For the last three years running at the Tony Awards, one of the five Best Actress in a Play nominees reaped her bid for a closed production. Last year, Laurie Metcalf earned her th…
Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Mary Poppins will feature Elena Shaddow as Mary Poppins, Mark Evans as Bert, Dierdre Friel as Mrs. Brill, Liz McCartney as Bird Woman/Miss Andrew, Ad…
Paper Mill Playhouse,recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award, hasannouncedcasting for the hit Broadway musical Mary Poppins based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney…
This week's supercalifragilistic Showcase video features a peppy tune from "Mary Poppins." In the video, Matthew Crowle as Bert and Nicole Armold as the titular zany nanny enjoy each othe…
Connecticut has welcomed some remarkable tours of the iconic 1990s New York starving-artist rock musical "Rent" over the years. When the first national tour played The Bushnell in 1998, it s…
By Cherry Lou Sy. Cherry Lou Sy looks at the one-woman show Mary Speaks written and performed by Angela Polite, about using Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a vehicle to explore black grief.
The boutique "Mary Poppins" at the Mercury Theater is stacked with talent. Matthew Crowle, who plays the chimney sweep Bert, warbles a Broadway-level "chim chiminy," and is fully in touch wi…
"Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical", is on stage at the Lower Ossington Theatre, Toronto through April 30, 2017.Directed by Alan Kinsella, "Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical" fea…
A SPADEFUL OF SUGAR As the supplicating ballad puts it, "Let's hope she will stay." Not just the quintessentially "practically perfect" nanny, Mary Poppins is a kind of cosmic cure. Given th…
