This episode features discussions about David Dabbon, Gabriel Jason Dean and Jessie Dean's Our New Town and Emerson Mae Smith and Murphy Taylor Smith's Elektric. OUR NEW TOWN (by David …
by Matt Smith . . . "Gotta get your new tuxedo pressed / Gotta sew a button on your vest / 'Cause tonight you wanna look your best / Someone's back in town!" The someone in question is not L…
★★★★☆ Arin Arbus directs a cast in which some act flashily and some put too much flash in their acting The post The Merchant of Venice: John Douglas Thompson's…
Over 90% of new musicals have a tryout before Broadway.... The post Which would you do? A Commercial Out Of Town or a Non-Profit? first appeared on Ken Davenport.
I'm not sure how I missed the memo, but I'm wasting no time in sharing it with YOU. Almost exactly ten years ago, a kind conservator at the Smithsonian named Dawn Rogala put me up in her Was…
The Town Hall has announced new dates for Broadway By The Year, created, written, hosted and directed by Scott Siegel, due to the current Omicron surge. Instead of beginning in F…
The first William Redfield (1927-1976) performances I ever saw were among his last (and I figure my experience is not unusual). He was the persnickety "Harding" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's…
Season is paused in hopes omicron will subside in the spring.
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently. That Beauty and the Beast Prequel Series Is on the Way Beauty and the Best film stars Josh Gad and Luke Evans are set to re…
It was announced this week that The Last Boy . . . a new play with music by Steven Fisher, which had its sold-out and critically acclaimed world premiere production at The Theatre at St. Cle…
Netflix doesn't qualify as a solo offender when it comes to Gallic stereotypes, as three musical theater works on the city's stages show.
The Town Hall continues is centennial season celebration in a collaboration with Peoples' Symphony Concerts (PSC) " NYC's oldest concert series offering some of the most affordable ticket pr…
2022 GALA: "Paint the Town!" Sara Bareilles (Waitress) will join Roundabout Theatre Company's 2022 Gala evening celebrating Tony Award winner, RTC alumna and friend Chita Rivera with T…
With its huge cult following of "Hed-heads" and significant place in both theater and LGBTQIA history, the four-time Tony Award-winning alt-culture musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John …
The Thornton Wilder classic will play the Washington, D.C., venue in February 2022.
The rising star who plays Vivian tells how the musical has been revised since its Broadway run and how her character will be different from the movie.
Legendary singer and actress Darlene Love treated NYC fans to her extraordinary talents in a one-night-only concert at The Town Hall, Love for the Holidays, and what a gift it was! Now 80, L…
Just last night, Stage and screen icon Kathleen Turner returned to the New York stage in a one-woman show for one performance only - Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice which documents the …
The Tony and Oscar nominee sings through American Songbook standards in her signature timbre.
This year marks the centennial anniversary of NYC's The Town Hall, centrally located on West 43rd Street in the heart of the Times Square district. Originally conceived as a meeting place fo…
Few an resist feisty, foul-mouthed septuagenarians such as Helen Wheeler because, well, we do not normally expect a woman in her 70's to tackle someone into submission, or use a blowtorch to…
Hugely entertaining Midnight Company production of three-one act plays stars Joe Hanrahan and Ellie Schwetye.
The cast of Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, including Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Rita Moreno, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez and Mike Faist, touched on the casting process, the creation …
With a Virgin Mary strip show, lessons in how to sit on Santa's lap and a carol about drugs, this festive extravaganza is about as alternative as Christmas can get. Is Britain ready for the …
To celebrate the legacy of one of the greatest American composers, lyricists, and Broadway icons, The Town Hall and Strand Book Store will present an encore presentation of their conversatio…