Friday, November 15, 2024
I was the New York Daily News reporter who broke the historic story about the casting controversy over Jonathan Pryce in Miss Saigon. That led to protests and a dramatic showdown between Act…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:33AMMonday, November 27, 2023
In fall 1981, previews of Merrily We Roll Along started out with a song. In fact, a whole wonderful score of them by Stephen Sondheim. Plus, a book by George Furth and direction by Hal Princ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AMThursday, December 2, 2021
"... I was fortunate enough to befriend Sondheim, and here are a few memories I've got of the amazing man behind the music and lyrics."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:33PMThursday, July 5, 2018
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's 'Soft Power,' a new musical satire that takes a hard look at America and China, hopes to go out with a bang this Fourth of July weekend.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMFriday, June 29, 2018
Conrad Ricamora is best-known to millions of TV viewers as Oliver, the cute computer whiz, on ABC's 'How to Get Away With Murder.' But this 2013 Theatre World Award winner also can slay an a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that marriage equality would be the law of the land in America. Three days later, Tom Andersen, an award-winning, out singer-songwriter released a m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
Jeremy Jordan plays Winn on the CW's 'Supergirl,' but he proved to be a superguy himself as he raised thousands for charity Sunday at a Broadway the Herbst concert in San Francisco. The Ton…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PMMonday, July 31, 2017
When David Moscow made his 'Big'-screen debut in 1988, it was huge. Penny Marshall had plucked this precocious, 11-year-old kid from the Bronx to play the younger version of Tom Hanks' chara…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMMonday, June 19, 2017
'Monsoon Wedding,' the new musical based on Mira Nair's acclaimed 2001 movie, has been showered with praise at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, Calif. Karen D'Souza of the San Jose Me…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Stephen Sondheim says his new musical with David Ives was never called 'Bunuel,' and he criticized Michael Riedel's 'misreporting' of the title in the New York Post last fall.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMFriday, April 21, 2017
Here's how I slept with dozens of guys and galson Wednesday, April 19... to get bargain tickets to 'Sundayin the Park With George.'It's called 'rush,' and many Broadway shows offer discounte…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
Jeffrey Brian Adams and Monique Hafen really know how to make beautiful music on stage and off in She Loves Me, opening November 30 at San Francisco Playhouse.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:10AMThursday, May 19, 2016
... I'm so bummed that I'm 6-4 and will never be able to play Huck again.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:14AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Nicholas Rodriguez is best known as Nick Chavez, the out-and-proud soap stud of ABC's One Life to Live. For his role in the first gay love triangle on American daytime TV, he was honored wit…
SOURCE: After Elton at 05:58PMFriday, August 22, 2014
In a breakthrough performance, Resnick, 28, charts Berns' rise and fall in the world of music execs, the mambo and the mob. Laura Collins-Hughes in the New York Times hailed the Carnegie Mel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark has survived so many delays, debacles, accidents and legal battles that it's time to truly "marvel" at Reeve Carney's superheroic efforts as it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 1, 2013
Lucas Steele struts and swaggers with a magnetic "czar quality" as Prince Anatole in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. In Dave Malloy's Obie-winning "electro-po…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
He's in the new play by Tony-nominated Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Tony-winning director Jack O'Brien and starring two-time Tony winner Nathan Lane.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Charles Strouse's Broadway musicals keep getting revived like there's no "Tomorrow."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:31PMWednesday, March 20, 2013
With his all-American looks and 6-foot-4, fit physique, the robust baritone appears well-suited to wear Superman's cape and tights to a tee.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:25PMThursday, February 14, 2013
Broadway star Ryan Silverman has been singing with passion all of his life. But nowadays, the 6-foot-2, charismatic Canadian, 35, is singing in Passion at Classic Stage Company.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:16AMSaturday, February 9, 2013
He'll star Off-Broadway in Classic Stage Company's version of the Tony-winning musical
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:09AMWednesday, December 19, 2012
For the past several years in New York, Jay Armstrong Johnson has been a working actor, but this month, he's an actor in Working, the Prospect Theatre Company's rousing and revised revival a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41AMFriday, December 7, 2012
What happens when two Broadway tenors and an opera singer from Boston Conservatory work in harmony? In the case of Kevin Massey, Jamison Scott and Patrick Massey, they formed Shubert Alley, …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, June 29, 2012
For nearly two years, aspiring young actor Zak Resnick says, “I grew a ton as a performer” working as a singing waiter at Ellen’s Stardust Diner.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, June 28, 2012
In Dan Gordon's Murder in the First, he's playing Willie Moore, a hardened and heartbreaking prisoner at Alcatraz on trial for killing a fellow inmate with a spoon in 1941.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:20PMMonday, June 18, 2012
Award-winning theatre composer Harvey Schmidt visited the New York City production of The Fantasticks on June 16 at the Jerry Orbach Theater — the first time he's seen his long-run…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMFriday, May 4, 2012
The Beacon School in Manhattan is lighting up its stage with “Spring Awakening,” and it’s the first New York City revival of the 2006 Tony-winning, pop-rock musical.
Directed …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMSunday, March 25, 2012
Jeremy Jordan was a kid when he first saw the big-screen version of “Newsies.”
And he’s been obsessed ever since with the Disney musical about ragtag newsboys waging a strike…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, March 23, 2012
Christopher Charles Wood plays young Joe Hardy in Paper Mill Playhouse's "Damn Yankees," and he's knocking it out of the ballpark.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:47AMMonday, February 27, 2012
Seth Numrich ("Yosemite," "War Horse," " The Merchant of Venice") interviewed by Wayman Wong.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:52PMFriday, February 10, 2012
Before Matt Cavenaugh (Tony in “West Side Story”) and Jenny Powers (Rizzo in “Grease”) got married in 2009, the Broadway musical stars agreed that they would not sing at their wedd…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSunday, October 2, 2011
Hit movies have been made into hit Broadway musicals, but it's rare for a cinematic bomb to become a stage smash.
Not only has "Newsies" become one of Paper Mill's best-selling shows in y…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:46AMThursday, June 23, 2011
Claybourne Elder discusses playing a male hustler in Tennessee Williams' ''One Arm"; working with Stephen Sondheim on ''Road Show,'' and going shirtless as the Wolf in ''Into the Woods.''
SOURCE: After Elton at 06:00PM 
