242 stories by "Dei Lewison"
With the recent opening of the musical version of American Psycho, gore has splattered across Broadway like never before. But it’s not the first show to scare the wits out of New York …
All of New York is currently celebrating the achievements of the Broadway community with the Tony Award nominations. So we decided to turn the tables and have Broadway celebrate New York. At…
There are so many songs. But when I was in high school, I would record the Tonys. And this is so nerdy. But I would record the Tonys on a VHS tape and then bring the tape into my math class,…
Who’d have thought that a musical based on a couple of murder cases set in Prohibition-era Chicago would turn out to be one of the biggest Broadway hits of all time? Especially on …
The first time Carmen Cusack knew she had the performing bug was when she was 5 years old and singing at church. In fact, what first really motivated her was chocolate. When asked to sing &#…
I have loved living in New York City since I was 21 years old. I got a role in my first Broadway musical two weeks before my official college graduation, and I rented a guest room in Pete…
The Tony nominations were announced last week and all of New York is celebrating the top Broadway plays and musicals. But what are the single shining moments for the individual nominees in t…
Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald announced her pregnancy and that she will be taking a maternity leave from her starring role as Lottie Gee in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical S…
The main characters in the Tony-nominated Best Plays represent an incredibly diverse selection of humanity ranging from blue-blooded royalty to devastated war victims. But whether they are r…
Bright Star and The Humans were named Outstanding Broadway Musical and Play by the Outer Critics Circle for the group’s 66th annual awards. Bright Star by comedy legend Steve Martin an…
Tony winner Christian Borle will star as the mysterious Willie Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on the beloved children’s novel by Roald Dahl, set to o…
The night before the Tony Awards were announced, Phillipa Soo was feeling a bit anxious and unable to fall asleep. She planned to get up at the crack of dawn. But as the ‘Hamilton&#…
Actors Equity Associations, the stage performers’ union, announced the winners of its Richard Seff and Clarence Derwent Awards for the 2015-16 season on May 6. The Richard Seff Award i…
Finding Neverland, the musical about the origins of Peter Pan, will fly away from Broadway on August 21.The show will have played 33 previews and 565 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatr…
The Humans and Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed have been chosen as the Best Play and Musical of the season by the New York Drama Critics Ci…
The original Elphaba and Glinda from the tour de force that is Wicked, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel come together again for the Out of Oz series to sing “For Good.” The bea…
I’m originally from North Carolina. When I first came to New York I thought it was bigger than I could ever explore. But that’s just not true. New York is what you make it. My ex…
I have a bunch of favorite songs. One that comes to mind is “The Nearness of You.” I love the lyric: “It’s not the pale moon that excites me, that thrills and deli…
I feel like I’m flying when I’m singing. It’s the most freedom I’ve ever felt. Singing allows you to transcend your body, transcend time, transcend everything. ItR…
With her role as “Wife Number One,” Saycon Sengbloh is ready for her close-up. Starring in the critically acclaimed Danai Gurira play Eclipsed has presented the role of a lifetim…
“When I get asked a question like, ‘What is your favorite song?,’ immediately what comes to mind is if I had ten kids and somebody, like in Sophie’s Choice, held a gu…
The top dancers and choreographers both on and Off-Broadway will vie for the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. Hamilton, On Your Feet!, Shuffle Along, Cagney and She Loves Me were among the …
The first casualty of the Tony nominations has fallen. Disaster!, which only received one Tony nod, will play its final performance on May 8. The wild parody of 1970s thriller films like Ear…
Hamilton, the smash-hit cultural phenomenon blending rap/hip-hop music with American history, continued its domination of the Broadway season by raking in 16 Tony Award nominations, the most…
Guards at the Taj, Rajiv Joseph’s two-character play set in 17th-century India presented by the Atlantic Theatre Company last year, and the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival o…
