306 stories by "Jesse North"
Happy Tony night, Rushers! The most exciting event of the Broadway season has arrived. As you gear up for the ceremony, watch the stars arrive at the Beacon Theater’s red carpet below!…
Talking points: Stage Rush’s Tony Award predictions Attending the opening of Desperate Writers Stage Rush TV will be coming to you from Los Angeles next week Broadway grosses What do y…
One of my favorite parts of the summer is the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park series. One of my least favorite parts of the summer is waiting in line for free tickets to Shake…
The back-and-forth chatter of who will go home a winner on Tony Awards night must come to and end, as the ceremony this Sunday draws closer. Stage Rush predicts the winners below! Best Play …
Talking points: Lucky Guy‘s unexpected, early closing almost derails Stage Rush giveaway winners The Phantom of the Opera ticket giveaway concludes The four Tony-nominated Book of Morm…
Talking points: Word association with Wonderland‘s Kate Shindle Acrobats tumble at Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana press event Win a pair of tickets to see The Phantom of the Opera Br…
It only lasted two months on Broadway, but the cast of the new musical Wonderland was never without water-cooler material. Actors of the show, based on Lewis Carroll's characters, were hande…
There are lots of shiny, new musicals on Broadway this season, and while a lot of them have superior star power to offer, it's hard to top that of an institution. Stage Rush is giving a way …
Coming off the heals of the flop that was Banana Shpeel, which ran just over a month at the Beacon Theatre last year, the Cirque du Soleil company would not want to see the performers of the…
Talking points: Playwright Jez Butterworth quotes Stage Rush’s Jerusalem review on Theater Talk. [Full TV clip here] The Book of Mormon Tony nominee Rory O’Malley gives his best …
The Independent Theater Bloggers Association has announced the winners of the 2011 Patrick Lee ITBA Awards! Watch the [title of show] gang"Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaf…
When Rory O'Malley called his mother in Ohio to tell her the happy news that he had been nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in The Book of Mormon, she suggested that he double ch…
Talking points: Scottsboro Boys producer Catherine Schreiber discusses the show’s 12 Tony Award nominations and what she thinks the show can win on the big night The Broadway softball …
Yee-haw, Rushers! Stage Rush is giving away two pairs of tickets to the new off-Broadway musical Lucky Guy, playing at the Little Shubert Theatre. Here are the easy steps you need to take to…
It takes courage to write about your own life for a play; it takes even more courage to play a character in it. That is what Catherine Schreiber is doing in Desperate Writers, a play she co-…
A substantial portion of paying audiences flock to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre primarily to see Daniel Radcliffe in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Yet they aren't getting Ra…
Arthur Laurents, librettist of West Side Story and Gypsy, and Broadway director died May 5 in his Manhattan home at age 93. He leaves behind a career legacy that changed musical theater fore…
Talking points: Reacting to the Tony Award nominations Brad Fleischer of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo wants to play Larry Bird in Magic/Bird Meeting up with Rushers for drinks and Broadwa…
Arthur Laurents, librettist of West Side Story and Gypsy, and Broadway director died Thursday in his Manhattan home at age 93. He leaves behind a career legacy that changed musical theater f…
Tuesday morning, Brad Fleischer woke up to a text message on his phone from a friend that said, "bleep the Tonys." Fleischer thought, 'What does that mean?' Since it was the morning the Tony…
For those that were dismayed by The Scottsboro Boys' short run on Broadway and feared it would be forgotten this awards season, all bad feelings were washed away when the Tony Award nominati…
Watch the live announcement for the Tony Awards nominations below at 8:30 a.m.! Launch the 2011 Tony Awards Live Video Console! What do you think, Rushers? What surprised you the most? What …
Talking points: Priscilla: Queen of the Desert‘s Nick Adams on being taken seriously as an actor Tony Award nominee predictions! What categories can Born Yesterday, Baby It’s You…
The Tony Award nominations are upon us, Broadway lovers, and the choices are as difficult as ever! The original musical returned with a vengeance this Broadway season, offering daring works …
The new musical The People In The Picture is all about family. And like most families, it's often difficult to understand and lays heavy on the guilt. Donna Murphy stars as Raisel, who is mo…
