306 stories by "Jesse North"
To celebrate Stage Rush's 2nd birthday and the 50th episode of Stage Rush TV, we are giving away two pairs of tickets to see How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel …
The latest installment of the At This Performance concert series brought big laughs Sunday night. The concert that gives Broadway understudies and standbys the spotlight saw performers choos…
Comedians have been making their way to Broadway recently, with Robin Williams in Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo and Dane Cook in Fat Pig this season. Even Saturday Night Live alumni like W…
The creators of The Scottsboro Boys are out to make audiences squirm in their seats with discomfort. This new musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb tells the true story of nine black men who w…
The Fantasticks is giving Matt Leisy his voice, literally and figuratively. After playing the Mute (yes, a non-speaking role) for a year and understudying the young lover Matt, Leisy was pro…
The Vatican has never seemed cooler (or more suburban) in Pope: The Musical. But in scrambling to be quirky, the show lacks a message.
Talking points: Kevin Daly of Theatre Aficionado At Large and I discuss the first preview of The Scottsboro Boys Fela! performs free concert in DUMBO Seeing Lombardi Broadway grosses Were yo…
John Leguizamo just can’t stop talking about himself. The outrageous actor is returning to Broadway in February in his fifth one-man show. Yet unlike his outings in Spic-O-Rama and Sex…
Talking points: I’m obsessed with Jennifer Sanchez’s comedy at the latest At This Performance concert Broadway.com editor in chief Paul Wontorek and how he built the number-one t…
Talking points: Happy Thanksgiving, Rushers! Mary Poppins dance captain Suzanne Hylenski on what it's like to tap dance upside down Elling's shocking closing notice Broadway grosses What did…
In Part 2 of Ensemble Watch with The Lion King's Ray Mercer and Jean Michelle Grier, Mercer talks about his giraffe, Gus, and how he manages on those stilts (14 feet high!). Grier reveals he…
Daily Bugle News Flash! Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is not the best musical ever written. However, the venomous reviews and general bad press seem to be overshadowing the aspects that dire…
The Scottsboro Boys may be in its final week on Broadway due to disappointing ticket sales, but theatergoers packed the Lyceum Theatre for Thursday night's performance. Following a sold-out …
Talking points: Pitmen Painters‘ Christopher Connel on his favorite New York spots Broadway grosses What do you think, Rushers? Can you see Connel playing Dad in Billy Elliot the Music…
Broadway.com editor in chief Paul Wontorek sits in a comfy white chair in the middle of the website's video production room in its Times Square offices. Amid professional lighting and expens…
Talking points: John Leguizamo readies his fifth solo show, Ghetto Klown, for Broadway Word Association with John Leguizamo Memphis filmed for theatrical release—good for box office? B…
A loving, if bizarre, homage to the blockbuster novel and film soon gives way to torrents of incoherent, random humor.
While the company members of the Opera Populaire over at Phantom of the Opera and ballerinas of Billy Elliot have been dancing masterfully for years, performers in long run shows need help m…
Talking points: For Facebook Fan Day, Chicago fills the house for free Melissa Etheridge joins American Idiot cast for one week only Broadway grosses What do you think, Rushers? Were you at …
Bernadette Peters and Jan Maxwell were there. Yes, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, who is making his Broadway debut as the morose Henrik in A Little Night Music, attracted quite the crowd to his seco…
Talking points: Avenue Q cast on finding their puppets’ movements Broadway Mad Libs with Avenue Q‘s Kate Monster and Anika Larsen Broadway grosses What do you think, Rushers? Is …
Talking points: Going to the opening night of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Interviewing Lion King ensemble members Ray Mercer and Jean Michelle Grier Broadway grosses What do you think, Rush…
I was there when it played off Broadway, then attended the media day, and even was present at its first Broadway preview. So when I was invited to the opening night performance and party of …
Talking points: Interviewing Billy Elliot's Gregory Jbara and reminiscing about our connection to my hometown/his prior feature film location Experiencing my first, first preview of a Broadw…
After receiving what was undoubtedly the most kick-ass history lesson of my life last spring when I saw Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at The Public Theater, I wondered how the show would hand…