2,359 stories by "Matthew Wexler"
Schmackary's, New York's uniquely gourmet cookie company, will host its Fifth Annual Broadway Bakes event May 15-19, 2017. Over 20 of the biggest names on Broadway will join together to work…
A young woman in search of her past. A country in the midst of a revolution. Two schemers looking to escape the violence of a new Communist regime. These grand scenarios have the making for …
Try to remember… when The Fantasticks wasn't playing Off-Broadway. The production opened in 1960 and has been a fixture for nearly 60 years. But catch it while you can. Producers announced…
By Samuel L. Leiter There's a lot of heart and a considerable amount of talent off and onstage in Bandstand, a sincere, upbeat, but overly sudsy and clichéd musical that's moved to Broadway…
By Samuel L. Leiter "There are two sides to every story," says a character in John Guare's prize-winning dramedy, Six Degrees of Separation, now getting its first Broadway revival since its …
By Samuel L. Leiter As we squeezed our way through all the Oompa Loompas, I mean small children, clogging the arteries, I mean aisles, of the Lunt-Fontanne after eating, I mean seeing, Charl…
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Wendy Wasserstein's prescient play An American Daughter returns to New York on May 8, 2017 at 7 p.m. for a one-night-only benefit reading at …
By Samuel L. Leiter As I looked around during the standing ovation greeting Paula Vogel's Indecent, now on Broadway after its successful run Off-Broadway last season, a few people were strug…
By Samuel L. Leiter Rebel in the Soul, a brisk, compact biodrama by musician/composer/writer Larry Kirwin, is set in Ireland a few years after World War II but its tale of Dr. Noel Browne's …
The producers of the hit Broadway revival of New York City Center's productionSunday in the Park with George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, announced today that the show wil…
Audra McDonald heads west! The record-breaking, six-time Tony Award-winner makes her anticipated debut, as part of the acclaimed Broadway @ series, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the …
By April Stamm A life so rich with pain and beauty and so complex with love and betrayal can be enticing and daunting to take on in performance. Many have tackled the challenge of Frida Kahl…
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host An Evening with Bebe Neuwirth on Monday, May 1, 2017. The exclusive benefit features the presentation of the second annual Beth …
St. Louis again celebrates its world-renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright"Tennessee Williams"with the 2nd Annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, May 3 – 7, in venues ac…
Masterworks Broadway proudly announces the release of the highly anticipated Original London Cast Recording of Dreamgirls. The new double album will be available via online re…
by April Stamm If only your dinner parties were this cool: your adorable kitchen packed with well-placed hipster kitsch and peopled with fascinatingly gorgeous, mustachioed, skinny-jeans-wea…
The musical Hamilton's very first King George III, three-time Tony nominee Brian d'Arcy James, returns to the role for a limited engagement on Broadway starting April 14. James created th…
by Ryan Leeds CasablancaBox, the experimental play currently playing at HERE Arts Center had the potential to become a complete disaster. To begin with, it uses sacred material (The 1942 …
On Monday, May 1, 2017, The New York Pops will celebrate its 34th birthday with a grand gala evening honoring Karen van Bergen, the CEO of Omnicom Public Relations Group, and Tony Award winn…
By Samuel L. Leiter Given today's preoccupations with Islam, Zayd Dohrn couldn't have hit upon a more succulent subject for a domestic dramedy than the one he uses in The Profane, his pot…
by Ryan Leeds Life is full of choices but for Sheri Sanders, there's no reason to choose. When it comes to performing, Sanders believes that you can combine legit trained musical theater sty…
Curtain up! There’s plenty of Broadway caliber talent that’s ventured west, and that’s where Lara Scott and Will Armstrong come into play. Their new podcast, West of Bro…
Let's cut to the chase. Director Moritz von Stuelpnagel's revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter is a brilliantly fine-tuned comedy of style and substance, and if you want to see an en…
By Samuel L. Leiter Perhaps, like me, you didn't notice that, beneath the Harry Potter hoopla of the past two decades, a series of young adult novels about another boy with supernatural powe…
Tickets went on sale this morning, April 4,  for the 62nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, and can be purchased at www.DramaDeskAwards.com. This year’s awards, hosted by …
