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by Ryan Leeds "I will feel a glow just thinking of you and the way you look tonight" are the classic lyrics from Jerome Kern and Dorothy Field's 1936 tune, "The Way You Look Tonight," but th…
Javier Muoz and Brandon Victor Dixon, the new stars of Hamilton on Broadway, and New York City Gay Men's Chorus have joined the list of special guests at Chita Rivera's landmark con…
Producers The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization announced today that Broadway veteran Mamie Parris will assume the iconic role of "Grizabella the Glamour Cat" in the f…
by Samuel L. Leiter As I watched the Pearl Theatre Company's middling revival of A Taste of Honey, British playwright Shelagh Delaney's once controversial, kitchen-sink dramedy, I cou…
by Samuel L. Leiter Yes, we all know about the horrible explosion in Chelsea the other day, but let me remind you that there's a far more benign blast of energy bursting only a few bl…
by Samuel L. Leiter Maybe one day there'll be a Lindsay! or a Koch! (John! or Ed! don't cut it) but to date there have been only two Broadway musicals devoted to New York mayors, a not parti…
The Lilly Awards Foundation will present its fourth Broadway Cabaret: Broadway Stars Performing the Work of Women Songwriters on Monday, October 17 at The Cutting Room (44 East 32nd Stree…
Producer Scott Rudin announced the cast for the most breathlessly anticipated theatrical event of the season: the upcoming Broadway revival of Michael Stewart's (book) and Jerry Herman's (mu…
The New York Pops, led by Music DirectorSteven Reineke, will launch its 34th season at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, celebrating the legacy and timeless works of Alan J…
Truth be told, this interview wasn't 15 minutes. In fact, it was well over 45 and I have a feeling that if I hadn't had a pressing deadline, the Tony Award-winning Betty Buckley would have c…
by Samuel L. Leiter As with many tasty meals, what goes into a worthy play is often rather commonplace, depending for its effect on how the playwright seasons and prepares the familiar ingre…
by Samuel L. Leiter Hershey Felder, who practically has made a career of creating one-man shows about musical geniuses (Gershwin, Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, and Berlin), has done it again wit…
BROADWAY FOR HILLARY announces Broadway Calls for Clinton, the organization's first action day of phone banking for the Clinton campaign. Broadway's brightest will come together for t…
Cirque du Soleil has been entertaining audiences with its magical, whimsical, and gravity-defying aesthetic since its province-wide tour throughout Quebec in 1984. More than 30 years later, …
Have we tired of Hamilton yet? Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop founding father musical bio garnered 11 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Last week the Broadway hit grossed more than…
by Ryan Leeds Does salvation inhibit creativity? It may well be a question that plagued the late stage legends Gwen Verdon and her husband Bob Fosse in the 1960s. After Verdon read reporter …
by Samuel L. Leiter Leslye Headland's The Layover, now being slickly produced at Second Stage under Trip Cullman's smooth direction, begins on Thanksgiving weekend as a plane waits to take o…
Broadway is slowing coming out of its summer hibernation, but our eyes are wandering toward Off Broadway and beyond for our top picks of the month. All the Ways to Say I Love You An unconven…
The music of the iconic 1954 Warner Bros. film A Star is Born" brought vividly to life by award-winning cabaret artist Molly Pope " will return to Feinstein's/54 Below f…
Telly Leung (Photo: Leon Le Photography via The Broadway Blog.) Telly Leung, the Broadway and television star of "Glee," Godspell, Rent and more, returns to Feinstein's/…
What better way to spend a night in Central Park than with live music from Broadway’s worldwide smash, featuring stars from Chicago The Musical! Current cast members performing on this…
Two-time Emmy and five-time Grammy Award-nominated Michael Feinstein returns to Feinstein's at the Nikko with a special salute to the one-and-only Judy Garland for four per…
The Off Broadway Alliance has announced that its hugely popular semi-annual ticket promotion 20at20, will return from September 5th to September 25, 2016.  20at20 makes $20 ti…
"Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow." Anyone who's familiar with the iconic musical, The Fantasticks, will recognize this indelible lyric, orig…
The new Cirque du Soleil touring show inspired by James Cameron's record-breaking movie Avatar,  TORUK " The First Flight, will be presented at Barclays Center on Septem…
