2,359 stories by "Matthew Wexler"
Critically-acclaimed cabaret artist Molly Pope will return to Joe’s Pub at The Public for the live recording of her first album, An Audience with Molly Pope …
Move over, Carole King"producers Frank Marshall, Mindy Rich, Anita Waxman, and Beth Williams announced today that they are developing a new musical featuring the music and lif…
Follow The Broadway Blog on Facebook and Twitter! Every month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler's nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse…
by Ryan Leeds Transport Group (Jack Cummings III, Artistic Director) has nurtured some fine productions that have gone on to commercial success. From Almost, Maine to Lysistrata Jones, they …
Grammy-nominated multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban will make his long-awaited Broadway debut as 'Pierre' in Natasha, Pierre & The Great comet of 1812, the new music…
On the exact date of Sinatra’s birth 100 years ago, Michael Feinstein performs with a swinging, 17-piece band. Known as “The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook,&#…
by Samuel L. Leiter No need, it seems, for Internet dating, singles bars, or expensive cruises. If Jerry Mayer's romantic comedy, 2 Across, is any indication, it's still possible to meet and…
Follow The Broadway Blog on Facebook and Twitter! by Ryan Leeds No one will ever accuse Jackie Hoffman of subtlety. As a musical theater actress who made her Broadway debut in 2002'…
by Ryan Leeds The kids are most definitely, all right. From this year's bundle of cuteness in the latest revival of The King and I, to the dancing defiance that continues to play out in Mati…
Follow The Broadway Blog on Facebook and Twitter! Misery loves company, or so the saying goes. Screenwriter/playwright William Goldman has adapted his 1990 film for the stage, which in turn,…
Go big or go home. At least that's the vibe from Vineyard Theatre's new musical, Gigantic, which opened last night at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row. An earlier version of the show (then c…
Do you want "naughty" or "nice" this holiday season? New York theater is offering it all, so gather your friends and loved ones and head to one of our favorite picks of the month! Gigantic G…
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler review Dada Woof Papa Hot and Steve. Two gay-themed plays are on the boards this fall, so if you're looking for baby daddies and aging chorus boy…
Producers Ken Davenport and Michael Jackowitz in association with Live Stream have announced that the new musical Daddy Long Legs will be the first ever Broadway or Off-…
by Ryan Leeds No one can accuse singer-songwriter, Duncan Sheik, of being a slacker. Between the release of his latest solo album, Legerdamain, the work he's done on Broadway's current re…
Allegiance, the new Broadway musical currently playing at the Longacre Theatre, isn't perfect. But neither is America's track record when it comes to minority populations. Our country is cur…
Every month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler's nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. We'v…
Brooklyn-based, Venezuelan-born dynamo Migguel Anggelo, returns to Joe's Pub with his virtuosic band The Immigrants and a pair of sensational singers to create a kaleidoscope of voc…
Cameron Mackintosh announced today that his acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schönberg's legendary musical Miss Saigon " a smash hit in London since its premiere there in May, 2014 &…
by Laura Grimmer To be honest, I was astonished at the sheer number of Gloria Estefan songs I not only knew, but knew well enough to heartily sing along. Which made me just another member of…
by Mark Lingenfelter The New York Pops once again proved that mixing an outstanding orchestra with genuinely talented performers singing (and scatting) their way through some really great so…
The legendary Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award-winning songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb provides the soundtrack for PBS' First You Dream"The Music of Kander & Ebb, which pr…
by Samuel L. Leiter Michael Taubman from The New York Times praised Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy when it first premiered in 1964, but it was an opinion not widely shared and most other …
The WFUV Live at Zankel concert series, presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with WFUV 90.7 FM, kicks off its 11th annual series on Saturday, November 21 at 10:00 p.m. with a perf…
Things are heating up this summer when Tony Award winners Patti LuPone (Gypsy, Evita) and Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens) head to Chicago’s Goodman Theatre to star in War Paint…
