2,359 stories by "Matthew Wexler"
Producers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke announced today the complete cast for Gotta Dance, the new Broadway-bound musical about professional basketball's first ever aged …
by Ryan Leeds Senior citizens must really be irritated when people comment on their longevity. Like an adolescent at a family reunion who is forced to hear, "I remember when you were this…
Tony winner Joe DiPietro's Clever Little Lies, which premiered two years ago at New Brunswick's George Street Playhouse and was shown last summer in the Hamptons, is a clever little d…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and R&H Theatricals, a division of Rodgers & Hammerstein, an Imagem Company, announced today that high schools and youth performance groups in the USA an…
by Samuel L. Leiter Stories about the fluidity of gender identity seem currently to be the coin of the media realm, and not only because of Caitlyn Jenner. Ever since 1970, when Myra Breckin…
Before there was Miley Cyrus, before there was Beyonce, before Madonna and Mariah… even before Diana Ross… there was Carol Channing! Now, the 95-year-old sex symbol is back with …
by Mark Lingenfelter Sometimes, when you go to the theater, the experience rises above any preconceived expectations. Sometimes, it falls below. And, as in the case of Broken Box Mime …
French poet Charles Perrault (1628-1703) might not know what to make of Company XIV's wildly sensual and dynamic interpretation of his 1697 fairytale, Cinderella. But it's hopeful that the p…
by Ryan Leeds Remember that song Stephen Sondheim wrote about bleu cheese? Okay. You're right. Sondheim did not write an opus to Gorgonzola, but it was a clever addition to the New Jer…
What does October have in store for Broadway and beyond? Our picks include a violent romantic obsession, epic sci-fi trilogy, and good old-fashioned musical revival. Go to the theater! Fool …
by Ryan Leeds While the tri-state area braces for a weekend full of chill and rain, the New Jersey Performing Arts center (NJPAC) forecast includes shining stars in rays of spotlight as it h…
Changes are in store for one of New York City's preeminent classical theater companies. Brian Kulick will step down as the Artistic Director of Off-Broadway's acclaimed Classic Stage Company…
We’re getting out of Gotham for a chance to see the illustrious Bernadette Peters in concert at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on October 16. The Tony Award-winning star wil…
More than 400 guests packed the Absinthe Theater at Caesars Palace last night for the Fifth Annual Solo Strips to watch 15 of Las Vegas’ hottest performers strip down for solo performa…
by Samuel L. Leiter Epistolary plays"like Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar, A. R. Gurney's Love Letters, and Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth"are far less common than epistolary novels. Perhaps that's be…
by Samuel L. Leiter In 1970 Peter Brook revolutionized stagings of A Midsummer Night's Dream by stripping away the encrustations of romanticist directors and designers, placing the play in a…
By Samuel L. Leiter It's everyone for themselves in Thomas Bradshaw's unfulfilling Fulfillment, now at the Flea in a production whose crisply effective staging by Ethan McSweeny isn't enough…
Psycho Clan, the artistic team behind New York's well known Nightmare Haunted House, has announced that it will shift it's unique brand of terror from theatrical haunted house to a series of…
Yellow Sound Label has announced the new album from Telly Leung, star of this season's new Broadway musical Allegiance opposite George Takei and Lea Salonga. A dyn…
The boys of Cirquelesque are back for a monthly, gravity-defying show at The Slipper Room. After headlining the Atlantis cruises final night and rave reviews, the boys are itching to show…
by Samuel L. Leiter In Hamlet in Bed, three sets of cheekbones"often lit from beneath to accentuate their razor-sharp sculpting"compete for attention with Michael Laurence's improbable but o…
Company XIV"one of our favorite (and slightly naughty) downtown performance companies" returns with their 2015-2016 Off-Broadway season, which will include three adult only shows: the world …
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. This…
Following last year's auspicious debut of "Theater Close-Up"" a unique collaboration between THIRTEEN and the large community of New York City area non-profit Off-Broadway theaters "the stat…
Who says New York City is the only place where the hottest entertainers can lose some layers for a good cause? The fifth annual Solo Strips returns to Las Vegas featuring the Strip’s h…
