2,359 stories by "Matthew Wexler"
For those of you who didn’t see Beautiful and catch the many references to the Brill Building, where Carole King and so many other singer/songwriters penned their legendary tunes du…
Life can be a drag. Especially when you're a down-on-your-luck Elvis impersonator trying to make a living in Florida's Panhandle. Such is Casey's (Dave Thomas Browne) predicament in The Lege…
For those within striking distance of Broadway, early September is the best time to snag discount tickets. Broadway Week returns (September 7 – 20) and some of favorite shows are still…
Labor Day seems like a logical time to look back at one of our favorite musicals of the 1950s, The Pajama Game. Written by George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, th…
Broadway’s Gigi didn’t last long, but that doesn’t mean that another French ingenue, Amélie, can’t find her way to the Great White Way by way of Berkeley Re…
Dance celebrations continue this September as Rolex presents Career Transition For Dancers' 30th Anniversary Pearl Jubilee: A Star-Studded Retrospective on Monday, September 28, …
In case you thought New York City’s cabaret scene was shriveling like grapes at harvest time, think again. 54 Below has been resilient in its efforts to celebrate the American songb…
“You wanna become a dancer? You’re going to have to work… work your little tights off.” So famously said Debbie Allen’s character in the TV series Fame. Well…
"Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh so mellow." " The Fantasticks New York's theater scene is anything but slow and mellow this fall, as the season gears up with…
The Broadway community mourns the loss of actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, who passed away early Saturday morning at age 21. The marquee of Broadway's Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th St…
by Samuel L. Leiter One of my regrets over the past three decades, ever since my daughter became a grade school teacher in the New York public school system, has been my failure to record he…
Reports confirm that Kyle Jean-Baptiste"the first black actor ever to play Jean Valjean on Broadway in Les Misérables"Â died last night after an accidental fall off of a fire escape. R…
Want a front row seat and inside scoop from some of your favorite Broadway stars? The Drama League has announced their Fall 2015 Schedule of events and workshops at the …
The Boston Gay Men's Chorus (BGMC) welcomes Megan Hilty and Seth Rudetsky as Mark Cortale's Broadway @ series comes to the Citi Shubert for the first time ever on Friday, Sept. 18. Hilty, st…
The box office of the Cort Theatre (138 W. 48th Street) will go to the dogs on Friday, August 28, 2015, when it opens for business for A.R. Gurney's comedy Sylvia. Has your…
In 1998, Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner became the first actresses ever nominated together for a Best Actress Tony Award, for their performance as the conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton…
Producers Lorenzo Thione and Andrew Treagus have announced a partnership with Inspire Change, an innovative arts program that works alongside commercial theater productions to…
Damn you, Kremlin. Earlier in 2015, Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project were working with the Moscow New Drama Theatre and the U.S. State Department to produce a r…
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. Afte…
New York Theatre Workshop has announced a new CheapTix program, which will make all single tickets to the first two performances of every NYTW production available to the general public a…
Get on your feet! A limited number of VIP seats are available for Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine: A Benefit Concert for Viva Broadway. The concert will take place on Monda…
The Marquis Theatre Box Office (46th Street between Broadway & 8th Avenue) officially opens today, Monday, August 17 for ON YOUR FEET!, the new Broadway musica…
On the surface, Howard Crabtree's 1993 gay musical revue Whoop-Dee-Doo!, is pure frivolity that is sure to elicit chuckles, if not out loud laughs. Dig a bit deeper, however, and Crabtree…
Tony winner George Faison gathered original cast members including Phylicia Rashad, Dee Dee Bridgewater and André De Shields, along with an ensemble of today’s best dancers and singer…
Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced today that Emmy Award-winner and Grammy Award nominee Wayne Brady will take over the coveted role of 'Lola' in the Tony Award-…
