2,359 stories by "Matthew Wexler"
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," wrote William Congreve, the 17th century English playwright and poet. He would have had quite the dr…
George Faison, internationally celebrated producer, writer, composer, director, choreographer and dancer, made history in 1975 when he became the first African American to win a Tony Award f…
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! The New York Pops celebrated its new summer home at Forest Hills Stadium with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. T…
Are the critics as enamored with Hamilton since its move from The Public Theater to the Great White Way? Let’s see what they have to say! “I am loath to tell people to mort…
The most anticipated show of the season has arrived! Hamilton opens tonight at the Richard Rogers Theatre and producers have big plans. Up first will be the daily drawing for lotter…
HAMILTON Touted as the greatest theatrical endeavor to hit Broadway since A Chorus Line, Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop retelling of Alexander Hamilton's life and times has raked in a whopping…
Do you want to become a Broadway producer but don’t have $25,000 to gamble with? Standing Room Capital, a private online membership platform allowing individuals to invest as little as…
It's been more than 25 years since Martin Sherman's Bent, a groundbreaking drama about the rare power of love in the most inhumane conditions, opened on Broadway. The Center Theatre Group/Ma…
"How did Helen Keller burn her cheek? She answered the iron." "If Helen Keller fell in the woods, would she make a sound?" "Helen Keller walks into a bar. Then a table. And then a chair." Mo…
Before there was JonBenét Ramsey and Honey Boo Boo, there was Tina Denmark, the fictional tyke created from the twisted mind of Joel Paley, who wrote Ruthless! (along with music by Marvin L…
Ready to bring their A-list talent to an unprecedented primetime event, Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige " multi-award winners, giants of the recording industry and stars of both the small an…
James Lecesne’s solo performance piece, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, opened last night at at the Westside Theatre. Directed by Tony Speciale with original music by Dun…
Things will be getting devilishly creepy on Broadway in 2016. The producers of the new musical American Psycho are pleased to announce the show will make its Broadway premiere this season wi…
It’s been a decade since “Full House” aired its final television episode, but have no fear"the Tanner Family is coming to Toronto on August 18 and New York City on Septe…
The Broadway community mourns the loss of acclaimed performer Theodore Bikel, who passed away on July 21, 2015 at age 91. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in h…
Broadway Blog founder Thomas Mizer has co-authored Triangle, a new musical making its premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. The road to producing a commercially viable musical isn’t…
Tuck Everlasting, the new musical based on Natalie Babbitt's beloved best-selling novel of the same name, will play Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) this spring with open…
All good things must eventually end. Seen by over 45 million people around the world, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ global smash hit musical Mamma Mia!, is celebra…
John Newton is not your average protagonist for a musical. The British sailor worked for many years in the slave trade, and it was only after a tumultuous storm at sea did he begin to questi…
Every third Wednesday of the 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 t…
by Jim Gladstone "We're asking folks to share programs," explained an usher distributing black-and-white photocopies to the patrons who only filled up about a quarter of the 1000-plus seats …
by Alex Robinson Nearly 30 years after their award-winning Broadway debut, the comedy/magic duo of Penn & Teller have returned to the Great White Way for a third time in their latest sho…
Roger Rees, the legendary, Tony Award-winning actor, and Tony Award nominated director, passed away on July 10, 2015 at his home in New York City, after a brief journey with cancer. His …
Broadway's brightest talent will gather on Monday, July 20, for Broadway Stands Up For Freedom, a celebratory event in honor of the recent Supreme Court victory for the freedom to marry. Pro…
by Samuel L. Leiter First: a few background words on this show's evolution. In the years following the end of America's postwar occupation of Japan (1952), a steady stream of movies and book…
