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Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! It seems like only yesterday (well… 15 years ago) that CATS played its last epic performance at the Winter Garden…
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! The Audience Calling all Anglophiles. Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will return to Broadway this spring as Elizabeth II in Pet…
by Samuel Leiter As anyone who's been following the theater season lately is undoubtedly aware, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's new musical at the Public Theatre, based on the life of Foundin…
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! It's been 20 years since the original production of John & Jen, a song cycle musical by Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald. A lot …
by Samuel Leiter It's a long way from the 1982 film Tron to Jennifer Haley's play, The Nether, now being produced by the MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, but both do concern a worl…
by Samuel Leiter The wind-chill factor may have been zero degrees outside on Monday night, but numerous dyed-in-the-wool Broadway musical theater fans, who may that morning have complained, …
Beyond Broadway’s bright lights and the concrete jungle of New York City, there are plenty of theater companies who are developing new works. If you’re headed to Vermont t…
by Samuel L. Leiter Seeing the Peccadillo Theater Company's production of Clifford Odets's rarely revived 1938 dramedy Rocket to the Moon, directed by Dan Wackerman, makes one wonder w…
The new Broadway revival of On The Town will welcome So You Think You Can Dance winner and "America's Favorite Dancer" Ricky Ubeda to the cast beginning February 27, 2015 for a limited engag…
Hedwig is getting gleeful this spring as Darren Criss joins the cast in the lead role. He'll be replacing John Cameron Mitchell April 29 for a limited 12-week run. Composer and lyricist S…
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…
Anika Larsen, the 2014 Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner currently starring on Broadway in Beautiful " The Carole King Musical, will introduce her debut solo CD Sing yo…
by Samuel L. Leiter There's no question that Eugene O'Neill's barroom drama about the hopelessness of hope, The Iceman Cometh, is a superlative contribution from one of America's three top s…
Guest contributor Bobby McGuire reviews the screen adaptation of The Last Five Years. Nothing thrills or hurts more than love. Why is it right? How did it go wrong? If I love him, then wh…
by Beth Kelly Feelings of love, loss, and lust; these universally-felt emotions are the perfect material for musicals. Valentine's Day is a prime opportunity to visit the theater and indulge…
Everyone's cult favorite, Carrie The Musical, returns"this time at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. The all-new, reimagined, environmental and completely immersive theater producti…
Love is in the air… and for Broadway fans it comes a lot cheaper than a ring from Tiffinay & Co. Producers of It Shoulda Been You have announced a special one-day-only offer for one-of…
by Jim Gladstone There's a single scene in Chad Beguelin's Harbor, making its west coast debut at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center, that plays with a vital ferocity that's rad…
Tony Award-winning actor and clown Bill Irwin opens Philadelphia Theatre Company's new Theatre Masters Series on February 16 at 7:00 p.m. at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard St…
Are you a self-proclaimed theater geek? Do you know the lyrics to every showtune on Pandora or Songza? Then run, don't walk, to the historical Town Hall in New York City for Scott Siegel's B…
“Dame Edna’s Glrious Goodbye – The Farewell Tour” opened last week at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles where it plays through March 15. The title role of Dame Edna…
This month The Broadway Blog offers an eclectic round-up of theatrical offerings that are sure to invigorate theatergoers during the cold winter months. The Great White Way is quiet as new p…
Love is in the air this Valentine's Day and there may be no better theatrical exploration on the theme than Classic Stage Company's brilliant and heart-tugging staging of Ivan Turgenev's A M…
Kermit the Frog used to sing, "It's not that easy being green." He must have lived in New York City, where it can be a challenge to responsibly dispose of electronics. Fortunately, the Broad…
The hills are still alive with the sound of music. Last year's televised version starring Carrie Underwood brought out the best and worst from fans, but nobody can dismiss the sheer genius o…
