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If you’ve grown tired of the old stand-by holiday tunes, be sure to add Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Volume 16 to your collection. Now available on iTunes, the 21-track album of…
The new production of Side Show, which was just named one of "The Best Musicals of 2014" by Charles Isherwood of The New York Times, will play its final performance on Broadway on…
Don’t let bad planning turn your Broadway experience into theater of the absurd. The holidays are a perfect time to see a show. During the upcoming Christmas and New Year's weeks, s…
Are you looking for some holiday cheer in the form of Broadway talent and a visit to New York City's iconic Carnegie Hall? Mark your calendar for December 19 and 20, when the New York Pops w…
Broadway fans will be clamoring for this perfect stocking-stuffer: Anika Larsen's debut solo CD, Sing You to Sleep. Larsen currently stars on Broadway in Beautiful " The Carol King Musical. …
If you're looking for some magic to add sparkle to your holiday season, head to the Marriott Marquis Theatre for The Illusionists: Witness the Impossible, a jolting revue of seven of the wor…
by Samuel L. Leiter Truman Capote's semiautobiographical short story, A Christmas Memory, first published in Mademoiselle in 1956, would not seem the kind of material that would inspire dram…
"It's a woman's world." So wrote Irish poet Eavan Boland in her 1982 collection Night Feed. I'm not sure what Ms. Boland would think of the riotous, boisterous, and occasionally shrill Off B…
Are you looking for a unique holiday gift for your favorite toe-tapping wannabe thespian, or do you need some basic moves to help advance your own theatrical ambition? The Broadway Blog got …
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler takes a look at some of Broadway’s biggest hits, which are bidding adieu this January. As 2014 comes to an end, so do the runs of many of our fa…
by Samuel L. Leiter Looking for something unpretentious and completely charming with which to beguile a child this holiday season? Would you rather eat a lump of coal then see another Christ…
"Go to the wood!" So demanded Bernadette Peters as the Witch in the original 1987 production of Into the Woods. The haunting reimagining of our favorite fairy tales by Stephen Sondheim and J…
If you're in or near Philadelphia this season, spike your eggnog with a dose of David Sedaris. The nationally recognized humorist will be performing essays from Holidays On Ice. "With sardon…
Sure, you could see The Nutcracker or Radio City Christmas Spectacular again. But why not shake up your holiday theater experience with the Trocks? The Joyce Theater Foundation welcomes b…
“We’ve got magic to do…” Pippin may be closing in January, but there’s another fantastical show rolling into town to satisfy your illusionary needs. The I…
Cirque du Soleil extends its presence to the Mayan Riviera with the opening of JOYÀ, which premiered this past weekend at the brand new, customed-designed, 600-seat Cirque du Soleil Thea…
by Jim Gladstone "My parents are pretty much the opposite of Mama Rose," jokes Broadway veteran Telly Leung"who plays Feinstein's at the Nikko in San Francisco this weekend""They have no rel…
John Cameron Mitchell returns to the role he co-created with composer/lyricist Stephen Trask in their musical Hedwig and The Angry Inch, which they debuted in the 1998 hit Off-Broadway produ…
The Broadway community mourns the loss of acclaimed director, producer, writer, and performer Mike Nichols, who passed away on Wednesday evening at age 83. The marquees of Broadway theatres …
By Samuel L. Leiter In 1947, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were the newly anointed kings of Broadway musicals, having created two remarkable blockbusters, Oklahoma! (1943) and Car…
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler reviews the Broadway revival of Side Show. Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. I'm seeing double. It's been 17 years since …
In a last hurrah, the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning revival of Pippin have pulled out some interesting star power. Taking over the title role is Josh Kaufman, season …
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler gets an earful from downtown favorite Lypsinka. Want more of the Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Say what? John Epperson is back as …
It's a busy, long weekend ahead for Betty Buckley. From Wednesday through Sunday (November 13-16), the Texas-based Tony-winner brings her latest program of intimate interpretations to Feinst…
Things are getting murky in Neverland. While it seemed like a sure thing that Jeremy Jordan would reprise his role as J.M. Barrie in the Harvey Weinstein-produced Finding Neverland, it lo…
