2,359 stories by "Matthew Wexler"
Can’t wait to hear the original Broadway cast recording of Kinky Boots, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper? The Broadway Blog snagged this behind-the-scenes video of the cast in the…
Contestants from The Broadway Beauty Pageant. (photo: Matthew Murphy) Thankfully Donald Trump has no part in the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, a benefit for New York's Ali Forney C…
Forget Gypsy Rose Lee… the men of the Great White Way were greased, sprayed, tanned and buffed last week for a special preview performance of Broadway Bares, the notorious burlesque-style …
Our new West Coast correspondent, Heather Cassell, catches the premiere act at the new Feinstein’s at the Nikko. Sutton Foster (photo: Laura Marie Duncan) San Francisco doesn't know an…
Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox in “The Memory Show.” (photo: Carol Rosegg) The opening of The Memory Show begins with a brittle and sharp-tongued Catherine Cox in a doctor̵…
Guest contributor Jason Mitchell reviews I’m a Stranger Here Myself. When the curtain speech finished with “All Aboard the S.S. Weimar” and the lights rose on an intere…
Michael Feinstein (photo: Karl Simone) I've had a crush on Michael Feinstein for 25 years. While most guys my age were listening to Sonic Youth and R.E.M. (it was the 80s after all), I was s…
Left: Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots.” (photo: Matthew Murphy) / Right: Bailey Ryon, Milly Shapiro, Sophia Gennusa and Oona Laurence, who share the title role in “Matilda The…
I’m having a flashback. It’s my high school senior play (The Wizard of Oz… of course) and we all scramble out of homeroom to see the cast list. I was a shoe-in for the Scar…
The cast of “Pippin.” (photo: Joan Marcus) I can count on one hand the number of breath-catching moments I've had sitting in a Broadway theater (Cherry Jones' leap of faith in th…
Guest contributor Lindsay B. Davis reviews a captivating interpretation of the most famous mother of them all (besides Joan Crawford). Theater is at its finest during The Testament of…
It’s high drama! The Drama League Award nominations have been announced. First awarded in 1922 and formalized in 1935, The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in Ameri…
Guest contributor Scott Redman recaps the first two books in a trilogy by Ruby Preston about the high drama of Broadway. Looking for a page-turner that pays homage to Broadway? Cast your…
Kinky Boots is kicking up some dust on Broadway this season as the story of a meek inheritor of a shoe factory turns a dismal British production plant into a haven for stiletto thigh-highs. …
Can we change the title of Jekyll & Hyde, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical thriller, to "Jekyll & Hyde…& Lucy"? If there is one reason (and from my perspective ther…
Stephen Schwartz’s 65th Birthday Celebration with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. (photo: Richard Termine) While most teen boys probably want to sneak a six-pack and get drunk behi…
Girl power has taken over the Shubert Theatre. Breezing into town with a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards including Best Musical, this adaptation of Roal Dahl's story of an extraordinary…
It's Tony time and many of this season's major productions are raising the curtain (although most shows don't even utilize a curtain anymore) on what producers hope will be the big hit of th…
The Broadway Blog sent contributor Lindsay B. Davis back in time and it appears she got lost trying to follow along Speakeasy Moderne, a hodgepodge review of Broadway, pop hits and standa…
I suppose it's easier to win a battle when you feel the world is on your side. Such is the case inside the Al Hirschfeld Theatre where Kinky Boots, a new musical by Harvey Fierstein (book) a…
An untimely match made in heaven. The passing of Nora Ephron in 2012 from leukemia shocked Hollywood. The author and screenwriter was known for her prolific work as a screenwriter, au…
What happens when you pit 10 Texans against each other in a contest of stamina and strategy in order to win a brand new truck? Apparently you get a pretty decent new Broadway musical accordi…
The entire Shakespeare canon. Nonstop. Let the madness begin. Facing Page Productions presents the debut of Company's Marathon, a nonstop, back-to-back reading of all of Shakespeare's plays.…
Guest blogger Scott Redman gets an earful about the ups and down about life as an escort. Did he get bang for his buck or choose theatrical celibacy instead? The highs and lows of workin…
I'm not a morning person. Breakfast at Tiffinay's, which opened last night on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, hasn't changed my mind. The debacled production attempts to adapt Truman Capote's …
