42 stories by "Shelby Behrman"
Obie winner John Turturro, Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht will star in a revival of Arthur Miller’s The Price, presented by Roundabout Theatre Company as part…
My first trip to New York was in high school around September. Fall was in full swing. After seeing my first Broadway show, Thoroughly Modern Millie, I stepped out into Times Square. Startin…
Cats, the feline phenomenon celebrating all things furry, is back in its first Broadway revival at the Neil Simon Theatre. The original American production premiered at the Winter Garden The…
Don’t worry, we have enough fan photos from The Lion King on Broadway to have you singing “Hakuna Matata” for the rest of your days. The timeless tale, based on th…
Cats will be meowing in style tonight (August 10, 2016)  at the Algonquin Hotel’s 10th annual Cat Fashion Show. The party will be held from 5pm to 7:30pm in the gilded lobby o…
The day of his debut performance as Dewey Finn in School of Rock in June 2016, Will Blum decided to candidly share on Facebook his 19-month journey from YouTube to Broadway. Within just o…
The first time I came to New York, it was 1993 and I had my first job ever working on the QE2. We had ported here. I was like a child and hadn’t even finished college. Even though I ha…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on the beloved Roald Dahl novel, has announced dates and a theater for its Broadway premiere and you don’t need to win a golden…
TV heartthrob Lorenzo Lamas will join the cast of the long-running Off-Broadway hit The Fantasticks for a limited run from October 24 to November 6 at the Jerry Orbach Theatre. Lamas will ta…
Why do you love New York? 1. I would say adventure. If I have a day off or some time that I call my own, I try to get out into the city and explore. We all know that so much has happened in …
I grew up in a small town outside St. Louis, Missouri, and then I lived way down in the deep south in Alabama. I didn’t move to New York until I was 28. I was already married and e…
Fans are following the yellow brick road to Gershwin Theatre to enter the land of Oz and marvel over the eye-catching costumes, lively choreography and catchy songs of Wicked. We’re…
The first show I saw in New York was Ragtime — my first Broadway show. I had never been to New York. I had never been on a plane. I was still in college at The University of Georgia in…
I’ve always loved cats ever since I could remember. My mother read T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats poems to me when I was very small. My first cat was a Si…
Just as the latest Harry Potter adventure opens on stage in London (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), a parody of the beloved boy wizard’s world is transferring to Off-Broadway. Tilt…
The first Broadway revival of Cats, the smash-hit phenomenon set in a junkyard full of felines, opened July 31, 2016, at the Neil Simon Theatre. The plotless fantasy joins two other Andrew L…
Theater is about community: sharing ourselves, listening to others and engaging one another in a thoughtful, purposeful way. Theater and particularly Voices of the South has enriched my life…
I went to New York University, but the first time I was in New York was in 2001 when I sang at Carnegie Hall with the Chicago Children’s Choir. We were in town for about three d…
Broadway audiences are entering a whole new world when they step inside the New Amsterdam Theater to experience the magic of Aladdin. With new songs and sensational special effects…
Tony winner Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple), Megan Hilty (Smash) and Titus Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) will be among the headliners at Elsie Fest, the theater music festival created…
The original Jersey Boys are returning to Broadway. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway! will play the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for a limited, seven-performance engagement October 21…
Privacy, a new play about technology, opened at the Public Theater on July 18, 2016, for a limited Off-Broadway run until August 7, 2016. Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame stars along wi…
Fiddler on the Roof, the award-winning revival of the beloved musical about the Russian-Jewish milkman Tevye and his five daughters, will close at the Broadway theater on December 31, 2016. …
I grew up in Washington, D.C., but I have lived in New York for 17 years. When I moved here, I did my UC San Diego graduate school showcase and was pounding the pavement to be an actress.…
In 1992, I came to New York to audition and be in theater. I worked at the fragrance counter at Macy’s and loved it. Then I started getting cast in shows. I was cast in the Southea…