419 stories by "Zachary Stewart"
The Huron Club, the downstairs bar at the SoHo Playhouse, has been rechristened "The Sober Café," at least for the duration of the run of Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Sam Shem and Janet Surrey's pl…
Mimi Hines is returning to New York City to celebrate her 80th Birthday at midtown cabaret venue 54 Below. Best known as half of the comedy duo Ford & Hines, she has a storied career that in…
Stepping into HERE's upstairs space is a little like entering a fun house. A traverse stage with seating at opposite ends of the space and one half of the audience facing the other creates a…
"Is this Zack Morris?" the affable Matthew Morrison asked me when he picked up the phone. No one has referred to me as Mark-Paul Gosselaar's character from Saved by the Bell in at least a de…
It's Monsoon season in New York City if the lengthy line to get into the storm shelter-like Laurie Beechman Theatre is any indication. The Vaudevillians, a new, high-concept cabaret act star…
"In the rich man's house, the only place to spit is in his face." This quote from Greek philosopher Diogenes quite literally hangs over the Encores! Off-Center reading of Marc Blitzstein's T…
Peter Cambor knows that there are drawbacks to performing outdoors in July. "I sweat like an NBA player," he admitted. "At the end of the night you just peel everything off you, wring it out…
Kelly Izzo is a recent graduate of the Music Conservatory at SUNY Purchase, where she composed over 2,000 songs. "I told myself when I got to college freshman year, if I'm going to be a writ…
Barrett Foa is distracted. That's understandable considering everything on his plate this year. The Broadway veteran (Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) served as the offi…
From the moment that Jackie Hoffman enters the plush dining room at 54 Below wearing on her head what appears to be a moldy Bloomin' Onion from Outback Steakhouse and singing the opening str…
"Lord, is my wrist wrecking my world!" exclaims Pharus Jonathan Young after being scolded by his headmaster about his limp wrist for the thousandth time. Effeminate, clever, and occasionally…
Sometimes I just want a fun, beautiful-sounding, pretty-looking musical that doesn't ask me to think too hard. Don't you? The Prospect Theater Company's new production of Sam Carner and Dere…
Ian Harkins is about to launch into a historically dubious biography of William Shakespeare in the Hudson Warehouse production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (throug…
Today was the official end of session for the U.S. Supreme Court and, like a good Broadway show, the Supremes went out with a bang. In a 5-4 ruling on the case United States v. Windsor, the …
As previously reported, two-time Drama Desk Award nominee Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu) has a new album of pop songs. Today, it became available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon In tandem, Jac…
This is not your typical living-room drama. Mark Roberts' Rantoul and Die is now making its New York premiere at The Cherry Lane Theatre in a production by bad-kid theater collective The Amo…
2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes will present the New York premiere of The Happiest Song Plays Last at Second Stage Theatre as part of their 25th anniversary season. Hudes'…
The 10th Annual New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) takes place July 8-28 at various locations in Manhattan. There are 57 events this year, ranging from cabaret performances to full pro…
The sudden death of Emmy Award-winning actor James Gandolfini has taken the Broadway community by surprise. Gandolfini was nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway…
Drama abounds in Unbroken Circle, James Wesley's new play about a dysfunctional Texas family, now playing at St. Luke's Theatre. You might not know it until the second act, however, so resis…
Hearing Audra McDonald's glorious voice singing a very legit version of Alicia Keys' part in "Empire State of Mind" as Neil Patrick Harris rapped an on-the-fly recap was the perfect way to e…
There are more slaves today than at any other point in history. This startling fact is revealed after 90 minutes of grueling, intense theater that brings us into the life of one such modern-…
Architects are sexy, arrogant, and easily manipulated. Those are just three of the many lessons in writer/director Oren Safdie's new play, False Solution, now receiving its world premiere at…
How do you challenge yourself in creating new work when you've been a fixture in the New York theater scene for nearly half a century? John Guare has opted to act. The award-winning author o…
The biggest names in New York theater have begun showing up for the 67th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards at Radio City Music Hall. Sunday, June 9 was a busy day in midtown Manhattan, a…
