419 stories by "Zachary Stewart"
You don't need to read all 4,100 pages of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series to enjoy Potted Potter, now enjoying a return engagement at the Little Shubert Theatre. This two-man retelling of…
Memorial Day weekend in New York City is usually a time dominated by wild parties and drunken sailors. But with Fleet Week officially cancelled this year due to federal budget sequestration,…
What do Broadway's most fabulous ladies do in their dressing rooms between matinee and evening performances? They play with shoes. A new tribute music video, commemorating 30 years since the…
The team from Grey Gardens is back at Playwrights Horizons with another musical adaptation of a film beloved by the gays. With a book by Tony winner Richard Greenberg (The Assembled Parties)…
It seems awfully punk-rock to set a production of committed Marxist Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle during the fall of the Soviet Union, but that is just what Classic Stage Compa…
The 2012-2013 Broadway Season officially ended Sunday, May 26 " so how did we do? According to figures released by the Broadway League, the national trade association for the Broadway indust…
"Why did the circus have to come to town?" That thought must have crossed the mind of at least one of the runners-up of the Broadway Beauty Pageant, which took place Monday, May 20 at the NY…
Gays love bow ties! That's why Drama Desk Award winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and his partner, Justin Mikita, founded Tie the Knot, a company that …
She may have been snubbed by all of the major theater awards, but Bette Midler is certainly not crying. In fact, she's laughing all the way to the bank judging by the latest figures released…
Fanatical Catholic protesters might want to mark their calendars for May 27. That night at 7PM, Joe's Pub will host a one-night-only concert performance of Popesical, a new musical comedy by…
Colin Quinn contends that the U.S. constitution was obviously crafted by drunks, since the drunker you get, the more knowledge of the document you profess to have (just look at Reese Withers…
Are you jonesing for some murder-mystery musical hall ever since The Mystery of Edwin Drood closed on Broadway? Well, rejoice, because the new Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman musical co…
The most Tony-nominated cast on Broadway (four out of six actors) will play on. Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike has extended its run at the John Golden Theatre throu…
Tony Award winner Roger Rees (Peter and the Starcatcher) will star as Arthur Winslow in a Broadway revival of Terrence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy at the American Airlines Theatre this fall. …
Billy Porter is bringing the house down nightly at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre as Lola, the high-heeled star of the Tony-nominated new musical Kinky Boots. Porter has been nominated for a Tony…
Randy Newman's prescient lyric in "Political Science" that "Every city the whole world round will just be another American town," seems to be coming increasingly true without having to "drop…
Stepping into 54 Below is a little bit like entering a time warp. From the doorman's cordial greeting (no barking demands to see an ID here) to the rounded martini glasses masquerading as ch…
May 3 marked the 100th anniversary of Bollywood. That's a century since Dadasaheb Phalke's monumental silent film Raja Harishchandra was released to the public. Since that day in 1913, India…
Considering the notoriously scary reputation of Disney lawyers, it's pretty amazing that this show is running at all. Of course, Uncle Walt is now as much a part of American mythology as Unc…
Ever since Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway closed in 2011, it's been a hard day's night for Beatles fans in New York. Fear not, Beatlemaniacs: Help! is on the way in the form of t…
Richard Foreman has been trolling the New York theater scene for a very long time. His instantly recognizable style of busy sets, nonlinear and often nonsensical dialogue, disorienting light…
Walking into the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre is a bit like stepping into a psychologist's office. With a comfy armchair and oversized credenza taking up a huge portion of the limited stage real…
The biggest snub from Tony goes to Motown: the Musical. Tony road voters were probably salivating at the prospect of selecting Berry Gordy's stage extravaganza/musical history for Best Music…
The top five highest-grossing shows on Broadway held their positions from last week, while the shows in the number 6 through 10 spots played musical chairs. Kinky Boots continues to gain mom…
The 2013 Drama Desk Award nominations are out and Off-Broadway theater is well-represented this year. The Public Theater's Giant leads the nominations with 9, tied with Broadway's now-depart…
