419 stories by "Zachary Stewart"
You only turn eighty once, so Tony Award winner Chita Rivera (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) is doing it in grand style, complete with high kicks. The soon-to-be octogenarian and Broadway icon …
In a month as bleak as January it wouldn't normally be advisable to take in a play about the Holocaust and then chase it with one concerning the persecution of artists under the Soviet Union…
Here is your chance to solve a 78-year-old murder. Artist and author Cynthia von Buhler (born Cynthia Carrozza) has recreated the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of her Italia…
Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost and television's The View) will appear as a presenter at Garden of Laughs, a stand-up comedy event presented by Chase to benefit the Gard…
Bust out the cupcakes and clunky overpriced shoes. Carrie Bradshaw has returned. And how… In The Carrie Diaries, AnnaSophia Robb (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) plays your favorite sho…
Touched for the very first time? Hardly. Drama Desk Award winner Fiona Shaw (Medea) will play the Virgin Mary in the Broadway debut of Irish novelist Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary whic…
Theatrical entrepreneur Vincent J. DeMarco, veteran of The Public Theater, has died after a three and a half year struggle with colorectal cancer. DeMarco began his career as a stage manage…
You're going to have to wait a little longer on that order. Diner, the musical originally scheduled to open on Broadway on April 10, has been postponed until autumn 2013 in order to give the…
No one mourns the Wicked, least of all the investors in the original Broadway production (currently playing to sold-out audiences nightly at The Gershwin Theatre). This week the Tony Award-w…
All of your nightmares are about to come true: Drama Desk Award winner Austin Pendleton (Uncle Vanya) will direct and star in Mississippi Mud Productions' Suddenly Last Summer, set to play t…
The off-Broadway debut of Amandine, the new musical starring Gideon Glick (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as a nineteenth century French intersex person who is raised a girl and dies a man, …
Did you remember to hug your bubbie today? If not, you should definitely do that; while you're at it, ask her about her life. This is the implicit suggestion of The National Yiddish Theatre'…
Jamil Khoury wants to talk with you about mosque politics. He wants to talk with you about the marginalization of Muslim-Americans in the wake of September 11th. In fact, the Silk Road Risin…
Let's hope they don't get too smashed to accept their award. NBC's Broadway backstage drama Smash has been nominated for a Golden Globe for "Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy." Th…
An Oscar winner has exited one of off-Broadway's anticipated new plays, but a much-loved theater veteran is stepping into the fold. Drama Desk Award winner Deirdre O'Connell (Circle Mirror …
In Soviet Russia, puppet manipulates you! St. Ann's Warehouse will house Dmitry Krymov's Opus No. 7 for a limited run, from January 9 through 19. Presented as two one-acts, the play is a tr…
Should theater be more of a drinking experience? It's an age-old question that divides the English-speaking world as much as the ocean that separates us. The Flea Theater has appropriately o…
Don't shoot! We have Tonys! Five time Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers) will lead a superstar design team including three time Tony-winning set designe…
Have you ever wanted to rip out your beating heart and hold it up for everyone to see while belting a high F into the face of your secret lover? Not since high school? Well then the angst-ri…
Rapper. White Rapper. White Canadian Rapper rapping about evolutionary theories as they pertain to the online dating scene in a vain attempt to discover whether or not he will ever truly be …
You now have another month to cast your votes. And yes, we know the Presidential election is over.The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes' musical The Mys…
Gideon Glick (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) will play a character that was raised as a girl, but dies a man, when he assumes the title role in Amandine, a new musical inspired by the memoir…
Who knew that a musical about serial murder could be such a box office smash? The hit production of Silence! The Musical, currently playing at the Elektra Theatre, will end its run on Decemb…
Is the only thing separating a war hero from a mass murderer a profound case of national delusion? Cusi Cram asks this question in her smart and engaging new play Radiance, now being present…
A shifty-eyed saxophonist plays monotonously into a microphone as the pervasive dust of the Karoo (an arid region of South Africa) wafts over the audience during the first moments of Yael Fa…