419 stories by "Zachary Stewart"
The Wingfield apartment exists in a void, floating in space and completely surrounded by a dark reflective pool that is simultaneously terrifying and alluring. The fire escape the family use…
With a big voice and even bigger personality, Ali Stroker was a natural contestant for season two of The Glee Project, a reality TV competition in which the grand prize is a recurring role o…
At 37 years old, Jordan Roth is the youngest player in a field dominated by older men. He has spoken passionately about bringing the business of Broadway into the 21st century; anyone who ha…
Attention all girls (and boys) who had a Legolas poster hanging over their bed sometime in the last decade: Tonight is a night that you'll want to be on Broadway. Tonight your fantasy boyfri…
Don't take pictures of Robin De Jesus while he's performing Patti Issues at The Duplex. Before the show he warns, "If I catch you taking a picture I'll say 'Stop, stop, stop! How dare you! W…
"I want to rape the American Dream," Anna Nicole Smith defiantly blares at the audience as she shows off her big fake breasts and winning smile. And rape she does, but what goes around comes…
When she's not explaining Shakespeare, Laura Benanti is busy preparing for her return engagement at 54 Below. Benanti's May debut at the midtown supper club garnered a live album entitled …
Michele Spadaro's beautiful set for Women or Nothing, Ethan Coen's first full-length play, now receiving its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, tells its own story before any of…
After the Apocalypse, the theater will survive. That is the central assumption behind Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, now receiving its New York premiere at Playwrights Hori…
"They came from a desire to see girls kiss on stage," Lucy Thurber (half) quipped when I asked why she wrote The Hill Town Plays, her epic five-play cycle examining hidden poverty in rural A…
If there is a theme to Sutton Foster's return engagement at Café Carlyle, it could best be described as "thinly veiled desperation." The Tony Award-winning star of Broadway's Anything Goes …
Waiters and technicians rushed around the small café table at which Jennifer Ashley Tepper and I sat, unstrategically placed in front of the coat check at 54 Below. Tepper is the newest add…
