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Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots.” (photo: Matt Murphy) After seeing A Chorus Line from the last row of the balcony on my very first trip to New York City, I spent about a week tryin…
Our new west coast correspondent Gabriella West dives into Tom Stoppard’s complex play about… well, we’ll let her explain it.  Jack Cutmore-Scott (Septimus Hodge) an…
Guest contributor Scott Redman puts on his scrunchy socks and heads to a new off Broadway show that leaves him in a sweat for all the wrong reasons. Where would the world be without span…
The original BASiC Theatre Project cast of “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.” (photo: Catherine Bell) Now in its fifth season Gayfest NYC 2013 presents "new play…
Orion Griffiths (Mr. “Pippin), winner of the Broadway Beauty Pageant. (photo: Jonathan Tichler) The competition was stiff in more ways than one. Orion Griffiths, Mr. Pippin, was cro…
Can’t wait to hear the original Broadway cast recording of Kinky Boots, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper? The Broadway Blog snagged this behind-the-scenes video of the cast in the…
Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out contributor Tom Mizer’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit cl…
Contestants from The Broadway Beauty Pageant. (photo: Matthew Murphy) Thankfully Donald Trump has no part in the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, a benefit for New York's Ali Forney C…
Forget Gypsy Rose Lee… the men of the Great White Way were greased, sprayed, tanned and buffed last week for a special preview performance of Broadway Bares, the notorious burlesque-style …
Our new West Coast correspondent, Heather Cassell, catches the premiere act at the new Feinstein’s at the Nikko. Sutton Foster (photo: Laura Marie Duncan) San Francisco doesn't know an…
Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox in “The Memory Show.” (photo: Carol Rosegg) The opening of The Memory Show begins with a brittle and sharp-tongued Catherine Cox in a doctor̵…
Guest contributor Jason Mitchell reviews I’m a Stranger Here Myself. When the curtain speech finished with “All Aboard the S.S. Weimar” and the lights rose on an intere…
Michael Feinstein (photo: Karl Simone) I've had a crush on Michael Feinstein for 25 years. While most guys my age were listening to Sonic Youth and R.E.M. (it was the 80s after all), I was s…
Left: Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots.” (photo: Matthew Murphy) / Right: Bailey Ryon, Milly Shapiro, Sophia Gennusa and Oona Laurence, who share the title role in “Matilda The…
I’m having a flashback. It’s my high school senior play (The Wizard of Oz… of course) and we all scramble out of homeroom to see the cast list. I was a shoe-in for the Scar…
The cast of “Pippin.” (photo: Joan Marcus) I can count on one hand the number of breath-catching moments I've had sitting in a Broadway theater (Cherry Jones' leap of faith in th…
Guest contributor Lindsay B. Davis reviews a captivating interpretation of the most famous mother of them all (besides Joan Crawford). Theater is at its finest during The Testament of…
It’s high drama! The Drama League Award nominations have been announced. First awarded in 1922 and formalized in 1935, The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in Ameri…
Guest contributor Scott Redman recaps the first two books in a trilogy by Ruby Preston about the high drama of Broadway. Looking for a page-turner that pays homage to Broadway? Cast your…
Kinky Boots is kicking up some dust on Broadway this season as the story of a meek inheritor of a shoe factory turns a dismal British production plant into a haven for stiletto thigh-highs. …
Can we change the title of Jekyll & Hyde, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical thriller, to "Jekyll & Hyde…& Lucy"? If there is one reason (and from my perspective ther…
When I was a young stagestruck lad, Faith Prince WAS the sound of musical theater to me. I’d been obsessed with the cast recording of William Finn’s Falsettoland, including Princ…
Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine…
Stephen Schwartz’s 65th Birthday Celebration with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. (photo: Richard Termine) While most teen boys probably want to sneak a six-pack and get drunk behi…
Girl power has taken over the Shubert Theatre. Breezing into town with a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards including Best Musical, this adaptation of Roal Dahl's story of an extraordinary…
