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Tis the season, so let’s kick off December by giving you the present of a theater news round-up: We have a winner!  The recipient of  two tickets to see An Evening with Patti LuP…
Calling all Broadway Babies! If you're in New York City tomorrow, you can buy the newly released two-disc recording of the current Broadway Follies and get it signed by Bernadette Peters, Ja…
In our continuing series, we’re taking a look at songs cut from Broadway musicals to see what happens in the making of a show. Â Next up–Next to Normal. Did you know that the P…
Breathtaking. You know what it means (I mean, it’s kind of right there in all its Germanic word combining glory) but how often does it actually happen? When was the last time something…
Every fourth Wednesday of the month, the "VIP Access" column will serve up advice on how to make your theater-going experiences cheaper, easier and more fulfilling with inside scoop from the…
The Broadway Blog has a voucher for two free tickets to see An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, a once-in-a-lifetime limited engagement, running through January 13th. Instead of…
Get caught up with what's on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That's me tossing in my two cents. AN EVENING WITH P…
Adrienne Barbeau. Â Say it out loud. Adrienne Barbeau. Has there ever been a better name in show business? Â I think not. And now the divine Ms. Barbeau (Escape from New York, Maude, for…
PRIVATE LIVES Fresh from acclaimed runs in London and Toronto, Noel Coward’s masterful comedy of a “can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em…so I…
Jerry O’Connell (Crossing Jordan, Stand by Me and more) is a charmer. He shakes your hand with a 10,000 watt grin on his face. He tells self-deprecating stories with a tumbling ease…
Every third Wednesday, 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. For Novembe…
Producers announced that April 24 will be the official opening night of a “brand new” Gershwin musical on Broadway, Nice Work If You Can Get It. Following on the heals of the upc…
Once a month, a member of the theater community will pull up a chair to our cyber table and join us for a little conversation. I'll edit the transcripts (removing the truly libelous parts) a…
Get caught up with what's on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That's me tossing in my two cents. GODSPELL The loos…
What do you get when you combine great musical star Debbie Reynolds with Shelley Winters, Teri Garr, Dionne Warwick, some spandex and a few golden oldies on the soundtrack? Â A very specia…
The revival of the hit Broadway show "Funny Girl" looked a lot more like funny business this week as last-minute investor pullouts forced producer Bob Boyett to scrap the revival all togethe…
Michael Patrick Walker, the acclaimed composer behind Altar Boyz, is back with a star-studded new album of theater songs and we’ve got three ways you can get a listen…includin…
Every first Wednesday of the month, get caught up with what's on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That's me tossin…
We continue our look at songs cut from Broadway musicals with a truly fascinating window into the work of Stephen Sondheim. If you’ve had a chance to read Sondheim’s wonderful co…
Russell Crowe is one of hollywood’s great actors and has a reputation for being the quintessential man’s man. He’s been an Oscar-winner, a soulful gladiator , a gruff ship&…
Buckle up!  The Fall rush of openings kicked off last night with the New York premiere of David Henry Hwang’s comedy of miscommunication Chinglish (check the New York Times revie…
If you blog about it, they will come. Or at least that’s how I feel today. In the last week, I wrote about how much I love to see behind the curtain of a show in the making and I al…
Every fourth Wednesday of the month, the "VIP Access" column will serve up advice on how to make your theater-going experiences cheaper, easier and more fulfilling with inside scoop from the…
The delightfully profane musical parody Silence: The Musical returns to Off-Broadway tonight to begin an open-ended commercial run. The acclaimed little show that could moves to a new home a…
We’re kicking off a new series today! (Cue the confetti cannon…but don’t point it at me. The hair, you know…) I love getting the chance to see behind-the-curtain of h…
