Every year since 1982, the Astaire Awards have honored those with the most twinkling toes and fanciest feet. This year Shuffle Along was the shining star, winning three awards for best male …
A raucous backstage farce. A nearly four-hour journey into one family’s anguish. Raging conflict in a New England village and on the docks of Brooklyn, both seen through the eyes of a …
New York is epic. New York has always been a place that for some reason I feel like I fit. Even though I don’t look like I fit here. People always made me feel like I fit here. Eve…
Futurity and Exit Strategy have won the top awards from the Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing professi…
Tony and Emmy winner David Hyde Pierce will join Bette Midler in the new production of Hello, Dolly!Set to begin preview performances at the Shubert Theatre on March 13, 2017 in advance of a…
Casting director James Calleri has been around the Broadway block and then some. It’s a little unusual for someone on the casting side of the table to rattle off their resumé (that…
My mother says I was born a New Yorker. I just happen to be born in Pittsburgh — go Steelers! My first trip to New York was during spring break of my freshman year at Carnegie Mellon. …
I had visited New York many times, but never to live here. I moved to the city when we started rehearsal for Hamilton at the Public Theater.  The Public found an apartment for me in Re…
On Monday, May 16, 2016, the stars of the hottest shows on Broadway and Off-Broadway graced the red carpet at the 34th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards to honor groundbreaking, burg…
Yes, Hamilton is the elephant at this year’s Tony Awards with its staggering 16 nominations — the most for any Broadway show in history  — making it the heav…
Jane Krakowski and Savion Glover were among the winners at the 2016 Astaire Awards, honoring excellence in dance in New York theater and in film. The awards, named for iconic film dancer Fre…
Joe Morton was technically a senior citizen when he won his first major acting award — an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, for his piercing role as the diabolical…
Rhiannon Giddens will be hitting the Broadway stage in Audra McDonald’s place in Shuffle Along starting July 24, but last week she was caught serenading an audience standing atop th…
Just in time for the musical’s 20th anniversary on the Great White Way, Chicago has cast a new Billy Flynn — Jaime Camil. Most recently seen on American television i…
A cocktail in a glamorous New York bar can be the perfect prelude to a Broadway show or the perfect cap to a memorable evening. At the Tony nominees press event, we asked the honorees for th…
On Friday, May 13, NewYork.com launched its newest social media event, Talent Takeover. The premiere installment featured a stellar lead from Deaf West Theatre’s Tony-nominate…
My favorite Broadway song would have to be “The Music of The Night” from Phantom of the Opera. I absolutely love this musical! The way Norm Lewis sang to Sierra Boggess was b…
With the recent opening of the musical version of American Psycho, gore has splattered across Broadway like never before. But it’s not the first show to scare the wits out of New York …
All of New York is currently celebrating the achievements of the Broadway community with the Tony Award nominations. So we decided to turn the tables and have Broadway celebrate New York. At…
Who says that actors cannot play sports? The Broadway Show League, featuring the casts of several shows currently playing on Broadway, opened at Heckscher Ballfields in Central Park on M…
There are so many songs. But when I was in high school, I would record the Tonys. And this is so nerdy. But I would record the Tonys on a VHS tape and then bring the tape into my math class,…
Who’d have thought that a musical based on a couple of murder cases set in Prohibition-era Chicago would turn out to be one of the biggest Broadway hits of all time? Especially on …
Not all great musicals take place on the Broadway stage. There are many stand-out performances that happen Off-Broadway, and one of the most notable is Stomp. The clattering percussive sh…
The first time Carmen Cusack knew she had the performing bug was when she was 5 years old and singing at church. In fact, what first really motivated her was chocolate. When asked to sing &#…
I have loved living in New York City since I was 21 years old. I got a role in my first Broadway musical two weeks before my official college graduation, and I rented a guest room in Pete…