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This sounds very glamorous but years ago I was in Monte Carlo and dancing at the Sporting Club for the summer season. I was dancing backup for a lot of stars who they brought in. I got frien…
The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s classic drama of the 1692 Salem witch trials, opens tonight on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater for a limited engagement through July 17. Obie winner I…
Tony nominee and Emmy winner Sean Hayes will return to Broadway in An Act of God, David Javerbaum’s comedy in which the Deity addresses the audience. God will begin previews at the Boo…
With just two shows under his belt, Kyle Scatliffe has scored big time — as far as beloved Broadway musicals are concerned. The Washington DC native, who made his Great White Way d…
Dates have been set for The Great Comet, the musical based on a section of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece War and Peace. The show, which has had three successful Off-Broadway runs under the…
Over the past few months, the gaze of Broadway has swept over the White House. Before President Obama “let’s go” of his presidency, he and his administration hosted one fin…
Tony winner Nathan Lane (The Producers, Forum) and John Slattery of Mad Men and Spotlight will star in a revival of The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 newspaper com…
Revolting children unite! For almost 4Â years (officially on April 13), some of the most talented kids on Broadway have taken the stage to fight against their evil principal, Miss Trunchbu…
The talented actor, singer and dancer who played Billy in Billy Elliot and co-starred as Race in Newsies, is currently on Broadway in Aladdin. You can also see him in the fourth season of th…
One of my buddies, Marcus, is a drummer. I always remember when I asked him who his favorite drummer was. He told me about a gospel drummer. And I remember asking him why. He said, “be…
Tony nominee Rory O’Malley will reign over the Broadway smash hit Hamilton when he joins the cast as King George III starting on April 11. Jonathan Groff will play his final performanc…
People always say that musicals are so strange because people burst into song when they’re in the middle of a scene. But it has always made sense to me that when you get to a moment th…
The cast of the new Broadway show Disaster! paid a surprise visit to the NewYork.com offices, and they posed in our NewYork.com photo booth. Naturally, they showed off their zany si…
Bright Star, the new musical written and composed by comedian-actor-writer Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, opened March 24 on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. D…
This is an onerous assignment. To single out one song and crown it “the favorite”. That is something which should never be undertaken lightly or facetiously. So much hangs on …
Bright Star, the new musical written and composed by comedian-actor-writer Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, opens tonight on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. Dir…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Simon Stephens’ Tony Award-winning stage version of Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel, has announced a closing date of September…
Beth Behrs, one of the stars of CBS’s long-running sitcom 2 Broke Girls, will make her New York City stage debut in the Off-Broadway production of Halley Feiffer’s A Funny Thing …
I feel that I sometimes don’t even know I’m singing. That says something. I sing when I’m happy. I sing for a living now, which is lovely and wonderful. What’s the…
If you accidentally tuned into the White House live stream on March 14, you may have asked yourself, “What’d I miss?” Seven years ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda performed a …
Beloved actor Peter Scolari (Girls, Bronx Bombers, Lucky Guy) recently joined the cast of Wicked, where he plays The Wizard. I first saw New York City through the thunderstruck eyes o…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a new musical based on the beloved children’s novel by Roald Dahl, will open on Broadway in the spring of 2017. Three-time Tony winner Jack O’B…
She Loves Me, Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of the 1963 musical, opened on March 17, 2016, at Studio 54 for a limited run through July 10. Zachary Levi (Heroes Reborn, Chuck) an…
Set in 19th century France, this powerful musical of passion and historic revolution has touched audiences for more than 20 years. Reinvigorated partly by the success of earlier …
Broadway is awesome. No question. Where else can you find the stars, the groundbreaking plays — and the stunning sets, costumes and special effects, are we right? Well, here’s th…
