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In an age where you can have just about anything delivered to your apartment from Amazon, and brick-and-mortar retailers are looking at full shelves, one area of in-person commerce continues…
No matter how hard you try, you can't keep a good party down. And in 1918, the United States Congress attempted just that by passing the 18th Amendment that banned the sale of "intoxicating …
She has grown the department's budget from $1.4 million when she started to more than $4.1 million in fiscal 2019, and has reached more than 230,000 people with an array of programs.
He is now president of Networks Presentations, one of the largest Broadway touring companies, with shows including Fiddler on the Roof and Les Miserables out on the road.
Broadway plays struggle while musicals sell well ahead of Tony Award nominations
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, the immersive musical based on a section of Leo Tolstoy's literary masterwork War and Peace, opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 14. Gra…
I have a real allergy to songs being cute. That was my problem when I was an auditioning musical theater actress. A lot of musical theater songs that are comedic are cute. But the thing you …
Ask the ladies of Dear Evan Hansen to describe one reason why audiences should flock to the Music Box Theatre to witness this new Broadway musical. For Drama Desk nominee Rachel Bay Jones, t…
I came to New York after majoring in opera at Northwestern University. When I graduated, I got my first job singing the soprano lead La Traviata with Boris Goldovsky's Opera Company in New Y…
Broadway theaters may take center stage in the district named for them, but every New Yorker knows there's so much more to do than merely catch a performance of Wicked, The Book of Mormon…
I have lived in New York since 1991, late in the last century. It is quite simply the most exciting place to be in the world, and it can also be exhausting. Whatever mood you experience in N…
As the leaves change and temperatures begin to drop, snuggle weather emerges alongside one of the most romantic times of the year: the winter holidays. As you divulge your senses with a stea…
Eric Bogosian, the  actor, monologist, author and playwright, created 100Monologues.com, a series of monologues on video. In this master class of brilliant acting and writing, gifted acto…
High School Musical film star, Corbin Bleu is certainly easy on the eyes — and the ears — and can be found live and in person nearly every night of the week on Broadway in Hol…
I am the child of two public school vocal music teachers. In fact, my mother still teaches voice and heads the Vocal Department of the Eastman Community Music School. So, I studied all kinds…
It's show time at these four inviting restaurants in New York City, where you can kick off the night with cocktails and nibbles — and get to the theater before the curtain goes up. …
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton's 1987 stage adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 epistolary novel, opened on October 30 at the Booth Theatre. Tony winners Liev Schre…
Falsettos, the 1992 musical about a makeshift modern family dealing with the AIDS crisis, opened on October 27 at the Walter Kerr Theater as part of Lincoln Center Theater's 2016 to 2017 sea…
The Color Purple, the revival of the popular musical based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will play its final performance at the Bernard Jacobs Theater on Jan. 8, 2017 after…
Tonight, in honor of the Halloween spirit, "do the time warp again" with a smattering of Broadway cast members from your favorite shows at the W Hotel for Fright Night: A Rock Horror Experie…
Every morning at NewYork.com, we start by perusing the Broadway Briefing — an online newsletter that has become a staple for professionals in the Broadway industry. The Broadway Briefi…
Kurios by Cirque du Soleil just launched in New York City — and you’re invited! Step into Cirque du Soleil’s cabinet of curiosities with Kurios, a visually …
The leaves have begun to change color. The aroma of apple cider now wafts through your office cubicle. The term PSL is no longer irrelevant. Autumn has fallen. In other words, Halloween is n…
“Memory,” of course, is my favorite song from a musical! “Memory” is a great blessing in my life. Learning to play Grizabella was such a gift, and it re…
Many of us cannot even imagine a time when there were no blue men. After all, that funky theater on Astor Place has now been inhabited by these sky-blue-skinned resident percussionist-mimes …
