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The New York Musical Festival was created to give new writers a start. So isn't it "ironic," says Josh Canfield, whose "Alive! The Zombie Musical" played NYMF last year, that it "stabbed us …
The show may stand out because of its writer " Anthony McCarten, who's up for a 2020 Oscar for his movie "The Two Popes."
Within our smartphones is a world of smiley faces, flowers, royals . . . and a pile of poo. And now many of them have come alive, in the off-Broadway musical "Emojiland." Several key players…
Wax on Broadway. After etching itself into the hearts of movie fans forever, "The Karate Kid" franchise is onto the next frontier " the big stage. That's right, the original 1984 movie scrib…
Stephen Sondheim has been a fan of director Marianne Elliott's ever since he saw her production of "Saint Joan" in London at the National Theatre in 2007. Sondheim knows a great director whe…
Audiences aren't showing up at "My Name Is Lucy Barton" for Lucy " they're coming for Linney. That's Laura Linney, the venerable actress, who stars in the one-woman play, adapted from Elizab…
Before he goes onstage, he listens to Count Basie and the blues; afterward, he decompresses by cooking.
Ready for my favorite "Hee Haw" joke? Q: What do you call a man who doesn't believe in birth control? A: Daddy! Exactly six years ago, I was picking up good buzz about "Moonshine," a Broadwa…
A second actor in Broadway's "West Side Story" has suffered an onstage injury, and this time he'll leave the show: Ben Cook, who played the role of Riff, sustained the unspecified injury Sun…
The flashy girl from Flushing could be coming to Broadway.
Mary Jane is a suburban tiger mom, addicted both to opioids and to keeping up appearances. That we end up caring so deeply about her, Alanis Morissette says, is a tribute to Elizabeth Stanle…
The legendary "West Side Story" songwriter suffered a fall that left him unable to attend the opening of his namesake theater in London.
It's been a week since the death, at 88, of Jerry Herman, whose scores to "Hello, Dolly!" and "Mame" defined the brassy, sassy sound of a musical comedy at the tail end of Broadway's Golden …
"It's so crazy!" says Emily Walton of co-starring with her uncle Jim.
If you tried too hard to be funny, Don Imus wouldn't help you with fake laughter. If you tried to poke fun at him and he wasn't in the mood, he'd flatten you.
The theater lost three giants in 2019: Hal Prince, Franco Zeffirelli and Carol Channing. Here, in their own words, are several other greats worth remembering. Diahann Carroll Diahann Carroll…
Adrienne Warren and Steven Skybell deserve Broadway's splotlight.
Its weekly grosses were so low, the Shuberts exercised the stop clause.
Could she be the greatest actor of all time?
On Broadway, she's playing the Ghost of Christmas Present, but LaChanze, a Florida native, remembers a snowy Christmas past, her family's first in New England: "Me and my brothers and sister…
When Andrew Lloyd Webber read the screenplay for "Cats," he knew something was missing: a song for Victoria, an abandoned cat who wasn't in his stage musical. "She had no voice at all," Lloy…
The profitable musical is getting the boot.
Tired of the same old carols, nutcrackers and Grinches? If so, these off-kilter Christmas shows may be just the ticket. "A Very Meow Meow Holiday Show" Imagine a Christmas spectacular gone a…
More social issues are addressed in "Jagged Little Pill" than at a Democratic presidential debate. Opioid addiction, race, bisexuality, sexual assault " the Alanis Morissette musical, which …
"Tootsie" flopped on Broadway. It's a terrific show, but its early closing is scaring the hell out of "Mrs. Doubtfire," another musical whose leading man is also a leading lady. Based on the…
