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The first Broadway musical made out of a movie was probably the 1942 film "My Sister Eileen" with Rosalind Russell, which became the 1953 Broadway musical 'Wonderful Town." Other vintage exa…
There were arguably more challenges than cheers in New York theater over the previous month, as the following ten-question quiz attests. Loading…
Erik Jensen is making his Broadway debut the same year he suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm that almost killed him. The two are not unrelated, as he explains in the interview below. I…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features six new Broadway shows, including two by Black playwrights making their Broadway debuts " one at age 27,…
On this eleventh annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater c…
Here are some theater-related promotional discounts, many of them for today only: Today Tix: Cybersale "Up to 60 percent off" of Broadway tickets From Goldstar, Cybersale "up to 60 perce…
"We sing together, we dance together, we look sexy together," says Timmy X. This may be a succinct description of the Korean popular music phenomenon known as K-pop in general, but in any ca…
Stephen Sondheim died a year ago today at the age of 91. If the musical theater composer and lyricist was revered during his lifetime, attention to his work has only accelerated in the year …
My annual list of my favorite New York stage shows, which I'd posted for a decade, morphed in the last two years into an appreciation of the innovative and impassioned attempts to redefine t…
Below are videos of the musical numbers performed by the casts of Broadway shows at the 96th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, starting with Lea Michele et al from Funny Girl; then "The…
My eleventh annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about the …
In a play entitled "Pool, Vol. 1″ " one of the fourteen odd and inventive works by "experience designers" showcased during a day-long event called The New Frame " Megan Livingston, …
Jefferson Mays' version of "A Christmas Carol," in which he portrays some fifty characters,  struck me as a singular adaptation of Charles Dickens' story in four distinct and memorable…
Thirty-three Broadway shows are on offer this Thanksgiving Week (see schedule), and there'll be eight more Broadway openings before the new year, but the theater industry enters the normally…
"The Patient Gloria" is inspired (if that's the right word) by a film that some see as a breakthrough; others as a betrayal. In 1964, a recently divorced woman named Gloria Szymanski cons…
Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2022, which differs from the usual week's schedule: Only two shows of the 33 currently playing have performances on Thanksgiving Day (Thu…
Below are the seven longest-running shows currently on Broadway, with descriptions and links. This feels the right time for an update given that the longest one has announced a closing date,…
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film "North by Northwest," Cary Grant is mistaken for the spy George Kaplan by villain James Mason and his thugs (possibly Russian.)Â Â As we eventually discov…
The Bard takes a back seat to the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears in "& Juliet,"Â Â a jukebox musical that is being billed as a sequel to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," imagini…
Earlier this month, Keith Wann, a performance artist and long-time sign language interpreter for the Deaf on Broadway, filed a lawsuit against Theater Development Fund for rescinding its job…
At the beginning of "Downstate," an unsettling play by Bruce Norris, Andy (Tim Hopper) is confronting the man who sexually abused him thirty years earlier, reading with shaky breath from …
Six albums were nominated for the best musical theater album, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (unlike last year). The 65th annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 5,…
Theater is fleeting, which is why the new Museum of Broadway feels long overdue. Theater twitter seems to be fleeting too " or fleeing, to be more precise. Playbill's last Tweet: Twitter sen…
Individual Broadway musicals take pride of place at the Museum of Broadway, opening tomorrow, with literal show rooms: elaborately designed rooms dedicated to such shows as "Oklahoma," "West…
Mike Birbiglia is so popular he can joke about cancer and diabetes and still fill up a Broadway theater. Â "The Old Man and the Pool," opening tonight at the Vivian Beaumont, recalls the t…
