On Monday, May 1, 2017, The New York Pops will celebrate its 34th birthday with a grand gala evening honoring Karen van Bergen, the CEO of Omnicom Public Relations Group, and Tony Award winn…
By Samuel L. Leiter Given today's preoccupations with Islam, Zayd Dohrn couldn't have hit upon a more succulent subject for a domestic dramedy than the one he uses in The Profane, his pot…
by Ryan Leeds Life is full of choices but for Sheri Sanders, there's no reason to choose. When it comes to performing, Sanders believes that you can combine legit trained musical theater sty…
Curtain up! There’s plenty of Broadway caliber talent that’s ventured west, and that’s where Lara Scott and Will Armstrong come into play. Their new podcast, West of Bro…
Let's cut to the chase. Director Moritz von Stuelpnagel's revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter is a brilliantly fine-tuned comedy of style and substance, and if you want to see an en…
By Samuel L. Leiter Perhaps, like me, you didn't notice that, beneath the Harry Potter hoopla of the past two decades, a series of young adult novels about another boy with supernatural powe…
Tickets went on sale this morning, April 4,  for the 62nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, and can be purchased at www.DramaDeskAwards.com. This year’s awards, hosted by …
By Samuel L. Leiter A bit of advice: if you're going to see The Play That Goes Wrong make sure you visit the facilities first. Otherwise you're going to have a hard time not peeing in your p…
The new Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler has just, in its third week of preview performances, shattered the house record for the highest weekly gross of any show in…
 Sweat, a new play Lynn Nottage, may make you do just that. It's an occasionally squirmish drama that delves into the lives of a handful of residents in Reading, Pennsylvania, an industr…
by Samuel L. Leiter Despite its title, Church & State, a thoughtful but patchy political dramedy by Jason Odell Williams, has very little to do with the separation of powers as mentioned…
It's no surprise that Bette Midler's Broadway arrival is generating big buzz. Hello, Dolly! producers reported a record-breaking $9 million in first-day sales. But what happened during last …
Broadway.com announced today that the 18th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards will be presented at a private reception on Thursday, May 25, 2017. Each year, the excitement of the…
MCC Theater announced today the launch of a matching gift challenge made possible by The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust. The Trust has awarded a $2.5 million challenge grant in support of…
"Rainbows & Ribbons," a new show by Ross Hewitt, will be presented tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, at 5:00 p.m. at Don't Tell Mama (343 West 46th Street, New York City). This is a b…
I didn't leave the Broadway Theatre with tears in my eyes after seeing Miss Saigon, the mega-musical revival by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby, Jr., and Alain Boublil. Ab…
This month’s Theater Buff offers you a slice of Americana via the good looks and charm of David T. Patterson, currently starring in Transport Group’s ambitious William Inge reper…
On April 1, Broadway Backstage will give audience members a behind-the-scenes look at Broadway with an all new show. Six Broadway stars will belt out tunes from the world's grandest stages a…
by Samuel L. Leiter Courtney Baron's When It's You, the Keen Company's latest offering, is a one-person play about a woman coming to terms with her grief. For 70 minutes, she stands on a …
Don’t miss CONCERT FOR AMERICA: STAND UP, SING OUT! Featuring Chita Rivera, Melissa Manchester, Alice Ripley, Ana Gasteyer, the Chicago cast of Hamilton, Sharon Gless, Lynne Jordan,…
Telly Leung " the Broadway and television star of "Glee," Godspell and Rent, currently starring on Broadway in In Transit " will debut at the new concert space The Gr…
By Ryan Leeds There was more than enough razzle dazzle to blind Manhattan on Friday night as The New York Pops presented Life is a Cabaret: The Songs of Kander and Ebb. The alway…
The Drama League will honor two outstanding stage luminaries at this year's 83rd Annual Drama League Awards, set for Friday afternoon, May 19, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. The…
Tony and Grammy Award-Winner Billy Porter's new studio album, Billy Porter Presents The Soul of Richard Rodgers, will be released April 14, 2017 and is now available for pre-order. The album…
By Ryan Leeds Thank goodness for Max Vernon, the 28-year-old wunderkind who continues to carry the torch of gay history to a new generation. Vernon, an NYU graduate, is the author, composer,…