293 stories from Stage Rush
Seeing a Broadway show is always an exciting experience. Seeing three in one night is what we call Broadway magic. The new comedy Relatively Speaking has all that and more, comprised of thre…
If there’s a lesson to learn from Follies, it’s “Don’t look back.” Because if you do, there’s only a mess there. Featuring a fearsome foursome of Bernadet…
Most people want to separate their work environment from their home, but most people are not Steve Cohen. Cohen, his wife, and two children live in the Waldorf Towers in the same suite where…
Talking points: I spend all of Hurricane Irene contemplating the magic tricks of Steve Cohen, the Millionaire’s Magician Casting the Les Miserables movie: Can Hugh, Russell, and Anne c…
Stage Rush wants you to get your new musical theater on, so we’re giving away three free pairs of tickets to the new off-Broadway musical Play It Cool. This new play at Theatre Row tak…
Well, try as we might, no human drama can muster up quite the same impact as all the combined forces of Mother Nature. So with a whimpering bang, the New York International Fringe Festival (…
Talking points: A week of change on Broadway and at Stage Rush Broadway on Broadway concert cancelled in lieu of 9/11 10th anniversary Broadway Flea Market moves out of Shubert Alley I join …
If you had to choose, would you say your life most resembled a cartoon or a carnival? Drawn by the hand of fate or propelled by the chaotic momentum of the midway? Rendered in meticulous Ind…
It's always fun to try and seek out the fringe of the Fringe"the unclassifiable shows with vague program blurbs and clever concepts that are even harder to find outside the context of Fringe…
As a San Franciscan, I had some initial doubts about the much-hyped Broadway-centric Fringe musical The Legend of Julie Taymor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody! My internal resistance m…
The New York Post‘s Michael Riedel made every member of the Broadway community collectively wet themselves Thursday with the surprising revelation that he had joined Twitter. A forum t…
It's double trouble with Killing Nellie and Victor and Victoria's Terrifying Tale of Terrifying Things. Each show stars a duo"in Killing Nellie, it's Mark Storen and Oda Aunan as unhappily-w…
Talking points: Our Fringe Festival correspondent, Nicole Gluckstern, co-hosts! FringeNYC vs other cities’ Fringe Rent off Broadway. How it stacks up and who is best in the cast Broadw…
One time-honored staple of the Fringe Festival is the sketch comedy show, and at first gloss, that is what the three funny women of Lipshtick (Venue 5, Dixon Place) intend to present. Openin…
Time flies when you're sitting in a dark theater. It's only Wednesday, almost a full week of Fringe has passed, and the buzz is ratcheting up from hum to rumble. The lines are getting longer…
Does this wedding dress make my butt look dead? OK, that's not actually a line from Daniel Sturman and R.C. Staab's rock musical Zombie Wedding at Venue 9, The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La Ma…
The first weekend of the Fringe Festival is always the most surprising, and in many ways, my favorite. Too early to know which shows will prove to be artistic or audience favorites, each new…
A theme rapidly made itself known during my second day of the Fringe Festival, and that theme was boobies. Yep, boobies; as in hooters, knockers, melons"a thousand names abound for these two…
My Fringe Friday started off with a bang, or at any rate, a birthday. Mark Sam Rosenthal, writer and star of the solo show I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography at Dixon P…
It's the first day of the 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival, and already the air around 45 Bleecker Street (FringeCENTRAL) is thick with buzz. With over 200 shows from aroun…
Talking points: We welcome our first correspondent for the New York Fringe Festival"Nicole Gluckstern Catch Me If You Can announces closing date. No more “Fly Fly Away” from Kerr…
Over 200 theater companies from around the world will be unveiling shows in more than 20 venues when the New York International Fringe Festival commences August 12. Stage Rush is excited to …
Talking points: Linda Buchwald from Pataphysical Science co-hosts! Simba and Rafiki get it on at Broadway in Bryant Park Seeing War Horse front row for $30 Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin an…
The big boys came out to play in Bryant Park Thursday. This week's outdoor concert featured some of Broadway's biggest box-office hitters: Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Rent, and Wicked. Death…
Talking points: Adam Rothenberg from Adaumbelle’s Quest co-hosts! Sexy Performers Week at Broadway in Bryant Park Word Association with Chester Gregory‘s best roles One Night Sta…
