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If you were a high school theater geek, then you likely did a production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The original Off-Broadway production was revamped for Broadway in 1999 …
She Loves Me was a charming success when it premiered in 1963 starring Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey as star-crossed perfumery clerks who unknowingly fall in love with each other through a …
Emmy and Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, the creator and mastermind behind the beloved NBC drama "The West Wing," is returning to the network with a live presentation of "A Few Good Men,"…
Michael Feinstein gathered some of his favorite vocalists to join him last week at Zankel Hall to help celebrate Carnegie Hall's 125th anniversary. Feinstein is a master of the Great America…
Tony Award-nominee Rory O'Malley will reign as King George in the Broadway musical Hamilton starting Monday, April 11 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St). Mr. O'Malley steps int…
Those of a certain age will remember Steve Martin's 1978 novelty song, "King Tut." And those of another certain age will likely wax poetic about their college days listening to indie band Ed…
Starz today announced Richard Eyre's adaptation of Ronald Harwood's critically acclaimed play The Dresser, starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, will premiere on STARZ on Mo…
MCC Theater broke ground this week on its first permanent home, which will unite the company's diverse roster of programs under one roof for the first time in its three-decade history. MCC A…
Theatre Development Fund and The Broadway League are Breaking Barriers to Broadway with the launch of Theatre Access NYC, www.theatreaccess.nyc, a new website designed to assist theatrego…
Carnegie Hall continues its epic 125th anniversary celebrations with a not-to-miss concert on Wednesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. The program will feature Michael Feinstein along with special g…
New York City's most fabulous drag queens are competing for a cause! AIDS Service Center NYC (ASCNYC) will host New York's Best in Drag on Monday, May 9 at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.…
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Especially when you have Nasty Drew around to solve it? Playwright, performer, and porn “starlet” Chris Harder and Spin Cycle NYC present,Ã…
Every month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler's nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine…
Are you a Ham-a-holic? Launching tomorrow, Ham App is an iPhone app that does one thing: help you enter the lottery to see Hamilton. The hit musical is sold out for months, so the best chanc…
by Ryan Leeds For the Generation X Broadway crowd, Friday night's New York Pops concert was a fond, nostalgic trip down memory lane. The evening's theme, 42nd on 57th: Broa…
by Jim Gladstone "My mom took me to see Annie at the Curran Theater when I was eight years old," remembers Lesli Margherita, the Fremont-born Broadway star who's back on native turf with…
by Samuel L. Leiter The zeitgeist's obsessive fascination with issues of sexual confusion and gender identity continues with Anna Ziegler's Boy, an engrossing yet inconsistently satisfying n…
While I wouldn't call it groundbreaking, there is a guilty pleasure shaking up Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre: Disaster!, a new(ish) musical by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick. As the n…
by Ryan Leeds Fewer shows in recent Off Broadway history have been more provocative than Straight. The three-person play, set in contemporary Boston, is a complex love triangle between Ben (…
On Monday, May 2, 2016, The New York Pops presents its 33rd birthday gala, celebrating the revolutionary collaborations of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, the songwriting team be…
The 2015-16 season is kicking into high gear, with three unique musicals opening this month that are sure to catch your attention. Here are our top picks of what not to miss… Southern …
by Ryan Leeds Blending heavy emotional drama with irreverent stand-up comedy is no easy task. Neal Brennan has mastered that art in his solo show, Neal Brennan 3 Mics. Brennan, whose most no…
It is not easy to watch The New Group's revival of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Buried Child. Originally produced in San Francisco, then New York City, in 1978, the play was la…
by Samuel L. Leiter The fact that good writing in a play doesn't necessarily mean good playwriting is exemplified by Noah Haidle's cloudy Smokefall, now at the Lucille Lortel in an MCC Theat…
by Ryan Leeds Fans of televison's Glee (also known as "Gleeks") will probably recognize Ali Stroker from her 2013 appearance on the popular show. That project was the beginning of her succes…
