by Ryan Leeds I hope that Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola have thick skins. As authors of the new off Broadway play, Straight, they should brace themselves for a flood of comments, both e…
Watch out, Lin Manuel Miranda – there might be competition for this year’s Tony Award thanks to Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, and a new musical about to crush. . . well, just a…
Colman Domingo's new play, Dot, now playing at the Vineyard Theatre, has vestiges of a familiar kitchen sink drama. In fact, Allen Moyer's realistic Act I set features functioning appliances…
by Samuel L. Leiter The Mint Theater Company, forced to leave its crowded nook on the third floor of a West 43rd Street office building, has reopened in the comfortable environs of City Cent…
by Ryan Leeds The 1930s was not a particularly bright decade for Broadway. Still reeling from the 1929 stock market crash and in the midst of the Great Depression, audiences were not as plen…
by Samuel L. Leiter The f-bombs are so frequent in Charles Messina's A Room of My Own, an often fabulously funny autobiographical family farce-drama, that even a 10-year-old kid gets to free…
by Samuel L. Leiter Solo shows about dead celebrities brought back to life to spend an evening reminiscing about their triumphs and tragedies are part of every season. As with Mabel Madness:…
by Bobby McGuire Watching Hughie, director Michael Grandage's cleverly understated production of Eugene O'Neill's late career one-act play, brought to mind a flight I took a few years ago. T…
by Samuel L. Leiter The body of an American referred to by the title of Dan O'Brien's darkly compelling play, being given a sharply acted and staged production by Primary Stages at th…
by Ryan Leeds Chazz Palminteri's father had a consistent message for his son: "The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. Don't waste yours, son. Promise me." Palminteri, a born and raised …
by Samuel L. Leiter Angel Reapers is a collaborative project by playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) and director-choreographer Martha Clarke. Following Chéri, it's the second of thr…
Forget what you think you may know about clowns, or at least the Ringling Brothers variety (not that there's anything wrong with a dozen or so of them pouring out of a car in a three-ring ci…
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…
Do you "get a kick out of champagne"? You might want to consider an evening of Cole Porter's witty lyrics and melodies: American Showstoppers featuring Fred Barton & His Orchestra. The c…
Broadway’s hottest show of the season made a special appearance at last night’s Grammy Awards, and blew the roof off (along with winning Best Musical Theater album)!
"Have a hanky at the ready," said Alan Cumming in his Carnegie Hall debut last week that celebrated the release of his new album, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs: Live at the Carlyle (availab…
by Samuel L. Leiter Strangemen & Co.'s The Woodsman, a darkly imaginative prequel to the story most of us know as The Wizard of Oz, is back in New York after several earlier incarnati…
by Ryan Leeds Fewer criminals evoke more fear and terror than the infamous Charles Manson. In the summer of 1969, he masterminded nine gruesome murders in California with the aid of his comm…
Our sister blog, Global Cocktails, beat us to the rum punch when it came to the big news about Frozen‘s arrival on Broadway next season. Click here for the Disney details!
Vineyard Theatre will present a special series of post-show discussions to be moderated by special guests throughout the run of its production, DOT, by Colman Domingo, directe…
Before there was Hedwig and the Angry Inch, there was the wildly evocative underground theatrical world in New York City during Prohibition. This comes to live in a new production by written…
Austin McCormick"founder, choreographer, and artistic director of Company XIV"is back with his signature brand of unique storytelling that mashes up Baroque dance, circus, opera, ballet, inv…
It's been a mild winter but things are heating up Off Broadway. Take a look at our top picks of the month! Company XIV's Snow White Artistic director Austin McCormick is back with another vo…
The GRAMMY®-nominated musical Hamilton ushers Broadway back to the GRAMMY Awards® stage after a more than five-year hiatus. GRAMMY winner Lin-Manuel Miranda and his extraordinary cast …
The Tony Awards announced today that James Corden of CBS's "The Late Late Show" will host the 70th Annual Tony Awards live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City, Sunday, J…