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People we love? Gingers. Cute British boys. Silver foxes. People  featured in this fall's Moises Kaufman production of Ruth and August Goetz's The Heiress? Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens a…
It's one of our favorite theater moments ever — the one wherein Gavin Creel stepped onstage in Thoroughly Modern Millie, sang about four notes and made us fall instantly and madly in l…
Alright, team. We've got some tickets for you! A voucher for a pair of tickets to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf sometime in the month of October (or early November!), to be exact. We're…
You have to kind of hand it to The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. Going into last season, the show — which closed Sunday, September 23, 2012 after a total of 293 performances and 28 previe…
Every fall we Broadway fan types gather in Times Square to peruse/purchase all kinds of crazy, theater-related shit that other Broadway fan types need to get rid of. You know, t-shirts for s…
You know that awesome moment when you first get a new cast recording home and turn up the volume? When you're finally hearing the songs that have previously only existed in your memory, and …
Tonight Jake Gyllenhaal"he of the beautiful blue eyes and frequent epic facial hair"opens the off-Broadway play If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet at The Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre. Bef…
Sometimes we all just curl up in bed on a Saturday afternoon and dick around on the internet reading about plays, right? No? Just me? Well then. This article is going to be all the more impo…
It's tough to be a new musical in the fall. First, you have to make it through the slow months of September and October for any chance of holiday season success. Then, if you want a box-offi…
Cheyenne Jackson is back on Broadway this fall, playing a porn star named Mandrew in David West Read's new romantic comedy, The Performers. And while I'm not quick to judge a show based sole…
Adam Chanler-Berat has been a pretty busy dude the past few years. After starring as Henry for the full Broadway run of Next to Normal he moved to a little off-Broadway play called Peter and…
Let me just begin by saying this: I love Ramin Karimloo. Nobody these days rocks a belty, sustained high note like he does, or burns up the stage with so much confidence. He gave Jean Valjea…
If Broadway fangirls (including us) seem a little down these days, it could be because Jeremy Jordan played his last performance as Jack Kelly in Newsies on September 4. To rub salt in the w…
When the curtain rises on Chaplin, the new musical which opened last night at the Barrymore Theater, we see Charlie Chaplin balancing precariously on a high wire. From the angle where I was …
Broadway on Broadway is a fun little kickoff party for the new Broadway season, right? Given the festive atmosphere — and the bloody amazing weather — we were inspired to ask the…
Remember that time in High School when your boyfriend wrote you a song inspired by a snap you took for your fourth period photography class? Yeah, well, 35MM: The Musical Exhibition is nothi…
You know what’s slightly weird to us? That every single article about Rob McClure, the star of Chaplin on Broadway, gets really into the fact that he’s a relative unknown. ItR…
Being both generally intrigued by new musicals/their composers, and known to occasionally debate Sex in the City's relationship to reality, when we heard about Cait and Meggie Doyle's new mu…
While it’s not the official end of summer, it's safe to say that Labor Day weekend caps off the summer tourist season on Broadway. School is back in session, summer hours are over at w…
We’re feeling a little sentimental today. That is to say, sad. Or devastated. Or like life will simply not go on as it should. Because… wait for it… Jeremy Jordan departs N…
So, what did we learn this week? The folks in the Book of Mormon national tour cast are bigger theater nerds than you, Andrew Rannells is heart-meltingly adorable in The New Normal, and the …
Remember that time that all of Broadway was so effing scared of shows closing instantly and with terrible reviews that they decided to open all of them in the spring instead of the fall? You…
You guys, we have such mixed feelings about Lea Michele! One minute she’s blowing us away with her talent and adorableness, and the next she’s being kind of awkward and socially …
Hey there. Guess when we filmed this edition of Crappy/Spectacular? If you went with August 18th, right after a Newsies matinee, you’re totally correct. As you can tell, seeing as it&#…
Remember when War Horse was the toughest straight play ticket in town? Lately, the show has been available on TDF and TKTS, which would have been unfathomable a year ago. From the time War H…
