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By the time she won an Obie last year for "Sustained Excellence of Performance," Quincy Tyler Bernstine had spent more than a decade as one of the go-to actresses for playwrights (especia…
 When Patti LuPone recently sang for the Rosie O'Donnell Show in quarantine, many viewers were intrigued by the glimpse of her basement, and especially the jukebox in it"which prompted h…
Before he started collaborating with Richard Rodgers on some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history, Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) had helped create some three dozen Broadway pr…
This is a busy weekend for exciting or at least intriguing live-streamed shows. Some of them are of mammoth proportions, albeit one isolated performer at a time, such as the impossibly starr…
In the nearly four decades since he made his Broadway debut, Nathan Lane has starred in some two dozen shows on the Great White Way, and over a dozen more Off-Broadway. He is widely regarded…
When I first saw "Buyer & Cellar" on stage in 2013, I wrote that Jonathan Tolins' solo comedy starring Michael Urie seemed singlehandedl to reflect the entire season in several ways. …
Though many people may now most associate her with Peter Pan, Mary Martin (1913-1990) originated the roles of Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" and Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music." Y…
Below are three new shows you can see tonight New York City Ballet tonight launches a twice-weekly online series on its YouTube channel offering treasures from its archives. On what would ha…
 Off-Broadway dominates the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season  by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Of…
Born Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga in the Philippines, Lea Salonga made her professional stage debut at the age of seven (in "The King and I") and three years later recorded her first a…
Free Shakespeare in the Park has been canceled, for the first time in its 58 years " news that hits hard, and the sharpest sign that New York theater is unlikely to reopen until the Fall at …
Below are seven brief videos (and one longer one) that serve as highlights from the eight-hour One World: Together At Home concert on April 18, 2020. The full concert is below the select vid…
Kelli O'Hara seems as busy now as when theaters were open: She's singing this morning at 10 a.m. on "Morning Song," with her husband Greg Naughton, on the Instagram of Say.org (the Stutterin…
"I began my career when I came to New York in a show called 'The Boyfriend,'" Julie Andrews says. "'My Fair Lady" and 'Camelot' followed. But then came films and a family, and Broadway reced…
Below are just the shows I'm hoping to see myself this weekend. It's too overwhelming to try to list everything that's suddenly available from day to day online (See my Where to Get Your The…
Before she originated the Broadway roles of Maureen the performance artist in "Rent," Elphaba the green witch of "Wicked" and the two-sided Liz/Beth in "If/Then," Idina Menzel had dreams of …
When Hugh Jackman won a Tony for his Broadway debut in The Boy From Oz, he was already a movie star (a Superhero even.) In the 16 years since then, he's been back on Broadway three more time…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Will Arbery's "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" best play of the 2019-20 season. The award for best musical went to Michael R. Jackson's A Strange L…
Gwen Verdon, who was dancing in movies from the age of 11, became the brightest of Broadway stars in the 1950s, winning four Tony Awards in five years for her performances " especially her d…
You know COVID-19 song parodies are taking off when the original singer/songwriters start parodying their own songs: Neil Diamond creates new pandemic-appropriate lyrics for "Sweet Caroline"…
Below are the nominations for the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, presented online by Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer (a married couple so they could actually present without a split scr…
Although Fred Ebb is best known for partnering with composer John Kander on "Cabaret" and "Chicago," Kander and Ebb together created some two dozen Broadway musicals and musical revues, from…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded 150 years ago today, April 13, 1870, by an act of the New York State Legislature, which makes it a good day to sift through its vast online collect…
It's been a month since Broadway shut down. Today, April 13th, was the day Broadway was supposed to return, remember? Even the Broadway League realized that was unrealistic, on April 8th ext…
Elaine Stritch died in 2014 at the age of 89, having performed in 19 Broadway productions, over more than 60 years. There are more still photographs of her early performances in plays and mu…
