The New York Musical Theatre Festival is in full swing. We caught two shows this week that capture varying degrees of success in the development of new work. As We Lie Still is a musical fan…
One of Broadway's bawdiest broads, Elaine Stritch, passed away today at the age of 89. Her early career included the 1952 revival of Pal Joey and Bus Stop in 1955, for which she was nominate…
Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out contributor Tom Mizer’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit cl…
Twenty years before receiving his first Broadway production, Nicky Silver scorched onto the New York scene with Pterodactyls, a blazingly prophetic play that seems more urgent by the day.…
Now in it's 11th year, the New York Musical Theatre Festival returns for three weeks of ingenious works in progress, all vying for the tiara of best musical, in hopes they will get picked up…
It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008 and was made into a feature film starring Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in 2013. Fans of August: Osage County can hear members of the origi…
Stars of stage and screen will descend upon Shubert Alley for the 16th Annual Broadway Barks! Founded by Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters, the organization helps many of New York City'…
The New York Musical Theatre Festival opened this week, celebrating 11 years of America's greatest art form by providing an affordable way for artists to mount professional productions. Firs…
Broadway's On The Town and FOX's So You Think You Can Dance are teaming up to offer the winner of Season 11 a role in this fall's highly anticipated Broadway revival, marking an …
We're at midsummer and while Broadway is looking a bit dormant these days with the recent closings of After Midnight, Casa Valentina, Mothers and Sons and the closing notices for Violet (Aug…
Writer Lindsay B. Davis hit the streets of NYC to catch the best of Broadway at Inside Broadway’s Beacon Awards and the final concert of Broadway by the Year at Town Hall. Someti…
After a sold-out benefit run for BC/EFA this February, Pageant " The Musical returns for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Davenport Theatre beginning June 29 with an official opening…
In many ways, gangsta rap messiah Tupac Shakur was the new world order of hard-boiled post-Reaganomics fury. Shakur, a hip-hop raconteur who painted surround sound portraits of African-Ameri…
"One of the best things Orange is the New Black has given me is straight boys," says Lea DeLaria, who plays butch Big Boo on the hit Netflix series. "I spent many years having teenage boys s…
In The Bullpen, Joseph Assadourian's wickedly facetious 18-character play, the audience is dropped into the lion's den of the American prison system and the ass-backwards legal procedures th…
"Craft is the basic thing in the beginning of this work for you to understand; it is your handle. It is not your talent. But you must have it," Stella Adler expressed in her book, …On Amer…
Who wants to see one Broadway show when you can see dozens on one night? The critically acclaimed series, Broadway by the Year, presents its final installment of the season, featuring Broadw…
"Whenever I'm back in San Francisco, I love to shake my parts at [popular drag-and-dancing extravaganza] Trannyshack," notes Justin Vivian Bond, when a recent conversation turns to the blow-…
There has been lots of buzz about the monumental production of Macbeth, currently playing through June 22 at the Park Avenue Armory. And that includes its hefty price tag. At $350, itR…
Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out contributor Tom Mizer’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit cl…
They're at it again. Gerard Alessandrini and his team of offbeat performers tackle Broadway's best (and worst) in Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! This latest incarnation has plenty of…
They’re at it again… those sexy singer/dancers will strut their stuff on June 22 to raise funds and awareness for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Only a limited number of tick…
The Broadway community mourns the loss of celebrated stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who passed away on Wednesday at age 91. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be…
Hosted by Broadway and television star John O'Hurley, The Broadway Channel has announced a new weekly television series for national syndication. "What's Hot on Broadway" will feature the be…
"Everybody loves a winner, so nobody loves me." So sings Sally Bowles in Cabaret, but we didn't hear Michelle Williams belt it out last night at the 68th Annual Tony Awards. Was she even in …