The Los Angeles Philharmonic is hardly a shoestring operation, with its $255-million endowment and an annual budget of $120 million for the 2015-16 season. The 106-member orchestra led by Gu…
David Letterman’s birthday is today. We wrote a couple of earlier posts with some thoughts about this influential show biz figure (here and here), so today, I thought I’d plug Ja…
On today's LIVE WITH KELLY, Mandy Patinkin talked about the emotional experience he had seeing Jake Gyllenhaal in the Sondheim musical SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, now on Broadway.
Dame Zandra Rhodes part of school's design lecture series
Beckett lived in rural France, and his nearby neighbor, Boris Roussimoff, helped him build a cottage on his property in 1953. Beckett grew close to the family, and offered to drive Andre to…
59E59 Theaters in New York is staging the play "Sam & Dede, or My Dinner with Andre the Giant," in performance through April 1, 2017.Presented by Custom Made Theatre Co with Executive Pr…
Probably the most important thing to realize about Gino Dilorio's Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with André the Giant is that it is really quite a lot of fun. This is a great service to the fac…
The past is very much with us, as this theatrical grab bag can attest:
But remount of musical based on Roald Dahl novel is not Young People's Theatre's strongest work.
This is the first time that The Giant Jam Sandwich, a children's favourite first published in 1972, has been fully staged. John
NiCori Studios and Productions presented James and the Giant Peach at the Westminster Arts Center at Bloomfield College last night and BroadwayWorld was there.
Here's a selection of upcoming auditions in the New York area and around the country.
Richard Kelly's cult 2001 film about a troubled teenager is re-released
The feud is overHAMILTON's Rory O'Malley King George III just groveled before GREAT COMET star Josh Groban Pierre to end the battle that started at Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS'2016 GYPS…
Maybe finally we're reaching the Natsume Soseki moment in the English-speaking world.
Epcot has been transformed into the Death Star, finally settling the debate on whether that thing is a golf ball or not (at least for now). Instead, it's one big advertisement for the new St…
It's not just the fruit that's oversized in Northern Stage's production of Roald Dahl's 1961 novel James and the Giant Peach. Everything
Northern Stage, Newcastle Mark Calvert's charming revival robs Roald Dahl's story of its dramatic climax but makes up for it with a swinging score and plenty of New York sass If you had to p…
Join the Alliance Theatre for their final performance today at 2 PM as they present one of Roald Dahl's most famous characters on a family friendly musical adventure. Featuring a wickedly tu…
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2013 (Ghostlight) Texas is big. Edna Ferber's 1952 novel, Giant, is big, spanning decades and two generations of rancher families. The 1956 movie version is big, …
As the annual Fall for Dance festival opened this season at New York City Center, the usual admonition to turn off those phones was missing. In its place was a request: Take them out. Shoot …
The cast of the award-winning hip-hop musical HAMILTON threw a mega viewing party onSaturday night to watch Tony Award winner and HAMILTON creator Lin-Manuel Miranda take on hosting duties f…