Fifty years ago, it was common for someone who had starred in a hit musical on Broadway to continue with the show when it went on its first national tour. Now such continuity is almost incon…
Opening night of "Motown: The Musical" went very well until right after the curtain call. With the cast still buzzing at 10:15 p.m., producer Kevin McCollum had bad news: The show was ending…
"If/Then" is Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's follow-up to their Pulitzer-winning hit "Next to Normal" (about bi-polar depression) and it doesn't find the maverick musical-makers playing it any s…
Barbara Cook once observed, "The challenge of performing is to show to an audience what life has done to you."Just how steep the toll has been is divulged in "Then & Now," Cook's new mem…
Barbara Cook, who is now 88 years old " the exact number of keys on a piano " has three distinct stories to tell in her new memoir, "Then and Now" (HarperCollins.) The first is about a poor,…
NEW YORK " Over the years, composer Tom Kitt always marveled at the "what if" questions of his life. There were the roads not taken, but also the seemingly random events and choices that hel…
Broadway today is the era of musical/cartoon/film/remakes. We should, therefore, be grateful for anything that attempts a reasonably adult theme: in this case, how our decisions will create …
Audrey Tautou charmed movie audiences in the title role of "Amélie," the 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie about a Parisian waitress who embarks on a series of whimsical adventures. For the mus…
To celebrate the release of her memoir, THEN AND NOW HarperHarperCollins Publishers on sale June 21, 2016, Barbara Cook is performing at Feinstein's54 Below tonight at 7 PM, marking her firs…
There are goodly amounts of backstage lore and music appreciation surrounding her memories of Candide, The Music Man, She Loves Me and Follies"catnip for theater buffs. Her descriptions of w…
As a unit, composer Tom Kitt, lyricist/librettist Brian Yorkey, director Michael Greif, and producer David Stone do not make run-of-the-mill, feel-good musicals.
"Pass Go To This." "History Has Its Die On You." "It's Quiet Uptown (As I Have Bought Up All of Atlantic Avenue)." It was only a matter of time before the recent wave of game movies and…
There's a cascade of military interrogations, implied torture, romantic interludes, sex talk, political sloganeering, vague reminiscences, and other semi-comprehensible digressions that fill…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude  Being an avid admirer of Ibsen, and of Scandinavian culture generally, the prospect of attending a production by the Scandinavian American Theate…
It’s becoming a ridiculously redundant scenario. A Black actor or actress is cast in a role that is assumed to be “for whites only”. Enter the rag tag brigade of internet t…
★★★★☆ Smooth sophistication:
There is charm and sparkle on the stage at the Kings Theatre until Saturday, and that's not just from the costume jewellery.
