And Then Come The Nightjars, the critically acclaimed play by Bea Roberts, will be touring the UK from 14th-22nd October 2016. Directed by Paul Robinson My Mother Said I Never Should, Land O…
The Tony Award-winning Drama Book Shop willwelcome legendary actress and singer Barbara Cook for a discussion and signing of her new memoir, Then and Now, on Thursday, October 13th at 500pm.
Surely no one’s doing sadness today. Broadway favorites Andy Mientus and Tony nominee Michael Arden celebrated their wedding on August 18. The two got engaged in June 2014.
Accor…
IFTHEN, the original Broadway musical which reunites composer Tom Kitt, book writerlyricist Brian Yorkey, and director Michael Greif, the creative team behind the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awa…
The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with producer/performer Leanne Velednitsky about and then: a science fiction folk event. Wh…
"If/Then," the thought-provoking, consciousness-shifting Broadway musical, has made Hartford the next to last stop on its national tour. Oh, how different our lives would be if it hadn't com…
by Mark G. Auerbach If/Then, the 2014 Broadway musical by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, who created the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal for Broadway, opened the …
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 …
