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STRIPPED " MUSIC THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD/ The Work of Steve Joester at The Whie Room Gallery, also featuring Brad Beyer, on view through May 11, 2025.
April 27, 2025: The White Room Gallery,…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 27, 2025. Before seeing Broadway's Stranger Things: The First Shadow, originally produced on London's West End in 2023, and now at the Marquis Theatre, I thought I…
By Paulanne Simmons
April 25, 2025. In recent years, Broadway audiences have seen several reinterpretations of classic musicals. But no one has reinvented a classic with the perfect mix of …
By David Sheward
April 24, 2025. The beloved, whimsical operettas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, composed between 1871 and 1896, have had their share of updating and transpositions. T…
The White Room Gallery presents "STRIPPED: Music that Changed the World" on view April 23 - May 11, 2025.
April 22, 2025. Award-winning photographer and mixed-media artist Steve Joester will…
By David Sheward
April 22, 2025. Two dramas on teen torment recently opened on and Off-Broadway, approaching their subjects through different lenses and both achieving dynamic theatrical re…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 22, 2025. Two current plays, one on Broadway and one Off, seem designed to attract younger audiences with their granular depiction of teenage angst, lingo, and beh…
Veteran Actress Victoria Rowell Pens Sizzling Tell-All and Is Onstage This Weekend in Jason's Lyric, based on the Cult Film, at Brooklyn's Historic Kings Theatre
By Elis Nassour
April 22, 2…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 20, 2025. As we exited the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after seeing Sondheim's Old Friends, producer-devisor Cameron Macintosh's revue of around 40 songs by Stephen…
By Iris Wiener
April 19, 2025. There's nothing better than a musical that explores unchartered territory. Operation Mincemeat's originality is startlingly refreshing, if scarily relevant. T…
By David Sheward
April 19, 2025. You never know what you're going to get with a Caryl Churchill play, but it's sure to be something unique, thought-provoking, and convention-breaking. After…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 18, 2025. Twelve years ago, there was a TV series called"Smash," whose showrunner was playwright Theresa Rebeck. It was largely a backstage look at the creation of…
By David Sheward April 17, 2025: During its two-season run on NBC (2012-13), I used to hate-watch Smash, the weekly series chronicling the making of a Broadway musical on screen legend Maril…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 15, 2025: Cartoon characters, like L'il Abner and Superman, have inspired several Broadway musicals, so it's not unusual that Boop!: the Musical takes its cue fro…
By Paulanne Simmons
April 15, 2025. From the moment the dancers, dressed in sparkling tuxes, prance onto the stage at the Broadhurst Theatre and perform a number that includes an incredib…
April 14, 2025: The current Broadway season, which technically ends this month, has been notably top-heavy with musicals and pencil thin in new plays. However, for those pondering the upcom…
By David Sheward
April 13, 2025. The Broadway premiere of The Last Five Years at the Hudson,Jason Robert Brown's two-character tuner chronicling the romance, marriage and break-up of noveli…
By David Sheward
April 13, 2025. The first thing you notice upon entering the Winter Garden Theater for Good Night, and Good Luck., the riveting new play headlined and co-written by George …
By Patrick Christiano
April 11, 2025: Boop! The Musical is a delightful homage to the iconic cartoon character created by Max Fleischer in the 1930s and embodied beautifully by Jasmine Amy …
By David Sheward
April 9, 2025. Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, which began life as a London tribute concert devised by uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh and then restaged for a commercial r…
George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in an adaptation of his acclaimed film, Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by David Cromer at the Winter Garden.
By Patrick Christiano
April 7, 202…
By Paulanne Simmons
The film Goodnight, and Goodluck, directed by Goerge Clooney and co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, was released in 2005. The film chronicles Murrow's campaign to …
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 6, 2025. The big reason many are paying premium prices at the Winter Garden Theatre to see Good Night, and Good Luck,is not because they're dying to witness a famo…
By David Sheward
April 5, 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet's savagely funny takedown of cutthroat Chicago real-estate salesmen, has been a magnet for male actors to prove their theatr…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 5, 2025. First seen on Broadway 41 years ago (March 25, 1984), and revived three times since then (2005, 2012, and now, at the Palace), David Mamet's Glengarry Gle…
