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This musical tribute to "the city that never sleeps" is a love letter now running at the St. James Theatre on West 44th Street. It has some imperfections as does the city it celebrates; but …
Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco When I was a "baby agent" back in 1954, my job as a new recruit was to discover young performers, composers, writers. directors, and any others with talent …
There is an article in the Playbill for Fat Ham on Broadway that quotes the play's author James Ijames. In adapting Shakespeare's Hamlet, he tells us he only "intended to disrupt the source,…
I don't have the vocabulary to properly describe the miraculous work being done 8 times a week at the Music Box, where Bob Fosse's Dancin' is currently in residence. A company of 22 yo…
Andrew Lloyd Webber has had his finger on the audience pulse since 1969; and in the following half century, he has become the longest-running composer in Broadway history. Joseph and …
I spent a happy afternoon on Saturday at the Encores! matinee of Jerry Herman's Dear World… which did not have a great success in 1968 when it first opened to very mixed notices and lim…
A planned visit to a Broadway show now requires a new sort of preparation. When I learned that a new production of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" was heading our way, I delighted in thin…
Jonathan Bank has been Producing Artistic Director of Off Broadway's Mint Theatre for many years, and he has made it his mission to search out and rediscover plays which were written in an e…
Jeffrey Richards and his many associates here offer us a one-set, 95 minutes visit with an elderly couple and their middle aged son who is visiting them in their Southern California home. Ba…
New York's jewel of an off Broadway theatre company called the Irish RepTheatre continues to offer new insights into memorable works like this gem from Samuel Beckett, which first prov…
The Manhattan Theatre Club is offering its subscribers and the general public its production of this play first done at the Old Vic in London and now cast here in New York with the ori…
David Lindsay-Abaire wrote a similarly titled play some seasons back, and Jeanine Tesori joins him now as composer of the new musical on which it is based. This lively entry boasts an …
An assortment of gifted theatrical talents have combined to restore Adrienne Kennedy's play "Ohio State Murders" to the current season on Broadway Originally mounted in 1991 this revival…
It took some twenty-odd producers plus the Shubert Organization, Neil Meron, MGM On Stage, and Executive Producer S. Moynihan to bring this musical comedy to the stage on Broadway. Wi…
A new musical has arrived at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre making its bid for acceptance by the press and the public with a list of ten new names adorning its Playbill title page as produc…
The times are no longer a-changin'; they have already changed. What used to be called "Musical Theatre" is weathering the change as best it can, and the most recent example of the new musica…
Todd Haines, as Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, has made the brave decision to mount this challenging new work by Noah Diaz as part of the Roundabout Season in New Y…
August Wilson is the gifted playwright who left us this remarkable achievement"a packet of 10 plays covering the 10 decades of the 20th Century Black experience that followe…
Once upon a time… in the period affectionately known as The Golden Age, there was an opportunity for all to discover the mysteries and magic of something called "Broadway." Some of us …
In Oscar Hammerstein's book and lyrics for "The King and I," there is a phrase used by the King whenever his own behavior seems to contradict itself causing him confusion. The phrase was "Is…
This epic play, that reveals much of playwright Tom Stoppard's power, is difficult to fully absorb in just one viewing. It runs just over 2 hours, is played without intermission, and covers …
What a way to go! As the final entry in the 2022 season of Encores!, Artistic Director Lear Debessonet has taken the reins herself and led a company of miraculous performers to the b…
A smashingly vital revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo'" is heating up Broadway in a rare revival at the Circle In The Square Theatre. That space has an elliptical playing area that i…
BILLY CRYSTAL was born in 1948 and spent most of his childhood in Long Beach, New York. His father, Jack Crystal, was a prominent figure in the world of Jazz and ran a classic jazz r…
Once upon a time one of the popular phrases was : "The times they are a changin." Well, they've changed. A successful run on Broadway used to mean one of 300-400 performances. Prolific playw…
