I Play Rocky TIFF Thursday, when tickets went on sale, I sat down with my carefully constructed festival calendar and started turning intentions into actual seats....
Tim Curry, the deliciously subversive British actor whose Dr. Frank-N-Furter changed popular culture forever, died Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 80.For...
A curtain call used to feel like the beginning of the end. Now, sometimes, it is only the beginning of a show’s second life. More and...
In honor of the 30th Anniversary of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical, Rent, Bucks County Playhouse is marking the occasion with a new production directed and choreographed...
There is a very good musical trying to cross the East River in Brooklyn’s Bridge, the ambitious new work now playing at The Space at Irondale...
If Friday was Broadway’s arrival in the country, Saturday was the moment it unpacked its bags and decided to stay awhile. Day Two of The Festival,...
Broadway packed a weekend bag, left Times Square behind and headed north. On Friday, August 14, the inaugural The Festival opened at Hutton Brickyards Riverfront Hotel...
Some Broadway friendships end when the final curtain comes down. Others apparently turn into a rock-and-roll band. The Midtown Men brought their irresistible combination of Broadway...
The curtain may come down, a production may close, and a performance may disappear into theatrical memory, but the cast album is where musical theatre gets...
I have my press pass firmly in hand, a TIFF schedule finally staring back at me, and suddenly September 10 is more alive than ever. After...
If Part One of our look at the East Hampton Library’s 22nd Annual Authors Night captured the sheer excitement of the evening, Part Two reveals why...
Artavazd Pelechian’s “Land of the People“ My TIFF cinematic adventure is already beginning to look slightly dangerous, and now TIFF has given me another reason to...
After months of keeping their relationship largely out of the spotlight, Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are letting the summer unfold on their own terms—one performance...
Bradford Rand, Ramona Singer, Candace Bushnell and Todd English (Photo Credit: Society Allure / Rob Rich) As detailed in our earlier feature, “Horsepower, Haute Couture and...
Penélope Cruz, Lee Chang-dong, Rosalind Eleazar, Siân Heder, Isabelle Huppert. Photo courtesy of TIFF The road to TIFF 51 suddenly feels a whole lot shorter and...
n an era where artists are expected to be constantly visible, perpetually productive, and endlessly available, Ariana Grande has made a different choice. The Grammy-winning singer...
Every Toronto International Film Festival reaches the point where my attention shifts away from the familiar names and toward the ones I have never heard before....
A great farce always feels a little like watching someone carry an impossibly tall wedding cake across a crowded room. Every wobble makes you gasp. Every...
Let’s face it. Chicago theater audiences are spoiled, and we have been ever since Steppenwolf burst onto the scene fifty years ago. New Yorkers often settle...
Iceboy! – The Musical now receiving its world premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is based on one truly wacky premise. The show is narrated by the...
The genius of Stephen Sondheim never grows old for me. It’s always a pleasure to revisit my favorite shows of his. The production of A Little...
SAG HARBOR, NY — Some honors feel ceremonial. Others feel deeply personal. On Saturday evening, Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts celebrated...
