There was no way of knowing, when the company of Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen recently gathered to meet the press, how suddenly the meaning of the...
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...
Some overtures begin a musical. Others seem to unlock an entire lifetime of theatrical memories. Both are true as the first notes of Jule Styne’s unmistakable...
“Once upon a time“, she walks in, suitcase in hand. There’s “a special kind of man,” she sings, smooth and haunting, as her voice rises in...
Some Broadway returns feel exciting. Others feel inevitable. And then there are the rare announcements that land with the kind of personal electricity only a singular...
At first glance, Bigfoot! looks like pure, joyful nonsense — an off-Broadway musical comedy featuring an eight-foot cryptid, stick-on facial hair, rolling two-dimensional trees, and a town...
When Music City first roared to life Off-Broadway, it did so with the kind of confidence that doesn’t ask for permission. BEDLAM’s gritty, generous country musical...
Two men enter quietly. One takes his place at the piano, the other at center stage. As a radio dial searches for a familiar frequency, snippets...
As a gentle piano ushers us in, the dreamer and the dream disappear into the night. There’s a quiet but decisive shift in the final moments...
“I wish.” And they have a way of coming true at Christmas time, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes in ways that surprise you. Sitting down at the Bridge...
Let’s get one thing straight: the worst part of Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) is its clunky title — a head-scratcher almost as...
Dancing to the beat of lapping ocean waves, performers from across the world came to New York City this week to try to become a part...
Singer and producer N’Kenge conceived and stars in the musical Spotlight! The Dorothy Dandridge Musical, a show that has been in development since at least 2022 and recently...
“Did you know about this shift?” That in 1848, to be precise, Blacks who were free in Mexico’s Texas suddenly found themselves slaves in America’s Texas...
According to recent data, more than 48.4 million Americans aged 12 or older suffered from a substance use disorder in the past year. The number is...
All aboard the MS Americana, as the Shaw Festival‘s effervescent production of Anything Goes sets sail for a spirited crossing filled to overflowing with flavorfully festive...
I walked into Goddess expecting a good night of theater. What I didn’t expect was to find out—just ten minutes in—that someone I loved had died....
We went into each, hesitatingly, thinking these two shows would be strictly just ‘cute’. And probably well done, but not much more than that. I tend...
Beautifully gowned women adorned in diamonds swirl in a rainbow of colors across the ballroom floor, all looking for their idealized prince. They are all ripe...
The stage fills up quickly, with musicians and characters feeling the music and the beat of the Buena Vista Social Club. The bodies flow like waves...
Developed and directed by Saleem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club is more than a musical — it is an electrifying immersion into a bygone Havana, where...
Those first “525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes – how do you measure...” measure the beautiful feeling that overwhelms the soul when we first...
It begins with a radio broadcast straight out of every World War II movie in existence, with England standing firm against the onslaught of German forces...
Last night a world premiere of a new country musical hit the stage at the Bucks County Playhouse. Hard Road to Heaven features music by songwriters from...
The Grand Theatre in London, Canada, announces its New Season, which will include the London Premieres of Disney’s Frozenand Come From Away. March 4, 2025 –...
