Theater Articles
Just Too Good to Be True - John Lloyd Young Is Back in Broadway's Jersey Boys
Young, who originated the role of Valli on Broadway in 2005 and won a Tony for best actor in a musical, recently returned to the smash hit after a five-year hiatus.
Guess Who's Coming to Broadway...
Just when you think you’ve laid out the perfect game plan for the new Broadway season, along comes a late-inning curveball or two and suddenly you’re reconfiguring your must-see lineup to accommodate last-minute arrivals and departures, shows and stars!
Cirque du Soleil Returns With Totem, Its Best Show in Years
Cirque du Soleil’s Totem is its best show in years. After two seasons of at Radio City Music Hall, Montreal’s export is back where it’s best seen: under its yello et bleu chapiteau, erected in a Citi Field parking lot.
'A Little Bit of Mischief' and a Whole Lot of Magic at Matilda the Musical
With a record-breaking treasure chest of Olivier Awards in its arsenal, and sell-out runs at The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and London’s West End, there’s little doubt that Matilda will soar on this side of the pond as Broadway audiences surrender to its myriad charms.
A New Crop of Tony Contenders Invigorate the Great White Way
March is most definitely making a bravura entrance with new season previews popping up like crocuses up and down the Great White Way. The much-anticipated lineup is nothing short of a marvel, boasting multiple first-ever revivals, one-person shows, mega musicals, and original plays.
Off Broadway, It's All in the Timing!
I know Valentine’s Day is long gone, but my jaded New York heart still swells when I think about the revival of playwright David Ives’ All in the Timing. You see, this particular collection of six one-act comedies was my intro to Mr. Ives’ smart, literate and awesomely loopy style, and I fell hard.
Fuerza Bruta - Running, Sloshing & Rocking Indefinitely
Fuerza Bruta comes from the same duo that created the groundbreaking De La Guarda: Buenos Aires natives Diqui James and Gaby Kerpel. And clearly, these two collaborators and their uninhibited group of young performers are open to anything.
A Freak Like Me: Robert Cuccioli’s Sinister Turn in Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark
Going from heroic luminary to blood-curdling arch nemesis is a rapid character arc requiring both serious acting chops and playful flexibility -- no easy feat, to be sure, but Robert Cuccioli of Jekyll & Hyde fame is more than up to the challenge as he brings his talents (of questionably mutant proportions -- yep, he’s that good) to his dual role of Dr. Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin in the Broadway mega-hit Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
Close Encounters of the Romantic Kind - A Month of Theatrical Valentines
Since the lure of Valentine's Day romance is responsible for much of February’s mystique, we zero in on a few productions that are currently reverberating with passion both on and off Broadway.
Totally Tubular Time Machine - Back to the Future Meets the MTV Music Awards
Get ready to hob and nob with your favorite “celebrity pop stars” in Totally Tubular Time Machine, a way off-the-chart unique, interactive, time travel-inspired theatrical meet-and-greet/concert that opens on January 19.
A New Year of New York Theatre Begins
While new year resolutions are still being posted on Twitter and its kindred cyber-spirits, I find myself thinking less about resurrecting that dusty exercise bike/coat rack and more about the intriguing theatre season now in progress—and the one looming in the near future...
Drood Dude: Will Chase's Au Courant Broadway Venture
As you sink into your seat at Studio 54, you might want to grasp the armrests firmly because you’re about to tumble down Rupert Holmes’ musical rabbit hole, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, full-throttle. It’s a journey riddled with mystery, scandal, bewildering hobnobbing, and meaty amounts of metatheatre that pushes theatrical convention over the edge. Did I mention it’s both Victorian era and a hoot-and-a-half?
Mulan the Musical to Perform at Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square's Extreme Sleepover This Weekend
Theater-loving families need look no further for something extraordinary to do this weekend! MULAN THE MUSICAL comes to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square this Friday, Jan. 4, for a special “Extreme Sleepover” event.
Gift Guide for Theatre-Lovers: The Ultimate, Last-Minute, Seriously Helpful Christmas Countdown
It’s down to the wire and still, you’re coming up dry for your coveted collection of friends who adore all things theatre. So to help your pedal-to-metal final lap around the holiday track, here are a handful of savvy solutions to your stage-struck shop-a-thon. Get ready to be a star gifter!
Holiday Stages, Big Apple-Style - Theatres Citywide Are Aglow With a Fa-La-La of Fan “Fare”
Lights galore? Check. Nip in the air? Check. Awesome store window displays? Check. Trees, Menorahs, sumptuous treats? Check. And for theatregoers of all generations, the greatest thrill of all: a happy and hearty Santa-sized list of New York holiday shows to savor and share!
The Ultimate Family Holiday Tradition Comes to Broadway: A Christmas Story, The Musical
For 15 years, fans of Ralphie Parker’s warm-hearted quest for a Red Ryder BB gun in a fictional Indiana town have gathered in front of TBS for its annual 24-hour marathon of the cult holiday classic A Christmas Story. Now, just in time for the holiday season, A Christmas Story, The Musical has arrived at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
A Celebration of Talent at the World’s Most Star-Studded Theme Park: Broadway!
And while I cannot guarantee you’ll see Al Pacino (taking a break from Glengarry Glen Ross) tossing back an espresso in a Starbucks, I can assure you that the current roster of Broadway productions has something for everybody and, if you choose wisely, you’ll leave the theatre with amazing memories and more Tweets than an aviary.
Billy Ray Cyrus: Painting Chicago Red Hot for Its 16th Birthday
And for theatregoers at Broadway’s Ambassador Theatre, this is where it gets really good, because the dapper dude spotlighted center stage playing man-about-town/lawyer-at-large Billy Flynn is a real-life Billy—singer/songwriter Billy Ray Cyrus making his premiere entrance on the Great White Way in true “life-imitates-art” fashion.
Becoming Chaplin: Leading Man Rob McClure Talks About Creating the Silent Film Legend on Broadway
A few years ago, Rob McClure knew relatively little about Charlie Chaplin. Now, in the new musical Chaplin, he turns himself into the early cinematic giant every night at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre as if he was a lifelong scholar.
Caught in the Web: Spider-Man's Reeve Carney Keeps Audiences Captive (and Breathless!)
Look up! Look right. Wait, left. Whatever you do, don’t blink! You might miss the torpedo-speed, web-slinging, head-to-toe spandex-clad superhero whizzing past you. That’s right, you’re sitting in the coveted pulse-raising flying circle of Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, so be prepared to surrender yourself to two-and-a-half-plus hours punctuated with acrobatic flips, zip lines, motor pulls, and assorted other techno-physical special effects
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Halloween Theatrics, Gotham-Style: Strange, Provocative, Scary...Interactive
Transylvania may be home base for legions of mythic movie monsters, but New York City is fright (and fun) central in the weeks leading up to—and following—the Eve of All Hallows. Below are a sampling of what’s in store should you have the guts to go bobbing for Big Apple thrills on the murky side of Manhattan!
It’s Playtime on the Great White Way!
If you’re reading this, you’re theatre-going timing couldn’t be better: previews and openings are swooping into Broadway theatres like mythical birds, each with high-profile celebrities riding their wingspan. In short, here is a sample of the shows and stars you can be among the first to see this season.
A: Firing On All Cylinders - Q: What is NYC’s Theatre Scene Doing This September?
Building on Broadway’s musical success stories over the past two years—Book of Mormon, Newsies, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Once, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and long-running champions such as Wicked, Jersey Boys, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia!, Chicago, The Lion King, and the grandfather of them all, Phantom of the Opera (inching up on its quarter century celebration in 2013)—is the new fall season, led by showbiz rags-to-riches-to-scandal dazzler Chaplin (official opening 9/10), with Rob McClure in his breakthrough, tour de force performance as the Little Tramp.
As Fall Approaches, It’s Transition Time On and Off-Broadway
It’s a given: the New York theatre-scape is always in flux—sometimes in a good way, sometimes not so much. Still, from mid-August to mid-September there’s breaking buzz almost every day involving newsworthy entrances and exits.
Election Year Heats Up for Gore Vidal’s The Best Man and Its Slate of New Stars
Towards the end of Act I in the current revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, James Earl Jones, as former President Arthur Hockstader, unleashes his bold face baritone on the line, “I tell you there is nothin’ like a dirty, low-down political fight to put the roses in your cheeks.”
