Allow Juliet to reintroduce herself. Or rather, let Anne Hathaway do it for her. No, not the Oscar-winning actress known for "The Devil Wears Prada." The Anne Hathaway I'm referring to is Wi…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PM[SHARE]A wise man once said, "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about." The identity of this savant has been debated, but the quote is most often attributed to the legendary, …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:59PM[SHARE]Kimberly may be a teenager with an incredibly rare genetic disorder, but it's everyone in her midst that has an affliction. Her pregnant mother is hypochondrial. Her father teeters between a…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 01:09PM[SHARE]Musical genres do not have perfect opposites, but if heavy syncopation and electric guitar are foundational to rock, the breezy melodies and steel pan of soca music " what populates my playl…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PM[SHARE]One-person shows actually have two jobs. The first is to tell a captivating story. The second is to make a case for why only one person is needed to tell that story. In "Walking with Ghosts,…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 04:51PM[SHARE]"Topdog/Underdog" tells on itself before the curtain rises in the first scene. House lights fade to the song "Grinding All My Life" by Nipsey Hussle. In 2019, Hussle " a Crenshaw-born, commu…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:59PM[SHARE]August Wilson is one in a sacred selection of American playwrights who is recognized as a canon all their own. His plays " a series of 10 titled "The Pittsburgh Cycle" " chronicle Black life…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:12PM[SHARE]For over 73 years, "Death of a Salesman" has gotten away with its foreboding title. Ironically, no play in the theater canon better asserts its characters' aliveness. Sure, Willy Loman's dem…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:59PM[SHARE]Men are shouting. Representatives from the same state are divided. Everyone is named John. It must be a Congressional debate. The Tony-winning "1776" first premiered on Broadway nearly 200 y…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 05:23PM[SHARE]Somewhere in Bayonne, New Jersey, a middle-aged truck driver pines to care for his estranged wife, a woman he's loved "the fuck outta" for "two decades and a year almost." A car accident mis…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PM[SHARE]The Broadway Applause Series salutes Funny Girl!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07AM[SHARE]The Broadway Applause Series Salutes The Lion King.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM[SHARE]High school love is often blind. My affair with Khaled Hosseini's novel "The Kite Runner" was no exception. Equally harrowing and hopeful, the book was easy to cherish as a child. But the ab…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PM[SHARE]Like most folks who lay claim to being a former theater kid, a solid portion of my childhood was spent watching a grainy PBS taping of "Into the Woods" on Youtube. There is at least a decade…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:30PM[SHARE]The Broadway Applause Series Salutes Tina.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]There are an infinite number of ways a comedy can get its audience to laugh. Selina Fillinger's Broadway-debut play, "POTUS," successfully tries its hand at most. Raunchy language? Well, tha…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 07:39PM[SHARE]Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that change is the only constant of life. In "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder argues that tragedy is another. His sweeping comedy, now resurrected o…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]It starts with a step. Stomp. Clap. A crescendo of joyous movement and affirmations ("ayeee, yessss, you better") erupts on stage and is immediately echoed by members of the audience, most n…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PM[SHARE]The titular character of "The Little Prince" travels between planets. The theatrical adaptation of the acclaimed novella is traveling between nations " France, Australia, the United Arab Emi…
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