Brights Lights. Big City. Broadway is the place of dreams, but many a show has gotten its start with humbler beginnings " including some top-notch productions that began at the New York Musi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:05PM[SHARE]Taylor Dayne. Cats. Has the world turned upside down? No. Just your idea of what you think musical theater should be. For anyone familiar with Taylor Dayne's high-voltage vocals, it s…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:58AM[SHARE]The Broadway Blog’s editor Matthew Wexler crosses the pond to check out the acclaimed new production of Merrily We Roll Along that is taking the West End by storm. There is a throat-ca…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:28AM[SHARE]Broadway Bares 23: United Strips of America, a randy road trip of modern-day burlesque featuring 220 of New York’s sexiest dancers, raised an all-time record high for the fourth year i…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:23AM[SHARE]The Broadway Blog’s West Coast correspondent Gabriella West catches the 35th Anniversary performance of The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, including the premiere of Andrew Lippa…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:48AM[SHARE]The Broadway community mourns the sudden loss of celebrated film, stage, and television actor James Gandolfini, who passed away on Wednesday at age 51. The marquees of Broadway theaters in N…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:41PM[SHARE]The Broadway Blog’s editor Matthew Wexler heads downtown to the Public Theater for the latest Public Lab productions. SCUBA equipment not included. U.S. scientists suggest that Ven…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:23PM[SHARE]The Broadway Blog’s editor Matthew Wexler is hopeful that the sun will come out tomorrow now that Jane Lynch has joined the cast of Annie. Looks like it’s partly cloudy……
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:09AM[SHARE]Contributor Lindsay B. Davis reviews a complex new multimedia theater piece presented by New York Theatre Workshop. "The journal gives us the workshop of the writer's soul.” "Susan…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:38AM[SHARE]High heels and high theatrics seemed to be a theme for this year’s Tony Awards, which bestowed six awards on Kinky Boots and four for the revival of Pippin and the same number for Mati…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:09PM[SHARE]The stars of Broadway are dusting off their patent leather shoes (do they really reflect up?) and breaking out the costume jewelry for the most celebrated night of the year: The Tony Awards.…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:53AM[SHARE]A handful of very fortunate (and talented) theater artisans are going to walk away with Tony Awards on Sunday night. But one category that does not receive nominations is that of Casting Dir…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:47AM[SHARE]For performers used to being seen not heard (unless they are triple threats who can skillfully sing, story tell and do a grand jeté), last night's Fred and Adele Astaire Awards was an out l…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:15AM[SHARE]Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words… or more. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS returns with the 23rd installment of their annual fundraiser, which has helped raise more than…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:24AM[SHARE]Contributor Scott Redman discovers that Murder Ballad may not have all the thrills and chills that its title implies. The Union Square Theatre has been transformed into a gritty downtown…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:35AM[SHARE]Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots.” (photo: Matt Murphy) After seeing A Chorus Line from the last row of the balcony on my very first trip to New York City, I spent about a week tryin…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:20AM[SHARE]Our new west coast correspondent Gabriella West dives into Tom Stoppard’s complex play about… well, we’ll let her explain it.  Jack Cutmore-Scott (Septimus Hodge) an…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:21AM[SHARE]Guest contributor Scott Redman puts on his scrunchy socks and heads to a new off Broadway show that leaves him in a sweat for all the wrong reasons. Where would the world be without span…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:00AM[SHARE]The original BASiC Theatre Project cast of “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.” (photo: Catherine Bell) Now in its fifth season Gayfest NYC 2013 presents "new play…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:18AM[SHARE]Orion Griffiths (Mr. “Pippin), winner of the Broadway Beauty Pageant. (photo: Jonathan Tichler) The competition was stiff in more ways than one. Orion Griffiths, Mr. Pippin, was cro…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:39AM[SHARE]Can’t wait to hear the original Broadway cast recording of Kinky Boots, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper? The Broadway Blog snagged this behind-the-scenes video of the cast in the…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:15PM[SHARE]Contestants from The Broadway Beauty Pageant. (photo: Matthew Murphy) Thankfully Donald Trump has no part in the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, a benefit for New York's Ali Forney C…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:55AM[SHARE]Forget Gypsy Rose Lee… the men of the Great White Way were greased, sprayed, tanned and buffed last week for a special preview performance of Broadway Bares, the notorious burlesque-style …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:06AM[SHARE]Our new West Coast correspondent, Heather Cassell, catches the premiere act at the new Feinstein’s at the Nikko. Sutton Foster (photo: Laura Marie Duncan) San Francisco doesn't know an…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:32AM[SHARE]Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox in “The Memory Show.” (photo: Carol Rosegg) The opening of The Memory Show begins with a brittle and sharp-tongued Catherine Cox in a doctor̵…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:01PM[SHARE]Guest contributor Jason Mitchell reviews I’m a Stranger Here Myself. When the curtain speech finished with “All Aboard the S.S. Weimar” and the lights rose on an intere…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:26AM[SHARE]Michael Feinstein (photo: Karl Simone) I've had a crush on Michael Feinstein for 25 years. While most guys my age were listening to Sonic Youth and R.E.M. (it was the 80s after all), I was s…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:21AM[SHARE]Left: Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots.” (photo: Matthew Murphy) / Right: Bailey Ryon, Milly Shapiro, Sophia Gennusa and Oona Laurence, who share the title role in “Matilda The…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:38AM[SHARE]I’m having a flashback. It’s my high school senior play (The Wizard of Oz… of course) and we all scramble out of homeroom to see the cast list. I was a shoe-in for the Scar…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:40PM[SHARE]The cast of “Pippin.” (photo: Joan Marcus) I can count on one hand the number of breath-catching moments I've had sitting in a Broadway theater (Cherry Jones' leap of faith in th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:23AM[SHARE]Guest contributor Lindsay B. Davis reviews a captivating interpretation of the most famous mother of them all (besides Joan Crawford). Theater is at its finest during The Testament of…
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