Broadway Shows

Broadway Hits Have Become Critic-Proof Like Movies!

It used to be that a Broadway show that got raves would have a pretty good chance of being a hit and one that got trashed by critics would most likely fold. This was the complete opposite of movies, whereby something that got great reviews could easily flop if it didn't have mass appeal, while the ... More >>

Is Denzel Washington Too Old For His Next Role?

Sidney Poitier was 32 when he played the upwardly mobile Walter Lee Younger in the original 1959 Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's classic A Raisin in The Sun (the play that recent Pulitzer winner Clybourne Park so interestingly riffed on). And Sean Combs was 35 when he played it in the 2 ... More >>

'Show Boat' and a Boatload of Shows from Sony

The company amasses 25 Broadway musicals in one CD box set

Here's What Merch Different Broadway Shows Should Sell

Enough with the T-shirts and mugs. How many can one tourist really ever need? I've decided what the following Broadway shows should be really be hawking: Spider-Man: Turn off The Dark: Raid Wicked: Green paint remover Glengarry Glen Ross. Crummy real estate

Angela Lansbury On Rupert Everett's Facelift

Yes, Rupert Everett occasionally says some silly things--like his remarks about gay parenting, which exploded just the other day--but as I noted before, he's usually witty and quite observant. In his new memoir, Rupert talks about appearing in the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansb ... More >>

Gay Marriage Taking Place On Broadway!

Literally! I hear that Broadway producer Jordan Roth (who's President of Jujamcyn Theaters) is marrying agent/producer Richie Jackson (who produces Nurse Jackie) this Saturday onstage at one of Jordan's Broadway theaters, with a huge after-party at Roseland. Talk about high drama! Approximately s ... More >>

I Will Be On Broadway With Judy Garland!

It was inevitable, people. I'm going to be gracing a Broadway stage and I'll be positioned right next to Judy Garland herself in the form of Tracie Bennett, who won a Tony nomination for portraying the legend in Peter Quilter's End of the Rainbow.

On the Town

Rebecca Luker

Liza Minnelli Comforted Costar of Broadway Flop

At last night's Astaire Awards, Leslie Odom, Jr. won Outstanding Male Dancer In A Broadway Musical for his work in the short-lived evangelism tuner Leap of Faith. In accepting the honor, Odom said about the show, "We weren't liked, in case you didn't hear. "After we got the bad reviews, I was sit ... More >>

OBIES 2012: Don't Dress for Theater

A week of Broadway torture proves that hope lies with the scruffy

Magic Johnson Show Doesn't Shy Away From His HIV

Remember that Broadway musical Fela, which told you everything about the lead character's life--except his HIV? That would scare away the tourists, you know. But according to someone on Broadwayworld.com who saw the new Broadway play Magic/Bird, "the disclosure bookends the show."

Gossip About The New Cinderella

CBS/Museum of Television and Radio​ As you may have heard, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella will get an April workshop with the intent of an eventual Broadway mounting, if all goes bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. I ran into playwright Douglas Carter Beane before a performance of his musical Lysistra ... More >>

Venus in Fur

Godspell

Tom Aldredge (1928-2011); Consummate Supporting Actor

Tom Aldredge​I did not realize the extent to which Tom Aldredge was a hero of mine till the news of his death on Friday, July 22, of lymphoma, at age 83, made me look back on his half century of performances, Off-Broadway and on, which brought me several important realizations: I realize that, des ... More >>

Ellen Barkin On Hollywood, AIDS, and The Normal Heart

​In the current Broadway revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, Ellen Barkin is doing so well she's gotten a Tony nomination and a theaterful full of used Kleenexes every night. Click here for my new column, in which Ellen tells me about this staggering production, as well as her experie ... More >>

Tony Nominee John Benjamin Hickey: My Interview

​A longtime Broadway fave from revivals like Cabaret and Mary Stuart, John Benjamin Hickey is giving a powerful performance in the acclaimed revival of The Normal Heart, in which he plays the Times writer who becomes involved with the Larry Kramer character (Joe Mantello), with bittersweet res ... More >>

John Larroquette: "Directors Suck!"

​The Emmy winning actor made that startling pronouncement at a stimulating Drama Desk luncheon at Sardi's the other day about TV/movie actors currently on Broadway, hosted by reporter Robin Milling. John was talking particularly about movie directors. He remembered his experience in the Twil ... More >>

BEWITCHED

Gene Ruffini’s new comedy

PREPARE FOR TAKEOFF

Shannon Sindelar directs Red Over Red

Athlete+Carney

Broadway Star Makes AIDS and Jesus Funny!

The Limelight's born again, and so am I

Promenade Glimmered Briefly; La Cage aux Folles and Million Dollar Quartet Just Glare

Jeremy Piven Can't Take a Joke, Apparently

​Last week, our Michael Musto reported that Megan Mullally had split a Broadway play before it even had a chance to open. When he noted Mullally's departure, Musto naturally drew a parallel to Jeremy Piven's highly-publicized departure from a production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow: When ... More >>

Fela! Is Moving To London, But Not Ending On Broadway

​Splendid but initially disquieting news this morning: The Broadway production of Fela! (way more info about that here) is moving to the National Theater in London later this year, in an only slightly stripped-down production that'll feature the same alternating titular stars as in the Broadwa ... More >>

The Seven Year Itch

West Africa Story: Fela! on Broadway

A fantastic new musical will soon find out just how fantastic it has to be to survive

The Felicia Finley Project

Say Anything

LOOK OUT, BROADWAY

Here comes this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival

Eric Michael Gillett

'Summer Broadway Festival'

Grease

Obies 2009: Saying Goodbye to Tom O'Horgan, Paul Sills, and More

To recall some great theater artists gone this year means looking at why we make theater

Counsellor at Law

SPARE CHANGE

Another David Mamet play comes to Broadway

Scientology Protesters Confront Holmes; Critics Confront Tale

[title of show]: From Off-Off to Enthusiastically Received Broadway Show

They're young, they're funny, and they're telling you they're not going

Clip Job: A Week of Musicals

ATTACK OF THE MERFOLK!

Feelin’ fishy? Walk it off

Barbara Cook, Music and Lyrics

Silvery tones for a golden age of Broadway singing—past, pleasant, and future

Even Bad Is Better 'Off'

If this season was any indication, the future is brighter Off-Broadway

Nielsen, Rating

A daft match made in heaven: Author and star of Betty's Summer Vacation reunite in lunacy

The Moment’s Musicals

Everybody's Arranger

Ralph Burns—From Woody Herman to Ray Charles to Bob Fosse

Tea in Our Harbor

Ready for Your Grill This Fourth of July: Broadway Producers

Train in vain

Playing It Again

Lion's Share

Black Concert Dancers Storm Broadway