Donna Murphy

Kristin Chenoweth on the Oscars, Adele, Hugh Jackman, and S&M

Also: Sir Ian McKellan outs everyone

Passion and Cinderella Try Opposite Approaches to the Musical;Belleville Tries One's Patience

Rules and deregulations

Passion Returns: My Review

The 1994 musical Passion--with a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine--was an adaptation of the 1981 Italian film Passione d'Amore, about a sickly, unattractive woman who fixates on a handsome soldier in 19th Century Italy and wills him to love her back. I loved the movie because th ... More >>

Forbidden Broadway Is Alive And Kicking!

If you really love Broadway like I do, you'll adore the show that reams it a new one, then kicks it in the pants. It's Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking!, the latest installation of the spoofy revue that mocks the truly annoying things about Broadway because deep down, you have to know and love ... More >>

Into the Woods: The Disenchanted Forest

This time, the Public does Sondheim in the Park

Into The Woods In Central Park: My Review

Into The Woods--the 1986 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine show about fairy tale characters coming together and learning lessons--is being done in the woods of Central Park in a gimmicky but vigorous production directed by Timothy Sheader with codirection by Liam Steel. The show has always basically be ... More >>

Happily Ever After?

Amy Adams stars in Into the Woods

The Best Actress In A Musical Tony Nominees Will Be...

I love predicting Tony award categories 10 whole months before they're announced because there's something so perverse about guessing who'll get the nominations before some of the shows have even started rehearsing! Even more deliciously, I usually get at least 60% right. So here are my predix f ... More >>

Summer Theater Guide: Alan Cumming Prepares a Lincoln Center Macbeth

Vera Farmiga On Faith, Madonna, and Mo'Nique

The actress bares her soul to me.

The People in the Picture—That's Shoah Biz!

Yiddish theater meets Holocaust meets Broadway tuner at Studio 54

Tony Nominations! My Final Predictions!

​The dramatics! The emoting! The singing and dancing and screeching for the back row! I'm talking about what's going to happen when the Tony nominations are announced tomorrow morning. My final (and 100% correct) predictions are: BEST PLAY Jerusalem War Horse Good People Motherf**k ... More >>

Brooke Shields

Tangled Looks and Feels Great, So Why Is Disney Selling It Short?

Countess LuAnn Meets Pee-wee Herman

Awards—they're a girl thing. Mostly, anyway, but the shows are bitchin'

More Info On Donna Murphy's Holocaust Show

​I recently relayed lemonwade.com's breaking news about Tony winner Donna Murphy's participation in a show dealing with Holocaust victims and survivors, which is on its merry way to Broadway. Well, apparently, it's a musical comedy! I've linked the new lemonwade report, which tells you some ... More >>

Donna Murphy in Holocaust Musical

​Two-time Tony winner Donna Murphy is returning to Broadway in a musical about the survivors and victims of the holocaust, according to our friends at lemonwade.com. While the Broadway board regulars will no doubt start making cracks like, "Will she show up for the holocaust?" I'll be anxious ... More >>

Sutton Foster Shows Off at the Carlyle

​The girl next door with a welcome weird streak, Sutton Foster may be the most talented performer who isn't a superstar yet. She's a hard working, creamy voiced, ultra likable singer/actor, and at her Cafe Carlyle opening night, she was introduced by Donna Murphy as "a teacher who thinks she' ... More >>

Anyone Can Whistle, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Addams Family

Three musicals—two of them new, one from the '60s—all sing of crazy worlds

The Seekers

This week in questionable ideas: an INS musical

Pre-Coital Clubbing

At Lincoln Center, the ambiance of felching. Elsewhere, smoking gossip.

Tonys, Tonys, Tonys

The picks of the litter. In other business: Travolta's not exactly Divine, is he?

Mail-Ardor Bride

Expressionist vaudeville meets the musical, via Weill-Lenya letters

Reader: When's the New York Pot Party?

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

New York, New York: It Used To Be a Helluva Wonderful Town

Season's Treatings

New York Theater Folks Gaze Back at the Off-Broadway Year

The Beauty Myth

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