Blogs
April 5, 2013Kinky Boots is the latest Broadway tuner about shoes. One of the main stars of the show happens to be a very tall, red, shiny boot that actually gets entrance applause. In fact, it's become so popular it will probably now get invited to all sorts of red carpet events and ribbon-cutting ceremonies an ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 13, 2013Blogs
December 7, 2012Yes, something called Rent Boy...The Musical is apparently really going to happen, unlike Rebecca the Musical.
And I bet a lot of old men in trench coats will line up for tickets.
It's a stage show filled with actors playing singing and dancing escorts, and it'll be heading to NYC in March, where ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012En route to becoming Broadway musicals, my blogs are currently morphing into slide shows!
So the one I did about famous pint-sized tykes who grew up to be bile-spewing family values lovers is now a bunch of extremely resonant pictures.
Theater
September 12, 2012A favorite showbiz revue returns with knives drawn
Voice Choices
August 22, 2012Theater
May 16, 2012Lorelei Lee's diamonds now adorn new-style material girl Megan Hilty
Blogs
March 13, 2012Earlier this year, the musical version of Rebecca put up its Broadway marquee but had to take it down when the full money didn't surface.
Well, one of the stars is telling people it's on again! Mrs. Danvers can sing to paying customers!
Blogs
March 1, 2012Every living being claims to have seen Carrie, the legendary 1988 Broadway flop musical based on the Stephen King novel about the small-town girl who gets revenge on the bullies via bloodying up the prom.
It was the original "It Gets Better" video.
Well, I really saw it and I have the Playbill to ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 21, 2011The hit indie film Once moves Off-Broadway
Blogs
November 28, 2011The Musical Box perform The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Friday, November 25
Better than: Frank Zappa's 1984 Thing-Fish pictorial for Hustler.
Besides licensing the rights to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway to the cover band The Musical Box, who've been touring it recen ... More >>
Theater
November 9, 2011Michael John LaChiusa's new musical goes for a ride over Niagara Falls
Theater
July 27, 2011Sweet music, but the musical takes a holiday from drama in this version
Theater
June 22, 2011Remembering the veteran New York actress
Theater
June 15, 2011It's not a musicalamity, just an ordinary bad musical
Theater
April 6, 2011The Transport Group takes a musical revival site-specific
Blogs
January 14, 2011Welcome to my show-and-tell of printed proof that I've seen a whole mess of turkey trots and even kept the evidence.
This time, I'm showing the dreaded Playbills for:
Shogun, the Musical, which boasted a shipwreck and an earthquake, all inside a big bomb;
Film
November 3, 2010Voice Choices
March 24, 2010Shim Mamsir puts a spin on drama
Blogs
March 15, 2010In the upcoming months, Broadway will be playing host to jukebox musicals featuring the tunes of Sinatra, Elvis, Sondheim, and Ray Charles.
So who's left? Not that many!
Voice Choices
September 22, 2009Here comes this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival
Articles
June 10, 2009Theater
June 10, 2009Blogs
May 15, 2009
Nine is the all-star musical film based on the Broadway show, which in turn was based on the Fellini flick 8 1/2, about an Italian director who's surrounded by scads of exasperating yet titillating women.
Well, the trailer makes it looks like a gorgeous melange of Italianisma, as directed by Rob ... More >>
Theater
May 6, 2009Voice Choices
April 22, 2009A rare chance to see the films of a French legend
Voice Choices
March 25, 2009Here's to the ladies (and men) who brunch
Voice Choices
March 18, 2009A brand-new take on Beowulf
Blogs
December 19, 2008Voice Choices
November 26, 2008Blogs
November 6, 2008Voice Choices
November 5, 2008Help a New Yorker editor finish his book
Voice Choices
November 5, 2008Theater
September 3, 2008Voice Choices
August 5, 2008Kick off your shoes for three weeks of song and dance
Blogs
May 19, 2008Theater
March 20, 2007In Curtains and Our Leading Lady, show people get their scalpels out
Music
June 6, 2006Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs
Columns
May 2, 2006Theater
November 1, 2005Attend the tale, for Sweeney's odd, but as to knowing the score, don't touch that Doyle
Theater
September 13, 2005Kirsten Childs's dolphins play dangerous human games. But referee Tina Landau's asleep.
Theater
August 30, 2005Theater
August 23, 20051971 and 2005: Separated at birth? Or was that Bill Shakespeare and John Guare?
Theater
April 12, 2005To a time of spoofs and techno-barrages, Lucas and Guettel offer a romance for humans
Film
June 22, 2004Film
February 4, 2003NYC Life
August 20, 2002Dressing for the Revolution in 'Hairspray'
Theater
August 7, 2001Theater
June 19, 2001Theater
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