1951 saw Broadway fall in love with Audrey Hepburn playing the innocent but oh-so-canny “Gigi” in the Anita Loos play of that title. 1958 caused a similar infatuation with Leslie Caron when the play was turned into a well-remembered movie musical. 19 …Read more

A Broadway show about foul-mouthed hand puppets . . . could such a thing ever work? Ask the producers of “Avenue Q” (which is still running in its off-Broadway transfer). Okay, but can another show about sock puppets acting out have similar success? …Read more

When David Hare’s romantic drama, “Skylight”, first reached Broadway in 1996, critics lauded the show’s balance of emotional, inter-personal drama with the playwright’s realization that class and hierarchy have informed the arc of the characters’ liv …Read more

Before “Girls” and “Sex and the City” but after “That Girl” and “The Mary Tyler Moore” show came “The Heidi Chronicles”, a comic look at a modern-day woman who wants and deserves to have it all, but balancing career, romance, life and family wasn’t a …Read more

Old-fashioned, nostalgic glamour is big on Broadway this year, what with the eccentrics of “You Can’t Take it with You” and the retro vibe of “Honeymoon in Vegas”, not to mention the upcoming openings of “An American in Paris”, “Gigi”, “The King and …Read more

While American politics remains a rare topic on Broadway (this season’s “Disgraced” notwithstanding), English intrigue is all the rage on the Great White Way. David Hare’s socio-economic discourse disguised as a romantic drama, “Skylight”, returns to …Read more

[LinkButtonRight] Just a couple of months ago, when plans were announced to bring Larry David’s new play, “Fish in the Dark”, to Broadway, even inside theater people knew precious little about the show. People assumed it was a comedy, and word got ou …Read more

All through rehearsals and early previews, Larry David tried to keep people in the dark about his new play, “Fish in the Dark”, which opens on Broadway this Thursday (March 5). A seemingly private and prickly fellow by nature, David nevertheless had …Read more

Entertainment Weekly reported this week that everybody’s favorite absorbent, porous and yellow invertebrate, SpongeBob SquarePants, may someday come to Broadway. At its annual “upfront” presentation of its TV offerings, Nickelodeon announced that the …Read more

Overnight, “will it or won’t it?” has turned into “when will it?” Even before Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical, “Hamilton”, opened at off-Broadway’s Public Theater last night, the buzz was hot, and speculation had the production searching frantically …Read more