Now playing at the New Ohio Theatre, Kiss it, Make it Better, presented by Theatre 4the People and directed by Isaac Byrne, is a delightful and authentic coming-of-age story about two young children who grow up together in Coney Island and spend thei …Read more
Megan Fairchild, a principal dancer at New York City Ballet, took a break from dancing Balanchine when she took on the role of Ivy Smith in the 2014 Broadway revival of On the Town. She’s now back to ballet full-time, and having just completed NYCB’s …Read more
Jenni Barber has graced the stage in some of the most exciting roles of all time, including Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, and has learned from some of the greatest Broadway legends …Read more
Cherchez La Femme is accurately described in its program as “a musical excuse”, which is fair because that’s exactly what it is. Kid Creole himself, August Darnell, in collaboration with Vivien Goldman, created the book for a musical that revolves en …Read more
As chairman of the International Order of Sodomites – the renowned entity that regulates the proper behavior, etiquette and culture of the gay community – one would think that Justin Sayre would have his hands full, but the summer of 2016 brings two …Read more
Before the filmed versions of their Broadway successes The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers pulled the Marx Brothers into Hollywood immortality, there was their 1924 Broadway debut, I’ll Say She Is. The show—which had played on the road for 18 months be …Read more
Closing out this year’s Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters is the hilarious, daring, and brilliant Dillie Keane. Founder of the one-and-only British comedy singing group, Fascinating Aïda, Ms. Keane used her sass and gutsy persona to turn …Read more
Off-Broadway theater has always been about experimenting. Why not, then, turn an Off-Broadway stage into your old high school science lab? Why not, indeed. Especially with a teacher like Dave Maiullo, a charismatic and committed science geek who take …Read more
Whether someone is a Broadway watcher, or a TV or film buff, you have likely seen actor Joe Morton craft his characterizations, often with far more depth than the roles required. His early years found him cast in one Broadway show after another, star …Read more
Put a great Greek myth together with an awesome genre-spanning score plus a superb cast and you get the downtown hit Hadestown, written by the versatile singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and playing at New York Theatre Workshop. Hadestown is a unique …Read more