The Widow of Tom’s Hill, currently onstage at 59E59 Theaters, tells the story of an increasingly dangerous encounter between two people, a young widow and a sailor, set against the worst pandemic in recorded history. Winner of the 2015 Julie Harris P …Read more
Tony winner Laura Benanti (i.e. the hardest working woman in the industry) will be performing at NJPAC on November 21, in between shooting CBS’ Supergirl and preparing for Roundabout’s She Loves Me she took some time to answer our questions: What hav …Read more
It’s impossible not to have Dames at Sea charm your sailor pants off, as it sprints, twirls and coos with the confidence of a seven year old who knows she will make it big on Broadway some day. Like the infant, the show also tries desperately to ente …Read more
There is a kind of achievable magic in theatre that only the most committed audiences will appreciate. It consists of a performer inviting us into a world that is not spectacular in the traditional sense, but intimate, vivid, and exciting. In the fir …Read more
Playwright Michael Kimmel and songwriter Lauren Pritchard gambled by setting Songbird, their adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s drama The Seagull, inside a messy nest of contemporary Nashville musicians. But the resulting work (produced in association wit …Read more
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Tony Roberts’ new memoir Do You Know Me? is that suggested by the title itself; that is to say, the parts of the narrative that have to do with people recognizing Roberts, particularly in the latter stages of hi …Read more
One need not even care about Broadway or know who this author/musical director/TV and stage actor/voice coach/Sirius XM Broadway channel host/playwright/New York native/columnist/pianist/(I’m definitely forgetting a credit here)/gossipy funny man is …Read more
On November 1st, Broadway’s finest will get together to honor Tony and Oscar winner Joel Grey with the very first annual Humane Society of New York’s Sandy Award presented to an artist who has shown commitment to the cause of animal rights. The event …Read more
In Ripcord, Holland Taylor plays Abby, a stern, oft-judgmental woman, living in a retirement home, who refuses to share her room with the newly arrived Marilyn (Marylouise Burke) who threatens to disrupt Abby’s lonely, but peaceful, life. Abby lives …Read more
The future is a tricky thing. Though it always lies ahead, what was once the future has since become present and is now the past. But these tricky concepts lie at the heart of Futurity, a co-production by Soho Rep and Ars Nova currently playing at th …Read more