Good art serves as an escape, great art serves as a mirror into our own world. Donald Byrd’s scathing The Minstrel Show Revisited should be listed under the second category. Using a troupe of extremely talented dancers, Mr. Byrd has choreographed a d …Read more
With three major Tony Awards and a 12-year run—half of it on Broadway—under its belt, Avenue Q has the credentials to make it one of the Theatre District’s most popular musicals. But the real staying power of this uproarious Sesame-Street-meets-Sex-a …Read more
Okay, so Full House! The Musical! is not Shakespeare. But given the Netflix reboot, Fuller House, slated for 2016, it’s certainly topical, and tucked away in the historic Theatre 80 on St. Marks, it can be a damn good time if you’re willing to let it …Read more
Perez Hilton is what you might call a Jack of All Trades for the Internet age. A pioneer in the world of blogging through his eponymous dot com, he’s been supporting and skewering pop culture for over a decade. That’s why he seems the perfect, delici …Read more
I could have talked to Erin Dilly forever! The Tony-nominee is the kind of person who instantly makes you feel like you’re talking to a dear friend, and it’s precisely that warm quality that makes her such a unique presence on the stage. From her Cin …Read more
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
