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
After selling out at the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania, The Hummingbird’s Tour has now begun a limited 5-week run in New York at the Theatre at St. Clement’s. This end-of-life comedy from On Your Way Home Productions delves into life, death, …Read more
The 1970 Tony Award season was a real curio for the musicals in good ways and bad ways. It was a year of limited options: there were only three musicals nominated for Best Musical – the same three musicals dominating the major categories. But it was …Read more
Playwright Colby Day and director Andrew J. Scoville, along with the cast and crew of Kitchen Sink Experiment(s), are inviting us over for dinner…and breakfast the next morning…and all the domestic distress in between. This site-specific voyeur d …Read more
The Big Apple Circus has been entertaining children and adults for almost four decades. I have my own precious memories of seeing the circus as a child, stuffing my face with cotton candy, twirling one of those obnoxious plastic light-up toys, and ma …Read more
Musicals Tonight!’s 18th season began with a production of Ira and George Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! a delightful farce that debuted on Broadway in 1926, but has lost none of its charm. Set in the estate of womanizer Jimmy Winter (Nicolas Dromard) during th …Read more
