Well, “The Wedding Singer” flopped but became a popular touring show, and “First Date” flopped but is bound to get lots of community-theater action, will another comic musical about romance have a similar fate on the Great White Way? Last night (Apri …Read more

Underland, director Mia Rovegno and playwright Alexandra Collier’s new play on stage now at 59E59 Theaters, starts as any coming-of-age teen story might. Two girls, Violet and Ruth, clad in school uniforms, light up a joint behind their school, share …Read more

Annie Golden’s career had fairytale beginnings. Performing at the legendary venue CBGB with her punk band The Shirts, she was spotted by director Miloš Forman, who gave her a role in his film adaptation of Hair. From there, her résumé has run the gam …Read more

  Sitting down to talk with Eve Wolf, writer and pianist of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon is a fascinating lesson in history, music and film. The story of this theatrical concert comes from a brief meeting between the famed French auth …Read more

Beyond his fascination with dead presidents, as seen in the likes of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and the workshop of Here’s Hoover! The Historic Herbert Hoover 2014 Comeback Special, composer Michael Friedman is interested in telling stories about y …Read more

In the same vein as the 2010 musical satire Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, New World Stages’ Clinton the Musical takes one of America’s most controversial presidential terms and adds singing and dancing to exaggerated caricatures of historical figures …Read more

For playwright Oscar Speace, Janka is a very personal production.  Produced by Roust Theatre Company, it regards his mother, a survivor of the Holocaust, and the trials she endured in order to give him and his brother the opportunities she herself wa …Read more

It’s not exactly a logically sound rule of thumb to have, but whenever I see an overly pep filled person, I immediately assume they’ve got some severed limbs buried somewhere in their backyard. Never trust happy people! There’s always something hidin …Read more

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

Thank heaven for Heidi Thomas; her revised book of Gigi provided the chauvinistic Lerner/Loewe musical with a much needed push into the 21st century, while preserving the frothiness that made it a delight for past generations. Thomas’ book had been a …Read more