He was Malcolm (in the Middle)’s dad and then a high school teacher gone very wrong. What else is left for Bryan Cranston but to play the president of the United States. The 36th president, to be exact: Lyndon Johnson, who came into office with the d …Read more

It’s rare that an original cast will reunite after their closing night — and even rarer for a cast to come together after fifty years.  It was therefore an extra special treat to talk with the original cast of “West Side Story”, who joined the origi …Read more

While Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, and Alexandra Socha are great actors, Jeanine Tesori’s score is the real star of “Fun Home”, the off-Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir that premiered at The Public in September. The story, ab …Read more

The hit romantic comedy “Handle with Care” may make you believe in the power of destiny.  Starring Charlotte Cohn and Broadway legend Carol Lawrence (the original Maria of “West Side Story”), it tells the story of a young Israeli woman who travels wi …Read more

“Bronx Bombers” closes this weekend, and you won’t want to miss it in its home stretch. The show assembles a cast portraying some of New York’s finest athletes — and we went behind the scenes with Casting Director Stephanie Klapper to find out how s …Read more

Sure, you’ve got the Tonys, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards to honor theater, but what about cabaret, jazz, stand-up comedy and other staples of New York nightlife? The MAC Awards do their bit for cabaret, but it’s the Bistro Awards, now i …Read more

“Til Divorce Do Us Part”, a new original musical inspired by the true story of writer and choreographer Ruthe Ponturo, is the musical to catch this season.  Ponturo takes her experience of a tragic divorce and uses comedy through song and dance not o …Read more

John Tiffany’s wildly acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” ends its extended run today, Feb. 23, at Broadway’s Booth Theater. The production was first scheduled to end Jan. 5 but stuck around after critics used words like “m …Read more

It’s been a tough stretch for the New York Yankees. Last year, for the first time in five years, they didn’t make the playoffs, and now a Broadway play about the team has failed to go the distance. “Bronx Bombers”, a decades-spanning look at Yankee l …Read more

You don’t have to wait till summertime festivals to see a myriad of weird and eclectic shows off-off-Broadway. The FRIGID New York Festival is back with 30 shows in three weeks at two theaters (the Kraine and Under St. Marks). Founded in 2007 by Hors …Read more