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 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
Perhaps no one else on Earth knows as much about the Great American Songbook as Michael Feinstein, which is why it was a pleasure to converse with him about his upcoming show at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts in which he will pay tribute …Read more
How many of us sit in the audience secretly wishing that we had the courage to be up on stage, sharing that same passion as our favorite star? Well, now you can! With New York serving as the theater capital of the world, home to the Great White Way a …Read more
Ann Hampton Callaway’s The Hope of Christmas arrives in stores today. We spoke to the multi-talented composer about working with lyricist William Schermerhorn, getting into the holiday mood at odd times of the year, and how she might bring one of the …Read more
We talked to Three Day Hangover co-founder David Hudson and director Kristin McCarthy Parker about their immersive production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and what they think is the future of theatre. Dracula in a church has got to be the most blasphemo …Read more
The lovely Montego Glover took time out of her very busy schedule – she had a five show weekend! – to answer some questions we had for her. The Tony nominated actress can currently be seen as Fantine in Les Miserables and will also be taking on the M …Read more
Interpreting the work of Samuel Beckett is for some, an undertaking as formidable and imposing as the contours of the playwright’s granite features. For others, his trademark characters’ oblivion to the slapstick of their own mishaps and the melancho …Read more
At age 10 Avi Hoffman (born Avrum Ber, in 1958) made his theatrical debut in a Yiddish Folksbiene Theater production called Bronx Express. In the decades that followed, the performer, a son of Holocaust survivors, has appeared in a wide range of thea …Read more
Elena, a new play by Roark Littlefield, tells one of the strangest true love stories of all time. It will be given two staged readings, both open to the public, at The Medicine Show Theatre in Manhattan. The play tells the story of Carl Von Cosel, a …Read more