In May 1965 the first Kander and Ebb musical premiered on Broadway. Flora the Red Menace, despite a lovely score, was not too long for the Great White Way. It scored a Tony for Liza Minnelli (in her Broadway debut) as the eponymous Flora, but it clos …Read more

As he prepares to wrap up performances in the show where he made his Broadway debut, Josh Grisetti has already lined up his next musical, which happens to open exactly six days after It Shoulda Been You closes. In the show The Crack in the Ceiling, p …Read more

Like some of the world’s best trattorias, Torino Italian is located in a corner so familiar that you might walk by it without noticing it, which would mean you’re missing out on one of New York City’s absolutely greatest restaurants. Just a few block …Read more

One of theater’s greatest gifts is that it can externalize the internal, connecting people by articulating emotions that are impossible to convey in ordinary life with ordinary language. John Patrick Shanley’s comedy of anguish, the dreamer examines …Read more

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock far away from the theater district, you’re aware that next week brings the Broadway opening of Hamilton, the much-anticipated musical from In the Heights Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail. …Read more

It seems apropos to meet up with dedicated theater artists Jessi Blue Gormezano and KJ Sanchez in a slightly battered second floor theater space off of 10th Avenue on 52nd Street; the kind of space that is fast disappearing as the Hell’s Kitchen neig …Read more

Now in its 24th season, the National Asian-American Theater Company (NAATCO) is presenting Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets’ Depression-era play about the Bergers, a Jewish family, living in the Bronx and contending with financial hardship and each ot …Read more

Tziporela, a highly inventive comedy troupe from Israel is currently appearing in Odd Birdz at The Players Theater in Manhattan. Who is Tziporela and what is Odd Birdz? Stagebuddy chased down Tziporela members Gal Friedman, Ben Perry and Efrat Aviv t …Read more

Since making her Broadway debut in 2001, theatregoers have been lucky enough to see Nikki M. James onstage almost every year (in fact she’s currently starring in Preludes at Lincoln Center Theatre), and now filmgoers will have the opportunity to see …Read more

Taking over from a performance that won another actor a Tony must not be easy, and yet Chilina Kennedy does it with flair, while leaving a mark all her own, eight times a week as she plays the title role in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Playing …Read more