Long before there was the jukebox musical, there was the musical revue, and few songwriters have as many fabulous songs worthy of a musical revue than Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller. The show Smokey Joe’s Cafe, featuring 39 of their songs, opened in 1 …Read more
My Life on a Diet, starring Renée Taylor (now at the Theatre at St. Clement’s), is also the name of a book by Taylor, published in 1986. The stage version has been around for a while too. Her husband and writing partner Joseph Bologna, who passed awa …Read more
The New York Musical Festival continues through August 5, offering 12 productions as well as lectures, readings, and more! We spoke with Luke Bryan about his musical Between the Sea and Sky. Tell us about your show! My musical is titled Between the S …Read more
The New York Musical Festival continues through August 5, offering 12 productions as well as lectures, readings, and more! We spoke with Kenneth Stilson and Cody Cole about their musical An American Hero. Tell us about your show! Kenneth Stilson: I h …Read more
The New York Musical Festival continues through August 5, offering 12 productions as well as lectures, readings, and more! We spoke with Kyle Acheson, Sam De Roest, and Corley Pillsbury about their musical What’s Your Wish? Tell us about your show! …Read more
The New York Musical Festival continues through August 5, offering 12 productions as well as lectures, readings, and more! We spoke with writer Abby Payne about her musical The Gunfighter Meets His Match. Tell us about your show! The Gunfighter Meets …Read more
In the opening scene of the revival of John Wulp’s The Saintliness of Margery Kempe at The Duke on 42nd Street, Andrus Nichols comes barreling on stage in a red dress as the title character declaring, “Morality! Damn all Morality! Damn! Damn! Damn!” …Read more
Sparks fly between friends and lovers as gay and trans rights are discussed in Log Cabin, Jordan Harrison’s superb play about LGBTQ politics. Showing at Playwrights Horizons, directed by the great Pam MacKinnon, and just in time for Pride Month, this …Read more
The Property, produced by New Light Theater Project and now playing at The Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row is an innocent light-hearted play with a bubbling cauldron of simmering rage just below the surface. Written by Ben Josephson and efficiently di …Read more
As any Broadway nerd can tell you, there’s simply nothing like live theatre, and nowhere was that more evident than the 72nd Annual Tony Awards. With everything from splashy musical performances to topical jokes and jabs, right down to that noteworth …Read more
