This season Broadway is hoping to use star power to boost ticket sales. So popular movie and television performers are headlining new theatrical productions as well as revivals. Producers hope that fans will flock to the theaters attracted by proximi …Read more
By now, everyone associated with musical theater has written a tribute to legend Stephen Sondheim who died Nov. 26, 2021 at age 91. Productive until the end, Sondheim died while working on another musical. Every season, even truncated ones like 2021, …Read more
“I have played some of the strongest and brassiest women on Broadway, but that is never, ever how I perceived myself.” Such is the bold and honest statement made by two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone, midway through the first act of her retrospective …Read more
Every month we highlight the best programming available on BroadwayHD, a streaming service for theater around the world. Julius Caesar Couldn’t get tickets to this year’s much-discussed Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesa …Read more
Scott Frankel and Michael Korie are the composers behind some of the greatest female characters in contemporary musical theatre, not to mention some of the most inventive. Along with book writer Doug Wright in Grey Gardens they turned a cult document …Read more
War Paint, the new musical about cosmetics titans Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, brings together powerhouse Broadway divas Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole. It’s no surprise that the vocals on the forthcoming cast album are flawless. The m …Read more