Broadway musical doesn’t match film’s sweep
While the cast of “The Notebook” sings and dances up onstage at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, there is an even more dramatic performance going on in the seats. Theater review …
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Nun play scorches — even in a so-so revival
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the off-Broadway premiere of “Doubt,” John Patrick Shanley’s scorching drama about a nun who suspects the parish pastor of being a …
New Broadway musical “Suffs” shines a spotlight on the women’s suffrage movement
NEW YORK — To mark the first day of Women’s History Month, we take a look at the suffrage movement and winning the vote for women. New York City was …
Spring Theater Preview: Navigating a Flood of Shows on Broadway & Off
Clockwise from top: Eddie Redmayne in Cabaret, Adam Best and Nicole Cooper in Macbeth (an undoing), Ali Louis Bourzgui in The Who’s Tommy, and Sarah Pidgeon and Juliana Canfield in …
LaChanze on expanding diversity behind Broadway’s curtains
LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, better known as LaChanze, has spent most of her life on stage. Her first Broadway show as a lead actress was “Once on This Island,” in 1990. Then …
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer Puts the Pop Diva In ‘Spamalot’
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer as The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot. Jeremy Daniel In the concluding episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel last May, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer put in a …
On Broadway And Off David Cromer Juggles Directing and Acting
Tasha Lawrence, Uly Schlesinger, and David Cromer in The Animal Kingdom Emilio Madrid You might recognize the title of The Animal Kingdom from the 1930s Philip Barry comedy of …
Chita Rivera, “West Side Story” star and Latina trailblazer, dies at 91
Broadway icon Chita Rivera, best known for her role as Anita in the original 1957 Broadway cast of “West Side Story,” has died at age 91. Rivera died Tuesday in New …
Celebrating the 2024 Grammy Award Nominees
Last week, the New York music community came together to celebrate the nominees for the 66th annual Grammy Awards at the Edge, the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western …
Broadway’s “How to Dance in Ohio” shines a light on autistic stories
Clinical psychologist Emilio Amigo, who runs a counseling center for autistic people in Columbus, Ohio, had a big idea: “Many of my clients never went to their homecoming or prom …