Photos: Maya Werner   Monday, February 5 was the 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival Gala honoring Gary Levine. Red carpet arrivals included Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield, honoree Gary Levine, along with WTF alumni and supporters including Matthew Broderick, Mandy Patinkin,...

  Barnes and Noble was jammed with fans and friends for Seth Rudetsky’s book signing of ‘Seth’s Broadway Diary” featuring Mario Cantone, Ann Harada, Charles Busch, Judy Kuhn and others on November 20. Maryann Lopinto was on the scene for Theater Pizzazz and here...

    by Maya Werner On Sunday, September 24, 2017 the broadway community celebrated the 31st Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction in Manhattan’s Theatre District. Broadway fans got to meet their favorite stars and bid on one-of-a-kind items. Fans bid hundreds of dollars on...

    by Matt Smith     “It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.” Such is the opening line of the new, Alex Brightman/Drew Gasparini musical It’s Kind of a Funny Story, which debuted at Feinstein’s/54 Below. On the surface, yes, it’s quite the macabre subject...

  Dear World (with book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, new version by David Thompson and based on an adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux), music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, opened last night at the York Theatre starring Tyne Daly...

    By Brian Scott Lipton     It’s not just because comedian Lisa Lampanelli’s debut play, Stuffed, is more lean cuisine than a three-course meal that you shouldn’t walk in hungry to the McGinn/Cazale Theater; it’s the exhaustive (and almost exhausting) amount of food...

  Broadway’s Next Hit Musical is Very Much That, Thanks to Truly Talented Improvisors & Lively Emcee     by Matt Smith As you walk into Stage 72 at the Triad Theatre to attend Broadway’s Next Hit Musical’s Phony Awards ceremony, you hear the jazzy sound of trumpets blaring...

      By Sandi Durell       The Edison Ballroom was filled to capacity on March 14th as two theater greats were honored for their untiring and unique contributions to the Vineyard Theatre as well as to the entire world of theater.   Sam Rudy, everyone’s...

  How a single song can change the fate of a show and make a star.     By Joel Benjamin   The theme of the opening salvo of the 92Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists series is a particularly fascinating one for theater buffs: songs either written or eliminated during pre-Broadway...

  Review by Joe Regan Jr.     Joseph Macchia has been producing a series of “Gone Too Soon” tributes at the Metropolitan Room and the September 12 program was “Gone Too Soon: Madeline Kahn Tribute” in connection with the publication of a biography “Madeline Kahn: Being the...

By: Sandi Durell Don’t compare what you may have seen on television in 1957 (Lesley Ann Warren) and again in 1997 (Brandy and Whitney Houston) to what you will see in this updated Broadway production, with a new book by Douglas Carter Beane, deftly directed by the hand of Mark Brokaw. The...