Paper Mill Playhouse – recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award, recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award, by special arrangement with Jeffrey Finn, opened the new musical comedy The Honeymooners, based on the CBS television series, with book by Dusty Kay and Bill...
Chita Rivera Award Winners –...
Directed by four-time Tony® Award nominee Randy Skinner and hosted by Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth, The Chita Rivera Awards were produced by American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21) and its Founder and Producing Artistic Director, Nikki Feirt Atkins in association...
The Golden Apple
by Brian Scott Lipton Let’s be real: heading to City Center this weekend may be your only chance to ever take a bite out of The Golden Apple, John Latouche and Jerome Moross’ extremely ambitious and wildly uneven musical retelling of The Iliad (transplanted...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
By Sandi Durell Pity the chocolate maker who gives you the scoop of what’s to happen at the very beginning letting you know it’s time to retire! Christian Borle, as Willie Wonka and as the Candy Man, isn’t even that perversely sinister a character – the one we knew...
Sweet Charity – Sweeter...
By Sandi Durell Charity Hope Valentine is fresh, sweet yet tough, and reimagined in the form of Sutton Foster as she brings her farm girl innocence to The New Group’s delightful revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center. With heart on her sleeve, (and...
Meet Sutton Foster and The...
By Sandi Durell The New Group is presenting a limited engagement of Cy Coleman (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics), with book by Neil Simon, of the classic musical Sweet Charity to begin previews on November 2 at the Pershing Square Signature Center – Romulus Linney...
The New Group Revives Sweet Charity
It’s not even opened, and The New Group has already announced a 2-week extension of its 2016-17 season launch of Sweet Charity starring 2-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Charity Hope Valentine! Choreographed by Joshua Bergasse and directed by Leigh Silverman, the...
Cagney
By Marcina Zaccaria With a long career beginning right before the 1920s and extending until he gave a Screen Actors Guild speech in 1978, James Cagney worked in countless Warner Brothers films, bringing classic songs like “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Give My Regards to Broadway”...
On The Town – Where the Bronx is...
NY Theater Review Sandi Durell Sit back, relax and get ready for a good ole’ fashioned BIG Broadway musical. If you’re thinking back to the razzle dazzle of Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller in the 1949 MGM...
