by Alix Cohen   Never underestimate the power of superbly performed, old fashioned, rock n’ roll. Director/ Choreographer Joshua Bergasse imbues this exceptional production with attitude, soul, winking humor, ebullience, and energy. Creative, often synchronized...

    Theater Pizzazz’ Magda Katz was on the scene at the sneak peek of the Off Broadway revival of Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller.  The show begins performances at Stage 42 on July 6 and opens on July 22.  Hear some of the songs and interviews here!...

  By Brian Scott Lipton   If the great composer Leonard Bernstein was still alive today, he’d be just a few months shy of his 100thbirthday. And I have little doubt he’d still be tinkering with “Candide,” the gorgeous semi-operatic adaptation of Voltaire’s caustically satiric novel...

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...

    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...

        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...

    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...

      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...

    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...

  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...

  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”...

                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...