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...