Photos: Maryann Lopinto   A celebration of the release of the 2018 Broadway Cast Recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, with special performances by Jessie Mueller, Joshua Henry and Lindsay Mendez, and an introduction by RenéeFleming, complete with a cast album signing...

    By Barbara & Scott Siegel     Last year we wrote a column about the significant increase in the number of new shows on Broadway that featured Latin and Afro-American casts. This year, aside from Once On This Island, something different but no less positive has been...

    Filming/Interviews by Sandi Durell   The 2018 Drama Desk Nominees met with the press at Friedman’s at the Edison Hotel on West 47th Street, on May 9 to talk about their roles and creative participation in the various productions for which they are now being nominated....

  by Brian Scott Lipton   Jump on or stay off – that’s the question for theatergoers considering attending the latest revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 1945 musical warhorse “Carousel,” which currently beckons at the Imperial Theatre. So, here’s the quickish answer: Those...

    by Carol Rocamora      According to its subtitle, opening night of the legendary Shuffle Along on May 23, 1921 at the 63rd Street Music Hall (Broadway & Central Park West) caused a sensation. But I can’t imagine it being as sensational as its re-imagined...

    Take a peek at the New York Pop’s 34th season at Carnegie Hall celebrating the diversity of some of popular music’s greatest icons. Music Director Steven Reineke, who has been described by The New York Times as a “polished, welcoming host” who is “young and vigorous, with...

    by Linda Amiel Burns   The Broadway Close Up Series at Merkin Concert Hall honored the music of legendary composer Harold Arlen with a first rate cast.   On December 7, 2015, The Broadway Close Up Series at Merkin Hall paid tribute to one of the towering composers of...

By: Sandi Durell   Looking 20-something, the vivacious Sutton Foster (soon turning 40) kicked up her heels and more at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening March 13th in her debut with Steven Reineke and the New York Pops. She’s a folksy kinda gal and began the evening with “I’m Beginning to...

        By Brian Scott Lipton     March is a month of milestones for two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (“Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “Anything Goes.”). On March 18, the eternally gamine singer-dancer turns 40. On March 31, her new TV series “Younger,”...

  by: Paulanne Simmons       Valentine’s Day came a little early to 54 Below when Joshua Henry (on February 10th) took the stage to perform his newest cabaret show, This Is The Love. Henry, who has been featured in Porgy and Bess, The Scottsboro Boys and In the Heights, is...