Sunday afternoon, April 22, the long awaited American debut of the Harry Potter play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, opened at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway. Theater Pizzazz was on hand for the red carpet arrivals. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth...

      Monday, March 6, Off-Broadway’s The New Group honored Sutton Foster and Robert J. Rosenberg (recipients of the 2017 Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitment to Theater) at the company’s Annual Gala at Tribeca Rooftop. Hosted by Mario Cantone, the evening...

      By Barbara & Scott Siegel   Sutton Foster: Musical Theater’s Most Versatile Star!   First, let’s get this out of the way at the start: despite having gone to the West Coast to star on TV (most recently in the hit series, “Younger”), Sutton Foster has not...

      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...

    Monday night, April 25, The Actors Fund held it’s annual Gala and it’s been announced the Benefit raised over $1.2 million. This year’s honorees were Michael Douglas, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Robert Greenblatt, Cynthia Gregory and Casey Nich0law. Special...

                    by: Sandi Durell         Michael Arden, Kelli Barrett, Bill Berloni, Robert Fairchild, Sutton Foster, Lesli Margherita, Andrea McArdle, Orfeh, Hugh Panaro, Kate Rockwell, Jarrod Spector and Alysha...

        This is a not to be missed evening – Sunday, November 1 at 7 p.m. at Feinstein’s/54 Below, when Robert Fairchild, Michael Arden and Andrea McArdle join Annaleigh Ashford, Bill Berloni, Sutton Foster, Joanna Gleason, Orfeh and Hugh Panaro. The evening will be...

   by Brian Scott Lipton & Magda Katz  (video and Mabel the dog photo below by Magda Katz) (additional photos: Maryann Lopinto)   Thursday August 6, 2015, The New York Pops performed an inaugural concert at its new summer home, Forest Hills Stadium, with two-time Tony Award...

    By Brian Scott Lipton         The roars of applause that greeted the opening chords of Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party,” which concludes this year’s City Center Encores! Off-Center series, proves that this Off-Broadway musical has gained a definite following...

  by: Brian Scott Lipton Video/Photos: Magda Katz Are you ready to raise the roof one more time? Andrew Lippa’s celebrated Off-Broadway musical, “The Wild Party,” is getting a newly reinvented concert production as the final offering of this year’s City Center Encores Off-Center series,...

Stars, Stars and more Stars!!!   (photos courtesy of Getty Images)...

    The Tony Awards have announced the line-up of stars who will take the stage at the 69th Annual Tony Awards. The 2015 Tony Awards will broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on CBS, on Sunday, June 7th 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT time delay) and are presented by...

    Get ready for Monday, May 4, 2015, as The New York Pops marks its 32nd birthday with a grand gala evening celebrating the work of Music Honorees Kathleen Marshall and Rob Marshall and Corporate Honoree Carrie and Ted Pryor, Greenwich Harbor Partners. Serving as Honorary...

        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 Sandi Durell   What’s the real thing that packs a wallop for your heart, soul and mind?  Sutton Foster! This Broadway baby is bursting with understated, churning internalized talent in the gentlest and most disarming way. Yes, she’s “Nice n’ Easy” (her opener) but oh, so...