Dwayne Washington and McKenna OGrodnik in “That Parenting Musical.”

Cafe Carlyle Fall LineupCelebrity Autobiography at The TriadLinda Purl and Billy Stritch at 54 Below Café Carlyle Fall Lineup Celebrates Bobby Short This fall, the legendary Café Carlyle is celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of the iconic performer...

Multiple MAC Award-nominated Cabaret and recording artist, Renee Katz, is reunited with the critically-acclaimed arranger and Musical Director, Christopher Marlowe to celebrate the words and music of Irving Berlin with the debut of their new show, Lost In His Arms. By...

The off-broadway play Cellino V. Barnes is running now at Asylum NYC. You may know the story of these lawyers. You probably definitely know their jingle. Stars of Cellino v. Barnes Eric William Morris and Noah Weisberg discuss the new show with Theater Pizzazz’s...

Renee Katz/Don't Tell Mama - Ann Kittredge/Chelsea Table+Stage - Goldie Dver/Don't Tell Mama - Margaret Curry/The Green Room42 - Bryce Edwards/Birdland MAC Award Winner Goldie Dver has two shows upcoming at Don't Tell Mama. The 1st is Sept. 18, Sneak Peek is "They're...

Peek into the rehearsal room of Sump'n Like Wings by Lynn Riggs as the cast and company come together to read the play. (Click HERE). The show, directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges, features Julia Brothers, Andrew Gombas,  Carmeron Anika Hill, Traci Hovel, Lukey Klein,...

Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Julian Schlossberg. Try Not to Hold it Against Me: A Producer’s Life (New York: Beaufort Books, 2023). 350pp. 26th Edition. Last year,...

Broadway For All, will launch its Front Door Reading Series program with three new works by both new and established playwrights. The Front Door Readings Series begins on Monday, September 16 at 7pm with Casa Cristo by Karina Curet. On Monday, October 21 at 7pm,...

Rehearsals are underway for the Broadway premiere of Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, directed by Sam Mendes. The limited engagement begins preview performances September 11, at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street), and will celebrate...

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . .  What? You’ve never heard of Solderville, Colorado? That tiny mining village “on the highest mountain of the highest mountain range in North America?” (according to the program). If you had joined the motley crew of...

Katie Brayben Christian Borle Michael Cerveris Full casting has been set for the new Broadway musical Tammy Faye. The show, with music by Elton John, will feature Olivier Award-winner Katie Brayben as Tammy Faye Bakker, Tony Award-winner Christian Borle as Jim Bakker,...

Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . John Mayer. Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words (London and New York: Methuen Drama, 2016). 261pp. 25th...

Cabaret review by Ron Fassler ... Isaac Mizrahi goes for the high note. Isaac Mizrahi and trumpeter James Sarna. While attending Isaac Mizrahi’s new show at 54 Below, a well-known Shakespeare quote came to mind. In the scene from Hamlet where Polonius is...

Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Vladimir, written by Erika Sheffer (Russian Transport) and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan (MTC: Proof, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes). The cast includes Erin Darke, David Rosenberg, two-time...

Our Class; Fatherland; and Franklinland Our Class The Off-Broadway production Our Class, by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, and helmed by Ukrainian-born, Jewish director Igor Golyak, will transfer to Classic Stage Company’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater (136 East...

Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Richard Christiansen. A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University...

In addition to two previously announced works (Split, in September 2024, with tickets currently on sale; and William Inge’s Bus Stop in 2025), Transport Group's 2024-2025 season also includes workshops of Beautiful Jolie Gabor, Her Glamorous Three Daughters, and...

Left on Tenth is set to begin performances at The James Earl Jones Theatre on September 26, with its official opening on October 23. Left on Tenth will be produced by Daryl Roth and directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers). Emmy, Golden...

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club’s 2024-25 season will feature dozens of new works from around the world, including the world premiere of Richard Foreman’s Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey; The Mulberry Tree; and Murielle Borst Tarrant’s Tipi Tales From The Stoop....

Urban Stages’ 2024-2025 season will begin with the New York premiere of Yussef El Guindi’s play People of the Book, directed by John Langs (October 4 – November 3, 2024), followed by the highly anticipated award-winning cabaret series Winter Rhythms (December 4-15,...

Age is a Feeling; The Beacon; Killing an Evening with Edgar Allan Poe; Green Day Age is a Feeling Vineyard Theatre will present Age is a Feeling,written by and starring Haley McGee (The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale), directed by Mitchell Cushman (Jerusalem, The Ex-Boyfriend...

The Christine Jorgensen Show, the acclaimed musical production that captivated sold-out audiences last spring at 59E59 Theatres, returns to New York for a limited engagement at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Avenue) from Thursday, October 10, 2024 to Sunday, November 17,...

Theater Review by JK Clarke . . .  Just about everyone loves to sneer at lawyers despite their importance and frequent value to us as individuals and society as a whole. I won’t even bother throwing down the over-referenced quote from Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part...

By Melissa Griegel . . . Founder of Castle Hill Productions, Julian Schlossberg has had a varied and successful career producing over 60 productions for stage and screen. Working with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry for the past six decades,...

Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Barbra Streisand. My Name Is Barbra (New York: Viking, 2023). 970pp. 23rd Edition. Late in her deeply heartfelt, must-read...

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway/54 Below - Artemesia LeFay & The Harris Family Have 2 Shows/DTM - Seth Sikes & Nicholas King w/Billy Stritch/54 Below Seth Sikes and Nicolas King will perform an encore performance of their popular show...

Ted Sperling, Artistic Director of MasterVoices, announced details of the renowned chorus’s 83rd season. The season opens with a new version of George and Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind’s political musical satire Strike Up the Band, which will be...

Theater Analysis by Carol Rocamora . . . When multiple revivals of the same classic dominate our stages in successive seasons, one can’t help but ask, as we’re now tempted to do: “Why this particular masterwork? Why now?” In London and New York, two high-profile...

Theater Review by Ron Fassler. . . City Centers Encores! scored a winner with its 2022 staging of the distorted fairy tales created by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine for Into the Woods. Earlier this year they revived an authentic fairy tale, the musical Once Upon a...

Kieran Culkin (Photo: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic) Bob Odenkirk (Photo: Erin Odenkirk) Bill Burr (Photo: Koury Angelo) Emmy, SAG, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award-Winner Kieran Culkin (HBO’s “Succession”; This is Our Youth), Emmy, SAG and Critics Choice Award-Winner...