Summer of ‘42, the coming-of-age musical based on the book and film of the same name, will finally get a recording following Off-Broadway and regional productions, composer-lyricist David Kirshenbaum told Playbill.com.
The show will be heard in a May 23 benefit concert for The York Theatre Company and be recorded the next day for JAY Records, […]
The UnCommon Theatre Company continues it’s 25th season by presenting the Broadway Musical version of Mark Twain’s semi-biographical and classic story, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.
Filled with foot-stomping, toe-tapping songs by Don Schiltz (writer of music for such stars as Alison Krauss, Lee Ann Womack, Randy Travis and Reba McEntire), and a warm, funny book […]
New Line Cinema, the studio behind the romantic comedy “Wedding Singer” starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, is teaming up with Margo Lion, Tony-winning producer of the hit Broadway adaptation of Hairspray, to launch a musical stage version of The Wedding Singer.
The stage production will hold its world premiere at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre […]
When Patti LuPone launches into Stephen Sondheim’s “Being Alive,” you know you’re in for a grand ride.
How many singers can perfect this ecstatic, swooping and soaring ode from the musical “Company” with the authority of Ms. LuPone? And with her ineffable blend of vocal plangency and dramatic force?
In her one-woman show “Matters of the Heart” […]
Hal Holbrook will star in his acclaimed one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! in a limited engagement at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Performances will start on June 6th, and play six performances a week for three weeks.
One of the most popular one-person shows of all time, Mark Twain Tonight! was first conceived in 1966 as a […]
“Little Women,” the durable Louisa May Alcott title that has inspired countless movie, play and musical versions, emerges once again April 21 with a Manhattan public presentation of Alison Hubbard, Kim Oler and Sean Hartley’s musical take on the property.
The show to be heard in The York Theatre Company’s Spring Developmental Reading Series 3 PM […]
It has been written, “Love is wonderful the second time around.” That holds true in this repeat production of “I Love You, You’re Perfect, No Change” now running at Chico Cabaret.
This musical farce, seen here April 7, premiered off-Broadway in 1996 and has played to appreciative audiences wherever performed. With book and lyrics by Joe […]
Rev up your ThighMaster, Broadway. Suzanne Somers is coming to town.
The star of television’s “Three’s Company” and the fitness guru whose latest book is called “Slim and Sexy Forever” will have her own one-woman show this summer at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Entitled “The Blonde in the Thunderbird,” Somers’ entertainment with music will begin performances July […]
“Someone said in one of the reviews that [the play] was a combination of Stephen King and the Brothers Grimm meets Quentin Tarantino.” — Jeff Goldblum
Like a creepy ghost story with startling twists and turns, Broadway’s “The Pillowman” is hard to explain without spoiling it. But Jeff Goldblum takes a stab.
“It’s so compelling and smart […]
Racism is an ugly word, but it is a far uglier reality.
The state-sanctioned racism of apartheid is the backdrop for Athol Fugard’s ” ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the boys.” The racism that flows between a white teenager and the two black men employed in his parent’s restaurant is the poignant foreground.
Next Act Theatre’s […]
Plane Crazy is set during an explosive time in history: The intersection between the dawn of the Jet Age, the introduction of the Pill, the genesis of the modern Feminist Movement, and the Golden Age of Advertising.
Stewardesses represented the first-wave shock troops in a changing world. This was an exclusive sorority of women who had […]