Theatre News and Reviews

New Broadway theatre web site: I love NY Theater.com.

A reviewer would surely seem churlish to dislike a play in which a theater critic is: hit in the head with pasta; attacked by a producer’s dog; punched in the mouth by a playwright; and barred from a group hug because he isn’t really “in the theater.”
And he would have to actually be churlish to […]

Oliver!, the musical, is based on the classic novel Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. The novel was published in 1838 and has been a great favorite ever since. There have been a number of films based on this timeless story, most notably: the 1922 silent film starring Lon Chaney and Jackie Coogan; the 1948 film […]

The cast of the broadway musical, Little Women (based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel by the same name) has a Little Women Show Blog. As Blogway Baby points out this may be the first ever broadway cast blog. Little Women the Musical is now playing at Broadway’s Virginia Theatre.

Imagine there’s a musical biography of John Lennon with very little of the Beatles in it. You may say I’m a dreamer, but not only is that pretty much the case with “Lennon” — the Broadway-bound world premiere that opened Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre in the Best of Broadway series — but it scarcely […]

Charlotte d’Amboise, who was playing the title character in Broadway’s Sweet Charity just two days ago, will return to the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago on April 18, according to a production spokesperson. Even though she is employed at the Ambassador Theatre, d’Amboise will continue to serve as Christina Applegate’s standby for Sweet Charity.
D’Amboise […]

The Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast — based on the Oscar-nominated animated film — celebrates its 11th anniversary on The Great White Way April 18.
The musical, which is the sixth longest-running show in Broadway history, originally opened at the Palace Theatre — now the home of All Shook Up — April 18, […]

Once in a while, it is the chorus girl who gets the big break. “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” which tours to Salt Lake City’s Capitol Theatre this week, offers a couple of examples.
A little-known understudy named Sutton Foster took over the starring role of Millie during the show’s tryouts at La Jolla Theatre in San Diego […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]