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Playwright Theresa Rebeck Doubles Down With Two New Shows On and Off Broadway
In 2007, in The New York Times, Theresa Rebeck revealed the secret ingredients of all her plays: “Betrayal and treason and poor behavior. A lot of poor behavior.” Sixteen years later, those elements...
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Leslie Odom Jr. Returns To Broadway In The Show He’s Wanted To Do For Years
An unprecedented 16 Tony nominations got showered on Hamilton in 2016, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop history lesson about early America’s foremost economist, Alexander Hamilton, who, back in the day...
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John Rubinstein Gets Presidential In One-Man Show ‘Eisenhower: This Piece of...
The theater gods have granted a surprise second-term to Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground at Theater at St. Clement’s, but it’s a short one: You have until Oct. 27 to catch John Rubinstein’s...
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Maria Friedman On Directing The Hit Revival of Sondheim’s ‘Merrily, We Roll...
Finally, Merrily!—that was the critical consensus last December when a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily, We Roll Along rolled into New York Theater Workshop. Now, 42 years after the original...
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John Weidman Talks About Bringing ‘I Can Get It For You Wholesale’ Back To...
Librettist John Weidman has been a well-oiled and practiced wordsmith for some of the best musical talents in the business, starting with Sondheim (doesn’t it always?), Maltby & Shire, Lindsay...
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Nathan Lane On The Return Of His Sondheim Collaboration ‘The Frogs’
One fine fall day in 1979, Nathan Lane ambled into a favorite haunt, the old Drama Book Store on West 52nd St., and picked up a copy of The Frogs, Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim’s radical rewrite...
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‘Merrily We Stole A Song’ Gives Sondheim the Forbidden Broadway Treatment
Gerard Alessandrini—who’s been tying tin cans to Broadway for 41 years, creating a sort of Tin Can Alley of song spoofs called Forbidden Broadway—began his latest opus two years ago, the same...
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Irish Rep Is Having A Friel Day
Translations, the first of three plays by Brian Friel (1929-2015) constituting Irish Rep’s entire season this year, was in the opinion of its author “a play about language and only about language.” In...
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Chip Zien Counts His Broadway Blessings in ‘Harmony’
“What do you have to do to get to Carnegie Hall?” the aspiring musical novice is always asking. In the case of The Comedian Harmonists—a Berlin-based half-dozen who made their Carnegie debut 60 years...
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David Ives On Collaborating With Sondheim On His Final Work, ‘Here We Are’
Stephen Sondheim was a self-confessed “world-class procrastinator,” and he left behind evidence in the form of an unfinished show, Here We Are, that might have otherwise opened in his lifetime. Here...
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Patrick Page Brings a Dirty Dozen Shakespeare Villains To The Stage
Being the Hades of Hadestown has had its perks for Patrick Page. With a baritone that booms and an imperious manner, Page lorded majestically over this evil underworld for quite a spell—from its New...
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Michael Urie Gets Medieval (And Musical) In ‘Spamalot’ and ‘Once Upon a...
“I seem to be in a medieval musical mode,” it hazily dawns on Michael Urie as he starts evolving these days from Sir Robin of Spamalot at the St. James into Prince Dauntless the Drab of Once Upon a...
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David Cromer Juggles Directing and Acting In Some Of This Season’s Most...
You might recognize the title of The Animal Kingdom from the 1930s Philip Barry comedy of manners about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress. Well, forget it. That is...
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Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer Puts the Pop Diva In ‘Spamalot’
In the concluding episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel last May, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer put in a surprise appearance as Carol Burnett—and, to hear her tell it, that spirit is still with her in her...
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Cynthia Nixon On Playing Eight (Out of 10) Roles In ‘The Seven Year Disappear’
“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do,” Cynthia Nixon once said. She stands by that still: “I always knew I would become a mother,” she...
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Julian Schlossberg Talks Hollywood Legends On Two New Podcasts
In this day and age, a return to radio might not seem the way to go, but Julian Schlossberg sees it different. He’s genuinely thrilled to be making his radio comeback—or at least his audio comeback,...
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Thomas Haden Church On Going Back to His Oil Man Roots In ‘Accidental Texan’
The moment you see Thomas Haden Church mosey into a small-town Texas diner to jump-start his day in Accidental Texan, a joyful little dramedy opening March 8, you get the sense that he belongs there....
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John Patrick Shanley Is This Theater Season’s King Dramatist
“I’m a longtime fan of the drop-off laundry,” crows playwright John Patrick Shanley with a certain discernible pride. Somehow, he convinces you he sees more into it than anyone else. “First of all,”...
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Toby Stephens Returns to the New York Stage to Investigate the Media In...
“I love doing what I do on stage,” declares Toby Stephens, more joyfully than boastfully. Call it a (very) early calling. The gifted offspring of genuine theatrical royalty (Sir Robert Stephens and...
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Dorian Harewood Returns To Broadway In ‘The Notebook’ After Almost 50 Years
For its engagement at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, The Notebook has added one last important postscript: Dorian Harewood, absent from Broadway for 46 years, is now costarring with the inestimable...
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