Broadway

Charles Kimbrough has died. What a kind prince he was. I met him and his wife Beth Howland, when they were in the first national company of Company. When Company came to Ahmanson Theatre, the Los Angeles Music Center, Charles purchased a new, fully decked out, knight-white (with black top and trim) Mercury Cougar so he and Beth could tour around California in style. When Company ended its run at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco and was heading to Denver, he asked me to drive their Cougar back to NYC. Randy Robbins (Company understudy) rode with me to Denver, he hopped out to re-join the cast, and I continued on the best cross-country drive any 20-something could dream of. The Cougar had a magnificent sound system. Driving across the barren, flat plains of the midwest that winter, Janis Joplin singing Me and Bobby McGee brought tears to my eyes. Once in Manhattan, I handed the Cougar's keys to Kimbrough's doorman, walked a couple of blocks to the IRT subway, put a token in the turnstile, and headed back to my apartment on West 75th Street. And—to paraphrase Walter Cronkite, "That's the way it was."

Actor Charles Kimbrough has died, my memories of him and his wife Beth Howland never will.

When you’re starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character …

Black and white image of the interior of St. Martin's theatre in London.

The longest-running play in recorded history (nearly 30,000 performances) is coming to Broadway next year.

The play begins with the stage and audience in darkness, with only the music of Three Blind Mice playing. Following …

BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical—Broadway opening date and theatre announced.

Earlier this month, I wrote about investing in Broadway shows and our support for BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical (BTTF). …

Invest in Broadway? Success comes from knowing what you want your money to do.

We’re helping bring Marty McFly, Doc Brown, and a DeLorean to Broadway in 2023. Several months ago, Jacob and I …

Recording Into the Woods cast album video

Sondheim’s Into the Woods—a peek at the recording of the new Broadway cast album.

My love of Broadway musicals is no secret. I wear my adoration of the art form proudly, as a badge, …

Patti LuPone’s brother, Robert, has died at 76. Sad news with a sweet bother-sister backstory.

I’m watchin’ Sis Go pitterpat. Said, “I can do that, I can do that.” Knew ev’ry step right off the bat.Said, “I can do that, …

Rare 1975 interview with Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim to stream via NYPL for first time.

Since 1970, the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) has preserved live theatrical productions and documented the creative contributions …

The Tony Awards are returning as a live broadcast event for 2022. Here’s your printable ballot.

Live coast-to-coast for the first time in history, and imagined as a grand celebration of excellence, the 75th Annual Tony …

I invited a most remarkable woman to dinner. I was 23; she was 70-something.

I phoned her the morning before our dinner. The weather had been unusually chilly, so I asked if she’d like …

It’s Tony Awards time! Audra McDonald and Leslie Odom, Jr are hosting. Here’s your printable ballot.

Last week CBS and the Tony Awards announced the hosts for the 74th Annual Tony Awards® and The Tony Awards® …

“You’ve got spunk. [CUT TO MARY FOR REACTION SHOT] I hate spunk.” Remembering Ed Asner.

I was extremely sad when I learned, last Sunday, that Ed Asner had died. Ed was so much more than …

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon musically celebrate the return of Broadway.

The joy, discovery, and spirit of Broadway as we’ve known it is finally returning to the Great White Way this …

Three minutes, seventeen seconds of pure musical joy. Ready for your face to sport a smile?

This may be my shortest blog post ever. Nothing more needs to be said than: Laura Osnes and Colin Donnell …

Isolation’s tough. For 11 months and counting, virtual arts programs have kept me going.

2020 has been a real piece of work. Before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, some of my greatest joy came …

Get ready for goosebumps. Viola Davis is Ma Rainey—and she’s superb.

The screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, will premiere on Netflix December …

Broadway tales, backstage banter, stars’ stories—you’ll love these two guys.

When I was going to theatre school in New York in the 70s, I’d go to gay bars on the …

The nominations for the 2020 Tony Awards are being announced. Watch here.

Tony Award® winner, James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton) is announcing the nominations for the American Theatre Wing’s 2020 Tony Awards. Here’s your …

Get a head start on Halloween. Phantom of the Opera streams free this weekend.

If you’ve been missing Broadway and local theatre as much as I have over the past 9 months, this announcement …

One of Broadway’s hottest tickets is free to all this year. The standing-room-only show is virtual for 2020.

The first Broadway Bares was presented in 1992 by Jerry Mitchell and the company of The Will Rogers Follies at …

Nathan Lane, “…out in the Hamptons fighting it out with the over-privileged for toilet paper.”

From the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s At Home with series, a fun, insightful half-hour with Nathan Lane. Nothing more needs to be …