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 …
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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 New York in the 70s, I’d go to gay bars on the weekend …
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 …
Musical joy from the Broadway & movie casts of Hairspray. Streaming video supports Actors Fund.
Just try watching and not tapping your feet or singing along. Just try. Visit the Actors Fund to learn more. …
Free theatre in HD: The Lincoln Center production of The King & I from the London Palladium.
Here’s an extraordinary treat for you. Playbill®, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, and BroadwayHD have teamed up to present the …
#ChorusLine40 The cast of Hamilton honors A Chorus Line in the theatre where both shows opened.
Last week, in a post about A Chorus Line in Quarantine, I shared a joyous virtual reunion of the 2006 …
Theatre people: A 70s Christmas in New York, a dinner in Philadelphia, and a petrified Christmas tree.
Christmastime, 1971 I’d just returned to New York after having been on the road in the cast of The Impossible …
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