50 years ago, I dug deep into my piggy bank and took my best friend to see Ella Fitzgerald.
A dear friend called one evening 50 years ago to let me know he was coming to New York to …
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Awards season comes to life with the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Here’s your printable ballot.
Update: Your 2026 ballot is here. The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be simulcast on TNT and TBS …
A good tune makes our days in isolation more bearable. Tonight, I’m remembering Harry Nilsson.
I love working from home, and I have a great WFH space. Yet oddly, from time to time over the …
Happy Holidays! Here’s a tune to say, “Thanks for reading BrockelPress”.
In many ways, 2020 has been the year from hell, hasn’t it? I’ve been working from home since March 13 …
You can’t go to Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular this year. (Psst. The show can come to you.)
The news.While Radio City Music Hall’s annual Christmas Spectacular won’t have live audiences this year, NBC will air a taped view of …
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 …
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 …
“We need to change the world one 5-year-old at a time,” Marlo Thomas on Free to Be…You and Me.
In the spring of 1974, LaRae Petrovich and I ran into each other in the office break room. She asked …
Do you enjoy the music of film and television? Here’s a streaming event you won’t want to miss.
It’s an all-star cast. Join Sting, Catherine O’Hara, Elisabeth Moss, Anika Noni Rose, William Shatner, Auli’i Cravalho, John Stamos, Patti …
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 …
Cabin fever? You need a little music, right this very minute. You need a little jazz right now.
Working from home, I took a longer than usual lunch break today. The morning was tedious and I figured that …
Ben Vereen is “Steppin’ Out” at Feinstein’s/54 Below — free, tonight, streaming at 6:30 p.m. ET
The coronavirus has closed Feinstein’s/54 Below for the foreseeable future. But the generous folks there aren’t going to stop providing …
You know you’ve always wanted to kick like a Radio City Rockette. Learn how, from the best.
This is fun and clever (and excellent down-time marketing): Members of the Radio City Rockettes are hosting weekly dance classes …
Social distancing, WFH, and back-to-back video calls can be stressful. Here’s a bit of relief.
Over the years, I’ve really enjoyed working from home. When WFH was just one or two days each week those …
What Fun! Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley are hosting ‘Stars in the House’ to benefit The Actors Fund.
As a SAG-AFTRA member, I know that when times are tough—as they are now with the coronavirus continuing to disrupt …
Closed by COVID-19 concerns, New York’s most iconic piano bar now a virtual sing-along destination.
Ok, this is some of the best news that I’ve had all day. Marie’s Crisis, in New York’s West Village, …