Oh, mother, mother, mother, mother. Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Images The Hayes Theater is about to get rocked by an incoming motherquake, starting April 3. Hide under your tiny theater seats with no legroom, because there will be enough writing, directing, and acting to cause a seismic event. This momentous occasion is due to the grouping… Continue reading Paula Vogel’s Mother Play With Jessica Lange Broadway Bound
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Nicole Scherzinger to Star in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Broadway
Sing it. Photo: Marc Brenner It’s an old gay adage that only a true diva can play a true diva, and Sunset Boulevard’s Norma Desmond may be the truest diva of them all. She’s the liar, the bitch, and the slutty wardrobe (meaning a wardrobe filled with turbans, of course). She has been played by… Continue reading Nicole Scherzinger to Star in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Broadway
‘Days of Wine and Roses’ on Broadway
Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara in Days of Wine and Roses. Photo: Joan Marcus For another week, there’s a musical mother-and-son act in midtown, though the Encores! revival of Mary Rodgers’s Once Upon a Mattress and the Broadway premiere of her son Adam Guettel’s Days of Wine and Roses make a whiplash-inducing double feature.… Continue reading ‘Days of Wine and Roses’ on Broadway
Alan Cumming Doing One-Night Broadway Cabaret
Alan Cumming. Photo: Michael Kovac Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome back! Alan Cumming is bringing his solo show to Broadway for one night only on March 11. Titled Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age and performed at Studio 54 (fitting, considering that’s where he played the Emcee in Cabaret many a time), the show is described… Continue reading Alan Cumming Doing One-Night Broadway Cabaret
2024’s Most Anticipated Upcoming Broadway Shows and Theater
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Mason Poole, Polk & Co., Amanda Searle, Emilio Madrid This spring’s schedule is already crammed with competition. Broadway, in the run-up to the Tony awards in March and April, will bring an Oscar party’s worth of of high-profile visitors to New York — Jeremy Strong doing Ibsen, Eddie Redmayne in Cabaret, Rachel McAdams… Continue reading 2024’s Most Anticipated Upcoming Broadway Shows and Theater
Groff, Radcliffe, and Mendez on ‘Merrily’ on Broadway
Merrily We Roll Along made its Broadway debut in November 1981. Sixteen performances later, it famously closed as a flop. An adaptation of a George Kaufman and Moss Hart play of the same name that debuted in 1934, the show was created by the legendary team of Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince with George Furth… Continue reading Groff, Radcliffe, and Mendez on ‘Merrily’ on Broadway
Paula Vogel’s Mother Play With Jessica Lange Broadway Bound
Oh, mother, mother, mother, mother. Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Images The Hayes Theater is about to get rocked by an incoming motherquake. Hide under your tiny theater seats with no legroom, because there will be enough writing, directing, and acting to cause a seismic event. This momentous occasion is due to the grouping of four incredible… Continue reading Paula Vogel’s Mother Play With Jessica Lange Broadway Bound
Leslie Odom Jr.’s Broadway Return in ‘Purlie Victorious’
Leslie Odom Jr. didn’t intend to spend seven years away from Broadway. Back in 2016, after he wrapped his run in Hamilton — and after his turn as Aaron Burr landed him a Tony, a Grammy, and worldwide recognition — he was already thinking about his next role. “Purlie Victorious was the first thing my… Continue reading Leslie Odom Jr.’s Broadway Return in ‘Purlie Victorious’
What are the Best New Shows on Broadway? Our Critics Discuss
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Broadway, Curtis Brown, Getty, Joan Marcus, Mandee Johnson Nothing about anything right now feels traditional. Theater is struggling at every level, from red-cushioned halls to black-box basement cabarets. We’re sitting down to look ahead at this fall’s offerings, and we’re doing so in the midst of a national firestorm — every day more… Continue reading What are the Best New Shows on Broadway? Our Critics Discuss
‘The Outsiders’ Musical to Premiere on Broadway
NOT the Newsies. Photo: Rich Soublet II, Courtesy La Jolla Playhouse They’re swapping out the Brat Pack for the BFA Pack. The Outsiders, a musicalized adaptation of both S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film of the same name, is coming to Broadway. The musical features a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine,… Continue reading ‘The Outsiders’ Musical to Premiere on Broadway