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Broadway Bound Wendy Williams Hires Vocal Coach, Stops at California's Great America

Pollo Del Mar | Posted 05.22.2013 | San Francisco
Pollo Del Mar

Soon, Wendy Williams, the 48-year-old multimedia superstar faces what might be her greatest challenge to date: Broadway!

Tóibín's Mary Breaks Her Silence

Joseph Amodeo | Posted 05.01.2013 | Religion
Joseph Amodeo

Apprehensive is an understatement. Walking into see "The Testament of Mary," I had no idea what to expect; however, there are not enough adjectives to describe the energy and beauty with which this one-woman monologue unfolds on the stage of the Walter Kerr Theatre.

Holland Taylor's Inspirational New Show

Next Avenue | Posted 03.23.2013 | Fifty

SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Leah Rozen Holland Taylor's one-woman Broadway show about the feisty Texas Gov. Ann Richards reminds us that life is...

Review: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Rex Reed | Posted 05.12.2013 | Arts
Rex Reed

I advise you to give up trying to figure out how everyone fits into assorted productions of Chekhov and just sit back and allow Christopher Durang's Harvard-honed wit and fine sense of camp to creep over you like a parlor game, directed with economy and finesse by the brilliant Nicholas Martin.

Why 2012 Was a Record Year for Broadway

Danny Groner | Posted 02.03.2013 | New York
Danny Groner

The message theatergoers sent in 2012 is that if you get a big-name star to headline a play they know and love then they will fill the seats.

Lucas Kavner

Porn, And The Fonz, Come To Broadway

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.26.2012 | Arts

"I don't normally have this," 29-year-old playwright David West Read assured a reporter, referring to the dark blazer he wore over his t-shirt. "Thoug...

'Detroit' Playwright Talks City's Radical Energy and Dramatic Success

ArtInfo | Posted 09.19.2012 | Detroit

Lisa D’Amour’s “Detroit” is actually set, as the program indicates, in “A ‘first-ring’ suburb of a mid-size American city.” But the Mo...

Peter and the Starcatcher's Celia Keenan-Bolger

Jeryl Brunner | Posted 11.05.2012 | Arts
Jeryl Brunner

The one female in the stellar cast is Celia Keenan-Bolger. I had the opportunity to chat with her to talk about Peter and the Starcatcher, playing a child once again, marrying fellow actor John Ellison Conlee and the rest of her talented family.

The Broadway Scorecard: Two Decades of Drama

Howard Sherman | Posted 10.27.2012 | Arts
Howard Sherman

So what is the scorecard of play production, both commercial and not-for-profit on Broadway over these last 20 years? Three hundred and ninety-seven productions by 228 playwrights, with more than a quarter of the plays produced written by the 17 men listed above.

Judy Garland Sisterhood: Three Actresses To Have Portrayed Gay Icon Unite

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.27.2012 | Gay Voices

NEW YORK -- It is late on a Wednesday night, after the final bows have been delivered on Broadway. The applause has died down and the last audience me...

Magic/Bird on Broadway a Must See

Terry Lyons | Posted 06.04.2012 | Sports
Terry Lyons

Magic/Bird is to Broadway what Rocky was to the motion picture industry.

Middle School Social Studies Teacher Sees Lessons In Teaching Own Play

AP | By DORIE TURNER | Posted 02.01.2012 | Home

ATLANTA -- Playwright Margaret Edson talks proudly about her Pulitzer Prize and her work appearing on Broadway, but she's the most animated when she d...

Martin Luther King Jr. Reaches The Mountain Top

Arielle Hixson | Posted 03.17.2012 | Black Voices
Arielle Hixson

Extremely original, The Mountain Top is a story about Martin Luther King Jr. as an ordinary man, a man that the public may have never seen. We manage to see him not as an intangible, iconic figure in history, but as a sweet yet complex individual with flaws.

Broadway Review: Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross Dazzle in a Sparkling Revival of Private Lives

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 01.21.2012 | Arts
Susan Dormady Eisenberg

Noel Coward's timeless comedy opened last week at the Music Box Theatre, and if you have the privilege of seeing Paul Gross's long-awaited Broadway debut, you'll enjoy a nuanced, charismatic star turn.

Theater: Bring On Bring It On

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 01.16.2012 | Arts
Hoyt Hilsman

A new musical from the creators of Avenue Q, In the Heights and Next to Normal just opened in LA and it is a smash-mouth cheerleading sensation.

Nicki Gostin

'Relatively Speaking': Steve Guttenberg On Woody Allen's New Play

HuffingtonPost.com | Nicki Gostin | Posted 12.21.2011 | Celebrity

Steve Guttenbeg is Broadway-bound! The actor is starring in "Relatively Speaking," a new show that opened this week, comprised of three one-act plays ...

Woody Allen To Return To Broadway This Fall

AP | Posted 07.17.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — Three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May are being bundled together and heading to Broadway this fall. Allen is...

Motherf**ker on Broadway: The First Amendment Gets a Workout

Regina Weinreich | Posted 06.19.2011 | Arts
Regina Weinreich

An arsenal of language is deployed in this play, making you titter until the words themselves stop meaning what they mean, becoming pause, punctuation, and, at times, punishment.

Muti's Otello and War Horse

Howard Kissel | Posted 06.18.2011 | Arts
Howard Kissel

Othello and War Horse are both works on a monumental scale. On these evenings I was reminded of why I chose to spend my life sitting in darkened theaters.

First Nighter: Stephen Adly Guirgis's Play, The Motherf**ker With the Hat, Earns Its Broadway Asterisks

David Finkle | Posted 06.12.2011 | Arts
David Finkle

Language has failed -- that's Guirgis's story and he's gallantly sticking to it. This modern rom-com is to be greatly admired, enjoyed and seriously pondered after the final fade-out.

Priscilla, How to Succeed

Howard Kissel | Posted 05.29.2011 | Arts
Howard Kissel

Perhaps I found Priscilla dispiriting because I had been so exhilarated the night before by Rob Ashford's revival of Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions

Liz Black | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Liz Black

If you're religious to the point you refuse evolution as a concept, this is not the play for you. But for the rest of the world, Coming is that bitch-slap that will shock you and leave its impression after you leave.

‘Spider-Man’ Musical Previews, Off To A Rough Start

nytimes.com | PATRICK HEALY | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

All $65 million of the new Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" took flight on Sunday night at its first preview performance, but not with...

The Future of Playbills Rests in the iPad

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
James Sims

There is a wide-open landscape on the iTunes app store merely waiting for serious Broadway content. Playbill must look beyond its website and in-theater booklets and focus on engagement and digital creativity.

BROADWAY: Shows You Can't Miss This Holiday Season (Catch Them Before They Close!)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

With the holiday season securely upon us, it is basically a universal truth that throngs of visitors will enter New York City for a glamorous white Ch...