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Why Can’t Broadway Have One-Hit Wonders?

After only one show, the Broadway show Glory Days has been cancelled. One show. Well, one show and very sad ticket sales. The fact is, it had 17 performances in preview with, including a run at the...

Darkness Breaks: A Sequel to Phantom? NO!!!

Say it isn’t so, Andrew. Looks like Ben Elton, Glen Slater (of the Little Mermaid) and Sir Lloydd-Webber will be teaming up to pen a sequel - yes, that’s right, a sequel - to Phantom of...

Broadway? Nah, Let’s Use a Bathroom!

In what has got to be the oddest venue I’ve ever heard of, a group of actors are performing an award-winning play in the Bethesda Terrace bathrooms in Central park. The appropriately-named...

Good Company: A Profile of Barbara Walsh

When I was waxing rhapsodic about Raul Esparza’s lead in the PBS special of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, I neglected to really focus on the fact that he was also supported by a stellar...

Gosh There’s a Lotta Gershwin Goin’ On…

In the realm of “Broadway Cast Albums I’d Like to Own” is the chance to hear crooner Harry Connick Jr. playing the role of Jimmy in the remake of Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! You may...

The Show Must Go On: Patrick Swayze to Continue “The Beast”

The guy just keeps on bein’ an inspiration. While people always talk about Dirty Dancing and Ghost, I remember first seeing Patrick Swayze in Red Dawn. Later I saw him in Steel Dawn, and to my...

RENT Heads Up: Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp Coming Your Way

It’s the end of an era: RENT is scheduled to end its Broadway run on June 1 of this year (though at least one extension of the run is almost inevitable. However, happily, you can get just a...

Five Reasons I Wish I Lived in NYC This Year

Actually, they are five people, stars that you’ve seen on stage and screen but who are coming instead to Broadway to show that they’re not just pretty faces in edited footage - they have...

TV Worth Watching: Sondheim’s “Company” Coming to Great Performances

Lisa Borstein of the Rocky Mountain News reviewed the stage-to-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Company in glowing terms. I’m not familiar with the musical, but I plan on catching...