Gregory Bernard

Pal Joey, the  Rodgers and Hart-John O’Hara  classic musical, has been revised in a brand-new production that will be heading to Broadway in the 2022-2023 season.  The creative team for this reimagined  Pal Joey  includes  Richard LaGravenese  (new book), co-directors  Tony Goldwyn  and  Savion Glover, choreographer  Savion Glover, set designer  Derek McLane, costume designer  Emilio Sosa, lighting designer  Natasha Katz  and orchestrator/arranger/music supervisor  Daryl Waters.Adapting O’Hara’s book so that the primary…

IT’S SHOWTIME, FOLKS! BEETLEJUICE, “The Ghost with the Most”, makes his Broadway return in this edgy and irreverent musical comedy based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film.  BEETLEJUICE  tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a demon with a thing for…

Dion. One name set the standard of cool for a generation. He was one of the most popular American Rock n’ Roll performers of his time. The songwriting icon incorporated elements of Doo-Wop, Rock, and R&B throughout his’¯career, both as lead singer of Dion and the Belmonts and then as a solo artist. He had…

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, in a new production by Ruth Stage, has announced that the upcoming off-Broadway engagement, scheduled to begin on January 14 at  The Theater at St. Clements, has been postponed until Summer, 2022 due to the current health situation. Directed by  Joe Rosario  (Flowers for Algernon), this is the first production of the…

New York City Center’s 2022 Encores! season has been announced and — starting at $35 — tickets are now on sale. You can purchase online at NYCityCenter, by calling 212.581.1212, or at the City Center Box Office. New York City Center is located at 131 W 55th St between Sixth and Seventh avenues. The next…

THE MUSIC MAN OPENS TONIGHT! Tonight at 8:00 p.m., the curtain will rise on the first preview performance of the hugely anticipated revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man,  starring Hugh Jackman as Professor Harold Hill, and    Sutton Foster as Marian Paroo, at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway) for a sold-out audience. Opening Night is scheduled…

Tickets for the upcoming Â Second Stage Theater production of Â Richard Greenberg’s Â Tony Award-winning play, Â TAKE ME OUT, are now available. Â The Broadway production will Â begin previews March 9, 2022 and officially open on April 4, 2022 at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater (240 West 44th Â Street). Tickets can be purchased by visiting 2ST.com, by calling 212-541-4516. $30 tickets are available to people aged…

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT PREVIEWS BEGIN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 AHEAD OF A MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2022 OPENING NIGHT AT BROADWAY’S HUDSON THEATRE Neil Simon’s  Plaza Suite with Matthew Broderick  and  Sarah Jessica Parker played a sold-out pre-Broadway engagement at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre but had to scrap the Broadway opening when COVID struck. It ahs been announce that preview…

J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company announces the exciting three-musical lineup for its second season. The 2022 season, running February 10 – March 20, 2022 at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street – between 9th and Dyer Avenues), will include A Class Act, A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine, and The Baker’s…

MCC Theater (511 W 52nd St) opens its 2021-22 season with Nollywood  Dreams, which reunites the entire cast from the 2020 MCC production that was postponed due to the theater shutdown. Written by Jocelyn Bioh  (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play), Nollywood  Dream  will begin previews in-person at  MCC Theater’s   Newman Mills Theater  on  October 21, 2021. Directed by  Saheem Ali  (Fires…

TWO NOBODIES WITH A DREAM. ONE POP STAR WITH A PHONE. THIS IS THEIR CALLING. A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, the first new musical to premiere in New York City since the shutdown began, began performancesSeptember 17 at the DR2 Theatre (103 E. 15th Street), and now has been extended to November 21, 2021….

United Solo Theatre Festival 2021 The 12th  Annual  United Solo Theatre Festival, based  at  Theatre Row in New York City,  is the world’s largest solo theatre  festival.  After a decade of presenting over one thousand solo  shows, the  Festival  returns to its stage  at Theatre Row. There, it will feature  productions from around the  globe. United Solo features a vast array of shows ranging from drama, storytelling, and…

SETH’S BROADWAY BREAKDOWN OPENS AT ASYLUM NYC Seth Rudetsky, SiriusXM’s afternoon Broadway host, musician, actor and award-winning comic, has opened his hilarious one-man homage to Broadway at Asylum NYC. Celebrating Broadway’s return, Seth’s Broadway Breakdown continues its run Sat & Sun at 4 thru December, 2021. The 90-minute comedic tour-de-force breaks down musical theatre with…

In Los Angeles, we have L.A. Theatre Works, which has been recording live theater for decades in front of a live audience. These shows are then available for radio broadcast. Even without sets and lights, just Foley, the live performances have been remarkable events, often more satisfying than live theater itself. Now in New York,…

OH, YOU CAN SWALLOW THIS The re-opening cast of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS starts performances tonight, “on the twenty-first day of the month of September” at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd Street). For tickets — on sale for performances through January 9, 2022 — visit Telecharge.com/212-239-6200. Jeremy Jordan as Seymour Under the direction of…