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FORBIDDEN PLEASURES Even the most avid theatergoers may not realize how much about Broadway there is to have fun with until they see Forbidden Broadway, the decades-old Off-Broadway musical parody created, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini. The newest show, Merrily We Stole a Song, is no exception. JENNY LEE STERN, CHRIS COLLINS-PISANO and DANNY…

Love In Idleness, a new musical comedy about a pharmaceutical scientist who invents the title drug to reignite passion in his long-term relationship with a drag performer is set for a limited Off-Broadway engagement this fall at Actors Temple Theatre, opening November 21, 2024. Liam Searcy in the new musical comedy Love In Idleness (Photo…

GET TO THIS MUSICAL ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE TO DRAG YOURSELF It’s campy. It’s trashy. It’s WAAAAY over-the-top. It’s ridiculous. It’s stunning. I’s funny. It’s moving. It’s touching. It’s corny. It’s absurd. It’s heart-warming. It’s loaded with talent. And it’s got original voice-overs from Liza Minnelli (also a producer). In a word, it’s Drag: The…

EVERYTHING ABOUT KAFKAESQUE!, INCLUDING THE COCKROACH, PROVES THAT JAMES HARVEY HAS A HISS, I MEAN, HIT, ON HIS HANDS Full-time lawyer by day, prolific author Franz Kafka wrote at night and died from tuberculosis when he was only 40 — after having burned 90% of his work due to his depression — without having achieved…

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced initial casting and the venue for the world premiere of  We Had A World, written by the amazing Joshua Harmon  (Prayer for the French Republic,  Bad  Jews, Significant Other) and directed by Tony Award nominee  Trip Cullman  (Cult of Love). This is  MTC’s first production at NY City Center Stage II (131 West 55th Street) since the…

SMASH TO OPEN ON BROADWAY THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2025 PREVIEWS BEGIN   MARCH 11 AT IMPERIAL THEATRE Starring Robyn Hurder  as “Ivy” Brooks Ashmanskas  as “Nigel” Krysta Rodriguez  as “Tracy” John Behlmann  as “Jerry” Kristine Nielsen  as “Susan” Caroline Bowman  as “Karen” Jacqueline B. Arnold  as “Anita” Bella Coppola  as “Chloe” Casey Garvin  as “Charlie” The company will include  Wendi Bergamini, Sarah Bowden, Jacob Burns, Deanna…

LET’S BE FRANKLIN Were our Founding Fathers good fathers to their children? Lloyd Suh‘s play Franklinland, directed by Chika Ike, now having its world premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, concerns one of the greatest polymaths of all time. The only person to sign the Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Paris, peace with Britain, and…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Priority Access Pre-Sale begins Monday, October 21, 2024 at Just in Time Broadway General on-sale begins Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Exclusive Night Club Floor Seating Available Jonathan Groff  will return to Broadway in the new musical  Just in Time  this spring. Performances begin at the  Circle in the Square Theatre on March 28, 2025, ahead of…

WHOSE TOWN IS IT ANYWAY? Long before there was a Sheriff Taylor and a Mayberry (google it) there was a Stage Manager and a Grover’s Corners. Thornton Wilder’s classic paean to small-town life centering on that bucolic New Hampshire enclave first premiered on Broadway in 1938. Since its initial run, Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our…

PUTIN ON THE FRITZ The most entertaining part of Manhattan Theater Club‘s Vladimir, which opened tonight at NY City Center, was the tirade the woman sitting behind me went into during intermission, pointing out to her companions the play’s numerous historical inaccuracies, double standards, instances of naiveté, ignorance and anti-Putin propaganda, as well as its…

A BEACON OF NOPE A secluded matriarch, a remote cottage on the Irish coast, and a haunting family secret. The key components of an Irish drama are here. Yet despite strong performances and a haunting ambience, The Beacon leaves its audience searching the horizon after the final bow. First presented at Garry Hynes’ distinguished Druid…

Inside a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Oliver (Darren Criss) lives a happily quiet life listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re a HelperBot 3, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow HelperBot neighbor Claire…

THERE’S GOLD IN THESE HILLS It’s always difficult for the children when a mother passes away, even if those children are adults. And if that mother is a strong-willed widow who struggled and fought to raise her four daughters by herself, supported only by the inconsistent income of running a lower-end, seaside hotel in Blackpool,…

THE BONES ARE INDEED GOOD, IF NOT A BIT SKELETAL The website houseful states, “good bones” refers to the core foundational elements of the home, “:a steady structure that can withstand time, wear, and elements. A home with good bones typically has a sturdy foundation, structural stability, and a strong roof.” The decades old, abandoned,…

AN ASTOUNDING CAST CAN’T HELP TO SHAKE THE FEELING THAT WE’VE WITNESSED THIS BEFORE Pedro Antonio Garcia, a criminal defense attorney and a playwright, must have written The Witness Room as a hyper-realistic example of how corrupt our criminal justice system is, but he ends up with what looks like a good episode of Law…