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By Robert Simonson | March 21, 2014Disney turned its luck on Broadway around with Newsies, its most recent Times Square opening, collecting the reviews needed to give long-running The Lion King a fellow hit to keep it company.
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By Robert Simonson | March 14, 2014That blast of trumpets you heard at the Winter Garden Theatre March 13 was the opening of Rocky, the new musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1976 Sylvester Stallone film of the same name about a palooka fighter from Philly with little to cheer about in his life who suddenly gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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By Robert Simonson | March 7, 2014Bryan Cranston followed up his small-screen triumph as the everyday, all-American drug lord Walter White in "Breaking Bad" with a starring turn in playwright Robert Schenkkan's political drama All The Way, playing President Lyndon B. Johnson. The show officially opened on Broadway March 6 at the Neil Simon Theatre.
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By Robert Simonson | February 28, 2014Billie Holiday is certainly getting a workout on the New York stage this season.
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By Robert Simonson | February 21, 2014Following a quiet couple of months, Broadway enjoyed a good, old-fashioned, big musical opening Feb. 20, when Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale opened in The Bridges of Madison County.
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By Robert Simonson | February 14, 2014Neil Patrick Harris did a knockout job hosting the Tony Awards ceremony the last three years. But for the 2014 show, Broadway favorite Hugh Jackman will return to host the annual broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall June 8.
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By Robert Simonson | February 7, 2014The theatre and film worlds received a unexpected shock this week when actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, a titanic creative force on stage and screen for more than a decade, was found dead in his Greenwich Village apartment, the supposed victim of a drug overdose. He was only 46.
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By Robert Simonson | January 31, 2014The Arena Stage has exhibited some very canny casting for its upcoming production of the world premiere of the historical drama Camp David.
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By Robert Simonson | January 24, 2014Playwright John Patrick Shanley has had some critical successes and some outright misses in the ten years since Doubt made him a bankable writer. But he hasn't achieved a popular success to match that Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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By Robert Simonson | January 17, 2014Was there ever a famous actor more determined to earn his stage stripes than Daniel Radcliffe?
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By Robert Simonson | January 10, 2014Perhaps having exhausted the pop and rock catalogues of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, jukebox musicals are now venturing into rap territory.
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By Robert Simonson | January 3, 2014Though it is set to close Jan. 4, the Broadway production of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark continues to generously provide the press with stories. Over this quiet New Year's Eve week alone, the troubled musical churned out two news items.
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By Robert Simonson | December 27, 2013On Christmas week, when all but the actors settle down for a short winter's nap, a story like who might go into a Broadway show can constitute a major news story.
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By Robert Simonson | December 20, 2013While Broadway bigwigs took off to holiday on sunny beaches and in snowy chalets, leaving Times Square to the tourists, London provided a bit of excitement for the theatre world. The Aldwych Theatre played host to the opening of the latest musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Ward, which was officially unveiled Dec. 19.
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By Robert Simonson | December 13, 2013It turns out the producers of Eric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn meant it earlier this year when they said the new play would be coming to Broadway.
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By Robert Simonson | December 6, 2013Three-time Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie landed her biggest stage assignment in some time this week. She won the much-coveted part of temperamental stage diva Helen Sinclair in the new Broadway musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, producers announced Dec. 5. The role was famously played by Dianne Wiest in the movie.
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By Robert Simonson | November 29, 2013Film actor James Franco seems to have done a little bit of everything with his still young career — acting, screenwriting, directing, teaching and being a famously truant NYU graduate student. Now, the Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner will give Broadway a try.
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By Robert Simonson | November 22, 2013It took three years, but those predictions that Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark detractors made that the ever-beleaguered musical would shutter at a great loss have finally come true.
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By Robert Simonson | November 15, 2013If you like Shakespeare and live in New York, you are an exceedingly happy camper this autumn.
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By Robert Simonson | November 8, 2013After Midnight, the jazz revue which celebrates Duke Ellington's years at the famed Harlem nightclub the Cotton Club — using his original arrangements and performed by a world-class big band of 17 musicians hand-picked by vaunted jazzman Wynton Marsalis, and set against a narrative of Langston Hughes poetry — opened this week at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The production was "conceived" by Jack Viertel and played two previous engagements at New York City Center.
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By Robert Simonson | November 1, 2013The Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's time-bending drama Betrayal, starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall, officially opened Oct. 27 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
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By Robert Simonson | October 25, 2013John Grisham, playwright, got his day in Broadway court this week.
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By Robert Simonson | October 18, 2013It was a week of surprises. But none was perhaps more surprising — or more talked about — than the news that the Roundabout Theatre Company was considering producing a new revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Company.
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By Robert Simonson | October 11, 2013Big Fish, the new musical by composer Andrew Lippa and librettist John August, and directed by Susan Stroman, opened on Broadway this week.
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By Robert Simonson | October 4, 2013Two Broadway hits enjoyed palpable evidence of their popularity this week.
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By Robert Simonson | September 27, 2013This season's Tennessee Williams entry came early. On Sept. 26, Cherry Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Zachary Quinto opened as Broadway's latest Wingfield family in a new production of the 1945 drama The Glass Menagerie at the Booth Theatre. John Tiffany directed and Bob Crowley — the only set designer out there whose name is trumpeted in press releases alongside the director's — fashioned the scenic elements.
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By Robert Simonson | September 20, 2013The Prince of Broadway — the Harold Prince version of Jerome Robbins' Broadway, which takes audiences through the numerous award-winning productions created by famous director-producer, will hit finally be hitting the boards. If you want to buy a ticket, however, you'll also have to buy a plane ticket. It will premeire at Japan's Umeda Arts Theater in Osaka in 2015, according to the New York Post.
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By Robert Simonson | September 13, 2013Should all the stars align, one of the hottest tickets on Broadway this spring will be a historical drama — a genre that rarely makes hay in New York — that had its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival — an admired company, but one that has never sent a production to Gotham — written by a playwright whose work hasn't graced Broadway in more than two decades, Robert Schenkkan.
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By Robert Simonson | September 6, 2013The Broadway revival of Annie, which began performances last November, will end its Broadway run Jan. 5, 2014, producers announced Sept. 5.
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By Robert Simonson | August 30, 2013Disney Theatricals, which currently has two shows on the Broadway boards — The Lion King and Newsies — will soon have a third.
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By Robert Simonson | August 23, 2013There will be two high-profile productions of Macbeth in New York this season. But there will not be two productions on Broadway.
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By Robert Simonson | August 16, 2013It's been a summer of oddball attractions on Broadway. Last week saw the opening of First Date, a new musical created by nobody the New York theatre world has ever heard of. And this week we have Soul Doctor, a new musical created by nobody the New York theatre world has ever heard of.
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By Robert Simonson | August 9, 2013First Date experienced its first date with the New York critics Aug. 8 and the evening was a rocky one.
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By Robert Simonson | August 2, 2013Denzel Washington, who won the 2010 Tony Award for his performance in Fences, finally got around to confirming that he was indeed returning to Broadway this coming season in a revival of A Raisin in the Sun. He revealed the news at the premiere his new, very un-Lorraine-Hansberry-like movie, "2 Guns."
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By Robert Simonson | July 26, 2013Now that Tracy Letts is a multiple Tony Award winner — for both playwriting and acting — perhaps we've entered a time where his early works are being dusted off and brought back in high fashion.
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By Robert Simonson | July 19, 2013If/Then, the new musical starring Rent and Wicked star Idina Menzel, will begin previews at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre March 4, 2014, prior to an official opening March 27, it was announced this week.
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By Robert Simonson | July 12, 2013Did no one tell Kenneth Branagh that we had a Macbeth on Broadway this season (Alan Cumming's still-running version) and that we're expected another production of the Shakespeare tragedy next season (with Ethan Hawke), so we don't really need another rendition?
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By Robert Simonson | July 5, 2013The biggest opening of the week was in Chicago, where the world premiere of The Jungle Book was officially unveiled at the Goodman Theatre July 1 following previews that began June 21. Originally scheduled to play through Aug. 4, performances were recently extended to Aug. 11. The production will then transfer to Boston's Huntington Theatre Company, running Sept. 7-Oct. 6, before presumably moving to New York.
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By Robert Simonson | June 28, 2013Zach Braff will be Woody Allen on Broadway.
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By Robert Simonson | June 21, 2013That Neil Patrick Harris loves Broadway and the theatre is made readily apparently by the effusive sincerity of his praised turns hosting the annual Tony Awards ceremony. That passion, however, has not translated into an actual stage performance in nearly a decade. His last appearance on Broadway was in the 2004 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.
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By Robert Simonson | June 14, 2013It was entertaining! It was filled with suspense and upsets! The ratings went up! The reviews were good!
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By Robert Simonson | June 7, 2013Today's young generation is too fresh to this planet to know a time when you couldn't escape the title "The Bridges of Madison County." Published in 1992 by an unknown author named Robert James Waller, the story about a brief, four-day love affair between a National Geographic photographer and an Italian-American housewife in 1965 Iowa became an unexpected runaway smash.
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By Robert Simonson | May 31, 2013Broadway's seen a lot of shows, but perhaps nothing like Soul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, which will begin previews at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre July 17.
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By Robert Simonson | May 24, 2013It was a fairly quiet week around Times Square, news-wise, with everyone's mind on June 9, the date two weeks from now when the Tony Awards will be handed out.
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By Robert Simonson | May 17, 2013When Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike opened at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre last fall, it got respectful reviews—good, but not great—and enjoyed a healthy run. Durang could easily file the title as one of his successes, though not necessarily as a critical and popular smash.
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By Robert Simonson | May 10, 2013There was more Tony Awards nominations fallout—and fallout from that fallout—this week.
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By Robert Simonson | May 3, 2013The big news in the theatre this week—in case you spent Tuesday under a rock—was the announcement of the 2013 Tony Awards nominations. The honors were done by Tony winner Sutton Foster and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who seems to have come up in the world. (My stage brain remembers when he was fourth or fifth banana in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. But I guess he has a TV show or something now...?)
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By Robert Simonson | April 26, 2013Pick a day this week, any day. There was a Broadway opening. It's that time of year, friends.
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By Robert Simonson | April 19, 2013The Broadway season is not quite over—still five shows left—but you wouldn't blame critics if they checked into a rest home after this week. They crammed in six opening in five days (and that doesn't even include the opening of the limited engagement of The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream). The consolation: there was a good amount of decent stuff.
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By Robert Simonson | April 12, 2013Is there peace in the web? Can it be?
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