Glory Days/Keen Company Concert – Black Theatre Coalition Gala – Hermitage Major Theater Award/Chris Bush-The Interestings/New Musical-The Flea/Bathhouse.PPTX-Sunday In the Park w/George, Newly Reimagined/Alexrod Performing Arts-Vineyard Theatre Gala/Jesse Tyler Ferguson The Flea announced today the complete cast and design team for the world premiere production of BATHHOUSE.PPTX, written by Jesús I. Valles and directed by Obie Award winner Chay Yew. BATHHOUSE.PPTX will run at The Flea Theater (20 Thomas Street) from Tuesday, March 19 through Monday, April 2 ..read more

Five: The Parody Musical with book and lyrics by Shimmy Braun & Moshiel Newman Dapha, music and lyrics by Billy Recce, choreography by Jen Wineman, will play February 15 thru March 10 at Theater 555 on West 42nd St. Official opening night is Feb. 19.  The cast features Anyae Anasia,Gabriella Joy Rodriguez, Jaime Lyn Beatty, Gabi Garcia. Tickets/Info: www.FivetheMusical.com New Jersey Repertory Company (NJRep) will kick off its 27th season with the world premiere of Nandia Shenoy’s ESSPY, directed by Peter J. Kuo, beginning February 22, with its open ..read more

J2 Spotlight Musical Co announced its 2024 season which includes productions of Do Re Mi and Lucky Stiff. Do Re Mi with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and book by Garson Kanin, will run Apri 19-28. Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens’ Lucky Stiff will perform May 3-12. Both at AMT Theatre. In addition, J2 is bringing back its Spotlight Cabaret Series celebrating the writing team of each show. Casting and more to be announced. www.J2SpotlightNYC.com Tina Howe Tina Howe’s Final Play Where Women Go will play Off-Broadway World Premiere. It will receive a posthumous wo ..read more

By Ron Fassler . . . If you’re in need of a reminder of what it’s like to luxuriate in the ecstasy of a big fat Broadway musical comedy, then get on over to the Shubert Theatre where Some Like it Hot has come roaring into town. Old fashioned in the best sense of the term, it is both a throwback and a flash forward at the same time, invigorating in its brazenness. Taking on the plot of one of the most familiar and beloved film comedies of all time, Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s classic 1959 screenplay has been deconstructed to fit a more modern sensibility. Purists will take exception to wa ..read more

By Adam Cohen .   .  . Gloria and Emilio Estefan, international recording stars, producers, promoters, and restauranteurs, found romance and rhythm in their humble Little Havana beginnings that brought them worldwide fame.  Gloria, a Cuban-American singer and actress is a seven-time Grammy Award winner, a Presidential Medal of Freedman recipient, and has been named one of the Top 100 greatest artists of all time by both VH1 and Billboard. Estefan’s record sales exceed 75 million worldwide, making her the second best-selling female Latin ar ..read more

By Ron Fassler . . .  In the excellent one-person show, Everything’s Fine, now playing at the DR2 Theatre, Douglas McGrath portrays himself. An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Bullets Over Broadway, co-written with Woody Allen), a Tony-nominated playwright (Beautiful) and a contributor to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair, the audience is in capable hands with a writer of such solid credentials. On a simple schoolroom set that also doubles as a living room and family kitchen (the always reliable John Lee Beatty), ninety minutes fly by. And even though the drama unfolds in jaw-dropping ..read more

By Samuel L. Leiter . . .  1776, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s historical drama about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which won multiple Tony and other awards in 1969—even beating out Hair for the Best Musical Tony—was a surprise hit that, over half a century later, is still well worth a Broadway revival. Apart from a 2016 Encores presentation, it has heretofore received only one such resuscitation, a multi-award winning one in 1997. Misguided as is the Roundabout version now on view at the American Airlines Theatre, it nevertheless reveals the continued viability of 1 ..read more

EXTENDED THRU JULY 2, 2023 By Carol Rocamora . . . Rarely does a play come along with the majesty and magnitude of Leopoldstadt, the monumental new work by the celebrated British playwright Tom Stoppard now playing on Broadway after a highly acclaimed run in London’s West End.  Written at the pinnacle of six decades of distinguished playwriting (Stoppard turned 85 this summer), it’s the jewel in the crown of his dazzling dramatic oeuvre, offering a sweeping historical scope, stunning theatricality (a cast of 38), and profound emotional impact.  Set in Vienna, Leopoldstadt follows the ..read more

By Ron Fassler . . . I consider myself fortunate to have seen the original Broadway production of 42nd Street in its opening week, back in 1980. The biggest hit of that season, it won the Tony for Best Musical and went on to run for more than eight years, even longer than the record-breaking seven-year run of Hello, Dolly!, then the jewel in the crown of the extravagant David Merrick, the man responsible for producing them both. A revival twenty-one years later, in 2001, won the Tony for Best Revival, lovingly restaged by Randy Skinner, a dance assistant on the original. Now once again, anothe ..read more