Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and MISS SAIGON take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of LES MISERABLES? To see the show ...

The Pennsylvania Players certainly got the timing right. Just before the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the troupe presented Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s maverick musical ASSASSINS.Because the actors ...

The classic 1987 motion picture fantasy bursts onto the stage in this unforgettable new Theatre for Young Audiences version of BIG, THE MUSICAL TYA, now available for licensing! When frustrated adolescent Josh Baskin wishes he were "big" and wakes ...

My heart is so full of admiration for John Payonk.Last week, he rescued The Most Happy Fella at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.Bill Nolte, who usually plays Tony -- the aging vintner who desperately wants to be a ...

You want to do a musical that has solid name recognition -- a great big Broadway show -- but you want to challenge yourself and your staff, too.How 'bout Singin' In The Rain? The 1985 stage adaptation of the beloved 1952 film still offers that ...

On Oct. 23rd, more people saw the musical version of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG than at any time in its 32-year-history. No fewer than 465 cinemas around the nation were broadcasting the production that the Menier Chocolate Factory in London had ...

In 2008, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment and Phoenix Entertainment brought the musical "Fame" to China's top drama academy. Five years later, a feature documentary film titled "The Road to Fame" about that event is premiering in New York at 7:15 ...

Directors of Parade must cringe numerous times when they witness their production’s first preview.They often see that after many of Jason Robert Brown’s songs end, the audience doesn’t applaud – not right away, anyway. And while those ...

"Beyond its continuing vibrant life in the theater, 'Fiddler,' like no other musical before or since, has seeped into the culture more widely, functioning in sometimes contradictory ways, which makes sense, since the show’s essential ...

“That girl is brave,” a man said with great admiration permeating his voice.He was sitting behind me in the black-box Shaeberle Studio at Pace University in downtown New York. If a performance hadn’t been in progress, I would have turned ...