Broadway News

I saw five shows this week, all of them important, so The Wall Street Journal was kind enough to give me a bonus column in today's paper so that I could write at greater length than usual.

DREAMGIRLS and WEST SIDE STORY to Perform on The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS By Dreamgirls 11/19/2009 The cast of the new production of DREAMGIRLS at the Apollo Theater will perform the title song "Dreamgirls" and the cast of Broadway's hit production of WEST SIDE STORY will perform "America" Thursday, November 26, at 9am on "The Thanksgiving ...

Geoffrey Block , Distinguished Professor of Music History at the University of Puget Sound, is the author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical From Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber .A The book offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of Americaa s best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals, as well ...

Actor Zero Mostel was one of Broadway's giants. Not only because of his generous girth, but for his immense talent onstage.

Since it's unavailable online , retrieving the latest issue of Ballet Review will require individual initiative and detective footwork to track down a Fine Newsstand where it is sold.

By Brandon M. Dunlap Special to the Gazette KALAMAZOO - Broadway actress/singer Lauren Kennedy plays a fierce diva with entitlement issues, cockeyed optimism and the indecisiveness of a young girl.

The entry titled "A Conversation with Stephen Sondheim at the Long Center." Categories Archives A Conversation with Stephen Sondheim at the Long Center Friday, November 13, 2009, 11:24 AM You might not think that a 90-minute talk with a Broadway composer on the Long Center stage would generate rapt attention, gales of laughter and two standing ...

Harvey Fierstein and Andrea Martin, of "Fiddler on the Roof," acknowledge audience applause after they performed during the 19th annual Broadway's Stars in the Alley, in New York's Shubert Alley, Wednesday June 1, 2005.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is sending me on a coast-to-coast tour in support of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong .

The holiday season is still a few weeks off, but the theaters in Morris County - and New Jersey - will be as busy as shopping malls on Black Friday this week, with premieres, special events and auditions in every direction.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts celebrates its 115th anniversary Friday, November 13, with a dinner, silent auction, and performance by legendary Broadway singer and dancer Donna McKechnie.

At the heart of 'Fiddler' An older Topol reveals darker layers of loss in revived musical Topol reprises his role as the Jewish dairyman Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." After innumerable performances on Broadway, in summer stock, and in high school auditoriums for nearly half a century, is it possible to make "Fiddler on the Roof'' seem fresh? ...

The entry titled "Stephen Sondheim: Broadway's Greatest Artist, Part 1." Categories Archives Thursday, November 5, 2009, 01:40 PM Stephen Sondheim , the creative force behind 18 major musicals, might be the greatest artist Broadway has ever produced.

Here's my list of recommended Broadway and off-Broadway shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews in The Wall Street Journal when they opened.

When Chaim Topol first starred in "Fiddler on the Roof" 40 years ago, he worried he was too young to play Tevye, the Jewish dairyman whose traditions are threatened in ways he never expected.

Performances set for Nov. 6-8 and Nov. 13-15 PORTLAND - Not everyone in town will get the chance to travel to New York this year to take in the lights and excitement of Broadway, but thanks to the Portland Civic Players, area residents will have a little bit of Broadway brought right here to Portland.

This was a good week on Broadway. David Cromer's production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and the new revival of Finian's Rainbow , both of which I review in this morning's Wall Street Journal , are exceptionally fine and persuasive mountings of deeply flawed shows.

Finian's Rainbow began previews at Broadway's S T. James Theatre, 246 West 44 Street, on Thursday, October 8 at 8pm, and celebrates Opening Night, this evening, Thursday, October 29 at 6:45pm. Finian's Rainbow has a book by Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy ; lyrics by Yip Harburg ; music by Burton Lane ; with book adaptation by Arthur Perlman and ...

Chaim Topol performs live on stage in "Fiddler On the Roof" now at the Hippodrome Theatre.

Here's my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly.