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One lesson of the lively, moving, award-winning rock musical Passing Strange is that the people closest to us matter more in the end than any of our achievements, creative or otherwise. But for Tony-nominated actress de’Adre Aziza, who plays a variety of memorable roles in the picaresque narrative, this is already a home truth. “I’ve […]

How did a nice Jewish boy from Long Island become a global entertainment impresario? In the case of Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy producer Neil Goldberg, it all started with the original Broadway production of The Miracle Worker. “I was six years old, and that was the first theatrical experience of my life,” recalls Goldberg, who’s […]

It’s a line a talented actor can hope to hear a number of times in a career, typically in the heat of excitement after a dazzling performance: “I’m gonna write a show for you.” Less common, alas, is the follow-up call. “I was doing a cabaret show at a place called Martyrs, and Josh Schmidt […]

Katrina Lindsay is nominated for a Tony for the costumes of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton’s stage adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ 18th-century French novel of upper-crust lust and manipulation, currently running at the American Airlines Theatre. But it might be fair say that Lindsay’s costumes for this revival, by director Rufus Norris, in fact […]

When Conor McPherson handed Henry Wishcamper a copy of his 2001 play Port Authority, Wishcamper noticed something odd. “I think it’s the only play that I’ve ever read that has no stage directions whatsoever,” says Wishcamper, who directed the Atlantic Theater’s stunning American premiere production, which runs through June 22. “There’s a number before each […]

“My picture is now hanging in the renovated madhouse,” says Jeremy Lawrence, and out of context this makes a haunting and evocative image. Put in context, it’s an even more impressive line: Lawrence–who will perform Everyone Expects Me To Write Another ‘Streetcar‘, his second one-man play about Tennessee Williams, for a limited run June 16-19 […]

Tom Wopat is a long way from Hazzard County, thanks very much. Playing Tom Hurley, the beaten-down Bronx cab driver in the gentle, elegiac Broadway musical A Catered Affair, the versatile Wopat has once and for all transcended the swaggering leading roles he once assayed–not just on the kitschy TV classic The Dukes of Hazzard […]

Here’s a pop-quiz challenge for you: Try finishing the following lyrics without humming the tune. “Grey skies are gonna clear up…” “The sun’ll come up…” “You’re never fully dressed…” Yes, you’ve probably had a tune by Charles Strouse stuck in your head at one time or another. The composer of a pair of Broadway classics, […]

New Yorkers with a taste for French music and contemporary dance will be in heaven in June. From June 3 to 7, Rioult (formerly The Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre) will present two pieces in repertory at NYU Skirball, with an emphasis on the music of Ravel. And from June 10-28, the Joyce will host three […]