Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
Category: Theater (Broadway)
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Chita Rivera Found Her Emotional Voice for Shows Like ‘West Side Story’
Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
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How ‘Days of Wine and Roses’ Became Their Passion Project
Kelli O’Hara and Brain d’Arcy James didn’t let the door close on their new Broadway musical about a couple undone by addiction.
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‘Stereophonic,’ a New Play About Making Music, to Open on Broadway
Written by David Adjmi and featuring songs by Will Butler, the drama follows five musicians making an album in the 1970s.
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‘Stereophonic,’ a New Play About Making Music, to Open on Broadway
Written by David Adjmi and featuring songs by Will Butler, the drama follows five musicians making an album in the early 1970s.
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A ‘Great Gatsby’ Musical Is Coming to Broadway in March
The latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel will feature Jeremy Jordan (“Newsies”) as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada (“Hadestown”) as Daisy Buchanan.
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Roundabout to Stage ‘Pirates of Penzance’ and ‘Yellow Face’ on Broadway
Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
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Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ Is Becoming a Musical From Orin Wolf
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is lined up to write the book, and Lileana Blain-Cruz will direct.
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Ani DiFranco Learned (and Cried) a Lot During Her First Year in N.Y.C.
“The lessons that New York has for you around every corner — it was a big part of my young adulthood, this city,” said the singer-songwriter, who will make her Broadway debut in “Hadestown.”
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Fantasia Barrino-Taylor on ‘The Color Purple’ and a Painful Role
Offered the chance to revisit her Broadway performance as the much-abused Celie, the star faced a difficult path.