Category: Theater

Tammy Faye Bakker Is Broadway Bound. As a Musical.

A show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.
Tiffany Haddish, Misty Copland and More Party at the Shed Gala in NYC

The Shed hosted a benefit in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of Manhattan, and the Central Park Conservancy held a gala in the park.
Es Devlin Imagines Worlds That Don’t Exist

The stage designer and artist Es Devlin brings decades of work to life in an experiential monograph and exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.
‘Harmony’ Review: Barry Manilow Writes the (Broadway) Songs

The pop star of the 1970s and ’80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and ’30s.
MasterVoices Puts on a Starry Show With a Shoestring Budget

This essential organization gives fresh, entertaining life to music theater curiosities. What if it had more money?
Curtains Down, Bottoms Up: When the Show Ends, the Night’s Just Getting Started

“Dead Letter No. 9,” “Cocktail Magique” and “Hypnotique” are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife.
Barry Manilow Finally Gets His Wish: a Broadway Show

“Harmony,” about a singing group undone by Nazism, has been a decades-in-the-making labor of love for the singer and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman.
Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat.

At home in California, Streisand talks about her new memoir, exploring the movies and men of her life, and her determination to control her own art.
Book Review: ‘My Name is Barbra,’ by Barbra Streisand

In a chatty and candid new memoir, Barbra Streisand talks about her early determination to be famous and tallies the hurdles and helpers she met along the way.
Boy George Will Join ‘Moulin Rouge!’ on Broadway in 2024

The British pop star will take over the role of the club owner Harold Zidler from Feb. 6 to May 12.
‘Pal Joey’ Review: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildering

Joey is still a heel in this major revision of the 1940 antihero musical, but he’s now a Black artist trying to find his true voice.
‘I’m Still Alive’: Sean Young Takes the Stage in ‘Ode to the Wasp Woman’

“I walk into a show and everybody’s kind of a little afraid. Then I hear, ‘Oh, but you’re so nice,’” the actress said of her Hollywood baggage.