Broadway’s The Public Theater. What makes it special?: A new musical based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story about a ...

For famed animal trainer William Berloni, Goodspeed Musicals’ 50th anniversary production of “Annie” this fall is an emotional homecoming. His assignment is the same as it was in 1976: Find a dog to ...

The show: “School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play” at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater, for a limited run and presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club. What makes it special?: It’s written ...

The show: The musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” presented at Hartford Stage. What makes it special?: It’s the first major collaboration (finally!) between Hartford Stage and ...

“Turning a movie into a musical reeks of desperation,” says a character in the new Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 film “The Lost Boys.” That insider wink to the audience gets a big laugh — ...

Stephen Sondheim’s Roxbury home was a welcome exurban retreat for the legendary composer, a place where he could escape the pressures of New York, create in a bucolic atmosphere and relax with those ...

The show: The off-Broadway production and welcome return of the delightful musical comedy “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” What makes it special?: It’s the first time the popular, ...

The show: “Oedipus,” created by Robert Icke, “after Sophocles,” on Broadway. What makes it special?: It’s not often you get to see a Greek tragedy on Broadway. However, this is not quite that, but ...

Below is my piece on Carmen de Lavallade for Encore magazine..The great dancer, actor, teacher, choreographer died earlier this month at the age of 94. “Curiosity,” said Carmen de Lavallade when asked ...

Whether “Ragtime” is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverberates with the ...

Very sad news about the death of Jerry Adler, 96, reported by The Hollywood Reporter. I wrote about Jerry many times as an actor, an author, and as a leading figure in theater history. (He was the ...

For Charles “Andy” Morgan III, it’s all in the cards. Tarot cards to be be exact, and his mastering over the decades of the symbols of what began as an ancient playing game has inspired him to create ...