Pop Culturalist Chats with Alex Finke
Alex Finke is making a splash in one of the hottest tickets downtown: an immersive, crazy-brilliant new production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. The show – which we love every time
Continue Reading
Pop Culturalist Chats with Gelsey Bell
Gelsey Bell appears in one of the year’s hottest Broadway tickets: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. This joyous and astonishing new musical tells a particularly scandalous slice of Leo
Continue Reading
Review: The Hamilton Mixtape
Fans of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s smash Broadway musical Hamilton had something to celebrate: it was recently announced that The Hamilton Mixtape debuted at #1 on Billboard. What is The Hamilton Mixtape? It’s an album in
Continue Reading
Woman Crush Wednesday: Laura Osnes
Laura Osnes is the kind of person whose success makes you feel good. You root for her like you’d root for a friend– a friend who happens to be one of
Continue Reading
Man Crush Monday: Santino Fontana
Fans of the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend were shocked earlier this month when it was revealed that fan favorite Santino Fontana would be departing the show. As Greg, the lovable, unrequited-lovestruck bar
Continue Reading
Dream Casting: Camelot
The love Barack Obama has shown for Hamilton over the last year (well, since Lin-Manuel Miranda debuted his concept at the White House in 2009) reminds us of another presidential
Continue Reading
To See or Not to See: The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks is still alive and kicking. This timeless musical has been running in New York City since 1960, with a brief, lamented absence between 2002 and 2006. Still, that’s quite
Continue Reading
Dream Casting: The Music Man
Today we’re launching a new series: Dream Casting, or Why Producers and Casting Directors Should Listen to Us and Mount These Sure-to-be Successful Productions of Beloved Musicals or Books with Stars
Continue Reading
To See or Not to See: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Encores! Off-Center” has done it again: it breathes new life into the relatively unknown and unsung Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, which opened last night at New York City Center.
Continue Reading
Man Crush Monday: Ramin Karimloo
Ramin Karimloo is a musical theater rockstar. Though he made his Broadway debut in 2014 as Jean Valjean in the popular Les Misérables reboot, Karimloo has long been known to theater fans for
Continue Reading