Although few students look forward to the end of summer vacation, three young men and five young women from The Beacon School had to be assuaged by one fact.Kenneth An, Leslie Gaines, Atticus Koizumi, Leo Miranda and Eva Wertimer knew they’d soon ...

Tens of thousands of young actresses are waiting to play Glinda in WICKED.But WICKED is, to cite one of Stephen Schwartz's best songs from the show, "Popular." So to all you would-be Glindas, we must quote another fine Schwartz song (albeit from ...

At a recent dinner with like-minded Broadway enthusiasts, one told of a director whose vision hadn't worked for what could have otherwise been a really good musical. Soon after, another spoke of a different director who had taken a musical that many ...

So why would the new musical Loving Repeating - called "a play within a lecture" - make me think of the slam-bang, razz-ma-tazz musical Mame?Well, for one thing, in Jerry Herman's 1966 smash-hit, he had Vera Charles tell Mame Dennis Burnside ...