On September 27th at St. Luke's Theater in New York City, Dancers Over 40 will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of West Side Story with a reunion event featuring Chita Rivera (the original "Anita") and Carol Lawrence (the original "Maria.")...
Before Taylor Mac returns next year with the full 24 Decade History of Popular Music at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel, take a look a Taylor's pov on the entire project with an interview I did that posted...
If you were a fan of silent film star Buster Keaton, you were no doubt open to the idea of Johnny Depp playing a man obsessed with him in the 1993 film Benny and Joon. 24 years after the film,...
What will the monarchy in England be after Queen Elizabeth dies? How will the transition to Charles be handled? What kind of King will he be? These are only a few of the questions asked (and answered) by playwright...
In 1989, when he was just 15 years old, actor/tap dancer/choreographer Savion Glover landed his first Tony Award nomination. But he had to wait seven years before taking one home (for Best Choreography for Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring...
It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke: a failing president, a former assassin, and a former terrorist meet up at a park in Maryland. But that’s what really happened in 1978 when American President Jimmy Carter convinced...
One way of measuring the popularity of a work of fiction is how often it has been adapted for other forms. In the case of Somerset Maugham’s short story Rain, it has been turned into three movies (starring Gloria...
The works of Stephen Sondheim have been very good to Lee Blakeley. Or you can argue that Lee Blakeley has been very good to Sondheim’s work. The director oversaw the French premieres of A Little Night Music, Sunday in...