Dolly Parton singing “Try” is practically a dare to make your eyes well up in the best of times, so we really don’t know how to help you get through the above performance without choking up a bit. Dolly, who has been busy reading all of us to sleep recently, recorded herself performing “Try” remotely […]
After recently performing as both Meg and the Muses in Hercules (all while not standing up, incredibly on brand for her), Ariana Grande is further embracing her truest musical-theater self and accompanying Jason Robert Brown (remotely) for one of his SubCulture series concerts on April 27. They’ll be joined by Shoshana Bean, beltress extraordinaire, and […]
With American Utopia on a short hiatus from Broadway before a planned fall 2020 return, David Byrne, New York’s finest resident and friend to all bikes, appeared on Amy Schumer’s podcast to share an unlikely source of creative inspiration for his certified perfect show: Jerry Seinfeld. Turns out, the Bee Movie and SeinfeldVision star was […]
Sara Bareilles told her Instagram followers that during the past few weeks of social distancing, she had COVID-19 and is “fully recovered, just so you know.” Filming an Instagram story on a walk, the singer and Waitress creator continued, “I am just thinking about all the people who are walking through this really tricky time […]
As with so many cultural events, the coronavirus cut the West End run of the stage version of The Prince of Egypt, but fate has found a way to (shout with me!) deliver us a cast recording of the production all the same, just in time for Passover, or Easter, or the yearly secular holiday […]
In these trying times, as we all turn to Cats for distraction, Andrew Lloyd Webber has popped up to do a little piano serenade on Twitter. Like many artists, and especially since his Cinderella musical has been pushed back, Webber is sitting at home in self-isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. So, like the social-media influencers […]
While you stock the 300 canned good items you bought at the grocery store and find a place for the 10 packages of toilet paper now in your home, listen to a gift from Lin-Manuel Miranda. Because he knows you’re all very stressed about the pandemic, Miranda dropped an unreleased song from Hamilton, since he […]
A few nights ago, I joined more than 3,000 audience members from all over the world at the Metropolitan Opera for a performance of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, about a ship’s captain doomed to drift endlessly, disembarking only briefly every seven years to search for his true love. At the time, the corona-infected cruise ship […]
And you may find yourself staring at this beautiful news and calling all of your friends to coordinate ticket plans! In an unprecedented move for the theater industry, David Byrne’s sensational Broadway show American Utopia will be returning in the fall after a brief hiatus. Vulture can confirm that the show will start up again […]
Incredible news for all of the Broadway stragglers with Remain in Light vinyls who’ve been refreshing Stubhub 10 times (minimum) per day: No need to worry about the hard February 16 closing date, because David Byrne’s American Utopia is going to be filmed to live on for eternity. Oh yeah, and Spike Lee is directing […]