In it simplest form, theater is the idea of relaying a story between actors and an audience. Its appeal until now has been its ability to transform audiences and actors alike, as well as challenge notions and to offer human transcendence. What has existed as a barometer of human wonder, fear, trepidations, hopes and self [...]

According to reports, Ashlee Simpson is going to be reprising the role of Roxy in Chicago on Broadway. Wait, this is the girl who just got fired from Melrose Place, right? The girl who, according to reports, was let go because she couldn’t act? When you get fired from a TV [...]

When a writer can’t find the love he needs.

Out of the NY Post(Gutter) comes the tear jerker involving famed novelist Salman Rushdie and his dysfunctional love life.
The latest involves the mess involving Pia Glenn, acclaimed Broadway actress who (unfortunately for her) got involved with the brooding 62 year old writer only to be dumped by [...]

If there’s no business like show business, then there’s no place like the Player’s Club in Gramercy to celebrate its merits.  A veritable shrine to the arts, with an impressive thespian lineage, the Player’s Club shone Thursday evening as host to the 2009 Inside Broadway Beacon Awards. In this time of economic uncertainty, it is [...]

This much was clear to anyone in attendance at the recent Fred Astaire Awards- the organizers adore dance. The ceremony did much more than pay lip service to the art of dance, it actively embraced it by showcasing number after number of astounding choreography and movement. Though presenters (who included Liza Minnelli, Stockard Channing, Geoffrey Rush, [...]