Danny and Sylvia: from DC to NYC

Danny Kaye once said it only took him 10 years to become an overnight sensation, but it took Danny and Sylvia, the bio-musical about Danny Kaye and his wife Sylvia Fine, only 8 years to move from its sensational American Century Theater opening in DC to its Off-Broadway open run.

The Tapioca Miracle hits the Big Apple

To help us understand what it takes to get a new musical from the page to the Broadway stage,  the creators of the new musical in development The Tapioca Miracle are allowing Joel Markowitz exclusive access to the show’s development process and  performances.

The women of Philadelphia’s Grey Gardens: Lisa Peterson, Joy Franz and Hollis Resnik

I’m off for a theatre weekend in the “City of Brotherly Love” with DCTS’ editor Lorraine Treanor to see three classic musicals: Grey Gardens, Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits

Toxic Avenger’s John Rando

It’s a brand new day for New Jersey, thanks to Broadway director John Rando’s latest hit The Toxic Avenger. John Rando will always be remembered for his Tony winning staging of one of my favorite musicals - Urinetown.

Karen Zacarias and Lindsey Kyler

We recently had the opportunity to interview two women from Legacy of Light, now onstage  at Arena Stage Crystal City: its creator, the award winning Washington playwright Karen Zacarías and Lindsey Kyler, the young actress making her debut here playing Millie and Pauline.

Rent’s Trisha Jeffrey

On the road as a swing and understudy in Rent: The Broadway Tour
She wowed DC audiences with her powerful singing and Helen Hayes Award nominated performance as the rebellious and feisty daughter, Emmie

Rent’s Telly Leung and young people do Rent

The Broadway National Tour of Rent, making its brief stop at the Warner Theatre May 26 - 31, includes three original cast members, and the remarkable Telly Leung.

Ragtime’s Christiane Noll and Bobby Steggert

Ragtime is my all-time favorite musical. I fell in love with Stephen Flaherty’s score and Lynn Ahrens’ lyrics the first time I heard them in 1996 when I received the CD as an early Chanukah gift.

Follies then and again

Two directors from the 2009 and 1988 TAP productions of  Follies
“The roads you never take/Go through rocky ground/Don’t they?
The choices that you make/Aren’t all that grim.
The worlds you never see/Still will be around/Won’t they!”

Caught in their acts: Bernadette Peters, James Gardiner, James Zemarel and Shannon Wollman

Bernadette Peters: Still a Broadway Baby!
How does she do it? On Sunday, April 19th at 4 pm, after an overture played by the National Philharmonic (conducted by Marvin Laird, who wrote Ruthless! The Musical) consisting of songs from Gypsy and Mack and Mabel,

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