With the opening of Paranormal Activity, horror is alive and well on Broadway, which is saying something, considering the genre usually has a pretty high mortality rate. After its highly praised runs in Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Toronto, Paranormal Activity is attempting to bring its beloved movie franchise to the Great White Way with…
Director Michael Arden takes a bite out of the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys, reimagining it as a high-budget, high-gloss stage adaptation, now on Broadway at the Palace Theatre. The Lost Boys: A New Musical is set in the fictional beach town of Santa Carla, California, where the Emerson family relocates from their old…
The Company (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) Cats – The Jellicle Ball By Matthew Roland on April 13, 2026 “What’s a Jellicle Cat?” In 1982, when Cats first prowled onto Broadway, the answer was strange but straightforward. In Cats: The Jellicle Ball, that question lands very differently. Still drawing from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s…
Daniel Radcliffe (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Every Brilliant Thing By Matthew Roland on March 22, 2026 Ice cream, a much-needed sneeze, the smell of old books, depression, suicide. After a child’s first encounter with loss comes a list of small, fleeting joys set against life’s heaviest realities. At its core, it’s one young man’s struggle to…
Grey Henson (Photo: Marc J Franklin) BIGFOOT! A New Musical By Matthew Rolandon March 2, 2026 Nestled between a chemical dump site and a looming nuclear power plant sits the small town of Muddirt, an offbeat enclave populated by a zany cast of misfits and one larger-than-life mythical creature. Bigfoot! A New Musical is now…
The Ensemble (Photo: Joan Marcus) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee By Matthew Roland on February 13, 2026 Remember back in school when you were told to stand up in front of your peers and read from a textbook? Now imagine raising the stakes: not simply reading what’s in front of you, but spelling…
Paloma Garcia-Lee, Jess Leprotto (Photo: Bjorn Bolinder) Gotta Dance! with American Dance Machine By Matthew Rolandon December 5, 2025 “The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.”…
Christiani Pitts, Sam Tutty (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) By Matthew Roland on November 21, 2025 Transferring from a successful run on the West End and the first fully original Broadway musical of the 2025–2026 season, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” tells the story of an…
Laura Bell Bundy, Kara Lindsay, and the company (Photo: Valerie Terranova) Romy & Michele: The Musical By Matthew Roland on November 8, 2025 “I Invented Post-its.” Another cult classic has received the musical treatment, but was it worth it? Romy & Michele: The Musical, now playing Off-Broadway at Stage 42, transforms the 1997 comedy Romy…
Betsy Wolfe (Photo: Joan Marcus Joy: A New, True Musical By Matthew Roland on August 20, 2025 Growing up in the 90s, everyone had heard about the new “Miracle Mop” that was sweeping the nation. But if I told you that in 2025 there’s a musical about this very mop, you’d probably do a double…
