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…
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show storms back to Broadway at Studio 54 with a gleeful sense of mischief and theatrical abandon, reminding audiences why this cult classic has endured for more than half a century. Under the exuberant direction of Sam Pinkleton, this revival fizzes with irreverent energy and a game, starry ensemble, delivering…
Schmigadoon! is a triumph of choreography and the chorus are first-rate singers and dancers. The show, however, is musical lite. The premise: Two Manhattan doctors hope to salvage their troubled relationship at a Catskills retreat. Instead, a hike leads them across a bridge to Schmigadoon, an early 20th-century hamlet that eagerly breaks into song whenever…
Here’s an idea. Let’s take Beaches, an iconic, cult classic movie, replace the award-winning soundtrack, and put it on stage, without its famous stars! After all, it’s a slam dunk, adapting a Broadway show from a film. Oh, that’s right, it’s NOT. Examples? Despite stars Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain, Breakfast at Tiffany’s was…
Marla Mindelle (Photo: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) Titanique By Deirdre Donovan on April 17, 2026 A deliriously camp send-up that gleefully rewrites pop culture history, Titanique finds Céline Dion commandeering the Titanic’s legacy with a jukebox score and a wink that never fades. Yet for all its riotous invention and winning performances, this Broadway transfer…
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…
Aaron Tveit and the cast of Chess (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Chess By Deirdre Donovan on November 25, 2025 In its sweeping Broadway revival, Chess transforms a Cold War standoff into a pulse-pounding triangle of power, love, and betrayal. With Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher at its center, Michael Mayer’s new production turns the…
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…
Kristin Chenoweth (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) The Queen of Versailles By Marc Miller on November 10, 2025 You may have your quibbles about The Queen of Versailles—I know I do—but there’s no denying, in terms of professionalism, this show is off the charts. The new musical at the St. James boasts a big cast, a huge…
Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz lead the 48-actor cast. (Photo: Michael Murphy) Ragtime By Fern Siegel on October 17, 2025 At the turn of the 20th century, America grappled with its identity. Immigration, race, class and cries for social justice were challenging its promise as a refuge where all could succeed. That epic story…