Paul Kolnik News

Five-time Grammy Award-winning R&B star Usher is currently starring as Chicago's Billy Flynn through October 1st

Martin Short stars in a giddy, manic carnival ride, sharing the stage with a rowdy team of clowns who sing, dance, impersonate and spoof their way through 90 minutes of fast, loud and funny

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Broadway's most raucous ensemble - the very talented cast of Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. The show's 'Comedy All Stars' features Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong, Capathia Jenkins and Nicole Parker all of whom sat with us to dish the dirt and give us the scoop on the hilarious show.

Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, a new musical starring the Tony Award-winning funnyman, will open on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street) on Thursday, August 17, 2006; previews started Saturday, July 29.

'A Chorus Line,' currently playing its pre-Broadway premiere revival at San Francisco's Curran Theatre through September 2, will open on Broadway on September 18.

By now, just about everyone has seen some form of Kander and Ebb's razzle-dazzle musical Chicago. With a successful revival and an even more successful film, the 1975 musical that lost all its Tony Awards to a little show called A Chorus Line is now a worldwide phenomenon. Currently touring the country (and fresh off a stop in Dubai of all places), I am happy to report that Chicago is in fine shape. Though the Rob Marshall screen treatment is quite good, nothing can touch seeing the acclaimed revival live.

Between the 'Chorus Line' tour in 1980 and his six Broadway shows since '98, Ramón was an internationally known ballet dancer.

Choreographer Maurice Hines combines the music of Earth, Wind and Fire with Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes

To write that Allison Fischer stops the show in the middle of Lestat's second act might falsely give the impression that the authors had actually provided a show up until that point

Photos of 'Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me' during its pre-Broadway runs in San Francisco, Toronto, and Chicago.

Clifford Odets' Depression-era masterpiece has returned to the theatre of its original glory in director Bartlett Sher's captivating and heart-tugging revival

BroadwayWorld.com has learned that Caissie Levy, currently in the National Tour of 'Hairspray' will make her Broadway debut as Penny Pingleton from May 23rd - August 31st, 2006

Lestat, which is in previews at the Palace Theatre, will open on April 25th

You can wear out a dozen loofahs exfoliating the layers of satire Sandra Bernhard uses to play her audience

Sandra Bernhard returned to New York with her new show Sandra Bernhard: EVERYTHING BAD AND BEAUTIFUL, which began previews on Wednesday, March 29th at the Daryl Roth Theatre, 101 East 15th Street on Union Square. Opening night is set for April 5th.

Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!, starring Ben Gazzara, Zoe Wanamaker, Lauren Ambrose and others, is currently in previews at the Belasco Theatre; the show opens April 17th

Elton John and Bernie Taupin's big-budget vampire musical Lestat, based on books by Anne Rice, is now set to begin Broadway previews on March 25th

With a majestic, flamenco-inspired score by Michael John LaChiusa, dynamic dance-infused direction by Graciela Daniele and a powerful, anguished performance by Phylicia Rashad in the title role, Bernarda Alba is a captivating ninety minutes of intense and inspired musical drama

Lincoln Center Theaters presents 'Bernarda Alba', a new musical by Michael John LaChiusa, starring Phylicia Rashad.

Set in the most racially diverse place on the planet, Sarah Jones' play deals with the uneasy assimilation that is a part of this nation of immigrants