I was really struck by the artwork for the upcoming City Center revival of Marc Blitzstein's Juno. It's very bright and cheery. The design makes you think this is going to be a rollicking good time of a musical comedy,...ccaggiano

Chris Jones wrote a very thoughtful piece about the long-term ramifications of the unprecedented success of August: Osage County. The Tony Awards were, of course, nine days ago and I distinctly remember someone mentioning that something has to be fifteen days old before it's considered history, but let's say this is now history, and we have to ask where we go from here.  read more »

The producers of the adventurous Broadway musical Passing Strange announced today that the show will play its last performance at the Belasco Theater on July 20th. This is no surprise, given that the show played to 37% capacity last week....ccaggiano

This Thursday, July 17, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (1972 Broadway at 66th Street, 3rd Floor) will host an afternoon with the critically acclaimed Off Broadway musical Adding Machine. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a special 30 minute suite from the show, featuring the entire cast and band, followed by a cast CD signing. The performance will be hosted by special guest Austin Pendleton. Customers will have the opportunity to purchase the World Premiere PS Classics recording onsite. In addition, the recording is available wherever CD's are sold, and online at www.psclassics.com.  read more »

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The critically acclaimed Off-Broadway musical Adding Machine will end its run at the Minetta Lane Theater on July 20th. The show had extended its limited run through August 31st, but apparently sales weren't brisk enough to justify that extension. If...ccaggiano

One of the highlights of my recent theater weekend in New York was getting a chance to see Adding Machine again before it closes July 20th. I was simply astonished the first time I saw the show (read my review),...ccaggiano

PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, has begun websales for four of its spring releases: original cast recordings of A Catered Affair and ADDING MACHINE, and solo discs by Kerry Butler and Capathia Jenkins. None of these albums are available yet in stores (A Catered Affair and ADDING MACHINE hit stores on May 27 and June 3, respectively), but PS Classics has begun accepting orders and shipping from its website, www.psclassics.com.

The critically acclaimed Off-Broadway musical Adding Machine has extended its run again. The show is now scheduled to play at the Minetta Lane Theater until August 31st. If you haven't seen it, go. Just go. (See my review here) From...ccaggiano

This past weekend, I also took in the critically acclaimed new musical Adding Machine at the Minetta Lane Theater. This brilliant new work by Joshua Schmidt and Jason Loewith is dark but never bleak, consistently confounding expectations right to the...ccaggiano