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  • Broadway's Musical Wizard

    Stephen Schwartz will make what he calls a ''guest appearance'' with the National Symphony Orchestra this weekend. ''I sing a song with the orchestra towards...

  • Boots Over Broadway

    A couple weeks ago Katy Perry raved to her nearly 37 million followers on Twitter. ''Just saw KINKY BOOTS on Broadway & cried w/joy from...

  • You're the Top!

    The Nance is the gayest play currently running on Broadway -- among other attributes, it features a gay writer (Douglas Carter Beane), a gay lead...

  • Heel Thyself: ''Kinky Boots''

    The new Broadway musical Kinky Boots is hands down this year's gayest -- or ''most fabulous,'' to go with Entertainment Weekly's coded description. You could...

  • The complete list of Tony Nominations!

    We’re pretty sure you’ve seen this already — but in case you haven’t, here are the Tony contenders for 2013! Best Play “The Assembled Parties”...

  • Winter savings on a bite of the Big Apple

    Tourists flock to New York City for their holiday shopping and New Year celebrations but come January and February the Big Apple’s appeal takes a...

  • Golden Tribute

    Maybe you don't love Judy Garland. Maybe you don't understand or – gasp! – respect her ties to the gay community, or why she still...

  • Bad Faith

    Every night right now at Broadway's St. James Theatre, officials are taking donations, passing around collection plates as if the audience were a congregation at...

  • Broadway Rock

    Gavin Creel is a two-time Tony-nominated actor (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), who's currently gearing up to star in the national tour of The Book of...

  • Priscilla celebrates one-year anniversary, offers 40% off

    The Tony Award winning production of Bette Midler’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Musical recently celebrated its one-year anniversary on Broadway. Adapted from the...

  • New York’s Jumeirah Essex House embraces its inner drag queen

    Through the end of February 2012, New York City’s Jumeirah Essex House is offering a special “Priscilla Package,” which includes tickets to the over-the-top production of Priscilla Queen...

  • Holland Taylor stars as Ann Richards at the Kennedy Center

    On seeing Holland Taylor’s portrayal of former Texas governor Ann Richards for the first time, Don Temples cried. “It was as if someone I love...

  • Ellen Greene will be at JR.’s Monday for a round of show tunes

    The one and only original Audrey of both the Broadway and screen versions of Little Shop of Horrors as well as a star of Pushing...

  • Desert Oasis

    ''And there you have it, a preview of coming attractions,'' Polly Wyeth (Stockard Channing) says, roughly 30 minutes into Other Desert Cities. The line is...

  • Lyrically LuPone

    ''I've had an affinity with gay people since I was like, 6 years old,'' Patti LuPone says. ''The person I've known the longest, I knew...