The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre

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Every year, our associate artistic director Chris Moore upends my plans for the following season. And each time he does it, the season ends ...

When I turned twenty-one, my mom wrote to a bunch of theatre and movie people (without me knowing it!) and asked them to send me birthday gr...

I almost can't believe it. We opened Promenade last week. Holy shit. I was a freshman in college when I first discovered the cast alb...

There are few things more fun for me than discovering a musical that I didn't know, or at least didn't know well. I've had the P...

In my last post , I wrote about the off off Broadway scene where Promenade  was born. Now meet its birth mother. Cuban-American, queer dire...

Michael Smith, theatre critic at the Village Voice , wrote in 1963 about the new theatre alternative, “Off Off Broadway is decidedly clubby....

We've finished blocking Promenade , we ran each act separately and tonight, we ran the whole show for the first time. And it's all s...

Working on Promenade is a little different for me as director, but it's really different -- and sometimes baffling -- for the actors. ...