Many in the dance community have been directly impacted by COVID-19. Paloma Garcia-Lee, a Broadway veteran who was performing in Moulin Rogue! until the Great White Way closed down, tested positive for the virus last month. Now recovered, she shares her experience here. In early March, I had been sick for a few weeks. I […]

It had been 10 years since Leigh-Ann Esty had sung (barring some legendary karaoke nights) when she was cast as Rosalia in Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite at Miami City Ballet. Two years later, the tour of An American in Paris, which her twin sister, Sara, was leading as Lise, was in search of […]

Last year, Broadway dancer Stephanie Bissonette was diagnosed with a brain tumor—but she didn’t let it keep her offstage for long. (As told to Amanda Sherwin) 2018 was the best year of my life: I opened Mean Girls and made my Broadway debut. I got to work with Casey Nicholaw and Tina Fey, people I […]

Ryan Steele has a simple rule for demanding days on Broadway: “I listen to my body,” he says. “I have whatever I’m craving: If I need more protein, I go straight for that. If I’m tired, I know I need carbs.” This wasn’t always Steele’s approach. Growing up, shuttling between the studio and school meant […]

After earning five-star reviews and four Olivier Awards in London’s West End, director Marianne Elliott’s radical take on Stephen Sondheim’s Company arrives on Broadway this month. Elliott (War Horse, Angels in America) has created a Company for our times, swapping Bobby the bachelor for Bobbie (played by Katrina Lenk), a woman contemplating settling down as […]

Like most dancers, once Brandon Leffler discovered dance, he went all in, leaving little time for anything besides school and the studio. “I was what anyone would call a Goody Two-shoes,” he says. “I never had a drop to drink; I never smoked.” But when he landed his first national tour, with CATS, that started […]

February 20, the official opening night of West Side Story, marks the first Broadway musical opening of 2020. Once it does, the shows simply don’t stop. March and April are stuffed with new musicals—eight, to be exact—as shows rush to hit the boards before the April 23 eligibility deadline to be considered for a 2019–20 […]

It’s easy to describe the new musical SIX only by the numbers. It’s about the six women who married Henry VIII, two of whom he divorced and two of whom he had beheaded. It earned five Olivier Award nominations. And it took barely more than a year to get from its smash West End opening […]