Daniel Bubbeo

1 week ago | newsday.com | Daniel Bubbeo

Audra McDonald is the current toast of Broadway, where she's earned raves and a Tony Award nomination as Mama Rose in the latest revival of "Gypsy." But it was exactly 50 years ago this month when everything was coming up roses for Long Island theatergoers who got to see Angela Lansbury play the ultimate stage mother in a production of "Gypsy" at the Westbury Music Fair. Lansbury was fresh off her own Broadway run as Mama Rose, a role for which she won the third of her five Tonys.

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Daniel Bubbeo

The Piano Man is about to get a tribute on a grand scale from a group of Broadway talents. "The Billy Joel Project," a new music collection featuring 24 of the Hicksville native's songs as interpreted by the 11-member Broadway Ensemble, is set to come out on July 11 on streaming and digital formats with an album release from Yellow Sound Label set for later this summer. The album’s first single, “She’s Got a Way,” performed by Donna Vivino ("Wicked," "Hell's Kitchen") dropped on Friday.

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Daniel Bubbeo

Nelson DeMille still has one more story to tell. Simon & Schuster has announced that "The Tin Men," the final novel from the bestselling Garden City author who died in September at 81, will come out on Oct. 28. The book, written with his son, Alex DeMille, is the third in their series featuring Army Criminal Investigation Division Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor as the protagonists. "The Tin Men" has all the elements sure to please fans of DeMille's spy thrillers.

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Daniel Bubbeo

Jamie Laier may be only 14, but her eyes gleam like two spotlights when asked about what she plans to do when she gets older. "I really want to make it to Broadway," says the Lindenhurst teen. "I know that’s a rare thing. So if that doesn’t happen, I want to run a theater or be a music teacher or director."Whether or not she becomes the next Idina Menzel, she's taken the first step, and it's of the dance variety.

1 month ago | newsday.com | Daniel Bubbeo

Love is in the air this summer at Long Island's theaters in couplings that run the gamut from light and breezy ("Legally Blonde," "The Music Man") to dark and twisted (the new "Gaslight" update "Deceived"). The season will kick off with a pair of romances set against the backdrop of World War II ("South Pacific," "Bob & Jean: A True Love Story") and then heat up with a pair of shows spotlighting tempestuous real-life couples Bonnie and Clyde and F.