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3 days ago | 
manhattandigest.com | Ryan Leeds
It’s pretty bold for a Jewish guy to wear a Bernie Sanders t-shirt to the West Bank. After spending a few minutes in the presence of Jon Schnitzer, you’ll quickly learn that fearlessness is his currency. The funny and insightful Schnitzer is currently starring in his own solo show, Just the Tip, which was created during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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6 days ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds
Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart – Photo: Emilio MadridThere isn’t a great deal of originality in Jamie Wax’s new play, Call Me Izzy, but it may well mark the first time a white porcelain toilet has been featured so prominently in a Broadway production. The 90-minute, one-woman show opens in the bathroom of a mobile home, situated in a trailer park in rural Louisiana, where Isabelle “Izzy” Scutley (Jean Smart, Hacks) spends much of her time, scribbling on sheets of toilet paper with a mascara pen.
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2 weeks ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds
Just in Time: Jonathan Groff – Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan ZimmermanThe late Thomas Wolfe was wrong. His famous novel and quote “you can’t go home again” was meant to invoke a feeling that the glory days of youth cannot be recreated later in life. Often, it’s a painful truth.
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3 weeks ago | 
manhattandigest.com | Ryan Leeds
Although the entire month of June is Pride, Washington D.C. will kick off a full throttle WorldPride event this weekend. Those wanting to take in a bit of culture should head to Arena Stage, home to a new play from Oscar winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney, the scribe behind 2016’s Moonlight. The show is described on the theater’s website:W. Tre and Free met in a dark park searching for fun not expecting to find love, light, and each other.
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3 weeks ago | 
manhattandigest.com | Ryan Leeds
SAM & COMPANY A NEW MUSICAL THEATRE ALBUM FROM COMPOSER/LYRICIS SAM NASAR WILL DROP ON JUNE 12, 2025. A recent press release describes the work: “Gene Fisch Jr., The York Theatre Company, Alexander Robertson, and Theatre Soundworks announce the release of Sam & Company, a genre-spanning musical theatre album, streaming everywhere on June 12, 2025. It’s not a song cycle, it’s not a musical.
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1 month ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds
Dead Outlaw – Photo: Matthew MurphyDeath is hanging over the air on Broadway these days. Yet somehow, it has an air of cool about it. At the Lunt-Fontanne, two divas are dishing and dueling their way to eternal life in the smash hit musical comedy Death Becomes Her. Meanwhile, British forces are thwarting German troops in World War II with a dead man at the Golden Theatre in the British tuner Operation Mincemeat.
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1 month ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds
Old Friends: Bernadette Peters – Photo: Matthew MurphyDo we never tire of Stephen Sondheim’s music? Not if it is performed with flawless finesse by a troupe of performers who breathe fresh interpretations into the songs that musical theater lovers have heard umpteen times. Lucky for us, this is the case with the new Broadway revue, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, a two-and-a-half-hour soiree that showcases the late composer.
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1 month ago | 
metroweekly.com | Ryan Leeds
Pirates!: David Hyde Pierce – Photo: Joan MarcusSometimes, I sit in a Broadway theater with genuine bewilderment and confusion. Is this production really as awful as I think it is? Am I the only one not enjoying it? What was the creative team thinking, and why did anyone else think this was a good idea? These questions arise moments into Pirates! The Penzance Musical, a revamped version of the old chestnut, The Pirates of Penzance.
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1 month ago | 
manhattandigest.com | Ryan Leeds
On Monday night, while celebrities paraded through the rain uptown at the Met Gala, theater insiders and their admirers gathered at a private apartment near downtown’s Astor place to hear a young composer named Jake Landau. Landau is only 30 years old, but he’s already managed to leave a mark across the worlds of musical theater, opera, and ballet. Landau took to the piano, accompanying Broadway’s finest talent.
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1 month ago | 
us1.campaign-archive.com | Ryan Leeds
To celebrate Metro Weekly's 31st Anniversary, we present, for the first time since 1994, the interview that started it all. The cover of that issue, which hit newsstands on Thursday, May 5, featured a local photographer -- Annie Adjchavanich -- who had an exhibit at Georgetown’s Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery entitled “Biological Men.” The interview set in stone what would become Metro Weekly’s calling card -- the Q&A. We’ve held to that format more than three decades later.
