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The box office will open on Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. for the new Broadway production of WEST SIDE STORY. Directed by multiple Tony Award winner and author of the musical Arthur Laurents, WEST SIDE STORY will begin preview performances at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway) on Broadway on Monday, February 23, 2009 with an official opening on Thursday, March 19, 2009.

So far, London's West End has escaped the financial bloodletting that Broadway is in the midst of experiencing. But pay close attention to those words 'so far.'The Theatre Society of...

Night Life Award Winner Julie Reyburn makes her Feinstein's debut on January 6th in a special One Night Only performance of her show 'It's A New World' created specifically to celebrate the occasion! Directed by Peter Napolitano, Julie is joined by her longtime Musical director, Mark Janas and Bassist Ritt Henn performing a unique collection of celebrated standards, Broadway classics, and new works soon to become part of the american Songbook. Composers / Lyricists include, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Maltby & Shire, Janas & Napolitano, Alec Wilder, Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke, Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer and Irving Berlin.

Another 12 months have evaporated. The year started with american Gladiators, trudged along with a dull-ass American Idol season that even its lead judge admitted was boring, and was brought to a close by The Hills' fourth-season finale. Along the way, we had everything from '>a bachelorette giving panties to the bachelor to an overexposed idiot's search for a new best friend. During the year, there was also shocking news and bizarre news, and intriguing news like the fact that people who watch reality TV are more likely to be huge whores online. Andy Cohen still has a job hosting reunion shows for some unknown reason; Bravo and Fox Reality both offered half-assed, insulting reality TV-focused awards shows; and let's all forget that September disaster except for Jeff Probst's Emmy win.Yes, the year that gave us the final two Bravo Project Runways and hopefully the final Farmer Wants a Wife was crazy, and not just because the summer's break-out hit was the oddly crazy-fun Wipeout.

Shrek the Musical opened on Broadway to laughing audiences but mixed reviews. My review is posted now, and you can add yours there, too, or share thoughts on the...

A 'PHANTOM' sequel is coming to Broadway by the end of 2009 - and the musical is going to be set in Brooklyn.

Splash Bar is proud to present a very special edition of Scott Nevins' Curtain Call with The Broadway Boys on January 12, 2009 at 11:30pm. Directly following Musical Mondays, this very talented group of Broadway's hottest vocalists come together once again to serve up a full set of their arrangements of some of Broadway's best tunes.

If you're looking for some intellectual stimulation with your entertainment during this brief time before the onslaught of new shows hits, several networks are airing and re-airing compelling documentaries about real people and their fascinating lives.Tonight, PBS' Independent Lens debuts Operation Filmmaker (check local listings for PBS), which follows a 25-year-old Iraqi film student, Muthana Mohmed, who joins the production for Liev Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated in Prague after Schreiber saw him on an MTV documentary. Another documentary filmmaker, Nina Davenport, followed him to the set, and the result is this film, which follows the cultural and other clashes with the fictional film's crew and even the documentary filmmaker.Last week, Independent Lens debuted Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, which explores the creation of the Tony-award winning Broadway musical based on the lives of Edith and Eddie Beale, who are the subjects of the famous 1975 documentary,