Leap of Faith, the rousing gospel-tinged musical that follows the escapades of part-time reverend and full-time con artist Jonas Nightingale, is raising spirits at Broadway's St. James Theatre, where it opens on April 26. Read on to get the good word on a show that gives audiences something to believe in.

Practice What You Preach
As an executive with ...

Nice Work If You Can Get It may be a brand new Broadway musical, but its origins date back to the early 1900s. When young Israel Gershowitz’s parents bought him a piano, they had hoped he would excel at his lessons. He didn’t. To Israel’s relief, his little brother Jacob took a liking to the instrument instead ...

A Haunting Idea
The 1990 film Ghost is as much a comedy as a romance, but it began life as a much darker project. “I had wanted to do a movie about ghosts for 10 years, and to tell it from the side of the ghost, but none of my ideas worked,” screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin told the New York ...

After the success of their 1970 concept album-turned-rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice teamed up again to create a rock opera about the controversial political figure Eva Peron, the First Lady of Argentina. The two young collaborators scrapped plans to write a musical adaptation of Peter Pan after Rice became mesmerized by a 1973 radio ...

Newsies, Disney’s crowd-pleasing new musical based on the cult 1992 film, is making headlines at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre, but the masses didn’t always greet the newsboys with such warmth. Read on to get the story behind the show.


Carrying the Banner
While working on the 1872 census, enumerator James B. McCabe Jr., wrote, “There are 10,000 ...

In the Beginning
Though the iconic Jesus Christ Superstar “brown album” became a fixture in teenagers’ basements and church youth groups alike in the early 1970s, creators Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice didn’t intend to release their third collaboration as a recording. The pair, then 22 and 26, respectively, already had one theatrical success in Joseph and the ...

Once, the new Broadway musical based on the hit indie film of the same name, is bringing a bittersweet brand of love story to the Jacobs Theatre. Read on to get the story behind the story of this quiet musical romance.

Gold
"Hope, at the end of the day, connects us all," said co-composer Marketa Irglova as she accepted the ...

He was referring to Waiting for Godot, the poetically funny, fascinating and perplexing four-man show by then-unknown Irishman Samuel Beckett that went on to mystify, entertain, outrage and touch the entire theatrical community.

“I have been brooding in my bath for the last ...