Dr. Drama

Lauren Weinberg knew she wanted to be an actor from her earliest memory and has barely looked back since. She broke through professionally playing Adelaide in Guys and Dolls on the national tour in 2014, a role she adores. Lauren has gone on to play Adelaide […]

Art is a powerful medium for understanding ourselves and each other. As one of those art forms, theater can elucidate and educate, allowing us inside of the internal lives of the characters through song and dance in a way that other genres cannot, making it […]

Rodney Hicks is a 43-year-old Broadway veteran but it would be easy to mistake him for a master yogi. He has a fitness worthy of an athletic professional, creating an appearance that defies age, and a public presentation that exudes a level of peace and knowledge that comes from decades of philosophical study. […]

September 14, 2017 I am thrilled to announce that I have two interviews lined up with theater professionals, one an up-and-coming triple threat actress and another with a Broadway veteran.  Stay tuned! Best, Dr. Broadway

Hamilton: An American Musical is arguably and by all measures the most popular theater piece of the last one hundred years. The secondary market ticket prices are unprecedented (into the thousands of dollars for the best seats) and the show is sold-out well into 2018. The musical moved beyond Broadway […]

It happened sixteen years ago this week. The sky was falling, the fright was blinding. A sickening coordinated attack by humans on other humans. A sense that the world would never again be safe. Sounds like the least likely topic for a musical. Yet playing eight times a week […]

An adolescent male stands downstage, a searing hot spotlight singularly illuminating his isolation. The teen fumbles through his index cards, desperatedly searching for the lost place in his speech and an anchor for his fear. His lower lip trembles while this young man unevenly sucks in oxygen, trying to remain afloat. […]

Hedwig and the Angry Inch boasts the best rock score to ever grace the off-Broadway and Broadway stages. In addition to this brilliantly penned score, Hedwig, in all of her wigged glory, is one of the great transgender icons. Most articles about the recent 2014 Broadway […]

Burn All Night is a gritty immersive musical making its world premier at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. It follows young Bobby, freshly arrived in New York City, as he runs into his old friend, Holly and then tries to settle into his adulthood. […]

At the Brooks Atkinson Theater, Jenna Hunterson, the lead character in the musical Waitress, is abused by her husband eight times a week. We see Earl grab her roughly by the wrist, raise his hand to strike her, intimidate her with his physicality, and financially control her. The […]