Paul Wontorek

How do we sustain the human spirit, hope and love in the face of a plague? Set in a dingy Lower East Side apartment in the 1980s, Beirut follows the story of Torch, a young man who is in quarantine after testing positive to a nameless disease. His girlfriend, refuses to leave him isolating alone. It’s raunchy, it’s real, it’s poetic; and it reminds us of the power of stories, and their role in fostering hope, solidarity and documentation of extraordinary times.

Leslie Kritzer, the multi-talented star who is currently delighting audiences as Delia in the Tony-nominated musical Beetlejuice, has signed on to lead Broadway.com's latest vlog, "Seize the Day-O," beginning on July 30, which will follow Kritzer and her co-stars backstage and onstage at the Winter Garden Theatre, where the new musical is playing to thrilled audiences eight times a week.