Weepies by Nicholas Sparks are so reliably engineered to produce puddles that “The Notebook,” which opened at the Schoenfeld Theater on Broadway on Thursday night, sells tissues at the merch counter.

Musicals often make me cry, bring me joy, or just move me by the story unfolding before my very eyes, so it isn’t surprising that I was moved by The Notebook. The musical manages to breathe new life ...

Ingrid Michaelson is used to people crying when they talk to her about The Notebook. Earlier this year, she tells me on Zoom, her piano in the background, she did an interview about her work on the ...

To say The Notebook had a devoted, built-in audience before it sang so much as a note on Broadway would be an understatement this romantic tear-jerker never attempts. Based on Nicholas Sparks’ 1996 ...