Thursday, May 9, 2019
Ten of the 34 shows that opened on Broadway during the 2018-2019 season began life Off-Broadway. I was struck by how sharply different my reactions were to seeing the Off-Broadway and Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Here are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 16 of the 26 categories in the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. Best Play Nominated:Cho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Tony winner Billy Porter became the pharaoh of fashion at the Met Gala red carpet, his Egyptian-themed…production number… right up there with Katy Perry wearing a chandelier, Jared Leto …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36AMMonday, May 6, 2019
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth best play of the 2018-19 season, Tootsie best musical, What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PMSunday, May 5, 2019
in the 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Full list of winners: Outstanding Play Outstanding Musical Outstanding Revival Outstanding Solo Show Fleaba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:49PMSaturday, May 4, 2019
Make your pick in the survey below for 16 of the 26 categories in the 73rd annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 9th at Radio Music Hall…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34AMFriday, May 3, 2019
The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2017-2018 theatrical season have been given to: Gbenga Akinnagbe, To Kill A Mockingbird Tom Glynn-Carney, The Ferrym…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AMThursday, May 2, 2019
Take this quiz about the nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards, which were announced Tuesday. How well do you know the nominees. How much were you paying attention to the season?
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
May is not just the month that theatergoers debate nominations and await awards. Shows do open. That includes just one play on Broadway — the first of the 2019-2020 Broadway season, starri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:21PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Hadestown, Ain’t Too Proud and Tootsie received the greatest number of nominations in the 2019 Tony Awards, announced by Brandon Victor Dixon and Bebe Neuwirth. The winners of the 73rd ann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39AMMonday, April 29, 2019
The Broadway 2018-2019 season has ended, and the New York theater award season is in high gear. The Tony nominations will be announced tomorrow. Here are the shows that opened on Broadway th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PMNobody applauds when Annette Bening first appears on stage in All My Sons, the third Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s 1947 tragedy, the playwright’s first hit play. This is because …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMSunday, April 28, 2019
Nobody applauds when Annette Bening first appears on stage in All My Sons, the third Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s 1947 tragedy, the playwright’s first hit play. This is because of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PMFriday, April 26, 2019
Ink recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, “a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit,” and in a year’s time made it a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53PM“Ink” recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, “a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit,” and in a year’s time mad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PMKiss Me Kate, Alice by Heart, Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations got the greatest number of nominations for the Chita Rivera Awards for dance an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PMThursday, April 25, 2019
Beetlejuicethe Broadway musical differs in crucial ways from Tim Burton’s 1988 comic horror movie, as the character Beetlejuice himself (portrayed by Alex Brightman) makes clear from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PMOklahoma and Tootsie lead in number of nominations for the 64th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Tootsie, the musical adaptation of the 1982 movie comedy about a difficult actor who becomes a beloved actress, begins bravely with an opening number in which bubbly ensemble members sing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PMIn Tootsie the movie, Michael Dorsey, an actor desperate to be cast in anything, auditions disguised as a woman he names Dorothy Michaels, and lands a role as a female hospital administrator…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMHadestown, Tootsie, and Oklahoma received the most nominations in the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 13th, with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AMMonday, April 22, 2019
Earth Day is officially April 22nd, but it’s being celebrated on Broadway, Saturday April 27th, when the 30 blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PMSunday, April 21, 2019
Gary is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor characters …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PM“Gary” is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor chara…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PMSaturday, April 20, 2019
On April 20, 1999 — 20 years ago today — two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Seven years later, New York Theatre Workshop p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMFriday, April 19, 2019
The fifth Broadway production of My Fair Lady opened a year ago today, as good a time as any to wax nostalgic over not just Lerner and Loewe’s 1956 musical, but over Pygmalion, the 1913 pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:07PMThursday, April 18, 2019
Hillary and Clinton is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential candidat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PM“Hillary and Clinton” is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
On Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it’s changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell’s concept album had been turned into an inventively…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39PMOn Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it’s changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell’s concept album had been turned into an inventively …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PMSocrates was so annoying to his fellow Athenians that even some of those jurors who had voted to acquit him joined the majority to have him condemned to death during the penalty phase of his…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PM 
