All stories by Nancy Coleman on BroadwayStars

Monday, June 12, 2023

Inside the 2023 Tony Awards After-Parties by Sarah Bahr and Nancy Coleman

Spirited celebrations that included a block party in Washington Heights and a gathering at the Carlyle Hotel extended past 4 a.m.

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

A Connection That Began When Sarah Ruhl Made Paula Vogel Cry by Nancy Coleman

Sarah Ruhl met Paula Vogel as a student in her class. Thirty years later, they still exchange first drafts.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

The Broadway Star Phillipa Soo Sings Her Favorite Pop Song by Nancy Coleman

In a new revival of “Camelot,” updated by Aaron Sorkin, the actress finds humanity in the legend of King Arthur and Guenevere.

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Friday, March 31, 2023

Alex Newell From ‘Shucked’ Sings Their Favorite Whitney Houston Song by Nancy Coleman

After growing up listening to powerhouse voices, the actor brings their own back to Broadway.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Micaela Diamond, From Broadway’s ‘Parade,’ Sings Her Favorite Joni Mitchell Song by Nancy Coleman

The actor, who learned to love music at her local temple, has developed a different relationship to her Judaism onstage.

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Monday, August 15, 2022

Netflix’s “13” Brings Back Memories For Its Stage Cast by Nancy Coleman

For the creators and cast of the 2008 musical “13,” a new Netflix adaptation brings back memories — theatrical and hormonal.

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Monday, September 27, 2021

The Best and Worst Moments of the Tony Awards by Jesse Green, Stella Bugbee, Maya Salam, Sarah Bahr and Nancy Coleman

Despite an evening split between streaming and TV, the message on Sunday night was clear: Broadway is back.

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Sunday, September 26, 2021

'Freestyle Love Supreme' Wins Special Award at the Tony Awards by Nancy Coleman

The show received a special Tony Award for creating something different: an improvised musical performance whipped up anew every night.

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Monday, August 23, 2021

Staging ‘The Glass Menagerie’ on the Fire Escapes That Inspired It by Nancy Coleman

At Tennessee Williams’s childhood apartment in St. Louis, one of his most famous works has become an immersive event.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Disney, With Benefit Concert, Makes an Early Return to Broadway by Nancy Coleman

Disney stage alumni will give four performances at the New Amsterdam Theater, two months before the curtains rise on “The Lion King” and “Aladdin” in New York.

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Friday, June 18, 2021

André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) by Nancy Coleman

The actor is performing the coveted role for a second time, and is already aiming for a third. But first: He’s returning to Broadway in September.

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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

New York Theater Workshop Plans a Summer Reopening by Nancy Coleman

The Off Broadway institution unveiled a “superseason” of performances beginning in August, and continuing through 2022-23.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020

A Decade of Puppets in Organized Chaos by Nancy Coleman

Manual Cinema, a Chicago arts collective, is highlighting four of its productions — vivacious hybrids of film and theater — in a virtual retrospective.

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Missing Theater Under the Stars (Even the Bugs and the Rain) by Nancy Coleman, Laura Collins-Hughes, Scott Heller and Alexis Soloski

Shakespeare in the Park and other outdoor venues are shut. But for performers and directors, open-air memories are as sharp as the bite of a mosquito.

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

A Forum to Discuss Race and Broadway by Nancy Coleman

“Offstage,” a new Times digital series, premieres with a focus on two challenges facing the nation’s biggest stages: an interrupted season and an unequal playing field.

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Thursday, May 21, 2020

‘Smash,’ NBC’s Short-Lived Musical Drama, Eyes the Stage by Nancy Coleman

Steven Spielberg and other original producers are adapting the backstage T.V. series, which theater fans continued to embrace after its brief run.

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

Dancing With Myself: How Artists Stay in Shape Without a Stage by Nancy Coleman

With the coronavirus pandemic putting live shows on hold, performers are adapting how they practice.

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

‘If There’s No Broadway, There’s No Business’ by Nancy Coleman

Inside Ernest Winzer Cleaners, the Bronx facility that keeps costumes glittering, as it faces an uncertain future.

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Monday, March 16, 2020

London’s Cultural Landmarks Shutter Amid Coronavirus Threat by Alex Marshall and Nancy Coleman

The city’s West End theater district, Royal Opera House and other premier venues closed Monday after the prime minister warned patrons to avoid the theater during the outbreak.

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Barbra Streisand, James Corden and More on Their Favorite Sondheim Song by Nancy Coleman

We asked Stephen Sondheim’s admirers, some of them also his collaborators, to reflect on the songs that have stayed in their hearts.

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Friday, January 31, 2020

A Convention for Broadway Fans? They’re Singing My Song by Nancy Coleman

When I covered BroadwayCon last weekend, I saw rapturous fans, spontaneous singalongs, outrageous cosplay — and myself.

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Where Broadway Fans Wear the Crowns and the Tentacles by Nancy Coleman and Amy Lombard

The fifth edition of BroadwayCon had enthusiasts dressing for the underworld, swapping stories and merch, and singing along to “Six,” a show that hasn’t even opened yet.

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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Harry and Meghan’s Exit Has Been Dramatized Before by Nancy Coleman

The 2014 play “King Charles III,” in which a fictional Prince Harry wants to leave the royal family, has proved to be prophetic.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Fran Drescher Developing ‘The Nanny’ Musical for Broadway by Nancy Coleman

The songwriting team behind the musical comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” will write the score.

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Monday, January 6, 2020

Behind the ‘Lightning Thief’ Twitter Curtain: A Tony Winner by Nancy Coleman

Ashlee Latimer fostered a young online community through the musical’s social media. Fans know her better as Mx. Thief.

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Friday, January 3, 2020

Curtain Goes Down on New York Musical Festival by Nancy Coleman

Faced with staff resignations and significant debt, the organization declared bankruptcy after 15 years.

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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Max Yu, Young Theater Graduate, Wins $45,000 Playwriting Prize by Nancy Coleman

Yu won the Relentless Award for “Nightwatch,” a story based on his family that he wrote as a student at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Friday, December 20, 2019

Daniel Fish’s Post-‘Oklahoma!’ Musical: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ by Nancy Coleman

The 1956 musical drama, with an acclaimed operatic score, will premiere this summer at Bard SummerScape in Annandale-on-Hudson.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Claire Foy and Matt Smith to Reunite, on a Brooklyn Stage by Nancy Coleman

The “Crown” duo will portray a couple at a crossroads in Duncan Macmillan’s “Lungs,” which will have a limited New York run after selling out in London.

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Monday, November 4, 2019

‘The Irishman’ on Broadway: Phone Booths, Broadsheets and Jimmy Hoffa Stickers by Nancy Coleman

Fans came for a big-screen experience of Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic at the Belasco Theater, ahead of the film’s arrival on Netflix. They left with a few souvenirs.

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Friday, November 1, 2019

How to Write a ‘Tootsie’ Actress Out of a TV Show? Keep It Real by Nancy Coleman

When Sarah Stiles bowed out of the series “Get Shorty” to take a role on Broadway in “Tootsie,” the TV show explained the exit with a story line based on her experience.

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards