Sunday, May 7, 2017
The Band’s Visit won best musical and Oslo the best play in the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Outstanding Play: Oslo Outstanding…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:37PM[SHARE]The Tony nominations announced last Tuesday set off what will be five weeks of prediction, debate and suspense. But the suspense ends this week for many of the other major New York theater: …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 6, 2017
Make your pick for 15 of the 24 categories in the 71st annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 11th at Radio Music Hall in New York City. Mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Friday, May 5, 2017
In Power Struggle on Broadway: Escapist vs. Socially Conscious Shows in the 2016"17 Season, a piece I wrote for HowlRound, I point out that there were more socially conscious than escapis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
Watch videos from the four Broadway musicals nominated for the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award, listed alphabetically. Above each of the show’s video(s) is a link to a post with productio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Below are 2017 Tony Award nominees who spoke at the Meet the Nominees press reception the day after the announcement, grouped more or less show by show. Click on individual photographs to re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 leads the 2017 Tony Award nominations with twelve, followed by the Bette Midler-starring revival Hello, Dolly! with ten a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AM[SHARE]The Tony nominations will be announced this morning, Tuesday, May 2, at 8:30 a.m., which will launch weeks' worth of predictions, preferences and objections. Let's start a few hours early! B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:16AM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2017
The nominations for the Tony Awards will be announced at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, making it the major event of the year that turns night people into morning people. Other things are happening R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PM[SHARE]The Broadway musicals “Cats” and  “Bandstand” and the Off-Broadway revival of “Sweet Charity”  lead in the number of nominations for the Chita River…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00PM[SHARE]May is a month when Broadway is on the brain, but not on the stage. Theatergoers focus on the Tonys and many other theater awards, but there are more than a dozen Off-Broadway and Off-Off Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
Test your knowledge of theater in April. Which play contains the lines of dialogue, which lyric belongs to which musical? Who got what award? In what show is a sexy rock star making his Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:18PM[SHARE]Now that the New York theater season has ended officially, the theater awards season steps up. Â What are all these awards? How do they differ? When will the various nominations and award…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2017
"Bandstand," a new musical about a group of traumatized World War II veterans who form a 40's jazz band with a Gold Star widow as their singer, attempts to combine an original score of perio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54PM[SHARE]Summed up in a single photograph: April 29th marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Here are press accounts and comments. “The tradition of looking to that period as a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2017
There are moments in Bette Midler's Hello, Dolly that offer unsurpassed entertainment, demonstrating the ideal match between show and star that many people expected when they first heard tha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2017
Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House who slams the door on her husband and three childre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31PM[SHARE]Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play “A Doll's House” who slams the door on her husband and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Hello, Dolly, Anastasia, and Come From Away lead the 62nd annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2017
"The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare; neither knew chocolate." That insight by Sandra Boynton (author of "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion") helps explain why w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31PM[SHARE]Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience int…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]The Broadway season is not over until the end of this week, but the awards season has already begun. The Week in Theater Awards Sound design Tony categories reinstated for next year They fou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PM[SHARE]“Anastasia” and “Hello, Dolly!” lead in the number of nominations for the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards, with 13 and 10 respectively, followed by “The Band&#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2017
Pity Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, charged with fashioning the book of a Broadway musical out of a 1997 cartoon, which turned the Russian Revolution into a fairytale, grinding a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02PM[SHARE]In dramatizing the legend surrounding the youngest daughter of the last Czar, the show has created a new villain, a Soviet official named Gleb….Anastasia winds up promoting nostalgia f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 23, 2017
So there was Andy Karl, the star of "Groundhog Day," on stage in what's supposed to be a seduction scene, but he was proudly showing off the elaborate black knee-brace on his bare outstretch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:15PM[SHARE]Friday, April 21, 2017
Now we call it racism, sexism and domestic abuse, but it's just everyday life in "The Little Foxes," Lillian Hellman's 1939 play about a rapacious Southern family, which is being given an en…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
In her first performance in a Broadway musical in 50 years, Bette Midler opens tonight as the 15th Dolly Gallagher Levi on Broadway, Â in the fifth Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2017 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:29PM[SHARE]The gay couples at the heart of two separate plays currently running Off-Broadway have been together for years, and yet, neither are married because one partner in each of the relationships …
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