Thursday, May 12, 2016
Rodgers and Sondheim wrote only one, which neither of them liked. Do I Hear A Waltz? is a perfect selection of the Encores! concert series at New York City Center. The late Richard Rodgers s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PM[SHARE]There are  many theater awards, which makes the most talented performers extra busy in May, appearing at ceremonies and receptions, such as the one for the 2016 Drama Desk Award nominees …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AM[SHARE]Do you remember which play or musical made you fall in love with theatre? Yesterday, Jonathan Mandell attended the Drama Desk Awards reception and asked this year’s nominees …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Here are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 15 of the 22 categories in the 70th annual Tony Awards. Best Play Nominated: Ec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:58AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2016
She Loves Me, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Humans, and Bright Star were among the winners of the 66th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. Complete list below. OUTSTANDING NEW BRO…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2016
Hamilton received more Tony nominations than any show in its 70 year history. Other things are happening besides the Tony Award nominations, and other theater awards " including some two doz…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2016
The title character in the musical Dear Evan Hansen is a clinically anxious high school student who is so friendless that he can't get any classmates to sign the cast on his broken arm, exce…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PM[SHARE]The title character in the musical Dear Evan Hansen is a clinically anxious high school student who is so friendless that he can't get any classmates to sign the cast on his broken arm, exce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2016
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named Stephen Karam’s The Humans as 2016 Best Play and George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along as Best Musical. New York Drama Critics’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Make your pick for 15 of the 22 categories in the 70th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 12 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City,, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2016
From now until the Tony broadcast on June 12th, theater fans will undoubtedly sound like baseball fans, as they weigh in with predictions, protests and probabilities. This is true every year…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Hamilton leads the the 70th annual Tony Awards with a record 16 nominations. Best Play Eclipsed Author: Danai Gurira Producers: Stephen C. Byrd, Alia Jones-Harvey, Paula Marie Black, Carole …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AM[SHARE]The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2015-2016 theatrical season have been given to: Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple Carmen Cusack, Bright Star Khris D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2016
Below is the list of nominations for 2016 Fred and Adelle Astaire Awards for Broadway (and Off-Broadway) dancing. Winners will be announced May 16 and the NYU Skirball Center for the Perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09PM[SHARE]The Tony nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, Tuesday, May 3, which will launch weeks' worth of predictions, preferences and objections. Let's start a day early! Below is the list…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2016
Futurity, Guards at the Taj and The Robber Bridegroom were big winners at the 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Complete list of winners Outstand…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PM[SHARE]May may be seen as the month when theater people are awaiting the Tony Awards in June, but there are also nearly two dozen plays, musicals and “unique theatrical experiences” ope…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2016
"Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep," says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has mounted …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PM[SHARE]"Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep," says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has mounted …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
Below are two articles I wrote about Rent shortly after it opened on Broadway on April 29, 1996 (10,512,000 minutes ago.) The first article, published on May 12, 1996, is an interview with c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:10PM[SHARE]The Broadway season has officially ended, although the hoopla over it continues, with the Tony Award nominations to be announced on May 3. Other nominations have already been made public; mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on “Modern Family”, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PM[SHARE]Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on Modern Family, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy Manhattan resta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AM[SHARE]She Loves Me, American Psycho and Bright Star lead the nominations for the 61st annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:38PM[SHARE]"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PM[SHARE]The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
There is nothing idle about the gossip in  "The School for Scandal." That is clear from the very first scene, when the well-named Lady Sneerwell, portrayed by the estimable Frances Barber…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2016
There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater. Some of the reasons have …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25PM[SHARE]There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater…It is being promoted…
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