Sunday, May 10, 2015
Hamilton has swept the Lucille Lortel Awards, winning in every category in which it was nominated, a record-breaking ten awards in all, including for best musical, best leads, best director,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2015
The Booth brothers, the Redgrave siblings, the Astaire brother and sister act " siblings on Broadway are not unusual, but they seem to be especially plentiful this season. Jake Lucas, 12, pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2015
Here is Lin-Manuel Miranda talking about his past influences, and what he was planning to do with “The Hamilton MixTape” — from a video interview I conducted with him in Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Julie Halston has been making people laugh on New York stages since 1985, most recently in “You Can’t Take It With You” and “On The Town.” Here is a video that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
The 71st annual Theatre World Awards, for performers making their Broadway or Off-Broadway debuts, go to: Geneva Carr, Hand To God Megan Fairchild, On The Town Sydney Lucas, Fun Home Karen P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PM[SHARE]The nominees for the 2015 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which honor dancers and choreographers on Broadway and Hollywood: Best Female Dancer: Annaleigh Ashford – You Can’t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
“Hamilton” won for best musical and “Between Riverside and Crazy” won for best play in the New York Drama Circle Critics Awards. The award was created in respon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PM[SHARE]Within the next few days, the winners of four New York theater awards will be announced, and more than half a dozen new plays will open.  Here is the schedule of May theater openings a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2015
He's a rich restaurateur, she a poor schoolteacher. Although decades older than she is, he prances and fidgets like a rock star, while she stands still like a rock. Yet, for six years, Tom a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2015
The new Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District opened yesterday to the public, and today they are throwing a block party — and free admission….if you’re willing to wait…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
Some may see May as the month when theater people are waiting for the Tony Awards in June, but don't be fooled. There are at least 21 shows opening in New York this month, including one on B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
We probably all have an answer to ‘What show changed your life?’Â For DCTS editor Lorraine Treanor, her path to being an English teacher changed the day she saw Elaine Stritch…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:00PM[SHARE]While it’s not hard to find an actor or writer waiting tables or bartending in New York to make ends meet, we found one Tony Award nominee who doesn’t plan to give up his day job…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PM[SHARE] Glee is gone, which gives Darren Criss the chance to take the grease out of his hair, and smear it over his body, as the latest Hedwig in the Broadway blast, Hedwig and the Angry Inch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AM[SHARE]The morning after the 69th Annual Tony Award nominations were announced, Tony Award nominee, Brandon Uranowitz, nominated for creating the role of Adam Hochberg in An American in Paris, sat …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
How well were you paying attention to theater in April? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:09AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
The nominations for the 69th annual Tony Awards will be announced today at 8:30 a.m. Best Play Best Musical Best Revival of a Play Best Revival of a Musical Best Book of a Musical Best Perfo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PM[SHARE]The last two weeks were the busiest of the entire year in New York theater, with the opening of the last TEN shows of the Broadway season. Below reviews of those shows, plus one high-p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:37PM[SHARE]Fun Home is, yes, a musical about a lesbian cartoonist whose closeted father killed himself, but it is also about how we try to figure out the puzzle of our parents; about how we reassemble …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2015
"Grounded," a play directed by Julie Taymor and starring Anne Hathaway as a drone pilot, could not be more newsworthy: It is opening at the Public Theater just days after the news that a U.S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2015
"Living on Love," which marks opera singer Renee Fleming's Broadway debut, portraying a temperamental Diva married to a oversexed Maestro, has some of the best-delivered songs on the Great W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09PM[SHARE]What’s easiest to predict about the Tonys this year is that the predictions and objections will start as soon as the nominations are announced, which this year is on Tuesday, April 28,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PM[SHARE]Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39PM[SHARE]When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PM[SHARE]Hamilton and An American in Paris received the most nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
There is a musical number early in Something Rotten that thoroughly delivers what the show's title, cast, creative team, and poster art have promised — Monty Python subversive sillines…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]By the end of the show, despite the cleverness of its concept, Something Rotten as executed simply hasn't added up to a completely satisfying musical. Its choreography seems too repetitive, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
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