“Do you want to play a game? “ Lucy (Madison Ferris) asks Alfonso as soon as she spots him, without even so much as a hello. “It’ll be fun, trust me.” “A stranger who says I sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PMClick here for the list of 2024 Drama League Award nominees, from which the awardees were chosen. Don’t know the difference between the awards of the Drama League and the Drama Desk and th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PM“Stereophonic,” just released an original cast recording with a 14-song tracklist (listen below), which is not unusual for a Broadway musical, but not common for a Broadway play, which i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PMLeslie Odom in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical “Purlie Victorious,” Sutton Foster in “Anything Goes,” and a London concert by Audra McDonald are among the acclaimed theatrical pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PMNear the start of “An American Soldier,” Danny Chen (Brian Vu) stumbles distraught through the crowd gathered in a military courtroom. For much of my life, I felt invisibleDo you know …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMBelow are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2023-2024 theatrical season, as well as three speci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AMThe New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named David Adjmi’s Stereophonic best play of the 2023-24 season. The award for best musical went to Dead Outlaw, music and lyrics by David Yazb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PMA slew of honors for Broadway mainstays were announced this past week, as well as the Outer Critics Circle Awards this morning (see News below.) Meanwhile, new theater is still happening…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:14AM“Stereophonic”won outstanding new Broadway play and three other awards, “Suffs” outstanding new Broadway musical and two other awards at the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56AMMothers took center stage in the Broadway season just ended, getting star treatment for characters who range from vile to virtuous. Today, on Mothers Day, Jessica Lange in the title role of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMAt first, “Shimmer and Herringbone,” the third and final absurdist play in the avant-garde theater company Talking Band’s fiftieth anniversary season, promises to be a series of random…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PM“Scarlett Dreams” is a play that imagines a near-future dominated by Artificial Intelligence, so I asked ChatGPT how it would review the play. It instantly produced a 303-word review, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05PM“Exagoge,” inspired by the oldest known Jewish play, is a wildly ambitious, complicated but largely accessible new work of immersive theater: a play, opera, and Passover seder all in one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:34PMBelow are the nominations for the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The awards will be announced May 30th, and the ceremony will take place June 18th, at Sardi’s. The Alliance has …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AMThe children’s book author Dare Wright is billed as the inspiration for this unusual theater piece, although her name is never mentioned on stage. Actually, nothing is mentioned on stage. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PM“Here There Are Blueberries” turns the real-life discovery of an ordinary-looking photo album into a riveting detective story, with the characters gathering clues to unravel a series of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:11PMEboni Booth’s “Primary Trust” has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich ’s “Here There Are Blueberries” and Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s “P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PMNominations for the Tony Awards and for the Drama Desk Awards were among the theater awards announced last week; winners of the Lucille Lortel Awards were announced and feted last night; win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “The Comeuppance” won Outstanding Play and nicHi douglas‘ “(pray)” won Outstanding Musical, Director and Ensemble at the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59PM“Grenfell” is documentary theater about an infamous 2017 fire in a 24-story public housing project in London called Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people. Subtitled “In the words of s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PMTheater in Chinatown used to mean gangland shoot-outs – both on the screen and in the balcony of the neighborhood’s many movie theaters, which had names like Sun Sing and Pagoda, and wer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PMWatch one- or two-minute videos from each of the five musicals nominated for the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical: “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Illinoise,” “The Outsiders,” “Suffs” a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PMEight Special Tony Awards and Honors have been announced, including for pioneers in projection design, hair and wig design, and sound design, as well as for writer and director Alex Edelman.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:33PMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in May, including new musicals from Laura Benanti and Dave Malloy as well as a new opera from David Henry Hwang, all Off-Broadway. Nothing is schedule…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AMEleven* of the 39 shows that opened on Broadway in the 2023-2024 season received no Tony nominations. This doesn’t necessarily mean they were cheated; the Tony nominators had to make choic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMHell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic lead with 13 Tony Award nominations each, the most respectively for a musical and a play, as announced this morning by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Eli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMBelow is the complete list of the nominations for 2024 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, as announced this afternoon by Bebe Neuwirth.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PMNominations for the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards were announced by Kathleen Turner this morning. The awards, which honor achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMThree plays and four musicals opened on Broadway last week, the last of the 39 shows that opened during the 2023-2024 season. Awards season has already begun in earnest, with the nominations…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AMRachel McAdams might at first seem to be miscast in her first role on Broadway. She portrays the title character in Amy Herzog’s deceptively casual play about the mother of a severely d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PMHow well were you paying attention to the fourteen Broadway plays and musicals that opened in April, the last month of the 2023-2024 Broadway season? Take the quiz and find out. Loading…
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