Among the surprises during this intense theater award week is the awarding of the 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award to La MaMa, “for celebrating diversity and helping to introduce the Off…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child won for new Broadway play, SpongeBob SquarePants for new Broadway musical in the 68th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. Admissions won for Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AMKPOP won best musical and the best play was a tie between Cost of Living and School Girls, in the 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Full list: O…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22PMMake your pick in the survey below for 15 of the 26 categories in the 72nd annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 10th at Radio Music Hal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM“Summer and Smoke,” Tennessee Williams’ ripe Southern Gothic tale about a preacher’s daughter and her lifelong longing for the doctor’s son next door, is being given a minimalist c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AMSome theatergoers objected to the changes in “My Fair Lady,” which made it more in line with the #MeToo era — Eliza more independent, and neither she nor Henry Higgins roma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:04PMSome of the 2018 Tony Award nominees who spoke to (or at least pose for) the press. The winners will be announced on June 10th. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged, and find out who t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:21PMTake this quiz about the nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards, which were announced Tuesday. How well do you know the nominees. How much were you paying attention to the season?
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMYes, we now debate theater nominations and await the awards, but the shows must go on in May. That includes just one play on Broadway — the first of the 2018-2019 Broadway season and s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19AMMean Girls’ and `SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical’ lead nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards, with 12 nods each, followed by Angels in America, The Band…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMThe Broadway 2017-2018 season has ended, and the New York theater award season has begun. The Tony nominations will be announced tomorrow. The Week in New York Theater Reviews Ranked,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMYes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope’s sa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMYes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope’s sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:29PMIn the ninth Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan,” director Daniel Sullivan has assembled a skillful cast of 19 to offer what feels like a straightforward history …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM“Carousel” leads with six nominations for The Chita Rivera Awards for choreography and dance. The winners of the awards (formerly called the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards) will …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18AMIn the first scene of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties,” the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, the Irish novelist James Joyce, and the Romanian avant-garde artist Tristan Tzara are all s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46PMWhat if Harry Potter hadn’t existed until now? What if Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the five and a half hour play now on Broadway about two generations of Potters and their friends a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMClick on any photograph by Manuel Harlan or Matthew Murphy to see it enlarged and read the captions. What if Harry Potter hadn’t existed until now? What if Harry Potter and the Cursed Chil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PMCarousel, SpongeBob Squarepants, and Mean Girls got the most nominations in the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21AMLincoln Center’s sumptuous fourth Broadway revival of “My Fair Lady,” the supremely tuneful and witty 1956 Lerner and Lowe musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s pointed 1913 pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08PM“SpongeBob SquarePants”has received 11 nominations for 2018 Outer Critic Awards, more than any other show, followed by “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” with ten, and “My Fair …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMSummer features 23 of Donna Summer’s songs, including such dance hits as “Hot Stuff” and “Last Dance,” that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fans…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32PMCristofer, one of the two bright but poor Bronx-born students who are vying for a scholarship in Lucy Thurber’s play “Transfers,” lashes out at one point at the advisor who has been …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMSummer features 23 of Donna Summer’s songs, including such dance hits as “Hot Stuff” and “Last Dance,” that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40PMFive shows are officially opening on Broadway over the next five days, ending the 2017-2018 Broadway season April 22: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child April 23: Summer: The Donna Summer Mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33AMWhy was the great actress Sarah Bernhardt, who performed in and/or produced more than 40 shows on Broadway, never even nominated for a single Tony — nor any other major New York theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01AMBelow is the full list of the nominations for the 84th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AMFifteen Broadway shows have opening dates in March and April, 2018, the bulk of the 2017-2018 season. Tickets are made available to them for as little as $10, but more often about $40, which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21AM“The Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. “The Minutes by Tracy Letts and “Everybody” by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins were selected…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16AMThe new “Carousel” has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Thomas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMThe new “Carousel” has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by…
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