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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

On the Twentieth Century Will Return to Broadway in Spring 2015 by Chris Luner

Despite the fact that we haven’t even finished the Spring 2014 season yet on Broadway, that didn’t stop Roundabout Theatre Company today from announcing a new production in the w…

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

2014 Outer Critics Circle Award Winners Announced by Chris Luner

Awards season in New York just keeps awarding! With less than one month to go until the 2014 Tony Awards, more winners were announced today in New York for the 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awar…

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Monday, May 5, 2014

Willkommen Back: Cabaret (Photos) by Chris Luner

Luner on Theatre has been so wrapped up in bringing you the 2014 theatre awards season, we realized we never finished bringing you a look at all of this season’s current productions! D…

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2014 Lucille Lortel Award Winners Announced by Chris Luner

Step One; Nominations! Step Two; Winners! The New York theatre awards season is well underway with all of the nominations for potential awards across the board this year now being announced!…

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

A Prince Who Is Much More Than Just Charming by Chris Luner

Once upon a time…Luner on Theatre decided to review a cabaret! So we headed over to Don’t Tell Mama where Bret Shuford is currently appearing in his brand new show, Charming: The…

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Tony Time: Tony Tuesday with Luner on Theatre by Chris Luner

As previously mentioned, earlier this morning we were lucky enough to attend The 2014 Tony Award Nominations announcement! We arrived at The Paramount Hotel early this morning to much buzz! …

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Tony Time: 2014 Tony Award Nominations Announced by Chris Luner

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The 2014 Tony Awards season officially kicked off this morning! Following a week of nominations from Outer Critics, the Drama League and Drama…

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Friday, April 25, 2014

2014 Drama Desk Award Nominations Announced by Chris Luner

They just keep coming! After a busy week of theatre award nominations for the Broadway and Off-Broadway community, yet another set of award nominations were announced today in New York! The …

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Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar And Grill (Photos) by Chris Luner

Five time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald has returned to Broadway this season in a last-minute announced production of Lady Day Emerson’s Bar And Grill. Lady Day, written by Lanie …

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You Can’t Take It With You Set For Broadway Revival by Chris Luner

Today may be the cut off day for Broadway shows eligible for the 2013-2014 awards season but that isn’t stop producers from already looking ahead to next season on Broadway! With one n…

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Casa Valentina (Photos) by Chris Luner

It’s the 1960′s in the Catskill mountains and nestled among the vacationing families escaping their normal lives for the summer is a colony of men trying to escape what society h…

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Broadway’s Palace Theatre Will Get Makeover for Holler If You Hear Me by Chris Luner

Holler If You Hear Me may not be eligible for anything this season as it begins previews after the official Tony Awards cut off date has passed but that isn’t stopping this Broadway p…

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Hedwig And The Angry Inch (Photos) by Chris Luner

Neil Patrick Harris has come to Broadway in the Broadway premiere of Hedwig And The Angry Inch. The musical, which features a book by John Cameron Mitchell with music and lyrics by Stephen T…

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2014 Drama League Award Nominations Announced by Chris Luner

We meant it when we said it’s awards season! Just a day after the 2014 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations were announced, the nominations for the oldest theatrical awards in Ameri…

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

South Pacific at Paper Mill Playhouse (Photos) by Chris Luner

Some Enchanted Evening! South Pacific, which features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan, is now in performan…

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2014 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations Announced by Chris Luner

Let the games begin! And by games, we clearly are talking about the theatre awards season now officially underway in New York! Earlier this morning, Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams proudl…

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Violet (Photos) by Chris Luner

The Encores! Off-Center production of Violet has transferred to Broadway this spring after a critically acclaimed run this past summer! Sutton Foster stars as Violet, a young and bitter girl…

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Is Taylor Swift Broadway’s Next Celebrity Composer? by Chris Luner

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together! Will Taylor Swift soon be saying those words to the music world? More than likely not. However, that is not hindering the country star icon from look…

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Encores! The Most Happy Fella (Photos) by Chris Luner

Encores! is at it again as another stellar production heads to the stage this week! The Most Happy Fella, which features a book, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, is based on the play The…

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The Realistic Joneses (Photos) by Chris Luner

Fantasy versus reality for two families in the same neighborhood who not only have identical homes but last names as well. The Realistic Joneses, a new comedy written by Will Eno, tells the …

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2014 Lucille Lortel Award Nominations Announced by Chris Luner

Ready or not New York, here comes theatre awards season! While it may only be the first couple days of April, awards season for the New York theatre community is upon us! Yesterday, the Off…

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

London: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Photos) by Chris Luner

The French Riviera has never looked better! The UK premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which features music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane, is now officially open…

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Christopher Durang to star in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Chris Luner

The Bucks County Playhouse is coming back bigger and better than ever before! The regional playhouse, located in New Hope, Pennsylvania, was at one point in time one of the most beloved regi…

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A Raisin In The Sun (Photos) by Chris Luner

55 years ago, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun debuted on Broadway and the changed the theatre world forever. It was the first work of theatre written by an African-American w…

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Monday, March 31, 2014

If/Then (Photos) by Chris Luner

If you follow one road, then where does the other lead? The idea of choices, where they lead us in life and person they make us are explored in the brand new original Broadway musical If/The…

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Wagner College Theatre’s Class of 2014 Senior Showcase Presented March 31st by Chris Luner

The time of year has come again for Wagner College Theatre to celebrate another class about to step into the world. The Class of 2014 will celebrate their achievements tonight and just how f…

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Friday, March 28, 2014

National Tour of Joseph And the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Photos) by Chris Luner

Close Every Door? No! Open them and send in the brand new national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat! The iconic musical tells the…

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Heathers: The Musical (Photos) by Chris Luner

It’s September 1989 and Westerberg High School is being terrorized by a Heather, Heather and Heather, otherwise known as the Heathers. Heathers: The Musical, which features a book, m…

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Report Cites Ceiling Materials In Apollo Theatre Collapse in London by Chris Luner

London’s West End was rocked late last year during the holiday season as a collapse at one of its theatres brought the show to a stand still and sent dozens of people to local hospital…

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Atlantic Theatre Company’s The Three Penny Opera (Photos) by Chris Luner

 The Three Penny Opera, based off of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, has returned to Manhattan! Written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, the musical tells the story of a wel…

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Melanie Brook to make 54 Below Debut Tonight by Chris Luner

While cabarets and concerts are not something we usually do not cover here on Luner on Theatre, there are always exceptions to the rules. Melanie Brook is a close friend of ours and a force …

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