Each of the women played by the Tony nominees for Best Actress in a Play is in a difficult situation to put it mildly. Whether battling drug addiction, holding a best-selling novelist captiv…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:53PMDoing Shuffle Along is a magical experience — both in terms of the human beings that I get to deal with on a regular basis and the spirits that we get to conjure and bring to the stage…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:39PMThe Tony Awards have grabbed the spotlight during this NYC theater award season, but they only include Broadway shows in their list of nominations. The Drama Desks, presented by an organizat…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:23PMI was raised in Brooklyn — Coney Island. Food parallels the way I was raised right after the Depression. Nobody was rich. So, we had to rely on ourselves and one another. Families came…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:46PMAll four of the Tony nominees for Best Revival of a Musical are familiar to Broadway audiences. Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me have had multiple productions on the Main Stem over the y…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:34PMThis year marks 15 years since Heather Headley wowed audiences in Aida. It also marks the first time that she returns to doing the eight-shows-a-week routine – in May, she replaced Jennife…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:40PMMy favorite song is “For Good” from Wicked, because it’s so personal and true. People come into our lives and we sometimes take them for granted. It’s nice to turn …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:32PMHamilton and The Humans were among the top winners at the 82nd annual Drama League Awards, presented May 20 at the Marriott Marquis in a gala event hosted by Zachary Levi (She Loves Me) and …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:05PMA raucous backstage farce. A nearly four-hour journey into one family’s anguish. Raging conflict in a New England village and on the docks of Brooklyn, both seen through the eyes of a …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:42PMNew York is epic. New York has always been a place that for some reason I feel like I fit. Even though I don’t look like I fit here. People always made me feel like I fit here. Every…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:51AMFuturity and Exit Strategy have won the top awards from the Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing professi…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:09PMTony and Emmy winner David Hyde Pierce will join Bette Midler in the new production of Hello, Dolly!Set to begin preview performances at the Shubert Theatre on March 13, 2017 in advance of a…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:40PMCasting director James Calleri has been around the Broadway block and then some. It’s a little unusual for someone on the casting side of the table to rattle off their resumé (that…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:16PMMy mother says I was born a New Yorker. I just happen to be born in Pittsburgh — go Steelers! My first trip to New York was during spring break of my freshman year at Carnegie Mellon. …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:19PMI had visited New York many times, but never to live here. I moved to the city when we started rehearsal for Hamilton at the Public Theater. The Public found an apartment for me in Red Ho…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:05PMYes, Hamilton is the elephant at this year’s Tony Awards with its staggering 16 nominations — the most for any Broadway show in history — making it the heavy favorite…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:40PMJane Krakowski and Savion Glover were among the winners at the 2016 Astaire Awards, honoring excellence in dance in New York theater and in film. The awards, named for iconic film dancer Fre…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:06PMJoe Morton was technically a senior citizen when he won his first major acting award — an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, for his piercing role as the diabolical d…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:45PMA cocktail in a glamorous New York bar can be the perfect prelude to a Broadway show or the perfect cap to a memorable evening. At the Tony nominees press event, we asked the honorees for th…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:45PMMy favorite Broadway song would have to be “The Music of The Night” from Phantom of the Opera. I absolutely love this musical! The way Norm Lewis sang to Sierra Boggess was bea…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:41PMWith the recent opening of the musical version of American Psycho, gore has splattered across Broadway like never before. But it’s not the first show to scare the wits out of New York …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:45PMAll of New York is currently celebrating the achievements of the Broadway community with the Tony Award nominations. So we decided to turn the tables and have Broadway celebrate New York. At…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:06PMThere are so many songs. But when I was in high school, I would record the Tonys. And this is so nerdy. But I would record the Tonys on a VHS tape and then bring the tape into my math class,…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:04PMWho’d have thought that a musical based on a couple of murder cases set in Prohibition-era Chicago would turn out to be one of the biggest Broadway hits of all time? Especially on it…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:43PMThe first time Carmen Cusack knew she had the performing bug was when she was 5 years old and singing at church. In fact, what first really motivated her was chocolate. When asked to sing &#…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:57PMI have loved living in New York City since I was 21 years old. I got a role in my first Broadway musical two weeks before my official college graduation, and I rented a guest room in Peter …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:55PMThe Tony nominations were announced last week and all of New York is celebrating the top Broadway plays and musicals. But what are the single shining moments for the individual nominees in t…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:41PMSix-time Tony winner Audra McDonald announced her pregnancy and that she will be taking a maternity leave from her starring role as Lottie Gee in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical S…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:28PMThe main characters in the Tony-nominated Best Plays represent an incredibly diverse selection of humanity ranging from blue-blooded royalty to devastated war victims. But whether they are r…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:59PMBright Star and The Humans were named Outstanding Broadway Musical and Play by the Outer Critics Circle for the group’s 66th annual awards. Bright Star by comedy legend Steve Martin an…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:51PMTony winner Christian Borle will star as the mysterious Willie Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on the beloved children’s novel by Roald Dahl, set to o…
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