Somebody should launch the New York Dramamine Awards — for shows that put us to sleep? That’s about the only *theater award that hasn’t been thought up yet — most of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21AMAt this year’s TED Conference in Vancouver, Sting performed songs from his Broadway-bound musical The Last Ship, which tells the story of the songwriter’s experiences growing up in t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AMHere are the winners of the fourth annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards: Best New Musical Disaster! * Fun Home Heathers: The Musical Murder for Two What’s It All About? Bacharach Re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins won the best new American play Obie for both “Appropriate” and “An Octoroon”, and Sydney Lucas became the youngest recipient ever of a perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10AMActress Kelli O’Hara, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Jeanine Tesori and “Wicked” book writer Winnie Holzman are among the women in the theater being honored at the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AMA GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER” NAMED DISTINGUISHED MUSICAL “ALL THE WAY” NAMED DISTINGUISHED PLAY “HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH” NAMED DISTINGUISHED REVIVAL OF A MUSI…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PMLaChanze, a Tony Award-winning Broadway performer whose husband Calvin Joseph Gooding was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, sang an a cappella version of “Amazing Grace” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PMPhilip Seymour Hoffman,Ruth Maleczech and Nicholas Martin will all be receiving posthumous honors in the fourth annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, which announced the nominees for its co…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PM“All The Way” won Outstanding New Broadway Play and Bryan Cranston won Best Actor in Play in the 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. “The Glass Menagerie” w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06AMLast year, my choices for Best Play and Best Revival of a Play actually won the 2013 Tony Awards. My choice for Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical did not. The way I see it, my views…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35PMMake your pick for 14 of the top categories in the 68th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 8 at Radio City Musical This is for who an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PM“Neil Patrick Harris is wearing nothing but a bowtie and a discretely placed top hat on the cover of the next issue of Rolling Stone,” the magazine says in its tease for a profil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PMThe nominees for the 32nd annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which will be held on June 2: Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show Julius Chisolm (After Midnight) Nick Cordero (Bul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AMOutstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performance during the 2013-2014 theatrical season” Paul Chahidi, Twelfth Night, or What You Will Nick Cordero, Bullets over Broadway Bryan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AMFun Home won Best Musical, and both Will Eno and Alex Timbers offset whatever disappointment they felt with the Tony nominations, by winning Best Play and Best Director of a Musical, respect…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMJudgment is nigh; now that the theater season has ended, the awards season begins. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama has already been bestowed (see April 14 below.) The winners will be announce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AMThe Broadway season is over, but there is plenty of theater opening in May in New York, the city that never lets you sleep. Below is a list of theater opening in May, 2014, organized chronol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06AMHow well were you paying attention to what was happening in the theater in April? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMDid the Tony nominating committee “snub” Denzel Washington, Daniel Craig, James Franco and Daniel Radcliffe? Did Tony Awards Productions snub regional theaters by giving the Reg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08AMHere Lies Love,” which opened in April 2013 for a limited run, has returned for an open run at the Public Theater. Here again is my original review: Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PMFrom the very beginning of the Roundabout’s re-revival of “Cabaret,” when a spotlight first illuminates Alan Cumming’s eyes — as if he has opened the rectangular slot in the do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMWatch the 2014 Tony Awards Nominations Announcement on Tuesday, April 29 2014 8:30 a.m. ET with hosts Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu from the Paramount Hotel in NYC Here are the 2014 awards so …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PMAs Hedwig, a bewigged, be-glittered and bewildered “internationally ignored song stylist,” the performer Neil Patrick Harris — who has been anything but ignored in a protean 25-yea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50AMWhat would Woody Allen have thought of “Bullets Over Broadway” if he hadn’t written it? Would he have enjoyed this overbearing Broadway musical full of recycled, flat and vulgar jokes;…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PMIt is no surprise that Harvey Fierstein is the one who authored “Casa Valentina,” a remarkably well-acted if overheated and under-cooked play about a 1960’s Catskills resort for hetero…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PMThere are more unemployed Americans now than there were when “Of Mice and Men” debuted on Broadway in 1937, making its third-ever production on Broadway something more than just an excus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06PMA Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder had the most nominations for the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, followed by The Bridges of Madison County, Aladdin and Rocky. Winners wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM“Cabaret,” the Kander and Ebb musical about a naif in pre-Nazi Germany, is opening on Broadway for the fourth time, almost half a century after its first production, starring Ala…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PMBelow are the nominations for the 20014 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also gives special awards. Although founded way back in 1922, this is t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AMNeil Patrick Harris stars as an “internationally ignored” East German transgender rock singer in the first Broadway production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PM“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”, “Aladdin” and “Fun Home” had the greatest number of nominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle…
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