Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Now that the Tony nominations have been announced, we asked nominees for their favorite moments in their shows. The reactions range from the expected (their personal solo numbers in musicals…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 06:06PMAn American in Paris, On the Town, and On the Twentieth Century are among the shows nominated for the 2015 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards honoring excellence in dance and choreography on the …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:55AMTwo Off-Broadway shows, Hamilton and Between Riverside and Crazy, were named the season’s best by the New York Drama Critics Circle when the group of reviewers met for their annual voting …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:45AMDoctor Zhivago, the musical based on Boris Pasternak’s epic novel of the Russian Revolution, is the latest casualty in the Tony Award wars. Having received no nominations for Broadway’s …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:28AMMonday, May 4, 2015
The actors may get all the love (not that they don’t deserve it), but it takes more than just the thespians on stage to keep you at the edge of your seat. But just how many people does…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:27PMFriday, May 1, 2015
The Visit, a 2015 Tony nominee for Best New Musical, is the final collaborative work by the legendary team of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) and is now playing on Broa…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:25AMThursday, April 30, 2015
On the Twentieth Century, the hit revival with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman, will extend its limited run at the American Airlines Theatre an addit…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:04PMThe 2015 Tony Award season is in full swing, and Broadway has just anointed a new crop of nominees. Last year, we narrowed down the most mind-blowing moments of the 2014 nominees, choosing t…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:06PMThere’s a new Hedwig in town. Glee star Darren Criss has stepped into the gold boots to star in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, following starring runs by Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannel…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:09AMWednesday, April 29, 2015
On the Town, a 2015 Tony nominee for Best Musical Revival, is now on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre. Tony Yazbeck (also a 2015 Tony nominee for Best Leading Actor in a Musical), Jay Armstro…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:23AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Now that we know who the 2015 Tony nominees are, let’s take a look back at what last year’s winners are up to. And what current nominees like Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli O’Har…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:43PMThe post-Tony spate of closings has begun. Living on Love, the comedy by Tony winner Joe DiPietro, received no Tony nominations and will close at the Longacre Theatre on May 3. The pl…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:40PMThe 2015 Tony nominations were announced this morning at the Paramount Hotel’s Diamond Horseshoe by Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker and Bruce Willis. The actor will be making his Broadw…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:12PMJohn Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Schwartz and Tommy Tune will be among those receiving special Tony Awards when Broadway’s highest honors are handed out on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. S…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:06PMTony winners Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming will host the 69th annual Tony Awards on June 7 broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS. The announcement was not made until the mor…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:48AMAn American in Paris and Fun Home, two wildly diverse musicals, topped the list of 2015 Tony Award nominations with 12 each. Something Rotten!, the new musical comedy set in Elizabethan time…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 08:54AMFriday, April 24, 2015
Airline Highway, Lisa D’Amour’s play about the denizens of a rundown New Orleans motel, opened on April 23 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre as part of the Manhattan Theater Club’s 201…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:29PMTickets are now available for On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan, coming to Broadway in fall 2015. On Your Feet! follows the journey of the Estefans, who both fled Cast…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:34AMThe Visit, the final musical by the legendary team of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, opened at the Lyceum Theatre on April 23. Two-time Tony winner Chita Rivera and Tony winner Roger Re…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:00AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Hamilton, the smash hit Off-Broadway musical about America’s most controversial founding father, is at the top of the list for the 2015 Drama Desk Awards, reaping 13 nominations including …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:09PMGrowing up in Akron, Ohio, Lisa Howard always loved listening to musicals and was constantly singing. “I liked to perform, and I discovered that I was actually good at it,” she r…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:58PMLisa D’Amour’s Airline Highway officially opens tonight on Broadway. The show takes place in the parking lot of The Hummingbird, a faded motel on the highway in New Orlean…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:25PMThe Visit, a new musical starring Chita Rivera, officially opens tonight on Broadway. Broadway legend Rivera stars as Claire Zachanassian, a widow multiple times over who has inherited great…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:08PMMultiple award-winning actors Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones will appear together on stage for the first time in almost 50 years in a new Broadway production of D.L. Colburn’s Pulitzer …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:40PMSomething Rotten!, a new musical set in Shakespearean times, opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater, on April 22. The show is directed and choreographed by Tony winner Casey Nicholaw (T…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:25AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Things are warming up in New York City. The weather’s getting balmier, to be sure. But new shows are also opening on Broadway at breakneck speed and generating major heat. And let’s just…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:53PMDoctor Zhivago, the musical based on Boris Pasternak’s novel, opened at the Broadway Theatre on April 21. The epic musical is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff (Big River,…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:00PMThe first Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, will be closing early at the Music Box Theatre on May 3. The show’s limited engagemen…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:26AMThe new musical comedy Something Rotten! officially opens tonight on Broadway. The show stars Brian d’Arcy James and John Cariani as playwriting brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom. They ar…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:18AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Living on Love, the comedy by Joe DiPietro (Memphis, Nice Work If You Can Get It) based on Garson Kanin’s Peccadillo, opened at the Longacre Theatre on April 20. Renowned opera star Renée…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:23PMTheater award season continues in New York as the nominees for the 81st annual Drama League Awards were announced on April 21 by Tony winners Cherry Jones (The Heiress, Doubt) and Denis O’…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:36PM 
