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Monday, May 19, 2025

Countdown to the Chita Rivera Awards: With Jerry Mitchell and Kevin Costak by Suzanna Bowling

As the curtain rises on another thrilling season of Broadway and film, the spotlight turns to one of the most dynamic celebrations in American theater — the Chita Rivera Awards, happening …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:34AM
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Charles Strouse, Tony-Winning Composer of Annie and Bye Bye Birdie, Dies at 96 by Suzanna Bowling

Caricature by Ken Fallin Charles Strouse, the celebrated composer whose melodies became synonymous with Broadway’s golden age, passed away peacefully at his New York City home on May 15, 2…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:31AM
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Countdown To The Chita Rivera Awards: Honoring Excellence in Dance With Joe Lanteri and Jasmine Amy Rogers by Suzanna Bowling

As the Chita Rivera Awards draw near, anticipation is building for one of Broadway’s most dazzling celebrations of dance. Founded in 2010 by the visionary Joe Lanteri, Executive Director o…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM

Oh, Mary! and Maybe Happy Ending Win The The Drama League Awards by Suzanna Bowling

The Drama League (Gabriel Stelian-Shanks, Artistic Director; Bevin Ross, Executive Director) has announced the winners of the 2025 Drama League Awards.  Emmy-winning NY1 reporter Frank Di…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:04AM
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents: Tony Award-Nominated Broadway Actress, Singer and Author Melissa Errico by Suzanna Bowling

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents”, is filmed from the Hotel Edison. Owner Suzanna Bowling talks with Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer, and author Me…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:16AM
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Gun & Poker Changes Their Name To Wanted and is Headed For Broadway by Suzanna Bowling

T2C reported that the new musical Gun & Powder, and stated “we would be surprise if this show didn’t move to Broadway next year,” That was a year ago after seeing it at Paper Mill …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM
Monday, May 12, 2025

Maybe Happy Ending Wins 4 Outer Critic Awards As Winners Are Announced by Suzanna Bowling

The Outer Critics Circle Awards 2025 winners were announced today May 12, with Maybe Happy Ending winning Outstanding New Musical, Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Outstanding Book of a M…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:39PM
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Sutton Foster Shines as New York Philharmonic Celebrates Gurnee and Marjorie Hart at a Glamorous Spring Gala by Suzanna Bowling

On Tuesday night, the New York Philharmonic brought elegance and emotional resonance to Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall for its Spring Gala and Concert, honoring legendary philanthropis…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents: Women’s Month Continues With Theatre Producer and Leading Innovator of American Theatre by Suzanna Bowling

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents”, is filmed from the Hotel Edison. As we continue to celebrate Women’s Month T2C’s publisher and owner Suzanna Bowling talks…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:04AM
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Purpose and Maybe Happy Ending Win The New York Drama Critics’ Circle by Suzanna Bowling

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle today named Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose Best Play of the 2024-25 season. The award for Best Musical went to Maybe Happy Ending, book by Will Aro…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:04AM
Monday, May 5, 2025

2025 Theatre World Award Winners Announced by Suzanna Bowling

Theatre World Awards Board of Directors has announced the Honorees for Theatre World Award for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production. Also announced, Shai…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:59AM

The Lucille Lortel Award Winners Announced by Suzanna Bowling

Last night the 40th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards – the only New York theatre award to exclusively honor Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway – were presented at NYU Skirball. The Lortel …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:34AM
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Theatre News: Redwood, Othello, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, Sunset Blvd, StageStruck! VI: Women and the American Musical and National Asian Ar by Suzanna Bowling

Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, will play its final performance at the Nederlander Theatre on May 18th. Written and directed by Tony Award-nominee Tina Landau, with music by Kate Diaz, and l…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:03AM
Saturday, May 3, 2025

Just in Time and Jonathan Groff Bring the Spirit of Bobby Darin to Life at Circle in the Square by Suzanna Bowling

Just in Time, now playing at Circle in the Square Theatre, is more than a musical biography—it’s an electrified, immersive celebration of a life lived in defiance of the clock. Under the…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:29AM
Friday, May 2, 2025

Dead Outlaw at the Longacre Theatre—A Rootin’-Tootin’ Resurrection by Suzanna Bowling

“Abe Lincoln’s dead, Frank James is dead, your mama’s dead and so are you”—not your typical opening lyric, but Dead Outlaw is not your typical musical. This countrified, rockabilly…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM
Thursday, May 1, 2025

2025 Tony Award Nominations by Suzanna Bowling

Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce announced the nominations for the 78th Annual Tony Awards this morning live from Sofitel New York. A selection of categories were revealed on CBS Mornings …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:56AM

Tony Award Nomination Predictions by Suzanna Bowling

This year was a great year for innovative plays and musicals. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein once wrote “Oh, the theatre is dying. The theatre is dying. The theatre is practically d…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Drama Desk Nominations by Suzanna Bowling

Nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today on Spectrum News NY1 by stage and screen star Norm Lewis, Spectrum News NY1 “On Stage” host Frank DiLella, and a…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:14PM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The Chita Rivera Award Nominations Are Out by Suzanna Bowling

Nominations for the 2025 Chita Rivera Awards have been announced. In keeping with the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards, nominators considered shows and films that opened during the 2024-2…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:42AM
Monday, April 28, 2025

Real Women Have Curves Soars with Heart, Humor, and Humanity at the James Earl Jones Theatre by Suzanna Bowling

Sometimes a show doesn’t just entertain — it touches something raw and real, reminding us why storytelling matters.Real Women Have Curves, directed and choreographed with loving precisi…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Ken Fallin’s Broadway: Jeremy Jordan As Floyd Collins by Suzanna Bowling

It took 29 to get Floyd Collins to Broadway but on Friday the production and its lead were both nominated for Outer Critic Circle Awards. Nominated for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadw…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM
Friday, April 25, 2025

Death Becomes Her and Stranger Things: The First Shadow Lead OCC Nominations by Suzanna Bowling

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Out…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:21PM

Stranger Things: The First Shadow Darkness Revealed, Wonder Awakened by Suzanna Bowling

Not having seen the Stranger Things TV series, I walked into The First Shadow with no expectations—only a vague awareness of its cult following and retro-tinged mystery. I walked out stunn…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:16AM

The Glory and Gravity of Floyd Collins Comes to Lincoln Center by Suzanna Bowling

I have been in love with Adam Guettel’s haunting score and Tina Landau’s book for Floyd Collins ever since the Playwrights Horizons production in 1996. Based on the real-life story of a …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:04AM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

All the World’s a Stage — Adam Gwon’s Poignant New Musical Finds Truth in the Margins by Suzanna Bowling

There are musicals that entertain, and then there are musicals that reveal. Adam Gwon’s All the World’s a Stage—which just opened Off-Broadway at Theatre Row—falls powerfully into th…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:06AM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

2025 Drama League Awards Nominations by Suzanna Bowling

Nominations for the 2025 Drama League Awards, were announced this morning read by The Great Gatsby‘s Sarah Hyland and Cabaret‘s Orville Peck at the New York Public Library for the Perfo…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:51AM

Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. at The Public Theater by Suzanna Bowling

Caryl Churchill’s Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp., now playing at The Public Theater, is a quartet of enigmatic one-acts that feel more like artistic gestures than fully realized plays.…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:03AM
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Broadway Celebrates Earth Day Concert by Suzanna Bowling

The Broadway Green Alliance and Times Square Alliance are pleased to share exciting new updates to the previously announced Broadway Celebrates Earth Day concert,  returning for the fourth …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:03AM
Friday, April 18, 2025

Smash Screams “Let’s Be Bad” — And Is by Suzanna Bowling

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman’s song “Let’s Be Bad” has been recycled in at least four performances on NBC’s Smash and again in the Broadway musical Some Like It Hot, but now it�…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents: Women’s Month Continues Josefina Lopez by Suzanna Bowling

Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents”, is filmed from the Hotel Edison. As we continue to celebrate Women’s Month T2C’s publisher and owner Suzanna Bowling talks…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:06AM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Join Us Tomorrow From 4 -6 At The Hotel Edison With Real Women Have Curves by Suzanna Bowling

“Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents”, is now in our 2nd year. We are filmed at the Hotel Edison on Wednesdays. This week we are pleased to have Josefina Lopez, C…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM