Sunday, June 8, 2025
Watch casts of the Tony-nominated Broadway productions and more strut their stuff at the 78th Annual Tony Awards.
SOURCE: PlaybillBroadway’s brights stars came out in force on Sunday for the 78th Tony Awards. There was plenty to celebrate for the theater business, which seems to have recaptured its stride after a lon…
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If you’re seated in the first three rows of Just In Time, bring a poncho or lean into your kink — because Jonathan Groff is doing what he does best: leaving the stage (and you) soaking w…
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The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with Audra McDonald, and sexy but dumb New York Rangers.
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The free "show before the show" series has returned to the steps of Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre to celebrate the 2025 Tony nominees.
SOURCE: PlaybillIn this new role, Hodges will help create foundational advertising campaign blueprints.
SOURCE: PlaybillThe online program—titled Stage Connect—is part of the company's initiative to create sustainable theatre programs in public elementary schools.
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The three actors will star in a revival of Yasmina Reza’s 1994 play, which begins performances at the end of August.
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“This World of Tomorrow,” based on the actor’s 2017 short story collection, is scheduled to begin performances in October at the Shed.
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Our chief theater critic looks at this year’s nominees and weighs in on the plays, musicals and artists he thinks will — and should — take home trophies on June 8.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionHe trained as a movement actor. Now he’s leaning into physical theater as a Helperbot in the Tony-nominated “Maybe Happy Ending.”
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He wrote some of the most enduring musical theater numbers of his era and earned three Tony Awards, a Grammy and an Emmy.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionWe go behind the curtain at “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Sunset Boulevard,” “John Proctor Is the Villain” and “Oh, Mary!”
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Near the end of “Gypsy,” the Tony-nominated actress sings a song that makes you rethink the show you’ve been watching. I talked to her about it.
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Friday, May 9, 2025
The Broadway musical, which earned seven Tony nominations, scrapped a performance after the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla D. Hayden, was fired by the Trump administration.
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“It’s the most surreal day ever,” the playwright said as he learned the news while getting ready to attend his first Met Gala.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionShailene Woodley, Leslie Uggams, and George Clooney will also be celebrated at the June ceremony.
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The 40th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards – the only New York theatre award to exclusively honor Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway – are being presented tonight, Sunday, May 4, 2025, at N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldThe New York City Council is considering banning pedicabs right around Broadway theater exits and entrances.
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The administration’s 2026 budget comes at a time when the future of NEA staff and grant programs remains in doubt.
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They were among the screen stars who were recognized for their work on Broadway this season as the 2025 Tony Award nominations were announced.
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Monday, April 28, 2025
If you are determined to see a celebrity in a popular show on a busy night, you may be out of luck, but with flexibility and persistence, you can cut some costs.
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Just in Time is running now at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater.
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The new musical is based on Josefina López’s original play and the 2002 film adaptation that starred America Ferrera.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionDavid Hyde Pierce has really made Broadway his home post-“Frazier.” He has one win for Best Actor in a Musical, two more nominations, and a Lifetime Achievement Award. His work in “Spa…
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Pirates! The Penzance Musical, the swashbucking new take on a Gilbert and Sullivan classic, opens on Broadway tonight! The new adaptation delivers a fresh take on the tongue-twisting Major-G…
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The “Sunset Boulevard” star briefly entertained the crowd when “a technical malfunction on the sound side” forced the cancellation of a matinee performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionBroadway gets turned upside down in the new high-tech, supernatural thriller STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW, opening tonight at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre! What did the critics think o…
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A shocking and true tale of the American West comes to life on Broadway tonight as FLOYD COLLINS, opens at Lincoln Center Theater, in a new production starring Tony-nominee Jeremy Jordan. Re…
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The two actors, who are frequently mixed up, finally met at Death Becomes Her.
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Jinkx Monsoon talks about feeling like a lifetime of hard work is finally paying off, and her return to Broadway as a zany maid in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical.”
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An actor, musician and writer, White is also now an in-demand stage director. “I am looking, I am hungry, I am searching,” she said.
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The moral dilemma at the center of one of the greatest dramas of all-time comes to life on Broadway in John Proctor is the Villain, opening tonight! The new play stars Stranger Things break…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldA big opening scene that took about two-and-a-half years to perfect plunges theatergoers into the sci-fi world of the hit Netflix series.
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Back on Broadway for “Old Friends,” the actress reflects on the art she saw with Sondheim and the delights of the High Line and Central Park.
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Read reviews for Broadway’s SMASH, opening tonight at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. The new musical, inspired by the hit NBC television series, takes audiences inside the backstage pande…
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It's a celebration of all things Steve as Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, starring two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters and Tony Award winner …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldAn acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe composer/lyricist was responsible for some of the most popular cult musicals of all time, including Falsettos, A New Brain, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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At a gathering in the Broadway theater renamed to honor the star, speakers including Denzel Washington and Phylicia Rashad described Jones as an inspiration.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionBetty's on Broadway! Animation icon Betty Boop leaps off of the screen and takes the stage live in living color in BOOP! The Musical, opening tonight at the Broadhurst Theatre. Read reviews…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldThe show’s star, Jonathan Groff, and members of the creative team on how songs like “Splish Splash” and “If I Were a Carpenter” illuminate Darin’s life.
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The first ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS, starring Grammy and Golden Globe Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldThe 2025 Olivier Awards, held Sunday at London’s Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Beverley Knight and Billy Porter, saw big wins for actors like John Lithgow, Lesley Manville and Imelda Sta…
SOURCE: DeadlineThe play, about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism, took home three awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys. So did a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk rock “Benjamin Button.”
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EXCLUSIVE: The London Barbican Theatre’s scintillating production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, boasting an all-star ensemble led by Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke and Emma Corrin and di…
SOURCE: DeadlineNew short plays by Caryl Churchill, a comedy with one erstwhile Derry Girl and a musical starring Anika Noni Rose — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.
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Good Night, and Good Luck opens on Broadway starring Hollywood icon, George Clooney in his long-awaited Broadway debut in a new production directed by David Cromer. Read the reviews!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldSarah Snook, camera operators and other crew members bring to life multitudes on Broadway via an elaborate synthesis of live action, live video and recorded video.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross returns in a starry new Broadway revival, opening tonight at the Palace Theatre! David Mamet's timeless exploration of the intersectio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldOn stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.
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Rudin stepped away from show business four years ago amid reports that he had bullied assistants. He says he has “a lot more self-control” now.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionOn stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.
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Oscar Wilde’s tale of beauty, excess, and a deal with the devil comes to Broadway in The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Emmy Award-winner Sarah Snook. Check out what the critics had to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldElizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don’t call it a nostalgic exercise.
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The cancellation is the latest to befall the Washington, D.C. venue.
SOURCE: PlaybillPreviously the theatrical group's chief strategy officer, Daniel will serve alongside Chairman and CEO Robert E. Wankel.
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“Good Night, and Good Luck” grossed $3.3 million last week, breaking a record that was set earlier this month by Denzel Washington’s “Othello.”
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAfter decades of ups and downs in Hollywood—including consistent brushes with industry homophobia—the Tony-winning icon comes full-circle with the queer sitcom Mid-Century Modern: “Onc…
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In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionFive decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like “part of something bigger.”
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionJenifer Ringer, the celebrated New York City Ballet principal, is back at the School of American Ballet in a new role: teacher and guiding light.
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A British satirical comedy, a Tennessee Williams classic, a soundscape of Havana: These are productions worth knowing about.
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With a storied stage and screen career behind him, Harvey Fierstein is denouncing Donald Trump‘s takeover of the Kennedy Center. The 4x Tony winner, who has starred in several Kennedy Cent…
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Sonia Friedman has “created her own theater studio system,” balancing big properties like “Harry Potter” and “Stranger Things” with more prestige work by Stoppard and Sondheim.
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President Donald Trump, in his first board meeting as Kennedy Center chairman, questioned the use of Actors' Equity performers, suggesting a shift in programming that could bring 'more optio…
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Tony and Pulitzer winner Tracy Letts will pen the book, with David Cromer directing.
SOURCE: PlaybillSuch a production was announced for a 2019 Broadway bow, but it never materialized.
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Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal play Shakespeare has set a record in a year when big stars have been driving up the prices of Broadway plays.
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Fresh off his Sunset Blvd. Broadway opening, Lloyd is revisiting the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical after directing it in 2019.
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The statement comes after a number of shows were canceled at the Kennedy Center after Trump's overhaul of the board.
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