840 stories by "Chris Luner"
Things are looking up! As Broadway counts down to its biggest and most celebrated evening on theatre on June 8th, The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing are taking moments wheneve…
While a lot of attention is paid to the big musicals of Broadway, there is a growing industry in New York that is not only theatre related but affecting Broadway in more ways than one would …
Summer Lovin! Paper Mill Playhouse is bringing their 75th anniversary season to an end and kicking off Summer 2014 on just the right note! After a season of fantastic productions, the region…
As times change, so do traditions. Broadway shows cost millions of dollars to produce. Yes, even plays. As costs for these productions have risen over the past couple of years, so have th…
You get an award! And you get an award! Who isn’t getting an award? While we mostly find ourselves honoring Broadway and Off-Broadway during this season, we want to make sure we inc…
 The troublemakers are back in town! You’re not anyone really until your poked at during Forbidden Broadway, the hilarious Off Broadway spoof of Broadway productions that has return…
STEP OFF!! While the idea of recent movies being turned into stage musicals is nothing new for Broadway or the West End, word has spread on a brand new movie musical adaption that has people…
 Mackintosh is storming Broadway! He was best known in the 1980′s for invading Broadway with hits such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Cats! However, Cameron Mackint…
What doesn’t he do? Despite the fact that Hugh Jackman is spending the next month preparing to host Broadway’s biggest night, The 2014 Tony Awards, it looks as though the star al…
The first production of the new 2014-2015 season is just weeks away from it’s very first performance on Broadway and setting the tone much differently than years past. While the first …
Despite the fact that we haven’t even finished the Spring 2014 season yet on Broadway, that didn’t stop Roundabout Theatre Company today from announcing a new production in the w…
Awards season in New York just keeps awarding! With less than one month to go until the 2014 Tony Awards, more winners were announced today in New York for the 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awar…
Luner on Theatre has been so wrapped up in bringing you the 2014 theatre awards season, we realized we never finished bringing you a look at all of this season’s current productions! D…
Step One; Nominations! Step Two; Winners! The New York theatre awards season is well underway with all of the nominations for potential awards across the board this year now being announced!…
Once upon a time…Luner on Theatre decided to review a cabaret! So we headed over to Don’t Tell Mama where Bret Shuford is currently appearing in his brand new show, Charming: The…
As previously mentioned, earlier this morning we were lucky enough to attend The 2014 Tony Award Nominations announcement! We arrived at The Paramount Hotel early this morning to much buzz! …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The 2014 Tony Awards season officially kicked off this morning! Following a week of nominations from Outer Critics, the Drama League and Drama…
They just keep coming! After a busy week of theatre award nominations for the Broadway and Off-Broadway community, yet another set of award nominations were announced today in New York! The …
Five time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald has returned to Broadway this season in a last-minute announced production of Lady Day Emerson’s Bar And Grill. Lady Day, written by La…
Today may be the cut off day for Broadway shows eligible for the 2013-2014 awards season but that isn’t stop producers from already looking ahead to next season on Broadway! With one n…
It’s the 1960′s in the Catskill mountains and nestled among the vacationing families escaping their normal lives for the summer is a colony of men trying to escape what society h…
Holler If You Hear Me may not be eligible for anything this season as it begins previews after the official Tony Awards cut off date has passed but that isn’t stopping this Broadway…
Neil Patrick Harris has come to Broadway in the Broadway premiere of Hedwig And The Angry Inch. The musical, which features a book by John Cameron Mitchell with music and lyrics by Stephen T…
We meant it when we said it’s awards season! Just a day after the 2014 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations were announced, the nominations for the oldest theatrical awards in Ame…
Some Enchanted Evening! South Pacific, which features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan, i…