The pool of people who vote for the Tony Awards is a small one " and this year, it's probably even smaller. As Broadway gears up for its big night June 12, the industry's annual prognosticat…
Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Phylicia Rashad, Mary-Louise Parker, LaChanze: All of these 2022 Tony Award nominees are Broadway regulars, and they've had plenty of experience with nominations…
The Tony Awards Landmarks on This Year's Nominations List In a Broadway season that was the first after the devastating 15-month shutdown caused by the pandemic, the Tony nominations list en…
In a Broadway season filled with star turns and individual standouts, maybe the biggest breakout performance came from … ensemble casts. From the queens of "Six" to the Thoughts of "A Stra…
Playwright Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her 25-year-old play "How I Learned to Drive," which has been seen in productions around the world and is now on Broadway in a staging nominat…
After the Great Recession of '08 " not to mention anxiety about the current economy " will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it sing, …
When the Tony-winning musical "1776" debuted on Broadway in 1969, it celebrated America's ideals on the eve of its Bicentennial. Half a century later, a radical makeover brings critique fron…
It's June 2022, and Michael R. Jackson has a lot to be proud of. His musical "A Strange Loop" leads the Broadway awards-season race with 11 Tony nominations and stands poised to net the top …
With a cast headed by Amy Adams making her West End debut, you'd be forgiven for imagining the latest production of Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" might be everything you'd e…
Jesse Williams is coming to the end of his debut Broadway gig " but he's already betting it'll be the first of many stage engagements for him. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcas…
"What are you staring at? Have you never seen a murderer up close before?" Ever since her startlingly assured 2007 debut "Free Outgoing," shrewd playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar has calmly b…
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical "A Strange Loop" scored 11 Tony nominations last week " and the ensemble cast of "A Strange Loop" is inviting everyone to share i…
On your mark, get set, go. The race for the Tony Awards has officially begun with the announcement of the 2022 nominations on Monday. In honoring and highlighting the work in a crowded, COVI…
Broadway just wrapped up its first season after the pandemic lockdown, and boy, was it a doozy: After all the delays, COVID surges and cast replacements, a whopping 35 new productions opened…
Debra Messing has only been in the Broadway play "Birthday Candles" since March, but in some ways, she feels more deeply connected to her character Ernestine than she felt to the leading rol…
A bare set. Actors making stew on stage. An abundance of hand-held fog machines. Vague contemporary setting and costumes. A generally spooky atmosphere. Put all the ingredients together and …
I am woman, hear me roar " with laughter, at "POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive," playwright Selina Fillinger's delicious feminist farce about th…
Sometimes being nice has its rewards. Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film "Mr. Saturday Night," which Billy Crystal starred in,…
Subjectivity is conditional. We can only understand our own points of view in relation to the differences that separate us. If art often intends to complete the circle ("look at how these ot…
Thornton Wilder's allegorical play "The Skin of Our Teeth" is bizarre, abstract and convoluted; it's not to be taken seriously. Or so Sabina (Gabby Beans) tells the audience at Lincoln Cente…
"You ever feel like there's someone watching from the shadows?" asks Beanie Feldstein's Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star's past waft in and out in a kind of "Fanny…
In the theatrical annals of wild and wicked stage plays, there are black comedies, blacker comedies, and blacker-than-the-dead-of-night comedies like "Hangmen." Â Prolific playwright Marti…
Ntozake Shange's iridescent choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf" is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experiences. Wh…
Mommas, don't give your daughters the kind of nicknames that would appeal to their pedophile uncles. Cursed with a cutesy moniker like "Li'l Bit," what do you think might happen to a suppose…
Some stories creep up in disguise, hiding a ghastly scowl. "The Minutes" is an astonishing feat from playwright and star Tracy Letts, not least for its brilliant finesse in orchestrating aud…