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The Tony Awards have teamed with Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University to inaugurate a new national honor for theater educators. The kudo, which will be awarded every year to one …
How about another wild card thrown into an anything-goes Tony race? The Tony Awards Administration committee, which meets periodically to decide eligibility questions regarding the season…
Four or five? That's the question everybody's asking about the upcoming Tony Award nominations now that the organizers of the theater world's highest-profile awards ceremony have decided tha…
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" cleaned up in the nominations for the annual Drama Desk Awards, making off with an even dozen nods. Among the season's Broadway musicals, "Gentleman'…
Alan Cumming, fresh off the April 24 opening night performance of the Broadway revival of “Cabaret,” emerged from backstage wearing plaid, brandishing a cigarette and eyeing the …
Alan Cumming owns the debauched role of the Emcee in this redux of the dazzling 1998 revival, but Michelle Williams falters in her early scenes as Sally Bowles.
James Earl Jones will return to Broadway this fall in a revival of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s “You Can’t Take It With You.” Scott Ellis helms the comedy about …
New plays by Pulitzer winners Annie Baker and Doug Wright are among the nine in-development stage projects tapped for the Sundance Institute's 2014 Theater Lab. Baker, who just picked up the…
The inspiration for Harvey Fierstein’s “Casa Valentina” was a discreet sanctuary in the Catskills where manly men (with wives and children and other baggage) could get thei…
Crackerjack comic timing was the last thing anyone expected from an alarming play about 21st-century concerns over data, secrecy and power. But it's all over James Graham's dazzler "Privacy.…
You could forgive John Cameron Mitchell for feeling a sense of ownership of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the 1998 musical he and Stephen Trask wrote. He also created the title…
Producer Jeffrey Finn (“Seminar,” “Scandalous,” “Dead Accounts”) will shepherd new play “An Act of God” to Broadway, where the show — ba…
Harris channels Iggy Pop and Lou Reed by way of the Ramones, not to mention his inner Rockette, in this spectacular revival of the 1998 musical.
A touring production of Broadway hit “The Book of Mormon” and local revivals of "Hello Dolly!" and "Glengarry Glen Ross" were each multiple winners April 21 at the Helen Hayes Aw…
“We all think it’d be wonderful to be praised as much as Meryl Streep is, but actually I think it must be a nightmare.” So said “Angels in America” writer Tony …
The Easter Bunny brought a whopper of a basket to Broadway last week, as the overlap of the holiday with Gotham schools’ spring break schedule resurrected sales so boffo they wouldn…
A new musical from the writer-composer and director behind Tony winner “In the Heights,” another by the creatives of Off Broadway-to-Broadway transfer “Passing Strang…
With Idina, Hedwig, and Sally Bowles in town, is it possible for a modest musical heroine like “Violet” to survive on Broadway? Let’s hope so, because helmer Leigh Silv…
Before audience members at the April 20 opening of Broadway’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan” could congratulate Daniel Radcliffe on his performance, they had to get a stupid…
In “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” Martin McDonagh’s sublime tragi-comedy about life on Ireland’s desolate Aran Islands, there are two old biddies who desperately dote on…
Everyone knows Mama Rose's first line in 1959's "Gypsy." It's "Count four before you start, Louise!" Or at least it was. But one day in rehearsal Ethel Merman crossed it out for the line eve…
Moss Hart has a lot to answer for. Just think how many future brain surgeons and rocket scientists were lost, lured to Gotham to pursue a theater career after reading “Act One,R…
The Lark Play Development Center and Playwrights of New York have named scribe Eric Dufault as the 2014-15 recipient of the PONY Fellowship, the hefty annual grant program that has a track r…
Chutzpah isn't the first trait you'd associate with the elegant, patrician Ruth Draper (1884-1956), intimate of Shaw and Henry James and creator of precisely observed monodramas on the femal…
“Of Mice and Men” may be a particularly American tale, but Irishman Chris O’Dowd — who stars with James Franco in the Broadway revival that opened April 15 — st…
