Thanks to her acclaimed performance in "Parade," Micaela Diamond has found herself nominated for a Tony Award at just 23 years old. The attention could be overwhelming for any young actor, s…
Canny casting of Mike Faist ("West Side Story") and Lucas Hedges ("Manchester by the Sea") and abundant efforts to honor Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain," immortalized in Ang …
The recent Broadway revival of "Topdog/Underdog" may have ended its run, but for Corey Hawkins, the actor now nominated for a Tony Award for his role in the play, the experience left him wit…
The playwright Lorraine Hansberry was near death at age 34 when "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" premiered on Broadway, for a three-month run that ended with her passing in 1965. Set i…
The nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards are out " and for every pleasant surprise on the list, there were a few disappointments. Here are the biggest snubs and surprises from this morning's…
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If there is a megawatt star in "New York, New York," the new musical from Broadway titans John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (with additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda), it's right there i…
Friends come and go. Some stay throughout our lives while others, however significant for a time, fade into the haze of memory yet always linger within us. In "Summer, 1976," the new Broadwa…
Today's audiences are unlikely to know the name Oscar Levant, the once-famed pianist, composer, comedian and actor at the center of Doug Wright's new Broadway play "Good Night, Oscar." Despi…
Here is my favorite thing about Suzie Miller's Olivier Award-winning one-woman play "Prima Facie," opening at Broadway's Golden Theater tonight: About halfway through, it begins to rain, har…
Roasting nice white liberals is a time-honored theatrical pastime. Trim away the artifice of their smug posturing and they're predictably stuffed with a medley of ignorance, hypocrisy and na…
The only thing America loves more than watching work imported from Great Britain is when that same British work goes wildly off the rails. What is "The Great British Bake Off" without toppli…
With the new production of her comedy "The Thanksgiving Play," Larissa FastHorse has become the first known Native American female playwright on Broadway. Now she can cross it off her to-do …
After 35 years " and a string of $3 million weeks at the box office fueled by the last-minute frenzy of "phans" " the 13,981th and final Broadway performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" wa…
In Aaron Sorkin's revised script for Lincoln Center Theater's new Broadway production of "Camelot," the magic is missing " in more ways than one. The declared aim of the stage, TV and film w…
Ask Cameron Mackintosh if "The Phantom of the Opera" will be back, and he doesn't play coy. "Of course it will return," he says. "All the great musicals do." But the British mega-producer, w…
New York stages are rarely without some version of Shakespeare's mopey Danish prince, tormented by fatal family drama. But none has ever been quite like the protagonist of "Fat Ham," Juicy, …
Here are two wildlife facts you won't learn in "Life of Pi": Orangutans are quiet, and zebras stay silent when they're attacked. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: You'd…
The cannibalist startup in "Sweeney Todd" kills two birds: For Sweeney, the ruined barber who holds a grudge as steadily as he does a blade, it means turning enemies into actual mincemeat. F…
The addition of "bad" to the title of Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest maximalist spectacle, formerly known simply as "Cinderella" when it premiered for a short-lived run on the West End in 2021…
Celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard has a Broadway success on his hands with "Leopoldstadt," his (very) loosely autobiographical play now in the sixth month of a long run currently set to clo…
It's hard to believe, but Bob Fosse's definitive signature musical "Dancin'" has never been revived on Broadway since its Tony Award-winning debut in 1978. Huge kudos, then, to director-chor…
Traveling from the relative calm of the Clinton era to more perilous, contemporary times of mobs, mendacity and political mayhem, the much-admired but short-lived musical "Parade" has now fo…
Since Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, is one of the finest, most detailed Shakespeare directors in the land, you could be forgiven for forgetting that he r…
There are no props in director Jamie Lloyd's version of Henrik Ibsen's drama "A Doll's House" " no sets, no costumes (just plain contemporary clothing in dark blue), not even a curtain. Ther…