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Many moments in the three hours of the 71st annual Tony Awards (complete list of winners) were worth experiencing just once, if that — Bette Midler NOT singing, yet rambling endlessly …
“Oslo” won best play.”Dear Evan Hansen” is having a very good night. Below is the complete list of the winners of the 71st annual Tony Awards, listed in red with an a…
The 71st annual Tony Awards, honoring the shows that opened in the 2016-2017 season in the 41 Broadway theaters of New York, will be presented starting at 8 p.m. tonight, June 11, 2017 at Ne…
"I just want you to pick the shows for me," an out-of-town friend, planning a visit to New York, said to me recently, exasperated that I was trying to determine his taste in theater before m…
Below are my preferences — not my predictions. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation of each choice. Best Musical Nominated: Dear Evan Hansen Natasha, Pierre and the Gr…
Here are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2017 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I've been maintaining for a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We'll learn the c…
The 71st Annual Tony Awards will be shown on four continents, though not all will get to see it Sunday evening, June 11th. Will this put extra pressure on Tony voters, whose ballots are due …
Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
"I would rather drink alcohol than do just about anything there is to do on the face of the planet," Matthew Perry as Jack says to a woman he's just met in "The End of Longing," Perry's debu…
"Ernest Shackleton Loves Me" may not be the only musical ever set in Antarctica or the only one that tells the story of a real-life polar explorer; it's surely not the only musical about a s…
The winners of the 62nd Annual Drama Desks below are in red with an * (Click on titles to get more information about the show.) Those nominees with a heart mark (♥) are ones I voted…
Performers from more than 20 current Broadway shows offered a free concert in Shubert Alley this week, to celebrate the Broadway season just past, and whet appetites for the Tony Awards on S…
Once again, Broadway offered its free two-hour concert in Shubert Alley today, featuring the casts from more than a dozen current musicals. Below, watch Telly Leung of Aladdin, Corey Cott of…
Below is a preview  of the shows opening on New York stages in June — including the first show of the 2017-2018 Broadway season — organized chronologically by opening date. Ea…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews this month? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
The 2016-17 Broadway season's statistics, according to The Broadway League: Shows that opened during season: 45 (eight of them not eligible for Tony Awards) Attendance at all shows: 1…
In 2010, an Afghan journalist produced an hour-long documentary for PBS' Frontline entitled The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan , about the illegal revival of an ancient tradition called Bach…
Below are the five most popular posts in the five years since I began NewYorkTheater.me in May 2012. (Above are some of the profile portraits I’ve used over the past five years, none o…
"This is the hardest job I've ever had in my whole life. You people on Broadway are nuts,” Bette Midler said at the Outer Critic’s Circle Award reception at Sardi’s for the…
"Building The Wall," Robert Schenkkan's chilling two character play that imagines the consequences of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies, is clearly meant to help rally the res…
By the end of "Can You Forgive Her?", it's not clear which of the five characters in Gina Gionfriddo's latest comedy is the "You" of the title, and who is the "Her." All the characters in on…
Oslo and The Band’s Visit got lots of love at the 62nd Annual Obie Awards, as these two shows have gotten throughout the theater award season. But they had lots of company, with Underg…
Countdown to the Tonys is 20 days, but there is plenty  happening in New York theater right now — other theater awards, news of forthcoming Broadway attractions — and the summ…
Julie is young, pretty, literate and dying. At its best, "The Whirligig," a new play by Hamish Linklater, explores with humor and bite how her terminal illness affects the seven people aroun…
