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How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in February? Take this quiz — which includes questions involving winners of the Oscars, the Grammys, the Tonys, and the P…
Seven of the 20 performers up for Academy Awards have been " or are about to be " on Broadway: (Click on any photograph to see it enlarged) Actor in a Leading Role Bryan Cranston, nom…
April Reign created the #OscarsSoWhite Twitter hashtag that resonated with so many people that it helped foment a national debate over the issue of inclusion in Hollywood. She’s been s…
There are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
There are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
The most intriguing element in the new production of O'Neill's Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram's set. This is not just because the hotel lobby is me…
The most intriguing element in the new production of O'Neill's Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram's set. This is not just because the hotel lobby is me…
“Dot” is the fourth play that has opened recently that includes an elderly character suffering from Alzheimer’s " the others are The Humans, Her Requiem,  and Smokefa…
Today, Bobby Lopez turns 41, which seems as good a time as any to resurrect this article I wrote about him and Jeff Marx on September 10, 2009, just as their hit Tony-winning musical Avenue …
"Her Requiem," Greg Pierce's improbable if skillfully acted new drama, now at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater, is supposedly about a 17-year-old high school student's decision to take a …
There is an unintentionally funny sign posted at the Signature Center outside "Angel Reapers," a show by Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry about the 18th century religious movement known as the …
"Smokefall," a fable-like play by Noah Haidle about a family from Grand Rapids, Michigan, feels influenced by the work of Thornton Wilder, with its mix of the homespun and the metaphysical. …
The Humans, Stephen Karam's nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become even mo…
The Humans, Stephen Karam's nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become even mo…
“Circle Mirror Transformation” ran at Playwrights Horizons, opening on October 13, 2009 and closing after several extensions on January 31, 2010. It was a remarkable debut for pl…
Hamilton won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Lin-Manuel Miranda accepting the award with – what else? — a rap: That the winner of the musical theater catego…
The cast of Hamilton will perform their show’s opening number live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers Theater sometime during the 2016 Grammy broadcast, which will air starting at …
"Hamilton" the musical currently presents three U.S. presidents every night " George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison " but nearly every one of the 43 presidents has been portr…
Kiss Me Kate; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Stage Kiss: There sure are a lot of kisses in the theater. Below: Elizabeth Taylor kisses John Culllum in Private Lives in 1983, and Tallulah Bankhead…
Robert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Pa…
Robert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Patrick S…
Below is a two minute video from Papermill Playhouse’s world premiere production of A Bronx Tale: The Musical, with music by Alan Menken (Newsies, Aladdin, Little Shop of Horrors,) whi…
Five years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in …
Five years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in …
Allee Willis has a special interest in the cast album of the Broadway revival of The Color Purple that will be released on February 12th. She wrote the music and lyrics, along with two fello…
