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Futurity, Guards at the Taj and The Robber Bridegroom were big winners at the 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Complete list of winners Outstand…
May may be seen as the month when theater people are awaiting the Tony Awards in June, but there are also nearly two dozen plays, musicals and “unique theatrical experiences” ope…
"Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep," says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has mounted …
"Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep," says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has mounted …
Below are two articles I wrote about Rent shortly after it opened on Broadway on April 29, 1996 (10,512,000 minutes ago.) The first article, published on May 12, 1996, is an interview with c…
The Broadway season has officially ended, although the hoopla over it continues, with the Tony Award nominations to be announced on May 3. Other nominations have already been made public; mo…
Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on “Modern Family”, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy M…
Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on Modern Family, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy Manhattan resta…
She Loves Me, American Psycho and Bright Star lead the nominations for the 61st annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway a…
"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
There is nothing idle about the gossip in  "The School for Scandal." That is clear from the very first scene, when the well-named Lady Sneerwell, portrayed by the estimable Frances Barber…
There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater. Some of the reasons have …
There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater…It is being promoted…
William Shakespeare is said to have died 400 years ago today, on April 23rd, 1616, at the age of 52, Â having written about death many times and in many ways, as the chart below makes clea…
As acclaimed as it is, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” will not sweep all the New York theater awards in 2016, most of which are awarded in May and June. “Hamilton…
American Psycho, a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as the produc…
“American Psycho,” a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as …
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2016 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
On one level, Alice Birch's weirdly named and audacious play, which has opened at Soho Rep, presents five vignettes of familiar every-day encounters: a man and a woman graphically flirting a…
She Loves Me and American Psycho lead with eight nominations apiece in the nominations for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 9th. OUTSTANDING…
In one way, Hamilton Clancy has outlived William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago this week at the age of 52. Clancy is older than that. But Clancy has also died many times, and it's all …
Few could have been surprised that the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama (and $10,000) was awarded to Lin-Manuel Miranda for the musical Hamilton, who after all has already won an astonish…
