Somebody should launch the New York Dramamine Awards — for shows that put us to sleep? That’s about the only *theater award that hasn’t been thought up yet — most …
At this year's TED Conference in Vancouver, Sting performed songs from his Broadway-bound musical The Last Ship, which tells the story of the songwriter’s experiences growing up in the…
Here are the winners of the fourth annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards: Best New Musical Disaster! * Fun Home Heathers: The Musical Murder for Two What's It All About? Bacharach Re…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won the best new American play Obie for both “Appropriate” and “An Octoroon”, and Sydney Lucas became the youngest recipient ever of a perfo…
Actress Kelli O’Hara, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Jeanine Tesori and “Wicked” book writer Winnie Holzman are among the women in the theater being honored at the …
A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER" NAMED DISTINGUISHED MUSICAL Â "ALL THE WAY" NAMED DISTINGUISHED PLAY Â "HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH" NAMED DISTINGUISHED REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL Â …
LaChanze, a Tony Award-winning Broadway performer whose husband Calvin Joseph Gooding was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, sang an a cappella version of “Amazing Grace” …
Philip Seymour Hoffman,Ruth Maleczech and Nicholas Martin will all be receiving posthumous honors in the fourth annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, which announced the nominees for it…
 “All The Way” won Outstanding New Broadway Play and Bryan Cranston won Best Actor in  Play in the 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. “The Glass Menagerie̶…
Last year, my choices for Best Play and Best Revival of a Play actually won the 2013 Tony Awards. My choice for Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical did not. The way I see it, my views…
Make your pick for 14 of the top categories in the 68th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 8 at Radio City Musical This is for who and …
“Neil Patrick Harris is wearing nothing but a bowtie and a discretely placed top hat on the cover of the next issue of Rolling Stone,” the magazine says in its tease for a profil…
The nominees for the 32nd annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which will be held on June 2: Â Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show Julius Chisolm (After Midnight) Nick Cordero (B…
Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performance during the 2013-2014 theatrical season” Paul Chahidi, Twelfth Night, or What You Will Nick Cordero, Bullets over Broadway Bry…
Fun Home won Best Musical, and both Will Eno and Alex Timbers offset whatever disappointment they felt with the Tony nominations, by winning Best Play and Best Director of a Musical, respect…
Judgment is nigh; now that the theater season has ended, the awards season begins. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama has already been bestowed (see April 14 below.) The winners will be announ…
The Broadway season is over, but there is plenty of theater opening in May in New York, the city that never lets you sleep. Below is a list of theater opening in May, 2014, organized chronol…
How well were you paying attention to what was happening in the theater in April? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
Did the Tony nominating committee "snub" Denzel Washington, Daniel Craig, James Franco and Daniel Radcliffe? Did Tony Awards Productions snub regional theaters by giving the Regio…
Here Lies Love," which opened in April 2013 for a limited run, has returned for an open run at the Public Theater. Here again is my original review: Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of t…
From the very beginning of the Roundabout's re-revival of "Cabaret," when a spotlight first illuminates Alan Cumming's eyes — as if he has opened the rectangular slot in the door of a …
Watch the 2014 Tony Awards Nominations Announcement on Tuesday, April 29 2014 8:30 a.m. ET with hosts Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu from the Paramount Hotel in NYC Here are the 2014 awards so …
As Hedwig, a bewigged, be-glittered and bewildered "internationally ignored song stylist," the performer Neil Patrick Harris — who has been anything but ignored in a protean 25-year en…
What would Woody Allen have thought of "Bullets Over Broadway" if he hadn't written it? Would he have enjoyed this overbearing Broadway musical full of recycled, flat and vulgar jokes;Â d…
It is no surprise that Harvey Fierstein is the one who authored "Casa Valentina," a remarkably well-acted if overheated and under-cooked play about a 1960's Catskills resort for heterosexual…