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Arthur Laurents died Thursday at the age of 93. A playwright, director, librettist, screenwriter, gay role model, and inspiration for generations, he was involved in 23 productions on Broadw…
Below is the list of nominations for the Tony Awards for 2011. The Book of Mormon has the most nominations at 14. The Scottsboro Boys has the second-most at 12 — and may be the most ev…
Two members of the New York Neo-Futurists bought two storage lockers at auction in the Bronx and piece together the lives of the former owners in this intriguing but overstuffed play.
The Broadway theater season has ended, and the theater awards season begun. Of the 18 shows that opened on Broadway in the Fall, only two are still playing — Lombardi and Rain. But 21 …
The Broadway season that just ended featured 40 plays and musicals — 18 in the Fall and 22 in the Spring. Many of them with magical moments. Here is a selection of just 12, not all fro…
Below is a list of the nominations for the Drama League Awards for 2011. (Unlike other theater organizations that give out annual awards, membership in the Drama League is open to the genera…
Below is a list of the nominations for the 2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards, which honor the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater. Winners of the awards will be announced May 16. The an…
Below is the full list of nominees for the 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring excellence in Broadway, off-Broadway, and non-profit New York theater. The winners will be announced at a c…
One of the jokes in "The People in The Picture," a Broadway musical starring Donna Murphy as both a young Yiddish theater star and an elderly grandmother, has a man harassed by two thugs off…
"Baby, It's You," a jukebox musical featuring nearly three dozen pre-Motown pop songs and a thoroughly inept script, must have struck its creator (Floyd Mutrux, creator of " Million Dollar Q…
Theatergoers leaving "The Normal Heart," a revival of the 1985 play about the AIDS crisis, were greeted by activist Larry Kramer handing out a leaflet from the curb. He was not urging a boyc…
"For once could you let my emotions come out?" Edie Falco as Bananas says to Ben Stiller as her husband Artie Shaughnessy in the David Cromer-directed revival of "The House of Leaves," as Ar…
In the busiest week on Broadway all year, I saw three plays involving nuns, three involving drug dealers " and one with both a nun and a drug dealer. Two performers debuted on Broadway and b…
Whatever else its charms, "Born Yesterday" is most noteworthy for having made a star out of Judy Holliday, and for having given the dumb blonde joke a novel twist. Its latest revival with Ji…
"War Horse" is a touching love story between a boy and his horse, it is a shocking war story, but above all, it is a breathtaking work of stagecraft, employing theatrical ingenuity at the se…
"Take some more tea, " the March Hare says to Alice. "I haven't had any yet, so I can't take more." "You mean you can’t take LESS,’ says the Mad Hatter: “It’s very ea…
In the very first moment that Mark Rylance appears on the stage and in the very last, "Jerusalem" soars from his daredevil performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a fiery spirit about to be e…
Patina Miller, the newly-discovered diva making her Broadway debut as star of "Sister Act," doesn't thank God in her Who's Who bio, and thank God for that. She thanks Whoopi Goldberg and her…
"High," a play starring Kathleen Turner as a tough nun who tries to save a drug addict, is playing on a street of Broadway that has become a drug corner: Right next door is "The MotherF**ker…
The end of April offers the ultimate test for the Broadway decathlete: 10 openings in two weeks. The schedule of Broadway shows from January to July include: War Horse 4/14, Wonderland 4/17,…
Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Koliada's powerful play is the most conventional, focused, and accessible of the three shows being offered in repertory by Belarus Free Theater.
Conceived by Natalia Koliada, Nikolai Khalezin, and Vladimir Shcherban this repertory offering of Belarus Free Theatre is most effective when most political.
January, 2011 The Importance of Being Earnest American Airlines Theater Opened: January 12, 2011 Director: Brian Bedford Cast: Brian Bedford (as Lady Bracknell) Bedford directs and stars (in…
Before Chris Rock even appeared on stage, "The MotherF**ker With The Hat," despite its off-putting title, had me hooked. Veronica is talking on the phone with her mom, in-between snorts of c…
The Palestinian family in "Urge for Going" argues about what happened in 1948 and 1967, and why they now live in Lebanon, in "temporary camps built 60 years ago." But they argue the loudest …
