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A dozen photographs at the Meet the Tony Nominees annual event of nominees meeting one another: Carrie Coon with Susannah Flood, Joshua Henry with Sam Tutty, Nathan Lane with John Lithgow, C…
Liberation was awarded outstanding play, and Mexidus outstanding musical at the 92nd annual Drama League Awards, today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Death of A Salesman and Ragtime were also sho…
Take the poll below to choose your favorite Broadway Showstopper of the Broadway 2025-2026 season. This is a category created for the Dorian Theater Awards, which just announced the nominati…
Below is a list of the nominations for the fourth annual Dorian Theater Awards, which reads like a countdown: Schmigadoon has received nine nominations, The Lost Boys eight, The Rocky Horror…
Below are the nominations for the five competitive categories in the 15th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The winners will be announced on May 27th, with a ceremony held at Sardi’s on…
Bess Wohl’s ““Liberation” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The new musicals “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” each received 12 of the nominations for the 79th Tony Award…
“The Balusters” was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and “Schmigadoon!” was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and four other awards at the 76th annual Outer Critics Circl…
Today on Mother’s Day, Laurie Metcalf as Linda Loman is telling off her children that attention must be paid; she means to her husband, not herself. Shoshana Bean as Lucy Emerson discovers…
“Costume Art,” the Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition opening tomorrow, six days after the Met Gala celebrated it, isn’t what it may sound like. It pairs some 200 garments an…
Below are the honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2025-2026 theatrical season. The 80th Annual Theatre World …
Muriel Mandell was born one year and one day after the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, and, 103 years later, she attended the Broadway musical “SUFFS,” abo…
For his performance in “Becky Shaw,” Alden Ehrenreich was acclaimed by five of the major theater awards that have been announced over the past two weeks — selected as Best Individual…
Below is a list of some theater artists who did not get a Tony nomination but I feel deserve some recognition. This is not a compilation of “snubs.” As is the case every year, the Broadw…
The new musicals “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” received the most nominations, 12 each, for the 79th Tony Awards, as announced this morning by Darren Criss and Uzo Aduba. The …
“Liberation” by Bess Wohl was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “Bowl EP” by Nazareth Hassan and “Meet the Cartesians” by Talene Monahon were selected as finalists. Vinson Cu…
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama will be announced this afternoon, the nominations for the 79th Tony Awards tomorrow morning. In the past week, we learned the winners of the 2026 New York D…
“Mexodus,,” a two-man musical about the little-known history of Mexico as a refuge for thousands of escaping American slaves before the Civil War, won outstanding musical, director, le…
Spectacular stagecraft, thrilling young performers with terrific voices, a pulsing score by the indie-rock band the Rescues that has at least one tune I find memorable: “The Lost Boy…
Theater award season has begun in earnest, which means receptions for the shows and individuals nominated. Below are photographs of some of the people at an Outer Critics Circle party, ta…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, with some starry and exciting fare, none of it on Broadway. Hugh Jackman is again affordable at Audible; “Heated Rivalry” gets a parody, t…
“Little Bear Ridge Road,” playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s Broadway debut, has heen selected as the best play of the 2025-2026 season by The New York Drama Critics Circle, which gave Be…
Both “Schmigadoon” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” get lots of love in the nominations for the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies, announce…
“Beau the Musical” and “Mexodus” both lead the nominations for the 70th annual Drama Desk Awards, each receiving ten, which were announced by Raúl Esparza and Helen J Shen this mo…
How well were you paying attention to the Broadway 2025-2026 season and its April finale? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
Over this past week Broadway has been awash in friends and fiends, boarders and board members, Golden Age hoofers and 80s vampires, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2025-2026 season ha…
