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Make your pick for 15 of the 24 categories in the 71st annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 11th at Radio Music Hall in New York City. Mo…
In Power Struggle on Broadway: Escapist vs. Socially Conscious Shows in the 2016"17 Season, a piece I wrote for HowlRound, I point out that there were more socially conscious than escapis…
Watch videos from the four Broadway musicals nominated for the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award, listed alphabetically. Above each of the show’s video(s) is a link to a post with productio…
Below are 2017 Tony Award nominees who spoke at the Meet the Nominees press reception the day after the announcement, grouped more or less show by show. Click on individual photographs to re…
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 leads the 2017 Tony Award nominations with twelve, followed by the Bette Midler-starring revival Hello, Dolly! with ten a…
The Tony nominations will be announced this morning, Tuesday, May 2, at 8:30 a.m., which will launch weeks' worth of predictions, preferences and objections. Let's start a few hours early! B…
The nominations for the Tony Awards will be announced at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, making it the major event of the year that turns night people into morning people. Other things are happening R…
The Broadway musicals “Cats” and  “Bandstand” and the Off-Broadway revival of “Sweet Charity”  lead in the number of nominations for the Chita River…
May is a month when Broadway is on the brain, but not on the stage. Theatergoers focus on the Tonys and many other theater awards, but there are more than a dozen Off-Broadway and Off-Off Br…
Test your knowledge of theater in April. Which play contains the lines of dialogue, which lyric belongs to which musical? Who got what award? In what show is a sexy rock star making his Broa…
Now that the New York theater season has ended officially, the theater awards season steps up. Â What are all these awards? How do they differ? When will the various nominations and award…
"Bandstand," a new musical about a group of traumatized World War II veterans who form a 40's jazz band with a Gold Star widow as their singer, attempts to combine an original score of perio…
Summed up in a single photograph: April 29th marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Here are press accounts and comments. “The tradition of looking to that period as a…
There are moments in Bette Midler's Hello, Dolly that offer unsurpassed entertainment, demonstrating the ideal match between show and star that many people expected when they first heard tha…
Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House who slams the door on her husband and three childre…
Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play “A Doll's House” who slams the door on her husband and…
Hello, Dolly, Anastasia, and Come From Away lead the 62nd annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. T…
"The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare; neither knew chocolate." That insight by Sandra Boynton (author of "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion") helps explain why w…
Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience…
Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience int…
The Broadway season is not over until the end of this week, but the awards season has already begun. The Week in Theater Awards Sound design Tony categories reinstated for next year They fou…
“Anastasia” and “Hello, Dolly!” lead in the number of nominations for the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards, with 13 and 10 respectively, followed by “The Band&#…
Pity Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, charged with fashioning the book of a Broadway musical out of a 1997 cartoon, which turned the Russian Revolution into a fairytale, grinding a…
In dramatizing the legend surrounding the youngest daughter of the last Czar, the show has created a new villain, a Soviet official named Gleb….Anastasia winds up promoting nostalgia f…
So there was Andy Karl, the star of "Groundhog Day," on stage in what's supposed to be a seduction scene, but he was proudly showing off the elaborate black knee-brace on his bare outstretch…
