The Golden Apple, a 1954 Broadway musical, got the Encores! treatment at its most glorious over the weekend " with a sonorous 31-piece orchestra directed by Rob Berman, and a splendid 40-mem…
"Another happy day," Dianne Wiest exclaims as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's bleak, comic and compassionate play, written decades before Groundhog Day, but similarly focused on somebody who is t…
"Another happy day," Dianne Wiest exclaims as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's bleak, comic and compassionate play, written decades before Groundhog Day, but similarly focused on somebody w…
The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2016-2017 theatrical season have been given to: Carlo Albán, Sweat Christy Altomare, Anastasia Denée Benton, Nat…
With his new play "Arlington," playwright and director Enda Walsh presents an unusual love story set against a future dystopian society, which might shock New York theatergoers who know Wals…
Here are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 15 of the 24 categories in the 71st annual Tony Awards. Best Musical Nominated:…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Oslo as the best play and The Band’s Visit as best musical. Special Citations: were given to Paula Vogel ,Taylor Mac and the ensemble cast …
Oslo won for new Broadway play, Come from Away for new Broadway musical in the 67th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. If I forget won for Off-Broadway play, The Band’s Visit for Off-…
The Band’s Visit won best musical and Oslo the best play in the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Outstanding Play: Oslo Outstanding…
The Tony nominations announced last Tuesday set off what will be five weeks of prediction, debate and suspense. But the suspense ends this week for many of the other major New York theater: …
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…