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As acclaimed as it is, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” will not sweep all the New York theater awards in 2016, most of which are awarded in May and June. “Hamilton…
American Psycho, a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as the produc…
“American Psycho,” a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as …
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2016 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
On one level, Alice Birch's weirdly named and audacious play, which has opened at Soho Rep, presents five vignettes of familiar every-day encounters: a man and a woman graphically flirting a…
She Loves Me and American Psycho lead with eight nominations apiece in the nominations for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 9th. OUTSTANDING…
In one way, Hamilton Clancy has outlived William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago this week at the age of 52. Clancy is older than that. But Clancy has also died many times, and it's all …
Few could have been surprised that the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama (and $10,000) was awarded to Lin-Manuel Miranda for the musical Hamilton, who after all has already won an astonish…
Lin-Manuel Miranda has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his musical “Hamilton.” The choice was widely expected. In my first review of Hamilton, Off Broadway, I wrote "Ham…
The producers of Hamilton have agreed to give the musical's original cast members an unspecified share of the profits, which are reportedly some half a million dollars a week and sure to gro…
The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
"Hamilton The Revolution," published April 12, 2016, has a long subtitle on the frontispiece in the style of 18th century literature: “Being the complete libretto of the Broadway Music…
Politics has invaded New York — and New York theater — even more so than usual this week. The Stop Cats movement is a prank " as (Andrew Briedis)Â Annoying Actor Friend explain…
Joel Grey, he tells us in "Master of Ceremonies," is "one of only eight people to win both the Tony and the Academy Award for the same role" " in his case the Emcee in "Cabaret." It's the ro…
Anne Washburn's new play sounds like the premise for the movies The Big Chill and The Return of the Secaucus Seven " a group of old friends reunite in a bucolic ranch house in the Texas Hill…
August Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein were among the winners in the UK’s 40th anniversary Olivier Awards, named aft…
Are theatergoers fools for April? Â We’ve survived some dopey April Fool’s Day jokes (Google’s Mic Drop; Brokelyn’s promise of a free Hamilton concert) and one hila…
What Andrew Schneider achieves on stage literally using smoke and mirrors leaves theatergoers as astonished as 19th century audiences must have felt watching Lumière’s "Arrival of the…
This month only seven shows will open on Broadway — “only” because April is usually the most intense of theater-going months. (Last April there were 14 Broadway openings.) …
Of some 100 productions of The Crucible scheduled this year in the U.S., director Ivo van Hove's eerie, often enigmatic but periodically powerful Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's most fre…
Alexander Hamilton is not a character in "1776" " and John Adams, the central character in "1776" is not a character in "Hamilton." But both are entertaining history lessons about the foundi…
The Humans received the most nominations this year, six. Futurity, Guards at the Taj and John all received five. The 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadwa…
