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Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2015 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
From the very first moments of Lincoln Center's ravishing The King and I, it feels like a privilege just to be sitting in the audience. First the 29 musicians play Rodgers and Hammerstein's …
Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirguis has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, In another one of Stephen Adly Guirguis's quintessential plays about New Yorkers on the margi…
Nominations for the 65th annual Outer Critics Circle awards will be announced today starting at 11 a.m. in the following categories: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MU…
"My Dad and I both grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town. And he was gay and I was gay,” Alison explains in the remarkable musical Fun Home. Â "And he killed himself, and I ……
The King and I, starring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara, is the fifth Broadway production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who becomes …
Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after Peter and the Starcatcher and Peter Pan Li…
Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after “Peter and the Starcatcher” an…
The singular accomplishment of "It Shoulda Been You," a musical comedy about a wedding that tries hard to be a farce, is that it abruptly swerves in a completely unexpected direction, and ye…
Actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theatre in Washington,D.C. on April 14, 1865. Wilkes had access to the theater because of his profession. He was a …
Both Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950's movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised b…
Both Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950's movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised b…
Opening this week on Broadway: An American in Paris It Shoulda Been You Finding Neverland The King and I Check out April openings for details. The Week in New York Theater Reviews Hand to Go…
For an evil sock puppet who eventually bites a teenager's ear off, Tyrone is quite the philosopher. In the prologue in Hand to God, Robert Askin's funny, filthy, violent and sensitive pl…
“Tremble:your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now”~Judith Malina Judith Malina died this morning at age 88. Malina and Julian Beck began the Living Theatre in…
What would be your ideal theater critic? What makes a critic “professional” these days? What is the proper training for a critic? Should a critic write about a show if he or she …
It'll be another three months before the American Revolution arrives on Broadway, with the hip-hop musical Hamilton. In the meantime, the Great White Way has been pledging allegiance to the …
It'll be another three months before the American Revolution arrives on Broadway, with the hip-hop musical Hamilton. In the meantime, the Great White Way has been pledging allegiance to the …
Gigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
Gigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
In “Hand to God,” good-hearted teenager Jason is forced to confront Tyrone, a violent, foul-mouthed bully, who just happens to reside on Jason’s left arm. Tyrone is a hand …
Of the 14 shows opening on Broadway in April, the most anticipated, according to my poll so far, are 1. Fun Home 2. Something Rotten 3. The King and I Last week, Skylight opened. This week, …
Performers from more than 70 countries have had gigs at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company since it began in 1961, but one could be excused for seeing this season as the perfect storm for …
It wasn’t exactly an ambush, but the first question actor Bernardo Cubria posed to me as a guest on his theatre podcast was about a complaint that actors have about critics. I was his …
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic rest…
