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Hamilton has received a record-breaking 12 nominations for the 30th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway.  The Off-Broadway League awards will be ha…
Fourteen shows are opening on Broadway this month. Take this poll to choose the one are most looking forward to. Arranged chronologically by opening date. For more details on the shows, chec…
A theater critic is a "malicious, cowardly" person who cannot see the beauty in a flower because she cannot put a label on it. That is what the ex movie star turned first-time Broadway direc…
April is the month to binge-watch on Broadway.  Fourteen shows are opening on Broadway within 21 days — set in Paris, London, Bangkok and Moscow; and Cypress, Texas;  Airline …
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in March? Answer these 12 questions and find out.
The annual April Broadway marathon begins this coming week — 14 openings in 21 days, with two of these shows opening on the Tony eligibility cut-off date of April 23, 2015. The show…
Jennifer Haley did not set out to become the first major playwright of the digital age, but that is what has happened. “The Nether,” which imagines a future where people lose …
World Theatre Day, created in 1961, is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? The author of the Message of World Theatre Day 2015 is the Polish director Krzysztof W…
Restored after Katrina, Saenger Theater — built in 1927, shut down by flooding in 2005, re-opened in 2013 after a $52 million restoration — is beautiful…on the inside. Clic…
With the help of Tony-winner James Corden and lots of backdrops, Tom Hanks acts out the movies in which he has starred over the last three decades, from Splash (1984) to Saving Mr. Banks (20…
This year’s American Theatre Critics Association conference is taking place in New Orleans, to coincide with the 29th annual Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 25 …
It's March Madness for theatrical birthdays. Good morning. Happy birthday. pic.twitter.com/PCXwjaZVMb — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 22, 2015 Happy 100th Birthday, Patricia M…
It was only at the end of "Posterity," Doug Wright's new play that imagines the real-life encounter between Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen and a sculptor doing a bust of him, that the poin…
Melissa Hillman has written a new essay, The Lies We Tell About Audience Engagement, that is both inspiring and infuriating. One of the smartest theater writers on the Internet, Hil…
All that's right and wrong with “The Heidi Chronicles,” the 1989 play by the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein getting its first Broadway revival, is on display in a scene that t…
Theatergoers in the know have already seen these four shows closing Off-Broadway by the end of March, 2015 " or meant to see them. This is the last chance in New York. (Two of them are going…
Kristin Chenoweth may have paused at the new opening date for “On The Twentieth Century” – the Ides of March. Her co-star Peter Gallagher had been out sick, and Chenoweth h…
Train travel is hot again, at least at the (ironically named) American Airlines Theater, where "On The Twentieth Century" turns out to be one of the funniest and most entertaining shows on B…
In playwright Jennifer Haley's cleverly imagined, disturbing future — just a step or two ahead of our present — people lose themselves in a virtual world. "Your login reco…
Ticket Giveaway: Win a pair of tickets to see The Lion starring Benjamin Scheuer, the much-praised solo show running through March 29th at the Lynn Redgrave Theater at Culture Project.…
“The Audience,” a middle brow British export starring the quick-change artistry of Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth, imagines what happens during Her Majesty's private weekly m…
In their Broadway acting debuts, Oprah wants to be happy; Bruce Willis is going for Misery. And much that happened this week in New York theater is somewhere in-between. Several days left to…
The captain of the slave ship, afraid that the sick woman would infect the rest of his cargo, lashed her to a chair and lowered the chair into the sea, drowning her. "After the captain threw…
Fish in the Dark,” which marks Larry David’s Broadway debut as a writer and performer " indeed his first stage performance since the eighth grade — feels like a couple of e…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Chita Rivera and Roger Rees in The Visit, “a stunning tale of young love, timeless seduction, and sweet revenge.” The Visit marks the fina…