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Normally the weeks leading to the Tonys are primarily a time for anticipation and celebration;Â five major theater awards were announced this past week alone " "Purpose" and "Maybe Happy E…
 "John Proctor is the Villain" was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and "Maybe Happy Ending" was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and three other awards at the 75th annual Out…
Near the beginning of "Floyd Collins," a sonically spellbinding musical inspired by a bleak and bizarre true story, Jeremy Jordan as the title character yodels into the darkness " and hears …
A day after the election of the first American pope, the first female pope led us in a hymn in Latin " shortly before a hooded Inquisitor ordered her burned to death. What's most arresting a…
Mothers once again took to the stage on Broadway in the season just ended , in not always flattering but always knowing depictions. On Mothers Day this Sunday, Audra McDonald will try to bro…
A sexual affair between Hugh Jackman as a married middle aged professor and Ella Beatty as his 19-year-old student? On its surface, "Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes" tells a familiar…
Below are the nominations for the five competitive categories in the 14th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The winners will be announced June 2. The Alliance has also announced special a…
On its sixtieth anniversary, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center is being given a Tony Award.  In announcing the 2025 Tony Honors for Excellence…
Among the hundreds of clotheshorses at the Met Gala last night were some theater artists " a Tony-winning producer, several playwrights, including a newly-minted Pulitzer winner, but mostly,…
 "Purpose," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama earlier today, has now been selected as the best play of the 2024-2025 season by The New York Drama Critics' Circle, which also awarded …
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's "Purpose" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Cole Escola's "Oh, Mary" and Itamar Moses's "The Ally" were selected as finalists. New York Magazine theater crit…
 Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2024-2025 theatrical season, as well as three…
The Tony nominations got most of the attention, with the customary "stars, snubs and surprises" analyses, but the nominations for three other awards were also announced within a week, the Of…
"Our Class," Arlekin Players Theater's play inspired by true events surrounding a 1941 pogrom by former classmates in a small Polish village, won outstanding revival, director, scenic design…
The 1933 trial that ended the US ban against James Joyce's "Ulysses" for obscenity is viewed as a significant victory for free expression,  almost as much of a landmark in legal circle…
Jonathan Groff and Jasmine Amy Rogers were nominated for all four theater awards that were announced over the past week, he for portraying Bobby Darin in "Just in Time," she for the title ro…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, including some starry plays Off-Broadway (Hugh Jackman as a leering professor, Amber Iman as a goddess, Liev Schreiber as a homewrecker) as we…
Below is a list of theater artists who deserved a Tony nomination but did not get one. This is not a compilation of "snubs." The busy Broadway 2024-2025 season was crowded with talent; the T…
Below are the nominations for the 78th Tony Awards, which were announced this morning by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. The winners will be presented at Radio City Music Hall with host…
"Boop" leads with 11 nominations at the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards announcement by Norm Lewis this afternoon, followed by "Just in Time" and "Maybe Happy Ending" with nine each. The award…
Below is the complete list of the nominations announced for 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies. The awards will be presented on May 19 …
How well were you paying attention to the 2024-2025 Broadway season, and the final dozen plays and musicals that opened in April by the Tony deadline? Can you identify lines of dialogue and …
Over this past week Broadway has been awash in crooners and corpses, monsters and marauders, immigrants and miners, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2024-2025 season had their opening …
This musical about mostly undocumented immigrants in a L.A. dress factory has heart, something in short supply these days, especially when it comes to immigrants. It also features bellies. I…
"Dead Outlaw," a darkly comic musical that tells the ghoulish true tale about a corpse from the Old West, has been resurrected, opening tonight on Broadway, with the same cast and creative t…
