Is it an error to move "The Comedy of Errors" from Ancient Greece, where Shakespeare placed this early play of his, to upstate New York in the 1940's? That is the setting of director Daniel …
Buy tickets to Broadway It's hard to believe it was only a week ago that so many theatergoers felt euphoric after the Tony Awards " not so much for the winners (though there were surprises, …
An announcement on the Tony Awards website means that the Tonys, which has never honored Off-Broadway, may finally begin to do so, at least in a small way. “The Awards Administration C…
Jenna Fischer's last day as Pam Beesley in the TV series "The Office" was her first day on an Off-Broadway stage, in what could be called a play series. She portrays Steph in Neil LaBute's "…
Neil Patrick Harris french-kissed Sunny, the dog playing Sandy in “Annie” (did they both get their shots?) but there was little love that American Tony voters showed the British …
Buy tickets to Broadway shows The winners of the 67th annual Tony Awards, will be in  bold face with asterisk *,  as they are announced tonight. There are already more than a dozen …
Yet another actor sheds his clothing and takes a bath in "Enemies: A Love Story," a theatrically rewarding stage adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer sad and funny short story, the se…
Ryan Holsopple gets mad when he goes to a show and the sound is not loud enough. But what really disturbs him — “I get kind of nauseous” — is when the production only…
Cyndi Lauper, a pop star whose first big hit was Girls Just Want To Have Fun 30 years ago, has been embraced by Broadway, undergoing the ritual known as posing with your caricature at Sardi&…
The fourth annual Lilly Awards, named after playwright Lillian Hellman, honored the following women in the theater earlier this week: actress Lois Smith actress Jessica Hecht sound designer …
Daniel Radcliffe, a 23- year-old man with a net worth of $50 million, has been working hard to "escape" Harry Potter, as he puts it. He's danced on Broadway, performed in the nude  on "al…
Raymond Lee is more than just a triple threat. A stage performer who has been in the Broadway casts of "Mamma Mia" and "Anything Goes," he doesn't just act, sing, and dance " and do cartwhee…
Pippin and Motown were the winners in the 2013Â Fred & Adele Astaire Awards celebrating dance on stage and on screen. The two Broadway musicals shared the award for outstanding choreog…
Buy tickets to Broadway The Tony Awards will take place this coming Sunday, and, if nothing else, they are the best way to sum up the Broadway season. How else to do it? In facts and figures…
To enjoy "Far From Heaven" without reservation, it might help to stay away from Netflix. The new musical about two forbidden loves (gay and interracial) in 1950s suburban Connecticut has ope…
The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a week. Meanwhile life — and theater, and life in the theater — goes on. See how well you were paying attention in May by answering these 10 …
Last year, Bob Martin, one of the three creators of the cult backstage theater TV series “Slings & Arrows” told me they were thinking of creating a fourth season – a…
"I want a woman," John Malkovich as the dying lover Casanova shouts elegantly from the stage of City Center, while in the audience " in the row right in front of me " a young man has two: He…
"Does anyone ever realize life while they live it, every, every minute?” Emily asks in "Our Town." "No," replies the Stage Manager. "Saints and poets maybe." How about prisoners? Twent…
The four new TV spots promoting the Tony Awards show on June 9th all have three things in common: Annie, Cinderella, Matilda, and the diner they’re sitting in (which is sometimes ident…
Buy tickets to Broadway Summer has unofficially begun. By its end, nine of the 27 shows currently on Broadway will have closed, several of them next month. But summer also means a city full …
Actors Equity, the union of almost 50,000 actors and stage managers, was officially created 100 years ago today, May 26, 1913. Its members “are not blue-collar workers who work with th…
This summer there will  be two plays involving John Malkovich at two different theater festivals, one in which he stars, the other directs — proof enough, if proof was needed, th…
The most important question for me about the 2013 Tony Awards is not: Is Kinky Boots a shoe-in for the bulk of its 13 Tony Award nominations, more than any other show this season? Or: Will M…
“From this place on this wall, I see ALL,” Tom Hanks wrote on his caricature during a ceremony at Sardi’s. The restaurant has been putting caricatures of Broadway performer…