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There seemed to be an unusually abundant display of abdominal muscle on Broadway during the season just ended, almost as if there was an award for Broadway’s Best Abs. So let’s h…
For her version of "Pippin," director Diana Paulus reached back to the wisdom of the Ancients " distracting us from a dud by offering bread and circuses. This first Broadway revival of Steph…
This month’s theater quiz is a special theater awards edition.About half the 10 questions have something to do with one of the many awards whose nominations were announced in April. Se…
Motown Tony Award nominee Valisia LeKae and Brandon Victor Dixon bring a complex relationship to the stage as music icons Diana Ross and Berry Gordy.
Everybody loves Tom Hanks — and that includes nearly every theater award nominating committee. For his role in “Lucky Guy,” Hanks has been nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk,…
Here are celebrities eligible for the 2013 Tony Award nominations who were not nominated: Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannaval, Jessica Chastain, Alan Cumming, Katie Holmes, Scarlett Joh…
“Kinky Boots” received the most nominations, 13, for the 67th annual Tony Awards, followed by Matilda with 12, Â at the New York Public Theater for the Performing Arts, chosen …
The 2013 Tony Award nominations will be announced at 8:30 a.m. on April 30. To help prepare for the inevitable reaction — “Snubbed!” — here is a list of those eligibl…
The Broadway season has ended and the awards season begun, when theater people turn from the art of theater to its mathematics. Here are the shows I reviewed last week, starting with my favo…
 “Giant” and “Hands on A Hardbody” got the most love this year from the Drama Desk Awards, each receiving nine nominations. The 58th Annual Drama Desk …
“Buyer and Cellar,” which imagines a man (played by Michael Urie)  hired to work for Barbra Streisand at her Malibu home, is no more important than the lacquer on Streisan…
It seemed like a stunt at first, inviting the audience on stage to see the set of "The Testament of Mary" " the live vulture (we're told his name is Pinhead), the cave underneath the stage w…
Russell Harvard decided to be an actor at the age of seven when he saw his cousin playing the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. That ambition was confirmed when his aunt took him…
Pippin, the offspring of a king, takes a journey to find his corner of the sky in "Pippin," a musical Stephen Schwartz wrote before "Wicked" and Bob Fosse directed and choreographed before "…
In "I'll Eat You Last," Bette Midler reads the phone book, to great laughter and applause. This particular phone book, the thinnest of scripts about Hollywood agent Sue Mengers, contains onl…
Cicely Tyson has come home. As Carrie Watts, the old woman in Horton Foote's heartbreaking play "The Trip To Bountiful," she had been stuck all day every day with her hectoring daughter-in-l…
Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines, was known for two things in America "owning 3,000 pairs of shoes and dancing in discos. Â "Here Lies Love," Â David Byrne's inspi…
Below is a list of the nominations for the Drama League Awards for 2011. (Unlike other theater organizations that give out annual awards, membership in the Drama League is open to the genera…
Six shows opened on Broadway in the last week. In the order in which I would recommend them, they are: The Assembled Parties The Nance Macbeth Orphans The Big Knife Jekyll and Hyde Four more…
The revival of Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin earned 11 Outer Critics Circle nominations, the most of any production of the season, Kinky Boots, nine; Chaplin: The Musical an…
When bloody, shirtless Alan Cumming recites the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy on the stage of the Ethel Barrymore, I was floored: He would be great in "Macbeth" I thought. B…
In the New York City of 1937 re-created in "The Nance," Â Douglas Carter Beane's fascinating new play starring Nathan Lane, eating at the wrong restaurant could get you arrested — th…
Jekyll and Hyde: A Tale of Two Views The critics hate it. The fans adore it. Jekyll and Hyde Review: Good vs. Bad on . .. – New York Theater 1 day ago … Me: The return of Frank W…
Me: The return of Frank Wildhorn's "Jekyll and Hyde" to Broadway, not a cause for celebration in my household, conjures up a vivid memory of the original Broadway production, when Robert Cuc…
In the much-publicized fracas over "Orphans," when Shia LaBeouf was fired after clashing with co-star Alec Baldwin and replaced by Ben Foster, the one actor in the cast barely mentioned was …
