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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…
Longtime rocker and now Broadway songwriter Cyndi Lauper seemed to be getting the cold shoulder from Arthur Treacher, he of the fish and chips but also of Camelot and a dozen other Broadway …
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former Congressman, has announced via the video below that he is running for mayor of New York City. Should he be running? A native New Yorker, Anthony Weiner, …
The  opera “Anna Nicole,” based on the life and  death of Playbill model and octogenarian billionaire’s bride Anna Nicole Smith, is one of 34 works of opera, theater,…
The winners of two more annual theater awards were announced this past week — the Drama League and the Drama Desk. Some of the winners were not on Broadway. It comes as no surprise to …
 The big winners of the 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards included Matilda, which won the most number of awards, five, including Outstanding Musical, and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woo…
A cop bumped into Tamara Williams, frisked her, mocked her, then issued her a citation for resisting arrest — a traumatic incident from last summer that became a dramatic one this week…
I raved about the immersive theatrical experience that is "Natasha, Pierre and the Comet of 1912" Â " a new type of dinner theater " when it was performed at Ars Nova last fall, and so was…
"Wood Bones," a play by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. that marks the inaugural production of The Eagle Project, a Native American theater company in New York City, is a work that excited me " …
This year Sondheim and Chekhov and Tom Hanks and Vanessa Redgrave share honors with a bus. The Drama Desk Awards nominating committee has selected "The Ride" as one of the choices in "Unique…
Broadway’s fresh faces this year include Tom Hanks, one of the world’s most familiar faces, and Yvonne Strahovski, who has a dedicated following for her roles in “ChuckR…
“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” won outstanding new Broadway play, “Kinky Boots” new Broadway musical, Â ”Pippin” best musical revival, “Who…
Now that NBC has canceled “Smash,” what will happen to the original songs created for this TV series about Broadway? Here are 11 that should last. (Lyrics are below the videos) 1…
Smash, the TV series on NBC about the making of a Broadway musical that began with such promise and excitement — and more than 11 million viewers — has been canceled after more t…
The film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County” with a sterling cast led by Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, will be in movie th…
For Keith Carradine, it was going to the opening of "Hair" when he was 19. For Andrea Martin, it was seeing Chita Rivera at 12; for Jay Armstrong Johnson it was "Disney on Ice" at age four.�…
