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Michael Urie, best-known as the catty fashion editorial assistant Marc St. James of the TV series "Ugly Betty," is playing some half dozen characters in an acclaimed new play by Jonathan Tol…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, best-known as the wunderkind songwriter and performer for "In The Heights," which four Tony Awards, was hooked on musical theater when at age 12 he was given roles in six…
Andrea Martin, who at age 66 is astonishing audiences as much with her body as with her death-defying performance on a trapeze as Grandmother Berthe in "Pippin," for which she has been nomin…
Tim Minchin, the Australian songwriter up for nearly every New York theater award known to Man because of his score for “Matilda,” thinks that listening to Gilbert and Sullivan �…
Jay Armstrong Johnson, who appeared this on stage both in a revival of “Working,” the Stephen Schwartz musical, and “Hands on a Hardbody,” the debut musical by Trey A…
The 2013 Theatre World Award winners, given to 12 performers making their Broadway (or Off-Broadway) debuts are: Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical Carrie Coon, Edward Albee's Who's Af…
Two Broadway shows already have announced their early closing in the week after the Tony Award nominations, prompting odd pushback from the producer of one of the shows. (see 4 below) The To…
In the theater page of today’s New York Times, Testament of Mary producer Scott Rudin has taken out a strange advertisement attacking Times theater reporter Patrick Healy: “Let&#…
What is most striking about the two performers in "Motown The Musical" who re-enact the complicated relationship between Berry Gordy, Jr., the founder of Motown Records, and Diana Ross ̵…
At the beginning of "Surviving Mommie Dearest," an odd show that will run from May 8th to Mother's Day at the Snapple Theater, Christina Crawford, the 73-year-old adopted daughter of mov…
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…
