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Theater created by Black New Yorkers goes back two centuries, as chronicled in the collections of the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, some items from which are posted be…
Each of the following ten recording artists has been nominated for Album of the Year, the most coveted of the 91 categories in the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held this Sunday. …
When I saw "Between Riverside and Crazy" on stage at Broadway's Hayes Theater in December, I called it a "must-see" production of Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning pla…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February 2023 in New York, Â including one play on Broadway, starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoe Wanamaker, and much exciting Off-Broadw…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from February 13 through March 5 to 23 Off-Broadway shows, including such fan f…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in January? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
A year after Eric Adams delivered  his first official speech as mayor in Manhattan's theater district urging New Yorkers to "enjoy a Broadway show," he made his second State o…
A Ukrainian play at an Irish theater festival? It was one of the two plays I attended in the final weekend of the annual 1st Irish Festival, which on the surface seemed as opposite as …
Vivien Leigh said it tipped her over into madness. It left Ann-Margret "twisted and shaking, confused, agitated, and staring ahead in a daze." For Jessica Lange, "I don't think there is a…
On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day " designated by the United Nations every January 27th, because that was the date in 1945 when Soviet soldiers liberated the 6,000 remain…
Ever since newly-elected New York Congressman George Santos was revealed as a liar, and worse, not a day has gone by without something new. It's embarrassing, of course; much of it is infuri…
"525,600 minutes 525,000 moments so dear 525,600 minutesHow do you measure… half a lifetime?  That's how long it's been" This is how Anthony Rapp begins  "Without You," h…
Nine of the 20 Oscar nominees for performance announced this morning are veterans of Broadway. (Full list of nominations) They are: Actor in a Leading RoleAustin Butler (Elvis) made his Broa…
The full list of nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC…
"Throughout history weather was the only important subject; everything else was small talk," Colin Quinn explains; now weather's the go-to subject for small talk, except for members of polit…
Maya Lin was still a college student when her design was selected out of more than 1,400 entries for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., which resulted in criticism, conflict, …
Nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday January 24th, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the interplay between Broadway and Hollywood, with…
Many of the dozen or so theater bloggers below offered end of year assessments for 2022, a less evidently emotional year than the previous two " but that's just on the surface. "This year di…
Jared Mezzocchi is a pioneer in digital theater, and probably its most quoted evangelist, an Obie winning theater artist who works as a multimedia designer, director, playwright, perfo…
An 88-year-old white supremacist who claimed "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a hoax shot and killed a 39-year-old African American security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washi…
Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets launches today through February 12, a traditional fallow period in New York theater, but one full of hope this year, judging from the announcements this past we…
Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day " which has been an official federal holiday since 1986 " many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, delivered August 28, 1963, …
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Wynton Marsalis, Senators Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar, and Broadway League President  Charlotte St. Martin were among those who took to the stage on the firs…
In 1905, Mark Twain wrote a caustic satire, "King Leopold's Soliloquy," in which the Belgian king tries to justify the unspeakable atrocities he committed for his personal enrichment duri…
What was most jaw-dropping about "Mothermotherland," which is being presented for free through January 15 at A.R.T./New York Theatres,  was not that Audrey Rose Dégez breastfed …
