A startling moment occurs near the beginning of Lincoln Center's  wonderfully over-the-top production of "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's weird play about a modern-day Americ…
Below are the nominations for the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced this morning by Denée Benton and André De Shields. The awards ceremony, open to the public, wi…
The Tony Award nominations will be announced May 9th (changed from May 3rd), as the eligibility cut off has been changed to May 4th (it was April 28th) to give the nominators the chance to s…
"Funny Girl," a revival of which opened tonight on Broadway, is supposed to be a musical about Fanny Brice, the singing comedienne who was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway for some…
Earth Day is officially April 22nd, but it's being celebrated on Broadway, Saturday April 23rd, when the 30 blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehi…
"Hangmen," Martin McDonagh's black comedy about an ex-executioner, which opens tonight on Broadway, had a run Off-Broadway four years ago with the same director and the same design team. But…
It's taken more than 45 years for Ntozake Shange's theatrical evening of narrative and lyrical poetry, dance, and song to return to Broadway's Booth Theater….and for me finally to un…
This is a play about child abuse. Strip away the humor, the artful metaphors, the theatrical craftsmanship and the empathy, and "How I Learned to Drive" is the story of a pedophile, alcoholi…
Broadway theaters will no longer be required to check vaccination status of theatergoers after April 30th, but they will require theatergoers to continue to wear masks past at least until Ma…
"Democracy's messy," the mayor, portrayed by Tracy Letts, says to the newest member of the Big Cherry City Council, Mr. Peel (Noah Reid.) But messy is too mild a word for the goings-on in "T…
Below are the various discounts offered by the shows that have opened or are about to open (or reopen) on Broadway in Spring 2022, listed alphabetically. These are the official ways to get t…
In this third Broadway revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo," which feels like at least one revival too many, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Criss portray three low-life …
The Comedian Harmonists, the singing group whose story is told in "Harmony," Barry Manilow's long-gestating musical, were as popular as the Beatles in their time and place. But their time an…
What's most cringeworthy about "To My Girls" is not that, in an era of "they/them," the group of gay men in their late 30s who meet for a weekend in Palm Springs are all "She needs a cocktai…
"What is essential is invisible to the eye," a fox tells the little prince. "It's only visible to the heart." The line is from Antoine de Saint-Exupery's beloved 1943 novella, "The Little Pr…
Positive COVID-19 tests caused the cancellation last week of four Broadway shows, two of them still in previews, presenting a test of the enthusiasm for the April line-up (celebrated by the …
 In "Birthday Candles," opening on Broadway tonight,  Debra Messing portrays Ernestine, a woman who we see celebrating her birthdays from age 17 to age 107 by baking a cake.  …
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2022 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies " which (like most everything in the last two years…
Theater critics and theatergoers don't like the same shows, Jan Simpson says in a post in "Broadway & Me," as explained (and linked) below. What about theater bloggers? Yes, there are so…
Below are the nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Oratorio for Living Things" have the most nom…
People thought Mickey Rowe was a weird kid. By the time that weirdness was officially deemed a disability and given a diagnosis, he was a senior in college and had already begun working as a…
In this first Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's 2003 Tony-winning comedy, which is a gay man's love letter to baseball, Jesse Williams portrays Darren Lemming, a star player who is so …
Step aside, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Burt Bacharach, Stephen Schwartz, Bob Dylan, Claude-Michel Schönberg. Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, aged 23 and 20 respectively, won the Grammy for B…
There are pleasures in "Paradise Square."Â Â The terrific dancing tells its own story, a quintessential American (and Broadway) one: How African-American and Irish immigrant dancers lear…
The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical has won the 2022 Grammy for the best musical theater album " which is unusual, since it has never been performed on a stage. The six nominees in the categor…