5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets
What's on Jessica Chastain's mind as she spins onstage? Plus: Ben Platt's silence, the "Fat Ham" ghost, the "Shucked" corn dance and all that "Sweeney" blood.
What's on Jessica Chastain's mind as she spins onstage? Plus: Ben Platt's silence, the "Fat Ham" ghost, the "Shucked" corn dance and all that "Sweeney" blood.
The 31-year-old playwright received the honor for her first produced play, "English," about a language test-prep class in Iran.
Garrett began her tenure at the organization in August 2019, and plans to depart at the end of this month.
The production, a revue celebrating the choreography of Bob Fosse, received no Tony nominations on Tuesday. Its last show will be Sunday.
The musicals "New York, New York," "Shucked" and "& Juliet" each got nine and "Kimberly Akimbo" picked up eight. Several major stars earned nominations.
J. Harrison Ghee of "Some Like It Hot" was nominated in the best leading actor in a musical category, and Alex Newell of "Shucked" was nominated in the best featured actor in a musical categ…
The show about the Comedian Harmonists, a real-life sextet that ran afoul of the Nazi regime, was first staged in 1997.
Justin Cooley plays an anagram-obsessed, Elvish-speaking high school student in the musical.
The play stars Ian Shaw, whose father, Robert Shaw, played a shark hunter in the movie.
After rescuing the company from bankruptcy, he turned it into a major player on Broadway and one of the largest nonprofit theater companies in the country.
The final day of "The Phantom of the Opera" was marked by a combination of nostalgia and celebration at the Majestic Theater. It is closing on an unexpectedly high note.
As "The Phantom of the Opera" ends its record-breaking Broadway run on Sunday, its most devoted followers, who call themselves Phans, are mourning.
The annual ceremony, honoring Broadway plays and musicals, is to take place June 11 at the United Palace in Washington Heights.
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The solo performance will open on June 26 at the Hudson Theater.
The duo recently starred in a revival of "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" at BAM; now the production is moving uptown.
Producers including Steven Spielberg have been exploring several possible incarnations of the decade-old TV series. Now they have a plan.
The Golden Age musical is back on Broadway, with a new take by one of the nation's great screenwriters. Walk with us.
The actors will play a father and daughter in "I Need That," a comedy written by Theresa Rebeck.
The show, scheduled to open in April at the James Earl Jones Theater, was adapted from Emma Donoghue's best-selling 2010 novel.
His long-gestating final show, now titled "Here We Are," is coming to the Shed; it is inspired by two Luis Buñuel films.
The studio's first venture into live performance follows the move by Audible, Amazon's audio subsidiary, to stage works at the nearby Minetta Lane Theater.
Lea Michele, whose star turn in the musical has reversed its flagging fortunes, will stay with the show to the end.
Several Black playwrights have canceled productions of their works, in some cases after performances started, because of concerns about conditions at the theaters presenting them.