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The news is good again on Broadway, which officially ended the 2015-16 season with another record -- a slight but reassuring upturn in attendance and grosses.
Theater lovers will be able to pique more of their multitasking neural connections while watching the 70th annual Tony Awards June 12 on CBS.
At the risk of oversimplifying, "Indecent," the moving and fascinating new Paula Vogel work at the Vineyard, is like a "Shuffle Along" about Jews and lesbians. I'll explain. "Shuffle Along,"…
It is tempting to think about "Do I Hear a Waltz?" as a time capsule from 1965. More precisely, however, the fascinatingly miss-matched musical that closes this season's Encores! series of s…
The weeks between the official cutoff of the Broadway season -- April 28 this year -- and the summer months are mostly speculation, promotion and chatter about the Tony Awards.
The big surprise last week concerning Audra McDonald was that she did not receive a Tony nomination for her star turn in "Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and Al…
When "Fun Home" won its five much-deserved Tony Awards last June, including the big one for best musical, there were delightful bushels of attention showered on the women who created it. Not…
"The Humans," Stephen Karam's blistering and tender tragicomic thriller about a family Thanksgiving, has won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play of the 2015-16 season.
The musical broke Broadway records previously held by "The Producers" and "Billy Elliot."
A modern-dress rethinking of "A Streetcar Named Desire" has arrived on the shores of Brooklyn with splendid advance word from London, especially for Gillian Anderson's Blanche DuBois. What's…
Days after the Broadway season officially ended, off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre has opened the next likely prospect for a commercial transfer. "Dear Evan Hansen" is an ingenuous, multil…
This all started when I was watching "American Psycho" last month at the Schoenfeld Theatre. Although plenty of blood and sex and stuff kept happening all over the stage, I couldn't help loo…
Like its mouthful of a title, "Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed," is not a conventional show. Nor should it be. Director/author George C. Wo…
The temptation is to talk all day and into the night about Jessica Lange as Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
From the small world of unexpected pleasures comes "Tuck Everlasting," a gentle but hardly lightweight fantasy musical about an 11-year-old girl and the prospect of eternal life.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is a very talented fellow who, at least from an audience perspective, exudes exceptionally nice-guy qualities. So it feels bad to have to say this, but Ferguson, despite…
For a musical-comedy about a battered wife, an unwanted pregnancy and multiple spousal betrayals, "Waitress" is really very sweet. Sometimes, like the pies our beleaguered heroine bakes with…
Well, does it kill? The answer is definitely yes, no and sometimes. In other words, success depends on what's happening in "American Psycho," the alternately dazzling and dull musical about …
Cellphones and related digital devices must be the least loved part of today's theatergoing -- worse, even, than the guy sitting next to you eating chicken and people who laugh in your ear w…
The award for the best portrayal of a wolf on Broadway goes to . . . a dog. And not just any dog. As anyone who has seen director Ivo van Hove's scary-brilliant revival of "The Crucible" can…
If America had a genuine classical theater, Frank Langella would be up there with the masters, a grand and gutsy performer of serious -- if sometimes self-serious -- majesty and an appetite …
The time is 1192. The place, Jerusalem. But the sepia photo that dominates the set of "Nathan the Wise" shows bombed-out ancient buildings, one with a satellite dish on the shell of a roof.
It has been more than 30 years since Broadway audiences last got to appreciate Tommy Tune, the beloved long, tall Texan, in "My One and Only."
"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings." So says Richard II, significantly, near the start of the Royal Shakespeare Company's "King and Country" -- the cycle …
When it comes to the singing and dancing of our founding fathers, "Hamilton" was not there first. In 1969, while it seemed that half the country was celebrating uncharted rebellion at "Hair,…
