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There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere sitting there, living for Tony performances singin’ and flippin’ along with the Pippins and Wickeds and Kinkys, Matildas and Mormo…
Winners in the 24 competitive categories and five special awards of the 69th annual Tony Awards for achievement on Broadway in red with an asterisk*. (Click on names of nominees and winn…
I predict people will party, parry and Tweet during the 69th annual Tony Awards Sunday night, and that there will be no more viewers than last year's average of 7.02 million, but those who w…
Basic questions such as the origin of the universe " Big Bang Theory vs. Divine Creation " may fiercely divide the world, but on stage at Studio 54, they are a source  of jokes by …
All the excitement leading up to the 69th annual Tony Awards on June 7th can seem like so much hype, even to professional theater artists, several of whom have told me they never watch the a…
As a movie actor, Jesse Eisenberg is going from playing a jerk (Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network) to a supervillain (Lex Luthor in next year's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.) But i…
The 2015 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards  solved the dilemma of a dance-heavy Broadway season with a tie for An American in Paris and On The Town in two different categories –Â…
Theater in New York doesn’t end when the Broadway season does. There are five shows opening on June 11th alone, which must be a record. There’s even a play opening on the …
Below are my picks, and yours, for the 2015 Tony Awards " by which I mean, whom I would choose among the nominees. These are not my predictions of who will actually win; I’m willing to…
Winners of the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. (Winners marked in red and with an a…
The dancing on Broadway seems to have gotten bigger, and more original — even many plays this season had dancing in them — since I held a contest two years ago asking readers for…
How well were you paying attention to the theater in May. Answer these 11 quiz questions to find out.
Here are two public performances by Corey Cott, three years apart, at different free outdoor concerts, the first, two songs from the Broadway musical “Newsies” at Broadway in Bry…
"Everybody should fall in love. It's like voting: It's a right we all should have," Jo's co-worker says to her in "Nice Girl," a play by Melissa Ross at Labyrinth Theater that, like "The Way…
The 2015 Stars in the Alley free concert at Shubert Alley featured performances by the current casts of 18 Broadway musicals, including the longest-running. The host was Darren Criss, the ne…
Here is a song from Fun Home, in which the three Bechdel children, whose father is (among other things) a funeral director, make up a commercial for the establishment, which they have nickna…
Christian Borle plays William Shakespeare as a kind of Elizabethan Era Elvis in “Something Rotten.” Here he is performing “IT’s Hard to Be The Bard” at the Star…
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is coming back to Lincoln Center, more relevant than ever. From June 10 to 21, Â the company will perform such works as: After the Rain Pas de Deux b…
“When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense," Robert De Niro said in a commencement address this past week to graduates of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Tw…
Excerpts from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s commencement speech at Wesleyan College, where he graduated in 2002, in which he mentions the genesis of In The Heights, and quotes from Hamilton. Th…
Make your pick for 15 of the 24 categories in the 69th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, and will be broad…
“Tisch graduates, you made it,” actor Robert De Niro said Friday in his NYU Commencement address. “And you’re f—ed.” But, as he makes clear in his 15-minu…
The woman is speaking directly to me, an arm's length away, as if we know each other: "I'm not blaming you for missing anything, I know it's not your fault," she says, looking right into my …
Al Hirschfeld drew the stars of Hollywood and Broadway for more than eight decades. He drew Hollywood mogul David O Selznick in 1922, when Hirschfeld was 19 years old, and Broadway performer…
"Permission," a play about "Christian Domestic Discipline" (i.e. spanking your wife) is written by Robert Askins, who is also the author of "Hand to God," the Tony-nominated play about a Chr…
