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The Tony nominations were announced last week and all of New York is celebrating the top Broadway plays and musicals. But what are the single shining moments for the individual nominees in t…
True to its inspiration, the Broadway musical Waitress now features a traveling food truck, found throughout the streets of Manhattan. Today, the truck nestled itself at 45th and 6th,�…
Today, a host of students within the New York City public school district found themselves singing and dancing in their seats at the Richard Rodgers Theatre with tickets to the most in-deman…
Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald announced her pregnancy and that she will be taking a maternity leave from her starring role as Lottie Gee in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical S…
For many Broadway lovers, Cats is the musical that kick-started a life devoted to the theater. No matter what age, many value this Andrew Lloyd-Webber classic close to their hearts. Much to …
The main characters in the Tony-nominated Best Plays represent an incredibly diverse selection of humanity ranging from blue-blooded royalty to devastated war victims. But whether they are r…
Bright Star and The Humans were named Outstanding Broadway Musical and Play by the Outer Critics Circle for the group’s 66th annual awards. Bright Star by comedy legend Steve Martin an…
Tony winner Christian Borle will star as the mysterious Willie Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on the beloved children’s novel by Roald Dahl, set to o…
The night before the Tony Awards were announced, Phillipa Soo was feeling a bit anxious and unable to fall asleep. She planned to get up at the crack of dawn. But as the ‘Hamilton&#…
The wig is out of the box. Darren Criss is set to star in the title role of Hedwig and the Angry Inch this fall during the show's national tour. From October 4 to 30, 2016, find Criss beltin…
Actors Equity Associations, the stage performers’ union, announced the winners of its Richard Seff and Clarence Derwent Awards for the 2015-16 season on May 6. The Richard Seff Award i…
Finding Neverland, the musical about the origins of Peter Pan, will fly away from Broadway on August 21.The show will have played 33 previews and 565 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatr…
Wherever the 2015 Ultimate Broadway Fan contest winner, Jason Crespin, goes, Broadway seems to follow. Crespin was in NYC covering the Tony Awards nominees announcements for NewYork.com, …
The Humans and Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed have been chosen as the Best Play and Musical of the season by the New York Drama Critics Ci…
The original Elphaba and Glinda from the tour de force that is Wicked, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel come together again for the Out of Oz series to sing “For Good.” The bea…
I’m originally from North Carolina. When I first came to New York I thought it was bigger than I could ever explore. But that’s just not true. New York is what you make it. My ex…
I have a bunch of favorite songs. One that comes to mind is “The Nearness of You.” I love the lyric: “It’s not the pale moon that excites me, that thrills and deli…
I feel like I’m flying when I’m singing. It’s the most freedom I’ve ever felt. Singing allows you to transcend your body, transcend time, transcend everything. ItR…
“Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match!” Broadway fans have met their matches in the stellar choreography of the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Tony-nominated for the…
With her role as “Wife Number One,” Saycon Sengbloh is ready for her close-up. Starring in the critically acclaimed Danai Gurira play Eclipsed has presented the role of a lifetim…
“When I get asked a question like, ‘What is your favorite song?,’ immediately what comes to mind is if I had ten kids and somebody, like in Sophie’s Choice, held a gu…
The top dancers and choreographers both on and Off-Broadway will vie for the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. Hamilton, On Your Feet!, Shuffle Along, Cagney and She Loves Me were among the …
The first casualty of the Tony nominations has fallen. Disaster!, which only received one Tony nod, will play its final performance on May 8. The wild parody of 1970s thriller films like Ear…
Hamilton, the smash-hit cultural phenomenon blending rap/hip-hop music with American history, continued its domination of the Broadway season by raking in 16 Tony Award nominations, the most…
Guards at the Taj, Rajiv Joseph’s two-character play set in 17th-century India presented by the Atlantic Theatre Company last year, and the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival o…
