Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off a near-…
Rivera first gained wide notice in 1957 as Anita in the original production of "West Side Story" and was still dancing on Broadway with her trademark energy a half-century later in 2015's "T…
BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the death of three-time Tony Award winner Hinton Battle. He was 67 years old.
Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations in a long Broadway career died Tuesday.
Booker-shortlisted author Murray and standup turned memoirist Brady won in the best fiction and nonfiction categories, alongside debut and children's fiction winners Michael Magee and Beth L…
By SHARON EBERSON A who’s who of Pittsburgh theater artists served as presenters and cheered on students who were honored at Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards …
As we know, Denzel Washington can do anything. Movies, Broadway, TV. He's a star in every arena. Now the big rumor on
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The biggest "award" this past week was for $83.3 million, but, for the end of January, there was a surprising amount of news about entertainment-related awards " including winners (of Obies,…
Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards ceremony is 7 p.m. Monday at the New Hazlett Theatre on the North Side. The program spotlights one-act or full-length nonmusi…
On Jan. 28 we announced all of the winners for the first-ever OnStage Colorado Awards for Theatrical Excellence " The OSCA's The post 2023 OnStage Colorado Theatre Awards appeared first on O…
There was no formal celebration for the newest honorees. Instead, the American Theater Wing presented cash grants to sustain their work.
From the very first moment of SANCOCHO, a hush falls over the audience as if we are afraid we'll be discovered spying on Caridad in her kitchen as she waits for her sister. Caridad prepares …
A playwright is lucky to have actors embody their words, freeing them from the page to the stage and, in the process, adding new meaning to the work. When it's not just one actor but a group…
The way we gauge excellence in acting is often tied up with how a single language is spoken on stage. But in reality, the ways an actor communicates with their audience are far more expansiv…
Plato describes music as "the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." To sit in space and feel, not only hear chords, but feel notes and an arrangement of music…
These two performance artists' radical vision of what theater can be has shaped generations of artists since their debut in the 1980s at the WOW Café Theater. For decades, in plays such as …
The minimalism of a perfectly placed slash of light piercing the dark can be as memorable and dramatic as the best writing and acting. From the nightmarishly epic boxing ring of the mind in …
Her Celine Dion impersonation"the physicality, the mannerisms, and the octave-spanning voice"was simply unparalleled. Her ability to be improvisational and impromptu was extraordinary. Her b…
Even after a career of many excellent turns in many excellent roles, this chameleonic actor took it up a notch with a pugnacious performance as a sex offender in DOWNSTATE. Part den mother a…
From the playfully bold pink box of DARK DISABLED STORIES to the minimalist Californian limbo of INFINITE LIFE, and the exacting naturalism of a home in India in PUBLIC OBSCENITIES, this col…
From a dark basement in Germany to a boxing ring set among the ruins of one family's journey to adopt a child, to a home in the suburbs of Arizona that explodes into an alien spaceship, one …
Perhaps the role was not written for him, but it sure feels like it was. The part of Kenneth in Eboni Booth's PRIMARY TRUST demands subtlety, patience, charm, as well as an ability to break …