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"Illinoise," an exquisite stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens' acclaimed 2005 album "Illinois," is opening on Broadway today just six weeks after it opened at the Park Avenue Armory, a…
"Dead Outlaw" leads the nominations for the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. (video below) The winners will be …
"Very poppy," a character says to Bobby (Corey Cott), the Leading Man, just after he's performed "Do You Believe in Love," one of more than two dozen songs from the 1980s band Huey Lewis and…
Vladimir Putin was working as a taxi driver when he visited one of the richest and most powerful men in Russia to ask for a favor.  The previous month, Putin had lost his job as the de…
Below are the nominations for the 90th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Vanessa Williams and Bebe Neuwirth. The awards will be held at The Ziegfeld Ball…
Four musicals and a play that has a lot of original music in it, opened on Broadway this past week, and two plays opened Off Broadway. By the end of the day Thursday, which marks the officia…
Orlando (Taylor Mac) has already been living an unusual life as a nobleman in Queen Elizabeth's court when he suddenly becomes a woman. "Let biologists and psychologists argue. It is enough …
If so much of it weren't so out of balance, this fourth Broadway revival of "Cabaret" would be impressive in its complete transformation of  Kander and Ebb's great musical " physically…
Alicia Keys' lively, tuneful musical "Hell's Kitchen" opens tonight at Broadway's Shubert Theater, with the same principal cast and creative team as its brief sold-out run Off-Broadway at th…
"Stereophonic," which opens at Broadway's John Golden Theater tonight, Â chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictional)…
 Inez Milholland, glamorous bohemian and radical lawyer, rode atop a white steed to lead the unprecedented 1913 March on Washington for women's suffrage down Pennsylvania Avenue the day b…
In "The Wiz," the all-Black version of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" that debuted on Broadway in the 1970s,  Dorothy never sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," nor wore ruby red slippers,…
Thomas Jefferson was in his forties when he began having sex with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, who was 14. Had they fallen in love? The question is absurd. But did they eventually f…
With twelve shows opening on Broadway in the next ten days" and several Off Broadway " it's a taxing time (yes, a pun) for theater award voters and critics, and a busy one for theater makers…
A woman is pictured as a machine several times in "Lempicka," a musical about Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), an artist whose heyday was in the 1930s, painting Art Deco-style portraits ofÂ�…
With Tax Day approaching, here are seven times that characters have sung or talked about taxes in Broadway musicals, from "I'll Put a Tax on That" in Casino Girl 1910 to "My Shot" and "Cabin…
In the middle of the busiest theater month in memory, the theater company Playco held a group nap today. It was the first of its slate of free events during its  "Month of Rest" Â�…
In "The Outsiders," opening on Broadway tonight, an exciting cast of gifted young performers, a lovely if little-varied folk and country score, and some thrillingly muscular, almost cinemati…
Since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age " on April 10, 1925, 99 years ago today "Â Â "The Great Gatsby" has been turned into an opera, a ballet, Â several …
By the end of "Oh, Mary!," we have learned that First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was a homicidally bitter alcoholic and frustrated cabaret singer married to a vicious closet homosexual whose ass…
Nature's getting dramatic, taking center stage, with the earthquake last week and the eclipse today. (New York City is expected to see a partial solar eclipse, with the moon covering about 9…
Zombie fungi " the same parasites that wipe out civilization in the sci-fi thriller "The Last of Us" "  are real; fruit flies grieve; a group of five towns in 17th century Italy fil…
The Great American Eclipse of 2024 is happening in North America on Monday, with the moon completely blocking the light of the sun in cities from Mazatlan, Mexico to Montreal, Canada, Â�…
There is an arresting tidbit about Leonard Bernstein and "West Side Story" near the beginning of "Broadway Melody" (Benzinger and Frank, 492 pages), written by Jack Viertel, whose illustriou…
"Wet Brain," "Buena Vista Social Club" and "Stereophonic" received the most nominations for the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Wi…
