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The 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed out May 5th to recipients in 16 categories, with three honorary awards also bestowed. The Awards we…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Stephen Cole. MARY & ETHEL . . . and Mikey Who? (New…
On the scene was TP's Melissa Griegel photographing the many Tony Noms who turned out on May 2nd at the Sofitel. Enjoy the photos! Featured Image: Cast/Creatives Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
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Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . As the 2023-2024 Broadway season hurtled through its overstuffed last week before the annual awards deadline, two plays about motherhood"one more a…
By Ron Fassler . . . . The Acting Company is the brainchild of the co-founders of Juilliard's drama division, John Houseman, the legendary producer and director, and Margot Harley, who serve…
The Acting Company awarded Stephen McKinley Henderson the John Houseman Award Honor, and William H. Wright II the Joan M. Warburg Award Honor, as part of The Acting Comp…
What Will the Neighbors Say?-All of Me (New Group)-Push Party (The Hearth)-A Night with an Indigo Girl (OOTBT))-Musical Theatre Factory-Syncing Ink (Apollo) Syncing Ink opens at The Ap…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In charge of adapting Sufjan Stevens' 2005 concept album Illinois for the stage, Jackie Sibblies Drury (playwright) and Justin Peck (director and choreo…
THE JANICE JAM: BROADWAY FOR BREAST CANCER is pleased to announce additional participants for the second annual concert benefiting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), taking …
Multi-Award winning actress Bernadette Peters will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 Chita Rivera Awards, it was announced today by Joe Lanteri, Founder and Exec…
By Walter Murphy I arrived at the An Beal Bocht Cafe ready to review Eileen Byrne Richards' one-woman performance of Running with Coffee only to realize I was attending a family reunion"shoc…
Once again the golden voiced Melissa Errico will honor the iconic Stephen Sondheim at 54 Below May 7 thru 9 (Live Stream 5/9) with Tedd Firth on piano and more with her special celebration c…
Nominations for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today by stage and screen star Kathleen Turner and the full list of nominees is available below.  In keepi…
Tony Award winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry will announce the 77th Annual Tony Award Nominations on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The nominations announcement will air liv…
The Broadway Education Alliance is pleased to announce that Tony Award-winner Bonnie Milligan, will host the 2023-24 Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance on Sunda…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Barry Singer. Ever After: Forty Years of Musical Theatre…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Anton Chekhov, the Russian-born author, dramatist, and medical physician, died at age forty-four 120 years ago. In his short lifetime, he wrote four…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . "What good is sitting alone in your room?" Good question! And the answer lies in the succeeding line: "Come hear the music play!" It's a lyric from a…
The Welkin-Winesday-Broadway Bares-Oh, Mary! to Broadway-Beautiful:Carole King Musical, PaperMill Playhouse-The Big Gay Jamboree Nine Ounce Productions presents Winesday: The Wine Tasting…
Tony Award® winner and dance icon Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago), who is currently starring in Broadway's current revival of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, will announce this yea…
On April 29th, the 68th Annual Drama Desk Nominees will be announced by Kathleen Turner live on WNBC's New York Live @ 11:30 a.m. The Drama Desk Awards will take place on June 10th at the Sk…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Every time Suzan-Lori Parks writes a play, she creates a new dramatic form. In the case of Sally and Tom, now playing at the Public, let me try to de…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Copyrights have expired for all published works produced prior to 1926. Now considered public domain, permissions are no longer necessary, nor royalties…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . I suspect that, if the category for Final Jeopardy were "Russian Oligarchs" and the clue was, "Mathematical prodigy who claimed responsibility for …
Theater Review By Myra Chanin . . . . America's Sexiest Couple, currently being presented by Boca Stage, might just as easily be entitled "America's Formerly Sexiest Couple." It has a cast o…
