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 2023 Tony Award Winners Complete List Best Play " Leopoldstadt (Tom Stoppard) Best Musical " Kimberly Akimbo Best Book of a Musical " Kimberly Akimbo " David Lindsay-Abaire Best Original…
By Alix Cohen . . . Bronx-born Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (1904 "1943), jazz pianist, organist, composer and vocalist copyrighted over 400 songs, most co-written with Andy Razaf who describ…
By Carol Rocamora . . . "Two people stranded at sea . . . Two stranded people are we . . ." So goes the leitmotif of Days of Wine and Roses, a heartrending new musical now filling the Atlant…
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Ropes with pulleys flying through the air are a visual sign of the intense muscularity of dock work, lauded in The Hook. Brave New World Repertory Theatre chall…
by Sandi Durell . . . The historic United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights saw its first Tony Award evening on June 11th and it was quite the show encompassing all that theater has to of…
Today's the day when the much anticipated 76th Annual Tony Awards will take place " Â June 11, 2023. After bouncing back and forth as to whether they would actually happen as a potential w…
Theater: Death Drop " Orpheus Descending " NY Stage & Film Summer * * * Cabaret: 70th Anniversary Wonderful Town " Julie Benko " Liz Callaway " Melissa Errico " Jamie Lozano THEATER . . …
By Andrew Poretz … MAC Award-winning vocalist Goldie Dver opened her new show, Bridges, at Don't Tell Mama this week. The show is partly in support of her debut album, the newly released S…
54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents A Tribute to Howard Ashman and Alan Menken on July 2 and 3. Celebrate the rhymes and rhythms of Ashman and Menken, the composer and lyricist duo re…
by Sandi Durell . . . On the 2d Floor of Sardi's on June 6th, the 67th Annual Drama Desk Winners after receiving their Awards (and Presenters), were escorted to meet the press for more photo…
by Sandi Durell . . . The 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards were held at Sardi's where Winners were announced and received their Awards on the 4th Floor hosted by Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grod…
CABARET . . . Transport Group celebrates Maury Yeston's landmark score Nine, book by Arthur Kopit, music/lyrics Maury Yeston, by bringing together Broadway's biggest stars and NYC's finest m…
By Adam Cohen . . . Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling, and Frank Loesser's 1950 musical comedy, Guys and Dolls, is one of my favorite shows. When the opportunity came to travel to London, seeing …
By Sandi Durell . . . TWA is one of the most fun-filled evenings honoring theater and its creatives. And June 5, 2023 was no different, other than it reached new heights of what I call warm …
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . More than once during her Monday night performance of California Dreamin': Jessica Vosk Sings the Songs of Laurel Canyon, the singer joked that she was treati…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . I'm sure most people would agree that, even if they have no idea of what Wet Brain Syndrome is, it makes a more intriguing play title than Wernicke-Korsakoff [o…
The original Off Broadway cast recording of "Other Lives: The Story Songs of Michael Colby" (Jay Records), a cycle of story songs by lyricist Michael Colby (Charlotte Sweet, Ludlow Ladd), wi…
The winners of the 2023 Off Broadway Awards have been announced! These awards recognize the best in commercial and non-profit Off-Broadway theatre across the 2022-2023 season. Winners will b…
By Ron Fassler . . . In the years since the AIDS crisis first loomed in the 1980s, there have been many plays on the subject. Is there such a thing as too many? Has everything that needs…
NYU Skirball, in Partnership with The Public Theater, will present DruidO'Casey, a North American premiere by Ireland's Druid Theatre, directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes, run…
Married actors and former Drama Desk nominees Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody will host the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards. The previously announced ceremony will be held on Tues…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The key figure in Tori Sampson's (If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Muhfucka) promising, well-acted, but less than satisfying play, This Land Was Made, at Off-Broa…
Actress and singer Victoria Guthrie makes her cabaret debut with an evening of romantic stories in the new original show, STAGES OF LOVE, premiering at Don't Tell Mama on June 9th and return…
Broadway Studio Tours " Fat Ham Extends " Casting for The Wiz " Todd Haimes Theatre " Days of Wine & Roses Extends " Sesame Street the Musical Returns " Alicia Keys Musical Hell's Kitche…
Rock & Roll Man/New World Stages " Julie Benko/Harmony " Back to the Future the Musical " The New Group/FreeFest " LCT3/Let's Call Her Patty " MTC/Prayer for the French Republic Julie Be…
