Quiz: What musical has won most theater awards so far this season? How is Daniel Radcliffe being a good sport? John Malkovich will appear on stage in a musical about a serial killer, true or…
The finale to This season’s finale of American Idol, which crowned 17-year-old Scotty McCreery after tallying an unprecedented 122 million votes, included a number of guest performers,…
It has 75 performers, 88 crew members, stunts with names like “Wheel of Death,” and even a plot of sorts — and it opens in June. The difference between “Spider-Ma…
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I …
Spider-Man's composer Bono tells Nightline that he and The Edge agree with the negative reviews of Spider-Man. “We really should have known that this is an incredibly difficult thing t…
Steven Spielberg is working on a Broadway musical — sort of. He is the executive producer of “Smash,” a TV series on NBC in the fall about the making of a musical about Mar…
Below are the winners of the 2011 Obie Awards, given for 56 years by the Village Voice for achievement Off-Broadway Performance F. Murray Abraham, sustained excellence of performance André …
The resumption of previews for “Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark,” with a new Playbill cover (the one at far right) managed not to upstage much else this week in New York theater, si…
By most accounts, the Broadway 2010-2011 had a high number of quality plays and musicals. But there were, by common agreement, some real clunkers too. There are SO many theater awards for qu…
As soon as the Tony Award nominations were announced at the top of this week in New York theater, theatergoers hurrahed and griped, sliced and diced. Some were delighted that The Scottsboro …
Schoolbiz This isn't a pretty story. I don't go around telling it, even to good friends. But a journalist's job is to convince people to reveal what they wish they hadn't, and I don'…
What does a woman want? What does a marriage mean? Is Socialism the answer? Was "My Fair Lady" a fluke? These are the questions raised by "A Minister's Wife," a musical adapted from one of G…
Arthur Laurents died Thursday at the age of 93. A playwright, director, librettist, screenwriter, gay role model, and inspiration for generations, he was involved in 23 productions on Broadw…
Below is the list of nominations for the Tony Awards for 2011. The Book of Mormon has the most nominations at 14. The Scottsboro Boys has the second-most at 12 — and may be the most ev…
The Broadway theater season has ended, and the theater awards season begun. Of the 18 shows that opened on Broadway in the Fall, only two are still playing — Lombardi and Rain. But 21 …
The Broadway season that just ended featured 40 plays and musicals — 18 in the Fall and 22 in the Spring. Many of them with magical moments. Here is a selection of just 12, not all fro…
Below is a list of the nominations for the Drama League Awards for 2011. (Unlike other theater organizations that give out annual awards, membership in the Drama League is open to the genera…
Below is a list of the nominations for the 2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards, which honor the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater. Winners of the awards will be announced May 16. The an…
Below is the full list of nominees for the 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring excellence in Broadway, off-Broadway, and non-profit New York theater. The winners will be announced at a c…
One of the jokes in "The People in The Picture," a Broadway musical starring Donna Murphy as both a young Yiddish theater star and an elderly grandmother, has a man harassed by two thugs off…
"Baby, It's You," a jukebox musical featuring nearly three dozen pre-Motown pop songs and a thoroughly inept script, must have struck its creator (Floyd Mutrux, creator of " Million Dollar Q…
Theatergoers leaving "The Normal Heart," a revival of the 1985 play about the AIDS crisis, were greeted by activist Larry Kramer handing out a leaflet from the curb. He was not urging a boyc…
"For once could you let my emotions come out?" Edie Falco as Bananas says to Ben Stiller as her husband Artie Shaughnessy in the David Cromer-directed revival of "The House of Leaves," as Ar…
In the busiest week on Broadway all year, I saw three plays involving nuns, three involving drug dealers " and one with both a nun and a drug dealer. Two performers debuted on Broadway and b…
Whatever else its charms, "Born Yesterday" is most noteworthy for having made a star out of Judy Holliday, and for having given the dumb blonde joke a novel twist. Its latest revival with Ji…