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THE OFF BROADWAY ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES THE 2022 AWARDS NOMINATIONS,LEGENDS, HALL OF FAME, AND FRIEND OF OFF BROADWAY HONORSFOR THE 11th ANNUAL OFF BROADWAY ALLIANCE AWARDS The 11th Annua …
By Ron Fassler . . . Continuing the theme of Feinstein's/54 Below celebrating ten years of performances in their intimate underground space, producer/director Robert W. Schneider put togethe…
The Tony Awards announced today that Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee, Ariana DeBose (West Side Story, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical) will host the 75th Annual T…
By Melissa Griegel . . . The big winners at the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards on May 1st were Kimberly Akimbo and Oratotio for Living Things, both of whom won three awards. The Outstandi…
Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn (book/lyrics Mark Saltzman, music adapted from classic Italian melodies) with direction and choreography by Justin Ross Cohen be…
By JK Clarke . . . Does Sam Gold hate Shakespeare? I found myself wondering that as I watched his latest deconstructed, minimalist hatchet job as director of one of the Bard's most belov…
By Carol Rocamora. . . American history as a hot theatre topic?!  Apparently, it's a trend. The sensational Hamilton, the moving Come From Away, the spirited Suffs " all playing t…
by Adam Cohen . . . The transformative power of an "I Want" song was dominatingly on display Friday night April 29 at Feinsteins/54 Below presentation of the new musical "The Lap Dance Kid."…
By Carole di Tosti . . . Thorton Wilder's Pulitizer Prize-winning The Skin of Our Teeth"currently in revival at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater"presents the fate of the human ra…
By Marilyn Lester . . . What does it mean to be an American?"that's a question we've been grappling with since 1776. It's also the question the new musical, ¡Americano!, a true story, tri…
THE SIEGEL COLUMN By Barbara & Scott Siegel . . . When there is so much about the revival of Funny Girl that is actually cause for celebration, why is the show ultimately so disappointin…
 Gretchen Cryer makes her wish come true! A group of solo performers coming together under one roof to tell their funny, sad, sexy, shocking, and most importantly True Stories. It's al…
The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC) announced that the New York premiere of How the Hell Did I Get Here?, a new musical story starring "Downton Abbey's" Mrs. Patmore,…
Kimberly Akimbo takes win for Outstanding Musical with Victoria Clark (Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical) " headed for Broadway this Fall " and Oratorio for Living Things " each with 3…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A Strange Loop, the raucously profane, satirical, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy, which premiered Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2019, is now jubila…
Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died. She was 76. Her daughters announced her death today, Saturday April …
By Andrew Poretz . . . Therese Lee is a Los Angeles-based performer who, some years ago, stumbled into the job of a red-carpet interviewer, working for a media company. Ms. Lee gathered …
Bufford and Blythe Celebrate Judy Garland's 100th Birthday by Alix Cohen . . . On June 10, 2022, preeminent vocalists Carle J. Bufford and Stephanie Blythe will appear at Birdland Theater to…
TARGET ALS AND MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA AMERICA ANNOUNCE WINNER OF THE FIRST ANNUAL REBECCA LUKER COURAGE AWARD The organizations also praise an unsung hero and recognize groundbreakers i…
Bufford and Blythe Celebrate Judy Garland's 100th Birthday by Alix Cohen . . . On June 10, 2022, preeminent vocalists Carle J. Bufford and Stephanie Blythe will appear at Birdland Theater to…
BY Brian Scott Lipton . . . Since the Broadway revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's delicious 1920s-era musical Chicago first opened in November 1996, the fictional Cook County jail has see…
A benefit concert for Ukraine at Lincoln Center on May 9 (via Melody with a Mission) with Beth Ertz music-directing. Artists from the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, and beyond will entertain …
Additional casting for the highly anticipated revival of August Wilson's seminal, Pulitzer Prize®-winning drama The Piano Lesson, the first Broadway revival in more than 30 years si…
Celebrating Feinstein's/54 Below 10th Anniversary By Ron Fassler. . . Monday evening, for one performance only, Feinstein's/54 Below presented an extra special night in its popular "54 Sings…
By Marilyn Lester . . . Guitarist-vocalist John Pizzarelli, like many performers who endured the drought of live engagements during the two-year pandemic lockdown, is finally back live in a …
