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Lincoln Center's sumptuous fourth Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady," the supremely tuneful and witty 1956 Lerner and Lowe musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw's pointed 1913 play "Pygma…
"SpongeBob SquarePants"has received 11 nominations for 2018 Outer Critic Awards, more than any other show, followed by "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" with ten, and "My Fair Lady"Å
Summer features 23 of Donna Summer's songs, including such dance hits as "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance," that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fans need from…
Cristofer, one of the two bright but poor Bronx-born students who are vying for a scholarship in Lucy Thurber's play "Transfers,"  lashes out at one point at the advisor who has been tryi…
Summer features 23 of Donna Summer's songs, including such dance hits as "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance," that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fans need f…
Five shows are officially opening on Broadway over the next five days, ending the 2017-2018 Broadway season April 22: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child April 23: Summer: The Donna Summer Mus…
Why was the great actress Sarah Bernhardt, who performed in and/or produced more than 40 shows on Broadway, never even nominated for a single Tony — nor any other major New York theate…
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 84th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were ann…
Fifteen Broadway shows have opening dates in March and April, 2018, the bulk of the 2017-2018 season. Tickets are made available to them for as little as $10, but more often about $40, which…
“The Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. “The Minutes by Tracy Letts and “Everybody” by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins were selected…
The new "Carousel" has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Thomas Eak…
The new "Carousel" has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Tho…
Elephants might become extinct in 20 years because of poaching for their ivory, we learn from "Mlima's Tale," the unusual new play by Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer prize winning playwright of R…
King Lear begins with a foolish ruler swayed by flattery, and ends with what Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran calls "a strange, profound unease." Shakespeare's tragedy …
"King Lear" begins with a foolish ruler swayed by flattery, and ends with what Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran calls "a strange, profound unease." Shakespeare's traged…
At the end of "Mean Girls," Cady, the new girl in high school who tries so hard to fit in that she’s become phony and superficial, tells her classmates that she's learned her lesson: "…
The first Broadway revival of "Children of a Lesser God," the award-winning, boundary-breaking 1980 play by Mark Medoff about the romance and eventual marriage between a hearing teacher at a…
In "Dutch Masters," a new play written by Greg Keller and directed by Andre Holland, a young black man meets a young white man on the subway, with unexpected results. In "Dutchman," the 1964…
"Miss You Like Hell," a new musical by "In The Heights" book writer Quiara AlegrÃÂa Hudes and singer-songwriter Erin McKeown, depicts the most American of adventures, the road trip. But th…
In "This Flat Earth," 13-year-old Julie (Ella Kennedy Davis) doesn't understand why the newspaper article about the school shooting that killed nine of her classmates has the word "Another" …
Hamilton takes home seven Olivier Awards " not a record (matched by Matilda and beaten by Harry Potter), but not a bad showing. More on the Oliviers below. The Week in New York Theate…
In "Feeding the Dragon" — Sharon Washington's delightfully acted memoir about an enchanted childhood spent literally living in a branch of the New York Public Library — we learn …
You can say that Harriet Smithson, a famous Shakespearean actress, is the star of the Symphonie Fantastique by composer Hector Berlioz; she is also in a way the star of the Symph…
The nominations for 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards are: Outstanding Play Cost of Living Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival Written by Mar…
The theater community always takes April Fools Day seriously: “The Lion King Will Become First Musical to Play Seven Continents- Antarctic Production Will Open in 2019" BroadwayWorl…
