The Broadway season is not over until the end of this week, but the awards season has already begun. The Week in Theater Awards Sound design Tony categories reinstated for next year They fou…
“Anastasia” and “Hello, Dolly!” lead in the number of nominations for the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards, with 13 and 10 respectively, followed by “The Band&#…
Pity Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, charged with fashioning the book of a Broadway musical out of a 1997 cartoon, which turned the Russian Revolution into a fairytale, grinding a…
In dramatizing the legend surrounding the youngest daughter of the last Czar, the show has created a new villain, a Soviet official named Gleb….Anastasia winds up promoting nostalgia f…
So there was Andy Karl, the star of "Groundhog Day," on stage in what's supposed to be a seduction scene, but he was proudly showing off the elaborate black knee-brace on his bare outstretch…
Now we call it racism, sexism and domestic abuse, but it's just everyday life in "The Little Foxes," Lillian Hellman's 1939 play about a rapacious Southern family, which is being given an en…
In her first performance in a Broadway musical in 50 years, Bette Midler opens tonight as the 15th Dolly Gallagher Levi on Broadway, Â in the fifth Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly.…
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2017 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
The gay couples at the heart of two separate plays currently running Off-Broadway have been together for years, and yet, neither are married because one partner in each of the relationships …
There are many reasons to find deep satisfaction in the arrival on Broadway of the play “Indecent,” a fascinating tale wondrously staged about a century-old Jewish drama that fea…
Over the next ten days, nine shows will open on Broadway " four new musicals (plus one musical revival), two new plays (plus two play revivals.) How to Get Discount Tickets to Broadway’…
Today's matinee of Groundhog Day has been canceled, and the evening performance will go on with an understudy, after the show's star Andy Karl injured himself at its Friday evening performan…
There are 14 shows opening on Broadway in April, 2017, which are available for as little as $30, even though their full-priced can be 500 percent more than. How? Â Below, listed alphabetic…
Last year, “Oslo,” a fascinating if talky play about the surprising story behind the first peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians, ran for a couple of months Of…
In "War Paint," Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are sharing a Broadway stage for the first time in their careers, portraying rival cosmetic industry pioneers Helena Rubinstein and Elizab…
Lynn Nottage has won her second Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the play Sweat. Hilton Als, the theater critic for the New Yorker, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism The cit…
When the Pulitzer Prizes are announced at 3 pm today, it will move us even further into a theater awards season that began last week with the announcement of nominations for Lucille Lortel A…
"Every night, I had to kill myself," said Daniel Durant, who made his Broadway debut in the recent revival of Spring Awakening portraying Moritz, a character who commits suicide. "I had to g…
Judging from the last few minutes of "Amélie," when the two adorable eccentrics Amélie and Nino finally kiss, the new musical feels like a charming and almost traditional romantic comedy, …
"War Paint" depicts the feud that changed the face of America's women. The cosmetics industry was born from the rivalry between two immigrants turned entrepreneurs: Elizabeth Arden, a WASP f…
After a decade's absence from Broadway, Kevin Kline returns as the aging matinee idol in Present Laughter. Kline, the swashbuckler of Pirates of Penzance and the hunk of On The Twentieth…
After a decade's absence from Broadway, Kevin Kline returns as the aging matinee idol in Present Laughter. Kline, the swashbuckler of Pirates of Penzance and the hunk of On The Twentieth Cen…
Hadestown and Sweeney Todd each led the Lucille Lortel Award nominations this year, with seven apiece, including Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Revival respectively.  Swe…
One might argue that, given the new administration in Washington, every day is April Fool's Day, but the theater community treats April 1st with particular glee.. "COME FROM AWAY’s Gan…
Before the play-within-the-play begins, its director apologizes for "the box office mix-up," expressing hope that "the 617 of you affected will enjoy our little murder mystery just as much a…