Hamilton has swept the Lucille Lortel Awards, winning in every category in which it was nominated, a record-breaking ten awards in all, including for best musical, best leads, best director,…
The Booth brothers, the Redgrave siblings, the Astaire brother and sister act " siblings on Broadway are not unusual, but they seem to be especially plentiful this season. Jake Lucas, 12, pl…
Here is Lin-Manuel Miranda talking about his past influences, and what he was planning to do with “The Hamilton MixTape” — from a video interview I conducted with him in Ma…
Julie Halston has been making people laugh on New York stages since 1985, most recently in “You Can’t Take It With You” and “On The Town.” Here is a video that …
The 71st annual Theatre World Awards, for performers making their Broadway or Off-Broadway debuts, go to: Geneva Carr, Hand To God Megan Fairchild, On The Town Sydney Lucas, Fun Home Karen P…
The nominees for the 2015 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which honor dancers and choreographers on Broadway and Hollywood: Best Female Dancer: Annaleigh Ashford – You Can’t…
“Hamilton” won for best musical and “Between Riverside and Crazy” won for best play in the New York Drama Circle Critics Awards. The award was created in respon…
Within the next few days, the winners of four New York theater awards will be announced, and more than half a dozen new plays will open.  Here is the schedule of May theater openings a…
He's a rich restaurateur, she a poor schoolteacher. Although decades older than she is, he prances and fidgets like a rock star, while she stands still like a rock. Yet, for six years, Tom a…
The new Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District opened yesterday to the public, and today they are throwing a block party — and free admission….if you’re willing to wait…
Some may see May as the month when theater people are waiting for the Tony Awards in June, but don't be fooled. There are at least 21 shows opening in New York this month, including one on B…
We probably all have an answer to ‘What show changed your life?’Â For DCTS editor Lorraine Treanor, her path to being an English teacher changed the day she saw Elaine Stritch…
While it’s not hard to find an actor or writer waiting tables or bartending in New York to make ends meet, we found one Tony Award nominee who doesn’t plan to give up his day job…
Glee is gone, which gives Darren Criss the chance to take the grease out of his hair, and smear it over his body, as the latest Hedwig in the Broadway blast, Hedwig and the Angry Inch…
The morning after the 69th Annual Tony Award nominations were announced, Tony Award nominee, Brandon Uranowitz, nominated for creating the role of Adam Hochberg in An American in Paris, sat …
How well were you paying attention to theater in April? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
The nominations for the 69th annual Tony Awards will be announced today at 8:30 a.m. Best Play Best Musical Best Revival of a Play Best Revival of a Musical Best Book of a Musical Best Perfo…
The last two weeks were the busiest of the entire year in New York theater, with the opening of the last TEN shows of the Broadway season. Below reviews of those shows, plus one high-p…
Fun Home is, yes, a musical about a lesbian cartoonist whose closeted father killed himself, but it is also about how we try to figure out the puzzle of our parents; about how we reassemble …
"Grounded," a play directed by Julie Taymor and starring Anne Hathaway as a drone pilot, could not be more newsworthy: It is opening at the Public Theater just days after the news that a U.S…
"Living on Love," which marks opera singer Renee Fleming's Broadway debut, portraying a temperamental Diva married to a oversexed Maestro, has some of the best-delivered songs on the Great W…
What’s easiest to predict about the Tonys this year is that the predictions and objections will start as soon as the nominations are announced, which this year is on Tuesday, April 28,…
Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…