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Watch one- or two-minute videos from each of the five musicals nominated for the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical: "Hell's Kitchen," "Illinoise," "The Outsiders," "Suffs" and "Water for Elep…
Eight Special Tony Awards and Honors have been announced, including for pioneers in projection design, hair and wig design, and sound design, as well as for writer and director Alex Edelman.…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, including new musicals from Laura Benanti and Dave Malloy as well as a new opera from David Henry Hwang, all Off-Broadway. Nothing is schedule…
Eleven* of the 39 shows that opened on Broadway in the 2023-2024 season received no Tony nominations. This doesn't necessarily mean they were cheated; the Tony nominators had to make choices…
Hell's Kitchen and Stereophonic lead with 13 Tony Award nominations each, the most respectively for a musical and a play, as announced  this morning by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Eli…
Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2024 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, as announced this afternoon by Bebe Neuwirth.…
Nominations for the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards were announced by Kathleen Turner this morning. The awards, which honor achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadwa…
Three plays and four musicals opened on Broadway last week, the last of the 39 shows that opened during the 2023-2024 season. Awards season has already begun in earnest, with the nominations…
Rachel McAdams might at first seem to be miscast in her first role on Broadway.  She portrays the title character in Amy Herzog's deceptively casual play about the mother of a severely…
How well were you paying attention to the fourteen Broadway plays and musicals that opened in April, the last month of the 2023-2024 Broadway season? Take the quiz and find out. Loading…
A musical about the Jazz Age with almost no jazz? A man of mystery who tells us everything in his first song? A critique of wealth in a show whose main pleasure is how expensive it looks? Th…
Jessica Lange is unforgettable in Paula Vogel's unforgiving portrait of the title character in "Mother Play," her semiautobiographical new play opening tonight on Broadway " a role that is s…
As Vanya, Steve Carell, who's been a low-level whiner for the first two Acts, suddenly gets so angry at his pompous-ass brother-in-law who's been sponging off him for thirty years, that he p…
"Illinoise," an exquisite stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens' acclaimed 2005 album "Illinois," is opening on Broadway today just six weeks after it opened at the Park Avenue Armory, a…
"Dead Outlaw" leads the nominations for the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. (video below) The winners will be …
"Very poppy," a character says to Bobby (Corey Cott), the Leading Man, just after he's performed "Do You Believe in Love," one of more than two dozen songs from the 1980s band Huey Lewis and…
Vladimir Putin was working as a taxi driver when he visited one of the richest and most powerful men in Russia to ask for a favor.  The previous month, Putin had lost his job as the de…
Below are the nominations for the 90th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Vanessa Williams and Bebe Neuwirth. The awards will be held at The Ziegfeld Ball…
Four musicals and a play that has a lot of original music in it, opened on Broadway this past week, and two plays opened Off Broadway. By the end of the day Thursday, which marks the officia…
Orlando (Taylor Mac) has already been living an unusual life as a nobleman in Queen Elizabeth's court when he suddenly becomes a woman. "Let biologists and psychologists argue. It is enough …
If so much of it weren't so out of balance, this fourth Broadway revival of "Cabaret" would be impressive in its complete transformation of  Kander and Ebb's great musical " physically…
Alicia Keys' lively, tuneful musical "Hell's Kitchen" opens tonight at Broadway's Shubert Theater, with the same principal cast and creative team as its brief sold-out run Off-Broadway at th…
"Stereophonic," which opens at Broadway's John Golden Theater tonight, Â chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictional)…
 Inez Milholland, glamorous bohemian and radical lawyer, rode atop a white steed to lead the unprecedented 1913 March on Washington for women's suffrage down Pennsylvania Avenue the day b…
In "The Wiz," the all-Black version of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" that debuted on Broadway in the 1970s,  Dorothy never sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," nor wore ruby red slippers,…
