173 stories by "Judd Hollander"
Reviewed by JUDD HOLLANDERIt's a tough job to transfer an acclaimed movie to the stage, but playwright Tom Schulman gets it right with the stage version of Dead Poets Society, based on his 1…
Reviewed by Judd HollanderAn ever-changing landscape of the mind and one who is powerless to correct what is happening. These are some of the images, thoughts and feeling that come from the …
By Judd HollanderThe concept of "home" is more than just a physical location. It's also a state of mind that can conjure up a place from long ago where things seemed to be better, happier an…
The fragility and fleetingness of life is examined by the Peccadillo Theater Company in its excellent presentation of "A Wilder Christmas," the umbrella title for two rarely performed one-ac…
Love, loss, and a crushing status quo
Ronald Keaton does an outstanding job of bringing the title character to life in the one-man show "Churchill," now at New World Stages. A fascinating individual, Churchill experienced a grea…
The New York theatrical world will bid farewell to Elaine Stritch by dimming the marquees of all Broadway theatres tonight, for exactly one minute at 7:45pm. A four time Tony award …
UK talent Warren Carlyle, Mary Rylance and Sophie Okonedo were among the winners at the 68th annual Tony Awards honouring Broadway performances for the 2013/14 season. Mark Rylance won best …
Shakespeare Globe’s production of Twelfth Night has been named best play revival at thel Drama Desk Awards in New York. Covering the just completed 2013-2014 New York theatre season, t…
Broadway took $1.27 billion at the box office and had total attendances of 12.21 million during the just finished 2013/14 theatre season, up 11.4% and 5.6% respectively on 2012/13. …
Tim Carroll has won the best director prize at the 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for his work on Shakespeare’s Globe’s production of Twelfth Night on Broadway. Tw…
Shakespeare's Globe has picked up eight Tony Awards nominations, with Michael Grandage's production of The Cripple of Inishmaan receiving six. Twelfth Night, first staged by Shakespeare's Gl…
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in his New York City apartment aged 46. Police are investigating to determine the exact cause of death, but sources are reporti…
Half of Broadway’s shows are to reschedule their performances this Sunday due to a clash with the Super Bowl American football game. Of the 28 shows which will be running on Broadway a…
US broadcaster NBC is to screen a live telecast of musical Peter Pan later this year, following the success of its inaugural screening of The Sound of Music last December. Robert Greenblatt,…
International visitors comprised approximately 22.5% of Broadway admissions during the 2012/13 season, the highest percentage in recorded history. This translated to 2.6 million tickets, ano…
Shakespeare’s Globe all-male productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III have recouped their $3.1 million capitalization costs, according to the show’s producers. Featuring Mark…
Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark will close in January next year after a run of more than two and a half years. A specific closing date has not been made public. Show spokesman.…
Producer Cameron Mackintosh is among the latest inductees to the US Theater Hall of Fame. Also entering the Hall of Fame this year are actors Ellen Burstyn and Cherry Jones, directors Lynne …
One of the performers in Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark suffered a severe injury during the show’s performance at the Foxwoods Theatre on the evening of August 15, bring…
Broadway theatres will tonight dim their lights in memory of actor James Gandolfini, who died last week. All Broadway theatres will dim their lights for one minute at 8pm tonight. Broadway L…
Matilda The Musical won in four categories at the 2013 Tony Awards, but Kinky Boots was the big winner of the evening, taking home six, including best musical. Boots also won for Cyndi Laupe…
Cameron Mackintosh has announced that his re-imagined version of the Alain Boubil/Claude-Michael Schonberg musical Les Miserables will make its debut at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre in …
Broadway took in $1,138,734,331 at the box office in the just completed 2012/13 theatre season, the first time its total take has fallen in five years. The figures released by The Broadway L…
Matilda the Musical has won five times at the Drama Desk Awards in New York. The show took home outstanding musical and four other awards. Also winning for the show were Bertie Carvel, who w…
