"Yes, the darkness is loud, but the light is brighter y'all," Brandon Victor Dixon shouted while accepting the Grammy for Best Musical Theater album for "Hells Kitchen," That's somewhat of a…
Hells Kitchen has won the 2025 best musical theater album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year …
The 68th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes Lifetime achievement awards for Charles Busch, …
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show, "Redwood," starring Idina Menzel, and plenty of star power Off Broadway: Rainn Wilson, Jordan …
"Wicked" and "Hamilton" are back in the news, as is a certain former reality show host; some once little-known stage actors are now….nominees; and there was plenty new and strange on stage…
Sadie is an actress who so hates motherhood that she put together a one-woman show about how her daughter ruined her life; it is one of the reasons her daughter Jude feels Sadie ruined hers.…
Some theater bloggers are responding bluntly to the alarming political moment. Don Shewey lists sources of news that haven't been corrupted by billionaire owners, George Hunka poste…
RFK Jr "lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. These facts alone should be disqualifying, …
Not everything is offensively fabricated in "Kowalski," an account of the first time Marlon Brando ever met Tennessee Williams, to audition for "A Streetcar Named Desire," the play that woul…
Has it been just a week? It doesn't feel like such a wonderful world right now. So perhaps it's fitting that the Louis Armstrong musical on Broadway with that title announced its closing dat…
This season, there will be two shows starring corpses, two reimagined classics performed by a single actor portraying dozens of characters, two new plays by MacArthur Geniuses, three s…
Hagar is fed up with the state of Black playwriting. "These kids aren't writing anything new. They all keep circling August Wilson. Family dramas are important…but if you've seen one, you'…
"Famehungry" is Louise Orwin's attempt to explain TikTok and demonstrate its appeal " the former intriguing, the latter excruciating.  The 75-minute show is on stage at SoHo Playhou…
When Sanaz Toossi made her Off-Broadway debut with this play about four adult students in Iran taking a class to learn English, even the many who praised it described "English" as "contempla…
The complete list of nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised live on AB…
The odd trial between Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson over a 2016 skiing accident was so innately campy that it makes a theatrical parody both redundan…
Those of us who are shellshocked at the political upheaval are faced with a choice " try to ignore, actively escape, or engage? Can theater help us decide, and then help any of those choices…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we are officially celebrating today as a federal holiday, spoke about what we need in our leaders during a speech entitled "The Birth of a New Age,…
This wide-ranging anthology begins with an anecdote about the power of the arts to heal political division, and includes a chapter by pioneering theater artist Anna Deavere Smith that, with …
Yoko Ono was already the most famous artist in the Fluxus art movement when she met John Lennon at her Fluxus exhibition entitled "Ceiling Painting (Yes)." We were told this by the trio c…
Both shows promised a hip take on dystopia, with alarming content warnings. They were opening on the same night at different times, both part of the Exponential theater festival, presented a…
This 51-minute play starring a chicken may seem a startling evolution for the political playwright Robert Schenkkan, whose Broadway playwriting debut, "The Kentucky Cycle," was six hours lon…
Why has "Show Boat" been renamed "Show/Boat: A River?" The title change turns out to be typical of what's being billed as a "daring reimagining"  of the 1927 musical. Many of directorÅ
Bob Dylan hovers over this opera, which tells a story about early 1970s radicals who become fugitives for some three decades. The connection is deliberate if indirect, but Dylan also comes t…
"New York City is where you want to be in January," Pat Kaufman, commissioner of NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment, said on the opening night Friday of the Association of Perfo…