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Here is a look at the 2012 Tony Award nominees for Best Play and Best Revival of a Play.
Here is a look at the 2012 Tony Award nominees for performances in a musical, play, musical revival, and play revival.
Jim Parsons and Kristin Chenoweth announced the 66th annual Tony Award nominations on Tuesday.
A depressing play about the effects of the Holocaust on a survivor and her offspring, “Eavesdropping on Dreams” is made engrossing by its outstanding cast.
Bedlam’s minimalist “Saint Joan,” at Access Theater, performed by a brilliant four-person cast, mines new life from Shaw’s underproduced classic.
Timothy Scott Harris’ lukewarm drama, “Protected,” at WorkShop Theater Company, never moves past a promising premise and fails to raise the stakes.
A large cast of kids gives impressive performances in “Up to You,” a musical from Tada! Youth Theater that insufficiently dramatizes its theme of bullying.
Epic Theatre Ensemble’s ultramodern take on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” puts Richard Easton’s Duncan on video and has both interesting concepts and missteps.
Esparza, 41, has been a part of the musical — adapted from the 1992 film starring Steve Martin — since an early reading in 2007.
Gwyneth Paltrow has reportedly been offered the lead role in the new musical version of “Finding Neverland.”
Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown took to his blog to register his outrage.
Veteran entertainer Andre De Shields offers his new and improved cabaret "Black by Popular Demand" at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
At Here Arts Center, Target Margin Theater offers up a version of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" that's both richly detailed and ingeniously abstracted.
The people of Italy see America's 44th president as their potential savior in Claudio Angelini's incoherent and unfunny would-be satire "Obama in Naples."
David Rabe’s “An Early History of Fire,” at the New Group, looks at the complacency of early 1960s America with a knowing eye but meandering dramaturgy.
The Drama Desk Executive Board has reversed its controversial decision, announcing the nominees for that award on Monday afternoon.
"The Lion King" stays on top of the Broadway jungle for another week while attention is paid to "Death of Salesman."
Performers Hugh Jackman and Bernadette Peters and Actors’ Equity Association have been selected to receive special Tony awards.
The remarkable Metropolitan Playhouse and talented director Alex Roe are having an off day with Clyde Fitch and Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth."
Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory, Broadway's go-to ingenues 40 years ago and once a couple, reunite at City Center in a wonderful "concert with comments."
After decades as successful screenwriter, the Oscar nominee returns to his first love, theater, and he's just getting started.
Solid performances from veterans such as Bebe Neuwirth and Anthony Heald steal the spotlight from a nearly nude Cristina Ricci at Classic Stage Company.
As he begins rehearsals for "Harvey" on Broadway, actor Rich Sommer opens up about planning his post-"Mad Men" career and being too honest on Twitter.
Josh Gad, best known for his starring role in the Tony-winning musical “The Book of Mormon,” is in talks to portray Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in "Jobs."
David Vaccari, who cast "Friends With Kids" and "Pieces of April," looks for more than just a pretty face.
