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Below are videos of the thirteen musical numbers presented at the 76th annual Tony Awards Opening number Best musical: Kimberly Akimbo Best musical revival Parade Best musical nominees &…
The 76th annual Tony Award winners (with a check mark ✔ï¸): (Here's a guide to the full 2022-2023 Broadway season, including those not nominated)(Here is the list of the nominees I…
How to watchThe 76th annual Tony Awards will be presented tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, live in person at the United Palace in Washington Heights, and simultaneously broadcast and/or…
"You're all very in touch with your emotions here," the very British Jonathan Sayer said wryly after listening to some of the acceptance speeches at the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards at Sard…
Below are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2023 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I've been maintaining for more than a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We'll …
"We are not professional liars; we are professional pretenders," Brian Stokes Mitchell  began what was supposed to be  an acceptance speech for his John Willis Award for Lifetime…
Is "The Merchant of Venice" antisemitic? Was Shakespeare?  "The Shylock and the Shakespeareans," playwright and director Edward Einhorn's retelling of the Bard's long-controversial pla…
Joe's three messed-up adult children long have known Joe to be an alcoholic, an addict and a horrid father. But they didn't realize he was an alien from Outer Space. They learn this " and so…
"The Comeuppance" both begins and ends with Death.  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' dark, smart play features Death as a character, hanging out with five former classmates during the night of …
The new Broadway season has already begun with the opening of "Grey House," a new month of theater openings is already underway, but for one more week, attention will be on last season " tha…
The set-up is straight out of a standard-issue  horror movie:  A couple who've been in a car crash on an isolated mountain top during a blizzard seek shelter, and help, in a crea…
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 76th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 11th at United Palace in …
Under the Radar, the oldest theater festival in New York City, is no more. Over its eighteen years, the festival, run by the Public Theater, presented cutting-edge theater by more than 200 c…
Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar and featuring two Broadway shows (one a comic solo play about antisemitism, the other a Br…
Fat Ham won best new play and Titanique best new musical at the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. Winners will be feted June 20th, at Sardi's. (List of this years Off Broadway Allian…
Some Like It Hot won Outstanding Musical and seven other awards, Leopoldstadt won Outstanding Play at  67th Annual Drama Desk Awards, announced this morning. The Piano Lesson and Parade w…
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, about the nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards. Tough times call for a tough quiz. Loading…
"Let's celebrate I'm here. Let's celebrate I'm anywhere these days," the 95-year-old cabaret singer Marilyn Maye said over the weekend while singing Broadway standards at 54 Below " jazz-inf…
"Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors," Frederick Douglass said at the monument to the unknown dead of the Civil Wa…
The "For Dummies" book series began thirty years ago by offering step-by-step practical and unintimidating guides to computer programming geared to intimidated novices. The first title, in 1…
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 72nd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don't kno…
You might think of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" at the outset of "Primary Trust,"Â Â when a genial William Jackson Harper as Kenneth describes for us his quaint (fictional) hometown of C…
Deep dives into specific Sondheim shows bookend the theater blog roundup below, which also features an old radio broadcast and a comparison of Huck Finn to Hamlet. Much here attests to theat…
"I'm tired of sports. It's a sickness," Shawn says to Matt in the middle of "King James," Rajiv Joseph's sweetly innocuous comedy about two lifelong fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketbal…
Below is the complete list of 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented tonight at the NYU Skirball Center, Check out nominatio…
