"The Lehman Trilogy" was voted outstanding play and "A Strange Loop" outstanding musical at the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Sutton F…
"When I was a kid in the Bronx, I went to the theater for $1.10," says Emanuel Azenberg. Granted that was a while ago; he's 88. But he is also a Broadway producer and general manager with ni…
Sanaz Toossi, California-born daughter of immigrants from Iran, has racked up awards for her two New York debut plays this season, "English" and "Wish You Were Here."* Both are set in Iran, …
A century and a half after the first American musical, the art form "is growing up, and it is time for us to address the growing pains," historian Margaret Hall said at her TEDx Broadway tal…
Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…
"Six"won outstanding Broadway musical, "Lehman Trilogy" outstanding Broadway play, "Kimberly Akimbo" Off-Broadway musical, and "Prayer for the French Republic" Off-Broadway play at the 71st …
Having taken the trip to Gowanus to see "Will You Come With Me?," a play billed as exploring "the chaos and complexities of living through an uprising," I had dinner at a local vegan rest…
Six and Kimberly Akimbo lead in the nominations for the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off…
In What happened last week at "Girl from the North Country" and "for colored girls…" might not be miraculous, precisely, but they're the kind of stories in the face of adversity that peopl…
There is an early number in "Suffs" that was as exciting to me in its way as any gathering-in of Superheroes from the Marvel or DC universe. I guess DC is more apt, since the song is about t…
The first-ever Books on Broadway series, featuring conversations with authors and theater artists, will be part of the twentieth anniversary of the Bryant Park Reading Room every Tu…
If all goes as planned, Gregg Mozgala will be making his Broadway debut in the Fall,  three decades after the theater first "made me feel like a full human being," as he explains in th…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Samuel D. Hunter's "A Case for the Existence of God" best play of the 2021-22 season, and David Lindsay-Abaire's and Jeanine Tesori's "Kimb…
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 75th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 12th at Radio Music Hall …
There seems at first a large gap between the cosmic title of this play and the mundane situation it dramatizes: A factory worker named Ryan (Will Brill) is meeting with a mortgage broker …
The trickiest of theater seasons  has led to an unusual " and instructive " awards season. With both the Tony nominations and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama announced on the same day (has…
At the very beginning of Alison Leiby's joke-filled solo show, which I saw a few days after the leak of the draft of a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade, she told us that "Oh God…
"Fat Ham," James IJames modern take on "Hamlet," has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Finalists were "Selling Kabul" by Sylvia Khoury, and "Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Owner" (number 4 in …
"A Strange Loop" received 11 nominations and "MJ The Musical" ten, the most for musicals, and "The Lehman Trilogy" received eight, the most for a play, at the 2022 Tony Award nomination anno…
The overdue resurrection of Alice Childress continues with this first New York production in half a century of "Wedding Band,"  her richly resonant story of an interracial couple set i…
 Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2021-2022 theatrical season The 76th annual Theatre…
Leo has long dominated and even bullied his family, but he's also looked after them. Now he needs them desperately, but he's not sure any of them will come through for him as he has for them…
Below are the nominations for the 11th annual Off Broadway Awards. Winners will be announced May 24th. Don't know the difference between the Off Broadway Alliance Awards and the Off Broadway…
Is there a better time to debut a documentary about "Spring Awakening," a musical that features a lead character who dies after a botched back-alley abortion?  "Spring Awakening: Those…
How well were you paying attention to the Broadway shows that opened in April 2022, the last month of the unusual 2021-2022 Broadway season? Take this ten-question quiz to find out. Loadingâ…