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Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! You didn't think we forgot about our monthly theater hotlist, did you? After more than a dozen productions opening last m…
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for media covering New York theater announced today its award winners for the 2014-15 season in 24 categories. Broadway's M…
It's 1595 and something rotten is happening on the streets of London. A gent by the name of William Shakespeare is taking all the theatrical glory, while the lowly Bottom brothers are strugg…
by Mark Lingenfelter Alan Cumming proclaimed, "Even the orchestra is beautiful!" when he kicked off the New York Pops 32nd Birthday Gala Concert with his performance of "Willkommen" from Cab…
It’s award season! While you may be familiar with the Tonys the OBIEs and the Outer Critics Circle Awards, did you know that the Theatre World Awards is celebrating it’s 71st ann…
The American Theatre Wing and the Village Voice have announced that Screen Actors Guild Award-winning Orange is the New Black star and OBIE Award-winning actress L…
Home is where the heart is. But sometimes that heart can ache from a life burdened with secrets and lies. That same heart can also beat strong when love, compassion, and empathy flows throug…
Where will you be on Monday, May 4? If you want to roll with Broadway glitterati, then head to Carnegie Hall for the New York Pops' 32nd Birthday Gala featuring music honorees Kathleen an…
by Samuel L. Leiter In 1604, Hamlet railed against his mother for marrying his uncle, condemning her for speeding "with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!" Well, you might argue, there's n…
What's the funniest musical on Broadway? Contrary to critical acclaim, it's not Something Rotten! (though it offers more than its fair share of laughs). It's the other something rotten playi…
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! We’ve survived side shows and Russian revolutions (barely), foul-mouthed puppets and dreamlike trips to Paris……
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Boy meets girl. Actually, three boys meet girl in An American in Paris"the spectacular new musical now playing at the Pal…
Calling all Hedwig fans! The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that John Cameron Mitchell will receive the 2015 Special Tony Award. "John's return to Hedwig and the…
by Samuel L. Leiter The Belle of Belfast, a little firebomb of a play, is now detonating eight times weekly at the Irish Repertory Theatre in one of the best acted productions I've seen at t…
Death becomes her. Or not. Chita Rivera returns to the stage in Kander and Ebb's The Visit, a dismally depressing one-act musical adapted from the Swiss play by Friedrich Dürrenmattthat tha…
Guess who’s back? Lypsinka (a.k.a. John Epperson) returns to Off Broadway this summer with his hit show, Lypsinka! The Boxed Set. Click for details.Â
First awarded in 1922 and formalized in 1935, The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America. They are the only major theatergoer awards chosen by audience members " …
by Samuel L. Leiter Living on Love, the old-fashioned screwball farce in which opera star Renée Fleming is making her delightful Broadway debut, may have the musty fragrance of a pre-owned …
Broadway has gone to hell and a hand puppet"and that's a good thing. Hand to God, the alarmingly visceral new American play by Robert Askins is a jolt of theater that the Great White Way has…
by Samuel L. Leiter In 1989, when he was forty-nine, Austin Pendleton tackled the title role in Hamlet in an Off Broadway production. Despite stretching credibility"he was too old for the ro…
I must have been about eight-years-old when I jumped off the couch in our family room and fractured my wrist. I was trying to fly and had gallantly tied a bed sheet around my neck in an atte…
Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler's nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer t…
Marriage is a funny thing. Some last. Many don't. And others aren't ever meant to be. It Shoulda Been You, the new Broadway musical with book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove and music and conce…
by Samuel L. Leiter INTAR, the funky Hell's Kitchen theater devoted to plays by Latino writers, is the perfect setting for Octavio Solis's Se Llama Cristina, with its appropriately dark and …
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Iow@ " which I'd like to retitle "Why? Oh! Ugh" is the latest new work to hit the stage at Playwrights Horizons. The worl…
