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Broadway stars turn out to honor director Michael Greif at the New Dramatists annual spring benefit luncheon at the New York Marriott Marquis

Represented on Broadway this season with Days of Wine and Roses, The Notebook, and Hell’s Kitchen, Brooklyn-born multiple Tony-nominated director Michael Greif, whose other Broadway credits over his...

Exploring class, disability, and love in the Off-Broadway rom-com ‘All of Me’ at Pershing Square Signature Center

In her original rom-com All of Me, playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Pershing Square Signature Center following its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in 2022, playwright Laura...

Winners of the 2024 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle today named David Adjmi’s Stereophonic Best Play of the 2023-24 season and the award for Best Musical went to Dead Outlaw, with a book by Itamar Moses and music and...

Revealing research into a Nazi photo album in ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop

Named a 2024 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Here There Are Blueberries, now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at New York Theatre Workshop following its 2022 world premiere at...

Winners of the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

The winners of the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced via press release this morning (Monday, May 13) at 9:30. This year’s 73rd annual awards were presented in 27 categories, which have...

Nominations for the 2024 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

Nominations for the 13th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off-Broadway during the 2023-2024 season, were announced today. In addition...

Online auction of Hirschfeld prints signed by the stars to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

An online auction of twenty limited-edition numbered prints by legendary caricaturist and two-time Tony Award recipient Al Hirschfeld, hand-signed by the Broadway and Hollywood stars featured in them,...

Fundraising concert ‘The Janice Jam’ coming to NYC’s Haswell Green’s to benefit breast cancer research

A roster of stars from the stage and screen will come together at NYC’s Haswell Green’s on Monday, May 13, for the second annual fundraising concert The Janice Jam, benefitting the Breast Cancer...

Celebrating the nominees for the 2024 Chita Rivera Awards at Bond 45

The Chita Rivera Awards hosted a reception on Monday, May 6, from 4-6 pm, at Bond 45, located in the heart of NYC’s theater district at 221 West 46th Street, to celebrate its 2024 nominees for dance...

Winners of the 2024 Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway

Winners of the 39th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced tonight, Sunday, May 5, beginning at 7:00, by hosts and presenters Rosalind Chao, Jenn Colella,...

New season of free ‘Picnic Performances’ at NYC’s Bryant Park

Bryant Park’s popular annual series of Picnic Performances, presented by Bank of America, returns for its fifth season with a full line-up of shows beginning on May 31 and running through September...

Tragicomic memories of maternal dysfunction in ‘Mother Play’ at Broadway’s Hayes Theater

Among the many Broadway shows that opened in April during this busy awards season are three slightly fictionalized autobiographical works by women playwrights dealing with the theme of single...

Revisiting musicals from 1948-49 and 1954-55 in ‘Broadway by the Season’ at NYC’s Kaufman Music Center

The latest edition of creator, producer, director, and host Scott Siegel’s ever entertaining and educational Broadway by the Season, presented at the Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall on April 29,...

Nominations for Broadway’s 2024 Tony Awards

Airing live from Sofitel New York on the Tony Awards official YouTube page, Tony winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry announced the nominations for the 77th annual Tony Awards this...

Nominations for the 2024 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography on Broadway and in film

This afternoon (Monday, April 29) at 1:50, on ABC TV’s GMA3: What You Need to Know, Tony Award winner and dancer Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago), now starring in the Broadway revival of Cabaret at the Kit Kat...

Nominations for the 2024 Drama Desk Awards for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway

At 11:30 this morning (Monday, April 29), stage and screen star Kathleen Turner announced the nominations for the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards on NBC’S New York Live. The Drama Desk, formed in 1949...

Hypnotic storytelling through music and dance in ‘Illinoise’ at Broadway’s St. James Theatre

Following its sold-out critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run at the Park Avenue Armory in March, the imaginative new dance musical Illinoise is now on Broadway for a limited sixteen-week engagement at...

Immersed in the decadence of ‘Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club’ at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre

When the original Broadway production of Cabaret, with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by Joe Masteroff (based on John Van Druten’s 1951 play I Am A Camera, inspired by...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Nikki M. James

After originating the role of Civil Rights leader, NAACP co-founder, and prominent Black Suffragist Ida B. Wells in The Public Theater’s Off-Broadway premiere of Shain Taub’s Suffs (tracing the...

Opulence and excess of the Roaring Twenties in ‘The Great Gatsby’ at the Broadway Theatre

One of the most popular American novels of all time, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic The Great Gatsby remains a perennial bestseller, translated into 42 different languages, with over 30 million...

Nominations for the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez, stars of the Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along, announced the 2024 nominations for the Outer Critics Circle Awards for outstanding...

Nominations for the 2024 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

In an event held at 10:00 this morning (Monday, April 22) at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and livestreamed by BroadwayWorld, two-time Tony winner (Cabaret; Chicago)...

Vulnerability, victimization, and humanity in ‘The Outsiders’ at Broadway’s Jacobs Theatre

A stirring new musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film, The Outsiders, with a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, and music and lyrics by...

Tensions inherent in a life of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll in ‘Stereophonic’ at Broadway’s Golden Theatre

Following its extended Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons earlier this season in October-December of 2023, the highly acclaimed Stereophonic, with a book by David Adjmi and original music by...

A reunion of former lovers in ‘Still’ at Off-Broadway’s DR2 Theatre

Helen and Mark, now in their mid-60s, ended their romantic relationship some 30 years ago over serious issues on which they couldn’t agree, but they never forgot each other or stopped wondering “what...

Jenna Pastuszek brings her blockbuster concert ‘Me, Myself & Barbra’ to The Yale Club of NYC

As a student in the Master’s program at NYU’s Steinhardt School, singer extraordinaire Jenna Pastuszek was given an assignment to listen to Barbra Streisand’s first three albums, released in 1963-64,...

Bombastic new musical on the life, art, and times of Polish painter ‘Lempicka’ at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre

Largely overlooked in the annals of art history and forgotten over time, Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) was active in France and the US in the period spanning the two World Wars and...

Funny and poignant inner conflicts of an Irish emigrant in ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come!’ Off-Broadway at Irish Rep

Off-Broadway’s acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre continues the celebration of its 35th season with Philadelphia, Here I Come!, the third mainstage production in The Friel Project, a retrospective on...

Surreal embodiments of ‘The Human Dream Project’ at NYC’s The Tank

Launched by artist Admiral Grey in June of 2022, The Human Dream Project Dream Hotline (1-845-215-7073) is a phone number that people can call at any time, 24 hours a day, to recount their dreams,...

Five Spring concert picks in NYC offer something for everyone

Among the wide variety of musical offerings in NYC this spring are five selections that range from morning and afternoon to evening and late-night concerts, from classical and jazz to pop and...

Nominations for the 2024 Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway

On Thursday, April 4, nominations for the 39th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced by Amber Iman and George Abud, two stars of the new Broadway musical...

NYC’s ‘Broadway Celebrates Earth Day’ returns live and livestreamed on April 20

On Saturday, April 20, from 11 am to 3 pm, The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA), launched as an ad hoc committee of The Broadway League in 2008, with the mission of educating, motivating, and inspiring...

High-decibel rapid-fire reworking of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre

When the English rock band The Who released the groundbreaking double album of their original rock opera Tommy in 1969, written primarily by guitarist Pete Townshend and inspired in part by his own...

Dazzling circus arts, ferocious conflicts, and abiding love in ‘Water for Elephants’ at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre

Part spectacle, part love story, part behind-the-scenes exposé, and fully captivating through it all, the new musical adaptation of Water for Elephants, now in its Broadway premiere at the Imperial...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Marissa Rosen

At 5’1” (“ish!”), New York native Marissa Rosen might not be the tallest person in the room, but her voice, talent, and personality are larger than life. Currently making her Broadway debut in the new...

Songs and stories of musicals from the Great Depression and WWII in the return of ‘Broadway by the Season’ at NYC’s Merkin Hall

After a successful 2023 debut of Broadway by the Season in its new home at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall, host, director, writer, and producer Scott Siegel, joined by The Ross Patterson Little...

Online exhibition ‘Men About Town: Al Hirschfeld Draws Noël Coward’ celebrates the playwright’s 125th birthday

In conjunction with “Coward 125,” Men about Town: Al Hirschfeld Draws Noël Coward, the latest digital exhibition from The Al Hirschfeld Foundation, features a selection of 25 of the artist’s nearly 40...

When the people are their own worst enemies in ‘An Enemy of the People’ at Broadway’s Circle in the Square

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen had a very personal reason for writing An Enemy of the People in 1882, after he and his 1881 work Ghosts, a searing view of 19th-century morality, were publicly...

Sentimental reflections on a lifelong love story in ‘The Notebook’ at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre

Broadway’s new musical re-envisioning of The Notebook by Ingrid Michaelson (music and lyrics) and Bekah Brunstetter (book), based on Nicholas Sparks’ bestselling debut novel of 1996, and the...

Affecting autobiographical storytelling in Laurence Fishburne’s one-man show ‘Like They Do in the Movies’ at Off-Broadway’s PAC NYC

In his world-premiere solo show Like They Do in the Movies, now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement through the end of the month at PAC NYC (which commissioned the work), Tony and Emmy Award...

Dazzling debut of David Lawrence and Debbie Gravitte in ‘A Toast to Steve & Eydie’ at NYC’s Carnegie Hall

On March 7, at the age of 88, American singer and actor Steve Lawrence (1935-2024) succumbed to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, but his legacy lives on in the recordings of his acclaimed...

Searing psychological studies in Roundabout’s Broadway revival of ‘Doubt: A Parable’ at the Todd Haimes Theatre

It’s been twenty years since John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable made its Off-Broadway debut in 2004, followed by a Broadway transfer in 2005, and an Oscar-nominated film adaptation in 2008. The...

Clever and campy ‘Ibsen’s Ghost’ Off-Broadway at 59E59

Presented by 59E59 and its resident Off-Broadway theater company Primary Stages in association with NJ’s George Street Playhouse (where it made its debut in January), Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible...

Free exhibition on ‘Reanimating Theater: The Photography of Friedman-Abeles’ at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center

A new exhibition at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Reanimating Theater: The Photography of Friedman-Abeles, opening on Friday, March 15, showcases images of Broadway hits from...

Unimaginably macabre, darkly funny, cautionary journey of a real-life ‘Dead Outlaw’ Off-Broadway at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre

When composer and lyricist David Yazbek first came upon the true story of Elmer McCurdy (1880-1911) some 30 years ago, he was haunted by it. The corpse of the turn-of-the-century, mostly failed bank...

Lessons on life and death, love and friendship in ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ from NYC’s Sea Dog Theater

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom from the latter’s1997 best-selling book of the same name, Tuesdays with Morrie (which was seen as a made-for-TV movie in 1999, and made its Off-Broadway...

When people won’t agree to disagree in ‘The Ally’ Off-Broadway at The Public

Tony-winning playwright Itamar Moses considers the unyielding investment in personal agendas that drive the socio-political divide in our country, around the world, and throughout history in his new...

An expressive song list of mini-narratives brought to life in ‘Alysha Umphress: 15 Stories’ at NYC’s 54 Below

With an extraordinary voice that’s been heard on the stages of Broadway (including On the Town, American Idiot, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Off-Broadway (Smokey Joe’s Cafe), and regional...

One man’s journey from leftist idealism to staunch conservatism in ‘Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist’ at NYC’s The Tank

Originally commissioned and developed by Gingold Theatrical Group and now playing a limited world-premiere engagement at The Tank, Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist by Andy Boyd examines the...

Life as performance art in ‘The Seven Year Disappear’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center

After her son and manager Naphtali books his single mom and world-renowned performance artist Miriam for a show at MoMA, she suddenly goes missing. Upon her unexpected return seven years later, she...