2023

An illuminating tour-de-force performance in ‘Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground’ at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s

A poll was conducted by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. of Harvard University in 1962, surveying 75 noted historians as to how they would rank the US Presidents in order of competence. The results...

Shakespeare Downtown’s eloquent adaptation of ‘The Lady of the Camellias’ at NYC’s Castle Clinton

Now in its seventh season, Shakespeare Downtown is dedicated to promoting an interest in classical theater by presenting works that are free and accessible to everyone, inside the walls of The...

The Boy Band Project delivers an intoxicating ‘Boy Band Brunch’ in their dazzling debut at City Winery NYC

In their spectacular debut at City Winery NYC on Saturday, June 17, The Boy Band Project dazzled a packed house with their biggest and best Boy Band Brunch ever (and that’s really saying something,...

A rousing night of fan favorites and new songs from ‘Joe Iconis & Family’ at NYC’s 54 Below

The return of Joe Iconis & Family to their home-away-from-home at 54 Below for a five-night engagement through Saturday features a changing line-up of over three dozen of the prolific Tony-nominated...

Discovering the superhero inside in the indie-rock musical ‘Lizard Boy’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

A smash hit at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with an original cast recording that has been streamed more than three million times on Spotify, Prospect Theater Company’s award-winning indie-rock...

Thoughts behind the magic in ‘A Simulacrum’ at NYC’s Atlantic Stage 2

According to the program notes, Atlantic Theater Company’s limited-engagement world-premiere Stage 2 production of A Simulacrum, written by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath with theater artist and...

Winners of the 76th Annual Tony Awards for Broadway’s 2022-23 season

Despite the ongoing strike of the Writers Guild of America, an agreement was reached for this year’s 76th Annual Tony Awards to go on as scheduled, without being picketed by members of the WGA....

Free outdoor performances from ‘Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth’ in Times Square

Stage and screen star Michael James Scott (Aladdin; Book of Mormon; Something Rotten!) is set to host of this year’s Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth concert, to be presented in the Duffy Square section...

NYC’s annual all-star Pride concert ‘Night of a Thousand Judys’ comes to Joe’s Pub on Monday

The 11th annual Night of a Thousand Judys – an all-star Pride concert to benefit The Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ+ homeless youth in NYC – comes to Joe’s Pub on Monday, June 12, with a starry line-up...

Revisiting Oakland, 1967-68, in ‘This Land Was Made’ at Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre

Told in the format of a memory play, the world premiere of Tori Sampson’s This Land Was Made, playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Vineyard Theatre, presents a fictionalized account of a...

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Hermitage Artist Retreat with Artistic Director and CEO Andy Sandberg

New York native and 2005 Yale alumnus Andy Sandberg has recently expanded his accomplished multi-hyphenate stage and screen career as a director, writer, performer, and Tony Award-winning producer...

Fun and harmony in Vangari’s ‘Moon Tunes & Mad Things’ at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama

The mother/daughter cabaret act Vangari – Evangeline (Vange) and Ariana (Ari) Johns – has returned to their home-away-from-home at Don’t Tell Mama this week for two performances of their new show Moon...

Confused combination of creepy, camp, and incohesive in ‘Grey House’ at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre

It’s 1977, there’s a blizzard raging outside, and a lost couple crashes their car into a deer on a mountain road, leaving it dead, him hurt, them stranded, and seeking shelter in an isolated cabin...

Tony winner John Rubinstein previews ‘Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground’ coming to Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s

Tony Award winner John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God), who, under the direction of Bob Fosse, made his Broadway debut in 1972, originating the eponymous role in the iconic musical Pippin, is...

NYC’s 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards winners announced

Winners of the 2022-23 Drama Desk Awards – voted on by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering theater, and the only major NYC theater awards for which productions on Broadway,...

Winners of the 2023 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

The Off Broadway Alliance – an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals – today announced the winners of its 12th annual Off...

New beginnings for a lovable loner in ‘Primary Trust’ at Off-Broadway’s Roundabout

Surviving the childhood trauma of losing his mother at the age of ten and growing up in an orphanage hasn’t been easy for Kenneth, but he’s had his BFF Bert to get him through, sharing their thoughts,...

Broadway’s 2022-23 season statistics rebound comparable to pre-pandemic levels

The Broadway League – the national trade association, founded in 1930, for the Broadway industry, with a current membership of more than 700 – today released statistics for the first full season since...

2023 winners of the Chita Rivera Awards for excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway, Off Broadway, and film

In a ceremony held tonight (May 21) at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and hosted by Jared Grimes, winners of the 2023 Chita Rivera Awards, recognizing excellence in dance and...

Camp sci-fi parody ‘Khan!!! The Musical’ has landed Off-Broadway at Players Theatre

Now playing a limited world-premiere engagement that opened on May the 4th (be with you) at Off-Broadway’s Players Theatre, Peekskill Productions’ Khan!!! The Musical – a wacky sci-fi parody of the...

Recipients of the 2023 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

Winners of the 89th Annual Drama League Awards were announced today (Friday, May 19), beginning at noon, at the organization’s annual luncheon ceremony at The Ziegfeld Ballroom, honoring seven...

Enduring bonds of male friendship in ‘King James’ at Off-Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club

Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York premiere of King James, playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at New York City Center, follows the path of an unexpected friendship between Matt and Shawn, two...

Winners of the 2023 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

This morning (Tuesday, May 16), the Outer Critics Circle announced the winners of its 72nd Annual Awards honoring achievements in the 2022-2023 Broadway and Off-Broadway season, which, for the first...

WGA will not picket unscripted broadcast of the Tony Awards on June 11

The striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) just announced that it will not picket an altered version of the 76th Annual Tony Awards, so the show can go on as scheduled on Sunday, June 11, in a live...

Update on Broadway’s 76th Annual Tony Awards for the 2022-23 season

The 76th Annual Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and hosted by Ariana DeBose, was scheduled to air live from NYC’s United Palace Theatre on Sunday, June 11,...

Nominations for the 2023 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

The Off-Broadway Alliance is an organization of Off-Broadway producers, general managers, venue owners, press agents, and marketing personnel dedicated to promoting and supporting Off-Broadway...

Sharing a harrowing journey to a new beginning in ‘Walking with Bubbles’ at NYC’s AMT Theater

Created, written, and performed by Jessica Hendy (Cats; Aida; Amour) in the relatable everyday clothing of jeans, sneakers, and a tee-shirt, the new solo musical Walking with Bubbles, now playing a...

Jaime Lozano previews his upcoming ‘Immigrant Experiences’ at NYC’s Lortel Theatre and his concert residency at Lincoln Center

One of NYC’s busiest and most talented musical multi-hyphenates, as well as a dedicated advocate for the Latine immigrant community of musical theater artists, Mexican-born Jaime Lozano has some...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with The Boy Band Project’s Chris Messina

In addition to his fame as a member of the casts of Broadway’s Jersey Boys in 2005, the show’s Off-Broadway revival in 2021, and the Broadway production of A Bronx Tale: The Musical in 2016, Long...

Recipients of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for 2023

Founded in 1935 at the Algonquin Hotel by a group that included Brooks Atkinson, Walter Winchell, and Robert Benchley, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle is made up of 20 drama critics from daily...

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama goes to ‘English’ by Sanaz Toossi

The Pulitzer Prizes and Fellowships – established at NYC’s Columbia University in 1917, under the 1904 will of the Hungarian-born newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer as an incentive to excellence –...

Winners of the 2023 Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway

This evening, beginning at 7 pm, the 38th annual Lucille Lortel Awards were presented in fifteen categories to celebrate outstanding achievements in Off-Broadway theater. The 2023 awards presentation...

Riotous parody of political correctness in ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ at Broadway’s Hayes Theater

As Winston Churchill famously said, “History is written by the victors,” while the voices of those brutally conquered too often remain silenced. Offering the historically unheard perspective of the...

Dazzling spectacle with underdeveloped story and characters in ‘New York, New York’ at Broadway’s St. James Theatre

Now playing at Broadway’s St. James Theatre, the new musical New York, New York is, as its name implies, an homage to the “city that never sleeps” (or at least never did before the pandemic), as well...

NYC’s Museum of Broadway extends inaugural Hirschfeld exhibit and adds a series of free programs

By popular demand, the Museum of Broadway has announced that its special inaugural exhibition, The American Theatre as Seen by Hirschfeld, has been extended through Wednesday, June 21, 2023; the date...

Broadway’s 76th Annual Tony Awards nominations for the 2022-23 season

Funny Girl star Lea Michele and 2022 Tony winner Myles Frost (MJ) announced the 76th Annual Tony Awards nominations this morning at 9:00, live from Sofitel New York and streaming on the official Tony...

Nostalgic storytelling in ‘Summer, 1976’ at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Commissioned and produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in a world-premiere Broadway engagement at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn’s Summer, 1976, directed...

Winners of the 2023 Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway debut performances

The Board of Directors of the Theatre World Awards – first presented in 1945, and the oldest awards given for Outstanding Broadway and Off-Broadway debut performances – has announced its 77th Annual...

Issues of mental health, entertainment, and exploitation in ‘Good Night, Oscar’ at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre

A multi-hyphenate of the 20th century, long before the term existed, Pittsburgh-born, NYC-trained, and Hollywood-based actor and comedian, concert pianist and composer, TV talk show host and frequent...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Badia Farha

Famous to theater-lovers (for well more than a Warholian fifteen minutes) for her engaging performances and powerhouse vocals in Broadway’s School of Rock, the 1st National Broadway Tour of Little...

2023 nominations for the Chita Rivera Awards for excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway, Off Broadway, and film

Nominations for the 2023 Chita Rivera Awards, recognizing excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in film, as decided by three separate nominating committees, were...

Cracks in the façade of civility in TBTB’s off Broadway debut of the dark comedy ‘God of Carnage’ at Theatre Row

When Henry hits Benjamin in the face with a stick at the local playground in Brooklyn’s upscale Cobble Hill neighborhood, breaking two of the eleven-year-old’s teeth and causing nerve damage, their...

New take on over-the-top Elizabethan comedy ‘The Knight of the Burning Pestle’ at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre

With Red Bull Theater’s mission of sharing great classic stories and plays of heightened language, and Fiasco Theater’s dedication to presenting innovative and joyful productions that invite the...

Nonpareil solo performance addresses hot-button issue in ‘Prima Facie’ at Broadway’s Golden Theater

In both civil and criminal law, the Latin words prima facie, translated as “at first sight” or “based on first impression,” denotes that, upon initial examination, a legal claim has met the burden of...

Nominations for NYC’s 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards

Nominations for the 2022-23 Drama Desk Awards – the only major NYC theater awards for which productions on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway compete in the same categories – were announced...

Outer Critics Circle announces nominations for its 2023 Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

In a press release this morning at 10:00, the Outer Critics Circle – founded during the 1949-1950 Broadway season by theater journalist John Gassner as the official organization of writers on NYC...

Nominations for the 2023 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

This morning at 11:30, TV and stage star Justin Guarini (American Idol; Once Upon a One More Time) and Tony Award winner Roger Bart (The Producers; Back to the Future: The Musical) announced the...

Chronicling our pandemic times with humor, heart, and a sense of community in ‘Plays for the Plague Year’ at NYC’s Joe’s Pub

With the COVID-19 closure of theaters on March 12, 2020, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, a Pulitzer Prize winner and The Public Theater’s Writer-in-Residence, decided to put the time in lockdown to good...

Split-second timing and non-stop hilarity in Mischief’s ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre

As with its Tony-winning predecessor The Play That Goes Wrong (still playing an open-ended Off-Broadway transfer at New World Stages), Mischief’s latest Broadway offering, Peter Pan Goes Wrong –...

Perfectly balanced ingredients of heartbreak, horror, and humor in the Broadway revival of ‘Sweeney Todd’ at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Playing an open-ended engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, the new Broadway revival of the bloody 1979 musical thriller Sweeney Todd, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Hugh...