2024

Clarity of language and storytelling in Shakespeare Downtown’s ‘Macbeth’ at NYC’s Castle Clinton

Now presenting its eighth free outdoor production at Battery Park’s historic Castle Clinton National Monument since June 2016, Shakespeare Downtown, founded by Artistic Director Billie Andersson and...

Three top picks for Pride Weekend in NYC

The month-long celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride culminates on the last weekend of June, beginning on Friday, June 28 (the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots), and closes on Sunday, June 30, with the...

Old Testament king meets mid-century stylings in ‘David, A New Musical’ Off-Off-Broadway at AMT

Framed in the format of a memory play, David, A New Musical, with music, book, and lyrics by Albert M. Tapper and book and lyrics by Martha Rosenblatt and Gary Glickstein, reimagines the complex and...

Atlantic Theater Company’s Off-Broadway premiere of ‘The Welkin’ is loud, long, and loaded with anachronisms

Though set in rural England in 1759, The Welkin, a new dark comedy written by Lucy Kirkwood and now making its Off-Broadway debut at Atlantic Theater Company, is filled with heavy-handed anachronisms,...

Winners of the 2024 Drama Desk Awards for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway

In a star-studded ceremony at NYU Skirball Center beginning at 6:15 tonight (Monday, June 10) and co-hosted by Sutton Foster and Aaron Tveit, winners of the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards – the only...

Five recent releases for summer reading by and about key women in the theater

Among the recently released theater publications are works by one twice-nominated and two Tony-winning women playwrights, and two books about the woman who founded a major company in DC and headed a...

Roundabout’s superlative revival of ‘Home’ opens at Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre

It’s been more than four decades since Samm-Art Williams’ Tony-nominated play Home, originally presented by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1979, was seen on Broadway, and the new production by...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway sensation Ali Louis Bourzgui

It’s not only the eponymous character that’s a “Sensation” in The Who’s Tommy, now playing an open-ended engagement at the Nederlander Theatre, so is Ali Louis Bourzgui, the breakout star who plays...

Struggling through the trauma of childhood sexual abuse in ‘The Opposite of Love’ at NYC’s Royal Family Performing Arts Space

Written by Ashley Griffin and starring Griffin and Danny Gardner, NewYorkRep’s world premiere production of The Opposite of Love, now playing a limited engagement at the Royal Family Performing Arts...

Hilarious self-examination in ‘Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares’ Off-Broadway at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre

Stage and screen star Laura Benanti has been a regular on Broadway since the age of eighteen, when she made her debut as Maria in The Sound of Music. Since then, she’s appeared in ten more Broadway...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with multi-award-winning singer Natalie Douglas

Thirteen-time MAC Award, BroadwayWorld Best Cabaret Vocalist Award, and two-time Backstage Bistro Award and Nightlife Award winner Natalie Douglas returns to Birdland Jazz Club on Monday, June 17,...

Raising a glass to female friendship and drinking in ‘Winesday the Wine Tasting Musical’ Off-Broadway at The Theater Center

Every Wednesday night a group of five 30-40-something women get together for drinking wine and talking about their lives under the pretense of a book club (or yoga class or tap dancing, since no one...

Winners of the 2024 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

On Tuesday, May 28, the Off Broadway Alliance – an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals – announced the winners of its 13th...

New online exhibit ‘Hirschfeld’s Drag Show’ curated by Charles Busch for Pride Month

With June just days away, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation is celebrating Pride Month with its latest online exhibition Hirschfeld’s Drag Show, now live on the Foundation’s website through August 15....

The Broadway League’s stats for the 2023-24 season show Broadway is back!

Just released by The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway industry, founded in 1930, and representing more than 700 members from nearly 200 national and international...

NYC’s 12th annual Pride concert ‘Night of a Thousand Judys’ comes to Joe’s Pub on June 3

Grammy Award winner Nathan Lee Graham, Tony Award nominee Grey Henson, Grammy Award winner Nicole Zuraitis, Antwayn Hopper, violinist and vocalist Edmund Bagnell, Tammy Faye Starlite, Timothy Hughes,...

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

Tonight (Monday, May 20), the winners of the 2024 Chita Rivera Awards, celebrating dance and choreographic excellence on Broadway and in film, were announced in five competitive categories and three...

Winners of NYC’s 2024 Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance

Ashlee Fucarino and Isaiah Baston were named Outstanding Performers at the 14th Annual Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance on Sunday, May 19, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John...

Winners of the 2024 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

At a luncheon this afternoon (Friday, May 17), hosted at the Ziegfeld Ballroom by NY1’s Frank DiLella, the 90th annual Drama League Awards – the oldest theatrical awards in America, chosen by Drama...

New Broadway film and photo exhibition at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

An essential resource for everyone with an interest in exploring the history of theater, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center houses one of the world’s most extensive...

Honorees of the 2024 Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

On Tuesday, May 14, the 2024 honorees were announced for the 78th annual Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production, the 15th Annual Dorothy Loudon...

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,...