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The Broadway adaptation of S.E. Hinton's bestselling novel is a tame rendering of the American novel.
The Broadway musical "Lempicka" will undoubtedly mark many audience members' introduction to the personal life of Tamara De Lempicka. While wealth of information exists about the titular Art…
"I think all great dramas are based in dysfunctional families," confesses Natalie Gold. "Maybe there's a part of us that are relieved that we get to watch it instead of that being our family…
"Character is kind of where I start from," explains Jocelyn Bioh, "I feel like all of my work is character driven narratives." She made her Broadway debut as a playwright this season with "J…
"It's just a kind of perfect storm," reveals Michael Esper of the new play "Appropriate." Not only does the family drama provide the actor with juicy material to play, but it has proven to b…
As a press agent, he had his first big hit with "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" In dog competitions, his first big hit was a dachshund named Virginia.
"As we investigated the story, the bones of the story itself, what we discovered was that it was ready made for the stage," explains Glen Ballard of "Back to the Future: The Musical." The fa…
Nominations for the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards were announced today by Amber Iman and George Abud, two stars of Broadway's "Lempicka." The Lortels honor outstanding achievement in Off…
Director Jessica Stone knew that her stage adaptation of "Water for Elephants" needed to have its own distinct voice given that audiences already experienced the 2006 novel and a 2011 film. …
Isabelle McCalla is an expertly trained dancer, but had no experience in any type of acrobatic arts before taking on her latest role. "I was in gymnastics class for a month when I was seven …
Kara Young once again made Broadway audiences fall in love with her this season, thanks to a celebrated turn in last fall's "Purlie Victorious." Now she sits atop Gold Derby's combined odds …
Jesús I. Valles's prizewinning play gets a stage at the Flea, but the ambitious work about queer history proves too difficult to wrangle.
Director Des McAnuff's high-frequency revival pushes Broadway's boundaries and possibly, its sound barriers.
She's back, back, back again! Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose will once again return to host the 77th Annual Tony Awards live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on Sunday, …
"We played games and we laughed. And I felt like that was where the trust really began," recalls Zenzi Williams of a pivotal potluck where she and her "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" cast mem…
Director Jessica Stone pitches an exciting circus tent on conventional musical theater grounds.
I thought I was safe to boldly pronounce my initial 2024 Tony Awards predictions, but then Sufjan Stevens appeared to stomp all over them. As David Buchanan and I convened to discuss where w…
Evan Jackson directs and co-adapts (with Tristan Brandon) a new version of Idle Muse's 2009 reoriented riff on "the Scottish play." Told from the point of view of three young sisters as they…
Playwright Amy Herzog modernizes Ibsen's original play while director Sam Gold pacifies it.
"I was really looking to create something kind of in the style of Noel Coward, but with a feminist twist," explains playwright Sandy Rustin of "The Cottage." She took her first stab at the s…
The theatrical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' landmark novel keeps audiences laughing through the love and weeping through the grief.
The actors from the current revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's "Merrily We Roll Along" have skyrocketed in Gold Derby's combined odds for the 2024 Tony Awards nominations. The pr…
After stepping onto the scene last season, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, has announced key dates and details for the 2nd Annual Dorian Theater Awards. Along with import…
Since their inception, the directing categories at the Tony Awards have mostly been a boys' club. Not only are the vast majority of winners men, but so are most (and in many years, all) of t…
Ellis' staging of this tense drama begs for more traction, energy and, ultimately, direction.
