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“Costume Art,” the Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition opening tomorrow, six days after the Met Gala celebrated it, isn’t what it may sound like. It pairs some 200 garments an…
Below are the honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2025-2026 theatrical season. The 80th Annual Theatre World …
Muriel Mandell was born one year and one day after the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, and, 103 years later, she attended the Broadway musical “SUFFS,” abo…
For his performance in “Becky Shaw,” Alden Ehrenreich was acclaimed by five of the major theater awards that have been announced over the past two weeks — selected as Best Individual…
Below is a list of some theater artists who did not get a Tony nomination but I feel deserve some recognition. This is not a compilation of “snubs.” As is the case every year, the Broadw…
The new musicals “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” received the most nominations, 12 each, for the 79th Tony Awards, as announced this morning by Darren Criss and Uzo Aduba. The …
“Liberation” by Bess Wohl was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “Bowl EP” by Nazareth Hassan and “Meet the Cartesians” by Talene Monahon were selected as finalists. Vinson Cu…
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama will be announced this afternoon, the nominations for the 79th Tony Awards tomorrow morning. In the past week, we learned the winners of the 2026 New York D…
“Mexodus,,” a two-man musical about the little-known history of Mexico as a refuge for thousands of escaping American slaves before the Civil War, won outstanding musical, director, le…
Spectacular stagecraft, thrilling young performers with terrific voices, a pulsing score by the indie-rock band the Rescues that has at least one tune I find memorable: “The Lost Boy…
Theater award season has begun in earnest, which means receptions for the shows and individuals nominated. Below are photographs of some of the people at an Outer Critics Circle party, ta…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, with some starry and exciting fare, none of it on Broadway. Hugh Jackman is again affordable at Audible; “Heated Rivalry” gets a parody, t…
“Little Bear Ridge Road,” playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s Broadway debut, has heen selected as the best play of the 2025-2026 season by The New York Drama Critics Circle, which gave Be…
Both “Schmigadoon” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” get lots of love in the nominations for the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies, announce…
“Beau the Musical” and “Mexodus” both lead the nominations for the 70th annual Drama Desk Awards, each receiving ten, which were announced by Raúl Esparza and Helen J Shen this mo…
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Over this past week Broadway has been awash in friends and fiends, boarders and board members, Golden Age hoofers and 80s vampires, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2025-2026 season ha…
In this award-winning English export, Jack Holden portrays thirty-five characters to dramatize the 1981 murder of a violent, petty criminal in the small rural town of Skidmore, Missouri. Why…
In director Debbie Allen’s sturdy production of August Wilson’s intense and lyrical play, Cedric The Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson portray the stable long-time married couple Seth and…
Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland, a New York-based theatrical clown duo who perform as Xhloe and Natasha, had so much trouble mounting their play “And Then the Rodeo Burned Down” that they…
“The Rocky Horror Show,” opening tonight at Studio 54, is the latest in a quartet of campy Broadway musicals this month that seem as much acts of resistance against a retrogressively ant…
“Beaches, A New Musical” opened tonight at Broadway’s Majestic Theater thirty-eight years after the movie “Beaches” left critics largely unimpressed (“a movie completely construc…
The squabbling over whether to put a stop sign on the neighborhood’s prettiest street might not sound substantial enough to build a play around. But David Lindsay-Abaire’s fresh and f…
“The Lost Boys” leads the nominations for the 76th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning by Isa Briones and Sepideh Moafiat the Museum of Broadcasting. The winners …
With its spot-on, affectionate parodies of the most beloved Broadway musicals from the Golden Age, “Schmigadoon” felt like just the right TV series for theatergoers who had to go without…
