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The Awards Will Not Be Televised: Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway and On: Trip to Bountiful

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.12.2013 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

The sight of two men in giant clown shoes and oversized pants shuffling on a commuter platform lingers in the mind. From the Signature Theater's produ...

The Bittersweet Reality Of The Tony Awards

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.09.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — For three actors, the Tony Award nomination announcement last week was somewhat bittersweet. Sweet, because they'd each gotten a pre...

Where's The Tony Bounce?

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.06.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — Tony Award nominations often mean a big bump at the box office, but not this year so far. "Kinky Boots," "Matilda: The Musical," "Pi...

Tony-Nominated Play Opens In D.C.

The Huffington Post | Erin Ruberry | Posted 05.06.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- The action has barely begun during Other Desert Cities when the family unit at the center of the show starts to unravel in one brief mot...

'Lucky Guy' Makes $$$

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.02.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — Newcomer Tom Hanks has led "Lucky Guy" into the black. Producers said Thursday that Norah Ephron's final work has recouped its $3.6 ...

20 Movies That Would Make Awesome Musicals

Mark Brennan Rosenberg | Posted 05.02.2013 | Entertainment
Mark Brennan Rosenberg

The current trend on Broadway that doesn't seem to be going away is turning popular movies into musicals. All four Best Musical Tony nominees this year were, at one point, popular movies.

Say Goodbye To 'The Testament Of Mary'

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.01.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — "The Testament of Mary," which earned three Tony Award nominations, won't be around next month when they're handed out. Producers sa...

First Nighter: Tom Hanks, Other Talkative Tony 2013 Nominees Spark Their Press Brunch

David Finkle | Posted 05.01.2013 | Arts
David Finkle

Harvey Fierstein was wearing kinky running shoes by New Balance because, according to him, "I have fat feet." Yes, but where was it that he especia...

Lin-Manuel Miranda 'Brings It On' Big This Year

Blogamole | Posted 05.01.2013 | Latino Voices

By Michael Lopez It’s that time of the year again. The time when Broadway fans flock to the web to see which plays earned coveted Tony nomi...

Will He EGOT??

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 05.12.2013 | Arts

Tom Hanks received his first Tony Award nomination today for his leading role in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy." Thanks to a flutter of responses on T...

'Kinky Boots' Leads The Pack

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.30.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — The Tony Awards committee largely favored tried-and-true stage veterans over flashy visitors Tuesday when announcing this year's Tony...

And The Tony MIGHT Go To...

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 05.12.2013 | Arts

The 2013 Tony Award nominations were announced this morning by actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and five-time nominated Broadway regular Sutton Foster. T...

Tony's Get Kinky

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.30.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — Two stories born in Britain are vying for America's biggest theater prize. "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" are each a virtual lock to ge...

'Matilda' Snubbed

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.26.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — The members of the Tony Award nominations committee better look out: They've snubbed four girls who play a tough little telekinetic h...

The Present Is a Lot of Laughs -- Streisand, Midler & More

Cara Joy David | Posted 04.26.2013 | Arts
Cara Joy David

Let me start with John Logan's I'll Eat You Last and why this column might as well have been titled, "Why Bette Midler Should Receive a Tony Nomination."

We Are Not Irrelevant! The RNC's Secret Memo to Republicans

John Blumenthal | Posted 04.03.2013 | Comedy
John Blumenthal

Fellow Republicans: As you know, our party is in a wilderness right now so it is incumbent upon us to blast our way out of this jungle of doom with a veritable buckshot spray of repackaged ideas.

Cinder-Ella: Are You New or a Revival?

Cara Joy David | Posted 03.26.2013 | Arts
Cara Joy David

It was not surprising Cinderella got categorized a "revival" -- after all, as Michael Riedel wrote a couple of weeks ago, that means it is a shoo-in for a nomination. But was that the right call?

Tony Awards Head Back To Radio City

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.18.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — The Tony Awards are going back to the place where the Rockettes high-kick it. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joi...

Best Actress in a Play Tony Race -- It's Never Too Early to Start Thinking Ahead

Cara Joy David | Posted 04.01.2013 | Arts
Cara Joy David

In my decade plus career, I don't remember a better slate of contenders than we have this year. There are so many people who any other year would be nominated, but this year will fall short.

The Masterful Puppetry of War Horse Thunders Through the Ahmanson

Xaque Gruber | Posted 09.10.2012 | Los Angeles
Xaque Gruber

War Horse, the not-to-be-missed Tony Award winning play, gallops its way through the Ahmanson Theatre this month, led by the magnificent equine creations of Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, founders of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company.

In Clybourne Park, President Obama Would Be an Impossibility

Carla Seaquist | Posted 08.27.2012 | Arts
Carla Seaquist

Imagine it again: Not just a few but a majority of those voting in 2008 were enlightened hearts and they made electoral history. But not one of them is onstage in Clybourne Park. How then is this play, as The New York Times' theatre critic claims, "ferociously smart"?

PHOTOS: Fab Cities For Live Theater

Cheapflights | Posted 08.27.2012 | Travel
Cheapflights

To pay homage to great performances -- in musicals, straight plays and more -- we offer our critics' picks for the top 10 cities in the world for live theater.

Award-Winning Star Brian D'Arcy James Opens His First One-Man Musical Show at Broadway's Hottest New Club

Myra Chanin | Posted 08.24.2012 | Entertainment
Myra Chanin

He's sung at the White House for the Obamas and has even been caricatured by Sardi's. So what hasn't he done? Something really weird! He's the only impressively credentialed Manhattan actor who's never appeared on Law and Order.

Why Are Broadway Shows Doing Better?

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 08.18.2012 | Home

NEW YORK — Tony Award-winning shows got a financial bounce last week on Broadway, with "Once," "Newsies," "One Man, Two Govnors," the revival of...

What You Probably Didn't See (or Hear) at This Year's Tony Awards

Jeryl Brunner | Posted 08.18.2012 | Home
Jeryl Brunner

As Hugh Jackman said "the Tonys is the greatest show. It's Broadway's greatest hits in one night." I had the opportunity to cover last Sunday's festivities at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Here's what I discovered.