Photos and video, plus winners. Winners for the 2018 Chita Rivera Awards were announced last night at The NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place off Washington Square Park). On the scene were JK Clarke – photos and Sandi Durell – video...

    Filming/Interviews by Sandi Durell   The 2018 Drama Desk Nominees met with the press at Friedman’s at the Edison Hotel on West 47th Street, on May 9 to talk about their roles and creative participation in the various productions for which they are now being nominated....

     Nominees Include:   Yesenia Ayala (Carousel), Chris Bailey (Jerry Springer: The Opera), Monica Bill Barnes (One Night Only), Anna Bass (One Night Only), Camille A. Brown (Once On This Island), Norbert Leo Butz (My Fair Lady), Colin Campbell (Disco Pigs), Elizabeth...

  MCC Miscast honored Tony winner, 3-time Emmy winner, and Academy Award nominee, MCC alum Laurie Metcalf – saluted by special guests Amber Tamblyn, Greta Gerwig, Zoe Perry, Marc Cherry, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Jocelyn Bioh, Austin Smith, Amy Leon, Terry Kinney, Jarrod Spector,...

Let’s talk about Money and SpongeBob Squarepants     By Barbara & Scott Siegel   If talent is the lifeblood of the theater, then money is at the heart of it all, because cash is what pumps talent into a show. What prompts this particular discussion is the rather surprising...

  by Michael Bracken     He may not look like a sponge, but boy does Ethan Slater act like one. Like one sponge in particular, that is, for he’s the title character in SpongeBob SquarePants, the Broadway Musical, at the Palace Theatre. Attired in a deep yellow shirt, dark...

  By Brian Scott Lipton     It’s been over 20 years since My Fair Lady has had a Broadway run, and if any question remained that the show’s brilliant score by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner deserves to be heard nightly, 54 Sings My Fair Lady delivered a resounding answer...