#IdentityWeek wrapped up on Friday evening, September 30 with a special panel discussion, “A Celebration of Pioneering Artists,” featuring Anne Bogart (Co-Artistic Director, SITI Company), Larry Kramer (playwright, The Normal Heart), Dr. Ntozake...

      Theater Pizzazz spoke to many of the winners in the press room. Hear what Jessica Lange, George C. Wolfe, Danai Gurira, Saycon Sengbloh, Cynthia Erivo, Christopher Fitzgerald, Savion Glover, Khris Davis, Montego Glover, Justin Townsend, David Rockwell, Bartlett Sher and...

  Monday, May 9 esteemed director and playwright George C. Wolfe was honored with the 16th Annual Monte Cristo Award by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Festivities took place at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square. The Monte Cristo Award is presented to the artist “whose...

    by Carol Rocamora      According to its subtitle, opening night of the legendary Shuffle Along on May 23, 1921 at the 63rd Street Music Hall (Broadway & Central Park West) caused a sensation. But I can’t imagine it being as sensational as its re-imagined...

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle today named The Humans, by Stephen Karam, best play of the 2015-16 season.  Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, book by George C. Wolfe, music by Eubie Blake, lyrics by Noble Sissle, was named best...

  by: Sandi Durell   On Monday, November 10, 2014, Theatre Communications Group (TCG) celebrated its annual gala. This year the organization honored Jules Fisher, Lynn Nottage, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation at 583 Park Avenue in New York City. Cocktails, dinner and special...