New York Women in Film & Television, the preeminent entertainment industry association whose mission is focused on gender equality in the New York entertainment industry for 40 years, presented their 38th ​ annual ​ Muse Awards gala luncheon on December 14 at the New York Hilton to...

    Monday, November 6, the Drama League celebrated its 34th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway at the Plaza Hotel by honoring Mark Twain award winning humorist, Kennedy Center Honoree, star of stage and screen, and renowned banjoist Steve Martin. Hosting the evening’s...

  Beloved stage and screen star Judith Light was honored at the 2017 Monte Cristo Award ceremony last night, presented by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and held for the first time at 583 Park Avenue. Light’s LOMBARDI co-star Dan Lauria and “Ugly Betty” co-star Michael Urie joined in...

      Sunday evening May 7 the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards—honoring excellence in Off-Broadway and the invaluable contribution of artists to the theatre community—took place at NYU’s Skirball Center. This year’s host was Taran Killam and this year’ss...

    As previously announced, the League of Professional Theatre Women  (LPTW) will present Judith Light for its next Oral History interview. Just confirmed, Light will sit down with two-time Obie-winning Director Leigh Silverman to discuss her extensive body of work on and...

          Wednesday night, September 28, saw the opening night celebration of Neil LaBute’s All the Ways to Say I Love You, starring the  iconic Judith Light, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) in the West Village. The solo play, about a high...

  by Brian Scott Lipton   “What is the weight of a lie?” These initially puzzling and undeniably provocative words, the first ones spoken by one Mrs. Johnson in “All The Ways to Say I Love You,” should be even a novice theatergoer’s first clue that the teacher we see before us...

  Interviews Brian Scott Lipton Video/Photos: Magda Katz     If you hear theater lovers celebrating, it’s because Judith Light is about to grace the boards once again. The two-time Tony Award winner (and two-time Daytime Emmy Award winner) is not only coming back to the stage,...

    Thursday afternoon, May 12, the playwright development laboratory, New Dramatists, honored Broadway sensation Audra McDonald at its 67th Annual Spring Luncheon at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. McDonald, who is currently starring in Shuffle Along on Broadway, is the...

  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...

Fiddler on the Roof Revival Opens on Broadway   The fifth Broadway revival of the beloved musical, Fiddler on the Roof, opened Sunday night at the Broadway Theatre. Set in 1905 in a shtetl in Imperial Russia, it’s the story of a Jewish family and their attempts to maintain Jewish...

  “Cabaret As A Launchpad for Musical Theatre”     By: Sandi Durell     It’s not only critics from New York City and around the country who took the opportunity to meet for a rousing weekend of panel discussions here in the theater mecca, but the Broadway...

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          by: Carol Rocamora           Oh, those unfortunate 19th century heroines of the page and stage. They’re trapped in loveless marriages, suffocated by society, frustrated, desperate, driven to self-destruction. And yet, they still...

photos by JK Clarke     Broadway’s biggest stars were on hand to honor Tony Award winning actor and Chairman of the Board of the Actors Fund Brian Stokes Mitchell Thursday afternoon at the 66th Annual New Dramatists Luncheon at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Mitchell...

      (see video by Sandi Durell) Nominations for the 2015 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this afternoon at 54 Below by previous Drama Desk winners Judith Light (The Assembled Parties, Other Desert Cities) and Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical). They...

  On the Red Carpet and in the Media Room with Sandi Durell Standing on the Red Carpet for 2 hours to catch nominees and presenters is a daunting task in itself (even in comfortable shoes). The flow at Radio City Music Hall was unstoppable as producers, performers and guests made their...