The Band Visited, the Band Saw, the Band Conquered. The 2018 Tony Awards took place Sunday, June 10 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The big winner of the night was The Band’s Visit, which took home ten Tony Awards, followed by Harry Potter and the Cursed...

    Sunday evening, June 3, all the stars were out to walk the red carpet for the 2018 Drama Desk Awards, just off Times Square, along Anita’s Way. Prior to streaming into The Town Hall, where the 63rd Annual Awards took place, nominees from Broadway and Off-Broadway stopped...

    by Sandi Durell   What makes the Outer Critics Circle Awards so unique and loved?  I’ll tell you. It’s that the winners have already been announced and they just show up, relaxed and ready to hear their name called by one of the presenters – in this case...

    Wednesday, May 9 the Nominees Reception for the 63rd Annual Drama Desk Awards took place at Friedman’s in the Hotel Edison. Celebrating the nominees for the 2017-2018 theater season awards, the room was abuzz with the outstanding performers and creatives from this...

    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....

  by Carol Rocamora   It takes an actress of magnitude and majesty to tackle the role of “A” in Three Tall Women, Edward Albee’s devastating drama about aging. And that role has found its match in Glenda Jackson, the British actress who was born to play it. Jackson, celebrated star...

  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,...

  by Sandi Durell   Who knew Kevin Spacey was a song and dance man? Well, he apparently brushed off his hoofer shoes, put on his top hat and, although he made a big deal of being the 15th person to be asked to host (and finally accepted) was all fun and games in a thematic Groundhog...

    The press room was jammed with nominees in all the categories, along with their publicists and the various media outlets.  TheaterPizzazz was front and center with Sandi Durell doing interviews and Magda Katz on camera to hear what many of the nominees had to say, including...

      By Sandi Durell     Playwright Lucas Hnath thinks he has the answers in this smarty pants sequel to the 1879 Ibsen classic A Doll’s House. After walking out, slamming the door, Nora Helmer, now 15 years later, has recreated herself as a wordly woman of...

      Sunday evening, March 12, New York City welcomed the citizens of Gander, Canada, to the Broadway premiere of Come From Away, the touching tale of a small community that opened its arms to almost 7,000 passengers from commercial airlines that were grounded as a result of...

      by Brian Scott Lipton     Every writer, even a lowly website theater critic, wants to have a “number 1 fan” – unless, of course, they’ve read Stephen King’s terrifying 1987 novel “Misery,” seen its Oscar-winning 1990 screen version, or now, viewed its highly...

Sunday night, November 1, the stars came out from both sides of the pond to The Music Box Theater for the Broadway opening of the highly acclaimed King Charles III. The play, an imagining of Prince Charles’ ascension to the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II...

            Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Producing Artistic Director André Bishop) has announced that Vanessa Aspillaga, Mia Barron, Robin De Jesus, Jeff Goldblum, Lizbeth Mackay, Emily Meade, Mary Beth Peil, Karen Pittman and Misha Seo will join Laurie Metcalf in the cast...