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...

        The 72nd Annual Tony Awards were hosted by Josh Groban and Sara Barielles at Radio City Music Hall joking about the fact that the key to hosting was never winning one. The musical The Band’s Visit was the big winner of the night, with 10 awards, including...

        by Sandi Durell   Part 2 coverage continues with Drama Desk Video Interviews in the press room at the Marriott Marquis on June 3 with the 2018 Award winners. Speaking with Ethan Slater, Tina Fey, Tina Landau, Glenda Jackson, Neil Austin, Jonathan Tunick,...

  The Drama Desk Awards took place at The Town Hall on June 3rd, hosted by Michael Urie. Red Carpet Arrivals at Anita’s Way found Theater Pizzazz’ JK Clarke on the scene. Look for those! Here is Part 1 of the 2018 Drama Desk Award Winners, with photos by JK Clarke, and Video...

    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 Barbara and Scott Siegel   When the history of contemporary American theater is written, Nathan Lane will surely dominate in any chapters about our actors — and he’ll dominate in the chapter about musical theater actors just as much as he’ll soar above the competition in the...

    by Michael Bracken   Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s sprawling, magnificent epic about a time when an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence, is back on Broadway. Britain’s National Theatre production, directed by Marianne Elliot (War Horse, Curious Incident of the...

  Photos by Maya Werner   The National Theatre and the American Associates of the National Theatre hosted an exclusive fundraising gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom to celebrate the arrival of the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National...

    By Sandi Durell     The shabby press room at the Criminal Courts Building in 1928 Chicago was a dreary place to be as the vulgar, wise-cracking newspaper men ply their art of one-upmanship and dog eat dog tactics; phones are ringing, one-liners fly, women are the butt...

    Thursday night, October 20 saw the opening of the revival of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s classic 1928 comedy The Front Page on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. The all-star cast of the new production includes marquee names Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman,...

  The Tony Awards have announced their first group of presenters for the 2016 Tony Awards which will broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City, on CBS, on Sunday, June 12    8:00 – 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT time delay).  The Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the...

  Guests gathered at The Plaza Hotel in New York City for the Nineteenth Annual ASPCA Bergh Ball celebrating the ASPCA’s 150th Anniversary last night. Drew Barrymore was honored with this year’s ASPCA Compassion Award which was presented to her by Martha Stewart. Nathan Lane served as...

        Review by JK Clarke       Hope. It’s at the core of so many of our value propositions like the American Dream and religious faith. But what happens when we let go of Hope? What happens when we “give up the ghost,” as Hickman likes to...

    NY Theater Review by Sandi Durell         Nothing like waiting for opening night reviews – nail biting! And it’s never a wrong time to revive a belly-laugh of a comedy that reunites Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick (last seen together in “The Producers”) in...

        It may seem like a long way off, but it’s just around the corner! BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and producer Scott Rudin have announced plans to present a six-week run of the Goodman Theatre‘s acclaimed production of Eugene O’Neill’s The...

  by: Sandi Durell It was the 1930s, a time when vaudeville and burlesque were the entertainment of the day, a time when a “nance” – an effeminate acting, campy man (gay or straight) was regular amusement on the bill. It was also a time when gay-homosexual men were being rounded up and...