August 6, 2018 Leave a comment
Four musicals in the 2018 New York Musical Festival tied for the most awards, five apiece: Between the Sea and the Sky, Emojiland, Interstate and Pedro Pan. Below the list of winners and nominees.
July 24, 2018 Leave a comment
Below is the list of nominations announced last night for the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater — aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on September 24th, 2018.
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
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June 25, 2018 Leave a comment
Andrew Barth Feldman and Renee Rapp
Best Performance by an Actress and Best Performance by an Actor were presented to Reneé Rapp (Charlotte, NC) and Andrew Barth Feldman (New York, NY). See complete list of winners blow
Watch the 10th annual Jimmy Awards, in which 80 high school students from across America competed for top prize, honors and scholarships.
June 11, 2018 Leave a comment
My favorite moments in the 72nd Tony Award broadcast were moving, inspiring, funny and weird. Click on any of the photographs to read the captions explaining the moment.Videos below.
June 10, 2018 Leave a comment
The Band’s Visit won best musical, and a total of 10 of the 11 awards for which it was nominated, at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won best play and five other Tonys; Angels in America won best play revival and two others; and Once on the Island won best musical revival.
Below is the complete list of the winners in the 26 competitive categories in red with an asterisk*
(Highlighted show titles link to further information. Also listed are my personal preferences — not predictions
Nominated:
The Band’s Visit
Frozen
Mean Girls
SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical
My preference: The Band’s Visit
*Winner: The Band’s Visit
(l-r) Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk in The Band’s Visit
June 10, 2018 Leave a comment
The American Theatre Wing’s 72nd Annual Tony Awards, with hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles, will broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS tonight, Sunday, June 10, 2017 from 8:00 to 11:00 PM, Eastern Time. Here’s a preview guide..
How to Watch
Why Watch
Scheduled Performances
Scheduled Presenters
What to Look For
Nominations and Special Awards
June 7, 2018 Leave a comment
Below are my preferences — not my predictions — for the 72nd Annual Tony Awards. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation for each of my choices.
Nominated:
The Band’s Visit
Frozen
Mean Girls
SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical
My preference: The Band’s Visit
June 5, 2018 Leave a comment
At the 74th annual Theatre World Awards, luminous performers, including this year’s winners — a dozen honored for their New York stage debuts — talked about when they first knew they would be professional performers.
“My father owned a theater when I was growing up, so I never knew a life without the theater,” says Hailey Kilgore, who is one of the winners in 2018 for her role as Ti Moune in Once Upon This Island.
“Around 20, life sort of hit me in the face, and I said I’m going to do something,” says Harry Hadden-Paton, a 2018 winner for portraying Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.
Also, Wesley Taylor, explains how he lost his embarrassment over not being Daniel Day Lewis.
June 3, 2018 Leave a comment
SpongeBob SquarePants won best musical and Angels in America won best revival of a play in the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards. Andrew Garfield and Glenda Jackson won outstanding actor and actress in a play, Ethan Slater and Jessie Mueller outstanding actor and actress in a musical.
Complete list of winners below, in red with an * (Click on titles to get more information about the show.)
Those nominees with a heart mark (♥) are ones I voted for. (I’m a voting member of the Drama Desk.)
Outstanding Play
May 21, 2018 Leave a comment
Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night won the award for Best New American Play, and $1,000, at the 63rd Annual Obie Awards, celebrating Off and Off-Broadway Theater, which spread the love around. Obies went to three directors, four playwrights and a dozen actors.
Complete list:
