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The company of Patriots on Broadway. Photo by Matthew Murphy. The Broadway Theatre Review: Patriots By Ross They sing a Russian song, sitting around a table drenched in red. “This country has been in a coma for 50 years,” we are told, as Broadway’s latest British transplant, Patriots, gets underway, and we lean in, wondering where this production...

Vinora Epp and Steven Epp. Photo by ARIN SANG-URAI photojuice. The Off Broadway Theatre Review: Orlando: A Rhapsody By Dennis W.  The mixture of fantasy, twisted history, gender identity, and the fluidity of time and being is what still keeps readers pouring over Virginia Woolf’s dazzling historical best-selling novel about Orlando, an Elizabethan hero/ine who will live for...

Tom Pecinka and Sarah Pidgeon in Stereophonic on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. Nominations for the 2024 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards®Presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing Maleah Joi Moon and the company of  Hell’s Kitchen on Broadway. Photo by Marc J. Franklin. Best Book of a Musical Hell’s Kitchen . – Kristoffer Diaz The Notebook – Bekah...

The 2024 Chita Rivera Award Nominations Announced Nominations for the 2024 Chita Rivera Awards were revealed by Bebe Neuwirth on Monday, April 29 at 1 p.m., one day before the Tony Award nominations, on ABC News’ “GMA3: What You Need to Know.” Winners will be named at an awards ceremony on May 20 at NYU’s Skirball Center for...

Andrew Durand and Julia Knitel in Audible Theater’s World Premiere of Dead Outlaw at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Photo by Matthew Murphy (2024). The 2024 Drama Desk Award Nominations Nominations for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today by stage and screen star Kathleen Turner and the full list of nominees is available below.  In keeping with the Drama Desk’s mission, the nominators...

Jeremy Jordan in The Great Gatsby. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman The Broadway Theatre Review: The Great Gatsby – A New Musical By Ross There he is, just as I remember him from when this new musical adaptation previewed at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse last fall, dressed sharply in a white suit, staring off into the...

Bruce Linser, Lindsey Corey are brother and sister coping with the fading mind of their mother Elizabeth Dimon in Ronnie Larsen Presents’ production of Family Ties at the Foundry By Britin Haller The symbolism is as thick as smoke in the air in Family Tree by Ronnie Larsen Presents and the Plays of Wilton. Now at The Foundry...

The Broadway Theatre Review: Water for Elephants and The Outsiders By Ross Directly across the street from one another on West 45th St in the heart of Broadway are two new musicals based on well-known movies adapted from well-known books. Not a surprising thing these days; to take such well-regarded base material and give it the ol’ Broadway...

Dan Ireland-Reeves in Sauna Boy at the Laurie Beecham Theater. The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Sauna Boy By Dennis W. Unemployed wide-eyed actor, Dan is just trying to pay his bills when a job search leads him to one of London’s premiere men’s bathhouses. He applies for a cleaner job thinking that, if he gets it, he will stay,...

The cast of STEREOPHONIC on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. 2024 Drama League Award Nominations Announced Winners will be revealed during a ceremony on May 17. The Drama League announced its 2024 award nominations honoring Broadway and off-Broadway productions on April 22. The list is as follows: Betsy Aidem and Francis Benhamou in Prayer for the French Republic at...