NEW SEASON, NEW PLAYS: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival -2025 hosts 12 new plays and musicals this summer at AMT Theater in midtown NYC. These new works are by emerging playwrights from across the country, with three full productions. BBTF is a curated festival, founded in 2016, focused on empowering self-producing playwrights by offering a nurturing, supportive environment, professional staff and…
The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the winners for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2024-2025 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. The complete list of winners is below. The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at Lincoln…
The somewhat recognizable journey from play, to film, and finally to musical delivers the new “Real Women have Curves” to the James Earl Jones Theatre on Broadway. It has morphed into a small musical with a big heart. The book by Lisa Loomer and Nell Benjamin is based on the play by Josefina Lopez and the screenplay by Ms. Lopez…
The “Match” in Kimberly Belflower’s thoughtful new play “John Proctor is the Villain,” currently playing at the Booth Theatre, is between the heavyweight team “Toxic Masculinity” and the underdogs “The Feminist Club.” The match takes place in Mr. Carter Smith’s (a far-too-transparent Gabriel Ebert) classroom “during spring semester, junior year, 2018 at Helen County High, the only high school in…
Only in America, where greed, fame, crime and capitalism reign and members of a civilized society aspire to become part of the materialistic regime, can you discover the story of Elmer J. McCurdy, a futile outlaw who was gunned down in 1911. The new musical, which opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre off-Broadway last season, is now playing at the…
If you are not a Baby Boomer, chances are you would have never seen any of the black and white Betty Boop cartoons that made the spit curl bombshell a household name. Now that she has made her way to Broadway, courtesy of Bob Martin’s book, David Foster’s music and Susan Birkenhead’s lyrics, everyone, (young and not so young), can…
The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2024-2025 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. Leading the pack with the most honors of the season is the Broadway musical Death Becomes Her, with twelve nominations, followed…
Broadway Bound Theatre Festival is proud to announce its 2025 Season, showcasing the brand-new works of playwrights from across the country at AMT Theater on 45th Street. “We’re so excited to announce this season with some very strong staged work,” said Lenore Skomal, Festival Director. “We commit to our participants whole-heartedly, as our goal is to ease the anxiety of…
Currently running at the Hayes Theatre, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” joins the important pantheon of plays about families, dysfunctional families in particular. These plays, including Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s recent “Appropriate,” focus on the behavior patterns and the social practices that undermine and often destroy the integrity of family systems. Sometimes there is confession, forgiveness, and redemption in these narratives. Far too often…
The new musical “Smash,” opening on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, creates more than one bombshell, strategically detonating a multitude of explosive twists, turns, and powerful production numbers, to create a good old-fashioned musical. Never having seen the popular television show of the same name, there were no comparisons or expectations to be fulfilled, so this production seemed fresh and…