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Broadway and Off-Broadway News: 69th Annual Theater Awards – Outer Critics Circle Announce 2018-2019 Season Nominees

April 24, 2019 | be more, be more chill, bernhardt, Broadway, house that will, king kong, network, News, Off-Broadway, on beckett > | "Accidently Brave", "Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations", "All My Sons", "Apologia", "Be More Chill", "Beetlejuice", "Behind the Sheet", "Bernhardt/Hamlet", "Black Light", "By the Way. Meet Vera Stark", "Carmen Jones", "Choir Boy", "Downstairs", "Fairview", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Girl from the North Country", "Girls & Boys", "Head Over Heels", "Ink", "Juno and the Paycock", "King Kong", "Kiss Me Kate", "Lewiston / Clarkston", "Midnight at the Never Get", "Mother of the Maid", "My Life on a Diet", "Network", "Our Lady of 121st Street", "Slave Play", "Sugar in Our Wounds", "The Beast in the Jungle", "The Cher Show", "The Ferryman", "The Hello Girls", "The House That Will Not Stand", "The Lifespan of a Fact", "The Light", "The New One", "The Prom", "The True", "The Waverly Gallery", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Tootsie", "Usual Girls", "White Noise", “Smokey Joe’s Café”, “What the Constitution Means to Me”

Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced today (April 23, 2019) its nominees for the 2018-19 season. Broadway’s “Tootsie” star Julie Halston along with “Torch Song” sensation Michael Urie presided over the (11AM) announcement ceremony in the Oak Room at New York’s renowned…

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Broadway Review: “Oklahoma!” Fails to Measure Up at Circle in the Square

Buried somewhere beneath the myriad sheets of plywood neatly lining the walls and covering the floors of Circle in the Square is the original sheer splendor, strength, and – yes – the overwhelming darkness of the original production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” Alas, that poor “Oklahoma!” is dead and is unceremoniously buried in Daniel Fish’s pretentious and overwrought “Oklahoma!”…

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Broadway Review and News: “Choir Boy” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

“Every place I went felt the same. Cept . . . Until I got to Drew. Everybody didn’t like me but I had . . . I had space to let me be. Now everybody looking at me like, ‘Blackeye, probation, Yup, that’s what you get.’” – Pharus to ‘AJ’ After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club’s…

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Broadway Preview: “The Cake” Opens at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I

Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter (“This Is Us,” “American Gods,” The Oregon Trail) and directed by MTC’s award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow (The Assembled Parties, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Commons of Pensacola), opens tomorrow at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street). The…

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Broadway News: “What the Constitution Means to Me” Comes to Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater

January 14, 2019 | Broadway, hadestown, hamlet, News, what the constitution > | “What the Constitution Means to Me”, Clubbed Thumb, Heidi Schreck, Helen Hayes Theater, Jen Schriever, Michael Krass, Mike Iveson, New York Theatre Workshop, Oliver Butler, Rachel Hauck, Rosdely Ciprian, Sinan Zafar, Thursday Williams, True Love

The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of What the Constitution Means to Me will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning performances at the Helen Hayes Theater (240 W 44th Street, New York, NY) on March 14, 2019, with opening night scheduled for March 31. Heidi Schreck’s timely and galvanizing play, directed by Oliver Butler, became a sensation off-Broadway…

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Broadway Review: “Network” at the Belasco Theatre

When Howard Beale (a tortured yet determined Bryan Cranston) first admonishes his listeners to get out of their chairs, go their widows, stick out their heads and yell, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore,” the audience at the Belasco Theatre erupts with a nostalgia that since the 1976 release of Paddy Chayefsky’s “Network” has…

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Broadway News: New Cast Announced for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” (Parts One and Two)

December 20, 2018 | awards, Broadway, broadway grapples, kimberly, News > | "Harry Potter and the Cyrsed Child", Bubba Weiler, Diane Davis, J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, James Snyder, Jenny Jules, John Tiffany, Jonno Roberts, Lyric Theatre, Matt Mueller, Nadia Brown, Nicholas Podany

Today, producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender announced the new Broadway cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, currently in rehearsals to begin performances on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at the Lyric Theatre (214 West 43rd Street, NYC) following the final performance of the current cast on Sunday, March 17, 2019. James Snyder will play Harry Potter with Diane…

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Broadway Review: “The Ferryman” at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

December 14, 2018 | Broadway, harmony, the ferryman, to kill > | "The Ferryman", Amy Ball CDG, Bella May Mordus, Benjamin Endsley Klein, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Brooklyn Shuck, C.S.A and Jillian Cimini C.S.A., Campbell Young Associates, Carla Langley, Carly Gold, Charles Dale, Colin McPhillamy, Conor MacNeill, Cooper Gomes, Dean Ashton, Dearbhla Molloy, Deborah Hecht, Fionnula Flanagan, Fra Fee, Genevieve O’Reilly, Gina Costigan, Glenn Speers, Glynis Bell, Griffin Osborne, Holly Gould, Jez, Jez Butterworth, Jim Carnahan, Joan Marcus, Justin Edwards, Laura Donnelly, Majella Hurley, Mark Lambert, Matilda Lawler, Michael McArthur, Niall Wright, Nick Powell, Paddy Considine, Peter Bradbury, Peter Mumford, Rafael West Vallés, Rob Howell, Rob Malone, Sam Mendes, Scarlett Mackmin, Sean Frank Coffey, Stuart Graham, Terry King, Theo Ward Dunsmore, Thomas Schall, Tim Hoare, Tom Glynn-Carney, Trevor Harrison Braun, Will Coombs, William Berloni

If you are a fan of Irish plays you will most likely recognize the characters and may recall hearing similar stories as you listen and watch the epic family drama “The Ferryman” by Jez Butterworth now playing at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. That is where the familiarity stops, allowing the brilliant dialogue of Mr. Butterworth and the sagacious, meticulous…

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Broadway Review: “The Cher Show” at the Neil Simon Theatre

Anyone who is or was a fan of Cher during the past six decades will find it difficult to resist the urge to see the new Broadway musical based on her fascinating life and intriguing career that is now playing at Neil Simon Theatre. It would be wise to follow that urge and see for yourself how the beat still…

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Broadway Review: “The New One” at the Cort Theatre

December 3, 2018 | birbiglia, Broadway, LGBTQ+, mike birbiglia > | "The New One", Aaron Copp, Beowulf Boritt, Jennifer Hope Stein, Joan Marcus, Leon Rothenberg, Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish, The Cort Theatre

When he walks onto stage to applause at the Cort Theatre to begin his show “The New One,” It is evident that Mike Birbiglia has a huge following and some dedicated fans. The one-man show recently transferred to Broadway after a successful off-Broadway run at The Cherry Lane Theater. Mike Birbiglia is casual, an everyman, as he proceeds to mic…

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