Category: On Broadway
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Reviews for THE KITE RUNNER are In…
Called “stiff” by some, “faithful to a fault” by others and “satisfying and soulful” by others, the stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner opened to very mixed reviews.
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AWARDS SEASON 2022: Drama League Award Winners
The Drama League Awards were presented today, with outstanding production honors for the plays The Lehman Trilogy and Take Me Out and Kate Whoriskey for her direction of Clyde’s.
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AWARDS SEASON 2022: Nomination Breakdown by Show
Now that all the 2021-2022 season nominations are in, we wanted to tally up the totals for each of this season’s plays.
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AWARDS SEASON 2022: Outer Critics Circle Award Winners
The Outer Critics Circle announced their selections for the 2021-22 season, with The Lehman Trilogy taking home the award for Outstanding New Broadway Play (plus five other awards), Prayer for the French Republic that for Off-Broadway, and Take Me Out for revival (plus one other).
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AWARDS SEASON 2022: Drama Desk Award Nominations
The final nominees for this year’s awards season are in with the nominees announcement for the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards. Clyde’s tops the list of nominated plays with five total nods. Notably, none of this year’s Broadway plays made the list of Outstanding Play, while this year’s Off- and Off-Off-Broadway productions got a lot of love from the selection committee.
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AWARDS SEASON 2022: Tony Award Nominations
Tony Award nominations have been known to make or break a show’s run and change careers, so today’s announcement means the world. Congrats to all of this year’s nominees! Here were the total number of nominations by play: American Buffalo: 4Clyde’s: 5Dana H.: 3for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: 7Hangmen: […]
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AWARDS SEASON 2022: Theatre World Awards Nominations
The latest round of nominees are in — the Theatre World Awards just announced this year’s recipients for Outstanding Debut Performance.
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Reviews for MACBETH are In…
Macbeth opened on Thursday with a lot of “sound and fury signifying nothing.” Critics lambasted the ill-conceived and dull production, laying the blame heavily at director by Sam Gold’s feet. Even Ruth Negga’s wonderful performance, the star power of Daniel Craig and a talented supporting cast could not overcome the bad directorial decisions to gore-up, confusingly triple cast and blasé-ify what should have been a knock-out production.
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Reviews for POTUS are In…
Lacking polish or subtlety, the hilariously frenetic POTUS stars an exemplary cast of women given the stage to each do what they do best. Critics complain that the production is sometimes a bit too wild and nonsensical; but those looking for R-rated over-the-top fun will laugh their a**es off.
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AWARDS SEASON 2022: Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations
The 71st Outer Critics Circle Award nominees were announced this morning. The Lehman Trilogy lead the pack, earning nine nominations; followed by The Minutes with six nods, and Skeleton Crew and Take Me Out with five each.
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