The famed musical returns to its roots with a Yiddish off-Broadway production at Stage 42.
At first glance, Slave Play takes place on a plantation, confined to the framework of slavery as we know it.
Transparent Takes Tribeca.
The 73rd Annual Tony Awards, airing last Sunday, brought diversity and inclusion to the forefront, with moving speeches by winners and presenters alike. Nominees and special guests walked the rainbow-themed red carpet, honoring the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and Pride Month with an array of hand-painted roses.
Showstopping “Hadestown” won eight Tony Awards, including Best New Musical, garnering the most wins for the night. The production also had the highest total number of nominations with 14.
The Tony Awards made history tonight with two winners breaking barriers: Jessica Paz, the first woman to win for Best Sound Design of a Musical for her work with Hadestown, and actress Ali Stroker as the first actress who uses a wheelchair to win for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!.
Remember the good old days when important life lessons were mindlessly fed to you by your furry puppet friends on your television screens? When puppets would teach us elementary concepts such as sharing and counting, but you didn’t think about the fact that you were learning, rather than just having fun. What if those puppets taught you about sex, politics, homophobia, and racism? Many didn’t think twice about it, but Avenue Q’s been doing just that for the past 16 years. But make it dirty and real life.
The 2019 Chita Rivera Awards took place last night at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations musical is the most electrifying show on Broadway!
Motown legends Otis Williams, Berry Gordy, Shelly Berger and more join the opening night celebration of the new Broadway musical, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations.