-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Awards (101)
- Books & Media (53)
- Albums (33)
- Film/TV Cast (10)
- Original Stage Cast (6)
- Revival Stage Cast (6)
- Studio/Concert Cast (7)
- Artwork (2)
- Books (10)
- Videos (8)
- Albums (33)
- Business (37)
- Performing (2)
- Producing (13)
- Writing (22)
- People (113)
- Designers (3)
- Performers (70)
- Stagers (16)
- Writers (37)
- Reference (78)
- Best of the Year (11)
- History (64)
- Playlists (3)
- Shows (347)
- Broadway (55)
- Concert (14)
- Festivals (13)
- Film (50)
- International (2)
- London (44)
- Off-Broadway (63)
- Online (36)
- Opera (2)
- Regional UK (3)
- Regional US (19)
- TV (63)
Tags
Alan Menken Andrew Lloyd Webber Anything Goes Ariana DeBose A Strange Loop book adaptation British premiere Broadway musical Cabaret Cinderella Cole Porter Dear Evan Hansen film adaptation film musical Frozen George Gershwin Glee Hamilton Irving Berlin Jagged Little Pill Kander & Ebb Kristin Chenoweth Les Miserables Lin-Manuel Miranda Little Shop of Horrors Marc Shaiman Moulin Rouge! musical bricolage musical docudrama musical revival Off-Broadway musical one-act Pasek & Paul regional premiere Rodgers & Hammerstein Smash Stephen Schwartz Stephen Sondheim Sunday in the Park with George The Phantom of the Opera Tina TV musical West End musical West Side Story Wicked
Tag Archives: Soft Power
2021 Grammy nominees
The nominees for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards were revealed November 24, and they include an unprecedented six recordings in competition for Best Musical Theater Album. In most years since 1959, when the category was created, there have been at … Continue reading
Broadway Birthday: Jeanine Tesori
Happy birthday to two-time Pulitzer nominee Jeanine Tesori, the most honored female Broadway composer in history. Born Nov. 10, 1961, in Port Washington, N.Y., Tesori attended Paul D. Schreiber High School, before studying music at Barnard College. She made her … Continue reading
Posted in People, Writers
Tagged Caroline or Change, Fun Home, Jeanine Tesori, Soft Power, Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tony Pinkins, Violet
Leave a comment
2020 Outer Critics Circle Honorees
Yesterday by video feed, Kristin Chenoweth, Bryan Cranston, Patti LuPone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Patrick Stewart announced the 70th annual Outer Critics Circle Award honorees for the 2019-20 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. In lieu of selecting traditional nominees and one winner in each category, this … Continue reading
2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
This afternoon, award administrator Dana Canedy announced the 104th class of Pulitzer Prize winners. The prize for drama, given “for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life,” also includes a $15,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Stage
Tagged A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson, Pulitzer Prize, Soft Power
Leave a comment
2020 Drama League Nominees
During the Gratitude Awards livestream ceremony on April 30, actors Alex Brightman and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer announced the nominees for the 86th annual Drama League Awards. The winners of this year’s special awards include James Lapine (Distinguished Achievement in Musical … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Stage
Tagged A Strange Loop, Drama League Awards, Enter Laughing, Girl from the North Country, Jagged Little Pill, James Lapine, Little Shop of Horrors, Moulin Rouge!, Octet, Rock of Ages, Sing Street, Six, Soft Power, Terrence McNally, The Secret Life of Bees, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Tina, West Side Story
Leave a comment
Making Musicals: Feedback and Rewrites
As you have readings of your musical, people will give you their opinions — whether you asked for those opinions or not. So, how do you make sure that you get useful feedback and avoid useless (or harmful) feedback? One … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged Critical Response Process, David Henry Hwang, Liz Lerman, Soft Power
Leave a comment
2020 Drama Desk Nominees
Today, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley announced the nominations for the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards on the afternoon edition of their Stars in the House livestream. The 2020 awards will be presented remotely in a virtual ceremony on May … Continue reading
2020 Lucille Lortel Nominees
Yesterday, husband and wife musical performers Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer announced the nominees of the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. The 2020 awards ceremony will be presented online May 3, beginning at 7 p.m. The virtual host … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Stage
Tagged A Strange Loop, In the Green, Lortel Awards, Octet, Soft Power, The Secret Life of Bees
Leave a comment