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I can’t stop following Tori Sparks. With an austere glower and sometimes a winking, welcoming grin, Sparks swaggers through the corridors of the Conwell Tower venue inside Twenty Exchange, fully in command. Sparks plays a minion of the devil himself in Life and Trust, her face lighting up with wicked gleefulness as she waltzes with her Faustian prey, literally bouncing off walls while clasping her victim close. Later, in the eerie wings of a makeshift theater, she tries on a bright red dress matching her striking hair before gazing at herself in a mirror, half-coyly, shuddering as she clutches a drooping mask to her face.

I’d like to call it a can’t-miss performance. But take a left turn instead of a right, or dawdle a few extra moments to take in the vaulted ceilings, and you might miss Sparks altogether. That’s the cost of investing in...

Winners of the 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced in a ceremony on May 1, 2022, at NYU Skirball. New musicals “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Oratorio for Living Things” tied for the most wins, with three trophies each. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.

The cast of Ars Nova’s “Oratorio For Living Things” took home the inaugural award for Outstanding Ensemble, while the Broadway-bound “Kimberly Akimbo” nabbed the two individual musical acting categories, with Lead Performance going to Victoria Clark and Featured Performance going to Bonnie Milligan.

Special honorees this year included Deirdre O’Connell (“Dana H.”), who was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by Heidi Schreck; and David Henry Hwang, who was inducted onto the famed Playwrights’ Sidewalk by Jeanine Tesori.

Find the nominees and recipients of the 2022 Lucille Lortal Awards below.

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Among the countless atrocities of the Nazis, their efforts to kill off the disabled gets less attention than it should. The play All Our Children at New York City’s Sheen Center for Thought & Culture movingly shows one doctor, Victor Franz (Karl Kenzler), caught up in the Nazi program of genocide. The Nazis use him […]

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Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton will be the focus of Clinton: The Musical, a stage show that will soon be premiering in Manhattan.

Clinton: The Musical To Hit NYC

Clinton: The Musical will premiere at the New York Musical Theatre Festival next month at the Pershing Square Signature Center, reported Entertainment Weekly. It started out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – and due to a positive reception – later moved on to King’s Head, London.

“It’s hard enough being president by yourself. Bill Clinton’s problem is that there are two of him,” reads the show’s description. “Literally. Clinton follows two Bill Clintons and Hillary on their quest to save their presidency, change America and prove that ‘politics is show business for ugly people.’”

In addition to Hillary and the two Bills, the Clinton musical also features appearances by Newt Gingrich, Monica Lewinsky and Kenneth Star. Alet Taylor will...

As the Broadway production of Mary Poppins comes to a close, we asked current and original principle cast members, as well as current cast members who have been with the show since day one, to share with us some memories and tell us what being a part of the magic has meant to them. Karl Kenzler, who is a current ensemble member shared...

As the Broadway production of Mary Poppins comes to a close, we asked current and original principle cast members, as well as current cast members who have been with the show since day one, to share with us some memories and tell us what being a part of the magic has meant to them. Karl Kenzler, who is the current 'George Banks,' shared...

Following two seasons working on Criminal Minds as criminal profiler Jason Gideon, Mandy Patinkin left the show in 2007 due to creative differences.  Since then, he has graced the stage with his performances, opting to focus more on comedy and musicals.  In fact, he recently appeared in Reno, Nevada's Pioneer Center for Performing Arts, where he ended his little tour before heading back to the theater.  Most recently, it was announced that Patinkin will be taking on a Shakespearean role in his next project.

Mandy Patinkin will be playing Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, which will be shown at the Classic Stage Company beginning Thursday, September 3.

The 55-year-old former Criminal Minds star debuted in 1980 on Broadway with Andrew Lloyd Weber's Evita, playing Che.  He later won his first Tony Award for the role, and four years later was again recognized with a nomination for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical,...