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Glenn Fleshler and George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck. Credit: Emilio Madrid |
The telecast will include a pre-show coverage outside the theater and a post-show special discussing the perilous state of world journalism.
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Glenn Fleshler and George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck. Credit: Emilio Madrid |
The telecast will include a pre-show coverage outside the theater and a post-show special discussing the perilous state of world journalism.
The Drama League Awards were presented on Fri. May 16 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in a ceremony hosted by NY-1 News theater reporter Frank DiLella.
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Nicole Scherzinger of Sunset Blvd. won the Distinguished Performance Drama League Award for 2025. |
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David Lindsay-Abaire Credit: Tricia Baron |
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Patrick Nathan Falk, Milly Shapiro, and Luke Islam in The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse. Credit: Monique Carboni |
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Milly Shapiro and Keri Rene Fuller in The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse. Credit: Monique Carboni |
Their search leads to Coco (dynamic Keri Rene Fuller), the wrist in the photo and a wannabe singer who vanished after her one attempt at topping the charts failed. Along the way, the trio encounters Coco’s religious-fanatic mother (fiery Sara Gettelfinger) and an unidentified friend (quirky Natalie Walker) who holds the key to the mystery.
Director Rory Pelsue cleverly stages this journey through cyberspace as if the characters were all in physical proximity though they are mostly communicating through their screens. Amit Chandrashaker’s spectral lighting, some of which is through cell-phone illumination, aides in the illusion. Cole McCarty designed the kicky costumes spanning the last two decades of hipster fashion. Pelsue also balances the comic, satiric elements with compassion for the disillusioned Internet addicts. The cast, especially Shapiro, portrays them as broken loners rather than as eccentric goofballs obsessed with trivia. These are more than comic Bimbos, they’re human beings.
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The cast of All Nighter. Credit: Evan Zimmerman |
Margolin is a promising playwright, creating believable characters and skillfully building a riveting story arc employing interesting details and building suspense through careful clues. Jaki Bradley’s well-paced direction includes hilariously fast-motion action to denote the passage of time and Isa Briones, Kathryn Gallagher, Alyah Chanelle Scott and understudy Tessa Albertson deliver complex portraits of young women in conflict with themselves and each other. As Wilma, the outspoken outsider of the group, Julia Lester crashes into the action like a hurricane. Wilma longs to be noticed, and more importantly, accepted. Lester fullfils this objective with spectacular character choices, endowing each gesture and action with subtext. Even munching on a bag of potato chips or aggressively opening a collapsible stool so she can join the study table reveals tons about Wilma and her needs. It’s a fascinating performance in an excellent ensemble.
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse: May 13—June 1. The New Group at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater/Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 W. 42nd St., NYC. Running time: 95 mins. with no intermission. thenewgroup.org.
All Nighter: March 9—May 18. Newman Mills Theater/Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, 511 W. 52nd St., NYC (this is not a production of MCC Theater). Running time: 90 mins. with no intermission. allnighterplay.com.
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John Proctor Is the Villain was named Outstanding Broadway Play by the Outer Critics Circle. Credit: Julieta Cervantes |