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Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke in Death of a Salesman. Credit: Brinkhoff Mogenburg |
The David Desk 2
Monday, May 2, 2022
B'way Update: London Death of a Salesman to Transfer
Saturday, April 30, 2022
B'way Update: Cost of Living; Tony and DD Noms Delayed; DD-OCC Mash-Up
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Greg Mozgala and Jolly Abraham in Cost of Living. Credit: Joan Marcus |
MTC has also announced three productions for its 2022-23 Off-Broadway season but with no specific dates announced. Jeff Augustin's Where the Mountain Meets the Sea which will play MTC's City Center Stage I in the fall, focuses on the son of a Haitian immigrant who recreates his dad's Miami-to-California trek in reverse. Summer, 1976 by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof), about the unlikely relationship between independent artist Diana and young housewife Alice, will play at City Center's Stage II. In the spring of 2023, Qui Nguyen's Poor Yella Rednecks, will open at City Center Stage I. A sequel to Vietgone, the play follows a family of Vietnamese immigrants settling in Arkansas.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Robert Morse, Star of How to Succeed and Mad Men, Dies at 90
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Robert Morse in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
Morse made his Broadway debut as the eager Barnaby opposite in Ruth Gordon in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker which served as the basis for Hello, Dolly. He later reprised the role in the film version with Shirley Booth. He continued to make positive impressions in Say, Darling and Take Me Along before starring in How to Succeed. He later played another eager young man in So Long, 174th Street, a musical based on Carl Reiner's memoir of his days as an aspiring actor.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
B'way Update: Some Like It Hot to Heat Up the Shubert
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Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in the original Some Like It Hot. Credit: United Artists |
Monday, April 18, 2022
Drama Desk Dates Announced
The cut-off for Drama Desk Award eligibility is May 1 and the nominations will be announced on May 2 (one day before the Tony nominations come out and one day after the Lortels are presented). It has not been announced if the nominations will be given out by press release or if there will be a press conference as has been the case prior to 2020. Voting for the awards ends at midnight June 6. The date and location of the ceremony has yet to be announced. The Tony Awards are June 12.
The Drama Desks are the only major New York theater awards to include on and Off-Broadway in all of its multiple categories. The nominations are chosen by a seven-member nominating committee consisting of Martha Wade Steketee (Chair; freelance, UrbanExcavations.com) Peter Filichia (Broadway Radio), Kenji Fujishima (freelance: Theatermania), Juan Michael Porter II (TheBody.com; freelance: TDF Stages, Did They Like It?, New York Theatre Guide), Ayanna Prescod (freelance: Variety, New York Theatre Guide, Today Tix), Zachary Stewart (TheaterMania), and Diep Tran (freelance: Backstage, American Theatre, Broadway News, New York Theater Guide). The awards are voted on by the 110 active members of the Drama Desk, a New York-based organization of theater critics, reporters, journalists and publishers.
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Reconstructing the Carol Burnett Show, Part 24: The Elusive Ethel Merman Episode
Friday, April 8, 2022
B'way Update: New Stoppard Play; Kinky Boots Off-B'way; COVID Woes
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Ed Stoppard (the author's son), Alexis Zegerman, Faye Castelow and Adrian Scarborough in Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photograph: Marc Brenner |