The Broadway season is not over until the end of this week, but the awards season has already begun.

The Week in Theater Awards

Sound design Tony categories reinstated for next year

They found a host for @TheTonyAwards: @KevinSpacey

(He’s a Tony winner himself, in 1991, for Lost in Yonkers) pic.twitter.com/ZF81InG7c1 — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 18, 2017

Among her many other accomplishments, Lee founded the National Asian Artists Project, which does fully staged New York productions of classic musicals like Carousel, Oliver!, and Hello, Dolly!, cast mainly with Asian actors.

2017 Outer Critics Circle Nominations – Anastasia, Hello, Dolly; The Band’s Visit lead

2017 Drama League Nominations

The Week in New York Theater Reviews

There are many reasons to find deep satisfaction in the arrival on Broadway of the play “Indecent,” a fascinating tale wondrously staged about a century-old Jewish drama that featured a scandalizing kiss between two women, whose Broadway cast was prosecuted for obscenity.

It marks the long-delayed Broadway debut of Paula Vogel, who at 65 is one of the theatre community’s most admired playwrights…”Indecent” is also something of a homecoming and even vindication for “God of Vengeance”…”Indecent” is further proof that a play can explore a range of frighteningly relevant issues – threats to the arts and an entire culture, anti-immigrant bigotry, homophobia, even genocide – and do so in a production that is not only enlightening, and moving, but entertaining.

Now we call it racism, sexism and domestic abuse, but it’s just everyday life in “The Little Foxes,” Lillian Hellman’s 1939 play about a rapacious Southern family, which is being given an engrossing Broadway revival with a superb cast at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater.

The production, finely directed by Daniel Sullivan, is getting the most attention because of a gimmick, but it’s a smart, appealing gimmick: Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon take turns portraying either Regina or Birdie at alternate performances.

I saw it with Laura Linney as Regina and Cynthia Nixon as Birdie, which was the cast on opening night, and thus how the two will be considered by the Tony nominating committee – Linney for best actress in a leading role, Nixon in a supporting role. And they surely will be nominated

In dramatizing the legend surrounding the youngest daughter of the last Czar, the show has created a new villain, a Soviet official named Gleb….Anastasia winds up promoting nostalgia for the last reign of the Romanovs, those elegantly attired autocrats who sponsored pogroms against the Jews and violently suppressed popular Russian calls for democracy.

..the real strength of this production – its beautiful design and its wonderful cast…Given the pleasures in this escapist fare largely geared to children, few parents will probably care that we have to endure lines like “Anya survived for a reason: to heal what happened or Russia will be a wound that never heals.”

Andy Karl gives an inventive, energetic and wholly winning performance that is the main reason to see this musical adaptation of the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray.

Given Mitchell’s explicit arguments against gay marriage in the first half of the play, the turn of events becomes an implicit refutation of Mitchell’s beliefs, a one-sided argument for the necessity of gay people getting married. “Daniel’s Husband” becomes an odd and simplistic cautionary tale. Only the acting under Joe Brancato’s direction saves us from utter authorial strong-arming

Playwright Martin Sherman seems to believe that same-sex marriage is important, and that there is some resistance to it from within the gay community that he finds regrettable. But Sherman’s approach is less an argument than a simple explanation for attitudes like those of Beau, portrayed by Harvey Fierstein.

The Week in New York Theater News

“Rebecca” will never open on Broadway, according to the attorney for its producers, who admits during the trial against the show’s former publicist that the producers have lost the rights to it.

Some history on The Rebecca Saga:

Rebecca Producer: I was duped, I was raped

The Weirdness of Rebecca

The (would-be) stars of Rebecca speak out

Ibsen’s An Enemy of The People, adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, heading to Bway sometime in 2017-18 season,

(another #Trumplay) pic.twitter.com/W5PSxBfhj5 — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 20, 2017

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN?

Scenes from the Senate Confirmation Hearings

of President Trump’s Cabinet.@TheTownHall May 11 pic.twitter.com/6gIbl6RK6r — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 22, 2017

“Orange is the New Barack” Capitol Steps’ new political vaudeville, June 18th only at Symphony Space

.@ChrisEvans to make his Bway debut in #LobbyHero, about 4 NYers investigating a murder, also w/ Michael Cera

Helen Hayes 3/2018 pic.twitter.com/mcJLA9rXpd — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 20, 2017

For the Helen Hayes Theater, their Broadway house, Second Stage Theater is commissioning new works by Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel, Will eno, Lisa KRon, Robbie Baitz, and Young Jean Lee.

Disney has cast Caissie Levy as Elsa, Patti Murin as Anna, Greg Hildreth as Olaf in the stage musical “Frozen” — which is coming to Broadway an Aug-Oct run at the Denver Center

If I Forget, Steven Levenson’s Jewish family drama, to be taped by BroadwayHD for on-demand viewing the Fall.

Prestige TV fans are the perfect audience to see plays, argues @nprmonkeyseehttps://t.co/D80rAZBwpK pic.twitter.com/hdXqIMI9Aa — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 18, 2017

“I’ve always thought of theatre as a cure for loneliness. For me, it’s therapy.” ~director Nicholas Hytnerhttps://t.co/EBI69x5o1C — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 24, 2017

Hamilton was “completely different, completely original, completely new” says @OfficialALW pic.twitter.com/h7gGJOiEvb — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 23, 2017

“The Earth without Art is just…eh” — Benj Pasek (@benjpasek) April 22, 2017

Love to @NicoletteKloe & @leslieodomjr on the birth of Lucille Ruby, now center stage! pic.twitter.com/Aj5b3TRjws — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 25, 2017

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