Jeremy Gerard

It’s time for the annual spring follies known as Tony voting. Good luck to anyone trying to make sense of it.

It’s hard to remember a time when “Encores!” wasn’t an essential part of the city’s cultural landscape.

Richard Nelson’s inspired new play, “Nikolai and the Others” bristles with compelling ideas and complex characters in equal measure.

The Virgin Mary, Snow White, Jack Donaghy and a sober Texan all had a tough go of it on Broadway last week, as plays and even some musicals struggled in the final days before the deadline for Tony Awards nominations.

The opening moments of “Pippin” are the most thrilling since the humans and beasts of “The Lion King” spilled down the aisles to the onstage savannah more than 15 years ago.

Bette Midler takes a luxuriant drag from the joint she’s holding in one hand, then a quick puff on a cigarette in the other.

Great stars and great plays don’t always align on Broadway. So there’s good reason to make your way to the Stephen Sondheim Theater, where Cicely Tyson is finally getting the showcase she deserves in Horton Foote’s elegiac “The Trip to Bountiful.”

“If you want witnesses then I am one,” says the Mother of Jesus in the astonishing new play, “The Testament of Mary,” that opened last night on Broadway.

Just in time for the Tony Awards deadline, Alan Cumming is reprising his mental-case “Macbeth” on Broadway.

Alec Baldwin’s name on the marquee of a Broadway or off-Broadway theater once gave the assurance of a performance bristling with virility and charisma.

The unseen character in Richard Greenberg’s new drama “The Assembled Parties” is a ruby necklace imbued with life-affecting powers.

Bobby Cannavale has been a dominant presence on Broadway for several seasons. After a middling revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross” last November, he’s back and looking sleekly feral in Clifford Odets’s “The Big Knife.”