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Too good as not to share/repost. Phylicia Rashad tonight at the Theatre Women Awards from League of professional theatre women (@lptwomen). Lifetime Achievement Award winner. 🎉🙏🏿✊🏾👏🏾🙌🏾👑🏆 #phyliciarashad #lifetimeachievementaward #theaterhalloffame #theatre #theater #broadway #offbroadway #artists #thespian #director #producer #honor #legend #tonight #abouttonight #fierce #goddess #regal #beauty #empress #finewomenfriday #wce #actress #queen #lptwomen #theatrewomenawards #lifetime #achievement #award Repost from @irenegandy1271 - Phylicia Rashad receiving Lifetime Achievement Award from League of Professional Theatre Women. Well Deserved👍 - #regrann (hier: The TimesCenter)

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Phyllis Newman, 86, an entertainer from the age of 4; veteran of 11 Broadway shows (Tony winner for Subways Are For Sleeping, pictured); daughter of a fortune teller and a hypnotist; widow of legendary lyricist Adolph Green; mother of Broadway songwriter Amanda Green and theater critic Adam Green..

  Phyllis Newman (1933 – 2019) was very accomplished — on stage, on screen, as a humanitarian, winning the Isabelle Stevenson @TheTonyAwards. She has a unique distinction as well — the only Tony winner to be streaked by a naked man when accepting her first Tony in 1962. pic.twitter.com/W5TVSUCxWG

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) September 16, 2019

The first time I heard this recording of #PhyllisNewman, I burst out laughing – and I haven’t stopped since. She was a glorious performer and one of the great ladies of the American theater. Safe passage, and thanks for the joy. https://t.co/zmZX9B7yRM

— Jason Robert Brown (@MrJasonRBrown) September 15, 2019

The Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews

American Moor

Lucie Alloche, Jae Woo, Abrielle Kuo All

The Talmud

Derren Brown Secret

Andrew Burnap in The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez

AIDS Back on Stage

The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez is one of several new works that put the spotlight back on AIDS, both on screen and on stage. These also include Pose, the FX TV series starring Billy Porter about NYC’s drag ball scene; a handful of documentaries about AIDS; and two plays that open this month Off-Broadway: As Much As I Can, running at Joe’s Pub from September 12 to 16, and Novenas for a Lost Hospital at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater through October 13.

Their existence provokes several questions. Why was there a gap of nearly a quarter of a century before new shows about AIDS graced mainstream stages? Why is it happening now? How do these works differ from landmark plays such as Angels in America, which Lopez calls “the urtext of my generation as theatre artists and myself as a gay man?”

The Week in New York Theater News

Inducted into #TheaterHallofFame (chosen by @Theatre_Critics members, including me): @Andre_DeShields, @DonnaMcKechnie_, Ann Reinking, producer Michael Price, designer Natasha Katz, director Marshall Mason, playwright (posthumously) Thomas Meehan, & critic Michael Feingold pic.twitter.com/QdYg1fCAZI

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) September 10, 2019

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are coming to Broadway in April in the first Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s 1968 comedy, Plaza Suite. Broderick and Parker (married in real life) perform as three couples in three one-act plays all taking place in the same suite in the Plaza Hotel.  The previously appeared on Broadway together in 1996, in “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

Ari’el Stachel (Tony winner for The Band’s Visit) ) will play the lead role of Joseph in Manhattan Concert Production’s 50th Anniversary concert of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center on February 17, 2020

Angela Lansbury is back on Broadway! In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest! (The fine print: It’s one night only, November 18th, and it’s a benefit reading for Roundabout, tickets $150-$5,000) Still: Rejoice!

The six wives of Henry VIII in “Six”have been announced from left to right:@abcmuell, Abby Mueller, Samantha Pauly, @msadriannahickss, Andrea Macasaet, Britney Mack and Anna Luzele. The musical concert opens March 12, at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson

  .@FringeNYC has announced their lineup Oct 1-31. A more manageable 40 shows now (down from the usual 200) in six “indie” venues in Manhattan & Brooklyn: @HTTheater‘s @KraineTheater & #UnderStMarks, @ChainTheatre, @metplayhouse, @IrondaleCenterhttps://t.co/0C8p9teTHt pic.twitter.com/ttoqAMxYpO

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) September 10, 2019

“Musical theater is my first love. Saw Oklahoma when I was four and decided that’s me on stage, the guy with the lasso” – @AnselElgort who was in #WestSideStory in theater camp at age 12, and will be in it again as Tony in Spielberg’s moviehttps://t.co/WRcIkFrF6v

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) September 11, 2019

Phyllis Newman, 1933-2019. Theater Hall of Fame: Andre De Shields, Donna McKechnie, Michael Feingold et al. Angela Lansbury, Ari’el Stachel on Stage. #Stageworthy News of the Week Phyllis Newman, 86, an entertainer from the age of 4; veteran of 11 Broadway shows (Tony winner for Subways Are For Sleeping, pictured); daughter of a fortune teller and a hypnotist; widow of legendary lyricist Adolph Green; mother of Broadway songwriter Amanda Green and theater critic Adam Green..