2026 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Costume Design of a Play Emilio Sosa 2026 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Direction of a Play Kenny Leon 2026 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Performance in a ...

Tony nominees David Lindsay-Abaire and Richard Thomas break down the play's pivotal final scene.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a Tony season dominated by revivals, adaptations and London/Chicago/off-Broadway transfers ...

It’s easy to get depressed about national politics. The people running things are nasty, brutish and eager to appeal to baser instincts rather than better angels. As “The Balusters,” the story of a ...

Hell hath no fury like a well-intentioned self-appointed watchdog challenged, as David Lindsay-Abaire’s new ensemble comedy The Balusters reminds us. We’ve seen this group dynamic before – in real ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (WSAV) — The 2026 Tony Award nomination were announced Tuesday morning and ‘The Balusters’ received a nod for Best Play.

It would be interesting to see the chart of characters that David Lindsay-Abaire had to use to write his new play, “The Balusters,” which opened Tuesday at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. By today’s ...

A truism named for the late political scientist Wallace Sayre holds that, in any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. Put more simply: the ...

This weekend sees the exits of several Broadway productions – The Balusters, Chess and Celebrity Autobiography – either due ...

One hour and 50 minutes, with no intermission. At the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th Street. It’s the Battle of the Affluent! Or, at any rate, the latest Battle of the Affluent. David Lindsay ...

“The Balusters,” the new play by David Lindsay-Abaire on Broadway, inadvertently offers a salutary life lesson: Join any group at your peril, because even, say, a book club might provide fertile ...