Friday, March 6, 2026
Call it “Madame Butterfly” with ADHD. “Grey Arias,” which is running only through tomorrow at the Flea, stars an unlikely duo whose divergent life experiences, talents and idiosyn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMThursday, March 5, 2026
I was maybe 15 years old when a middle-aged man stopped me on the street and asked me if I was a swinger. I suddenly remembered the encounter while watching the soft porn comedy “The Amazi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AMWednesday, March 4, 2026
“One of the biggest surprises for me in being on Broadway is that there are a lot of unhappy people there,” Tony winner Jonathan Groff writes in a foreword to this book co-written by Lin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMTuesday, March 3, 2026
Gandhi was famous for walking, both for exercise and for the liberation of India, clocking some 49,000 miles on his protest marches. Aristotle believed that great thinkers are all great walk…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53PMMonday, March 2, 2026
February ended with a bang, and not just overseas. There were some heavy shows Off Broadway. The six I reviewed just this week are full of sickness and sexism, personal betrayals and public …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PM“Night Side Songs” is in part an original musical that tells the story of the terminal illness of a character named Yasmine Holly (portrayed by Brooke Ishibashi.) But it’s also a �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:07AMSunday, March 1, 2026
Bigfoot’s mother, Francine Foot, explains how her big, kind, hairy monster came to be: “You have sex with a carnie next to a nuclear power plant, you end up with a giant son.” That’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PMThis elaborate, tuneful puppet musical doesn’t just tell the story of the journey of Kim Pham from Vietnamese “hometown girl” riding a water buffalo to young romantic in Saigon to war …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PMSaturday, February 28, 2026
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of February? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a doozy of a bonus question. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PMFriday, February 27, 2026
Below is a day-by-day calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including three starry plays on Broadway: A solo turn by Daniel Radcliffe (opening March 12), a British im…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:18PMThursday, February 26, 2026
The four power-suited Chinese-American women who work at the same Wall Street bank meet every third Tuesday for lunch at Golden Unicorn in what they call an affinity group. But it doesn’t …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PMWednesday, February 25, 2026
“Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family?” Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger asked in her 12-minute Democratic response to President Trump’s 10…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17AMTuesday, February 24, 2026
Early on in Jake Brasch’s comedy about an alcoholic helped to sobriety by his grandparents, Josh (Noah Galvin), recovering from his latest full-on bender (blacked out, 11 stitches), is com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMMonday, February 23, 2026
Near the beginning of Lauren Yee’s dark farce set in Russia after the collapse of Communism, Evgeny (Adam Chanler-Berat) reunites with his old friend Dmitri (Steven Boyer), reminiscing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMFor the first time in a decade, a blizzard canceled all of Broadway. The Broadway League announced the cancelation of all performances Sunday evening “due to anticipated travel impacts fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21AMIt’s easy to see how the dynamic physical performer Ethan Slater, Broadway’s SpongeBob and Hollywood’s Boq, would be drawn to the irresistible true story of the world’s most famous…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11AMSunday, February 22, 2026
Mae is awkward and messy, and so is the play she is in, a revival that is the second theatrical production at the Cherry Lane Theater under its new owners, the A24 movie studio. Portrayed …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMSaturday, February 21, 2026
TeatroFest 2026, a citywide festival of twenty-four productions by the ten member theaters of the Alliance of Teatros Latinos NY , launches February 27 with a free Spring Preview at the New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09PMFriday, February 20, 2026
“Ruby & Charlie,” one of the three works of puppetry at the fifth annual Puppetopia festival presented at HERE, uses the music of Ray Charles, played by a live band, to chronicl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PMThursday, February 19, 2026
A day in an abortion clinic; children killed in Gaza; children killed in school shootings in America; the life and death of a war photojournalist; donkeys in the desert. These are the sub…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:53PMAlfred Nakache, a swimmer of Algerian Jewish descent who competed for France in the Olympics both before and after he was sent to Auschwitz, might seem an unlikely subject for an animated fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AMWednesday, February 18, 2026
A France in which kissing gets the death penalty; a Palestinian butcher accused by his Israeli co-workers; a spoof of Jane Austin. These are among the five Live Action Short Films nominated …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMTuesday, February 17, 2026
February is usually the peak month for SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), but it’s still striking that four of the five plays I reviewed this past week involve family trauma. Three do o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AMMonday, February 16, 2026
In the middle of the Saturday Survivors weekly recovery meeting that is the heart of Jacob Perkins’ play, Elizabeth Marvel as Joan introduces herself, announces that she is an alcoholic, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMOnly four of the 45 presidents of the United States were born in February, but they include the two most revered, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who are also the two most frequently …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AMSunday, February 15, 2026
“Twelve Minor Prophets” might sound like a Hebrew School pageant, since it’s an educational and playful stage adaptation based on the last twelve books of the Old Testament. But the pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PMSaturday, February 14, 2026
The characters of many of the currently running Broadway shows weigh in on this most nettlesome and sustaining of emotions. A sample below: From & Juliet: Francois: I just proposed to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41AMFriday, February 13, 2026
Why are actors told to break a leg? Why is Macbeth called The Scottish Play inside a theater? Why can’t you whistle in a theater? What is the ghost light all about? In honor of Friday the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00AMThursday, February 12, 2026
WTF? That is how Sean Hayes as Elliott reacts at a startling moment in this 75-minute solo play, and how Hayes as Larry, Elliot’s best friend, reacts to Elliott’s increasingly obsessive …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PMWednesday, February 11, 2026
Theatergoers may identify with Anne (Emma D’Arcy) if they have had to deal with a family member during a crisis who showed no interest in collaboration or compromise, only wanting to be in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMBy the time that Big and Lil are lunging at one another with all the brutal skills they’ve developed as mixed martial arts fighters, we already realize they aren’t monsters at all. They …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM 
