Muriel Mandell was born one year and one day after the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, and, 103 years later, she attended the Broadway musical “SUFFS,” abo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28AM[SHARE]For his performance in “Becky Shaw,” Alden Ehrenreich was acclaimed by five of the major theater awards that have been announced over the past two weeks — selected as Best Individual…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AM[SHARE]Below is a list of some theater artists who did not get a Tony nomination but I feel deserve some recognition. This is not a compilation of “snubs.” As is the case every year, the Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17PM[SHARE]The new musicals “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” received the most nominations, 12 each, for the 79th Tony Awards, as announced this morning by Darren Criss and Uzo Aduba. The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AM[SHARE]“Liberation” by Bess Wohl was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “Bowl EP” by Nazareth Hassan and “Meet the Cartesians” by Talene Monahon were selected as finalists. Vinson Cu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM[SHARE]The Pulitzer Prize for Drama will be announced this afternoon, the nominations for the 79th Tony Awards tomorrow morning. In the past week, we learned the winners of the 2026 New York D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01AM[SHARE]“Mexodus,,” a two-man musical about the little-known history of Mexico as a refuge for thousands of escaping American slaves before the Civil War, won outstanding musical, director, le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26AM[SHARE]Spectacular stagecraft, thrilling young performers with terrific voices, a pulsing score by the indie-rock band the Rescues that has at least one tune I find memorable: “The Lost Boy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54PM[SHARE]Theater award season has begun in earnest, which means receptions for the shows and individuals nominated. Below are photographs of some of the people at an Outer Critics Circle party, ta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, with some starry and exciting fare, none of it on Broadway. Hugh Jackman is again affordable at Audible; “Heated Rivalry” gets a parody, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM[SHARE]“Little Bear Ridge Road,” playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s Broadway debut, has heen selected as the best play of the 2025-2026 season by The New York Drama Critics Circle, which gave Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PM[SHARE]Both “Schmigadoon” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” get lots of love in the nominations for the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies, announce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]“Beau the Musical” and “Mexodus” both lead the nominations for the 70th annual Drama Desk Awards, each receiving ten, which were announced by Raúl Esparza and Helen J Shen this mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32AM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the Broadway 2025-2026 season and its April finale? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PM[SHARE]Over this past week Broadway has been awash in friends and fiends, boarders and board members, Golden Age hoofers and 80s vampires, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2025-2026 season ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]In this award-winning English export, Jack Holden portrays thirty-five characters to dramatize the 1981 murder of a violent, petty criminal in the small rural town of Skidmore, Missouri. Why…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34PM[SHARE]In director Debbie Allen’s sturdy production of August Wilson’s intense and lyrical play, Cedric The Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson portray the stable long-time married couple Seth and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48PM[SHARE]Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland, a New York-based theatrical clown duo who perform as Xhloe and Natasha, had so much trouble mounting their play “And Then the Rodeo Burned Down” that they…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PM[SHARE]“The Rocky Horror Show,” opening tonight at Studio 54, is the latest in a quartet of campy Broadway musicals this month that seem as much acts of resistance against a retrogressively ant…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PM[SHARE]“Beaches, A New Musical” opened tonight at Broadway’s Majestic Theater thirty-eight years after the movie “Beaches” left critics largely unimpressed (“a movie completely construc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45PM[SHARE]The squabbling over whether to put a stop sign on the neighborhood’s prettiest street might not sound substantial enough to build a play around. But David Lindsay-Abaire’s fresh and f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM[SHARE]“The Lost Boys” leads the nominations for the 76th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning by Isa Briones and Sepideh Moafiat the Museum of Broadcasting. The winners …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]With its spot-on, affectionate parodies of the most beloved Broadway musicals from the Golden Age, “Schmigadoon” felt like just the right TV series for theatergoers who had to go without…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PM[SHARE]Below are the nominations for the 92nd annual Drama League Awards announced this morning. The awards will be held May 15th at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Want to know what other New York theater …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AM[SHARE]Escape or engage? That seems to be the choice in the shows that opened in the past week: You could spend time in an elegant English drawing room or on Death Row. It’s more or less the choi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32AM[SHARE]Kelli O'Hara's drunken pratfalls, along with Rose Byrne's wildly skewed wig, mark the high point in the low comedy that most distinguishes this century-old trifle, written by a young Noel Co…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PM[SHARE]Fifteen of the plays produced in the Broadway 2025 2026 Season are publicly available to read. A couple of this season's musicals are adapted from novels; a third comes directly from a bo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]I attended "Off The Record" the same week as "The Fear of 13," both of which are about the failings of the American criminal justice system. The self-described '"theatrical intervention" Off…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PM[SHARE]Both Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri are making their Broadway debuts in this first Broadway revival of David Auburn's play about a family of mathematicians " the father a genius who became ment…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PM[SHARE]Adrien Brody in his Broadway debut tells the true story of a man who spent more than two decades on Death Row for a murder he did not commit. Lindsey Ferrentino's play is also the story of a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56PM[SHARE]What does it say about us that every night on Broadway, theatergoers now gather to laugh at two terrible American tragedies, both of which occurred on April 14. John Wilkes Booth assassinate…
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