Tuesday, January 6, 2026
“Sweetheart, I’m fine, and I’m running for my life, I cannot talk to you right now,” Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif) recalls telling her son, when he telephoned her while she was scrambl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:35PMMonday, January 5, 2026
“We expect greatness from the cooks wielding a thousand spices, from those who stride out onto our Broadway stages, and from our starting point guard at Madison Square Garden. Let us deman…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AMSunday, January 4, 2026
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 16 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and the end of April, 2026. Please consider answering two oth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSaturday, January 3, 2026
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including one Broadway show, “Bug” by Tracy Letts, a mixed-reality play starring Ian McKellen, and the return of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMFriday, January 2, 2026
There are more than 100 shows produced by the six annual theater festivals listed below, all of which begin in January. On offer are Beckett and Kabuki; a campy Princess Diana and an outrage…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PMThursday, January 1, 2026
The affordability crisis, fascism, Artificial Intelligence, America’s 250th birthday: As 2026 begins, the theater is not immune to the large questions about what is happening in the count…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:09PMWednesday, December 31, 2025
Let us celebrate the new year by honoring Broadway veterans like Dick Van Dyke, who just wrote a book 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist’s Guide to a Happy Life He turned 100 in Dec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMTuesday, December 30, 2025
How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 10 questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25PMMonday, December 29, 2025
How DO you measure a year? New York theater lovers do so in shows, sure (Top 10 Critics’ Lists (+ 6) of Top 10 NYC Theater),but not in shows alone. Clockwise from top left: a moment from M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMSunday, December 28, 2025
Below is a list of theater books that were published in 2025, most of which I read and enjoyed (sometimes immensely, sometimes with caveats), several I hope to get to in the new year. Beneat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMSaturday, December 27, 2025
The 20 moments I select below happened in an instant — an image, an action, a remark, a sudden realization, in one case a touch. All were far shorter than a scene or a song or even a monol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMFriday, December 26, 2025
My last-minute guide to New Year’s Eve in New York City, when 2025 turns into 2026, features information on: Times Square.Dining Out,Theater (Plays as parties, Broadway show schedule, fami…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04PMThursday, December 25, 2025
Several movies are opening today, a traditional day of moviegoing, including “Marty Supreme,” “Song Sung Blue,” “The Testament of Ann Lee,” The Choral” and ‘No Other Choic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17PMWednesday, December 24, 2025
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2025, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption. Most of these were ta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:12PMTuesday, December 23, 2025
Here are ten of the biggest stories involving theater this year 1. The Federal War on Culture and the Arts Near the beginning of 2025, President Donald Trump took over the Kennedy Center for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32PMMonday, December 22, 2025
The last Broadway show of 2025, “All Out,” has provoked complaints anew about high ticket prices, at the same time that a new study concludes “affordability challenges for artists ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSunday, December 21, 2025
The day after I saw the Radio City Christmas Spectacular for the first time in decades, I attended the New York Nutcracker for the first time ever. Both were holiday shows, though one cost u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:08PMSaturday, December 20, 2025
Here are a dozen of my favorite Broadway performances of 2025, listed (more or less) alphabetically, with a dozen more below, who performed on or beyond Broadway and are just as worthy. Some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06PMFriday, December 19, 2025
Below is the Broadway scheduled from Monday, December 22 to Sunday, December 28, with links to my reviews of the shows. (The reviews have links to each show’s website). Twelve shows will b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09AMThursday, December 18, 2025
Two of the best plays I saw this year are closing on Sunday – way too soon, if you ask me. They are reason enough to post this list of shows (seven of them on Broadway) that are closing wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:32PMWednesday, December 17, 2025
“All Out,” much like last year’s “All In,” has generated accusations of a “cynical cash grab,” in the words of a poster in a theater chatroom outraged by ticket prices as high …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:42PMTuesday, December 16, 2025
Liberation” is by far the most critically acclaimed theater of 2025, featured in nine of the ten Top 10 lists below. Bess Wohl’s play about a woman’s liberation group in the 1970s is f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AMMonday, December 15, 2025
The Broadway theatergoer liked “Ragtime,” disliked “Queen of Versailles,” and wished “Boop” had been better. That’s the results so far of my annual poll. But who is “the Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AMSunday, December 14, 2025
Michelle Williams portrays a former prostitute in a play that was so bold when Eugene O’Neill wrote it that critics objected on moral grounds when it won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PMSaturday, December 13, 2025
Which did you think was the best of the thirty-four shows that opened on Broadway (+ three that had no official opening) in 2025? Which was the worst? Which did you most want to like, and mi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMFriday, December 12, 2025
The Broadway Spring season promises familiar stars in familiar shows, although both some of the stars and some of the shows are making their Broadway debuts. Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AMThursday, December 11, 2025
Netflix is not just a streaming video platform anymore. It is now yet another example of immersive theater. There are new “Netflix Houses” – in Philadelphia, Dallas, and soon in Las Ve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AMWednesday, December 10, 2025
Jake Meyer, a Jew from Latvia, escapes conscription into the Russian Army by emigrating to America, landing first in New York, but winding up in Oklahoma, where he and his bride Hattie ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMTuesday, December 9, 2025
Watch the ten videos below that were the most viewed in 2025 of those that I’ve posted on my YouTube channel ,and/or this blog, arranged in order of popularity. The majority were created …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMMonday, December 8, 2025
“Marjorie Prime,” has turned even more uncanny in the ten years since its Off-Broadway run, when the 85-year-old Lois Smith gave a lustrous performance as the 85-year-old Marjorie, a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32PMOver the weekend, “Merrily We Roll Along” and “Hamnet” opened in cinemas nationwide, each connected to live theater in very different ways – one, a recording of a live Broadway pro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AM 
