Tuesday, May 17, 2022
“Six”won outstanding Broadway musical, “Lehman Trilogy” outstanding Broadway play, “Kimberly Akimbo” Off-Broadway musical, and “Prayer for the French Republic” Off-Broadway p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AMMonday, May 16, 2022
Having taken the trip to Gowanus to see “Will You Come With Me?,” a play billed as exploring “the chaos and complexities of living through an uprising,” I had dinner at a local vega…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35PMSix and Kimberly Akimbo lead in the nominations for the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMIn What happened last week at “Girl from the North Country” and “for colored girls…” might not be miraculous, precisely, but they’re the kind of stories in the face of adversity …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AMSunday, May 15, 2022
There is an early number in “Suffs” that was as exciting to me in its way as any gathering-in of Superheroes from the Marvel or DC universe. I guess DC is more apt, since the song is abo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMSaturday, May 14, 2022
The first-ever Books on Broadway series, featuring conversations with authors and theater artists, will be part of the twentieth anniversary of the Bryant Park Reading Room every Tuesday …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AMFriday, May 13, 2022
If all goes as planned, Gregg Mozgala will be making his Broadway debut in the Fall, three decades after the theater first “made me feel like a full human being,” as he explains in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:55PMThursday, May 12, 2022
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named Samuel D. Hunter’s “A Case for the Existence of God” best play of the 2021-22 season, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s and Jeanine Tesori’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PMMake your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 75th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 12th at Radio Music Hal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
There seems at first a large gap between the cosmic title of this play and the mundane situation it dramatizes: A factory worker named Ryan (Will Brill) is meeting with a mortgage broker na…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
The trickiest of theater seasons has led to an unusual – and instructive — awards season. With both the Tony nominations and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama announced on the same day (has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMMonday, May 9, 2022
At the very beginning of Alison Leiby’s joke-filled solo show, which I saw a few days after the leak of the draft of a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade, she told us that “Oh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55PM“Fat Ham,” James IJames modern take on “Hamlet,” has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Finalists were “Selling Kabul” by Sylvia Khoury, and “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Owner�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM“A Strange Loop” received 11 nominations and “MJ The Musical” ten, the most for musicals, and “The Lehman Trilogy” received eight, the most for a play, at the 2022 Tony Award nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AMSunday, May 8, 2022
The overdue resurrection of Alice Childress continues with this first New York production in half a century of “Wedding Band,” her richly resonant story of an interracial couple set i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PMFriday, May 6, 2022
Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2021-2022 theatrical season The 76th annual Theatre W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMLeo has long dominated and even bullied his family, but he’s also looked after them. Now he needs them desperately, but he’s not sure any of them will come through for him as he has for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00AMThursday, May 5, 2022
Below are the nominations for the 11th annual Off Broadway Awards. Winners will be announced May 24th. Don’t know the difference between the Off Broadway Alliance Awards and the Off Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Is there a better time to debut a documentary about “Spring Awakening,” a musical that features a lead character who dies after a botched back-alley abortion? “Spring Awakening: Tho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:03PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
How well were you paying attention to the Broadway shows that opened in April 2022, the last month of the unusual 2021-2022 Broadway season? Take this ten-question quiz to find out. Loading�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AMMonday, May 2, 2022
The Broadway 2021-2022 season ended last week with five shows opening in a row (two on the same day!), a taxing finish to a both trying and triumphant return to live, in-person theater. And …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:37AMSunday, May 1, 2022
“English” won outstanding play, “Kimberly Akimbo” won outstanding musical, as well as outstanding performer and featured performer in a musical, and “Twilight Los Angeles 1992” w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PMBelow is a day-by-day calendar of a selection of shows opening in May, a month that gives Off-Broadway and indie theater their time in the sun after the end of the 2020-2021 Broadway season.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:28PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Shakespeare didn’t write the very beginning and the very end of this generally wan and inscrutable production of “Macbeth,” starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. The aggressively inven…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMThursday, April 28, 2022
In “POTUS,” seven female characters save the president of the United States from himself during a series of scandals and crises on a single day in the White House – at the same time…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
In “Mr. Saturday Night,” opening on Broadway tonight, Billy Crystal stars as a very funny comedian who decades ago self-sabotaged, and is now trying to make a comeback. The show itsel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
“A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s “Big, Black and Queer-Ass American Broadway Show,” as the characters in the musical itself repeatedly call it, has changed since I saw it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06PM“The Lehman Trilogy,” “Harmony” and “Kimberly Akimbo received the most nominations in the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMMonday, April 25, 2022
A startling moment occurs near the beginning of Lincoln Center’s wonderfully over-the-top production of “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Thornton Wilder’s weird play about a modern-day Am…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PMBelow are the nominations for the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced this morning by Denée Benton and André De Shields. The awards ceremony, open to the public, will b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMThe Tony Award nominations will be announced May 9th (changed from May 3rd), as the eligibility cut off has been changed to May 4th (it was April 28th) to give the nominators the chance to s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14AM 
