Monday, April 25, 2022
Below 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 08:14AMSunday, April 24, 2022
“Funny Girl,” a revival of which opened tonight on Broadway, is supposed to be a musical about Fanny Brice, the singing comedienne who was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PMFriday, April 22, 2022
Earth Day is officially April 22nd, but it’s being celebrated on Broadway, Saturday April 23rd, when the 30 blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:01PMThursday, April 21, 2022
“Hangmen,” Martin McDonagh’s black comedy about an ex-executioner, which opens tonight on Broadway, had a run Off-Broadway four years ago with the same director and the same design tea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
It’s taken more than 45 years for Ntozake Shange’s theatrical evening of narrative and lyrical poetry, dance, and song to return to Broadway’s Booth Theater….and for me finally to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14PMTuesday, April 19, 2022
This is a play about child abuse. Strip away the humor, the artful metaphors, the theatrical craftsmanship and the empathy, and “How I Learned to Drive” is the story of a pedophile, alco…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMMonday, April 18, 2022
Broadway theaters will no longer be required to check vaccination status of theatergoers after April 30th, but they will require theatergoers to continue to wear masks past at least until Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AMSunday, April 17, 2022
“Democracy’s messy,” the mayor, portrayed by Tracy Letts, says to the newest member of the Big Cherry City Council, Mr. Peel (Noah Reid.) But messy is too mild a word for the goings-on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11PMFriday, April 15, 2022
Below are the various discounts offered by the shows that have opened or are about to open (or reopen) on Broadway in Spring 2022, listed alphabetically. These are the official ways to get t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMThursday, April 14, 2022
In this third Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” which feels like at least one revival too many, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Criss portray three low…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PMWednesday, April 13, 2022
The Comedian Harmonists, the singing group whose story is told in “Harmony,” Barry Manilow’s long-gestating musical, were as popular as the Beatles in their time and place. But their t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:35PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
What’s most cringeworthy about “To My Girls” is not that, in an era of “they/them,” the group of gay men in their late 30s who meet for a weekend in Palm Springs are all “She nee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMMonday, April 11, 2022
“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” a fox tells the little prince. “It’s only visible to the heart.” The line is from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved 1943 novella, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41PMPositive COVID-19 tests caused the cancellation last week of four Broadway shows, two of them still in previews, presenting a test of the enthusiasm for the April line-up (celebrated by the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMSunday, April 10, 2022
In “Birthday Candles,” opening on Broadway tonight, Debra Messing portrays Ernestine, a woman who we see celebrating her birthdays from age 17 to age 107 by baking a cake. She do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38PMSaturday, April 9, 2022
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2022 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies — which (like most everything in the last two yea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AMFriday, April 8, 2022
Theater critics and theatergoers don’t like the same shows, Jan Simpson says in a post in “Broadway & Me,” as explained (and linked) below. What about theater bloggers? Yes, there …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55AMThursday, April 7, 2022
Below are the nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Oratorio for Living Things” have the most nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
People thought Mickey Rowe was a weird kid. By the time that weirdness was officially deemed a disability and given a diagnosis, he was a senior in college and had already begun working as a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMMonday, April 4, 2022
In this first Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg’s 2003 Tony-winning comedy, which is a gay man’s love letter to baseball, Jesse Williams portrays Darren Lemming, a star player who is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMStep aside, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Burt Bacharach, Stephen Schwartz, Bob Dylan, Claude-Michel Schönberg. Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, aged 23 and 20 respectively, won the Grammy for Best …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMSunday, April 3, 2022
There are pleasures in “Paradise Square.” The terrific dancing tells its own story, a quintessential American (and Broadway) one: How African-American and Irish immigrant dancers lear…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15PMThe Unofficial Bridgerton Musical has won the 2022 Grammy for the best musical theater album — which is unusual, since it has never been performed on a stage. The six nominees in the categ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:03PMFriday, April 1, 2022
Below is a day-by-day calendar of the FIFTEEN Broadway shows opening (and three reopening) in April, including fan anticipated favorites “Funny Girl” and “A Strange Loop,” plus a sel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMThursday, March 31, 2022
Broadway at the Oscars! A March of Black Women! Neil Simon’s comeback? This has been a month full of theater news – at least enough to fill a quiz, like the one below. Find out your Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMWednesday, March 30, 2022
“Oratorio for Living Things” is such a gorgeous, awe-inspiring concert of original music by Heather Christian that it feels like a religious experience. Indeed, the music — inflecte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMMonday, March 28, 2022
Why would long-married celebrity couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker choose “Plaza Suite” as the play to reunite them on stage for the first time since 1996? Neil Simon�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMThis is a week for Black women — Ariana DeBose’s Oscar win, and the opening of two plays Off-Broadway: “Confederates” by Dominique Morisseau and “Help” by Claudia Rankine, my rev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMSunday, March 27, 2022
In “Confederates,” playwright Dominique Morisseau presents in alternating scenes the stories of two Black women in eras 160 years apart — a 19th century slave who becomes a spy f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMToday is World Theatre Day, created in 1961 as an annual celebration on March 27. This year I dedicate it to the theaters, performers, and theater lovers of Ukraine. To the more than 400 leg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PM 
