Friday, February 7, 2025
Samantha Sehter is the brains – or the nose? – behind “Scents of the Stage,” a brand new company that makes candles that smell like specific Broadway shows – or more precisely, cre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PMThursday, February 6, 2025
They meet for drinks after an absence of thirty years, still loving one another, and still sharing a secret. “Still,” starring Melissa Gilbert (from Little House on the Prairie) and M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PMWednesday, February 5, 2025
In “Mrs. Loman,” a misfire of a play that attempts a sequel to Arthur Miller’s “Death of A Salesman,” Willy Loman’s widow Linda experiences a somewhat anachronistic awakeni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PMTickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 29 Off-Broadway productions (18 of them newly offered), for performances from February 17 th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
In “The Antiquities,” playwright Jordan Harrison offers a dozen stories about the downside of technology through the ages, each from a distinctive year, from 1816 to 2240. If the play ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PMMonday, February 3, 2025
“Yes, the darkness is loud, but the light is brighter y’all,” Brandon Victor Dixon shouted while accepting the Grammy for Best Musical Theater album for “Hells Kitchen,” That’s s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AMSunday, February 2, 2025
Hells Kitchen has won the 2025 best musical theater album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMSaturday, February 1, 2025
The 68th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes Lifetime achievement awards for Charles Busch, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PMBelow is a calendar of selected theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show, “Redwood,” starring Idina Menzel, and plenty of star power Off Broadway: Rainn Wilson, Jor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMFriday, January 31, 2025
“Wicked” and “Hamilton” are back in the news, as is a certain former reality show host; some once little-known stage actors are now….nominees; and there was plenty new and strange …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PMThursday, January 30, 2025
Sadie is an actress who so hates motherhood that she put together a one-woman show about how her daughter ruined her life; it is one of the reasons her daughter Jude feels Sadie ruined hers.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:51PMWednesday, January 29, 2025
Some theater bloggers are responding bluntly to the alarming political moment. Don Shewey lists sources of news that haven’t been corrupted by billionaire owners, George Hunka posted �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
RFK Jr “lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. These facts alone should be disqualifying…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:19PMMonday, January 27, 2025
Not everything is offensively fabricated in “Kowalski,” an account of the first time Marlon Brando ever met Tennessee Williams, to audition for “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the play t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PMHas it been just a week? It doesn’t feel like such a wonderful world right now. So perhaps it’s fitting that the Louis Armstrong musical on Broadway with that title announced its closing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AMSunday, January 26, 2025
This season, there will be two shows starring corpses, two reimagined classics performed by a single actor portraying dozens of characters, two new plays by MacArthur Geniuses, three scree…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PMSaturday, January 25, 2025
Hagar is fed up with the state of Black playwriting. “These kids aren’t writing anything new. They all keep circling August Wilson. Family dramas are important…but if you’ve seen one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:22PMFriday, January 24, 2025
“Famehungry” is Louise Orwin’s attempt to explain TikTok and demonstrate its appeal – the former intriguing, the latter excruciating. The 75-minute show is on stage at SoHo Playh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:54PMThursday, January 23, 2025
When Sanaz Toossi made her Off-Broadway debut with this play about four adult students in Iran taking a class to learn English, even the many who praised it described “English” as “con…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMThe complete list of nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised live on ABC start…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMWednesday, January 22, 2025
The odd trial between Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson over a 2016 skiing accident was so innately campy that it makes a theatrical parody both redundan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
Those of us who are shellshocked at the political upheaval are faced with a choice — try to ignore, actively escape, or engage? Can theater help us decide, and then help any of those choic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMMonday, January 20, 2025
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we are officially celebrating today as a federal holiday, spoke about what we need in our leaders during a speech entitled “The Birth of a New Ag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AMSunday, January 19, 2025
This wide-ranging anthology begins with an anecdote about the power of the arts to heal political division, and includes a chapter by pioneering theater artist Anna Deavere Smith that, with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMSaturday, January 18, 2025
Yoko Ono was already the most famous artist in the Fluxus art movement when she met John Lennon at her Fluxus exhibition entitled “Ceiling Painting (Yes).” We were told this by the trio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PMFriday, January 17, 2025
Both shows promised a hip take on dystopia, with alarming content warnings. They were opening on the same night at different times, both part of the Exponential theater festival, presented a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:43PMThursday, January 16, 2025
This 51-minute play starring a chicken may seem a startling evolution for the political playwright Robert Schenkkan, whose Broadway playwriting debut, “The Kentucky Cycle,” was six hours…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
Why has “Show Boat” been renamed “Show/Boat: A River?” The title change turns out to be typical of what’s being billed as a “daring reimagining” of the 1927 musical. Many of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Bob Dylan hovers over this opera, which tells a story about early 1970s radicals who become fugitives for some three decades. The connection is deliberate if indirect, but Dylan also comes t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMMonday, January 13, 2025
“New York City is where you want to be in January,” Pat Kaufman, commissioner of NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment, said on the opening night Friday of the Association of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AMSunday, January 12, 2025
Wakka Wakka is back with a new puppet musical, about the adventures of a boy and a dodo bird in the underworld. Compared to the 24-year-old company’s past shows, what most stands out ab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PM 
