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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01AM[SHARE]The four shows that opened on Broadway this past week were already familiar to New York theatergoers. Two are revivals; the other two ran Off Broadway. Is this familiarity evidence of produc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AM[SHARE]This silly, campy show, a mashup of Céline Dion songs with a jokey replay of the movie "Titanic," has moved to Broadway, virtually unchanged from the anything-for-a-laugh entertainment it w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM[SHARE]Sean Hayes' final performances in 'The Unknown" on stage this weekend are also available on screen, via The League of Live Stream Theater. The play is one of several recent or current the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]I happen to know the best writer in the world " Tony Kushner," Jean Smart as Deborah Vance says in the first episode of the final season of "Hacks." Her plan for a comeback is to win an EGOT…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01AM[SHARE]This sixth Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's towering play is undeniably a Prestige Production, but it's one that strains for effect, from the casting of Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PM[SHARE]When Arthur Miller died in 2005 at the age of 89, as Charles Bigsby tells us on the last page of his latest Miller book, it was on the anniversary of the opening night of the first Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PM[SHARE]There are solid reasons to celebrate the arrival on Broadway of this striking production, which recasts Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical as a Ballroom competition, with a cast of fabulously …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Last night, the crew of NASA's Artemis II traveled to the far side of the moon, 252,756 miles from Earth, the furthest any human beings have ever been from our home planet. From NASA: "In th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AM[SHARE]The audience gasped almost as frequently as it laughed during the performance I attended of "Becky Shaw," Gina Gionfriddo's fierce, funny comedy that revolves around a bad blind date. What a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54PM[SHARE]It's raining dogs and cats on Broadway, with the opening last week of the play adaptation of "Dog Day Afternoon," and this week of the voguing version of the musical "Cats" " the start of Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14AM[SHARE]Streaming now for free on PBS, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" tells the story of two Jewish cousins in 1939 who together invent a comic book superhero called the Escapist to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PM[SHARE]Alexander Molochnikov had already turned "The Seagull" into a ballet for the Bolshoi, and planned to turn Chekhov's play into an avant-garde spectacle for the Moscow Art Theater. Then Rus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PM[SHARE]Below are the discounted ticket offers from the shows opening on Broadway in April "mostly through digital lottery, digital rush, and/or in person rush. All but one of the shows charge under…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM[SHARE]Five former theater artists meet clandestinely in a dystopian totalitarian society in the near future where "The Leader" has banned all art, and even banned the words that describe what arti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PM[SHARE]Below is a day-by-day calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including thirteen shows on Broadway, six musicals and seven plays, bursting with stars, many making their…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:10PM[SHARE]Mexodus and Prince Faggot received the most nominations for the 41st annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented at the annual ceremo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:31PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of March? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a bonus question. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PM[SHARE]Why have Warner Bros. with 42 other producers financed a new Broadway play about a botched, two-bit bank robbery in Brooklyn half a century ago?  The answer is obvious to me: It's the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]The high ticket prices on Broadway are an annual and perennial outrage, but maybe more galling as the season wraps up. The hottest ticket on Broadway last week sold for $975. The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AM[SHARE]Three sailors are on 24-hour shore leave in New York City before being shipped off to war. No, this is not a simple spoof of the 1944 musical "On The Town." The initial premise is a fe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PM[SHARE]Jaime Cruz, one of the eight cast members with Down syndrome who star in this "Hamlet,"Â Â mimics the posture of Laurence Olivier behind him, who leans against a rock reciting the "To Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:09PM[SHARE]More than 3,000 "No Kings" peaceful protests are scheduled today across the United States, including more than two dozen in New York City " most prominently at 7th Avenue and Central Park So…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AM[SHARE]"Our challenge as theater makers," Willem Dafoe says in the official 2026 World Theatre Day message in the video below, "is to avoid the corruption of theater solely as a commercial enterpri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AM[SHARE]Digital theater was not just something that happened during the explosion of online innovation during the COVID-19 lockdown. To Magda Romanska, it's a human right " a means of providing acce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PM[SHARE]As the 2025-2026 New York theater season enters its final laps, the theater award season is revving up. Below is a calendar of dates from April to June in 2026 when nominations and awards ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13PM[SHARE]Below is a brief description of all of the 75 (!) shows in the New York City Fringe Festival, which this year is being presented from April 1 to April 19 in five venues. Â Unlike Broadway,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PM[SHARE]I can see three main reasons why some theatergoers might want to sympathize with the antisemite at the center of the incendiary true incident being dramatized in  "Giant." The man, for on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PM[SHARE]As the Broadway season begins its five final (and busiest) weeks, it's bracing to learn that live events are booming nationally " all except theater.  People "are spending real money t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim, who would have turned 96 years old today, was known as a genius to his schoolmates and an alcoholic to his collaborators; he was charming but a slob; he loved Lee Remick bu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PM[SHARE]Celia Keenan-Bolger is the "I" in the title of Anna Ziegler's provocative, contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy, in which Antigone ( Susannah Perkins) has an abortion, in defiance…
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