Monday, September 22, 2025
No, theatergoers do not have the Constitutional right to shout “Fire” in a crowded theater. But theater artists can still present queer characters on stage without losing their governmen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMSunday, September 21, 2025
“Weather Girl,” a solo play about the California climate apocalypse, was a hit at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe that Netflix is said to be developing into a series. “Fleabag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PMSaturday, September 20, 2025
“Saturday Church,” an amped-up Off-Broadway musical adaptation of a 2017 indie movie of the same name, screams Broadway-level ambition; the screaming is sometimes literal. The movie w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18AMFriday, September 19, 2025
“Come from Away” is the most-produced work of theater in the United States this season, according to American Theatre Magazine — the first time the magazine’s annual list has include…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32AMThursday, September 18, 2025
Holly Doubet was vacationing in Hawaii in 2018 at a time of tensions between the US and North Korea when an emergency alert warned everybody in the state of an incoming missile attack. “Se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
“Galas,” a play with music that tells the story of soprano Maria Callas, is surprisingly straightforward if not entirely straight. The current revival is a fun and affordable night ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:08PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
The verdict on the Broadway revival of “Art” starring Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannvale and James Corden as three friends who argue about art ranges from “clever and engaging” to �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PMMonday, September 15, 2025
“And I am telling you I’m not going…” That’s the best-known lyric from “Dreamgirls,” which will return to Broadway in the fall of 2026, but it’s being sung right now Off-Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:08PMSunday, September 14, 2025
Sometimes it’s better to live with lies; the truth can be too destructive. That’s the message I came away with from “The Wild Duck,” which makes it hard for me to understand how the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:59PMSaturday, September 13, 2025
“Can you be Black and not perform?” Eisa Davis asks, then sings “No,” while playing her keyboard. This is the central question, but not the only answer, in “The Essentialisn’t.�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PMFriday, September 12, 2025
“Wicked” endures on stage. I saw it on Broadway this week, and I enjoyed it anew .Yes, it is now inescapably viewed through the lens of the 2024 movie version. But a movie has always hov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMThursday, September 11, 2025
“Color Theories” is funny and weird and sometimes confusing. It reminded me at various times of Pee Wee Herman (childlike tone, cartoonish set, puppetry), George Carlin (observational …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
In the two decades since Tarell Alvin McCraney was heralded as a promising new voice for his breakout play “The Brothers Size,” which was first produced in 2007 when he was still a stude…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMTuesday, September 9, 2025
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen seems readymade for a theatrical portrait, and “House of McQueen” is pieced together with bespoke extravagance. It is housed in a new Off-Broadway thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMMonday, September 8, 2025
In my Broadway Poll about the Fall show theatergoers are most looking forward to, I added a second question: What’s the biggest reason for your choice? Forty percent answered: “The cast…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMSunday, September 7, 2025
Jordan E. Cooper, Tony-nominated performer and playwright of “Ain’t No Mo’” whose new play “Oh Happy Day!” is opening at the Public Theater on October 15, delivered a keynote …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:56PMSaturday, September 6, 2025
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a sponge, a ham, a charmer, a dynamo, an eager collaborator, a sensitive sobber, and an extraordinarily talented, acclaimed and busy artist who is clear-eyed about his …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PMFriday, September 5, 2025
Writer/director Nicholas Colia’s delightful first-time feature film about an obsessive (queer) theater kid, which won several big awards at the Tribeca Festival last year, has now opened …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PMThursday, September 4, 2025
When a stranger asks you “so, what do you do?” they’re not asking for your hobbies or habits, your daily activities or nightly dreams. They’re asking what your job is. Jenn Kidwell…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMWednesday, September 3, 2025
Which of the thirteen shows scheduled to open on Broadway from September to December 2025 are you most looking forward to? What’s the biggest reason for your choice? Answer these two poll …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMTuesday, September 2, 2025
Over the Labor Day weekend, “Purpose” ended its run, and so did Tshidi Manye, who is retiring as Rashiki. But the Fall season has already begun; today is the last day to see “Pericles�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMMonday, September 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in September, including three plays on Broadway, two of them starry revivals: Keanu Reeves making his Broadway debut in “Waiting for Godot�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PMEvery Labor Day for years, I asked: Where are the American plays about workers, workplaces and unions? What began as a rhetorical question became an annual update. Last year, instead of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03AMSunday, August 31, 2025
Instead of just beginning by acknowledging Manhattan as the homeland of the Lenape, the way most theater companies do these days, the Eagle Project made their whole show about it. A member o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PMSaturday, August 30, 2025
Pericles’ daughter has been kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel, where she convinces the customers to honor her virginity. This may not normally be one of Shakespeare’s most mem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32PMFriday, August 29, 2025
How well were you paying attention to New York theater this summer? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMThursday, August 28, 2025
In the year 2051, a bilingual robot named Bob has disguised himself as a human being (a species not yet extinct) and descended twenty levels underground to the Gold Vault of the Federal Bank…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMWednesday, August 27, 2025
The end of summer finds some theater bloggers (Ken Davenport , Broadway & Me’s Jan Simpson and the staff of Theatrely) coming up with lists, while others (Broadway Journal’s Philip B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PMTuesday, August 26, 2025
What at first seems to be a novel about a 1960s experimental theater troupe turns out to be genre fiction that uses theater as a backdrop for a plot involving murder and menace. This is no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55PMMonday, August 25, 2025
The last week of summer is a time to relax – or to get busy figuring out your Fall New York theater season before tickets run out, and how to avoid paying too much for them. (And the lott…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PMSunday, August 24, 2025
Keanu Reeves (his Broadway debut!) in a Waiting for Godot revival, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden in an Art revival, Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit in a CHESS revival…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PM 
