Monday, March 17, 2025
In "Purpose," an extraordinary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Tony winner for last season's "Appropriate") opening tonight on Broadway in a terrifically acted, crowd-pleasing production tha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PM[SHARE]Tickets for "Othello" are selling for $921, even as far back as Row M, which helped the Shakespeare play starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal gross a record-breaking $2.8 million l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2025
This is a coffee table book put together by a landlord to promote his property. It's also a history of a 112-year-old Broadway theater with a glamorous and complicated past, written by a Ton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 15, 2025
As Helena Alving in "Ghosts,", Lily Rabe seems to do the exact inverse of what Jessica Chastain did as Nora Helmer in "A Doll's House" two years ago. Chastain sat in a chair for the whole sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2025
Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center mirrors the attack nine decades ago by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the Federal Theater Project in an arresting way: Like the c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2025
Seven plays and 11 musicals are opening on Broadway in March and April, over the final six weeks of the Broadway 2024-2025 season, starting Monday and ending on April 27, the final date of e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Five years ago today, the then-Governor of New York ordered all Broadway theaters closed because of Covid-19, which within days spawned a pioneering era of digital theater.  The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2025
The current Broadway season is about to rev up, with 18 shows scheduled to open in its final six weeks, but next season is already starting to come into focus: Jean Smart ("Hacks") returns t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
This may be my final hourThis may be the dying dayAnd though they never taught me why in school,I think I'm learning how to pray Jonathan Larson wrote this song, entitled "SOS," when he was …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 2, 2025
Anora, about a sex worker in Brooklyn, dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning best picture, best director, best actress, best editor and original screenplay. Wicked, a film adaptation of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12PM[SHARE]The night we learn who wins the Oscars may be a good time to show the results of last month's poll ranking which of the best picture nominees could be best (and worst) adapted as play or mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in March, a month that's bursting with shows: Six on Broadway alone " Denzel and Jake in Othello, Kieran Culkin in a Mamet revival, Â Sarah…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
How well were you paying attention to theater news, views and reviews this month? Answer these ten questions and see Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Cynthia Erivo will serve as host for the first time when the 78th annual Tony Awards is presented at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday June 8, 2025. This will be the 21st time the ceremony has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2025
Their mother is dying, which is the only reason why Arnold (Brian J. Smith) has " reluctantly " picked up the phone to answer a call by his half-brother Jerry (Paul Starks.) It's been many y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 22, 2025
How DO Jake and Alice live? The answer is: lyrically. That, anyway, is how playwright Len Jenkin presents their lives in three extended scenes in his awkwardly titled play " as spikey adoles…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2025
"Anywhere" is an hour-long puppet piece that features a marionette who is made of ice, slowly melts, then turns to mist, and finally disappears completely. It mystified me. There are several…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2025
Peter Garside calls himself a demagogue, freely admits he's in politics to make money, and says "the public likes to be fooled."Â Â It's a corrupt attitude that, despite his good looks a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
 The producers of "All in: Comedy about Love," one of the three shows that ended their Broadway runs last weekend, have announced "All Out: Comedy About Life" for next season (venue and c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2025
Donald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts " which he told reporters he had never visited " on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, who wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2025
When Jeffrey Seller was 18 years old and frustrated at his new job as the drama director at a summer camp for kids, somebody handed him a copy of Moss Hart's 1959 memoir "Act One," touting i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
Nightly on Broadway nowadays, one title character professes her love to the other title character: "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Idina Menzel returns to Broadway as Jesse, a New York gallery owner who, out of grief for the death of her son, leaves her wife and her life, drives cross country, and winds up spending seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2025
We already know that "Wicked" would make a good Broadway musical because it IS one. But what about the other nine movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar? Which would make the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PM[SHARE]The average Broadway theatergoer is a 42-year-old white woman from out of town whose family income exceeds $275,000. That's one way to summarize The Demographics of the Broadway Audience …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2025
My favorite celebrity commercial during the 2025 Super Bowl weren't selling a product, but promoting an ideal. The others were hawking liquor and condiments.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2025
When Denzel Washington starts performing as Othello later this month on Broadway, he'll be following by exactly two centuries the debut portrayal of "the Moor of Venice" by Ira Aldridge, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PM[SHARE]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, create a scen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 08:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 awakening, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]Tickets 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 09:53AM[SHARE] 
