Thursday, May 30, 2024
"Dead Outlaw" won Best New Musical and "Oh, Mary!" Best New Play among the six competitive categories of the 13th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The ceremony will take place June 18th …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2024
The outdoor bilingual musical adaptation of Shakespeare's shortest play has returned, just as festive and comically confusing as it was last summer, but now the main attraction of Free Shake…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The Palace will reopen tonight after six years for the first of what are now 19 shows scheduled so far for the Broadway 2024-2025 season, with a concert by Ben Platt promoting his new …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2024
"I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here, beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 26, 2024
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 77th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best " plus a poll question about which new category (if any) the Ton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 25, 2024
Below is a manageable list of 13 theater books " recently published or soon to be" that look to be good summer reads: six memoirs or biographies, four books of history, recent scripts of thr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2024
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 73rd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2024
The state of theater blogging is arguably a bit like the state of theater in general. It's more persistent, and resilient, than the pessimists might proclaim.   Chris Peterson this …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Below are the 12 most popular new posts in each of the 12 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me, on May 23, 2012, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers' evolving enthusi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2024
"The Fires" brings us simultaneously into the lives and loves of three Black gay men occupying the same railroad apartment in South Brooklyn, but decades apart "Â Â Jay (Phillip James Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2024
Below is the complete list of 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented tonight at the NYU Skirball Center, Check out nominatio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PM[SHARE]I gained a whole new understanding of "The Three Little Piggies" at the end of Dave Malloy's latest sing-through musical theater piece, which has a lively score and a gifted cast, but largel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02PM[SHARE]While the awards for the season just ended are still rolling out, the 2024-2025 season on Broadway and beyond is already full of news of new shows and new stars, Broadway debuts and Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2024
Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2024-2025 season. Robert Downey Jr, George Clooney, and Cole Escola are set to make their Broadway debuts, in new plays by Ayad Akhtar, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 18, 2024
"Do you want to play a game? " Lucy (Madison Ferris) asks Alfonso as soon as she spots him, without even so much as a hello. "It'll be fun, trust me." "A stranger who says I should tru…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2024
Click here for the list of 2024 Drama League Award nominees, from which the awardees were chosen. Don't know the difference between the awards of the Drama League and the Drama Desk and the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2024
"Stereophonic," just released an original cast recording with a 14-song tracklist (listen below), which is not unusual for a Broadway musical, but not common for a Broadway play, which is ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Leslie Odom in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical "Purlie Victorious," Sutton Foster in "Anything Goes," and a London concert by Audra McDonald are among the acclaimed theatrical performanc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Near the start of "An American Soldier," Danny Chen (Brian Vu) stumbles distraught through the crowd gathered in a military courtroom. For much of my life, I felt invisibleDo you know wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PM[SHARE] Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2023-2024 theatrical season, as well as three…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2024
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named David Adjmi's Stereophonic best play of the 2023-24 season. The award for best musical went to Dead Outlaw, music and lyrics by David Ya…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PM[SHARE]Â A slew of honors for Broadway mainstays were announced this past week, as well as the Outer Critics Circle Awards this morning (see News below.)Â Meanwhile, new theater is still happe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:14AM[SHARE]"Stereophonic"won outstanding new Broadway play and three other awards, "Suffs" outstanding new Broadway musical and two other awards at the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. Dead Out…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2024
Mothers took center stage in the Broadway season just ended, getting star treatment for characters who range from vile to virtuous. Today, on Mothers Day, Jessica Lange in the title role of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 11, 2024
At first, "Shimmer and Herringbone," the third and final absurdist play in the avant-garde theater company Talking Band's fiftieth anniversary season, promises to be a series of random riffs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2024
 "Scarlett Dreams" is a play that imagines a near-future dominated by Artificial Intelligence, so I asked ChatGPT how it would review the play. It instantly produced a 303-word review, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2024
"Exagoge," inspired by the oldest known Jewish play, is a wildly ambitious, complicated but largely accessible new work of immersive theater: a play, opera, and Passover seder all in one " a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:34PM[SHARE]Below are the nominations for the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The awards will be announced May 30th, and the ceremony will take place June 18th, at Sardi's. The Alliance has al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The children's book author Dare Wright is billed as the inspiration for this unusual theater piece, although her name is never mentioned on stage. Actually, nothing is mentioned on stage. "S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2024
"Here There Are Blueberries" turns the real-life discovery of an ordinary-looking photo album into a riveting detective story, with the characters gathering clues to unravel a series of myst…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:11PM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2024
Eboni Booth's "Primary Trust" has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich
's "Here There Are Blueberries" and Shayok Misha Chowdhury's "Public Obscen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PM[SHARE] 
