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 12:12PMMy 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 11:54PMWhen 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 Aldridg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PMSamantha 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 10:03PMThey 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 08:24PMIn “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 09:53AMIn “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 10:08PM“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 11:50AMHells 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 07:16PMThe 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 10:30AM“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 09:07PMSadie 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 03:51PMSome 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 01:18PMRFK 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 06:19PMNot 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 09:49AMThis 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 08:42PMHagar 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 06:22PM“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 05:54PMWhen 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 08:42AMThe 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 11:53PMThose 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 09:40AMDr. 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 09:46AMThis 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 07:09PMYoko 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 12:27PMBoth 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 06:43PMThis 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 04:41PMWhy 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…
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