Tuesday, May 3, 2022
How well were you paying attention to the Broadway shows that opened in April 2022, the last month of the unusual 2021-2022 Broadway season? Take this ten-question quiz to find out. Loading�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AMMonday, May 2, 2022
The Broadway 2021-2022 season ended last week with five shows opening in a row (two on the same day!), a taxing finish to a both trying and triumphant return to live, in-person theater. And …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:37AMSunday, May 1, 2022
“English” won outstanding play, “Kimberly Akimbo” won outstanding musical, as well as outstanding performer and featured performer in a musical, and “Twilight Los Angeles 1992” w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PMBelow is a day-by-day calendar of a selection of shows opening in May, a month that gives Off-Broadway and indie theater their time in the sun after the end of the 2020-2021 Broadway season.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:28PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Shakespeare didn’t write the very beginning and the very end of this generally wan and inscrutable production of “Macbeth,” starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. The aggressively inven…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMThursday, April 28, 2022
In “POTUS,” seven female characters save the president of the United States from himself during a series of scandals and crises on a single day in the White House – at the same time…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
In “Mr. Saturday Night,” opening on Broadway tonight, Billy Crystal stars as a very funny comedian who decades ago self-sabotaged, and is now trying to make a comeback. The show itsel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
“A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s “Big, Black and Queer-Ass American Broadway Show,” as the characters in the musical itself repeatedly call it, has changed since I saw it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06PM“The Lehman Trilogy,” “Harmony” and “Kimberly Akimbo received the most nominations in the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMMonday, April 25, 2022
A startling moment occurs near the beginning of Lincoln Center’s wonderfully over-the-top production of “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Thornton Wilder’s weird play about a modern-day Am…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PMBelow are the nominations for the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced this morning by Denée Benton and André De Shields. The awards ceremony, open to the public, will b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMThe Tony Award nominations will be announced May 9th (changed from May 3rd), as the eligibility cut off has been changed to May 4th (it was April 28th) to give the nominators the chance to s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14AMSunday, April 24, 2022
“Funny Girl,” a revival of which opened tonight on Broadway, is supposed to be a musical about Fanny Brice, the singing comedienne who was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PMFriday, April 22, 2022
Earth Day is officially April 22nd, but it’s being celebrated on Broadway, Saturday April 23rd, when the 30 blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:01PMThursday, April 21, 2022
“Hangmen,” Martin McDonagh’s black comedy about an ex-executioner, which opens tonight on Broadway, had a run Off-Broadway four years ago with the same director and the same design tea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
It’s taken more than 45 years for Ntozake Shange’s theatrical evening of narrative and lyrical poetry, dance, and song to return to Broadway’s Booth Theater….and for me finally to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14PMTuesday, April 19, 2022
This is a play about child abuse. Strip away the humor, the artful metaphors, the theatrical craftsmanship and the empathy, and “How I Learned to Drive” is the story of a pedophile, alco…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMMonday, April 18, 2022
Broadway theaters will no longer be required to check vaccination status of theatergoers after April 30th, but they will require theatergoers to continue to wear masks past at least until Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AMSunday, April 17, 2022
“Democracy’s messy,” the mayor, portrayed by Tracy Letts, says to the newest member of the Big Cherry City Council, Mr. Peel (Noah Reid.) But messy is too mild a word for the goings-on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11PMFriday, April 15, 2022
Below are the various discounts offered by the shows that have opened or are about to open (or reopen) on Broadway in Spring 2022, listed alphabetically. These are the official ways to get t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMThursday, April 14, 2022
In this third Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” which feels like at least one revival too many, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Criss portray three low…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PMWednesday, April 13, 2022
The Comedian Harmonists, the singing group whose story is told in “Harmony,” Barry Manilow’s long-gestating musical, were as popular as the Beatles in their time and place. But their t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:35PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
What’s most cringeworthy about “To My Girls” is not that, in an era of “they/them,” the group of gay men in their late 30s who meet for a weekend in Palm Springs are all “She nee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMMonday, April 11, 2022
“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” a fox tells the little prince. “It’s only visible to the heart.” The line is from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved 1943 novella, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41PMPositive COVID-19 tests caused the cancellation last week of four Broadway shows, two of them still in previews, presenting a test of the enthusiasm for the April line-up (celebrated by the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMSunday, April 10, 2022
In “Birthday Candles,” opening on Broadway tonight, Debra Messing portrays Ernestine, a woman who we see celebrating her birthdays from age 17 to age 107 by baking a cake. She do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38PMSaturday, April 9, 2022
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2022 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies — which (like most everything in the last two yea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AMFriday, April 8, 2022
Theater critics and theatergoers don’t like the same shows, Jan Simpson says in a post in “Broadway & Me,” as explained (and linked) below. What about theater bloggers? Yes, there …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55AMThursday, April 7, 2022
Below are the nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Oratorio for Living Things” have the most nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
People thought Mickey Rowe was a weird kid. By the time that weirdness was officially deemed a disability and given a diagnosis, he was a senior in college and had already begun working as a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMMonday, April 4, 2022
In this first Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg’s 2003 Tony-winning comedy, which is a gay man’s love letter to baseball, Jesse Williams portrays Darren Lemming, a star player who is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PM 
