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Monday, May 12, 2025

2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards: Maybe Happy Ending, John Proctor by Jonathan Mandell

  “John Proctor is the Villain” was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and “Maybe Happy Ending” was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and three other awards at the 75th annu…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AM
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Floyd Collins Broadway Review. Jeremy Jordan, trapped. by Jonathan Mandell

Near the beginning of “Floyd Collins,” a sonically spellbinding musical inspired by a bleak and bizarre true story, Jeremy Jordan as the title character yodels into the darkness – and …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PM
Saturday, May 10, 2025

The Popess Review by Jonathan Mandell

A day after the election of the first American pope, the first female pope led us in a hymn in Latin – shortly before a hooded Inquisitor ordered her burned to death. What’s most arresti…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PM
Friday, May 9, 2025

Mothers on Broadway 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

Mothers once again took to the stage on Broadway in the season just ended , in not always flattering but always knowing depictions. On Mothers Day this Sunday, Audra McDonald will try to bro…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PM
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes Review. Hugh Jackman launches his company by Jonathan Mandell

A sexual affair between Hugh Jackman as a married middle aged professor and Ella Beatty as his 19-year-old student? On its surface, “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” tells a fami…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM

Off Broadway Alliance Awards 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

Below are the nominations for the five competitive categories in the 14th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The winners will be announced June 2. The Alliance has also announced special a…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

The Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center: 8 million and 8 reasons to be grateful. by Jonathan Mandell

On its sixtieth anniversary, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center is being given a Tony Award.  In announcing the 2025 Tony Honors for Excellence in the …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PM
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Broadway at the Met Gala by Jonathan Mandell

Among the hundreds of clotheshorses at the Met Gala last night were some theater artists — a Tony-winning producer, several playwrights, including a newly-minted Pulitzer winner, but mostl…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM
Monday, May 5, 2025

2025 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards: Purpose, Maybe Happy Ending, Andrew Scott, David Greenspan by Jonathan Mandell

 “Purpose,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama earlier today, has now been selected as the best play of the 2024-2025 season by The New York Drama Critics’ Circle, which also awar…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PM

Purpose Awarded 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Oh, Mary, The Ally Finalists by Jonathan Mandell

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary” and Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” were selected as finalists. New York Mag…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM

Theater World Awards 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

 Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2024-2025 theatrical season, as well as three speci…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AM

Theater Awards up the Wazoo. The Arts Under Attack. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

The Tony nominations got most of the attention, with the customary “stars, snubs and surprises” analyses, but the nominations for three other awards were also announced within a week, th…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AM
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Lucille Lortel Awards 2025: Our Class by Jonathan Mandell

“Our Class,” Arlekin Players Theater’s play inspired by true events surrounding a 1941 pogrom by former classmates in a small Polish village, won outstanding revival, director, scenic …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PM

The United States vs. Ulysses Review by Jonathan Mandell

The 1933 trial that ended the US ban against James Joyce’s “Ulysses” for obscenity is viewed as a significant victory for free expression,  almost as much of a landmark in legal circ…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:48PM
Saturday, May 3, 2025

Theater Award Consensus Stars by Jonathan Mandell

Jonathan Groff and Jasmine Amy Rogers were nominated for all four theater awards that were announced over the past week, he for portraying Bobby Darin in “Just in Time,” she for the titl…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PM
Friday, May 2, 2025

May 2025 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, including some starry plays Off-Broadway (Hugh Jackman as a leering professor, Amber Iman as a goddess, Liev Schreiber as a homewrecker) as we…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:43PM
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Honoring 10 Tony Award Not-Nominees by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a list of theater artists who deserved a Tony nomination but did not get one. This is not a compilation of “snubs.” The busy Broadway 2024-2025 season was crowded with talent; t…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PM

2025 Tony Award Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

Below are the nominations for the 78th Tony Awards, which were announced this morning by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. The winners will be presented at Radio City Music Hall with host …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Drama Desk Award Nominations 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

“Boop” leads with 11 nominations at the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards announcement by Norm Lewis this afternoon, followed by “Just in Time” and “Maybe Happy Ending” with nine eac…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Chita Rivera Award Nominations 2025: Buena Vista Social Club gets lots of love. Jonathan Groff a nominee. by Jonathan Mandell

Below is the complete list of the nominations announced for 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies. The awards will be presented  on May 19 at 7:…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PM

Broadway Season Closer Quiz 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to the 2024-2025 Broadway season, and the final dozen plays and musicals that opened in April by the Tony deadline? Can you identify lines of dialogue and …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AM
Monday, April 28, 2025

Broadway Finale! Tony Anticipation. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Over this past week Broadway has been awash in crooners and corpses, monsters and marauders, immigrants and miners, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2024-2025 season had their opening …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Real Women Have Curves Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

This musical about mostly undocumented immigrants in a L.A. dress factory has heart, something in short supply these days, especially when it comes to immigrants. It also features bellies. I…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05PM

Dead Outlaw Opens on Broadway by Jonathan Mandell

“Dead Outlaw,” a darkly comic musical that tells the ghoulish true tale about a corpse from the Old West, has been resurrected, opening tonight on Broadway, with the same cast and creati…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Just in Time Broadway Review. Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin. by Jonathan Mandell

There is a Sinatra vibe that Jonathan Groff nails from the start, when, in shiny tux and tie, he works his way around the café tables of Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater,  redesi…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59PM

Stranger Things: The First Shadow Broadway Review. Horror (Season 4, Ep 7) on Stage. by Jonathan Mandell

In the lobby gift shop of the Marquis, where Netflix’s Broadway version of “Stranger Things” has opened, there is a Demogorgon plushie for sale for thirty dollars. It’s not called a …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PM
Friday, April 25, 2025

Outer Critics Circle Award 2025 Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

“Death Becomes Her” leads the nominations at the 75th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning by Oh, Mary! stars Cole Escola and Conrad Ricamora at the Museum of …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Pirates! The Penzance Musical Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

“Pirates!,” which opens tonight on Broadway, is billed as a reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 146-year-old comic operetta. But luckily there is plenty it shares with the twenty-six…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Hold Me In The Water Review by Jonathan Mandell

Before launching into the funny, sweet, sad, slight, sometimes sexually graphic story of his first love, the author and performer of this one-man show introduces himself in telling and trade…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PM

Happy Birthday William Shakespeare. Broadway loves you by Jonathan Mandell

William Shakespeare is said to have been born on this day in 1564. It wasn’t until 1750 that there is any record of one of his plays being produced in New York — “King Richard III” �…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Drama League Award 2025 Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

Below are the nominations for the 91st annual Drama League Awards announced this morning by Sarah Hyland and Orville Peck at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Ce…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre