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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

The 11 Tony winners of 2023 you can still see — 4 of them, be quick! by Jonathan Mandell

You saw the musical numbers on the Tonys Sunday and thought: That looks great, maybe I should get a ticket. But what of the straight plays that (as usual) didn’t get showcased? That’s wh…

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Monday, June 12, 2023

The Tonys and Trauma. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

The 76th annual Tony Awards, which crowned Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt as best play and Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori as best musical (complete list of winner…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PM

Watch the Tony Award 2023 musical numbers by Jonathan Mandell

Below are videos of the thirteen musical numbers presented at the 76th annual Tony Awards Opening number Best musical: Kimberly Akimbo Best musical revival Parade Best musical nominees &…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:17AM
Sunday, June 11, 2023

2023 Tony Award winners by Jonathan Mandell

The 76th annual Tony Award winners (with a check mark ✔️): (Here’s a guide to the full 2022-2023 Broadway season, including those not nominated)(Here is the list of the nominees I (and…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PM

Tony Night Cheat Sheet: How to Watch the 2023 Tony Awards, and Why by Jonathan Mandell

How to watchThe 76th annual Tony Awards will be presented tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, live in person at the United Palace in Washington Heights, and simultaneously broadcast and/or…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PM
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Watch Jodie Comer, Jessica Chastain and the Mandy Patinkin Show at the 2023 Drama Desk Awards by Jonathan Mandell

“You’re all very in touch with your emotions here,” the very British Jonathan Sayer said wryly after listening to some of the acceptance speeches at the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards a…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AM
Friday, June 9, 2023

2023 Tony Awards: Who SHOULD Win, and Why by Jonathan Mandell

Below are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2023 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I’ve been maintaining for more than a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Brian Stokes Mitchell to Theatre World Award: Make them hear you! by Jonathan Mandell

“We are not professional liars; we are professional pretenders,” Brian Stokes Mitchell  began what was supposed to be  an acceptance speech for his John Willis Award for Lifetime Ach…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

The Shylock and the Shakespeareans Review by Jonathan Mandell

Is “The Merchant of Venice” antisemitic? Was Shakespeare?  “The Shylock and the Shakespeareans,” playwright and director Edward Einhorn’s retelling of the Bard’s long-controver…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PM
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Wet Brain Review. A family dysfunctional, and also extraterrestrial? by Jonathan Mandell

Joe’s three messed-up adult children long have known Joe to be an alcoholic, an addict and a horrid father. But they didn’t realize he was an alien from Outer Space. They learn this – …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52PM
Monday, June 5, 2023

The Comeuppance Review: Death at a high school reunion by Jonathan Mandell

“The Comeuppance” both begins and ends with Death.  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ dark, smart play features Death as a character, hanging out with five former classmates during the night o…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55PM

Countdown to the Tony Awards! #Stageworthy News of the Week. by Jonathan Mandell

The new Broadway season has already begun with the opening of “Grey House,” a new month of theater openings is already underway, but for one more week, attention will be on last season �…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AM
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Grey House Review. Can Horror work on stage? by Jonathan Mandell

The set-up is straight out of a standard-issue  horror movie:  A couple who’ve been in a car crash on an isolated mountain top during a blizzard seek shelter, and help, in a creaking o…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26PM
Saturday, June 3, 2023

2023 Tony Award Winners — YOUR Pick? by Jonathan Mandell

Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 76th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 11th at United Palace i…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AM
Friday, June 2, 2023

Under the Radar Festival: In Memoriam by Jonathan Mandell

Under the Radar, the oldest theater festival in New York City, is no more. Over its eighteen years, the festival, run by the Public Theater, presented cutting-edge theater by more than 200 c…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PM
Thursday, June 1, 2023

June 2023 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar and featuring two Broadway shows (one a comic solo play about antisemitism, the other a Britne…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PM
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Off Broadway Alliance Award Winners: Fat Ham, Titanique by Jonathan Mandell

Fat Ham won best new play and Titanique best new musical at the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. Winners will be feted June 20th, at Sardi’s. (List of this years Off Broadway Alli…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PM

2023 Drama Desk Award Winners: Some Like It Hot, Leopoldstadt, Life of Pi by Jonathan Mandell

Some Like It Hot won Outstanding Musical and seven other awards, Leopoldstadt won Outstanding Play at  67th Annual Drama Desk Awards, announced this morning. The Piano Lesson and Parade won…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM

The Tony Awards Quiz of 2023 by Jonathan Mandell

Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, about the nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards. Tough times call for a tough quiz. Loading…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46AM
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Diva Divulgence. What Broadway Could Be. More Ham4Ham. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

“Let’s celebrate I’m here. Let’s celebrate I’m anywhere these days,” the 95-year-old cabaret singer Marilyn Maye said over the weekend while singing Broadway standards at 54 Belo…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM
Monday, May 29, 2023

Why Memorial Day by Jonathan Mandell

“Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors,” Frederick Douglass said at the monument to the unknown dead of the Civi…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Musical Theatre for Dummies by Jonathan Mandell

The “For Dummies” book series began thirty years ago by offering step-by-step practical and unintimidating guides to computer programming geared to intimidated novices. The first title, …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03PM
Friday, May 26, 2023

Watch Sean Hayes, Jodie Comer, Lindsay Mendez et al accept their OCC awards by Jonathan Mandell

Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 72nd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don’t k…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Primary Trust Review: William Jackson Harper as small town lovable loner by Jonathan Mandell

You might think of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” at the outset of “Primary Trust,”  when a genial William Jackson Harper as Kenneth describes for us his quaint (fictional) hometow…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PM
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Theater Blog Roundup: AI and Theater? Award Season! Sondheim!! by Jonathan Mandell

Deep dives into specific Sondheim shows bookend the theater blog roundup below, which also features an old radio broadcast and a comparison of Huck Finn to Hamlet. Much here attests to theat…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

King James Review. LeBron brings these bros together by Jonathan Mandell

“I’m tired of sports. It’s a sickness,” Shawn says to Matt in the middle of “King James,” Rajiv Joseph’s sweetly innocuous comedy about two lifelong fans of the Cleveland Caval…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PM
Monday, May 22, 2023

2023 Chita Rivera Award Winners: A Beautiful Noise, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, New York, New York by Jonathan Mandell

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 10:56PM

Monsoon Wedding Musical Review. Loves, India Style. by Jonathan Mandell

The swirl of colorful saris and blast of Vishal Bhardwaj’s pulsating Indian music enlivens this stage adaptation of Mira Nair’s acclaimed 2001 movie, offering a confusion of characters w…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PM

Tony Awards 2023: Full of suspense. #Ham4Ham Celebrates All of Broadway. #Stageworthy News by Jonathan Mandell

Some things are certain: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Succession” are ending (May 25th and May 28th) and the 76th annual Tony Awards is being broadcast (June 11th) What the regul…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18PM
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Top 11 Posts in 11 Years of NewYorkTheater.me by Jonathan Mandell

Below are eleven popular posts over the eleven years since I began NewYorkTheater.me, in May 2012. All of these posts, ranked in order of popularity, are still getting traffic. (I have omitt…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PM
Friday, May 19, 2023

2023 Drama League Awards: Leopoldstadt, Some Like It Hot, Annaleigh Ashford by Jonathan Mandell

“Leopoldstadt” was voted outstanding play and “Some Like It Hot” outstanding musical at the 89th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom.  An…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:44PM

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