Monday, April 21, 2025
Amid the busiest time for openings on Broadway and beyond, there is also news of an abrupt closing, a teased re-opening, and a promising summer theater season mostly outdoors and much of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMSaturday, April 19, 2025
“Rheology” begins with a physicist delivering a lecture about sand, with a blackboard full of equations, and equipment (hourglass, sandbox, projections) to illustrate her points. This …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PMFriday, April 18, 2025
Deaf Broadway’s version of “Waitress.” A new show by Suzan-Lori Parks. A 4,000-year-old epic play. Shakespeare on immigration. Monteverdi on race relations. Opera singer Anthony Roth …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Given all the recent announcements of shattered Broadway box office records — which means more theatergoers are paying higher ticket prices than ever before for Broadway shows — below is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
Deirdre O’Connell as Dot keeps an imp in a corked old wine bottle, expecting it to work magic – to grant Dot’s wishes, as long as what she asks for is not too selfish. It’s true t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
Azhar Bande-Ali was in a plane that had a mechanical problem that prevented it from landing, which provoked a spiritual problem; he worried that the plane would crash, and he would die. So…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PMMonday, April 14, 2025
The first word in this play is “sex.” Mr. Smith says it to his teenage students, asking for its definition, which the class then recites in unison, reading aloud from their textbooks. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07PMFemale characters and performers dominated the shows that opened this past week on Broadway, which the previous week had been dominated by shows featuring male characters and performers. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMSunday, April 13, 2025
“Urinetown” co-creator Greg Kotis takes us to another future dystopian society in this small, cheeky musical that’s part of the New York City Fringe Festival. With a banjo-driven bl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
The president of the United States puts a fifty percent tariff on all imported cheese, which leads to war…with Switzerland. That’s the premise of “Strike Up the Band,” the first of a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AMFriday, April 11, 2025
Broadway is luring the star-struck to pay big bucks in this final stretch of the season, leading Janice Simpson of Broadway & Me to ask “whether all the hoopla and moola are worth it.�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMThursday, April 10, 2025
“Smash” offered viewers the rare thrill of original musical numbers written by a Tony-winning songwriting team expressly for network television, and simultaneously gave Tweeters a targe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25PMWednesday, April 9, 2025
There is a moment of mystery near the end of “Public Obscenities,” which was a finalist last year for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama: Choton, the queer Bengali American PhD student from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:07PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
In this sixth Sondheim show on Broadway since his death in 2021, a cast of 19 including Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga perform 40 songs selected from 14 shows for which Stephen Sondheim w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PMMonday, April 7, 2025
If “Boop!” were a store rather than a Broadway musical, it would be a factory outlet, and the pile-on of merchandise on display would all be refurbished from parts of old shows – th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMMale characters of various stripes – clockwise from top left, valiant, vain, and vile – dominated the Broadway shows that opened over the past week: “Good Night, and Good Luck,�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AMSunday, April 6, 2025
Two decades after it was first produced, I was finally won over to Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical inspired by the unraveling of his first marriage. This was in 2021 during the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50PMSaturday, April 5, 2025
Opening night doesn’t mean what it used to mean. It suddenly has come to mean even less than it did three years ago, when I first wrote that it had become nearly meaningless. The changes h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMFriday, April 4, 2025
Jeffrey Richards has produced playwright David Mamet’s plays ten times on Broadway over the past twenty years, including the revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross” that is currently running …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:40PMThursday, April 3, 2025
Where is our Edward R. Murrow? That is the implicit question that animates George Clooney’s play, opened tonight on Broadway in an elegant, meticulous and timely production directed by Dav…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Drag: The Musical, Our Class, and Three Houses received the most nominations for the 40th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in April, including twelve shows on Broadway, half of which are adapted from (or inspired by) works of art or entertainment in other media — two mov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40AMMonday, March 31, 2025
Thirteen shows will open on Broadway in the four weeks until the Broadway 2024-2025 officially ends; by then New York theater award season will be well underway: New York Theater Awards Cale…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMSunday, March 30, 2025
How well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in March? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMSaturday, March 29, 2025
Sandy was not the first dog on a New York stage. Even Bill Berloni concedes that. He trained Sandy for “Annie” back in 1977, and, this season, Tana June for “Gypsy” (along with her u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMFriday, March 28, 2025
Is that Sarah Paulson in pajamas brushing her teeth? She is in her dressing room at the Belasco, during the run of the play “Appropriate” — one of some one hundred black-and-white phot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMThursday, March 27, 2025
Sarah Snook portrays some 25 characters as well as the narrator in this dazzling and sometimes dizzying stage-and-video adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel, but at the curtain call, she is f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMToday is World Theatre Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, even when the lovely enveloping darkness in a theater feels no match for the ugly encroaching darkness o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMWednesday, March 26, 2025
Below is a calendar of dates from April to June in 2025 when nominations and awards are announced, and ceremonies take place, for the major New York theater awards (and a few others), follow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
In honor of Women’s History Month, here are the 20 women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished play by an American author…de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AMMonday, March 24, 2025
Good theater can heal, as proven by the daily dose of theater openings last week – four shows on Broadway, several Off Broadway and beyond – many of them restorative. Ok, some were not. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AM 
