Monday, November 10, 2025
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani turns out to be polarizing in a way even he didn’t realize: His Broadway favorites. In a post-election interview with CNN, he said he used to belt out �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:10PMSunday, November 9, 2025
“The Queen of Versailles,” Stephen Schwartz’s latest musical, which stars Kristin Chenoweth as the real-life billionaire’s wife Jackie Siegel, comes far closer to Jackie’s favor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMSaturday, November 8, 2025
The casts of the Broadway shows Buena Vista Social Club, Just in Time, and Ragtime will perform at the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27, 2025. The 99th edition of the a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AMFriday, November 7, 2025
Five albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album Grammy Award, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (the fourth consecutive year that only Broadway cast recordin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:32PM,There are puppets in long-running New York shows like “The Lion King” and “The Little Shop of Horrors,” muppets are making their Broadway debut (albeit briefly) in “Rob Lake Magic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PMThursday, November 6, 2025
Before the start of this R&B musical comedy about Barack Obama’s first term as president, Eli Bauman, its creator and director, bustled out on stage to urge us to ignore what’s “ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMWednesday, November 5, 2025
“This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt,” Zohran Mamdan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
New Yorkers are electing our 111th mayor today, which seems a good day to look back at mayors who made it to Broadway. I mean as characters (or caricatures), but at least one actually wrote …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:07PMMonday, November 3, 2025
By the end of “Kyoto,” a play about the effort it took to achieve the first international agreement to address the climate crisis, we come to understand — perhaps too well – that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19PMWith Election Day tomorrow, it was hard to avoid registering the politics in even the most entertaining theater I reviewed this past week. The insistence on body autonomy was a theme in b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47AMSunday, November 2, 2025
Minetta Lane Theater became the home of Audible beginning in 2018 with the mission of turning live theater productions into audiobooks. Their first show was a transfer of the solo play “Ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45AMSaturday, November 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in November, including Tom Hanks starring in a play he co-wrote, Kristin Chenoweth in one of two musicals by Stephen Schwartz, Patrick Page a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PMFriday, October 31, 2025
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater in October? Answer this quiz, with ten questions and a bonus, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PMThursday, October 30, 2025
Laurie Metcalf as Sarah in rubber gloves and Micah Stock as Ethan in a face mask stand in front of a lone couch, making awkward chit-chat until she finally says:“I’m, uh. Sorry about …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47PMWednesday, October 29, 2025
This solo play co-written and starring “Severance” actress Jen Tullock is on one level the story of lesbian author Frances Reinhardt, who has written a new book about her abusive childho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21PMTuesday, October 28, 2025
Playwright Bess Wohl wants us to know about the time before she was born when “women’s lib” was neither pejorative nor ironic. In “Liberation,” her warm, funny play opening tonight…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PM“Jewish Plot” starts as an entertaining resurrection of a (fictitious) 19th century play about antisemitism written by an obscure British playwright, and descends into a kind of mad poe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18PMMonday, October 27, 2025
Americans like to be scared even during scary times; how else to explain Halloween, a deliberately scary theater festival, and “The Phantom of the Opera,” which persists beyond Broadway,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PMSunday, October 26, 2025
The best thing to say about Bedlam’s irreverent, sister-centered riff on “Pride and Prejudice” is that it demonstrates once again the enduring appeal of Jane Austen’s centuries-ol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMSaturday, October 25, 2025
Election Day in New York is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, for mayor of New York and other city-wide and local offices, as well as six ballot proposals. Below is what you need to know in order t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PMFriday, October 24, 2025
A French novel, several silent horror films, a Broadway musical, a site-specific work of immersive theater: It all has led to….Joshua William Gelb’s closet. “Many people have asked why…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PMThursday, October 23, 2025
Saul Rubinek long has wanted to play Shylock, a role that his father, a Yiddish actor and Holocaust survivor, never got a chance to play. But now that he has finally gotten to star in “The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMWednesday, October 22, 2025
The best scene in “Dimension Zero” features icons of New York City: individual slices of pepperoni pizza who dance back into a whole pie, a Greek coffee cup, a yellow cab, a row of sky…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMTuesday, October 21, 2025
“Moonstruck,” John Patrick Shanley’s movie comedy about a fiery Italian American romance, won him (and Cher) an Oscar in 1988, the same year that Shanley’s play “Italian-American R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PMMonday, October 20, 2025
Jordan E. Cooper’s face might not look so happy in “Oh Happy Day!” – or, clockwise, Hugh Panaro’s in “Masquerade,” Nichelle Lewis’s in “Ragtime,” Ari’el Stacher’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AMSunday, October 19, 2025
After Ari’el Stachel won a Tony Award for his charming and hilarious Broadway debut in the role of a sexy Egyptian trumpet player in “The Band’s Visit,” he was made so anxious by all…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:41PMSaturday, October 18, 2025
There will be more than 2,500 peaceful protests throughout the United States — including in each of the five boroughs of New York City – to say in one voice: “The president thinks his …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMFriday, October 17, 2025
Below is a video of the full two hours of the first of two televised general election debates between three candidates for New York City mayor: State Assemblyman and Democratic Party nominee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:14PMThursday, October 16, 2025
The revival of “Ragtime” has taken on more of the epic feel to which it aspires, thanks to its move from an Encores series concert to a full Broadway production on the Vivian Beaumont’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37PMWednesday, October 15, 2025
“Oh Happy Day!” may sound like church: The plot retells the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark; a divinely-dressed trio called the Divines belt out original gospel songs; we hear theolo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PMTuesday, October 14, 2025
Midway through “Masquerade,” the Phantom of the Opera himself suddenly grabbed hold of me, his touch light and electric, and pushed me aside. The masked musician and magician had crept u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PM 
