
Both Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri are making their Broadway debuts in this first Broadway revival of David Auburn’s play about a family of mathematicians — the father a genius who became …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMAdrien Brody in his Broadway debut tells the true story of a man who spent more than two decades on Death Row for a murder he did not commit. Lindsey Ferrentino’s play is also the story of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56PMWhat does it say about us that every night on Broadway, theatergoers now gather to laugh at two terrible American tragedies, both of which occurred on April 14. John Wilkes Booth assassinate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01AMThe four shows that opened on Broadway this past week were already familiar to New York theatergoers. Two are revivals; the other two ran Off Broadway. Is this familiarity evidence of produc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AMThis silly, campy show, a mashup of Céline Dion songs with a jokey replay of the movie “Titanic,” has moved to Broadway, virtually unchanged from the anything-for-a-laugh entertainment …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMSean Hayes’ final performances in ‘The Unknown” on stage this weekend are also available on screen, via The League of Live Stream Theater. The play is one of several recent or current…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AMI happen to know the best writer in the world – Tony Kushner,” Jean Smart as Deborah Vance says in the first episode of the final season of “Hacks.” Her plan for a comeback is to win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01AMThis sixth Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s towering play is undeniably a Prestige Production, but it’s one that strains for effect, from the casting of Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PMWhen Arthur Miller died in 2005 at the age of 89, as Charles Bigsby tells us on the last page of his latest Miller book, it was on the anniversary of the opening night of the first Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PMThere are solid reasons to celebrate the arrival on Broadway of this striking production, which recasts Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical as a Ballroom competition, with a cast of fabulously …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMLast night, the crew of NASA’s Artemis II traveled to the far side of the moon, 252,756 miles from Earth, the furthest any human beings have ever been from our home planet. From NASA: “I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AMThe audience gasped almost as frequently as it laughed during the performance I attended of “Becky Shaw,” Gina Gionfriddo’s fierce, funny comedy that revolves around a bad blind date. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54PMIt’s raining dogs and cats on Broadway, with the opening last week of the play adaptation of “Dog Day Afternoon,” and this week of the voguing version of the musical “Cats” – the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14AMStreaming now for free on PBS, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” tells the story of two Jewish cousins in 1939 who together invent a comic book superhero called the Escapis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PMAlexander Molochnikov had already turned “The Seagull” into a ballet for the Bolshoi, and planned to turn Chekhov’s play into an avant-garde spectacle for the Moscow Art Theater. Then…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PMBelow are the discounted ticket offers from the shows opening on Broadway in April –mostly through digital lottery, digital rush, and/or in person rush. All but one of the shows charge und…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMFive former theater artists meet clandestinely in a dystopian totalitarian society in the near future where “The Leader” has banned all art, and even banned the words that describe what …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PMBelow is a day-by-day calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including thirteen shows on Broadway, six musicals and seven plays, bursting with stars, many making their…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:10PMMexodus and Prince Faggot received the most nominations for the 41st annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented at the annual ceremony…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:31PMHow well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of March? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a bonus question. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PMWhy have Warner Bros. with 42 other producers financed a new Broadway play about a botched, two-bit bank robbery in Brooklyn half a century ago? The answer is obvious to me: It’s the st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMThe high ticket prices on Broadway are an annual and perennial outrage, but maybe more galling as the season wraps up. The hottest ticket on Broadway last week sold for $975. The hottest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AMThree sailors are on 24-hour shore leave in New York City before being shipped off to war. No, this is not a simple spoof of the 1944 musical “On The Town.” The initial premise is a fe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PMJaime Cruz, one of the eight cast members with Down syndrome who star in this “Hamlet,” mimics the posture of Laurence Olivier behind him, who leans against a rock reciting the “To …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:09PMMore than 3,000 “No Kings” peaceful protests are scheduled today across the United States, including more than two dozen in New York City — most prominently at 7th Avenue and Central P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AM“Our challenge as theater makers,” Willem Dafoe says in the official 2026 World Theatre Day message in the video below, “is to avoid the corruption of theater solely as a commercial en…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AMDigital theater was not just something that happened during the explosion of online innovation during the COVID-19 lockdown. To Magda Romanska, it’s a human right — a means of providing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PMAs the 2025-2026 New York theater season enters its final laps, the theater award season is revving up. Below is a calendar of dates from April to June in 2026 when nominations and awards ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13PMBelow is a brief description of all of the 75 (!) shows in the New York City Fringe Festival, which this year is being presented from April 1 to April 19 in five venues. Unlike Broadway, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMI can see three main reasons why some theatergoers might want to sympathize with the antisemite at the center of the incendiary true incident being dramatized in “Giant.” The man, for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PMAs the Broadway season begins its five final (and busiest) weeks, it’s bracing to learn that live events are booming nationally – all except theater. People “are spending real money…
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