“Schmigadoon!” is continuing its winning streak, receiving the Dorian Theater Awards’ Outstanding Broadway Musical. “Prince Faggot” dominated the Off-Broadway categories. Joshua He…
The first show of the new Broadway season revolves around a rotating cast of celebrities roasting a rotating series of celebrity memoirs, provoking anew a perennial question: Is the relian…
The distinctive theatrical duo who call themselves Xhloe and Natasha are bringing the rodeo to Hell’s Kitchen, in full clown makeup and as full-on Theater of the Absurd. “And Then The…
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, in this quiz about the nominees for the 2026 Tony Awards. Loading…
“Celebrity Autobiography,” a revue in which performers make fun of celebrities by reading from their cringe-worthy memoirs, made me laugh when I first saw it more than a decade ago at t…
Theater punditry explodes between Tony nominations and Tony broadcast, sometimes in startlingly unconventional ways — not just a historical/statistical approach (More Tony Talk: The Record…
“Mexodus” was chosen best musical and “Masquerade” best unique theatrical experience among the five competitive categories at the 15th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, announced …
“Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody” is of course exploiting the popularity of the TV series about two rival hockey players who over six episodes late last year had hot, s…
Memorial Day is both the unofficial start of summer and the federal holiday honoring the 1.1 million Americans who died fighting in U.S. wars; always a jarring dichotomy. But the closing of …
Below is a manageable selection of recently published or forthcoming theater books that look to be good summer reads: Four memoirs or biographies, two books of history or criticism, four fir…
Below are the 14 most-read posts over the 14 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me on May 23, 2012, as well as a separate list of the 14 most popular posts in the 14th year of the site, w…
Judging from their acceptance speeches, excerpted below, this season’s award-winning theater artists, AND the plays and musicals in which they’re involved, have been focused on finding a…
The musical “Hadestown” is brought to the screen with the original Broadway cast, followed by a live concert. Broadway songwriters Sara Bareilles and Alicia Keys are each profiled. There…
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 79th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best — plus two poll questions about the future of the Tonys: which c…
Heather Christian is both everywhere and nowhere to be found in this revival of her “Animal Wisdom,” which she first performed nine years ago, and which she still struggles to define. He…
“Schmigadoon,” the Broadway musical adaptation of a TV series that affectionately parodies Broadway musicals from the Golden Age, won outstanding choreography, outstanding ensemble and t…
The theater version of EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) is DOLT (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel and Tony), host Marla Mindelle joked at the start of the 70th annual Drama Desk …
The 70th annual Drama Desk Award winners, announced as they unfold at Town Hall, with host Marla Mindelle, honoring achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway an…
A dozen photographs at the Meet the Tony Nominees annual event of nominees meeting one another: Carrie Coon with Susannah Flood, Joshua Henry with Sam Tutty, Nathan Lane with John Lithgow, C…
Liberation was awarded outstanding play, and Mexidus outstanding musical at the 92nd annual Drama League Awards, today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Death of A Salesman and Ragtime were also sho…
Take the poll below to choose your favorite Broadway Showstopper of the Broadway 2025-2026 season. This is a category created for the Dorian Theater Awards, which just announced the nominati…
Below is a list of the nominations for the fourth annual Dorian Theater Awards, which reads like a countdown: Schmigadoon has received nine nominations, The Lost Boys eight, The Rocky Horror…
Below are the nominations for the five competitive categories in the 15th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The winners will be announced on May 27th, with a ceremony held at Sardi’s on…
Bess Wohl’s ““Liberation” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The new musicals “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” each received 12 of the nominations for the 79th Tony Award…
“The Balusters” was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and “Schmigadoon!” was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and four other awards at the 76th annual Outer Critics Circl…