A “Hamlet” entirely inside his head…and in your ear. The Broadway cast of “The Gilded Age” in person. A documentary about actress Marlee Matlin, a feature film starring Kyra Sedwic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PMIs it lobbying or reveling, or simply revealing? Here are 10 out of the many Tony nominee profiles, interviews, behind-the-scenes and think pieces published or posted within the past we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AMMuriel Mandell saw her first Broadway play in 1939 (“It was rah-rah America”) and her most recent in the season just past (“Terrible”) — and many of the original productions of lan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04PMBelow is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2025-2026 season, starting in June with Jean Smart, fresh from her raved-about performance in “Hacks,” returning to Broadway after a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMBelow are the 13 most popular new posts in each of the 13 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me, on May 23, 2012, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers’ evolving enthu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PMBelow are some of the speeches from the winners of the 75th Outer Critics Circle Award held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don’t kn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40AM“The Harlem Doll Palace,” an unusual musical that launches the fourth annual Puppetopia Festival at HERE, is not just the true story of Lenon Holder Hoyt, an art teacher in public scho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PMMake your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 78th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best — plus two poll questions about the future of the Tonys: which c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AMRight after Amber Iman finishes her first song, a sudden admirer gasps: “Your voice is like nothing I’ve ever heard.” The reaction is understandable. Iman portrays the title characte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PMBelow is the complete list of 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented Monday night at the NYU Skirball Center. Check out the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AMTwo Tony-nominated plays from the current Broadway season are being broadcast on television. Both of them originated decades ago, and have gained new relevance because of the current politi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMJen Silverman might seem an unlikely writer to adapt August Strindberg’s 1888 play for this starry production featuring Liev Schreiber as a man trying to undermine a married couple port…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PMBelow is a manageable list of a dozen theater books — recently published or soon to be– that look to be good summer reads: five memoirs or biographies, four books of history or criticism…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:02PMNicole Scherzinger won the Distinguished Performance Award for her work in “Sunset Blvd.”; “Maybe Happy Ending” won outstanding musical and “Oh, Mary” won outstanding play at t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:15PMDoes a single Broadway season say something about the times we live in, or about the current state of culture? I’m not sure, but I do detect some trends, make of them what you will: The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PMThe nominations for the third annual Dorian Theater Awards include a unique category: The Broadway Showstopper Award. It’s a great idea. These musical numbers or standout scenes are often …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMBelow is a list of the nominations for the third annual Dorian Theater Awards, “Death Becomes Her” leading with seven nominations, followed closely by “John Proctor is the Villain,” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AMNormally the weeks leading to the Tonys are primarily a time for anticipation and celebration; five major theater awards were announced this past week alone — “Purpose” and “Maybe H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PM“John Proctor is the Villain” was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and “Maybe Happy Ending” was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and three other awards at the 75th annu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AMNear the beginning of “Floyd Collins,” a sonically spellbinding musical inspired by a bleak and bizarre true story, Jeremy Jordan as the title character yodels into the darkness – and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PMA day after the election of the first American pope, the first female pope led us in a hymn in Latin – shortly before a hooded Inquisitor ordered her burned to death. What’s most arresti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PMMothers once again took to the stage on Broadway in the season just ended , in not always flattering but always knowing depictions. On Mothers Day this Sunday, Audra McDonald will try to bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PMA sexual affair between Hugh Jackman as a married middle aged professor and Ella Beatty as his 19-year-old student? On its surface, “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” tells a fami…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PMBelow are the nominations for the five competitive categories in the 14th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The winners will be announced June 2. The Alliance has also announced special a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMOn its sixtieth anniversary, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center is being given a Tony Award. In announcing the 2025 Tony Honors for Excellence in the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PMAmong the hundreds of clotheshorses at the Met Gala last night were some theater artists — a Tony-winning producer, several playwrights, including a newly-minted Pulitzer winner, but mostl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM“Purpose,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama earlier today, has now been selected as the best play of the 2024-2025 season by The New York Drama Critics’ Circle, which also awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary” and Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” were selected as finalists. New York Mag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PMBelow are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2024-2025 theatrical season, as well as three speci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AMThe Tony nominations got most of the attention, with the customary “stars, snubs and surprises” analyses, but the nominations for three other awards were also announced within a week, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AM“Our Class,” Arlekin Players Theater’s play inspired by true events surrounding a 1941 pogrom by former classmates in a small Polish village, won outstanding revival, director, scenic …
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