Thursday, December 4, 2025
The “Merrily We Roll Along” movie is different from the Wicked films; it’s not a film adaptation, it’s a recording of the live 2024 Tony-winning Broadway production that turned the S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PMWednesday, December 3, 2025
Is “Dirty Books” itself obscene? Not at all, if we go by the Supreme Court’s three-pronged test. The theater company Bated Breath does enlist the audience to write erotica, but 1. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PMTuesday, December 2, 2025
Scrooge is back on stage this holiday season, as always, but as we head towards the end of a trying year, the question off-stage is which Scrooge will win out – the one at the beginning or…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AMOn this fourteenth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to a theater company or theater organization in New York City. This is what Scrooge woul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMMonday, December 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in December. There are two new shows on Broadway, both with starry casts, one a revival of a futuristic play that feels almost present-day n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PMAny guide to holiday theatergoing in New York City must begin with the three annual staples: “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular” starring the Radio City Rockettes, “George Balanchin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:36PMSunday, November 30, 2025
Tom Stoppard, 88, an acclaimed author of some three dozen plays, had an extraordinary body of work, and lived an unusual life: Although he was viewed as one of the greatest English-language …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AMSaturday, November 29, 2025
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in the month of November? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PMFriday, November 28, 2025
My fourteenth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50AMThursday, November 27, 2025
Below are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: Buena Vista Social Club, Ragtime and Just in Time, as well as Broadway veteran and Wicked…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41AMWednesday, November 26, 2025
“The Baker’s Wife” offers dual stories of redemption that make it feel designed for the holidays: There is the fable of all the villagers in a small French town setting aside their pet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMOnce again, theater seems of little interest to the book review staff at the New York Times. Their Notable Books of 2025 features no published plays (although books of poetry are included)…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AMTuesday, November 25, 2025
Below are works of theater that I saw this year in New York for which I’m most grateful. I have been posting such a list around Thanksgiving Day every year since 2013, which is my annua…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PMMonday, November 24, 2025
Fixings and pairings will be on the table later this week, and were on stage this past week, with the revival of a couple of old musicals that needed to be fixed (were they?), and some starr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31PMSunday, November 23, 2025
“Chess” is not a serious musical. That’s the key to appreciating this show, which is supposed to be about an American and a Russian grandmaster battling over both the game of chess …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMSaturday, November 22, 2025
Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2025, which differs from the usual week’s schedule: Only one show of the 34 currently playing has a performance on Thanksgiving Day, Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14AMFriday, November 21, 2025
Alice Brooks has an unusual way of talking about the difference between ‘Wicked” and its sequel “Wicked: For Good.,” which is opening nationwide today. The making of the two Wicked m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMThursday, November 20, 2025
What I found most surprising about this modest, appealing two-person musical, whose title more or less sums up what happens, was the reaction to it on the night I attended – the ecstatic c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMTuesday, November 18, 2025
Tom Hanks co-wrote this quaint, unremarkable time-traveling play adapted from his book of short stories, and stars as Bert Allenberry, a tech entrepreneur from the year 2089, who travels bac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PMMonday, November 17, 2025
“The American Revolution” launched last night (You can binge all six episodes online now or wait for the nightly broadcast.)Revolution was also on stage last week in various ways. Serie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PMSunday, November 16, 2025
It’s early on Election Day, and Oedipus, populist candidate confident that he’ll be swept into office, makes two off-the-cuff public promises that will blow up in his face: He will relea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMSaturday, November 15, 2025
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets — 884,647 words in all.He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language, includi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:57PMFriday, November 14, 2025
PBS tonight broadcasts the production of “Twelfth Night” that reopened the Delacorte in Central Park this summer with a starry cast including Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Lupita Nyong’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16PMThursday, November 13, 2025
Ken Burns’ latest documentary “The American Revolution,” launches this Sunday on PBS, ten years after he began work on it, which was just about the time that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PMWednesday, November 12, 2025
‘If I had to choose between being known while alive or being known while dead, I gotta go with dead,” says Gavrilo, the teenager who will soon assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PMTuesday, November 11, 2025
In honor of Veterans Day, below is a list of ten works of theater depicting military veterans, ranging from Ancient Greek tragedies and Shakespearean history plays to Quiara Alegría Hudes�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:31PMMonday, 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 02:53PM 
