Friday, April 10, 2026
I 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 12:01AMThursday, April 9, 2026
This 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 09:23PMWednesday, April 8, 2026
When 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 05:37PMTuesday, April 7, 2026
There 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 10:23AMMonday, April 6, 2026
The 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 08:14AMSunday, April 5, 2026
Streaming 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 07:51PMSaturday, April 4, 2026
Alexander 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 12:53PMFriday, April 3, 2026
Below 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 08:33PMThursday, April 2, 2026
Five 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 11:49PMWednesday, April 1, 2026
Below 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 02:31PMTuesday, March 31, 2026
How 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 12:06PMMonday, March 30, 2026
Why 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 10:26AMSunday, March 29, 2026
Three 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 08:52PMSaturday, March 28, 2026
Jaime 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 08:42AMFriday, March 27, 2026
“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 08:36AMThursday, March 26, 2026
Digital 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 05:19PMWednesday, March 25, 2026
As 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 12:13PMTuesday, March 24, 2026
Below 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 11:48PMMonday, March 23, 2026
I 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMSunday, March 22, 2026
Stephen Sondheim, who would have turned 96 years old today, was known as a genius to his schoolmates and an alcoholic to his collaborators; he was charming but a slob; he loved Lee Remick bu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PMSaturday, March 21, 2026
Celia Keenan-Bolger is the “I” in the title of Anna Ziegler’s provocative, contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy, in which Antigone ( Susannah Perkins) has an abortion, in defi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PMFriday, March 20, 2026
By the time Jasmine Amy Rogers and Adrienne Warren trade affectionate insults in a lively, witty musical number, each of some dozen other spectacular performers have already introduced…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:09PMThursday, March 19, 2026
Anthony Rapp sits in a chair for ninety minutes as a miserable middle-aged gay man telling a story that goes from panic to frustration to betrayal, and yet “Touch” is among the most sati…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMWednesday, March 18, 2026
“American Classic,” featuring a starry cast of Tony winners led by Kevin Kline, is currently thrilling those of us who loved “Slings & Arrows,” the greatest-ever TV series about …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMTuesday, March 17, 2026
Alexandrine von Taxis, one of the main characters in “Plan C,” is an actual historical figure whose portrait should probably be hanging in both the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:58PM 
