Friday, January 30, 2026
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of January. Take this ten-question quiz and find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMThursday, January 29, 2026
The war on culture has played out in many ways over the past year, as chronicled by the bloggers/substackers,podcasters to whom I link below. There’s famously the mess at the Kennedy Cente…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMWednesday, January 28, 2026
“Masquerade” has just been extended through July 5 – proof, if you needed it, that the immersive version of “The Phantom of the Opera” has caught on.This wasn’t a given when i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51AMTuesday, January 27, 2026
Anne Gridley’s favorite neurologist has told her that people can only concentrate on walking for about eight seconds; human beings are designed to walk without thinking about it. But he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PMMonday, January 26, 2026
A record-breaking 11.4 inches of snow reportedly fell on Central Park on Sunday, and the shows went on — mostly: Ten of the 31 shows currently running on Broadway did cancel. A storm warni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM“I don’t want to be an ambassador for Asians, but that’s part of the job when you’re in a country, and you work in an industry, that continues to see us as perpetual foreigners, inca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AMSunday, January 25, 2026
“Data” speaks to the precise moment in which we are living to an astonishing degree, and not just because of our concerns about AI. It begins and ends with characters playing ping pong! …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMSaturday, January 24, 2026
A massive snow storm is expected to reach New York City Sunday morning, January 25, 2026 leading New Yorkers to ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PMBelow are two videos of LJ Benet, who will be making his Broadway debut as Michael Emerson in the forthcoming musical “The Lost Boys,” explaining the show, and singing one of the numbers…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45AMFriday, January 23, 2026
Ed Schmidt, a playwright and performer who should be better known, stood behind a table with twenty-seven objects on it, which he said were found in a box belonging to a man named Edward O�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AMThursday, January 22, 2026
“Sinners” received a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, followed by “One Battle After Another” with 13. Several theater-related films received nods, including nine (including Best…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AMWednesday, January 21, 2026
When this is over…things will have changed forever,” Ian McKellen told me near the start of “An Ark,” staring directly at me. I didn’t roll my eyes. At first that was only becau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:41PMTuesday, January 20, 2026
Last week was full of theater news, and politics. Hell’s Kitchen is closing; Darren Criss is leaving; Adrien Brody is making his Broadway debut. Dylvan Mulvaney is joining the cast of “S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AMMonday, January 19, 2026
The day before he was assassinated, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr delivered what is usually called the “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop” speech because of its stirring final moments.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AMSunday, January 18, 2026
The unnamed central character in Katie Kitamura’s acclaimed novel “Audition” (Riverhead Books, 197 pages) is a middle-aged actress of some repute and of great perception, who offers so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PMSaturday, January 17, 2026
Why do the four opera singers repeat “This is Mad’line X” forty-one times? What’s with the big ducks and why are they playing golf? Is the ensemble a group of courtiers or a deck o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PMFriday, January 16, 2026
Dorothy Parker hated the theater, especially the “wretched downtown plays. The actors represent characters like ‘truth’ or ‘poverty’ while the audience is content to represent ‘s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21PMThursday, January 15, 2026
In a season that promises to be rich in starry revivals and adaptations of familiar titles, the ten shows below are largely from beyond Broadway — most Off Broadway, some more out-of-the-w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AMWednesday, January 14, 2026
“Try/Step/Trip,” a terrifically rhythmic, unconventional musical that merges rap with step-dancing, was inspired by the court-ordered stay in drug rehab by poet, composer and performe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PMTuesday, January 13, 2026
There are seven new participants in the twice-yearly discount program: All Out:, Chess, Liberation, Marjorie Prime, Oedipus,Ragtime, Two Strangers (the links are to my reviews.) Click on the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41PMMonday, January 12, 2026
At a press conference on Friday announcing 1,500 free tickets to the Under the Radar Festival, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said: “This is just one example of an agenda and an approach that we ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38AMSunday, January 11, 2026
“I’m not an ax murderer,” Peter (Namir Smallwood) says to Agnes (Carrie Coon.) It’s his first line in “Bug,” Tracy Letts’ intentionally unsettling 1996 play, now in its Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PMSaturday, January 10, 2026
LaChanze, a 19-time Broadway veteran. has won five Tony Awards, one of them for her starring role in the original 2005 Broadway production of “The Color Purple,” the other four as a B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMFriday, January 9, 2026
A young man strips an older woman of her clothes, wipes her bottom and changes her diaper: It is an early scene in “Mami,” one of the many startling wordless moments that have the otherw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PMThursday, January 8, 2026
Marc Shaiman, one-half the songwriting team behind the Broadway musicals “Hairspray,” “Catch Me If You Can,” “Some Like It Hot,” and “Smash,” doesn’t even start to tell us …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03AMWednesday, January 7, 2026
Both Princess Diana and musician Bob Marley died tragically at the age of 36, and both have been the subject of an endless stream of books and films and plays. They each have another such sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:58PMTuesday, January 6, 2026
“Sweetheart, I’m fine, and I’m running for my life, I cannot talk to you right now,” Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif) recalls telling her son, when he telephoned her while she was scrambl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:35PMMonday, January 5, 2026
“We expect greatness from the cooks wielding a thousand spices, from those who stride out onto our Broadway stages, and from our starting point guard at Madison Square Garden. Let us deman…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AMSunday, January 4, 2026
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 16 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and the end of April, 2026. Please consider answering two oth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSaturday, January 3, 2026
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including one Broadway show, “Bug” by Tracy Letts, a mixed-reality play starring Ian McKellen, and the return of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMFriday, January 2, 2026
There are more than 100 shows produced by the six annual theater festivals listed below, all of which begin in January. On offer are Beckett and Kabuki; a campy Princess Diana and an outrage…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PM 
