
Ten plays and six musicals are opening on Broadway in March and April, in the final six weeks of the Broadway 2025-2026 season, starting this week and ending April 26, the final date of el…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28AMThis hyperactive, interactive, competitive show may not wind up running for 34 years at Astor Place Theater like “Blue Man Group,” a previous tenant, but “Burnout Paradise” runs ever…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AMJonathan Groff, “matinee idol” (Ben Brantley in the NY Times), heartthrob (Deadline) Broadway conqueror (Town&Country), will perform in a play by William Shakespeare for the first ti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMRo Reddick’s play with original music promises a light, knowing comedy about a Black girl and her family in Syracuse, New York in 1987, but swerves into a dark cloak-and-dagger tale of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMThose of us who couldn’t get tickets to see the production, and instead bought Wallace Shawn’s published play (What We Did Before Our Moth Days, Faber and Faber, 96 pages) are treated…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMCall it “Madame Butterfly” with ADHD. “Grey Arias,” which is running only through tomorrow at the Flea, stars an unlikely duo whose divergent life experiences, talents and idiosyn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMI was maybe 15 years old when a middle-aged man stopped me on the street and asked me if I was a swinger. I suddenly remembered the encounter while watching the soft porn comedy “The Amazi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM“One of the biggest surprises for me in being on Broadway is that there are a lot of unhappy people there,” Tony winner Jonathan Groff writes in a foreword to this book co-written by Lin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMGandhi was famous for walking, both for exercise and for the liberation of India, clocking some 49,000 miles on his protest marches. Aristotle believed that great thinkers are all great walk…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53PMFebruary ended with a bang, and not just overseas. There were some heavy shows Off Broadway. The six I reviewed just this week are full of sickness and sexism, personal betrayals and public …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PM“Night Side Songs” is in part an original musical that tells the story of the terminal illness of a character named Yasmine Holly (portrayed by Brooke Ishibashi.) But it’s also a �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:07AMBigfoot’s mother, Francine Foot, explains how her big, kind, hairy monster came to be: “You have sex with a carnie next to a nuclear power plant, you end up with a giant son.” That’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PMThis elaborate, tuneful puppet musical doesn’t just tell the story of the journey of Kim Pham from Vietnamese “hometown girl” riding a water buffalo to young romantic in Saigon to war …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PMHow well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of February? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a doozy of a bonus question. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PMBelow is a day-by-day calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including three starry plays on Broadway: A solo turn by Daniel Radcliffe (opening March 12), a British im…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:18PMThe four power-suited Chinese-American women who work at the same Wall Street bank meet every third Tuesday for lunch at Golden Unicorn in what they call an affinity group. But it doesn’t …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PM“Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family?” Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger asked in her 12-minute Democratic response to President Trump’s 10…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17AMEarly on in Jake Brasch’s comedy about an alcoholic helped to sobriety by his grandparents, Josh (Noah Galvin), recovering from his latest full-on bender (blacked out, 11 stitches), is com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMNear the beginning of Lauren Yee’s dark farce set in Russia after the collapse of Communism, Evgeny (Adam Chanler-Berat) reunites with his old friend Dmitri (Steven Boyer), reminiscing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMFor the first time in a decade, a blizzard canceled all of Broadway. The Broadway League announced the cancelation of all performances Sunday evening “due to anticipated travel impacts fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21AMIt’s easy to see how the dynamic physical performer Ethan Slater, Broadway’s SpongeBob and Hollywood’s Boq, would be drawn to the irresistible true story of the world’s most famous…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11AMMae is awkward and messy, and so is the play she is in, a revival that is the second theatrical production at the Cherry Lane Theater under its new owners, the A24 movie studio. Portrayed …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMTeatroFest 2026, a citywide festival of twenty-four productions by the ten member theaters of the Alliance of Teatros Latinos NY , launches February 27 with a free Spring Preview at the New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09PM“Ruby & Charlie,” one of the three works of puppetry at the fifth annual Puppetopia festival presented at HERE, uses the music of Ray Charles, played by a live band, to chronicl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PMA day in an abortion clinic; children killed in Gaza; children killed in school shootings in America; the life and death of a war photojournalist; donkeys in the desert. These are the sub…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:53PMAlfred Nakache, a swimmer of Algerian Jewish descent who competed for France in the Olympics both before and after he was sent to Auschwitz, might seem an unlikely subject for an animated fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AMA France in which kissing gets the death penalty; a Palestinian butcher accused by his Israeli co-workers; a spoof of Jane Austin. These are among the five Live Action Short Films nominated …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMFebruary is usually the peak month for SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), but it’s still striking that four of the five plays I reviewed this past week involve family trauma. Three do o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AMIn the middle of the Saturday Survivors weekly recovery meeting that is the heart of Jacob Perkins’ play, Elizabeth Marvel as Joan introduces herself, announces that she is an alcoholic, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMOnly four of the 45 presidents of the United States were born in February, but they include the two most revered, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who are also the two most frequently …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AM“Twelve Minor Prophets” might sound like a Hebrew School pageant, since it’s an educational and playful stage adaptation based on the last twelve books of the Old Testament. But the pl…
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