Saturday, May 31, 2025
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in June. Jean Smart is returning to Broadway. John Krasinski is launching a newly rechristened Off Broadway theater. Both "Heathers" and "Grease" are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40PM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2025
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, in this quiz about the nominees for the 2025 Tony Awards. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM[SHARE]"Blood, Sweat and Queers" is inspired by the true story of a Czech sprinter who broke world records at the 1934 Women's World Games in London,  and gained world-wide fame when the f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2025
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 Sedwick and Ke…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Is 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 p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2025
Muriel 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 landmark Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 24, 2025
Below 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 qua…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2025
Below 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 enthusi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM[SHARE]Below 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[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
"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 02:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Make 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 08:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Right after Amber Iman finishes her first song, a sudden admirer gasps: "Your voice is like nothing I've ever heard." The reaction is understandable. Â Iman portrays the title character in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PM[SHARE]Below 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 08:31AM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2025
Two 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 poli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 18, 2025
Jen Silverman might seem an unlikely writer to adapt August Strindberg's 1888Â Â play for this starry production featuring Liev Schreiber as a man trying to undermine a married couple po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 17, 2025
Below 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, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:02PM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2025
Nicole 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 the 91stÂ�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2025
Does 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: T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2025
The 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 wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AM[SHARE]Below 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," "Purpose…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Normally the weeks leading to the Tonys are primarily a time for anticipation and celebration;Â five major theater awards were announced this past week alone " "Purpose" and "Maybe Happy E…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2025
 "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 annual Out…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 11, 2025
Near 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 hears …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2025
A 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 arresting a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2025
Mothers 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 05:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
A 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 familiar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM[SHARE]Below 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 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2025
On 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Among 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 mostly,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2025
 "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 awarded …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PM[SHARE]Branden 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 Magazine theater crit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM[SHARE] 
