Tuesday, May 20, 2025
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 08:31AMMonday, 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 politi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMSunday, May 18, 2025
Jen Silverman might seem an unlikely writer to adapt August Strindberg’s 1888 play for this starry production featuring Liev Schreiber as a man trying to undermine a married couple port…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:02PMFriday, 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 t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:15PMThursday, 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: The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMBelow 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,” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
Normally the weeks leading to the Tonys are primarily a time for anticipation and celebration; five major theater awards were announced this past week alone — “Purpose” and “Maybe H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PMMonday, 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 annu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AMSunday, 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PMSaturday, 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 arresti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PMFriday, 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 05:02PMThursday, 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 fami…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PMBelow 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 11:18AMWednesday, 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 in the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PMTuesday, 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 mostl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AMMonday, 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 awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PMBranden 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 Mag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2024-2025 theatrical season, as well as three speci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AMThe Tony nominations got most of the attention, with the customary “stars, snubs and surprises” analyses, but the nominations for three other awards were also announced within a week, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMSunday, May 4, 2025
“Our Class,” Arlekin Players Theater’s play inspired by true events surrounding a 1941 pogrom by former classmates in a small Polish village, won outstanding revival, director, scenic …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PMThe 1933 trial that ended the US ban against James Joyce’s “Ulysses” for obscenity is viewed as a significant victory for free expression, almost as much of a landmark in legal circ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:48PMSaturday, May 3, 2025
Jonathan Groff and Jasmine Amy Rogers were nominated for all four theater awards that were announced over the past week, he for portraying Bobby Darin in “Just in Time,” she for the titl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PMFriday, May 2, 2025
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, including some starry plays Off-Broadway (Hugh Jackman as a leering professor, Amber Iman as a goddess, Liev Schreiber as a homewrecker) as we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:43PMThursday, May 1, 2025
Below is a list of theater artists who deserved a Tony nomination but did not get one. This is not a compilation of “snubs.” The busy Broadway 2024-2025 season was crowded with talent; t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PMBelow are the nominations for the 78th Tony Awards, which were announced this morning by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. The winners will be presented at Radio City Music Hall with host …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AMWednesday, April 30, 2025
“Boop” leads with 11 nominations at the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards announcement by Norm Lewis this afternoon, followed by “Just in Time” and “Maybe Happy Ending” with nine eac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Below is the complete list of the nominations announced for 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies. The awards will be presented on May 19 at 7:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMHow well were you paying attention to the 2024-2025 Broadway season, and the final dozen plays and musicals that opened in April by the Tony deadline? Can you identify lines of dialogue and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AMMonday, April 28, 2025
Over this past week Broadway has been awash in crooners and corpses, monsters and marauders, immigrants and miners, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2024-2025 season had their opening …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AM 
