Thursday, May 26, 2022
‘Fat Ham,” this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, which opened tonight at the Public Theater, is inspired by “Hamlet,” but it parts ways with the Bard, and not just because of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMWednesday, May 25, 2022
An 18-year-old yesterday shot and killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a mass shooting that occurred just ten days after another 18-year-o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
Harmony was designated new new musical and Sanctuary City best new play in the 11th annual Off Broadway Awards. (Check out my New York Theater Awards 2022 Guide and Calendar) BEST NEW MUSIC…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMMonday, May 23, 2022
Theater awards season is heating up, with four of the major annual theater awards announcing their winners or nominations this past week; favorite shows are coming into focus. I won’t call…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AMSunday, May 22, 2022
There is no question which side playwright Margaret Vandenburg favors in her play “Roe v. Wade 2.0,” which is inspired by the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the case Dobbs v. Jacks…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMSaturday, May 21, 2022
The story that seems to be struggling to emerge from “The Karpovsky Variations” concerns Julia Karpovsky, an American Jew who spent her childhood abroad and is trying to connect with her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMFriday, May 20, 2022
“The Lehman Trilogy” was voted outstanding play and “A Strange Loop” outstanding musical at the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:46PM“When I was a kid in the Bronx, I went to the theater for $1.10,” says Emanuel Azenberg. Granted that was a while ago; he’s 88. But he is also a Broadway producer and general manager w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PMThursday, May 19, 2022
Sanaz Toossi, California-born daughter of immigrants from Iran, has racked up awards for her two New York debut plays this season, “English” and “Wish You Were Here.”* Both are set i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMWednesday, May 18, 2022
A century and a half after the first American musical, the art form “is growing up, and it is time for us to address the growing pains,” historian Margaret Hall said at her TEDx Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM“Six”won outstanding Broadway musical, “Lehman Trilogy” outstanding Broadway play, “Kimberly Akimbo” Off-Broadway musical, and “Prayer for the French Republic” Off-Broadway p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AMMonday, May 16, 2022
Having taken the trip to Gowanus to see “Will You Come With Me?,” a play billed as exploring “the chaos and complexities of living through an uprising,” I had dinner at a local vega…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35PMSix and Kimberly Akimbo lead in the nominations for the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMIn What happened last week at “Girl from the North Country” and “for colored girls…” might not be miraculous, precisely, but they’re the kind of stories in the face of adversity …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AMSunday, May 15, 2022
There is an early number in “Suffs” that was as exciting to me in its way as any gathering-in of Superheroes from the Marvel or DC universe. I guess DC is more apt, since the song is abo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMSaturday, May 14, 2022
The first-ever Books on Broadway series, featuring conversations with authors and theater artists, will be part of the twentieth anniversary of the Bryant Park Reading Room every Tuesday …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AMFriday, May 13, 2022
If all goes as planned, Gregg Mozgala will be making his Broadway debut in the Fall, three decades after the theater first “made me feel like a full human being,” as he explains in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:55PMThursday, May 12, 2022
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named Samuel D. Hunter’s “A Case for the Existence of God” best play of the 2021-22 season, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s and Jeanine Tesori’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PMMake your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 75th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 12th at Radio Music Hal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
There seems at first a large gap between the cosmic title of this play and the mundane situation it dramatizes: A factory worker named Ryan (Will Brill) is meeting with a mortgage broker na…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
The trickiest of theater seasons has led to an unusual – and instructive — awards season. With both the Tony nominations and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama announced on the same day (has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMMonday, May 9, 2022
At the very beginning of Alison Leiby’s joke-filled solo show, which I saw a few days after the leak of the draft of a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade, she told us that “Oh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55PM“Fat Ham,” James IJames modern take on “Hamlet,” has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Finalists were “Selling Kabul” by Sylvia Khoury, and “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Owner…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM“A Strange Loop” received 11 nominations and “MJ The Musical” ten, the most for musicals, and “The Lehman Trilogy” received eight, the most for a play, at the 2022 Tony Award nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AMSunday, May 8, 2022
The overdue resurrection of Alice Childress continues with this first New York production in half a century of “Wedding Band,” her richly resonant story of an interracial couple set i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PMFriday, May 6, 2022
Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2021-2022 theatrical season The 76th annual Theatre W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMLeo has long dominated and even bullied his family, but he’s also looked after them. Now he needs them desperately, but he’s not sure any of them will come through for him as he has for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00AMThursday, May 5, 2022
Below are the nominations for the 11th annual Off Broadway Awards. Winners will be announced May 24th. Don’t know the difference between the Off Broadway Alliance Awards and the Off Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Is there a better time to debut a documentary about “Spring Awakening,” a musical that features a lead character who dies after a botched back-alley abortion? “Spring Awakening: Tho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:03PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
How well were you paying attention to the Broadway shows that opened in April 2022, the last month of the unusual 2021-2022 Broadway season? Take this ten-question quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AM 
