To say that I found this clever, fun-filled queering of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s idiosyncratic 1982 musical at times confusing and even annoying is only to say that it’s still “Cats” �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PM“Titanic” turns out to be the ideal musical for an Encores! concert, focused on the music. The original 1997 Broadway production about the most famous maritime disaster in history was an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:42PMIn his Tony acceptance speech this month, Jonathan Groff thanked his role as the gay character Melchior Gabor sixteen years ago in “Spring Awakening” for inspiring him “to come out …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AM“How wonderful to see you all glistening in the sun,” Phylicia Rashad said in Times Square, accepting this year’s Legacy Award from the Broadway League as part of the fourth annual Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMBelow is a guide to this year’s Tony-winning plays and musicals that are still playing – although several are closing soon; one next week. The listings include a video of the Tony per…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AM“I’m gonna just talk fast and try not to cry,” Daniel Radcliffe began his acceptance speech, and I felt like saying: Take your time! Cry! The Tony Awards is just a TV show, but listeni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21AM“Stereophonic ” won best play, “Appropriat” best revival of a play, at the 77th annual Tony Awards, (Here’s a guide to the entire Broadway 2023-2024 Season, including shows not nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMThe 77th Annual Tony Awards, with host Ariana DeBose, will be broadcast and streamed live from Lincoln Center tonight, celebrating the Broadway 2023 – 2024 theater season with performances…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMYou might think that Ariana DeBose would be too busy the night before her hosting duties at the Tony Awards to go to a movie. But the world premiere of “Satisfied,” a documentary abou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10AMThis eye-opening documentary about the role of social media in spreading white supremacist violence, which just won the Tribeca Festival’s Best Documentary Feature Award, is at its most ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMHow did Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” one of the most infamous flops on Broadway, become one of the biggest hits of the 2023-2024 Broadway season…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMBelow are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2024 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I’ve been maintaining for more than a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:29PMWatch Theatre World Award winners past and present talk below about when they first knew they were going to be professional performers. For more on Theatre World Awards, check out Theatre Wo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMJeremy O. Harris’ film about his Broadway play “Slave Play” begins with a young Black woman in an NYU sweatshirt looking straight up at the ceiling and screaming with great violence. I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21PM“Stereophonic” won Outstandint Play and six other awards, “Dead Outlaw” Outstanding Musical and two others at the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards. Full list of winners below. Click her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47PMTonight ceremonies will take place for both the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards and the 78th annual Theatre World Awards, leading up to the endlessly anticipated/promoted climax of theater a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AM“What Became of Us” is at heart a modest, moving two-character play about a brother and a sister, the children of immigrant parents, who tell us about each other over the course of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PMJessica Lange as Lillian Hall, one of the great legends of the American theater, is about to star once again on Broadway in “The Cherry Orchard.” But she is collapsed on her bed, when…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMThis first-time feature film by writer and director Nicholas Colia will inspire some of the same knowing laughs among grown-up theater kids as “Theater Camp,” and some of the same sy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PM“Merrily We Roll Along” and “Oh, Mary!” received the most love at the Second Annual Dorian Theater Awards, winning four categories apiece, while “Stereophonic” won three awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PMSamm-Art Williams was born in Burgaw, North Carolina seventy-eight years ago, and died in that same small rural town last month; he liked to tell people he was “just a country boy.” Act…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PMTwenty-two years after Robert De Niro et al founded the Tribeca Film Festival in the wake of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, the festival has grown so large and overwhelming that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30AMMr. Steinglass: Donald Trump cannot shoot someone during rush hour on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.Mr. Blanche: Objection your Honor.The Court: SustainedMr. Steinglass: You, the jury, h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMThere is a sly strategy to the fanciful title of this solo play, as there is to performer Paula Pizzi’s soft-spoken lyricism. They make it easier, for one, to take in the underlying horror…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:18PMBelow is a selection of New York theater opening* in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar, including the first Broadway revival of Samm-Art Williams’ play “Home,” and a radical re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PMAnswer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, about the nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM“Dead Outlaw” won Best New Musical and “Oh, Mary!” Best New Play among the six competitive categories of the 13th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The ceremony will take place Ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PMThe outdoor bilingual musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s shortest play has returned, just as festive and comically confusing as it was last summer, but now the main attraction of Free Sha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMThe Palace will reopen tonight after six years for the first of what are now 19 shows scheduled so far for the Broadway 2024-2025 season, with a concert by Ben Platt promoting his new albu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AM“I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here, beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:16PMMake your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 77th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best — plus a poll question about which new category (if any) the Ton…
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