Make 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AMBelow is a manageable list of 13 theater books — recently published or soon to be– that look to be good summer reads: six memoirs or biographies, four books of history, recent scripts of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05AMBelow are some of the speeches from the winners of the 73rd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don’t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMThe state of theater blogging is arguably a bit like the state of theater in general. It’s more persistent, and resilient, than the pessimists might proclaim. Chris Peterson this mont…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMBelow are the 12 most popular new posts in each of the 12 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me, on May 23, 2012, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers’ evolving enthu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:09PM“The Fires” brings us simultaneously into the lives and loves of three Black gay men occupying the same railroad apartment in South Brooklyn, but decades apart — Jay (Phillip James …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMBelow is the complete list of 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented tonight at the NYU Skirball Center, Check out nominatio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PMI gained a whole new understanding of “The Three Little Piggies” at the end of Dave Malloy’s latest sing-through musical theater piece, which has a lively score and a gifted cast, but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02PMWhile the awards for the season just ended are still rolling out, the 2024-2025 season on Broadway and beyond is already full of news of new shows and new stars, Broadway debuts and Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMBelow is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2024-2025 season. Robert Downey Jr, George Clooney, and Cole Escola are set to make their Broadway debuts, in new plays by Ayad Akhtar, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47AM“Do you want to play a game? “ Lucy (Madison Ferris) asks Alfonso as soon as she spots him, without even so much as a hello. “It’ll be fun, trust me.” “A stranger who says I sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PMClick here for the list of 2024 Drama League Award nominees, from which the awardees were chosen. Don’t know the difference between the awards of the Drama League and the Drama Desk and th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PM“Stereophonic,” just released an original cast recording with a 14-song tracklist (listen below), which is not unusual for a Broadway musical, but not common for a Broadway play, which i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PMLeslie Odom in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical “Purlie Victorious,” Sutton Foster in “Anything Goes,” and a London concert by Audra McDonald are among the acclaimed theatrical pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PMNear the start of “An American Soldier,” Danny Chen (Brian Vu) stumbles distraught through the crowd gathered in a military courtroom. For much of my life, I felt invisibleDo you know …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMBelow are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2023-2024 theatrical season, as well as three speci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AMThe New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named David Adjmi’s Stereophonic best play of the 2023-24 season. The award for best musical went to Dead Outlaw, music and lyrics by David Yazb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PMA slew of honors for Broadway mainstays were announced this past week, as well as the Outer Critics Circle Awards this morning (see News below.) Meanwhile, new theater is still happening…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:14AM“Stereophonic”won outstanding new Broadway play and three other awards, “Suffs” outstanding new Broadway musical and two other awards at the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56AMMothers took center stage in the Broadway season just ended, getting star treatment for characters who range from vile to virtuous. Today, on Mothers Day, Jessica Lange in the title role of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMAt first, “Shimmer and Herringbone,” the third and final absurdist play in the avant-garde theater company Talking Band’s fiftieth anniversary season, promises to be a series of random…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PM“Scarlett Dreams” is a play that imagines a near-future dominated by Artificial Intelligence, so I asked ChatGPT how it would review the play. It instantly produced a 303-word review, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05PM“Exagoge,” inspired by the oldest known Jewish play, is a wildly ambitious, complicated but largely accessible new work of immersive theater: a play, opera, and Passover seder all in one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:34PMBelow are the nominations for the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The awards will be announced May 30th, and the ceremony will take place June 18th, at Sardi’s. The Alliance has …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AMThe children’s book author Dare Wright is billed as the inspiration for this unusual theater piece, although her name is never mentioned on stage. Actually, nothing is mentioned on stage. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PM“Here There Are Blueberries” turns the real-life discovery of an ordinary-looking photo album into a riveting detective story, with the characters gathering clues to unravel a series of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:11PMEboni Booth’s “Primary Trust” has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich ’s “Here There Are Blueberries” and Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s “P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PMNominations for the Tony Awards and for the Drama Desk Awards were among the theater awards announced last week; winners of the Lucille Lortel Awards were announced and feted last night; win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “The Comeuppance” won Outstanding Play and nicHi douglas‘ “(pray)” won Outstanding Musical, Director and Ensemble at the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59PM“Grenfell” is documentary theater about an infamous 2017 fire in a 24-story public housing project in London called Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people. Subtitled “In the words of s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PMTheater in Chinatown used to mean gangland shoot-outs – both on the screen and in the balcony of the neighborhood’s many movie theaters, which had names like Sun Sing and Pagoda, and wer…
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