Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PMWatch one- or two-minute videos from each of the five musicals nominated for the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical: “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Illinoise,” “The Outsiders,” “Suffs” a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PMEight Special Tony Awards and Honors have been announced, including for pioneers in projection design, hair and wig design, and sound design, as well as for writer and director Alex Edelman.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:33PMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in May, including new musicals from Laura Benanti and Dave Malloy as well as a new opera from David Henry Hwang, all Off-Broadway. Nothing is schedule…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AMEleven* of the 39 shows that opened on Broadway in the 2023-2024 season received no Tony nominations. This doesn’t necessarily mean they were cheated; the Tony nominators had to make choic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMHell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic lead with 13 Tony Award nominations each, the most respectively for a musical and a play, as announced this morning by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Eli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMBelow is the complete list of the nominations for 2024 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, as announced this afternoon by Bebe Neuwirth.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PMNominations for the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards were announced by Kathleen Turner this morning. The awards, which honor achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMThree plays and four musicals opened on Broadway last week, the last of the 39 shows that opened during the 2023-2024 season. Awards season has already begun in earnest, with the nominations…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AMRachel McAdams might at first seem to be miscast in her first role on Broadway. She portrays the title character in Amy Herzog’s deceptively casual play about the mother of a severely d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PMHow well were you paying attention to the fourteen Broadway plays and musicals that opened in April, the last month of the 2023-2024 Broadway season? Take the quiz and find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMA musical about the Jazz Age with almost no jazz? A man of mystery who tells us everything in his first song? A critique of wealth in a show whose main pleasure is how expensive it looks? Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PMJessica Lange is unforgettable in Paula Vogel’s unforgiving portrait of the title character in “Mother Play,” her semiautobiographical new play opening tonight on Broadway — a role t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMAs Vanya, Steve Carell, who’s been a low-level whiner for the first two Acts, suddenly gets so angry at his pompous-ass brother-in-law who’s been sponging off him for thirty years, that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM“Illinoise,” an exquisite stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album “Illinois,” is opening on Broadway today just six weeks after it opened at the Park Avenue A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:56PM“Dead Outlaw” leads the nominations for the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. (video below) The winners will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:41PM“Very poppy,” a character says to Bobby (Corey Cott), the Leading Man, just after he’s performed “Do You Believe in Love,” one of more than two dozen songs from the 1980s band Huey…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59PMVladimir Putin was working as a taxi driver when he visited one of the richest and most powerful men in Russia to ask for a favor. The previous month, Putin had lost his job as the deputy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMBelow are the nominations for the 90th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Vanessa Williams and Bebe Neuwirth. The awards will be held at The Ziegfeld Ballro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AMFour musicals and a play that has a lot of original music in it, opened on Broadway this past week, and two plays opened Off Broadway. By the end of the day Thursday, which marks the officia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMOrlando (Taylor Mac) has already been living an unusual life as a nobleman in Queen Elizabeth’s court when he suddenly becomes a woman. “Let biologists and psychologists argue. It is eno…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMIf so much of it weren’t so out of balance, this fourth Broadway revival of “Cabaret” would be impressive in its complete transformation of Kander and Ebb’s great musical – phys…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMAlicia Keys’ lively, tuneful musical “Hell’s Kitchen” opens tonight at Broadway’s Shubert Theater, with the same principal cast and creative team as its brief sold-out run Off-Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:16PM“Stereophonic,” which opens at Broadway’s John Golden Theater tonight, chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PMInez Milholland, glamorous bohemian and radical lawyer, rode atop a white steed to lead the unprecedented 1913 March on Washington for women’s suffrage down Pennsylvania Avenue the day b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PMIn “The Wiz,” the all-Black version of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” that debuted on Broadway in the 1970s, Dorothy never sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” nor wore ruby red s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PMThomas Jefferson was in his forties when he began having sex with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, who was 14. Had they fallen in love? The question is absurd. But did they eventually fal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16PMWith twelve shows opening on Broadway in the next ten days– and several Off Broadway – it’s a taxing time (yes, a pun) for theater award voters and critics, and a busy one for theater …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AMA woman is pictured as a machine several times in “Lempicka,” a musical about Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), an artist whose heyday was in the 1930s, painting Art Deco-style portraits o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMWith Tax Day approaching, here are seven times that characters have sung or talked about taxes in Broadway musicals, from “I’ll Put a Tax on That” in Casino Girl 1910 to “My Shot” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PMIn the middle of the busiest theater month in memory, the theater company Playco held a group nap today. It was the first of its slate of free events during its “Month of Rest” �…
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