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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Awards Season Preview. Arts, Anxiety and Resistance. Cole Escola to return to Oh Mary. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Cynthia Erivo will serve as host for the first time when the 78th annual Tony Awards is presented at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday June 8, 2025. This will be the 21st time the ceremony has…

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Monday, February 24, 2025

Grangeville Review by New York Theater

Their mother is dying, which is the only reason why Arnold (Brian J. Smith) has – reluctantly – picked up the phone to answer a call by his half-brother Jerry (Paul Starks.) It’s been …

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Saturday, February 22, 2025

How Is It That We Live, or Shakey Jake + Alice. What’s the frequency, Lenneth? by New York Theater

How DO Jake and Alice live? The answer is: lyrically. That, anyway, is how playwright Len Jenkin presents their lives in three extended scenes in his awkwardly titled play — as spikey adol…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42PM
Friday, February 21, 2025

Anywhere at Here. Oedipus as a melting marionette by New York Theater

“Anywhere” is an hour-long puppet piece that features a marionette who is made of ice, slowly melts, then turns to mist, and finally disappears completely. It mystified me. There are sev…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Garside’s Career Review. A Demagogue’s Comeuppance by New York Theater

Peter Garside calls himself a demagogue, freely admits he’s in politics to make money, and says “the public likes to be fooled.”  It’s a corrupt attitude that, despite his good loo…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

All Out, Coalminer’s Daughter Announced. A Week of Love, Grief and Retribution. Stageworthy News. by New York Theater

 The producers of “All in: Comedy about Love,” one of the three shows that ended their Broadway runs last weekend, have announced “All Out: Comedy About Life” for next season (venue…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AM
Monday, February 17, 2025

11 U.S. Presidents on the Arts from George Washington to the Present by New York Theater

Donald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – which he told reporters he had never visited – on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, wh…

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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir by Jeffrey Seller by New York Theater

When Jeffrey Seller was 18 years old and frustrated at his new job as the drama director at a summer camp for kids, somebody handed him a copy of Moss Hart’s 1959 memoir “Act One,” tou…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PM
Friday, February 14, 2025

On Valentine’s Day 2025, What Broadway Says About Love by New York Theater

Nightly on Broadway nowadays, one title character professes her love to the other title character: “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Redwood Broadway Review. Idina Menzel hugs an IMAX of a tree by New York Theater

Idina Menzel returns to Broadway as Jesse, a New York gallery owner who, out of grief for the death of her son, leaves her wife and her life, drives cross country, and winds up spending seve…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PM
Monday, February 10, 2025

Poll: Which 2025 Best Picture Oscar Nominee Would Work Best and Worst on Broadway by New York Theater

We already know that “Wicked” would make a good Broadway musical because it IS one. But what about the other nine movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar? Which would make …

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Who goes to Broadway. The Arts, Black History Under Attack. Denzel: Othello is just a play. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

The average Broadway theatergoer is a 42-year-old white woman from out of town whose family income exceeds $275,000. That’s one way to summarize The Demographics of the Broadway Audience …

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Sunday, February 9, 2025

Super Bowl LIX: 5 Celebrity Commercials by New York Theater

My favorite celebrity commercial during the 2025 Super Bowl weren’t selling a product, but promoting an ideal. The others were hawking liquor and condiments.

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Two Centuries of Black Actors on the New York Stage by New York Theater

When Denzel Washington starts performing as Othello later this month on Broadway, he’ll be following by exactly two centuries the debut portrayal of “the Moor of Venice” by Ira Aldridg…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PM
Friday, February 7, 2025

BroadwayCon 2025 Day 1 Scenes and Scents by New York Theater

Samantha Sehter is the brains – or the nose? – behind “Scents of the Stage,” a brand new company that makes candles that smell like specific Broadway shows – or more precisely, cre…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Still Review. Love vs. Politics by New York Theater

They meet for drinks after an absence of thirty years, still loving one another, and still sharing a secret.  “Still,” starring Melissa Gilbert (from Little House on the Prairie) and M…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Mrs. Loman Review. Willy’s Widow Awakens by New York Theater

  In “Mrs. Loman,” a misfire of a play that attempts a sequel to Arthur Miller’s “Death of A Salesman,”  Willy Loman’s widow Linda experiences a somewhat anachronistic awakeni…

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Off Broadway Week 2025: 2 for 1 Tickets by New York Theater

Tickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 29 Off-Broadway productions (18 of them newly offered), for performances from February 17 th…

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The Antiquities Review. Extinct humans on display by New York Theater

In “The Antiquities,” playwright Jordan Harrison offers a dozen stories about the downside of technology through the ages, each from a distinctive year, from 1816 to 2240. If the play ca…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PM
Monday, February 3, 2025

Obies and Grammys. Lady Gaga kicked out of her government job. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

“Yes, the darkness is loud, but the light is brighter y’all,” Brandon Victor Dixon shouted while accepting the Grammy for Best Musical Theater album for “Hells Kitchen,” That’s s…

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Sunday, February 2, 2025

Hells Kitchen Wins Best Musical Theater Grammy 2025 by New York Theater

Hells Kitchen has won the 2025 best musical theater album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year …

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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Obie Awards 2025 by New York Theater

The 68th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes Lifetime achievement awards for Charles Busch, …

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February 2025 New York Theater Openings by New York Theater

Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show, “Redwood,” starring Idina Menzel, and plenty of star power Off Broadway: Rainn Wilson, Jor…

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Friday, January 31, 2025

Theater Quiz for January 2025 by New York Theater

“Wicked” and “Hamilton” are back in the news, as is a certain former reality show host; some once little-known stage actors are now….nominees; and there was plenty new and strange …

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

The Mother Act. When your mother turns your life into a show. by New York Theater

Sadie is an actress who so hates motherhood that she put together a one-woman show about how her daughter ruined her life; it is one of the reasons her daughter Jude feels Sadie ruined hers.…

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Theater Blog Roundup: Assessing 2024, Avoiding 2025. by New York Theater

Some theater bloggers are responding bluntly to the alarming political moment. Don Shewey lists sources of news that haven’t been corrupted by billionaire owners, George Hunka posted �…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PM
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

JFK, RFK would be “disgusted”: Caroline Kennedy’s SCATHING takedown of her cousin RFK Jr. Video and transcript by New York Theater

RFK Jr “lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. These facts alone should be disqualifying…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:19PM
Monday, January 27, 2025

Kowalski Review: When Brando First Met Tennessee Williams by New York Theater

Not everything is offensively fabricated in “Kowalski,” an account of the first time Marlon Brando ever met Tennessee Williams, to audition for “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the play t…

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A Wonderful World Coming to an End. Lin-Manuel on SNL. Broadway at the Oscars. TikTok on Stage. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Has it been just a week? It doesn’t feel like such a wonderful world right now. So perhaps it’s fitting that the Louis Armstrong musical on Broadway with that title announced its closing…

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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Spring 2025 New York Theater Preview: 10 Shows to See* by New York Theater

This season, there will be two shows starring corpses, two reimagined classics performed by a single actor portraying dozens of characters, two new plays by MacArthur Geniuses, three scree…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PM
Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Fire This Time Festival 2025 by New York Theater

Hagar is fed up with the state of Black playwriting. “These kids aren’t writing anything new. They all keep circling August Wilson. Family dramas are important…but if you’ve seen one…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:22PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre