Sunday, June 11, 2023
How to watchThe 76th annual Tony Awards will be presented tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, live in person at the United Palace in Washington Heights, and simultaneously broadcast and/or…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PMSaturday, June 10, 2023
“You’re all very in touch with your emotions here,” the very British Jonathan Sayer said wryly after listening to some of the acceptance speeches at the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AMFriday, June 9, 2023
Below are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2023 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 11:15AMThursday, June 8, 2023
“We are not professional liars; we are professional pretenders,” Brian Stokes Mitchell began what was supposed to be an acceptance speech for his John Willis Award for Lifetime Ach…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PMWednesday, June 7, 2023
Is “The Merchant of Venice” antisemitic? Was Shakespeare? “The Shylock and the Shakespeareans,” playwright and director Edward Einhorn’s retelling of the Bard’s long-controver…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Joe’s three messed-up adult children long have known Joe to be an alcoholic, an addict and a horrid father. But they didn’t realize he was an alien from Outer Space. They learn this – …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52PMMonday, June 5, 2023
“The Comeuppance” both begins and ends with Death. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ dark, smart play features Death as a character, hanging out with five former classmates during the night o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55PMThe new Broadway season has already begun with the opening of “Grey House,” a new month of theater openings is already underway, but for one more week, attention will be on last season �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AMSunday, June 4, 2023
The set-up is straight out of a standard-issue horror movie: A couple who’ve been in a car crash on an isolated mountain top during a blizzard seek shelter, and help, in a creaking o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26PMSaturday, June 3, 2023
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 76th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 11th at United Palace i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AMFriday, June 2, 2023
Under the Radar, the oldest theater festival in New York City, is no more. Over its eighteen years, the festival, run by the Public Theater, presented cutting-edge theater by more than 200 c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMThursday, June 1, 2023
Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar and featuring two Broadway shows (one a comic solo play about antisemitism, the other a Britne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PMWednesday, May 31, 2023
Fat Ham won best new play and Titanique best new musical at the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. Winners will be feted June 20th, at Sardi’s. (List of this years Off Broadway Alli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PMSome Like It Hot won Outstanding Musical and seven other awards, Leopoldstadt won Outstanding Play at 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards, announced this morning. The Piano Lesson and Parade won…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMAnswer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, about the nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards. Tough times call for a tough quiz. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46AMTuesday, May 30, 2023
“Let’s celebrate I’m here. Let’s celebrate I’m anywhere these days,” the 95-year-old cabaret singer Marilyn Maye said over the weekend while singing Broadway standards at 54 Belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMMonday, May 29, 2023
“Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors,” Frederick Douglass said at the monument to the unknown dead of the Civi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMSunday, May 28, 2023
The “For Dummies” book series began thirty years ago by offering step-by-step practical and unintimidating guides to computer programming geared to intimidated novices. The first title, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03PMFriday, May 26, 2023
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 72nd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don’t k…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PMThursday, May 25, 2023
You might think of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” at the outset of “Primary Trust,” when a genial William Jackson Harper as Kenneth describes for us his quaint (fictional) hometow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PMWednesday, May 24, 2023
Deep dives into specific Sondheim shows bookend the theater blog roundup below, which also features an old radio broadcast and a comparison of Huck Finn to Hamlet. Much here attests to theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
“I’m tired of sports. It’s a sickness,” Shawn says to Matt in the middle of “King James,” Rajiv Joseph’s sweetly innocuous comedy about two lifelong fans of the Cleveland Caval…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PMMonday, May 22, 2023
Below 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 10:56PMThe swirl of colorful saris and blast of Vishal Bhardwaj’s pulsating Indian music enlivens this stage adaptation of Mira Nair’s acclaimed 2001 movie, offering a confusion of characters w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PMSome things are certain: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Succession” are ending (May 25th and May 28th) and the 76th annual Tony Awards is being broadcast (June 11th) What the regul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18PMSunday, May 21, 2023
Below are eleven popular posts over the eleven years since I began NewYorkTheater.me, in May 2012. All of these posts, ranked in order of popularity, are still getting traffic. (I have omitt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMFriday, May 19, 2023
“Leopoldstadt” was voted outstanding play and “Some Like It Hot” outstanding musical at the 89th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. An…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:44PMThursday, May 18, 2023
The support group that’s been meeting weekly at the noisy Buddhist Center in New York City for seven years calls itself the Fearless Warriors, although its half dozen members are anything …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
Ralph Lee (July 9, 1935 – May 12, 2023) — theater artist, Broadway veteran, the founder of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and the Mettawee River Theatre Company, and above al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AMTuesday, May 16, 2023
While “Parade” composer Jason Robert Brown played the piano, Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond sang several songs from the musical currently on Broadway inspired by the 2015 lynching in Geor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:48PM“Some Like It Hot” won outstanding new Broadway musical and four other awards, including outstanding lead performer, at the 72nd Outer Critics Circle Awards. Leopoldstadt won outstanding…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AM 
