Tuesday, May 16, 2023
“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 10:41AMMonday, May 15, 2023
The Tony Awards will not be broadcast live on June 11 because of the strike by the Writers Guild of America, which on Friday declined to grant a waiver requested by the Tony management commi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AMSunday, May 14, 2023
Broadway is not always kind to mothers, but Mother always makes an impression. On Mothers Day, let us recall the season just ended: Jack’s Mother in “Into The Woods” urged her doltish …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMSaturday, May 13, 2023
Emilio Sosa designed costumes for an astonishing eight shows in the New York theater season just ended, including five on Broadway, that were striking from head to toe – from the hats in �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PMFriday, May 12, 2023
Below are the nominations for the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. Winners will be announced May 31st, and the awards ceremony will take place June 20th, at Sardi’s. Don’t know …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AMWednesday, May 10, 2023
Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2023-2024 season. The shows are listed chronologically by opening date* (not by first preview), with the title linked to the show’s of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AMTuesday, May 9, 2023
The opening number of this resurrected musical from the late Elizabeth Swados is so lively and inviting that it reminded me of “Comedy Tonight” in “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMMonday, May 8, 2023
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named Bruce Norris’s Downstate best play of the 2022-23 season. The award for best foreign play went to Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt. No awa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53PM“English” by Sanaz Toossi has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Finalists were “On Sugarland” and “The Far Country” Check out my New York Theater Awards 2023: Guide and Calen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PMThe Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards will both be announced later today, capping the week’s theater award windfall: first the Theatre World Award Winne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AMSunday, May 7, 2023
“Wolf Play” won Outstanding Play and four other awards, and “Titanique” Outstanding Musical at the 38th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PMSaturday, May 6, 2023
The climate crisis has been deadly for polar bears and flamingos, sharks and elderly mothers-in-law, but it’s been gold for innovative Belgian theater companies. “Dimanche,” a serie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:48PMFriday, May 5, 2023
The revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s second play, which debuted at BAM in February, has now opened on Broadway, where I saw it again, and have something more to say about it. But I’ll put…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:12PMThursday, May 4, 2023
Ruth and her mother Magalee are stuck in Shadowland, a place that was once their family’s source of pride, a jazz club that had the distinction of being the first air-conditioned hotel for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Below is a chart showing a list of discounted tickets via lottery and rush for each current Broadway show, presented in the tradition of the useful (but sadly no longer updated) website Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
Tony Award nomination announcement “Some LIke It Hot” leads with 13 nominations, the most for a musical, and “Ain’t No Mo,” “A Doll’s House” and “Leopoldstadt” tie for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMMonday, May 1, 2023
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May 2023 in New York, including a new, scary Broadway show, an unusually early kickoff for the new Broadway season, at a time when attention is on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMBelow is the list of honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2022-2023 theatrical season The 77th annual Theatre …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PMWhen the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced tomorrow morning, it will be five days after the five final shows officially opened on Broadway, marking the end of the Broadway 2022-2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMSunday, April 30, 2023
In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week, here are ten plays by and/or about lesbians, none of which are being performed in New York currently, but the scripts are published, and worth reading. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater in April, 2023, the end of the Broadway season? Answer these ten questions — and one doozy of a bonus question — to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMSaturday, April 29, 2023
At the very end of Wesley Du’s solo play about a Chinese-American boy named Pinky who wants to be a blues guitarist, Pinky reads aloud a letter from Cannonball, the irascible, bigoted Blac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMFriday, April 28, 2023
Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht sit at the same table but don’t look at one another, nor talk to each other, at the beginning of this exquisitely acted production of David Auburn’s gauzy,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PMBelow is the complete list of the nominations for 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AMThursday, April 27, 2023
“Shucked” leads in the nominations for the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. The a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PMWednesday, April 26, 2023
“Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today…” Anna Uzele as Francine starts to sing… “So leave already!” interrupts the brusque manager of the polka band for whom she’s aud…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PM“New York, New York” followed by “Some Like It Hot” received the most nominations for the 72nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Below are the nominations for the 89th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Justin Guarini and Rogert Bart.. The awards ceremony, open to the public, will be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMBelow are the six longest-running shows currently on Broadway, with descriptions and links. This feels the right time for an update given that “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest sho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AMMonday, April 24, 2023
When Sean Hayes as the concert pianist and celebrated wit Oscar Levant sits down at the piano to play “Rhapsody in Blue,” I thought at first that it was a recording and he was simulating…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PMThree shows opened on Broadway within the last four days, four more will officially open within the next four days, and then the Broadway 2022-2023 season will officially end, and the theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AM 
