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Awards season always reveals the same uncomfortable truth: critics love to position themselves as tastemakers while often missing the very work audiences carry home with them. This year’s …
Memorial Day may unofficially begin the Hamptons season, though the real social calendar explodes between now and the end of June. This is the sweet spot before July traffic becomes psycholo…
The Outer Critics Circle Awards continued their celebration of the 2025–2026 Broadway and Off-Broadway season with an afternoon that felt equal parts theatrical reunion, victory lap, and e…
Atlantic Theater Company and Rattlestick Theatre Off-Broadway premiere of Indian Princesses arrives carrying the weight of multiple conversations before the lights even dim. Written by Elia…
The Outer Critics Circle Awards celebrated the best of the 2025–2026 Broadway and Off-Broadway season yesterday afternoon at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, bringing together nominee…
Outside the Chita Rivera Awards, the red carpet moved with the exact kind of electricity only theater dancers generate — glamorous, kinetic, slightly chaotic, and fueled almost entirely by…
The interviews at Sunday’s Drama Desk Awards revealed a theater community both exhilarated and exhausted after one of the most creatively ambitious seasons in recent memory. Conversations …
There are shows that entertain. There are shows that impress. Then there are the rare theatrical experiences that seem to bypass logic entirely and go somewhere buried far deeper inside the …
Some entrances are met with applause. Others stop a room cold. At this year’s Chita Rivera Awards at NYU Skirball, the arrival of Ann-Margret did something far rarer. The audience rose ins…
The Drama Desk Awards have always occupied a uniquely democratic position within New York theater. Unlike the territorial separation that defines most awards seasons, the Drama Desks remain …
On Monday night, Broadway celebrates the artists who understand one essential truth: movement is storytelling. The Chita Rivera Awards return to honor the dancers, choreographers, directors,…
There are award shows that celebrate celebrity, and then there are award shows that celebrate the heartbeat of Broadway itself. This Monday, the Chita Rivera Awards once again shine a spotli…
There is something deeply old-fashioned about Bubba Weiler’s Well, I’ll Let You Go — and I mean that as the highest compliment. Like Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, the play understands …
Steven Pasquale, Conrad Ricamora, Tala Ashe, and so many more featured in Classic Stage Company’s 2026-27 season The Off-Broadway theatre company will present three productions between Oct…
With the death of Rex Reed, New York loses not simply a critic, but an entire era of cultural life that may never exist again. Rex Reed was one of the last great celebrity critics — a figu…
The Outer Critics Circle winners have officially landed, and while the results solidified several frontrunners in this year’s Tony race, they also revealed where the season may still hold …
In an age where celebrity culture has become its own form of performance art, Celebrity Autobiography feels less like a comedy gimmick and more like a perfectly timed Broadway event. The cul…
Broadway is having one of its strongest seasons in years, and this spring, Rockefeller Center is throwing open the curtain. Beginning May 14 through June 4, Road to Broadway transforms The R…
Seven years ago, I saw The Hello Girls at 59E59 Theaters and immediately fell in love with it. Today, at the star-studded concert presentation at Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Jerome Robbins T…
The 2026 honorees for the prestigious Theatre World Awards were announced May 7, celebrating standout debut performances on Broadway and Off-Broadway. The ceremony, one of the theatre commun…
There are great musicals. There are important musicals. Then there are the rare works that become part of the moral and emotional bloodstream of America itself. Ragtime belongs to that final…
Broadway’s second-biggest morning arrived with the usual mix of anticipation and surprise, as nominations for the 79th Annual Tony Awards began rolling out on CBS Mornings, with the indust…
There is satire, and then there is chaos masquerading as commentary. Movies TV Mayhem, written by Dean Taucher and directed by Richard Caliban, now playing Off-Broadway at Theatre Row, aims …
The 2026 Pulitzer Prize arrives at a moment when clarity carries uncommon weight. Long regarded as the highest honor in American journalism and letters, the Pulitzers continue to recognize w…
There are caricatures, and then there is what Ken Fallin does. With a few decisive lines, Fallin doesn’t just render a likeness—he captures the emotional architecture of a production. Hi…
