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Sunday, May 3, 2026

Bedlam’s ‘Othello’ strips the classic to the bone (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Off Broadway’s Bedlam troupe returns to its bare-bones theatermaking roots with a production of Othello that requires its four-person cast to double (and triple and quadruple) up to play 1…

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Tony Danza slips on ‘Broken Snow’ (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Two men break into an abandoned house and soon wind up in a standoff with guns drawn. That’s the intriguing premise at the top of Ben Andron’s misguided and muddled three-hander Broken S…

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Tony Awards 2026: We predict the nominees – and a lot of love for ‘Giant,’ ‘Ragtime,’ and ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ by Thom Geier

A remarkable, and in some ways remarkably strange Broadway season is winding down. The number of musicals — new musicals in particular — has been remarkably light. I’ll bet that the pr…

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Sunday, April 26, 2026

‘Kenrex’ is a brave and bravura true-crime thriller (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

The British actor Jack Holden is a good-looking guy with a profound ordinariness about him: a kind and expressive face, the barest hint of a paunch, and light brown hair combed up to suggest…

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‘The Lost Boys’ is a muscial sensation with high stakes in the heart (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

The creators of The Lost Boys, the new stage musical based on the cheesy 1987 teenage-vampire flick of the same name, know what you’re thinking. Early on, the owner of the local video stor…

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Saturday, April 25, 2026

‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ makes a welcome return to Broadway (Review) by Thom Geier

August Wilson is arguably the greatest American playwright of the last century. In a remarkable career, particularly the 10-play saga set in each decade of the 20th century, he chronicled th…

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Friday, April 24, 2026

Corey Stoll and Cecily Strong tiptoe around romance in ‘What Happened Was…’ (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Is there any experience quite as unsettling as a first date? Tom Noonan’s absorbing What Happened Was… captures the hopefulness, awkwardness, and gamesmanship of an evening spent by two …

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Thursday, April 23, 2026

‘The Rocky Horror Show’ is a fun ride, but time-warped in a bygone era (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

There’s something almost quaint about The Rocky Horror Show, the rock musical tribute to classic B-movies that had seemed like an outrageous one-finger salute to traditional mores when it …

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

‘Beaches’ washes up on Broadway a waterlogged musical mess (Review) by Thom Geier

More than a decade after its premiere at Virginia’s Signature Theatre, the stage adaptation of the 1988 big-screen melodrama Beaches has washed up on Broadway. Time and many years of devel…

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

‘The Balusters’ is a modern drawing room comedy that draws blood (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Hell may be other people, but the most nefarious circle of Hades belongs to the neighbors who organize themselves into HOAs. David Lindsay-Abaire’s well-polished comedy The Balusters boast…

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Monday, April 20, 2026

‘Schmigadoon!’ celebrates musical theater in all its colorful goofiness (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Schmigadoon!, a celebration and send-up of classic Broadway musicals that streamed for two seasons on Apple TV, has now made the inevitable if unnecessary transfer to the stage. Unlike last …

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Critic’s picks: The best of Broadway and Off Broadway right now by Thom Geier

From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage

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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara lead a fizzy 'Fallen Angels' (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Even after a century on the shelf, champagne doesn't always lose its fizz. Noël Coward's bubble-light 1925 comedy Fallen Angels, back on Broadway for the first time in 70 years, is a bit …

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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Ayo Edibiri and Don Cheadle scratch the surface of 'Proof' (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Ayo Edibiri and Don Cheadle are two of our finest screen performers, radiating an intelligence and likability that should serve them well in the first Broadway revival of David Auburn's Puli…

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Adrien Brody goes for the hard cell in fact-based prison drama 'The Fear of 13' (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

The latest film-to-stage adaptation to land on Broadway is a curious fact-based yarn about a Pennsylvania man unjustly convicted of a brutal rape and murder who sat on death row for two deca…

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

'The Adding Machine,' a century-old cautionary tale, doesn't quite add up (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Elmer Rice, the grandson of 19th-century German-Jewish revolutionaries who wrote socially conscious plays in the early 20th century, is no longer the household name he once was. But you can …

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Sunday, April 12, 2026

'Titaníque' is the king of the jukebox musical world (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Titaníque, a sendup of the 1997 Oscar winner Titanic by way of the jukebox musical, shouldn't work. On paper, there's no reason to revisit James Cameron's bombastic big-screen blockbuster…

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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf stake their claim in a spare 'Death of a Salesman' (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Some of our very best actors got their start in comedy " so it's only natural that sitcom veterans Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf should arrive on Broadway as that most deadly serious couple…

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' lets the fur and the freak flags fly (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

If there's any bygone hit musical that's ripe for reinvention, it's Andrew Lloyd Webber's bombastic furball Cats " a 1981 musical megahit with mostly interchangeable characters crooning lite…

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Monday, April 6, 2026

'Becky Shaw' presents a riotously epic clash of personality disorders (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A narcissistic psychopath, an insecure dependent, a borderline, and a perpetual savior walk into a theater… and create one of the funniest and most…

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Nicole Travolta recaps her journey through debt, divorce, and spray tans in 'Doing Alright' (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Proximity to fame can do a number on one's self esteem. That's the big takeaway from Nicole Travolta Is Doing Alright, a gently comedic one-woman show by a personable and talented thirtysome…

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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

'Seagull: True Story' recasts Chekhov for the Putin era (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Alexander Molochnikov was a rising theater director in Moscow until his outspoken denunciation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced him to flee to the United States. In Seagull: Tr…

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'Dog Day Afternoon' Jon Bernthal can't escape Al Pacino's long shadow (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

In his Broadway debut, Jon Bernthal struts and frets in a serviceable facsimile of Al Pacino in the new stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon " but the new production joins a recent list of …

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Sunday, March 29, 2026

'No Singing in the Navy' is a goofy but heartfelt throwback (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

The program for Milo Cramer's new musical revue No Singing in the Navy includes a witty and well-researched note from the playwright suggesting that sailors are "*the* True Subject of the Am…

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'Titus Andronicus' Patrick Page leads a bloody mess of a revival (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

The collected works of William Shakespeare are studded with so-called problem plays. Few are as problematic as Titus Andronicus, the Bard's first tragedy and generally co-credited to his pla…

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

'Public Charge' offers a bracing defense of government bureaucrats (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

You've never seen a procedural drama quite like the one in Public Charge, a fact-based play now running at the Public Theater. The show, by former State Department official Julissa Reynoso a…

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Monday, March 23, 2026

John Lithgow's 'Giant' boasts towering performances and a timely hook (Broadway review) by Thom Geier

They say that you should never meet your heroes. Fans of the late British children's author Roald Dahl, creator of Willy Wonka, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach, are in for a very rude…

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Friday, March 20, 2026

'Jesa' is a sisterly masterpiece that honors and transcends tradition (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

In her stunning playwriting debut, Korean American actress Jeena Yi has managed to create a masterpiece. Jesa, a Ma-Yi Theater Company production now playing at the Public Theater, is an ins…

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Thursday, March 19, 2026

A stubbornly old-fashioned 'Monte Cristo' musical is down for the count (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

In the 180 years since it was first published, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo has continued to cast its spell on readers and audiences. The French produced a pricey feature adap…

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'The Wild Party' cements Jasmine Amy Rogers' star status (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Musical theater can create stars in virtually no time at all. Consider the remarkable rise of Jasmine Amy Rogers, who scored a Tony nomination last year for her Broadway debut in the flawed …

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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

'My Joy Is Heavy' finds musical resilience in loss (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

The indie folk-rock duo known as the Bengsons have been a regular fixture on Off Broadway stages over the last decade (and even made an appearance on Broadway last year performing Stephen Me…

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All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off