Monday, May 4, 2026

Lucille Lortel Awards 2026: Mexodus by Jonathan Mandell

 “Mexodus,,” a two-man musical about the little-known history of Mexico as a refuge for thousands of escaping American slaves before the Civil War, won outstanding musical, director, le…

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Sunday, May 3, 2026

The Lost Boys Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

Spectacular stagecraft, thrilling young performers with terrific voices, a pulsing  score by the indie-rock band the Rescues that has at least one tune I find memorable:  “The Lost Boy…

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Saturday, May 2, 2026

Partying with the Nominees by Jonathan Mandell

Theater award season has begun in earnest, which means receptions for the shows and individuals nominated. Below are  photographs of some of the people at an Outer Critics Circle party, ta…

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Friday, May 1, 2026

May 2026 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, with some starry and exciting fare, none of it on Broadway. Hugh Jackman is again affordable at Audible; “Heated Rivalry” gets a parody, t…

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

2026 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards: Little Bear Ridge Road, Ragtime, Alden Ehrenreich, Qween Jean… by Jonathan Mandell

 “Little Bear Ridge Road,” playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s Broadway debut, has heen selected as the best play of the 2025-2026 season by The New York Drama Critics Circle, which gave Be…

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Chita Rivera Award Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

Both “Schmigadoon” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” get lots of love in the nominations for the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies, announce…

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Drama Desk Award Nominations 2026 by Jonathan Mandell

“Beau the Musical” and “Mexodus” both lead the nominations for the 70th annual Drama Desk Awards, each receiving ten, which were announced by Raúl Esparza and Helen J Shen this mo…

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Broadway Season Closer Quiz by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to the Broadway 2025-2026 season and its April finale? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…

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Monday, April 27, 2026

Broadway Season Ends. Award Season Begins. #Stageworthy News of the Week. by Jonathan Mandell

Over this past week Broadway has been awash in friends and fiends, boarders and board members, Golden Age hoofers and 80s vampires, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2025-2026 season ha…

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Sunday, April 26, 2026

KENREX Review by Jonathan Mandell

In this award-winning English export, Jack Holden portrays thirty-five characters to dramatize the 1981 murder of a violent, petty criminal in the small rural town of Skidmore, Missouri. Why…

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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

In director Debbie Allen’s sturdy production of August Wilson’s intense and lyrical play, Cedric The Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson portray the stable long-time married couple Seth and…

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Friday, April 24, 2026

New Yorkers in Edinburgh (and NYC): Xhloe and Natasha + 9 by Jonathan Mandell

Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland, a New York-based theatrical clown duo who perform as Xhloe and Natasha, had so much trouble mounting their play “And Then the Rodeo Burned Down” that they…

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Thursday, April 23, 2026

The Rocky Horror Show Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

“The Rocky Horror Show,” opening tonight at Studio 54, is the latest in a quartet of campy Broadway musicals this month that seem as much acts of resistance against a retrogressively ant…

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Beaches Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

“Beaches, A New Musical” opened tonight at Broadway’s Majestic Theater thirty-eight years after the movie “Beaches” left critics largely unimpressed (“a movie completely construc…

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

The Balusters Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

The squabbling over whether to put a stop sign on the neighborhood’s prettiest street might not sound  substantial enough to build a play around. But David Lindsay-Abaire’s fresh and f…

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Outer Critics Circle Award 2026 Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

“The Lost Boys” leads the nominations for the 76th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning by Isa Briones and Sepideh Moafiat the Museum of Broadcasting. The winners …

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Monday, April 20, 2026

Schmigadoon! Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

With its spot-on, affectionate parodies of the most beloved Broadway musicals from the Golden Age, “Schmigadoon” felt like just the right TV series for theatergoers who had to go without…

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2026 Drama League Award Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

Below are the nominations for the 92nd annual Drama League Awards announced this morning. The awards will be held May 15th at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Want to know what other New York theater …

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Proof, Fear, Fallen Angels on Broadway. #Stageworthy News of the Week. by Jonathan Mandell

Escape or engage? That seems to be the choice in the shows that opened in the past week: You could spend time in an elegant English drawing room or on Death Row. It’s more or less the choi…

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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Fallen Angels Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

Kelli O'Hara's drunken pratfalls, along with Rose Byrne's wildly skewed wig, mark the high point in the low comedy that most distinguishes this century-old trifle, written by a young Noel Co…

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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Reading Broadway: The Books behind the 2025-2026 Season by Jonathan Mandell

Fifteen of the plays produced in the Broadway 2025 2026 Season are publicly available to read. A couple of this season's musicals are adapted from novels; a third comes directly from a bo…

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Friday, April 17, 2026

Off The Record: Acts of Restorative Justice by Jonathan Mandell

I attended "Off The Record" the same week as "The Fear of 13," both of which are about the failings of the American criminal justice system. The self-described '"theatrical intervention" Off…

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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Proof Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

Both Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri are making their Broadway debuts in this first Broadway revival of David Auburn's play about a family of mathematicians " the father a genius who became ment…

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

The Fear of 13 Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

Adrien Brody in his Broadway debut tells the true story of a man who spent more than two decades on Death Row for a murder he did not commit. Lindsey Ferrentino's play is also the story of a…

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Two April 14th Tragedies Now Broadway Punchlines by Jonathan Mandell

What does it say about us that every night on Broadway, theatergoers now gather to laugh at two terrible American tragedies, both of which occurred on April 14. John Wilkes Booth assassinate…

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Monday, April 13, 2026

Broadway Revisits Cats, Death of A Salesman, Titanique, Becky Shaw. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

The four shows that opened on Broadway this past week were already familiar to New York theatergoers. Two are revivals; the other two ran Off Broadway. Is this familiarity evidence of produc…

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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Titanique Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

This silly, campy show, a mashup of Céline Dion songs with a jokey replay of the movie "Titanic," has moved to Broadway, virtually unchanged from the anything-for-a-laugh entertainment it w…

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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Theater Online This Weekend: Sondheim, Sean Hayes, Julio Torres by Jonathan Mandell

Sean Hayes' final performances in 'The Unknown" on stage this weekend are also available on screen, via The League of Live Stream Theater. The play is one of several recent or current the…

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Friday, April 10, 2026

Tony Kushner Does a Cameo on Hacks by Jonathan Mandell

I happen to know the best writer in the world " Tony Kushner," Jean Smart as Deborah Vance says in the first episode of the final season of "Hacks." Her plan for a comeback is to win an EGOT…

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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Death of a Salesman Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

This sixth Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's towering play is undeniably a Prestige Production, but it's one that strains for effect, from the casting of Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, wh…

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

The Arthur Miller Tapes by Jonathan Mandell

When Arthur Miller died in 2005 at the age of 89, as Charles Bigsby tells us on the last page of his latest Miller book, it was on the anniversary of the opening night of the first Broadway …

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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