5,300 stories from New York Theater
Today is Primary Day in New York City. Polls are open from 6 AM to 9 PM. Click here to find your polling location and see what’s on your particular ballot. (Just type your home address in…
The new Broadway season is already underway, with thirteen shows having secured their venues and nailed their dates, One has already opened and closed (yesterday.) Another is the world�…
It is so rare for any company to stage Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” trilogy that one could honestly say that the National Asian American Theatre Company’s production is unlike any you’…
There are a dozen shows currently running on Broadway with LGBTQ content and characters, more than at any time since I started this annual census. But the number alone doesn’t get at how g…
Below is a sample of published scripts written by 19 Black American playwrights, in honor of Juneteenth, which is a federal holiday, although established as such only since 2021. The holiday…
Tuneful and tourist-friendly, this old-fashioned musical by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein, featuring a long-time gay couple and their nightclub of dancing drag queens in St. Tropez, rack…
Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings* in the 2026-2027 season, which has already begun, and so far promises a couple of hit British imports, the Broadway premiere of the world’s …
Hell’s Kitchen was a hellish neighborhood when Alicia Augello Cook was growing up, and yet she thrived in it. These are the two central facts in the making of the musical artist Alicia Key…
The Knicks won their first N.B.A. championship in 53 years, igniting orange-and-blue tinted celebrations in NYC streets… and on Broadway stages! The celebration will continue on Broadway �…
Today, in the video below, “we rise up, we sing out, and we keep organizing” in the starry concert taking place at the Town Hall in New York, but available for free online. Rise Up, Sing…
The films that won the top awards at the 25th annual Tribeca Festival include an indigenous gay murder mystery aboard a ship near the Arctic Circle; a short about an awkward father in Egypt;…
Below is my review of Rosie O’Donnell’s one-woman show, “Common Knowledge,” which we now know will have a run from July 23 through August 8, 2026 at Daryl Roth Theater. She teased th…
This is a weekend when art and activism converge: “Rise Up Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment” will be held at The Town Hall on Sunday night, and streamed at watch parties an…
New York City is defined by weird, fleeting encounters between strangers, judging by “Human Theories,” one of the New York films at this year’s Tribeca Festival. But if one thing is cl…
A screen version of “Hadestown,” which is currently showing at the Tribeca festival and will be in movie theaters in July, has one moment that is not part of the original stage musi…
“My main mission now is to warn people how dangerous AI could be,” says Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Laureate who is called the godfather of Artificial Intelligence, in this documentary be…
John Leguizamo’s crack stood out for me at the 79th annual Tony Awards, amid the surprising and expected wins (complete list of winners), the heartfelt and political acceptance speeche…
Of the 24 Broadway shows that received one or more nominations for the 79th Annual Tony Awards, only ten took home at least one trophy; seven of these are still running — most of them n…
“Liberation” won won best play at the 79th annual Tony Award, “Ragtime” best revival of a musical and “Death of A Salesman” best revival of a play. Below the list of winners. (He…
Both New York’s basketball fans and theater fans are experiencing suspense and excitement at exactly the same time, which makes this feel the right time to revisit some shared history. Bel…
Below are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2026 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I’ve been maintaining since this blog began fourteen years ago. I am a critic, not a …
Susanna Kaysen was treated for eighteen months at the same psychiatric hospital as James Taylor, Sylvia Plath and Ray Charles. “Does this nuthouse, like, specialize in writers and artist-t…
On the red carpet for this year’s Theatre World Awards I asked the winners, all making their New York stage debuts, two questions (or tried to): When did they first realize they would be p…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in June. Sting is bringing his Broadway musical, much changed, to the Metropolitan Opera, and this time starring in it. Two dystopian dramas about an …
“Schmigadoon!” is continuing its winning streak, receiving the Dorian Theater Awards’ Outstanding Broadway Musical. “Prince Faggot” dominated the Off-Broadway categories. Joshua He…
