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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…
At this year’s Chita Rivera Awards, dance was not treated as supporting material to theater. It was theater. The evening, hosted by Charlotte d’Amboise and Robyn Hurder at NYU Skirball, …
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 …
Sunday’s Drama Desk Awards red carpet reflected the mood of the season itself: theatrical, glamorous, slightly chaotic, and deeply celebratory. Broadway favorites, downtown innovators, leg…
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…
The The Drama League Awards have always carried a slightly different energy than the rest of awards season. Less frantic campaigning. Less television polish. More industry heartbeat. The roo…
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…
There are singers and there are songwriters….then there is Melissa Manchester — one of the increasingly rare artists who fully inhabits both worlds with elegance, intelligence, emotional…
DAZZLING DOG DAY — I went this week to see Dog Day Afternoon and just adored it. John Bernthal was simply stunning; yes, he was doing a bit of Pacino, but clearly making the play his ow…
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…
It’s the most compelling question of the evening, when someone asks whether you would love a family member differently after discovering an unbearable truth about them. The idea unwinds ou…
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…