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Nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow January 13, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the history of Broadway at the Oscars. (The 92nd Oscar…
Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 21 through February 9 of 21 Broadway shows, from "Ain't Too Proud"…
There was a time when people made a living by starving themselves in front of a paying audience " an art form that lasted for centuries, but one that was on the wane when Franz Kafka wrote o…
The long arty title and the vague, grand description of the show in the Under the Radar festival listing are both misleading. "The Shadow" etc. has a straightforward subject and a clear poin…
"Wild Dogs Under My Skirt," a rhythmic, exuberant and startling work of theater that is the first of three New Zealand plays at Soho Playhouse this month, resembles Ntozake Shange's choreopo…
Two Broadway veterans " Taylor Mac, Tony-nominated playwright of "Gary" and Greg Kotis, the Tony-winning co-author of "Urinetown" " are back Off-Off Broadway this season, and why would that …
Broadway and Off-Broadway were represented at the 77th annual Golden Globes; click on photographs for details. (Full list of 2020 Golden Globe winners and nominees.) Theater is an art form t…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from January through April 2020 as of this writing, and they are listed …
Genocide, suicide, murder, deportation, terror, kidnapping, mass explosion " those are some of the bleak subjects of the Off-Broadway shows I'm most looking forward to this season, listed be…
For all the Broadway lore and persistent hope that a show on the Great White Way will make new stars and break new ground, the appeal of Broadway increasingly has become its familiarity " fa…
Below is a selection of New York theater openings in January, organized chronologically by opening date.* Three shows are opening on Broadway this month " Laura Linney in "My Name Is…
Watch the entire 90-minute concert "Celebrating Sondheim," performed by the New York Philharmonic live on New Year's Eve 2020, with host Bernadette Peters and guest vocalist Katrina Lenk sin…
In the decade just ended, there were unmistakable trends specific to the theater " teen musicals, for example, and celebrity bio jukebox musicals. Which of these trends will continue in 2020…
We celebrate the new decade by saluting  Broadway veterans who are aged 88 to 105, many of them still working. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.  Â
It would be hard to have put together these weekly summaries of New York theater news for the entire decade, as I have, without noticing: This has been a weird decade. Even the name of the d…
 Below are the ten most popular videos posted in 2019 on my New York Theater Youtube channel, in order of popularity. Below that are the top five New York theater videos of the decade Be…
Recall what happened in theater in 2019 by answering these 16 questions, many adapted from my monthly quizzes throughout the year.
Here are the 10 most popular posts of NewYorkTheater.me from 2019, and below that some good reads from the year. Then: the top five posts of the decade! 10 Most Popular Posts From 2019 Poll:…
 Broadway lights will dim on January 7 at 6:45 p.m. for Jerry Herman, who died on Thursday at the age of  88, at the end of a year that saw the death of Carol Channing at its beginnin…
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2020, most of which were  published in 2019*.  Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four …
My annual New Year's Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year's Eve 2020 (when 2019 turns into 2020) in New York City Below: Times Square. Broadway show …
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2019. Click on any photograph to read the caption.
 Check out: Favorite stage performances in 2019. Top 10 Lists of Top 10 Theater in 2019. Best Broadway Cast Recording of 2019. Top 10 Theater of the Decade. Worst Theater of the Decade. …
Below is the Broadway schedule between Monday December 23, 2019 and Sunday, December 29, 2019, with links to my reviews of the shows. Eight shows will be performing on Christmas Eve (Tuesday…
Welcome to my annual Worst Broadway Show Poll. Pick the show you thought was the worst to open on Broadway between 2010 and 2019. Most of the 20 nominees were the two highest scorers in each…
