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The climate crisis has been deadly for polar bears and flamingos, sharks and elderly mothers-in-law, but it's been gold for innovative Belgian theater companies. "Dimanche,"Â Â a series …
The revival of Lorraine Hansberry's second play, which debuted at BAM in February, has now opened on Broadway, where I saw it again, and have something more to say about it. But I'll put my …
Ruth and her mother Magalee are stuck in Shadowland, a place that was once their family's source of pride, a jazz club that had the distinction of being the first air-conditioned hotel for B…
Below is a chart showing a list of discounted tickets via lottery and rush for each current Broadway show, presented in the tradition of the useful (but sadly no longer updated) website Broa…
Tony Award nomination announcement "Some LIke It Hot" leads with 13 nominations, the most for a musical, and "Ain't No Mo," "A Doll's House" and "Leopoldstadt" tie for the most nominated…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May 2023 in New York, including a new, scary Broadway show, an unusually early kickoff for the new Broadway season, at a time when attention is on …
Below is the list of honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2022-2023 theatrical season The 77th annual Thea…
When the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced tomorrow morning, it will be five days after the five final shows officially opened on Broadway, marking the end of the Broadway 2022-2…
In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week, here are ten plays by and/or about lesbians, none of which are being performed in New York currently, but the scripts are published, and worth reading…
How well were you paying attention to the theater in April, 2023, the end of the Broadway season? Answer these ten questions " and one doozy of a bonus question " to find out. Loading…
At the very end of Wesley Du's solo play about a Chinese-American boy named Pinky who wants to be a blues guitarist, Pinky reads aloud a letter from Cannonball, the irascible, bigoted Black …
Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht sit at the same table but don't look at one another, nor talk to each other, at the beginning of this exquisitely acted production of David Auburn's gauzy, bit…
Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…
 "Shucked" leads in the nominations for the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. The awa…
"Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today…"Â Anna Uzele as Francine starts to sing… "So leave already!" interrupts the brusque manager of the polka band for whom she's auditioning. …
"New York, New York" followed by "Some Like It Hot" received the most nominations for the 72nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announced May 1…
Below are the nominations for the 89th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Justin Guarini and Rogert Bart.. The awards ceremony, open to the public, wil…
Below are the six longest-running shows currently on Broadway, with descriptions and links. This feels the right time for an update given that "The Phantom of the Opera," the longest show in…
When Sean Hayes as the concert pianist and celebrated wit Oscar Levant sits down at the piano to play "Rhapsody in Blue," I thought at first that it was a recording and he was simulating the…
Three shows opened on Broadway within the last four days, four more will officially open within the next four days, and then the Broadway 2022-2023 season will officially end, and the theate…
Almost immediately after she is raped, Tessa Ensler starts imagining the questions a defense attorney would ask her, and the witnesses he would call, to get the rapist off. "Legal instinct t…
In celebration of the 53rd annual Earth Day today, thirty blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehicular traffic, and alive with pop-up performances …
Sure I laughed. I laughed when Tinker Bell is electrocuted, and when Neil Patrick Harris's Masterpiece Theater-like chair somehow attacks him. But, after two hours watching an implausible pi…
Larissa FastHorse, whose often hilarious play is reportedly the first on Broadway by a Native American woman, sends up well-meaning white liberals, mocks the vanities and pretensions of thes…
It's a "banquet of the unbearable," one character calls the show he's in " a chronological account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as captured in the short plays and songs that S…
