The new Broadway season has already begun with the opening of "Grey House," a new month of theater openings is already underway, but for one more week, attention will be on last season " tha…
The set-up is straight out of a standard-issue  horror movie:  A couple who've been in a car crash on an isolated mountain top during a blizzard seek shelter, and help, in a crea…
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 76th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 11th at United Palace in …
Under the Radar, the oldest theater festival in New York City, is no more. Over its eighteen years, the festival, run by the Public Theater, presented cutting-edge theater by more than 200 c…
Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar and featuring two Broadway shows (one a comic solo play about antisemitism, the other a Br…
Fat Ham won best new play and Titanique best new musical at the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. Winners will be feted June 20th, at Sardi's. (List of this years Off Broadway Allian…
Some Like It Hot won Outstanding Musical and seven other awards, Leopoldstadt won Outstanding Play at  67th Annual Drama Desk Awards, announced this morning. The Piano Lesson and Parade w…
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, about the nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards. Tough times call for a tough quiz. Loading…
"Let's celebrate I'm here. Let's celebrate I'm anywhere these days," the 95-year-old cabaret singer Marilyn Maye said over the weekend while singing Broadway standards at 54 Below " jazz-inf…
"Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors," Frederick Douglass said at the monument to the unknown dead of the Civil Wa…
The "For Dummies" book series began thirty years ago by offering step-by-step practical and unintimidating guides to computer programming geared to intimidated novices. The first title, in 1…
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 72nd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don't kno…
You might think of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" at the outset of "Primary Trust,"Â Â when a genial William Jackson Harper as Kenneth describes for us his quaint (fictional) hometown of C…
Deep dives into specific Sondheim shows bookend the theater blog roundup below, which also features an old radio broadcast and a comparison of Huck Finn to Hamlet. Much here attests to theat…
"I'm tired of sports. It's a sickness," Shawn says to Matt in the middle of "King James," Rajiv Joseph's sweetly innocuous comedy about two lifelong fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketbal…
Below is the complete list of 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented tonight at the NYU Skirball Center, Check out nominatio…
The swirl of colorful saris and blast of Vishal Bhardwaj's pulsating Indian music enlivens this stage adaptation of Mira Nair's acclaimed 2001 movie, offering a confusion of characters who h…
Some things are certain: "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Succession" are ending (May 25th and May 28th) and the 76th annual Tony Awards is being broadcast (June 11th) What the regular TV vi…
Below are eleven popular posts over the eleven years since I began NewYorkTheater.me, in May 2012. All of these posts, ranked in order of popularity, are still getting traffic. (I have omitt…
"Leopoldstadt" was voted outstanding play and "Some Like It Hot" outstanding musical at the 89th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Annaleig…
The support group that's been meeting weekly at the noisy Buddhist Center in New York City for seven years calls itself the Fearless Warriors, although its half dozen members are anything bu…
 Ralph Lee (July 9, 1935 " May 12, 2023) " theater artist, Broadway veteran, the founder of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and the Mettawee River Theatre Company, and above al…
While "Parade" composer Jason Robert Brown played the piano, Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond sang several songs from the musical currently on Broadway inspired by the 2015 lynching in Georgia …
"Some Like It Hot" won outstanding new Broadway musical and four other awards, including outstanding lead performer, at the 72nd Outer Critics Circle Awards. Leopoldstadt won outstanding new…
The Tony Awards will not be broadcast live on June 11 because of the strike by the Writers Guild of America, which on Friday declined to grant a waiver requested by the Tony management commi…