5,355 stories from New York Theater
A dozen cartoonists offer their take on the Presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, which is happening tonight for 90 minutes starting at …
James Earl Jones, the shy kid from Arkabutla, Mississippi who grew up to be an commanding actor of the stage and screen for some seven decades " so admired as a stage actor that he had a Bro…
Everything these days is debatable. Politics of course: Tuesday night the Presidential candidates are debating. But theater too. The Broadway Fall season begins two days after the debate, wi…
About halfway through "Life and Trust,"  a mammoth site-specific show that is set spectacularly in the heart of the Financial District,  I was rewarded with the immersive theate…
As the Fall season begins, pick your top three choices out of the 16 shows that are currently scheduled to open  on Broadway in September, October, November and December 2024. The show…
There was a time when Billy Rose " Broadway producer, impresario, lyricist, columnist, and all-around theatrical showman " was a leading figure on Broadway. Born 125 years ago on September 6…
Audra McDonald as Madame Rose; Robert Downey Jr's Broadway debut; Elton John's first new Broadway musical in a dozen years. It's hard to resist the lure of the big musicals and starry debuts…
Broadway Week, a two-for-one ticket discount to current Broadway shows, begins today, the start of a busy month and a starry season.  In September alone, three Broadway shows are op…
Labor Day means something different to Colm Summers, the new artistic director of  Working Theater, a New York company about to launch its fortieth season as (in the words of their mis…
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in September, Including three new plays on Broadway " featuring the Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr., and the return of Patti LuPon…
How well were you following the theater in August? By theater this month, that includes political theater, as well as the past and future on stage, not just the present. Answer the quiz belo…
 Following up on the recent Broadway revival of his Tony and Pulitzer-winning play "Doubt" and his new Off-Broadway hit "Brooklyn Laundry," John Patrick Shanley has written another new p…
It would be silly to dismiss "Hurricane Season" just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic con…
"It used to be a time when the movement was spearheaded by young people….putting their lives on the line. Now, they just put their lives online." It's a line in "Good Trouble" by Anthony T…
"Humanity is on the ballot, y'all. Please don't be complacent, because otherwise we're cooked," Billy Porter said to an estimated 3,000 people who attended an hour-long Zoom call organized b…
The most stageworthy news of the past week, let's face it, were the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. "…the miracles of democracy and community": AOC at the DNC, video an…
" i am calling on all you independents and all you undecideds. Â¥ou know this is true. You know I am telling you the truth. That values and character matter most of all. In leadership and …
 Before Doug Emhoff explained the embarrassing moment that led to his first date with Kamala Harris, he began his speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention by introducing his "big…
"For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us," Michelle Obama said at Day 2 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, talking about herself and her hu…
"Six years ago, I was taking omelette orders as a waitress in New York City. I didn't have health insurance. My family was fighting off foreclosure and we were struggling with bills after my…
How close has legitimate theater come to capturing the political theater of Presidential campaigns and party conventions, especially the real-life implausible whiplash political dramas of th…
What we know about Lot's wife from the Bible is that she looked back at the city of Sodom, although forbidden to do so, and became a pillar of salt. Lots more happens in Genesis 19 " a mob o…
More than 7,000 languages currently exist in the world, of which an astonishing 700 are spoken in New York City " more than anyplace else on earth. "Language and music are portable homelands…
Here are some of the stars scheduled to appear on a New York stage in the 2024-2025 season, several for the first time in many years, or ever: Christian Borle, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Burr,…
"Once Upon A Mattress" opened tonight for its third turn on Broadway, with Sutton Foster's performance as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone the same goofy and intense workout that proved a dr…
