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At first, "Shimmer and Herringbone," the third and final absurdist play in the avant-garde theater company Talking Band's fiftieth anniversary season, promises to be a series of random riffs…
 "Scarlett Dreams" is a play that imagines a near-future dominated by Artificial Intelligence, so I asked ChatGPT how it would review the play. It instantly produced a 303-word review, wh…
"Exagoge," inspired by the oldest known Jewish play, is a wildly ambitious, complicated but largely accessible new work of immersive theater: a play, opera, and Passover seder all in one " a…
Below are the nominations for the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The awards will be announced May 30th, and the ceremony will take place June 18th, at Sardi's. The Alliance has al…
The children's book author Dare Wright is billed as the inspiration for this unusual theater piece, although her name is never mentioned on stage. Actually, nothing is mentioned on stage. "S…
"Here There Are Blueberries" turns the real-life discovery of an ordinary-looking photo album into a riveting detective story, with the characters gathering clues to unravel a series of myst…
Eboni Booth's "Primary Trust" has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich
's "Here There Are Blueberries" and Shayok Misha Chowdhury's "Public Obscen…
Nominations for the Tony Awards and for the Drama Desk Awards were among the theater awards announced last week; winners of the Lucille Lortel Awards were announced and feted last night; win…
 Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "The Comeuppance" won Outstanding Play and nicHi douglas' "(pray)" won Outstanding Musical, Director and Ensemble at the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Aw…
"Grenfell" is documentary theater about an infamous 2017 fire in a 24-story public housing project in London called Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people. Subtitled "In the words of sur…
Theater in Chinatown used to mean gangland shoot-outs " both on the screen and in the balcony of the neighborhood's many movie theaters, which had names like Sun Sing and Pagoda, and were ha…
Watch one- or two-minute videos from each of the five musicals nominated for the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical: "Hell's Kitchen," "Illinoise," "The Outsiders," "Suffs" and "Water for Elep…
Eight Special Tony Awards and Honors have been announced, including for pioneers in projection design, hair and wig design, and sound design, as well as for writer and director Alex Edelman.…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, including new musicals from Laura Benanti and Dave Malloy as well as a new opera from David Henry Hwang, all Off-Broadway. Nothing is schedule…
Eleven* of the 39 shows that opened on Broadway in the 2023-2024 season received no Tony nominations. This doesn't necessarily mean they were cheated; the Tony nominators had to make choices…
Hell's Kitchen and Stereophonic lead with 13 Tony Award nominations each, the most respectively for a musical and a play, as announced  this morning by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Eli…
Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2024 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, as announced this afternoon by Bebe Neuwirth.…
Nominations for the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards were announced by Kathleen Turner this morning. The awards, which honor achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadwa…
Three plays and four musicals opened on Broadway last week, the last of the 39 shows that opened during the 2023-2024 season. Awards season has already begun in earnest, with the nominations…
Rachel McAdams might at first seem to be miscast in her first role on Broadway.  She portrays the title character in Amy Herzog's deceptively casual play about the mother of a severely…
How well were you paying attention to the fourteen Broadway plays and musicals that opened in April, the last month of the 2023-2024 Broadway season? Take the quiz and find out. Loading…
A musical about the Jazz Age with almost no jazz? A man of mystery who tells us everything in his first song? A critique of wealth in a show whose main pleasure is how expensive it looks? Th…
Jessica Lange is unforgettable in Paula Vogel's unforgiving portrait of the title character in "Mother Play," her semiautobiographical new play opening tonight on Broadway " a role that is s…
As Vanya, Steve Carell, who's been a low-level whiner for the first two Acts, suddenly gets so angry at his pompous-ass brother-in-law who's been sponging off him for thirty years, that he p…
"Illinoise," an exquisite stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens' acclaimed 2005 album "Illinois," is opening on Broadway today just six weeks after it opened at the Park Avenue Armory, a…
