5,262 stories from New York Theater
Tom Stoppard, 88, an acclaimed author of some three dozen plays, had an extraordinary body of work, and lived an unusual life: Although he was viewed as one of the greatest English-language …
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My fourteenth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about…
Below are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Buena Vista Social Club, Ragtime and Just in Time, as well as Broadway veteran and Wicked s…
"The Baker's Wife" offers dual stories of redemption that make it feel designed for the holidays: There is the fable of all the villagers in a small French town setting aside their petty squ…
Once again, theater seems of little interest to the book review staff at the New York Times. Their Notable Books of 2025 features no published plays (although books of poetry are inclu…
Below are works of theater that I saw this year in New York for which I'm most grateful.  I have been posting such a list around Thanksgiving Day every year since 2013, which is my ann…
Fixings and pairings will be on the table later this week, and were on stage this past week, with the revival of a couple of old musicals that needed to be fixed (were they?), and some starr…
"Chess" is not a serious musical.  That's the key to appreciating this show, which is supposed to be about an American and a Russian grandmaster battling over both the game of chess an…
Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2025, which differs from the usual week's schedule: Only one show of the 34 currently playing has a performance on Thanksgiving Day, Thur…
Alice Brooks has an unusual way of talking about the difference between 'Wicked" and its sequel "Wicked: For Good.," which is opening nationwide today. The making of the two Wicked movies wa…
What I found most surprising about this modest, appealing two-person musical, whose title more or less sums up what happens, was the reaction to it on the night I attended " the ecstatic che…
Tom Hanks co-wrote this quaint, unremarkable time-traveling play adapted from his book of short stories, and stars as Bert Allenberry, a tech entrepreneur from the year 2089, who travels bac…
"The American Revolution" launched last night (You can binge all six episodes online now or wait for the nightly broadcast.)Revolution was also on stage last week in various ways. Series …
It's early on Election Day, and Oedipus, populist candidate confident that he'll be swept into office, makes two off-the-cuff public promises that will blow up in his face: He will release h…
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets " 884,647 words in all.He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language, including…
PBS tonight broadcasts the production of "Twelfth Night" that reopened the Delacorte in Central Park this summer with a starry cast including  Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Lupita Nyong'o, D…
Ken Burns' latest documentary "The American Revolution," launches this Sunday on PBS, ten years after he began work on it, which was just about the time that Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "Ha…
'If I had to choose between being known while alive or being known while dead, I gotta go with dead," says Gavrilo, the teenager who will soon assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and sta…
In honor of Veterans Day, below is a list of ten works of theater depicting military veterans, ranging from Ancient Greek tragedies and Shakespearean history plays to Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes…
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani turns out to be polarizing in a way even he didn't realize: His Broadway favorites. In a post-election interview with CNN,  he said he used to belt ou…
"The Queen of Versailles," Stephen Schwartz's latest musical, which stars Kristin Chenoweth as the real-life billionaire's wife Jackie Siegel,  comes far closer to Jackie's favorite ch…
The casts of the Broadway shows Buena Vista Social Club, Just in Time, and Ragtime will perform at the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27, 2025. The 99th edition of the…
Five albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album Grammy Award, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (the fourth consecutive year that only Broadway cast recordin…
,There are puppets in long-running New York shows like "The Lion King" and "The Little Shop of Horrors," muppets are making their Broadway debut (albeit briefly) in "Rob Lake Magic with spec…
