Friday, August 7, 2026
Three Broadway shows close this weekend. Two more close this month. I include details below — links to the shows’ websites to get tickets, links to my reviews, number of Tony wins, and d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2026
Below are video excerpts of the performances by the five Broadwaycasts who performed in the Broadway in Bryant Park midday concert today: MJ, The Outsiders, Operation Mincemeat, Two Stranger…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2026
“I’m Jeremy, I’ll be your Bobby Darin tonight,” Jeremy Jordan says, working the room at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater, which has been redesigned to look like a swanky n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2026
It’s a 150-foot spaceship in the middle of Manhattan, a stairwell to nowhere, a $200 million monumental misfire that New Yorkers love to mock. The Vessel is a troubled tourist attracti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2026
The revival of this 12-year-old English play about a closeted footballer might seem well-timed to take advantage of the heightened interest both in gay athletes (thanks to a certain TV serie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PM[SHARE]The producers of “Hadestown” on Broadway rescinded the casting of Geno Segers as Hades, after OnStageBlog reposted Segers’ (now deleted) videos on social media that belittled transgen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2026
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in August, with some starry casts: Montego Glover, Robert Sean Leonard, et al in a revival of a political drama by Wendy Wasserstein; Raul Esparza, L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 1, 2026
What’s most exciting about “The Saviors,” a play ostensibly about two altar boys, is the feeling that you are witnessing the literal early stages of several major talents: Playwright B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2026
Below are video excerpts of the performances by the five Broadwaycasts who performed in the Broadway in Bryant Park midday concert today: Aladdin, Chicago, Six, Titanique and Wicked, as well…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2026
In the twenty months since “Maybe Happy Ending” opened on Broadway, it’s the Broadway show I most often mention when out-of-towners ask for a recommendation. Some have reacted skeptica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2026
“Prince’s Purple Rain,” a new musical based on the album and movie of the same name, will open April 12 at Broadway’s Majestic Theater. It has been overhauled since its six-week run …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2026
Heart surgery might not sound like a natural subject for a musical comedy, but in “Broad Strokes,” Cat Cohen’s effort to turn her medical trauma into comic turns and tunes gets an assi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 25, 2026
Country music star Jessica Nettles’ ambitious debut musical about a 17th century serial killer ends on a thrilling note. During the curtain call, the audience stands as if for the national…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2026
Below are video excerpts of the performances by the six Broadway casts who performed in the first Broadway in Bryant Park concert of this summer: Hadestown, &Juliet, Just in Time, Maybe …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Broadway is still recovering from the pandemic, and not doing as well as it did last year, but things will look up, because the Broadway community will innovate and because there will be mor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PM[SHARE]How theater artists helped restore democracy in Chile; thirty ways to consider the playwright María Irene Fornés; fifteen takes on immersive performance; the history of the Palestine Theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2026
Whatever is happening in America, whether a blockbuster movie or the latest threat to democracy, will remind theatergoers of a show, past or present. This past week: The Odyssey the musical …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2026
There is an edge to watching five actresses portray characters that Whoopi Goldberg wrote and performed by herself, in her 1984 solo show on Broadway, a debut that led to her star-making rol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 18, 2026
Given the raves for the new movie “The Odyssey,” a three-hour adaptation of Homer’s poem, it seems the right time to remind theatergoers of a stage adaptation — a spectacular musical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2026
Since the subject of stolen elections is bizarrely and alarmingly in the news, it seems apt for a brief synopsis of the 1968 musical “How to Steal An Election,” a historic curiosity that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2026
The love story between Des (short for Destiny) and Dre (Dream) begins in high school, but we first meet them years later after their love has long passed – or has it? “Shifters,” a t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The day after “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” announced that it will close on August 8, just four months after it opened, and two months after it won three Tony Awards, its composer Andrew Llo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2026
“The Potluck” is a musical inspired by the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, in which the Ku Klux Klan shot and killed five young activists at an anti-Klan rally in South Carolina. César Jam…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PM[SHARE]Such a whiplash of a week. This is true in many ways, not least the heat, which is returning full-force tomorrow. The festivals are heating up, here and elsewhere — elsewhere in my mind pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2026
‘I kissed a dog, I liked it,” the cast of ‘&Juliet sang, weirdly, at the 28th annual Broadway Barks pet adoption event at Shubert Alley, as captured in one of the videos below. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2026
Two solo shows heading for Edinburgh and previewing in New York offer new takes, on a modern-day celebrity clan and a medieval folk tale. Left: The actual Hadid family (top); Michelle Cohn, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2026
Since I would like to see all 3,649 shows scheduled for the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I thought I’d get a head start by attending East to Edinburgh, one of the two New York estival…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2026
Books about theater in Chile, India, Palestine, South Korea; about Black queer dance and Asian-American camp. The fourteen finalists for this year’s Outstanding Book Award from the Associ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2026
When Eric Bentley’s play about the Hollywood blacklist was first mounted in 1972, the now-infamous House Un-American Activities Committee was still around, and so were most of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Some of the summer festivals listed here have been annual for decades, some I’ve never heard of before. They are offering collectively way more than a hundred shows, starting in July, some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2026
Accompanying the hoopla of reaching 250 (Tall Ships and fireworks and patriotic singing) is an unfortunate urge to sum up America and everything in it, including theater. In a NY Times…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2026
Camping is the most American of summer activities, the tent a symbol of our pioneering spirit, family adventures, adolescent bonding, adult escape. For Ari and Brit, their tent is simulta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 4, 2026
The Tall Ship above (and in a video below) is The Esmeralda, from Chile. It took a couple of hours for any of the Tall Ships to start sailing by on the Hudson River this July 4th morning, Am…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:08PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2026
America’s 250th birthday deserves some spectacular celebrations. (It doesn’t have to come out of Washington.) Here are videos or some of the country’s greatest hits: classic patriot so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2026
All Broadway shows have canceled their evening performances for the Fourth of July itself, but ten have matinees that day (and Every Brilliant Thing a late afternoon), and most have added pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in July, a month bursting with theater festivals, some of them outdoors and free, two of them previewing shows heading for the Edinburgh Fringe next …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2026
There are fourteen shows announced so far for the Broadway 2026-2027 season that have secured both a specific venue and a specific opening date between September 2026 and April 2027. I’ve …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08AM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2026
“A Walk on the Moon” is the disappointing musical adaptation of the 1999 indie movie about the romance between an unhappy bouffant-wearing Jewish housewife named Pearl and a long-haired…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PM[SHARE]Jasmine Amy Rogers (Boop. Spelling Bee) will star as Maria in the second-ever Broadway revival of “The Sound of Music” part of a thrilling new season at Lincoln Center Theater, which in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2026
How well were you paying attention to the theater over the past month? Answer these ten questions, and a whopper of a bonus question about Tony acceptance speeches, to find out. Loading…
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