Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Here There Are Blueberries Theater Review. The Holocaust through a different lens by New York Theater

“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 …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:11PM
Monday, May 6, 2024

“Primary Trust” Awarded 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama by New York Theater

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 “P…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PM

Awards Up the Wazoo. Stageworthy News of the Week. by New York Theater

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…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Lucille Lortel Award Winners 2024: The Comeuppance, (pray) by New York Theater

 Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “The Comeuppance” won Outstanding Play and nicHi douglas‘ “(pray)” won Outstanding Musical, Director and Ensemble at the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59PM
Saturday, May 4, 2024

Grenfell Theater Review by New York Theater

“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 s…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PM
Friday, May 3, 2024

Catching Silhouettes. Chinatown as Theater by New York Theater

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 wer…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PM
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Watch 2024 Best Musical Tony Videos by New York Theater

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” a…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM

2024 Special Tony Awards and Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater by New York Theater

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.…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:33PM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

May 2024 New York Theater Openings by New York Theater

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…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The Tonys 2024: The Missing 11. What they could have been nominated for. by New York Theater

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 choic…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM

2024 Tony Award Nominations: Hell’s Kitchen, Stereophonic Lead by New York Theater

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…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM
Monday, April 29, 2024

2024 Chita Rivera Award Nominations: Illinoise gets lots of love by New York Theater

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.…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PM

Drama Desk Award Nominations 2024 by New York Theater

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…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM

Broadway Finale: Great Gatsby, Mother Play, Illinoise, Uncle Vanya, Mary Jane, Patriots, The Heart of Rock and Roll. Awards Season Begins! Stageworthy by New York Theater

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…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AM
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Mary Jane Broadway Review by New York Theater

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 d…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PM
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Broadway Season Closer Quiz 2024 by New York Theater

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…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AM
Friday, April 26, 2024

The Great Gatsby Broadway Review by New York Theater

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…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PM
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Mother Play Broadway Review by New York Theater

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 t…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Uncle Vanya Broadway Review by New York Theater

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 …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM

Illinoise Opens on Broadway by New York Theater

“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 A…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:56PM
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Outer Critics Circle Award 2024 Nominations by New York Theater

“Dead Outlaw” leads the nominations for the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. (video below) The winners will…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:41PM
Monday, April 22, 2024

The Heart of Rock and Roll Broadway Review by New York Theater

“Very poppy,” a character says to Bobby (Corey Cott), the Leading Man, just after he’s performed “Do You Believe in Love,” one of more than two dozen songs from the 1980s band Huey…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59PM

Patriots Broadway Review by New York Theater

Vladimir Putin was working as a taxi driver when he visited one of the richest and most powerful men in Russia to ask for a favor.  The previous month, Putin had lost his job as the deputy…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PM

Drama League Award 2024 Nominations by New York Theater

Below are the nominations for the 90th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Vanessa Williams and Bebe Neuwirth. The awards will be held at The Ziegfeld Ballro…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM

Broadway: Cabaret, Hell’s Kitchen, Stereophonic, Suffs, The Wiz. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

Four musicals and a play that has a lot of original music in it, opened on Broadway this past week, and two plays opened Off Broadway. By the end of the day Thursday, which marks the officia…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AM
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Orlando Review by New York Theater

Orlando (Taylor Mac) has already been living an unusual life as a nobleman in Queen Elizabeth’s court when he suddenly becomes a woman. “Let biologists and psychologists argue. It is eno…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM

Cabaret Broadway Review by New York Theater

If so much of it weren’t so out of balance, this fourth Broadway revival of “Cabaret” would be impressive in its complete transformation of  Kander and Ebb’s great musical – phys…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PM
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Hell’s Kitchen Opens on Broadway by New York Theater

Alicia Keys’ lively, tuneful musical “Hell’s Kitchen” opens tonight at Broadway’s Shubert Theater, with the same principal cast and creative team as its brief sold-out run Off-Broa…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:16PM
Friday, April 19, 2024

Stereophonic Opens on Broadway by New York Theater

“Stereophonic,” which opens at Broadway’s John Golden Theater tonight,  chronicles a year of recording studio sessions by the members of a popular 1970s rock band (never named, fictio…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PM
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Suffs Broadway Review by New York Theater

 Inez Milholland, glamorous bohemian and radical lawyer, rode atop a white steed to lead the unprecedented 1913 March on Washington for women’s suffrage down Pennsylvania Avenue the day b…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The Wiz Broadway Review by New York Theater

In “The Wiz,” the all-Black version of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” that debuted on Broadway in the 1970s,  Dorothy never sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” nor wore ruby red s…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards