Friday, May 17, 2024

2024 Drama League Awards: Sarah Paulson, Hell’s Kitchen, Stereophonic by New York Theater

Click here for the list of 2024 Drama League Award nominees, from which the awardees were chosen. Don’t know the difference between the awards of the Drama League and the Drama Desk and th…

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

The Music of Stereophonic by New York Theater

“Stereophonic,” just released an original cast recording with a 14-song tracklist (listen below), which is not unusual for a Broadway musical, but not common for a Broadway play, which i…

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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Broadway and Beyond on 13 and Online by New York Theater

Leslie Odom in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical “Purlie Victorious,” Sutton Foster in “Anything Goes,” and a London concert by Audra McDonald are among the acclaimed theatrical pe…

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

An American Soldier Review by New York Theater

Near the start of “An American Soldier,” Danny Chen (Brian Vu) stumbles distraught through the crowd gathered in a military courtroom.  For much of my life, I felt invisibleDo you know …

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Theatre World Awards 2024 by New York Theater

 Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2023-2024 theatrical season, as well as three speci…

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Monday, May 13, 2024

2024 New York Drama Critics Circle: Stereophonic, Dead Outlaw best play and musical. Merrily We Roll Along, Purlie Victorious, etc. by New York Theater

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named David Adjmi’s Stereophonic best play of the 2023-24 season. The award for best musical went to Dead Outlaw, music and lyrics by David Yazb…

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Robert Downey Jr Debuts. Eboni Booth Prized. Billy Porter, Nathan Lane etc Honored. OCC Awards. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

 A slew of honors for Broadway mainstays were announced this past week, as well as the Outer Critics Circle Awards this morning (see News below.)  Meanwhile, new theater is still happening…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:14AM

2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards: Stereophonic, Suffs, Dead Outlaw, Primary Trust by New York Theater

“Stereophonic”won outstanding new Broadway play and three other awards, “Suffs” outstanding new Broadway musical and two other awards at the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. …

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Sunday, May 12, 2024

Mothers on Broadway 2024 by New York Theater

Mothers took center stage in the Broadway season just ended, getting star treatment for characters who range from vile to virtuous. Today, on Mothers Day, Jessica Lange in the title role of …

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Saturday, May 11, 2024

Shimmer and Herringbone Theater Review by New York Theater

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…

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Friday, May 10, 2024

Scarlett Dreams Theater Review by New York Theater

 “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, …

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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Exagoge Review. The oldest Jewish play, PLUS. by New York Theater

“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…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:34PM

2024 Off Broadway Alliance Award Nominations by New York Theater

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 …

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Small Acts of Daring Invention Theater Review by New York Theater

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. …

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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 …

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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