Monday, November 3, 2025
By the end of “Kyoto,” a play about the effort it took to achieve the first international agreement to address the climate crisis, we come to understand — perhaps too well – that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19PMWith Election Day tomorrow, it was hard to avoid registering the politics in even the most entertaining theater I reviewed this past week. The insistence on body autonomy was a theme in b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47AMSunday, November 2, 2025
Minetta Lane Theater became the home of Audible beginning in 2018 with the mission of turning live theater productions into audiobooks. Their first show was a transfer of the solo play “Ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45AMSaturday, November 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in November, including Tom Hanks starring in a play he co-wrote, Kristin Chenoweth in one of two musicals by Stephen Schwartz, Patrick Page a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PMFriday, October 31, 2025
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater in October? Answer this quiz, with ten questions and a bonus, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PMThursday, October 30, 2025
Laurie Metcalf as Sarah in rubber gloves and Micah Stock as Ethan in a face mask stand in front of a lone couch, making awkward chit-chat until she finally says:“I’m, uh. Sorry about …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47PMWednesday, October 29, 2025
This solo play co-written and starring “Severance” actress Jen Tullock is on one level the story of lesbian author Frances Reinhardt, who has written a new book about her abusive childho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21PMTuesday, October 28, 2025
Playwright Bess Wohl wants us to know about the time before she was born when “women’s lib” was neither pejorative nor ironic. In “Liberation,” her warm, funny play opening tonight…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PM“Jewish Plot” starts as an entertaining resurrection of a (fictitious) 19th century play about antisemitism written by an obscure British playwright, and descends into a kind of mad poe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18PMMonday, October 27, 2025
Americans like to be scared even during scary times; how else to explain Halloween, a deliberately scary theater festival, and “The Phantom of the Opera,” which persists beyond Broadway,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PMSunday, October 26, 2025
The best thing to say about Bedlam’s irreverent, sister-centered riff on “Pride and Prejudice” is that it demonstrates once again the enduring appeal of Jane Austen’s centuries-ol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMSaturday, October 25, 2025
Election Day in New York is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, for mayor of New York and other city-wide and local offices, as well as six ballot proposals. Below is what you need to know in order t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PMFriday, October 24, 2025
A French novel, several silent horror films, a Broadway musical, a site-specific work of immersive theater: It all has led to….Joshua William Gelb’s closet. “Many people have asked why…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PMThursday, October 23, 2025
Saul Rubinek long has wanted to play Shylock, a role that his father, a Yiddish actor and Holocaust survivor, never got a chance to play. But now that he has finally gotten to star in “The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMWednesday, October 22, 2025
The best scene in “Dimension Zero” features icons of New York City: individual slices of pepperoni pizza who dance back into a whole pie, a Greek coffee cup, a yellow cab, a row of sky…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMTuesday, October 21, 2025
“Moonstruck,” John Patrick Shanley’s movie comedy about a fiery Italian American romance, won him (and Cher) an Oscar in 1988, the same year that Shanley’s play “Italian-American R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PMMonday, October 20, 2025
Jordan E. Cooper’s face might not look so happy in “Oh Happy Day!” – or, clockwise, Hugh Panaro’s in “Masquerade,” Nichelle Lewis’s in “Ragtime,” Ari’el Stacher’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AMSunday, October 19, 2025
After Ari’el Stachel won a Tony Award for his charming and hilarious Broadway debut in the role of a sexy Egyptian trumpet player in “The Band’s Visit,” he was made so anxious by all…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:41PMSaturday, October 18, 2025
There will be more than 2,500 peaceful protests throughout the United States — including in each of the five boroughs of New York City – to say in one voice: “The president thinks his …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMFriday, October 17, 2025
Below is a video of the full two hours of the first of two televised general election debates between three candidates for New York City mayor: State Assemblyman and Democratic Party nominee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:14PMThursday, October 16, 2025
The revival of “Ragtime” has taken on more of the epic feel to which it aspires, thanks to its move from an Encores series concert to a full Broadway production on the Vivian Beaumont’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37PMWednesday, October 15, 2025
“Oh Happy Day!” may sound like church: The plot retells the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark; a divinely-dressed trio called the Divines belt out original gospel songs; we hear theolo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PMTuesday, October 14, 2025
Midway through “Masquerade,” the Phantom of the Opera himself suddenly grabbed hold of me, his touch light and electric, and pushed me aside. The masked musician and magician had crept u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PMMonday, October 13, 2025
How do you respond to a creeping authoritarian takeover? Resistance takes many forms. This coming Saturday, people will take to the streets throughout the country for “No Kings” protests…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PMWhat’s surprising about the fight over Christopher Columbus is not that this year’s official White House proclamation about Columbus Day crudely attacks “left-wing arsonists” for t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AMSunday, October 12, 2025
Election Day in New York is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, for mayor of New York and other city-wide and local offices, as well as six ballot proposals. Here is what you need to know in order to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PMSaturday, October 11, 2025
Diane Keaton, who died today at the age of 79, made her Broadway debut in the original company of “Hair” (above is a publicity photograph of her for the musical.) But the actress who wen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22PMFriday, October 10, 2025
What goes into the making of a musical theater production? The process, from audition to curtain call, is presented in verse and illustrations about the people involved, from director to ac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PMThursday, October 9, 2025
After an alarming vacation in Germany, British writer Sally Carson wrote “Crooked Cross” about the rise of Nazism as told through its effect on one ordinary German family. It was publ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PMWednesday, October 8, 2025
“Art” is not about art, and it’s not really about friendship. If it’s about anything at all, the Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s 30-year-old play is about the celebrity of Bobby…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PMTuesday, October 7, 2025
Dylan Mulvaney has chosen an obviously ironic title for her extravagantly staged solo show about her viral life story as a targeted trans social media celebrity. But she also exudes an innat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PM 
