Friday, June 14, 2024
How did Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” one of the most infamous flops on Broadway, become one of the biggest hits of the 2023-2024 Broadway season…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMThursday, June 13, 2024
Below are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2024 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I’ve been maintaining for more than a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:29PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
Watch Theatre World Award winners past and present talk below about when they first knew they were going to be professional performers. For more on Theatre World Awards, check out Theatre Wo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Jeremy O. Harris’ film about his Broadway play “Slave Play” begins with a young Black woman in an NYU sweatshirt looking straight up at the ceiling and screaming with great violence. I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21PMMonday, June 10, 2024
“Stereophonic” won Outstandint Play and six other awards, “Dead Outlaw” Outstanding Musical and two others at the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards. Full list of winners below. Click her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47PMTonight ceremonies will take place for both the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards and the 78th annual Theatre World Awards, leading up to the endlessly anticipated/promoted climax of theater a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AMSunday, June 9, 2024
“What Became of Us” is at heart a modest, moving two-character play about a brother and a sister, the children of immigrant parents, who tell us about each other over the course of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PMSaturday, June 8, 2024
Jessica Lange as Lillian Hall, one of the great legends of the American theater, is about to star once again on Broadway in “The Cherry Orchard.” But she is collapsed on her bed, when…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMFriday, June 7, 2024
This first-time feature film by writer and director Nicholas Colia will inspire some of the same knowing laughs among grown-up theater kids as “Theater Camp,” and some of the same sy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMThursday, June 6, 2024
“Merrily We Roll Along” and “Oh, Mary!” received the most love at the Second Annual Dorian Theater Awards, winning four categories apiece, while “Stereophonic” won three awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Samm-Art Williams was born in Burgaw, North Carolina seventy-eight years ago, and died in that same small rural town last month; he liked to tell people he was “just a country boy.” Act…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Twenty-two years after Robert De Niro et al founded the Tribeca Film Festival in the wake of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, the festival has grown so large and overwhelming that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30AMMonday, June 3, 2024
Mr. Steinglass: Donald Trump cannot shoot someone during rush hour on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.Mr. Blanche: Objection your Honor.The Court: SustainedMr. Steinglass: You, the jury, h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMSunday, June 2, 2024
There is a sly strategy to the fanciful title of this solo play, as there is to performer Paula Pizzi’s soft-spoken lyricism. They make it easier, for one, to take in the underlying horror…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:18PMSaturday, June 1, 2024
Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar, including the first Broadway revival of Samm-Art Williams’ play “Home,” and a radical re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PMFriday, May 31, 2024
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, about the nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PMThursday, May 30, 2024
“Dead Outlaw” won Best New Musical and “Oh, Mary!” Best New Play among the six competitive categories of the 13th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The ceremony will take place Ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PMWednesday, May 29, 2024
The outdoor bilingual musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s shortest play has returned, just as festive and comically confusing as it was last summer, but now the main attraction of Free Sha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMTuesday, May 28, 2024
The Palace will reopen tonight after six years for the first of what are now 19 shows scheduled so far for the Broadway 2024-2025 season, with a concert by Ben Platt promoting his new albu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AMMonday, May 27, 2024
“I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here, beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:16PMSunday, May 26, 2024
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 77th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best — plus a poll question about which new category (if any) the Ton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AMSaturday, May 25, 2024
Below is a manageable list of 13 theater books — recently published or soon to be– that look to be good summer reads: six memoirs or biographies, four books of history, recent scripts of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05AMFriday, May 24, 2024
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 73rd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don’t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMThursday, May 23, 2024
The state of theater blogging is arguably a bit like the state of theater in general. It’s more persistent, and resilient, than the pessimists might proclaim. Chris Peterson this mont…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMWednesday, May 22, 2024
Below are the 12 most popular new posts in each of the 12 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me, on May 23, 2012, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers’ evolving enthu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:09PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
“The Fires” brings us simultaneously into the lives and loves of three Black gay men occupying the same railroad apartment in South Brooklyn, but decades apart — Jay (Phillip James …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMMonday, May 20, 2024
Below is the complete list of 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented tonight at the NYU Skirball Center, Check out nominatio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PMI gained a whole new understanding of “The Three Little Piggies” at the end of Dave Malloy’s latest sing-through musical theater piece, which has a lively score and a gifted cast, but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02PMWhile the awards for the season just ended are still rolling out, the 2024-2025 season on Broadway and beyond is already full of news of new shows and new stars, Broadway debuts and Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMSunday, May 19, 2024
Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2024-2025 season. Robert Downey Jr, George Clooney, and Cole Escola are set to make their Broadway debuts, in new plays by Ayad Akhtar, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47AMSaturday, May 18, 2024
“Do you want to play a game? “ Lucy (Madison Ferris) asks Alfonso as soon as she spots him, without even so much as a hello. “It’ll be fun, trust me.” “A stranger who says I sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PM 
