Wednesday, February 18, 2026
A France in which kissing gets the death penalty; a Palestinian butcher accused by his Israeli co-workers; a spoof of Jane Austin. These are among the five Live Action Short Films nominated …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMTuesday, February 17, 2026
February is usually the peak month for SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), but it’s still striking that four of the five plays I reviewed this past week involve family trauma. Three do o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AMMonday, February 16, 2026
In the middle of the Saturday Survivors weekly recovery meeting that is the heart of Jacob Perkins’ play, Elizabeth Marvel as Joan introduces herself, announces that she is an alcoholic, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMOnly four of the 45 presidents of the United States were born in February, but they include the two most revered, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who are also the two most frequently …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AMSunday, February 15, 2026
“Twelve Minor Prophets” might sound like a Hebrew School pageant, since it’s an educational and playful stage adaptation based on the last twelve books of the Old Testament. But the pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PMSaturday, February 14, 2026
The characters of many of the currently running Broadway shows weigh in on this most nettlesome and sustaining of emotions. A sample below: From & Juliet: Francois: I just proposed to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41AMFriday, February 13, 2026
Why are actors told to break a leg? Why is Macbeth called The Scottish Play inside a theater? Why can’t you whistle in a theater? What is the ghost light all about? In honor of Friday the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00AMThursday, February 12, 2026
WTF? That is how Sean Hayes as Elliott reacts at a startling moment in this 75-minute solo play, and how Hayes as Larry, Elliot’s best friend, reacts to Elliott’s increasingly obsessive …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PMWednesday, February 11, 2026
Theatergoers may identify with Anne (Emma D’Arcy) if they have had to deal with a family member during a crisis who showed no interest in collaboration or compromise, only wanting to be in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMBy the time that Big and Lil are lunging at one another with all the brutal skills they’ve developed as mixed martial arts fighters, we already realize they aren’t monsters at all. They …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMTuesday, February 10, 2026
When Timothée Chalamet made his Off-Broadway debut exactly a decade ago, as a troubled Bronx teenager in John Patrick Shanley’s “Prodigal Son,” I compared him to a young Marlon Brando…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26AMMonday, February 9, 2026
Two of the three shows I reviewed this past week felt like implicit acts of resistance to currently encroaching authoritarian rule. One was modeled on a play by Brecht that he wrote to fig…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AMSunday, February 8, 2026
It was not necessarily the most exciting football game for many people watching (it did pick up in the fourth quarter), but Super Bowl LX was more than football. Brandi Carlile sang the nati…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMSaturday, February 7, 2026
The artist known as La Daniella portrays Gooey, who is billed as “an orphaned sorta mermaid” and dressed in what looks like a fishnet with dredged up detritus from the sea. Her costume l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:51PMFriday, February 6, 2026
For every well-known showcase of Black Broadway – “Porgy and Bess,” 1935; “A Raisin in the Sun” 1959; last year’s “Purpose,” winner of both the Tony and Pulitzer — there ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMThursday, February 5, 2026
It took until the twenty-first century for the extraordinary story of Hans Litten to reach the public at large. In 1930, stormtroopers attacked the patrons of Eden Dance Palace in Berlin. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14PMWednesday, February 4, 2026
Anna Fierling, the spokesperson for the National Rifle Association who tells her story in “And Her Children,” is a fictional character clearly inspired by former NRA spokesperson Dana Lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:52PMTuesday, February 3, 2026
Tickets are now on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 26 shows, for performances from February 16 through March 12. Sixteen of the shows are n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:57PMIn a year when one of the ten Oscar nominees for best picture ends with scenes from one of the greatest plays ever written, another is about a theater actress and her film director father, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PMMonday, February 2, 2026
“Buena Vista Social Club” won the Grammy for best musical theater album, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande won for Best Pop Duo/Group Performances. Nazareth Hassan’s “Bowl EP,” Car…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AMSunday, February 1, 2026
Buena Vista Social Club has won the 2026 best musical theater album at the 68th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the fourth conse…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:35PMBelow is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York. None are on Broadway, but there is enough happening Off and Off-Off Broadway to see a new show nearly every night in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AMSaturday, January 31, 2026
The 69th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes lifetime achievement awards to Carmelita Tropi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PMFriday, January 30, 2026
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of January. Take this ten-question quiz and find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMThursday, January 29, 2026
The war on culture has played out in many ways over the past year, as chronicled by the bloggers/substackers,podcasters to whom I link below. There’s famously the mess at the Kennedy Cente…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMWednesday, January 28, 2026
“Masquerade” has just been extended through July 5 – proof, if you needed it, that the immersive version of “The Phantom of the Opera” has caught on.This wasn’t a given when i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51AMTuesday, January 27, 2026
Anne Gridley’s favorite neurologist has told her that people can only concentrate on walking for about eight seconds; human beings are designed to walk without thinking about it. But he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PMMonday, January 26, 2026
A record-breaking 11.4 inches of snow reportedly fell on Central Park on Sunday, and the shows went on — mostly: Ten of the 31 shows currently running on Broadway did cancel. A storm warni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM“I don’t want to be an ambassador for Asians, but that’s part of the job when you’re in a country, and you work in an industry, that continues to see us as perpetual foreigners, inca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AMSunday, January 25, 2026
“Data” speaks to the precise moment in which we are living to an astonishing degree, and not just because of our concerns about AI. It begins and ends with characters playing ping pong! …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMSaturday, January 24, 2026
A massive snow storm is expected to reach New York City Sunday morning, January 25, 2026 leading New Yorkers to ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PM 
