Wednesday, April 30, 2025
“Boop” leads with 11 nominations at the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards announcement by Norm Lewis this afternoon, followed by “Just in Time” and “Maybe Happy Ending” with nine eac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Below is the complete list of the nominations announced for 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies. The awards will be presented on May 19 at 7:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMHow well were you paying attention to the 2024-2025 Broadway season, and the final dozen plays and musicals that opened in April by the Tony deadline? Can you identify lines of dialogue and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AMMonday, April 28, 2025
Over this past week Broadway has been awash in crooners and corpses, monsters and marauders, immigrants and miners, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2024-2025 season had their opening …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AMSunday, April 27, 2025
This musical about mostly undocumented immigrants in a L.A. dress factory has heart, something in short supply these days, especially when it comes to immigrants. It also features bellies. I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05PM“Dead Outlaw,” a darkly comic musical that tells the ghoulish true tale about a corpse from the Old West, has been resurrected, opening tonight on Broadway, with the same cast and creati…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
There is a Sinatra vibe that Jonathan Groff nails from the start, when, in shiny tux and tie, he works his way around the café tables of Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater, redesi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59PMIn the lobby gift shop of the Marquis, where Netflix’s Broadway version of “Stranger Things” has opened, there is a Demogorgon plushie for sale for thirty dollars. It’s not called a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PMFriday, April 25, 2025
“Death Becomes Her” leads the nominations at the 75th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning by Oh, Mary! stars Cole Escola and Conrad Ricamora at the Museum of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AMThursday, April 24, 2025
“Pirates!,” which opens tonight on Broadway, is billed as a reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 146-year-old comic operetta. But luckily there is plenty it shares with the twenty-six…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Before launching into the funny, sweet, sad, slight, sometimes sexually graphic story of his first love, the author and performer of this one-man show introduces himself in telling and trade…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PMWilliam Shakespeare is said to have been born on this day in 1564. It wasn’t until 1750 that there is any record of one of his plays being produced in New York — “King Richard III” �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Below are the nominations for the 91st annual Drama League Awards announced this morning by Sarah Hyland and Orville Peck at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Ce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AMMonday, April 21, 2025
Amid the busiest time for openings on Broadway and beyond, there is also news of an abrupt closing, a teased re-opening, and a promising summer theater season mostly outdoors and much of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMSaturday, April 19, 2025
“Rheology” begins with a physicist delivering a lecture about sand, with a blackboard full of equations, and equipment (hourglass, sandbox, projections) to illustrate her points. This …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PMFriday, April 18, 2025
Deaf Broadway’s version of “Waitress.” A new show by Suzan-Lori Parks. A 4,000-year-old epic play. Shakespeare on immigration. Monteverdi on race relations. Opera singer Anthony Roth …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Given all the recent announcements of shattered Broadway box office records — which means more theatergoers are paying higher ticket prices than ever before for Broadway shows — below is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
Deirdre O’Connell as Dot keeps an imp in a corked old wine bottle, expecting it to work magic – to grant Dot’s wishes, as long as what she asks for is not too selfish. It’s true t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
Azhar Bande-Ali was in a plane that had a mechanical problem that prevented it from landing, which provoked a spiritual problem; he worried that the plane would crash, and he would die. So…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PMMonday, April 14, 2025
The first word in this play is “sex.” Mr. Smith says it to his teenage students, asking for its definition, which the class then recites in unison, reading aloud from their textbooks. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07PMFemale characters and performers dominated the shows that opened this past week on Broadway, which the previous week had been dominated by shows featuring male characters and performers. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMSunday, April 13, 2025
“Urinetown” co-creator Greg Kotis takes us to another future dystopian society in this small, cheeky musical that’s part of the New York City Fringe Festival. With a banjo-driven bl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
The president of the United States puts a fifty percent tariff on all imported cheese, which leads to war…with Switzerland. That’s the premise of “Strike Up the Band,” the first of a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AMFriday, April 11, 2025
Broadway is luring the star-struck to pay big bucks in this final stretch of the season, leading Janice Simpson of Broadway & Me to ask “whether all the hoopla and moola are worth it.�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMThursday, April 10, 2025
“Smash” offered viewers the rare thrill of original musical numbers written by a Tony-winning songwriting team expressly for network television, and simultaneously gave Tweeters a targe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25PMWednesday, April 9, 2025
There is a moment of mystery near the end of “Public Obscenities,” which was a finalist last year for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama: Choton, the queer Bengali American PhD student from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:07PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
In this sixth Sondheim show on Broadway since his death in 2021, a cast of 19 including Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga perform 40 songs selected from 14 shows for which Stephen Sondheim w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PMMonday, April 7, 2025
If “Boop!” were a store rather than a Broadway musical, it would be a factory outlet, and the pile-on of merchandise on display would all be refurbished from parts of old shows – th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMMale characters of various stripes – clockwise from top left, valiant, vain, and vile – dominated the Broadway shows that opened over the past week: “Good Night, and Good Luck,�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AMSunday, April 6, 2025
Two decades after it was first produced, I was finally won over to Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical inspired by the unraveling of his first marriage. This was in 2021 during the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50PMSaturday, April 5, 2025
Opening night doesn’t mean what it used to mean. It suddenly has come to mean even less than it did three years ago, when I first wrote that it had become nearly meaningless. The changes h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AM 
