Saturday, June 14, 2025
Today is both the day of “No Kings” marches and rallies throughout the United States (including New York), and the first day of early voting in the New York City primaries for mayor and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PMFriday, June 13, 2025
I’m being strapped into what looks like a homemade electric chair, thick black wires gathered in a pile around my feet and sprouting above my head. A man in a white lab coat puts a fancy p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PMThursday, June 12, 2025
We first see Izzy Scutley, the character Jean Smart is portraying in her first Broadway role in 25 years, in a bathrobe cleaning the toilet in her home in a trailer park in rural Mansfield, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54PMWednesday, June 11, 2025
On their wedding anniversary, the actors Kathryn Grody and Mandy Patinkin arrive late for a dinner reservation; although they made it two months earlier, the maitre d’ has already given th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
Of the 29 shows that were nominated for Tony Awards, only 11 took home a trophy. Of these, only nine are still running — and four of them are closing as soon as three weeks from now. Below…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41AMMonday, June 9, 2025
“This has all happened by accident,” Harvey Fierstein said at the 78th annual Tony Awards. Tony Kushner had just introduced him as “a great theater artist, a great force for connection…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40AMSunday, June 8, 2025
“Purpose” won’t best play at the 78th annual Tony Awards, “Eureka Day” best play revival, Sunset Blvd best revival of a musical. Below the list of winners: (Here’s a guide to the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PMThe 78th Annual Tony Awards, with host Cynthia Erivo, will be broadcast and streamed live from Radio City Music Hall tonight, celebrating the Broadway 2024-2025 Broadway season. with perfor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AMSaturday, June 7, 2025
In the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Orpheus tries to retrieve Eurydice from the underworld, but can’t help looking back at his wife, and so loses her forever. Sarah Ruhl is also loo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41AMFriday, June 6, 2025
Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award, at age 21, for her role in “Children of a Lesser God. Thirty-five years later, another Deaf actor named Troy Kotsur, Matl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PMThursday, June 5, 2025
Below are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2025 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I’ve been maintaining for more than a dozen years. I am a critic, not a seer or a boo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:43PMWednesday, June 4, 2025
Leslie Uggams was six years old when she saw her aunt perform in a production of “Porgy and Bess” with Leontyne Price. “I was, like, I want to do that,” she told the audience at Hard…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
“All the World’s A Stage,” a musical about a gay high school teacher in small town 1990’s America, won Best Musical from 14th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The awards ceremon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM“Maybe Happy Ending” is continuing its winning streak, as the Dorian Theater Award’s Outstanding Broadway Musical. “John Proctor is the Villain” was voted Outstanding Broadway Play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AMMonday, June 2, 2025
“Maybe Happy Ending,” which leading up to the Tonys this coming Sunday has won best musical in a slew of other New York theater awards (Outer Critics Circle, Drama Critics Circle, Drama …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AMSunday, June 1, 2025
“Maybe Happy Ending” won best musical and “Purpose” best play at the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards. “Eureka Day” won best revival of a play and “Gypsy” best revival of a musi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34PMSaturday, May 31, 2025
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in June. Jean Smart is returning to Broadway. John Krasinski is launching a newly rechristened Off Broadway theater. Both “Heathers” and “Grease…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40PMFriday, May 30, 2025
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, in this quiz about the nominees for the 2025 Tony Awards. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM“Blood, Sweat and Queers” is inspired by the true story of a Czech sprinter who broke world records at the 1934 Women’s World Games in London, and gained world-wide fame when the f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
A “Hamlet” entirely inside his head…and in your ear. The Broadway cast of “The Gilded Age” in person. A documentary about actress Marlee Matlin, a feature film starring Kyra Sedwic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PMTuesday, May 27, 2025
Is it lobbying or reveling, or simply revealing? Here are 10 out of the many Tony nominee profiles, interviews, behind-the-scenes and think pieces published or posted within the past we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AMMonday, May 26, 2025
Muriel Mandell saw her first Broadway play in 1939 (“It was rah-rah America”) and her most recent in the season just past (“Terrible”) — and many of the original productions of lan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04PMSaturday, May 24, 2025
Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2025-2026 season, starting in June with Jean Smart, fresh from her raved-about performance in “Hacks,” returning to Broadway after a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMFriday, May 23, 2025
Below are the 13 most popular new posts in each of the 13 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 01:40PMBelow are some of the speeches from the winners of the 75th Outer Critics Circle Award held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don’t kn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40AMThursday, May 22, 2025
“The Harlem Doll Palace,” an unusual musical that launches the fourth annual Puppetopia Festival at HERE, is not just the true story of Lenon Holder Hoyt, an art teacher in public scho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PMWednesday, May 21, 2025
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 78th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best — plus two poll questions about the future of the Tonys: which c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AMTuesday, May 20, 2025
Right after Amber Iman finishes her first song, a sudden admirer gasps: “Your voice is like nothing I’ve ever heard.” The reaction is understandable. Iman portrays the title characte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PMBelow is the complete list of 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented Monday night at the NYU Skirball Center. Check out the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AMMonday, May 19, 2025
Two Tony-nominated plays from the current Broadway season are being broadcast on television. Both of them originated decades ago, and have gained new relevance because of the current politi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMSunday, May 18, 2025
Jen Silverman might seem an unlikely writer to adapt August Strindberg’s 1888 play for this starry production featuring Liev Schreiber as a man trying to undermine a married couple port…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PM 
