Saturday, September 13, 2025
“Can you be Black and not perform?” Eisa Davis asks, then sings “No,” while playing her keyboard. This is the central question, but not the only answer, in “The Essentialisn’t.�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PMFriday, September 12, 2025
“Wicked” endures on stage. I saw it on Broadway this week, and I enjoyed it anew .Yes, it is now inescapably viewed through the lens of the 2024 movie version. But a movie has always hov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMThursday, September 11, 2025
“Color Theories” is funny and weird and sometimes confusing. It reminded me at various times of Pee Wee Herman (childlike tone, cartoonish set, puppetry), George Carlin (observational …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
In the two decades since Tarell Alvin McCraney was heralded as a promising new voice for his breakout play “The Brothers Size,” which was first produced in 2007 when he was still a stude…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMTuesday, September 9, 2025
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen seems readymade for a theatrical portrait, and “House of McQueen” is pieced together with bespoke extravagance. It is housed in a new Off-Broadway thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMMonday, September 8, 2025
In my Broadway Poll about the Fall show theatergoers are most looking forward to, I added a second question: What’s the biggest reason for your choice? Forty percent answered: “The cast…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMSunday, September 7, 2025
Jordan E. Cooper, Tony-nominated performer and playwright of “Ain’t No Mo’” whose new play “Oh Happy Day!” is opening at the Public Theater on October 15, delivered a keynote …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:56PMSaturday, September 6, 2025
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a sponge, a ham, a charmer, a dynamo, an eager collaborator, a sensitive sobber, and an extraordinarily talented, acclaimed and busy artist who is clear-eyed about his …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PMFriday, September 5, 2025
Writer/director Nicholas Colia’s delightful first-time feature film about an obsessive (queer) theater kid, which won several big awards at the Tribeca Festival last year, has now opened …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PMThursday, September 4, 2025
When a stranger asks you “so, what do you do?” they’re not asking for your hobbies or habits, your daily activities or nightly dreams. They’re asking what your job is. Jenn Kidwell…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMWednesday, September 3, 2025
Which of the thirteen shows scheduled to open on Broadway from September to December 2025 are you most looking forward to? What’s the biggest reason for your choice? Answer these two poll …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54PMTuesday, September 2, 2025
Over the Labor Day weekend, “Purpose” ended its run, and so did Tshidi Manye, who is retiring as Rashiki. But the Fall season has already begun; today is the last day to see “Pericles�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMMonday, September 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in September, including three plays on Broadway, two of them starry revivals: Keanu Reeves making his Broadway debut in “Waiting for Godot�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PMEvery Labor Day for years, I asked: Where are the American plays about workers, workplaces and unions? What began as a rhetorical question became an annual update. Last year, instead of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03AMSunday, August 31, 2025
Instead of just beginning by acknowledging Manhattan as the homeland of the Lenape, the way most theater companies do these days, the Eagle Project made their whole show about it. A member o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PMSaturday, August 30, 2025
Pericles’ daughter has been kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel, where she convinces the customers to honor her virginity. This may not normally be one of Shakespeare’s most mem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32PMFriday, August 29, 2025
How well were you paying attention to New York theater this summer? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMThursday, August 28, 2025
In the year 2051, a bilingual robot named Bob has disguised himself as a human being (a species not yet extinct) and descended twenty levels underground to the Gold Vault of the Federal Bank…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMWednesday, August 27, 2025
The end of summer finds some theater bloggers (Ken Davenport , Broadway & Me’s Jan Simpson and the staff of Theatrely) coming up with lists, while others (Broadway Journal’s Philip B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PMTuesday, August 26, 2025
What at first seems to be a novel about a 1960s experimental theater troupe turns out to be genre fiction that uses theater as a backdrop for a plot involving murder and menace. This is no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55PMMonday, August 25, 2025
The last week of summer is a time to relax – or to get busy figuring out your Fall New York theater season before tickets run out, and how to avoid paying too much for them. (And the lott…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PMSunday, August 24, 2025
Keanu Reeves (his Broadway debut!) in a Waiting for Godot revival, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden in an Art revival, Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit in a CHESS revival…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PMSaturday, August 23, 2025
A dystopian legal drama starring Elizabeth Marvel; avant-garde takes on Dostoevsky, Dante and the Biggest Loser TV show, a puppet ballet, Palestinian folk dancing, a Russia-to-Oklahoma Jewis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32PMFriday, August 22, 2025
Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland have spent the month of August as a pair of aspiring rodeo cowboys faced with a bull suffering an existential crisis; as rapidly-deranging 1950s suburban housew…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PMThursday, August 21, 2025
My take on this starry “Twelfth Night” beneath the stars was much like my reaction to the renovations at the Delacorte, where it is opening tonight. They both occurred in stages. I was t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PMWednesday, August 20, 2025
By the end of this masterfully constructed and impeccably acted drama, we have observed an exceptional study of grief, pieced together a portrait of both a good person and a complicated comm…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PMTuesday, August 19, 2025
Tickets are on sale now for Broadway Week, which runs from September 8 to 21. The deal: Buy two tickets for the price of one to your choice of 24 Broadway shows, using the code NYCBW400 — …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PMMonday, August 18, 2025
After his mother died when he was just 14 years old, as Jeff Ross tells us from the stage of Broadway’s Nederlander Theater, “I remember sitting in my room thinking, ‘Is this what life…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PM“Gypsy” closed last night, “Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride” is opening tonight. Two more shows will close on Broadway by the end of the month, and no more will open until Sept…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AMSunday, August 17, 2025
“Sea Glass” is billed as a contemporary feminist retelling of Cain and Abel, so I knew how it would end. Oddly, the ending felt tacked on – one of the reasons why Olivia Dennehy-Basile…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32PMSaturday, August 16, 2025
Although Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Academy Award for “The Danish Girl,” he regretted taking on the role of Lili Elbe, as he told an interviewer several years later, becau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AM 
