Monday, April 7, 2025
Male 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 11:39AMFriday, April 4, 2025
Jeffrey Richards has produced playwright David Mamet’s plays ten times on Broadway over the past twenty years, including the revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross” that is currently running …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:40PMThursday, April 3, 2025
Where is our Edward R. Murrow? That is the implicit question that animates George Clooney’s play, opened tonight on Broadway in an elegant, meticulous and timely production directed by Dav…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Drag: The Musical, Our Class, and Three Houses received the most nominations for the 40th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in April, including twelve shows on Broadway, half of which are adapted from (or inspired by) works of art or entertainment in other media — two mov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40AMMonday, March 31, 2025
Thirteen shows will open on Broadway in the four weeks until the Broadway 2024-2025 officially ends; by then New York theater award season will be well underway: New York Theater Awards Cale…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMSunday, March 30, 2025
How well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in March? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMSaturday, March 29, 2025
Sandy was not the first dog on a New York stage. Even Bill Berloni concedes that. He trained Sandy for “Annie” back in 1977, and, this season, Tana June for “Gypsy” (along with her u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMFriday, March 28, 2025
Is that Sarah Paulson in pajamas brushing her teeth? She is in her dressing room at the Belasco, during the run of the play “Appropriate” — one of some one hundred black-and-white phot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMThursday, March 27, 2025
Sarah Snook portrays some 25 characters as well as the narrator in this dazzling and sometimes dizzying stage-and-video adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel, but at the curtain call, she is f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMToday is World Theatre Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, even when the lovely enveloping darkness in a theater feels no match for the ugly encroaching darkness o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMWednesday, March 26, 2025
Below is a calendar of dates from April to June in 2025 when nominations and awards are announced, and ceremonies take place, for the major New York theater awards (and a few others), follow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
In honor of Women’s History Month, here are the 20 women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished play by an American author…de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AMMonday, March 24, 2025
Good theater can heal, as proven by the daily dose of theater openings last week – four shows on Broadway, several Off Broadway and beyond – many of them restorative. Ok, some were not. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AMSunday, March 23, 2025
Denzel Washington stars in the title role of Othello, and Jake Gyllenhaal as his secret nemesis Iago, in director Kenny Leon’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, opening officially ton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45PMStephen Sondheim would have turned 95 today. In the three years and four months since his death, attention to the Broadway composer has only grown, with the opening of a new musical, a reviv…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSaturday, March 22, 2025
Joshua William Gelb writhes nude and mute in a box for forty-five minutes. That’s “[Untitled Miniature]” in a nutshell. It’s my job to put this in context, so I’ll try. I’ll also…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMFriday, March 21, 2025
Greg Kotis, whose “Urinetown” won a Tony shortly after its debut at the New York International Fringe Festival, now offers a new post-apocalyptic musical at a new New York fringe festiva…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMThursday, March 20, 2025
“Operation Mincemeat” is terribly clever and frightfully British, with a strong next-generation Monty Python vibe. If it ultimately feels too clever by half, that may be because this new…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
As a band and a brand, “Buena Vista Social Club” has been gold from the get-go: It was a hit Grammy-winning album that in 1996 had brought together an impromptu group of old-time Cuban m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PMPlaywright Joshua Harmon secretly recorded the last conversation he had with his dying grandmother, during which he told her that his next play was going to be about their family. “Do you …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
After watching Andrew Scott portray all eight characters by himself in a new version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” which is playing Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel through May 11, I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PMMonday, March 17, 2025
In “Purpose,” an extraordinary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Tony winner for last season’s “Appropriate”) opening tonight on Broadway in a terrifically acted, crowd-pleasing prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PMTickets for “Othello” are selling for $921, even as far back as Row M, which helped the Shakespeare play starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal gross a record-breaking $2.8 milli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AMSunday, March 16, 2025
This is a coffee table book put together by a landlord to promote his property. It’s also a history of a 112-year-old Broadway theater with a glamorous and complicated past, written by a T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMSaturday, March 15, 2025
As Helena Alving in “Ghosts,”, Lily Rabe seems to do the exact inverse of what Jessica Chastain did as Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House” two years ago. Chastain sat in a chair for th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PMFriday, March 14, 2025
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center mirrors the attack nine decades ago by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the Federal Theater Project in an arresting way: Like the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Seven plays and 11 musicals are opening on Broadway in March and April, over the final six weeks of the Broadway 2024-2025 season, starting Monday and ending on April 27, the final date of e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Five years ago today, the then-Governor of New York ordered all Broadway theaters closed because of Covid-19, which within days spawned a pioneering era of digital theater. The shut-dow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AM 
