Wednesday, 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 10:14AMTuesday, March 11, 2025
The current Broadway season is about to rev up, with 18 shows scheduled to open in its final six weeks, but next season is already starting to come into focus: Jean Smart (“Hacks”) retur…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AMMonday, March 10, 2025
This may be my final hourThis may be the dying dayAnd though they never taught me why in school,I think I’m learning how to pray Jonathan Larson wrote this song, entitled “SOS,” when h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PMSunday, March 2, 2025
Anora, about a sex worker in Brooklyn, dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning best picture, best director, best actress, best editor and original screenplay. Wicked, a film adaptation of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12PMThe night we learn who wins the Oscars may be a good time to show the results of last month’s poll ranking which of the best picture nominees could be best (and worst) adapted as play or m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:57PMSaturday, March 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in March, a month that’s bursting with shows: Six on Broadway alone – Denzel and Jake in Othello, Kieran Culkin in a Mamet revival, Sar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
How well were you paying attention to theater news, views and reviews this month? Answer these ten questions and see Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMTuesday, February 25, 2025
Cynthia Erivo will serve as host for the first time when the 78th annual Tony Awards is presented at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday June 8, 2025. This will be the 21st time the ceremony has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AMMonday, February 24, 2025
Their mother is dying, which is the only reason why Arnold (Brian J. Smith) has – reluctantly – picked up the phone to answer a call by his half-brother Jerry (Paul Starks.) It’s been …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
How DO Jake and Alice live? The answer is: lyrically. That, anyway, is how playwright Len Jenkin presents their lives in three extended scenes in his awkwardly titled play — as spikey adol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42PMFriday, February 21, 2025
“Anywhere” is an hour-long puppet piece that features a marionette who is made of ice, slowly melts, then turns to mist, and finally disappears completely. It mystified me. There are sev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PMThursday, February 20, 2025
Peter Garside calls himself a demagogue, freely admits he’s in politics to make money, and says “the public likes to be fooled.” It’s a corrupt attitude that, despite his good loo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
The producers of “All in: Comedy about Love,” one of the three shows that ended their Broadway runs last weekend, have announced “All Out: Comedy About Life” for next season (venue…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29AMMonday, February 17, 2025
Donald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – which he told reporters he had never visited – on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
When Jeffrey Seller was 18 years old and frustrated at his new job as the drama director at a summer camp for kids, somebody handed him a copy of Moss Hart’s 1959 memoir “Act One,” tou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PMFriday, February 14, 2025
Nightly on Broadway nowadays, one title character professes her love to the other title character: “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AMThursday, February 13, 2025
Idina Menzel returns to Broadway as Jesse, a New York gallery owner who, out of grief for the death of her son, leaves her wife and her life, drives cross country, and winds up spending seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PMMonday, February 10, 2025
We already know that “Wicked” would make a good Broadway musical because it IS one. But what about the other nine movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar? Which would make …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PMThe average Broadway theatergoer is a 42-year-old white woman from out of town whose family income exceeds $275,000. That’s one way to summarize The Demographics of the Broadway Audience …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PMSunday, February 9, 2025
My favorite celebrity commercial during the 2025 Super Bowl weren’t selling a product, but promoting an ideal. The others were hawking liquor and condiments.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMSaturday, February 8, 2025
When Denzel Washington starts performing as Othello later this month on Broadway, he’ll be following by exactly two centuries the debut portrayal of “the Moor of Venice” by Ira Aldridg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PMFriday, February 7, 2025
Samantha Sehter is the brains – or the nose? – behind “Scents of the Stage,” a brand new company that makes candles that smell like specific Broadway shows – or more precisely, cre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PMThursday, February 6, 2025
They meet for drinks after an absence of thirty years, still loving one another, and still sharing a secret. “Still,” starring Melissa Gilbert (from Little House on the Prairie) and M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PMWednesday, February 5, 2025
In “Mrs. Loman,” a misfire of a play that attempts a sequel to Arthur Miller’s “Death of A Salesman,” Willy Loman’s widow Linda experiences a somewhat anachronistic awakeni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PMTickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 29 Off-Broadway productions (18 of them newly offered), for performances from February 17 th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
In “The Antiquities,” playwright Jordan Harrison offers a dozen stories about the downside of technology through the ages, each from a distinctive year, from 1816 to 2240. If the play ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PMMonday, February 3, 2025
“Yes, the darkness is loud, but the light is brighter y’all,” Brandon Victor Dixon shouted while accepting the Grammy for Best Musical Theater album for “Hells Kitchen,” That’s s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AMSunday, February 2, 2025
Hells Kitchen has won the 2025 best musical theater album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMSaturday, February 1, 2025
The 68th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes Lifetime achievement awards for Charles Busch, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PMBelow is a calendar of selected theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show, “Redwood,” starring Idina Menzel, and plenty of star power Off Broadway: Rainn Wilson, Jor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMFriday, January 31, 2025
“Wicked” and “Hamilton” are back in the news, as is a certain former reality show host; some once little-known stage actors are now….nominees; and there was plenty new and strange …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PM 
