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Monday, May 8, 2023

“English” Awarded 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama by Jonathan Mandell

“English” by Sanaz Toossi has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Finalists were “On Sugarland” and “The Far Country” Check out my New York Theater Awards 2023: Guide and Calen…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM

Awards Galore! Watch Ham4Ham Return, Lloyd Webber’s Coronation Anthem. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards will both be announced later today, capping the week’s theater award windfall: first the Theatre World Award Winne…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AM
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Lucille Lortel Award Winners 2023: Wolf Play, Titanique, A Raisin in the Sun. by Jonathan Mandell

 “Wolf Play” won Outstanding Play and four other awards, and “Titanique” Outstanding Musical at the 38th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. A…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PM
Saturday, May 6, 2023

Dimanche Review. Climate Awareness via Puppetry and Clowning by Jonathan Mandell

The climate crisis has been deadly for polar bears and flamingos, sharks and elderly mothers-in-law, but it’s been gold for innovative Belgian theater companies. “Dimanche,”  a serie…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:48PM
Friday, May 5, 2023

Broadway review: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Jonathan Mandell

The revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s second play, which debuted at BAM in February, has now opened on Broadway, where I saw it again, and have something more to say about it. But I’ll put…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:12PM
Thursday, May 4, 2023

shadow/land Off Broadway Review: In The Eye of Hurricane Katrina by Jonathan Mandell

Ruth and her mother Magalee are stuck in Shadowland, a place that was once their family’s source of pride, a jazz club that had the distinction of being the first air-conditioned hotel for…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Broadway on the Cheap: How To Get Rush and Lottery Tickets by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a chart showing a list of discounted tickets via lottery and rush for each current Broadway show, presented in the tradition of the useful (but sadly no longer updated) website Broa…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AM
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

2023 Tony Award Nominations: Some Like It Hot Leads by Jonathan Mandell

Tony Award nomination announcement  “Some LIke It Hot” leads with 13 nominations, the most for a musical, and “Ain’t No Mo,” “A Doll’s House” and “Leopoldstadt” tie for …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM
Monday, May 1, 2023

May 2023 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May 2023 in New York, including a new, scary Broadway show, an unusually early kickoff for the new Broadway season, at a time when attention is on …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM

Theatre World Award Winners 2023 by Jonathan Mandell

Below is the list of honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2022-2023 theatrical season The 77th annual Theatre …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM

Broadway Finale. Awards Up The Wazoo. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

When the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced tomorrow morning, it will be five days after the five final shows officially opened on Broadway, marking the end of the Broadway 2022-2…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM
Sunday, April 30, 2023

10 Lesbian Plays To Read by Jonathan Mandell

In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week, here are ten plays by and/or about lesbians, none of which are being performed in New York currently, but the scripts are published, and worth reading. …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PM

Broadway Season Closer Quiz by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to the theater in April, 2023, the end of the Broadway season? Answer these ten questions — and one doozy of a bonus question — to find out. Loading…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Hong Kong Mississippi Review. A Chinese Boy Wants to Play The Blues by Jonathan Mandell

At the very end of Wesley Du’s solo play about a Chinese-American boy named Pinky who wants to be a blues guitarist, Pinky reads aloud a letter from Cannonball, the irascible, bigoted Blac…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM
Friday, April 28, 2023

Summer 1976 Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht sit at the same table but don’t look at one another, nor talk to each other, at the beginning of this exquisitely acted production of David Auburn’s gauzy,…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM

2023 Chita Rivera Award Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AM
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Drama Desk Award Nominations 2023 by Jonathan Mandell

 “Shucked” leads in the nominations for the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. The a…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

New York, New York Broadway Review. Kander & Miranda ❤️ NY by Jonathan Mandell

“Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today…” Anna Uzele as Francine starts to sing… “So leave already!” interrupts the brusque manager of the polka band for whom she’s aud…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PM

Outer Critics Circle Award 2023 Nominations: “New York, New York” Leads. by Jonathan Mandell

“New York, New York” followed by “Some Like It Hot” received the most nominations for the 72nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announc…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06AM
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Drama League Award 2023 Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

Below are the nominations for the 89th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Justin Guarini and Rogert Bart.. The awards ceremony, open to the public, will be…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM

6 Longest Running Broadway Shows by Jonathan Mandell

Below are the six longest-running shows currently on Broadway, with descriptions and links. This feels the right time for an update given that “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest sho…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AM
Monday, April 24, 2023

Good Night, Oscar Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

When Sean Hayes as the concert pianist and celebrated wit Oscar Levant sits down at the piano to play “Rhapsody in Blue,” I thought at first that it was a recording and he was simulating…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PM

Prima Facie, Peter Pan, Thanksgiving Play open on Broadway. The Home Stretch! #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Three shows opened on Broadway within the last four days, four more will officially open within the next four days, and then the Broadway 2022-2023 season will officially end, and the theate…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AM
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Prima Facie Broadway Review. Jodie Comer as a Rape Victim by Jonathan Mandell

Almost immediately after she is raped, Tessa Ensler starts imagining the questions a defense attorney would ask her, and the witnesses he would call, to get the rapist off. “Legal instinct…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PM
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Earth Day on Broadway 2023 by Jonathan Mandell

In celebration of the 53rd annual Earth Day today, thirty blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehicular traffic, and alive with pop-up performances al…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AM
Friday, April 21, 2023

Peter Pan Goes Wrong Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

Sure I laughed. I laughed when Tinker Bell is electrocuted, and when Neil Patrick Harris’s Masterpiece Theater-like chair somehow attacks him. But, after two hours watching an implausible …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PM
Thursday, April 20, 2023

The Thanksgiving Play Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

Larissa FastHorse, whose often hilarious play is reportedly the first on Broadway by a Native American woman, sends up well-meaning white liberals, mocks the vanities and pretensions of thes…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Plays for the Plague Year Review by Jonathan Mandell

It’s a “banquet of the unbearable,” one character calls the show he’s in — a chronological account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as captured in the short plays and so…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PM
Monday, April 17, 2023

Phantom Farewell. Camelot, Fat Ham, White Girl in Danger open. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

The Phantom of the Opera took a final Majestic bow last night after a record-breaking thirty-five years on Broadway. Its 13,981th performance played out before a red-carpeted crowd in white …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38AM
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Camelot Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

There are bright shining moments aplenty in the latest Broadway revival of “Camelot,” the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical about the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PM
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Understanding Public Obscenities. 5 Lessons for New York Theater by Jonathan Mandell

“Don’t worry; I hear it’s easy to understand,” a Bengali-American in my row at Soho Rep reassured me, before “Public Obscenities” began.  For him, I thought. As it turns out, …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PM