Friday, June 27, 2025
This sweet, lively and original musical deserves a wider audience, or maybe just a much longer run where it is, since the production works so wonderfully well in the intimate Off-Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:55PMThursday, June 26, 2025
Today, the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationally, seems an apt day for my annual census of gay characters on Broadway. At a time when LGBTQ …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:19PMWednesday, June 25, 2025
As “Lowcountry” begins, David, who just recently was permitted to remove his ankle bracelet, is about to go on a first date with Tally, whom he met on a dating app. Eventually, we learn …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56PMTuesday, June 24, 2025
“Do you realize that the U.S. has only spent under 20 years when we are NOT involvednin war?” the rap star Duke (Jay Ellis) tells an unseen interviewer. “When will that end?” Duke is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMMonday, June 23, 2025
New Yorkers have a busy week ahead: the Jimmy Awards tonight; tomorrow Primary Election Day; all week, Pride events — including the last of three plays of the Criminal Queerness theater …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMSunday, June 22, 2025
“The Gilded Age” had a remarkable number of Broadway veterans in its cast over its first two seasons, and many of them are returning for Season 3, which launches tonight – just the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:14PMSaturday, June 21, 2025
The circus performers in “Passengers” are both powerful athletes and graceful artists, achieving awe-inspiring feats of physical prowess. They are also travelers, and storytellers, in wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57PMFriday, June 20, 2025
“Bear Grease” is billed as a reimagining of the musical Grease, “told through an Indigenous lens” by a husband-wife duo who call themselves LightningCloud. But this proudly amateuris…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06PMThursday, June 19, 2025
“We can’t let Martin Luther King Jr’s dream become a nightmare because of the current administration,” André De Shields said in a speech accepting the 2025 Legacy Award at the Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMWednesday, June 18, 2025
The eleven finalists for this year’s Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education are a highly eclectic mix of academic theater books, some of which don’t …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AMTuesday, June 17, 2025
After two hours satirizing an arts fundraising gala with barbed caricatures, loopy shtick and shameless slapstick, Taylor Mac takes the stage alone in a fool’s cap to deliver a coda in rhy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PMMonday, June 16, 2025
At the opening performance of “Les Misérables” at the Kennedy Center, during the same week that pro-democracy protestors rallied throughout the country, as Donald Trump ordered the U.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AMSunday, June 15, 2025
“This is one of the most dangerous jobs in the city, “ Hiram Delgado as Barabbás said on stage this weekend in “La Dureza,” which chronicles a day in the life of a Deliverista �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PMSaturday, 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 
