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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Today’s A Day for Democracy by Jonathan Mandell

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 12:50PM
Friday, June 13, 2025

Immersive Storytelling at Tribeca Festival: “In Search of Us” by Jonathan Mandell

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 08:48PM
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Call Me Izzy Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

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 10:54PM
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Tribeca Festival: Seasoned, starring Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody by Jonathan Mandell

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 08:34PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The 9 Tony Winners You Can Still See. (4 of them: Hurry) by Jonathan Mandell

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 08:41AM
Monday, June 9, 2025

Tony Highlights. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

“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 05:40AM
Sunday, June 8, 2025

2025 Tony Award Winners: Purpose, Eureka Day, Sunset Blvd. by Jonathan Mandell

“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 07:25PM

How can I watch the 2025 Tony Awards? Why should I? Tony Night Cheat Sheet by Jonathan Mandell

The 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 10:54AM
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Eurydice Review by Jonathan Mandell

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 11:41AM
Friday, June 6, 2025

Tribeca Festival: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore by Jonathan Mandell

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 09:33PM
Thursday, June 5, 2025

2025 Tony Awards: Who SHOULD Win, and Why by Jonathan Mandell

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 06:43PM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Theatre World Award Winners reveal what it takes by Jonathan Mandell

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 10:01PM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

2025 Off Broadway Alliance Award Winners by Jonathan Mandell

“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

2025 Dorian Theater Award Winners: Maybe Happy Ending. John Proctor. Cats. Audra, Sarah, Jak, Fina. André. by Jonathan Mandell

“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 11:58AM
Monday, June 2, 2025

Maybe Happy Ending? Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

“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 10:55AM
Sunday, June 1, 2025

2025 Drama Desk Award Winners: Maybe Happy Ending and Purpose. Gypsy and Eureka Day. Audra and Jasmine. Donnelly and Snook. by Jonathan Mandell

“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 10:34PM
Saturday, May 31, 2025

June 2025 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

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 10:40PM
Friday, May 30, 2025

The Tony Awards Quiz 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

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

Blood, Sweat and Queers Review by Jonathan Mandell

“Blood, Sweat and Queers” is inspired by the true story of a Czech sprinter who broke world records at the 1934 Women’s World Games in London,  and gained world-wide fame when the f…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12AM
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Tribeca Festival 2025 for theater lovers by Jonathan Mandell

A “Hamlet” entirely inside his head…and in your ear. The Broadway cast of “The Gilded Age” in person. A documentary about actress Marlee Matlin, a feature film starring Kyra Sedwic…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PM
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Tony Contenders Tell All. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Is it lobbying or reveling, or simply revealing?   Here are 10 out of the many Tony nominee profiles, interviews, behind-the-scenes and think pieces published or posted within the past we…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AM
Monday, May 26, 2025

A Broadway Theatergoer for Nine Decades by Jonathan Mandell

Muriel Mandell saw her first Broadway play in 1939 (“It was rah-rah America”) and her most recent in the season just past (“Terrible”) — and many of the original productions of lan…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04PM
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Broadway 2025 2026 Season Preview Guide by Jonathan Mandell

Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2025-2026 season, starting in June with Jean Smart, fresh from her raved-about performance in “Hacks,” returning to Broadway after a…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM
Friday, May 23, 2025

Top 13 Posts in the 13 Years of New York Theater by Jonathan Mandell

Below are the 13 most popular new posts in each of the 13 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me, on May 23, 2012, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers’ evolving enthu…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM

Watch Adam Driver, Sarah Snook, Jasmine Amy Rogers et al accept their OCC Awards by Jonathan Mandell

Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 75th Outer Critics Circle Award held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don’t kn…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40AM
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Puppetopia: The Harlem Doll Palace and Rhynoceron by Jonathan Mandell

“The Harlem Doll Palace,” an unusual musical that launches the fourth annual Puppetopia Festival at HERE, is not just the true story of Lenon Holder Hoyt, an art teacher in public scho…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PM
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

2025 Tony Award Winners — YOUR Picks? by Jonathan Mandell

Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 78th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best — plus two poll questions about the future of the Tonys: which c…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AM
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Goddess Review. Amber Iman is heavenly. by Jonathan Mandell

Right after Amber Iman finishes her first song, a sudden admirer gasps: “Your voice is like nothing I’ve ever heard.” The reaction is understandable.  Iman portrays the title characte…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53PM

2025 Chita Rivera Award Winners: Buena Vista Social Club, Cats by Jonathan Mandell

Below is the complete list of 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented Monday night at the NYU Skirball Center. Check out the …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AM
Monday, May 19, 2025

Broadway on TV. John Leguizamo,Jordan E. Cooper at the Public. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Two Tony-nominated plays from the current Broadway season are being broadcast on television. Both of them originated decades ago, and have gained new relevance because of the current politi…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Creditors Review by Jonathan Mandell

Jen Silverman might seem an unlikely writer to adapt August Strindberg’s 1888  play for this starry production featuring Liev Schreiber as a man trying to undermine a married couple port…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PM
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