Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Drama Desk Award Nominations 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

“Boop” leads with 11 nominations at the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards announcement by Norm Lewis this afternoon, followed by “Just in Time” and “Maybe Happy Ending” with nine eac…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Chita Rivera Award Nominations 2025: Buena Vista Social Club gets lots of love. Jonathan Groff a nominee. by Jonathan Mandell

Below is the complete list of the nominations announced for 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies. The awards will be presented  on May 19 at 7:…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PM

Broadway Season Closer Quiz 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to the 2024-2025 Broadway season, and the final dozen plays and musicals that opened in April by the Tony deadline? Can you identify lines of dialogue and …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AM
Monday, April 28, 2025

Broadway Finale! Tony Anticipation. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Over this past week Broadway has been awash in crooners and corpses, monsters and marauders, immigrants and miners, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2024-2025 season had their opening …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Real Women Have Curves Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

This musical about mostly undocumented immigrants in a L.A. dress factory has heart, something in short supply these days, especially when it comes to immigrants. It also features bellies. I…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:05PM

Dead Outlaw Opens on Broadway by Jonathan Mandell

“Dead Outlaw,” a darkly comic musical that tells the ghoulish true tale about a corpse from the Old West, has been resurrected, opening tonight on Broadway, with the same cast and creati…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Just in Time Broadway Review. Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin. by Jonathan Mandell

There is a Sinatra vibe that Jonathan Groff nails from the start, when, in shiny tux and tie, he works his way around the café tables of Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater,  redesi…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59PM

Stranger Things: The First Shadow Broadway Review. Horror (Season 4, Ep 7) on Stage. by Jonathan Mandell

In the lobby gift shop of the Marquis, where Netflix’s Broadway version of “Stranger Things” has opened, there is a Demogorgon plushie for sale for thirty dollars. It’s not called a …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PM
Friday, April 25, 2025

Outer Critics Circle Award 2025 Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

“Death Becomes Her” leads the nominations at the 75th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning by Oh, Mary! stars Cole Escola and Conrad Ricamora at the Museum of …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Pirates! The Penzance Musical Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

“Pirates!,” which opens tonight on Broadway, is billed as a reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 146-year-old comic operetta. But luckily there is plenty it shares with the twenty-six…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Hold Me In The Water Review by Jonathan Mandell

Before launching into the funny, sweet, sad, slight, sometimes sexually graphic story of his first love, the author and performer of this one-man show introduces himself in telling and trade…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PM

Happy Birthday William Shakespeare. Broadway loves you by Jonathan Mandell

William Shakespeare is said to have been born on this day in 1564. It wasn’t until 1750 that there is any record of one of his plays being produced in New York — “King Richard III” �…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Drama League Award 2025 Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

Below are the nominations for the 91st annual Drama League Awards announced this morning by Sarah Hyland and Orville Peck at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Ce…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AM
Monday, April 21, 2025

Life and Trust closes abruptly. Phantom reopens eventually? Sadie Sink now and then. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Amid the busiest time for openings on Broadway and beyond, there is also news of an abrupt closing,  a teased re-opening, and a promising summer theater season mostly outdoors and much of …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Rheology Review. Theater meets Science Over Sand by Jonathan Mandell

 “Rheology” begins with a physicist delivering a lecture about sand, with a blackboard full of equations, and equipment (hourglass, sandbox, projections) to illustrate her points. This …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PM
Friday, April 18, 2025

Summer Theater 2025 At Lincoln Center and Little Island by Jonathan Mandell

Deaf Broadway’s version of “Waitress.” A new show by Suzan-Lori Parks. A 4,000-year-old epic play. Shakespeare on immigration. Monteverdi on race relations. Opera singer Anthony Roth …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PM
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Broadway Discounts to 2025 Shows by Jonathan Mandell

Given all the recent announcements of shattered Broadway box office records — which means more theatergoers are paying higher ticket prices than ever before for Broadway shows — below is…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Glass Kill What If If Only Imp Review. A Caryl Churchill Quartet. by Jonathan Mandell

Deirdre O’Connell as Dot keeps an imp in a corked old wine bottle, expecting it to work magic – to  grant Dot’s wishes, as long as what she asks for is not too selfish. It’s true t…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34PM
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Bad Muslim Fringe Review by Jonathan Mandell

Azhar Bande-Ali was in a plane that had a mechanical problem that prevented it from landing, which provoked a spiritual problem;  he worried that the plane would crash, and he would die. So…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PM
Monday, April 14, 2025

John Proctor is the Villain Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

The first word in this play is “sex.” Mr. Smith says it to his teenage students, asking for its definition, which the class then recites in unison, reading aloud from their textbooks. Th…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07PM

Broads on Broadway: Smash, Boop, Old Friends. Leslie Odom Jr Back in Hamilton. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Female characters and performers dominated the shows that opened  this past week on Broadway, which the previous week had been dominated by shows featuring male characters and performers. …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AM
Sunday, April 13, 2025

The End of All Flesh Fringe Review. Hillbillies as Post-Apocalyptic Philosophers by Jonathan Mandell

“Urinetown” co-creator Greg Kotis takes us to another future dystopian society in this small, cheeky musical that’s part of the New York City Fringe Festival.  With a banjo-driven bl…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Tariffs and Other Taxes in Broadway Shows by Jonathan Mandell

The president of the United States puts a fifty percent tariff on all imported cheese, which leads to war…with Switzerland. That’s the premise of “Strike Up the Band,” the first of a…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AM
Friday, April 11, 2025

Theater blog roundup: High on Broadway. Tributes to Finn and Fugard. by Jonathan Mandell

Broadway is luring the star-struck to pay big bucks in this final stretch of the season, leading Janice Simpson of Broadway & Me to ask “whether all the hoopla and moola are worth it.�…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PM
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Smash Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

“Smash” offered viewers the rare thrill of original musical numbers written by a Tony-winning songwriting team expressly for network television, and simultaneously gave Tweeters a targe…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25PM
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

What This Place Makes Me: Contemporary Plays on Immigration by Jonathan Mandell

There is a moment of mystery near the end of “Public Obscenities,”  which was a finalist last year for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama: Choton, the queer Bengali American PhD student from …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:07PM
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Sondheim’s Old Friends Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

In this sixth Sondheim show on Broadway since his death in 2021, a cast of 19 including Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga perform 40 songs selected from 14 shows for which Stephen Sondheim w…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PM
Monday, April 7, 2025

Boop Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

If “Boop!” were a store rather than a Broadway musical, it would be a factory outlet, and the pile-on of merchandise on display would all be refurbished from parts of old shows –  th…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM

Brawny Broadway. Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

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 09:32AM
Sunday, April 6, 2025

The Last Five Years Broadway Review. Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, mismatched. by Jonathan Mandell

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 10:50PM
Saturday, April 5, 2025

What is Broadway Opening Night? How it’s changed, why it matters. by Jonathan Mandell

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 11:39AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre