Monday, March 17, 2025

The “Taylor Swift Effect” on Broadway (aka “obscene” ticket prices.) Dimming dilemma addressed. Stageworthy News of the Week. by New York Theater

Tickets for “Othello” are selling for $921, even as far back as Row M, which helped the Shakespeare play starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal gross a record-breaking $2.8 milli…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AM
Sunday, March 16, 2025

It Happened At the Palace: A History of New York’s Iconic Broadway Theater by New York Theater

This is a coffee table book put together by a landlord to promote his property. It’s also a history of a 112-year-old Broadway theater with a glamorous and complicated past, written by a T…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PM
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Ghosts Review by New York Theater

As Helena Alving in “Ghosts,”, Lily Rabe seems to do the exact inverse of what Jessica Chastain did as Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House” two years ago. Chastain sat in a chair for th…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PM
Friday, March 14, 2025

The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War by New York Theater

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center mirrors the attack nine decades ago by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the Federal Theater Project in an arresting way: Like the…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Broadway Poll for The Final Stretch: Favorite Play, Favorite Musical? by New York Theater

Seven plays and 11 musicals are opening on Broadway in March and April, over the final six weeks of the Broadway 2024-2025 season, starting Monday and ending on April 27, the final date of e…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PM
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Digital Theater 5 Years Later. ACTA 2025 by New York Theater

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 10:14AM
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Broadway 2025-26: Jean Smart, Kristen Chenoweth, Mamma Mia, Punch, Oedipus, Rocky Horror. Stageworthy News by New York Theater

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 08:33AM
Monday, March 10, 2025

The Jonathan Larson Project Review by New York Theater

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 09:50PM
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Oscar Winners 2025: Anora! by New York Theater

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 11:12PM

Best Picture Oscar Nominees Ranked by Broadway-adaptability by New York Theater

The 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 05:57PM
Saturday, March 1, 2025

March 2025 New York Theater Openings by New York Theater

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 08:19AM
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Theater Quiz for February 2025 by New York Theater

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 08:07AM
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Awards Season Preview. Arts, Anxiety and Resistance. Cole Escola to return to Oh Mary. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

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 09:29AM
Monday, February 24, 2025

Grangeville Review by New York Theater

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 08:45PM
Saturday, February 22, 2025

How Is It That We Live, or Shakey Jake + Alice. What’s the frequency, Lenneth? by New York Theater

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 09:42PM
Friday, February 21, 2025

Anywhere at Here. Oedipus as a melting marionette by New York Theater

“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 04:28PM
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Garside’s Career Review. A Demagogue’s Comeuppance by New York Theater

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 11:50PM
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

All Out, Coalminer’s Daughter Announced. A Week of Love, Grief and Retribution. Stageworthy News. by New York Theater

 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 08:29AM
Monday, February 17, 2025

11 U.S. Presidents on the Arts from George Washington to the Present by New York Theater

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 04:12PM
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir by Jeffrey Seller by New York Theater

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 03:44PM
Friday, February 14, 2025

On Valentine’s Day 2025, What Broadway Says About Love by New York Theater

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 09:09AM
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Redwood Broadway Review. Idina Menzel hugs an IMAX of a tree by New York Theater

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 09:58PM
Monday, February 10, 2025

Poll: Which 2025 Best Picture Oscar Nominee Would Work Best and Worst on Broadway by New York Theater

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 09:33PM

Who goes to Broadway. The Arts, Black History Under Attack. Denzel: Othello is just a play. Stageworthy News of the Week by New York Theater

The 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 12:12PM
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Super Bowl LIX: 5 Celebrity Commercials by New York Theater

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 11:54PM
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Two Centuries of Black Actors on the New York Stage by New York Theater

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 12:26PM
Friday, February 7, 2025

BroadwayCon 2025 Day 1 Scenes and Scents by New York Theater

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 10:03PM
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Still Review. Love vs. Politics by New York Theater

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 08:24PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Mrs. Loman Review. Willy’s Widow Awakens by New York Theater

  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 04:04PM

Off Broadway Week 2025: 2 for 1 Tickets by New York Theater

Tickets 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 09:53AM
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The Antiquities Review. Extinct humans on display by New York Theater

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 10:08PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum 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