Thursday, May 1, 2025

2025 Tony Nominations Announcement: What to Know and How to Watch by Michael Paulson

Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce which performers and which productions from a crowded 2024-25 Broadway season will vie for awards.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

‘Ceremonies in Dark Old Men’ Review: A Father in Defeat by Juan A. Ramírez

Norm Lewis stars as the resigned patriarch of two slippery sons in this revival of Lonne Elder III’s drama from 1969.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Ewan McGregor, Back Onstage, Is the Architect of His Own Folly by Houman Barekat

“My Master Builder,” a new take on the Ibsen classic, reduces a complex play to a tawdry marital melodrama.

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“All the World’s a Stage” and “Rheology” Are Promising New Productions by Juan A. Ramírez

Two worlds of promise: “All the World’s a Stage,” a musical by Adam Gwon, and “Rheology,” Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s follow-up to “Public Obscenities.”

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Who Should Be a Tony Awards Nominee in 2025? by Jesse Green

Our chief theater critic makes his picks.

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Monday, April 28, 2025

John Jasperse Starts La MaMa Moves! Honoring a Female Lineage by Brian Seibert

Jasperse’s engrossing “Tides” was a thrilling opener to a festival that often feels like a home for first drafts.

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Where Can I Find a Cheap Broadway Ticket? by Michael Paulson

If you are determined to see a celebrity in a popular show on a busy night, you may be out of luck, but with flexibility and persistence, you can cut some costs.

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Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Charlotte Ballet Director and Sinuous Dancer, Dies at 82 by Roslyn Sulcas

He brought grace and power to his roles before a serious injury encouraged him to try choreography — “maybe the richest part of my life.”

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In ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ Gary Oldman Hits Rewind by Houman Barekat

The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett’s bleak one-man play.

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Broadway’s Debacles Live On at Joe Allen’s ‘Flop Wall’ by James Barron

The posters in the theater-district restaurant document the shows that went wrong.

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My Life With Uncle Vanya, the Self-Pitying Sad Sack We Can’t Quit by Jason Zinoman

What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages?

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New York City’s Creative Churn: The View From the Dance Floor by Brian Seibert and Yuvraj Khanna

“Urban Stomp” at the Museum of the City of New York chronicles the metropolis’s social dance. It also invites you to join the party.

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Review: This American (Immigrant) Life by Laura Collins-Hughes

On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s dreams.

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‘Dead Outlaw’ Review: This Bandit Has Mummy Issues by Jesse Green

A truly twisted yarn about a long-lived corpse makes a surprisingly feel-good Broadway musical.

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

‘Just in Time’ Review: Jonathan Groff Channels Bobby Darin by Jesse Green

Groff is sensational as the ’60s “nightclub animal” in a Broadway bio-musical jukebox that doesn’t live up to its star.

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Friday, April 25, 2025

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Is Now a Broadway Show. Here Are 5 Things to Know. by Sarah Bahr

The new musical is based on Josefina López’s original play and the 2002 film adaptation that starred America Ferrera.

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Patrick Adiarte, Actor Seen in Musicals and on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 82 by Richard Sandomir

As a young immigrant from the Philippines, he had roles on Broadway in “The King and I” and “Flower Drum Song.” He was later a familiar face on TV.

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How a Kentucky Man Trapped in a Cave Became a Broadway Musical by Annie Aguiar

Floyd Collins was pinned under a rock while exploring a cave in 1925. That history, recounted in song, is now on Broadway.

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Pirates,’ Now in Jazzy New Orleans by Jesse Green

A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land.

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‘Hold Me in the Water’ Review: Smitten, and Primed to Flirt by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning “Dark Disabled Stories” with a rom-com.

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Penn Station’s Not-So-Secret Other Life: The People’s Dance Studio by Rachel Sherman and Mohamed Sadek

Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

After ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Malfunction, Nicole Scherzinger Sings With Bullhorn by Michael Paulson

The “Sunset Boulevard” star briefly entertained the crowd when “a technical malfunction on the sound side” forced the cancellation of a matinee performance.

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Review: From Kyle Abraham, Saxophones and Sculptural Shapes by Brian Seibert

On program of New York premieres at the Joyce Theater, Abraham’s contribution stands out and so do his dancers.

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Review: Little Adds Up in the Elusive ‘Grief Camp’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Les Waters’s production for Atlantic Theater Company is marvelously realized, despite the limitations of the play’s often maddening script.

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With ‘Floyd Collins,’ Jeremy Jordan Finds Another Challenge Onstage by Elisabeth Vincentelli

In “Floyd Collins,” playing a hardscrabble Kentuckian trapped while exploring a cave, the actor finds inspiration in the claustrophobic restrictions.

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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: An Origin Story for the Broadway Stage by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This Broadway production delivers lots of spectacle as it winds back to the teenage years of Henry Creel, an antagonist from the Netflix series.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Climate Activists Interrupt New York City Ballet Performance by Javier C. Hernández, Rachel Saltz and Amanda Webster

Protesters interrupted an all-Balanchine program on the company’s spring season opening night, which coincided this year with Earth Day.

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‘Macbeth in Stride’ Review: A Leap and Stumble Into a Classic by Maya Phillips

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

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Celia Rowlson-Hall’s Sisyphean Beach Balls by Brian Seibert

Celia Rowlson-Hall’s “Sissy” at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, a dance-theater hybrid featuring Marisa Tomei, pokes at the boundaries between art and life.

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Monday, April 21, 2025

‘Floyd Collins’ Review: Trapped in a Cave and in a Media Circus by Laura Collins-Hughes

One of the wonders of this glorious-sounding new Broadway production is how far from claustrophobic this Kentucky cave saga feels.

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Alexey Brodovitch’s ‘Ballet’ Captured the Magic of Dance by Philip Gefter

Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that has been reprinted for its 80th anniversary.

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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