Thursday, April 17, 2025

Jinkx Monsoon Sails From ‘Drag Race’ to ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Jinkx Monsoon talks about feeling like a lifetime of hard work is finally paying off, and her return to Broadway as a zany maid in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical.”

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Onstage and Off, Whitney White Is Everywhere This Spring by Alexis Soloski

An actor, musician and writer, White is also now an in-demand stage director. “I am looking, I am hungry, I am searching,” she said.

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Monday, April 14, 2025

Review: In ‘John Proctor Is the Villain,’ It’s the Girls vs. the Men by Jesse Green

Kimberly Belflower’s play, on Broadway starring Sadie Sink, gives high school students a chance to prosecute a #MeToo case against “The Crucible.”

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Natalie Dessay Stars With Her Daughter in a French ‘Gypsy’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The soprano Natalie Dessay and her daughter, Neïma Naouri, team up to explore one of theater’s most toxic mother-daughter relationships.

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How ‘Stranger Things’ Scaled Up for Broadway by Erik Piepenburg and Graham Dickie

A big opening scene that took about two-and-a-half years to perfect plunges theatergoers into the sci-fi world of the hit Netflix series.

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Saturday, April 12, 2025

Bernadette Peters Loves a Day Out in New York by Sarah Bahr

Back on Broadway for “Old Friends,” the actress reflects on the art she saw with Sondheim and the delights of the High Line and Central Park.

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‘Khovanshchina’ Is Finished in Time to Be Newly Resonant by Jeffrey Arlo Brown

Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina” has been added onto by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Now, another composer gets to have his say.

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How Brandon Kazen-Maddox, an American Sign Language Artist, Spends Their Sundays by Sarah Bahr

Branden Kazen-Maddox makes time for mud massages, meditation and aerial hoop adventures.

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Friday, April 11, 2025

Suzanne Rand, Half of a Once-Popular Comedy Team, Dies at 75 by Richard Sandomir

Like Nichols and May before them, Monteith and Rand had their own Broadway show. Unlike Nichols and May, they faded from view after they broke up.

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Review: Dance Theater of Harlem, Reshaped and Back at City Center by Brian Seibert

Robert Garland, the company’s artistic director, has created his first work for the dancers since taking over in 2023.

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Theater to Stream: David Tennant as ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Death of England’ and More by Rachel Sherman

Take in Shakespeare, experimental theater and a three-play series on the fallout of Brexit, all available to watch at home.

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U.S. Architecture Pavilion Draws Lessons From the American Porch by Sam Lubell

To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutations of the porch.

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Review: ‘Becoming Eve’ Offers Testaments Old and New by Alexis Soloski

A trans woman comes out to her Hasidic Jewish father in this Off Broadway play that tussles with faith and family bonds.

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Review: In a Musical Comedy Makeover, ‘Smash’ Lives Up to Its Name by Jesse Green

En route to Broadway, the TV series about backstage shenanigans and Marilyn Monroe has been rejiggered, with the same great songs but a whole new plot.

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‘Amm(i)gone’ and ‘A Mother’: Sons Calling for Their Mothers by Laura Collins-Hughes

The maternal embrace of young men and their battles figures in two very different plays, one a solo work and the other a Brechtian riff starring Jessica Hecht.

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Why Some Dance Companies Are Moving Away From Social Media by Margaret Fuhrer

Social media seemed to hold enormous promise for the dance field. So why are some dancers and companies choosing to disconnect?

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

‘Manhunt’ Is a Case Study in Fragile Masculinity by Houman Barekat

A new play by Robert Icke about a real-life police chase takes the form of an imagined trial.

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At Dance Theater of Harlem, Robert Garland Has a Plan by Roslyn Sulcas

Robert Garland has built the company’s season on the idea that varied works can be in conversation with each other — and with dancers’ bodies.

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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: What to Know About the Broadway Show by Sarah Bahr

The new play, set 24 years before the start of the Netflix series, combines lavish spectacle with a cast of familiar characters.

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The Best Classical Music Performances of March 2025 by Joshua Barone, Seth Colter Walls, Zachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr

Watch and listen to recent highlights, including Nicole Scherzinger on Broadway, a pair of Janacek operas and Cécile McLorin Salvant.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’ Review: A Broadway Party With 41 Songs by Jesse Green

Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.

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The Loose Screws, Hot Flames and Infinite Joy of William Finn by Jesse Green

The composer and lyricist of “A New Brain,” “Falsettos” and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73.

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William Finn, Tony Winner for ‘Falsettos,’ Is Dead at 73 by Michael Paulson

An acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

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Film at Lincoln Center Chooses Daniel Battsek as Next President by Sarah Bahr

At the production company Film4 he was instrumental in financing British movies. In New York, his goal is to attract a younger, more diverse audience.

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At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self by Laura Collins-Hughes

With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.

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Monday, April 7, 2025

At James Earl Jones Memorial, Denzel Washington and Whoopi Goldberg Share Stories by Derrick Bryson Taylor

At a gathering in the Broadway theater renamed to honor the star, speakers including Denzel Washington and Phylicia Rashad described Jones as an inspiration.

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‘Boop! The Musical’ Review: Betty Gets a Broadway Brand Extension by Jesse Green

The It girl with the spit curl looks great for 100, but her Broadway musical, which feels like one big merch grab, is boop-boop-a-don’t.

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The Snubs and Surprises of the 2025 Olivier Awards by Matt Wolf, Houman Barekat and Eleanor Stanford

Times critics discuss the big winners — a new play about Roald Dahl, a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk-rock “Benjamin Button”— at London’s theater awards.

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She’s Martha Graham. Who Are You? by Brian Seibert

At 99, the Graham company continues to grapple with the legacy of its founder with reimagined lost works and commissions.

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6 Songs From ‘Just in Time’ That Capture Bobby Darin’s Legacy by Alan Light

The show’s star, Jonathan Groff, and members of the creative team on how songs like “Splish Splash” and “If I Were a Carpenter” illuminate Darin’s life.

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Sunday, April 6, 2025

‘The Last Five Years’ Review: Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren Star in a Muddy Revival by Jesse Green

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown’s still-scathing musical.

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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