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Watch Theatre World Award winners past and present talk below about when they first knew they were going to be professional performers. For more on Theatre World Awards, check out Theatre Wo…
Jeremy O. Harris' film about his Broadway play "Slave Play" begins with a young Black woman in an NYU sweatshirt looking straight up at the ceiling and screaming with great violence. It's al…
"Stereophonic" won Outstandint Play and six other awards, "Dead Outlaw" Outstanding Musical and two others at the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards. Full list of winners below. Click here for 20…
Tonight ceremonies will take place for both the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards and the 78th annual Theatre World Awards, leading up to the endlessly anticipated/promoted climax of theat…
"What Became of Us" is at heart a modest, moving two-character play about a brother and a sister, the children of immigrant parents, who tell us about each other over the course of the…
Jessica Lange as Lillian Hall, one of the great legends of the American theater, is about to star once again on Broadway in "The Cherry Orchard." But she  is collapsed on her bed, when…
This first-time feature film by writer and director Nicholas Colia will inspire some of the same knowing laughs among grown-up theater kids as "Theater Camp,"  and some of the same …
"Merrily We Roll Along" and "Oh, Mary!" received the most love at the Second Annual Dorian Theater Awards, winning four categories apiece, while "Stereophonic" won three awards, in…
Samm-Art Williams was born in Burgaw, North Carolina seventy-eight years ago, and died in that same small rural town last month; he liked to tell people he was "just a country boy." Actua…
Twenty-two years after Robert De Niro et al founded the Tribeca Film Festival in the wake of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, the festival has grown so large and overwhelming that …
Mr. Steinglass: Donald Trump cannot shoot someone during rush hour on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.Mr. Blanche: Objection your Honor.The Court: SustainedMr. Steinglass: You, the jury, h…
There is a sly strategy to the fanciful title of this solo play, as there is to performer Paula Pizzi's soft-spoken lyricism. They make it easier, for one, to take in the underlying horror.Ã…
Below is a selection of New York theater opening* in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar, including the first Broadway revival of Samm-Art Williams' play "Home," and a radical reimag…
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, about the nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards. Loading…
"Dead Outlaw" won Best New Musical and "Oh, Mary!" Best New Play among the six competitive categories of the 13th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The ceremony will take place June 18th …
The outdoor bilingual musical adaptation of Shakespeare's shortest play has returned, just as festive and comically confusing as it was last summer, but now the main attraction of Free Shake…
The Palace will reopen tonight after six years for the first of what are now 19 shows scheduled so far for the Broadway 2024-2025 season, with a concert by Ben Platt promoting his new …
"I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here, beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were mo…
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 77th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best " plus a poll question about which new category (if any) the Ton…
Below is a manageable list of 13 theater books " recently published or soon to be" that look to be good summer reads: six memoirs or biographies, four books of history, recent scripts of thr…
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 73rd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don…
The state of theater blogging is arguably a bit like the state of theater in general. It's more persistent, and resilient, than the pessimists might proclaim.   Chris Peterson this …
Below are the 12 most popular new posts in each of the 12 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me, on May 23, 2012, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers' evolving enthusi…
"The Fires" brings us simultaneously into the lives and loves of three Black gay men occupying the same railroad apartment in South Brooklyn, but decades apart "  Jay (Phillip James Br…
Below is the complete list of 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented tonight at the NYU Skirball Center, Check out nominatio…
