5,262 stories from New York Theater
Before the start of this R&B musical comedy about Barack Obama's first term as president, Eli Bauman, its creator and director, bustled out on stage to urge us to ignore what's "out ther…
"This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt," Zohran Mamdani, j…
New Yorkers are electing our 111th mayor today, which seems a good day to look back at mayors who made it to Broadway. I mean as characters (or caricatures), but at least one actually wrote …
By the end of "Kyoto," a play about the effort it took to achieve the first international agreement to address the climate crisis, we come to understand  " perhaps too well " that it w…
With Election Day tomorrow, it was hard to avoid registering the politics in even the most entertaining theater I reviewed this past week.  The insistence on body autonomy was a theme …
Minetta Lane Theater became the home of Audible beginning in 2018 with the mission of turning live theater productions into audiobooks. Their first show was a transfer of the solo play "Harr…
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in November, including Tom Hanks starring in a play he co-wrote, Kristin Chenoweth in one of two musicals by Stephen Schwartz, Patrick Page a…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater in October? Answer this quiz, with ten questions and a bonus, to find out. Loading…
Laurie Metcalf as Sarah in rubber gloves and Micah Stock as Ethan in a face mask stand in front of a lone couch,  making awkward chit-chat until she finally says:"I'm, uh. Sorry about …
This solo play co-written and starring "Severance" actress Jen Tullock is on one level the story of lesbian author Frances Reinhardt, who has written a new book about her abusive childhood i…
Playwright Bess Wohl wants us to know about the time before she was born when "women's lib" was neither pejorative nor ironic. In "Liberation," her warm, funny play opening tonight on Broadw…
"Jewish Plot" starts as an entertaining resurrection of a (fictitious) 19th century play about antisemitism written by an obscure British playwright, and descends into a kind of mad poetr…
Americans like to be scared even during scary times; how else to explain Halloween, a deliberately scary theater festival, and "The Phantom of the Opera," which persists beyond Broadway, wit…
The best thing to say about Bedlam's irreverent, sister-centered  riff on "Pride and Prejudice" is that it demonstrates once again the enduring appeal of Jane Austen's centuries-old ch…
Election Day in New York is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, for mayor of New York and other city-wide and local offices, as well as six ballot proposals. Below is what you need to know in order t…
A French novel, several silent horror films, a Broadway musical, a site-specific work of immersive theater: It all has led to….Joshua William Gelb's closet. "Many people have asked why we …
Saul Rubinek long has wanted to play Shylock, a role that his father, a Yiddish actor and Holocaust survivor, never got a chance to play. But now that he has finally gotten to star in "The M…
 The best scene in "Dimension Zero" features icons of New York City: individual slices of pepperoni pizza who dance back into a whole pie, a Greek coffee cup, a yellow cab, a row of skysc…
"Moonstruck," John Patrick Shanley's movie comedy about a fiery Italian American romance, won him (and Cher) an Oscar in 1988, the same year that Shanley's play "Italian-American Reconciliat…
Jordan E. Cooper's face might not look so happy in "Oh Happy Day!" " or, clockwise, Hugh Panaro's in "Masquerade," Nichelle Lewis's in "Ragtime,"Â Â Ari'el Stacher's in "Other." But most…
After Ari'el Stachel won a Tony Award for his charming and hilarious Broadway debut in the role of a sexy Egyptian trumpet player in "The Band's Visit," he was made so anxious by all the con…
There will be more than 2,500 peaceful protests throughout the United States " including in each of the five boroughs of New York City " to say in one voice: "The president thinks his rule i…
Below is a video of the full two hours of the first of two televised general election debates between three candidates for New York City mayor: State Assemblyman and Democratic Party nominee…
The revival of "Ragtime" has taken on more of the epic feel to which it aspires, thanks to its move from an Encores series concert to a full Broadway production on the Vivian Beaumont's gran…
 "Oh Happy Day!" may sound like church: The plot retells the Biblical story of Noah's Ark;  a divinely-dressed trio called the Divines belt out original gospel songs; we hear theolo…
