"Do you realize that the U.S. has only spent under 20 years when we are NOT involvednin war?" the rap star Duke (Jay Ellis) tells an unseen interviewer. "When will that end?" Duke is being a…
New Yorkers have a busy week ahead: the Jimmy Awards tonight; tomorrow Primary Election Day; all week, Pride events " including the last of three plays of the Criminal Queerness theate…
"The Gilded Age"Â Â had a remarkable number of Broadway veterans in its cast over its first two seasons, and many of them are returning for Season 3, which launches tonight " just the fi…
The circus performers in "Passengers" are both powerful athletes and graceful artists, achieving awe-inspiring feats of physical prowess. They are also travelers, and storytellers, in ways t…
"Bear Grease" is billed as a reimagining of the musical Grease, "told through an Indigenous lens" by a husband-wife duo who call themselves LightningCloud. But this proudly amateurish produc…
"We can't let Martin Luther King Jr's dream become a nightmare because of the current administration," André De Shields said in a speech accepting the 2025 Legacy Award at the Broadway Cele…
The eleven finalists for this year's Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education are a highly eclectic mix of academic theater books, some of which don't seem…
After two hours satirizing an arts fundraising gala with barbed caricatures, loopy shtick and shameless slapstick, Taylor Mac takes the stage alone in a fool's cap to deliver a coda in rhyme…
At the opening performance of "Les Misérables" at the Kennedy Center, during the same week that pro-democracy protestors rallied throughout the country, as Donald Trump ordered the U.…
"This is one of the most dangerous jobs in the city, "  Hiram Delgado as Barabbás said on stage this weekend in "La Dureza," which chronicles a day in the life of a Deliverista " on…
Today is both the day of "No Kings" marches and rallies throughout the United States (including New York), and the first day of early voting in the New York City primaries for mayor and othe…
I'm being strapped into what looks like a homemade electric chair, thick black wires gathered in a pile around my feet and sprouting above my head. A man in a white lab coat puts a fancy pai…
We first see Izzy Scutley, the character Jean Smart is portraying in her first Broadway role in 25 years, in a bathrobe cleaning the toilet in her home in a trailer park in rural Mansfield, …
On their wedding anniversary, the actors Kathryn Grody and Mandy Patinkin arrive late for a dinner reservation; although they made it two months earlier, the maitre d' has already given thei…
Of the 29 shows that were nominated for Tony Awards, only 11 took home a trophy. Of these, only nine are still running " and four of them are closing as soon as three weeks from now. Below i…
"This has all happened by accident," Harvey Fierstein said at the 78th annual Tony Awards. Tony Kushner had just introduced him as "a great theater artist, a great force for connection and j…
"Purpose" won't best play at the 78th annual Tony Awards, "Eureka Day" best play revival, Sunset Blvd best revival of a musical. Below the list of winners: (Here's a guide to the entire B…
The 78th Annual Tony Awards, with host Cynthia Erivo, will be broadcast and streamed live from Radio City Music Hall tonight, celebrating the Broadway 2024-2025 Broadway season. with perf…
In the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Orpheus tries to retrieve Eurydice from the underworld, but can't help looking back at his wife, and so loses her forever. Sarah Ruhl is also looki…
Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award, at age 21, for her role in "Children of a Lesser God. Thirty-five years later, another Deaf actor named Troy Kotsur, Matlin…
Below are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2025 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I've been maintaining for more than a dozen years. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. W…
Leslie Uggams was six years old when she saw her aunt perform in a production of "Porgy and Bess" with Leontyne Price. "I was, like, I want to do that," she told the audience at Hard Rock Ca…
"All the World's A Stage," a musical about a gay high school teacher in small town 1990's America, won Best Musical from 14th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The awards ceremony will…
"Maybe Happy Ending" is continuing its winning streak, as the Dorian Theater Award's Outstanding Broadway Musical. "John Proctor is the Villain" was voted Outstanding Broadway Play, and its …
"Maybe Happy Ending," which leading up to the Tonys this coming Sunday has won best musical in a slew of other New York theater awards (Outer Critics Circle, Drama Critics Circle, Drama Leag…