"Maybe Happy Ending" won best musical and "Purpose" best play at the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards. "Eureka Day" won best revival of a play and "Gypsy" best revival of a musical. Check out a…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in June. Jean Smart is returning to Broadway. John Krasinski is launching a newly rechristened Off Broadway theater. Both "Heathers" and "Grease" are …
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, in this quiz about the nominees for the 2025 Tony Awards. Loading…
"Blood, Sweat and Queers" is inspired by the true story of a Czech sprinter who broke world records at the 1934 Women's World Games in London,  and gained world-wide fame when the f…
A "Hamlet" entirely inside his head…and in your ear. The Broadway cast of "The Gilded Age" in person. A documentary about actress Marlee Matlin, a feature film starring Kyra Sedwick and Ke…
Is it lobbying or reveling, or simply revealing?   Here are 10 out of the many Tony nominee profiles, interviews, behind-the-scenes and think pieces published or posted within the p…
Muriel Mandell saw her first Broadway play in 1939 ("It was rah-rah America") and her most recent in the season just past ("Terrible") " and many of the original productions of landmark Broa…
Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2025-2026 season, starting in June with Jean Smart, fresh from her raved-about performance in "Hacks," returning to Broadway after a qua…
Below are the 13 most popular new posts in each of the 13 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me, on May 23, 2012, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers' evolving enthusi…
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 75th Outer Critics Circle Award held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don't kn…
"The Harlem Doll Palace," an unusual musical that launches the fourth annual Puppetopia Festival at HERE, is not just the true story of Lenon Holder Hoyt, an art teacher in public scho…
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 78th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best " plus two poll questions about the future of the Tonys: which c…
Right after Amber Iman finishes her first song, a sudden admirer gasps: "Your voice is like nothing I've ever heard." The reaction is understandable.  Iman portrays the title character in…
Below is the complete list of 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented Monday night at the NYU Skirball Center. Check out the …
Two Tony-nominated plays from the current Broadway season are being broadcast on television. Both of them originated decades ago, and have gained new relevance because of the current poli…
Jen Silverman might seem an unlikely writer to adapt August Strindberg's 1888  play for this starry production featuring Liev Schreiber as a man trying to undermine a married couple po…
Below is a manageable list of a dozen theater books " recently published or soon to be" that look to be good summer reads: five memoirs or biographies, four books of history or criticism, th…
Nicole Scherzinger won the Distinguished Performance Award for her work in "Sunset Blvd."; "Maybe Happy Ending" won outstanding musical and "Oh, Mary" won outstanding play at the 91st…
Does a single Broadway season say something about the times we live in, or about the current state of culture?  I'm not sure, but I do detect some trends, make of them what you will: T…
The nominations for the third annual Dorian Theater Awards include a unique category: The Broadway Showstopper Award. It's a great idea. These musical numbers or standout scenes are often wh…
Below is a list of the nominations for the third annual Dorian Theater Awards, "Death Becomes Her" leading with seven nominations, followed closely by "John Proctor is the Villain," "Purpose…
Normally the weeks leading to the Tonys are primarily a time for anticipation and celebration; five major theater awards were announced this past week alone " "Purpose" and "Maybe Happy E…
 "John Proctor is the Villain" was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and "Maybe Happy Ending" was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and three other awards at the 75th annual Out…
Near the beginning of "Floyd Collins," a sonically spellbinding musical inspired by a bleak and bizarre true story, Jeremy Jordan as the title character yodels into the darkness " and hears …
A day after the election of the first American pope, the first female pope led us in a hymn in Latin " shortly before a hooded Inquisitor ordered her burned to death. What's most arresting a…