5,294 stories from New York Theater
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2022 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies " which (like most everything in the last two years…
Theater critics and theatergoers don't like the same shows, Jan Simpson says in a post in "Broadway & Me," as explained (and linked) below. What about theater bloggers? Yes, there are so…
Below are the nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Oratorio for Living Things" have the most nom…
People thought Mickey Rowe was a weird kid. By the time that weirdness was officially deemed a disability and given a diagnosis, he was a senior in college and had already begun working as a…
In this first Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's 2003 Tony-winning comedy, which is a gay man's love letter to baseball, Jesse Williams portrays Darren Lemming, a star player who is so …
Step aside, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Burt Bacharach, Stephen Schwartz, Bob Dylan, Claude-Michel Schönberg. Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, aged 23 and 20 respectively, won the Grammy for B…
There are pleasures in "Paradise Square."  The terrific dancing tells its own story, a quintessential American (and Broadway) one: How African-American and Irish immigrant dancers lear…
The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical has won the 2022 Grammy for the best musical theater album " which is unusual, since it has never been performed on a stage. The six nominees in the categor…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of the FIFTEEN Broadway shows opening (and three reopening) in April, including fan anticipated favorites "Funny Girl" and "A Strange Loop," plus a selection o…
Broadway at the Oscars! A March of Black Women! Neil Simon's comeback? This has been a month full of theater news " at least enough to fill a quiz, like the one below. Find out your Theater …
"Oratorio for Living Things" is such a gorgeous, awe-inspiring concert of original music by Heather Christian that it feels like a religious experience.  Indeed, the music " inflected …
Why would long-married celebrity couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker choose "Plaza Suite" as the play to reunite them on stage for the first time since 1996? Neil Simon's 1…
This is a week for Black women " Ariana DeBose's Oscar win, and the opening of two plays Off-Broadway: "Confederates" by Dominique Morisseau and "Help" by Claudia Rankine, my review of a new…
In "Confederates," playwright Dominique Morisseau presents in alternating scenes the stories of two Black women in eras 160 years apart "  a 19th century slave who becomes a s…
Today is World Theatre Day, created in 1961 as an annual celebration on March 27. This year I dedicate it to the theaters, performers, and theater lovers of Ukraine. To the more than 400 leg…
Watch below as more than 60 performers are appearing in an 11-hour telethon (from noon to 10 p.m. today) to raise money and awareness for those affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Don…
"Help," performed at The Shed by April Mathis and 11 white actors in business suits, is in effect an adaptation by the poet, playwright and Yale professor Claudia Rankine, a Black woman, …
Near the end of Charles J. Shields' biography of Lorraine Hansberry, the third such book I've read in as many years, the author mentions the five-story townhouse near Washington Square Park …
Cesar Chavez was a giant in the American labor and civil rights movements, but right now he's eight inches tall. "I have to do something for mi gente," the little cardboard Cesar says …
Eighteen women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, from "Miss Lulu Bett," which Zona Gale adapted from her own novel in 1921, to "The Hot Wing King" by Katori Hall in 2021 "a century of w…
"Sometimes, Sasha, war is necessary, it's unavoidable," the Russian soldier Victor is saying to the Ukrainian woman who has tied him up and is pointing a gun at him. "You can't bake a …
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, and the one you are least likely to attend. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in March and (mostly) April …
Below are a list with links to the 16 shows opening on Broadway in March and April " starry casts, iconic musicals, theater classics and adventurous new works… the closest to a normal Spri…
The Tony Awards' new dates! Daniel Radcliffe in a Stephen Sondheim musical! Will Swenson in a new Neil Diamond musical! Pamela Anderson in her Broadway debut! The many exciting Broadway anno…
A protesting art student who is on a hunger strike faces a soldier who is pointing a gun at him.  The student offers the soldier some food.  They are in Beijing's Tiananmen Squar…
