2026 Drama Desk Award event and winners by Martha Wade Steketee

May 17, 2026 — Winners and honorees for the 2026 Annual Drama Desk Awards were celebrated this evening at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street). Titanique’s Marla Mindelle hosted the [ 

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Attention demanded with formidable insistence in this Salesman by Martha Wade Steketee

Death of a SalesmanFeaturing Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, Ben AhlersWinter Garden TheatreMarch 6, 2026 – August 9, 2026 [extension]production site Arthur Miller’s 19…

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Family style revenge in an early Shakespearen gore fest with heart by Martha Wade Steketee

Titus AndronicusFeaturing Patrick Page, Jesse Aaronson, Blair Baker, McKinley Belcher III, Francesca FaridanyRed Bull Theater at Pershing Square Signature CenterMarch 18, 2026 – May 3, 20…

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A courageous mother defends the indefensible by Martha Wade Steketee

And Her Children (A Reimagining of Mother Courage)Featuring Hailey McAfee and Julia Hoffman (violinist)SoHo PlayhouseJanuary 14, 2026 – February 13, 2026 In the 1995 movie The American Pr…

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2025: excavation review by Martha Wade Steketee

Calendar year 2025 productions, events, exhibitions at which I counted, built collaborations, and supported theater and its creatives.

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Water, fog, and lingering accents in a Scandinavian immigrant story of love and loss by Martha Wade Steketee

Anna ChristieFeaturing Michelle Williams, Tom Sturridge, Brian D’Arcy James, Mare WinninghamSt. Ann’s WarehouseNovember 25, 2025 – February 1, 2026production site We begin and end thi…

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Memory, holograms, and history that haunt and humanize by Martha Wade Steketee

Marjorie PrimeFeaturing Danny Burstein, Christopher Lowell, Cynthia Nixon, June SquibbSecond Stage Theater at The Helen Hayes TheaterNovember 20, 2025 – February 15, 2026 [extension]produ…

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A taut procedural among colleagues in a hospital break room by Martha Wade Steketee

DiversionFeaturing Tricia Alexandro, West Duchovny, Colleen ClintonThe Barrow GroupNovember 20, 2025 – January 11, 2026 [extension]production site Barrow Group often produces in a tiny pr…

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Passion and politics adapted from an ancient text resonates with our time by Martha Wade Steketee

OedipusFeaturing Mark Strong and Lesley ManvilleStudio 54October 30, 2025 – February 8, 2026production site There is that clock — a gimmick or a heartbeat? In Robert Icke’s adaption o…

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Glaciers, mammoths, dread and dancing, and singing to find hope in our future by Martha Wade Steketee

The Seat of Our PantsFeaturing Micaela Diamond, Shuler Hensley, Ruthie Ann MilesThe Public TheaterOctober 24, 2025 – December 7, 2025 [extension]production site The Seat of Our Pants, Eth…

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Legacies of class and race and hopes on the wheels of a dream by Martha Wade Steketee

RagtimeFeaturing Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon UranowitzLincoln Center Theater at the Vivian BeaumontSeptember 26, 2025 – August 2, 2026 [extension]production site There is a thrill…

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Mothers and children and embracing next stages by Martha Wade Steketee

CarolineFeaturing Amy Landecker, River Lipe-Smith, Chloë Grace MoretzMCC TheaterSeptember 12, 2025 – November 16, 2025 [extension]production site Caroline The resonance of the story in C…

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History through song, looped song, and revelations by Martha Wade Steketee

MexodusFeaturing Brian Quijada and Nygel d. RobinsonAudible’s Minetta Lane TheatreSeptember 9, 2025 – November 1, 2025 [extension]production site Mexodus is a musical that pushes bounda…

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Mourning, precision, revelations, and humor in shadow and light by Martha Wade Steketee

Well, I’ll Let You GoFeaturing Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Cricket Brown, Michael Chernus, Will Dagger, Emily Davis, Danny McCarthy, Constance Shulman, Amelia WorkmanThe Space at IrondaleJuly…

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Women Count VIII: Fifteen-Year View of Female and Non-Binary Hires Off-Broadway by Martha Wade Steketee

[Selection from July 2025 report, published July 30, 2025 on the Women Count report series page.] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: WOMEN COUNT VIII The Women Count project collects, analyzes, and…

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Magician memoirist reveals himself with a PowerPoint by Martha Wade Steketee

ta-da!Featuring Josh SharpGreenwich House TheaterJuly 7, 2025 – September 27, 2025 [extension]production site As soon as I saw the big screen and otherwise bare stage confronting us at Gr…

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Entitlement, gender, debate, and the future of democracy by Martha Wade Steketee

Trophy BoysFeaturing Terry Hu, Louisa Jacobson, Esco Jouley, Renita Lewis, Emmanuelle Mattana, and Imani RussellMCC TheaterJune 5, 2025 – August 3, 2025 [extension]production site What da…

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Clowning, choreography, and war through the eyes of children by Martha Wade Steketee

A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God, Whoever Reads This FirstFeaturing Xhloe Rice and Natasha RolandSoHo PlayhouseJune 4, 2025 – June 29, 2025production site SoHo Playhouse is a storied v…

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event preview | Tony Awards preview and cabaret concert at The Coffee House Club by Martha Wade Steketee

A Coffee House Tony Awards Preview at the Coffee House Club at the Salmagundi ClubA Coffee House Tony Awards preview with Mark Rifkin, Simon Jones, David Barbour, and Martha Wade […]

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A "Good Night" for TV: Clooney and company bring Murrow play to CNN by Martha Wade Steketee

[Full article published in Quill Magazine June 3, 2025.] On June 7, CNN will be broadcasting, live from Broadway, "Good Night, and Good Luck," a play written by and starring […]

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2025 Drama Desk Award event and winners by Martha Wade Steketee

June 1, 2025 " Winners for the 2025 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this evening at the Jack H. Skirball Center For The Performing Arts (NYU Skirball at 556 LaGuardia […]

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2025 Drama Desk nominations announced by Martha Wade Steketee

April 30, 2025 " Nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today on Spectrum News NY1 by Norm Lewis and Spectrum News NY1 hosts. In keeping with the […]

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Churchill combines future terrors and present horrors with generous human instincts by Martha Wade Steketee

Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.Featuring Japhet Balaban, Ruby Blaut, Kyle Cameron, Orlagh Cassidy, John Ellison Conlee, Adelind Horan, Maddox Morfit-Tighe, Deirdre O'Connell, Cecilia A…

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Classroom scene study and deep power revelations by Martha Wade Steketee

John Proctor Is the VillainFeaturing Nihar Duvvuri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliveras, Morgan Scott, Sadie Sink, Fina Strazza, and Amalia YooBooth TheatreMarch 20,…

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Building a life and coming to personal truth in memoir-based drama by Martha Wade Steketee

Becoming EveFeaturing Tommy Dorfman, Judy Kuhn, Tedra Millan, Rad Pereria, Richard Schiff, and Brandon UranowitzNew York Theatre Workshop | Abrons Arts CenterMarch 20, 2025 " April 27, 20…

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