Sunday, July 19, 2026
There is an edge to watching five actresses portray characters that Whoopi Goldberg wrote and performed by herself, in her 1984 solo show on Broadway, a debut that led to her star-making rol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 18, 2026
Given the raves for the new movie “The Odyssey,” a three-hour adaptation of Homer’s poem, it seems the right time to remind theatergoers of a stage adaptation — a spectacular musical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2026
Since the subject of stolen elections is bizarrely and alarmingly in the news, it seems apt for a brief synopsis of the 1968 musical “How to Steal An Election,” a historic curiosity that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2026
The love story between Des (short for Destiny) and Dre (Dream) begins in high school, but we first meet them years later after their love has long passed – or has it? “Shifters,” a t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The day after “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” announced that it will close on August 8, just four months after it opened, and two months after it won three Tony Awards, its composer Andrew Llo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2026
“The Potluck” is a musical inspired by the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, in which the Ku Klux Klan shot and killed five young activists at an anti-Klan rally in South Carolina. César Jam…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PM[SHARE]Such a whiplash of a week. This is true in many ways, not least the heat, which is returning full-force tomorrow. The festivals are heating up, here and elsewhere — elsewhere in my mind pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2026
‘I kissed a dog, I liked it,” the cast of ‘&Juliet sang, weirdly, at the 28th annual Broadway Barks pet adoption event at Shubert Alley, as captured in one of the videos below. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2026
Two solo shows heading for Edinburgh and previewing in New York offer new takes, on a modern-day celebrity clan and a medieval folk tale. Left: The actual Hadid family (top); Michelle Cohn, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2026
Since I would like to see all 3,649 shows scheduled for the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I thought I’d get a head start by attending East to Edinburgh, one of the two New York estival…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2026
Books about theater in Chile, India, Palestine, South Korea; about Black queer dance and Asian-American camp. The fourteen finalists for this year’s Outstanding Book Award from the Associ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2026
When Eric Bentley’s play about the Hollywood blacklist was first mounted in 1972, the now-infamous House Un-American Activities Committee was still around, and so were most of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Some of the summer festivals listed here have been annual for decades, some I’ve never heard of before. They are offering collectively way more than a hundred shows, starting in July, some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2026
Accompanying the hoopla of reaching 250 (Tall Ships and fireworks and patriotic singing) is an unfortunate urge to sum up America and everything in it, including theater. In a NY Times…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2026
Camping is the most American of summer activities, the tent a symbol of our pioneering spirit, family adventures, adolescent bonding, adult escape. For Ari and Brit, their tent is simulta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 4, 2026
The Tall Ship above (and in a video below) is The Esmeralda, from Chile. It took a couple of hours for any of the Tall Ships to start sailing by on the Hudson River this July 4th morning, Am…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:08PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2026
America’s 250th birthday deserves some spectacular celebrations. (It doesn’t have to come out of Washington.) Here are videos or some of the country’s greatest hits: classic patriot so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2026
All Broadway shows have canceled their evening performances for the Fourth of July itself, but ten have matinees that day (and Every Brilliant Thing a late afternoon), and most have added pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in July, a month bursting with theater festivals, some of them outdoors and free, two of them previewing shows heading for the Edinburgh Fringe next …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2026
There are fourteen shows announced so far for the Broadway 2026-2027 season that have secured both a specific venue and a specific opening date between September 2026 and April 2027. I’ve …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08AM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2026
“A Walk on the Moon” is the disappointing musical adaptation of the 1999 indie movie about the romance between an unhappy bouffant-wearing Jewish housewife named Pearl and a long-haired…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PM[SHARE]Jasmine Amy Rogers (Boop. Spelling Bee) will star as Maria in the second-ever Broadway revival of “The Sound of Music” part of a thrilling new season at Lincoln Center Theater, which in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2026
How well were you paying attention to the theater over the past month? Answer these ten questions, and a whopper of a bonus question about Tony acceptance speeches, to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 27, 2026
“Got plans for pride this weekend?” an email asked. “In between the marches, parties, darties, DJ sets, and drag brunches, join us at HERE for some queer belly laughs at E. Zaalan’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09PM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2026
Prime Day deals end today. What’s discounted is mostly….stuff. But some of it is of interest to theatergoers, from subscriptions to scripts to a seat cushion, and maybe some tech toys to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2026
In “Music City,” a musical about struggling county singer-songwriters, we’re supposed to feel immersed in a cramped and crowded honky-tonk, but I felt transported to “Nashville,” n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Broadway in Bryant Park has announced the lineup for this summer’s four free Thursday lunchtime concerts, performed by the casts from currently running shows, which will begin on July 23.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Today is Primary Day in New York City. Polls are open from 6 AM to 9 PM. Click here to find your polling location and see what’s on your particular ballot. (Just type your home address in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2026
The new Broadway season is already underway, with thirteen shows having secured their venues and nailed their dates, One has already opened and closed (yesterday.) Another is the world…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 21, 2026
It is so rare for any company to stage Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” trilogy that one could honestly say that the National Asian American Theatre Company’s production is unlike any you’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2026
There are a dozen shows currently running on Broadway with LGBTQ content and characters, more than at any time since I started this annual census. But the number alone doesn’t get at how g…
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