Wednesday, November 26, 2025
"The Baker's Wife" offers dual stories of redemption that make it feel designed for the holidays: There is the fable of all the villagers in a small French town setting aside their petty squ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM[SHARE]Once again, theater seems of little interest to the book review staff at the New York Times. Their Notable Books of 2025 features no published plays (although books of poetry are inclu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Below are works of theater that I saw this year in New York for which I'm most grateful.  I have been posting such a list around Thanksgiving Day every year since 2013, which is my ann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
Fixings and pairings will be on the table later this week, and were on stage this past week, with the revival of a couple of old musicals that needed to be fixed (were they?), and some starr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
"Chess" is not a serious musical.  That's the key to appreciating this show, which is supposed to be about an American and a Russian grandmaster battling over both the game of chess an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 22, 2025
Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2025, which differs from the usual week's schedule: Only one show of the 34 currently playing has a performance on Thanksgiving Day, Thur…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2025
Alice Brooks has an unusual way of talking about the difference between 'Wicked" and its sequel "Wicked: For Good.," which is opening nationwide today. The making of the two Wicked movies wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
What I found most surprising about this modest, appealing two-person musical, whose title more or less sums up what happens, was the reaction to it on the night I attended " the ecstatic che…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Tom Hanks co-wrote this quaint, unremarkable time-traveling play adapted from his book of short stories, and stars as Bert Allenberry, a tech entrepreneur from the year 2089, who travels bac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
"The American Revolution" launched last night (You can binge all six episodes online now or wait for the nightly broadcast.)Revolution was also on stage last week in various ways. Series …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2025
It's early on Election Day, and Oedipus, populist candidate confident that he'll be swept into office, makes two off-the-cuff public promises that will blow up in his face: He will release h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 15, 2025
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets " 884,647 words in all.He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language, including…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:57PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
PBS tonight broadcasts the production of "Twelfth Night" that reopened the Delacorte in Central Park this summer with a starry cast including  Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Lupita Nyong'o, D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
Ken Burns' latest documentary "The American Revolution," launches this Sunday on PBS, ten years after he began work on it, which was just about the time that Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "Ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2025
'If I had to choose between being known while alive or being known while dead, I gotta go with dead," says Gavrilo, the teenager who will soon assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and sta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
In honor of Veterans Day, below is a list of ten works of theater depicting military veterans, ranging from Ancient Greek tragedies and Shakespearean history plays to Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:31PM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2025
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani turns out to be polarizing in a way even he didn't realize: His Broadway favorites. In a post-election interview with CNN,  he said he used to belt ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
"The Queen of Versailles," Stephen Schwartz's latest musical, which stars Kristin Chenoweth as the real-life billionaire's wife Jackie Siegel,  comes far closer to Jackie's favorite ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 8, 2025
The casts of the Broadway shows Buena Vista Social Club, Just in Time, and Ragtime will perform at the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27, 2025. The 99th edition of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
Five albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album Grammy Award, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (the fourth consecutive year that only Broadway cast recordin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:32PM[SHARE],There are puppets in long-running New York shows like "The Lion King" and "The Little Shop of Horrors," muppets are making their Broadway debut (albeit briefly) in "Rob Lake Magic with spec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
Before the start of this R&B musical comedy about Barack Obama's first term as president, Eli Bauman, its creator and director, bustled out on stage to urge us to ignore what's "out ther…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
"This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt," Zohran Mamdani, j…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2025
New Yorkers are electing our 111th mayor today, which seems a good day to look back at mayors who made it to Broadway. I mean as characters (or caricatures), but at least one actually wrote …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:07PM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2025
By the end of "Kyoto," a play about the effort it took to achieve the first international agreement to address the climate crisis, we come to understand  " perhaps too well " that it w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19PM[SHARE]With Election Day tomorrow, it was hard to avoid registering the politics in even the most entertaining theater I reviewed this past week.  The insistence on body autonomy was a theme …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2025
Minetta Lane Theater became the home of Audible beginning in 2018 with the mission of turning live theater productions into audiobooks. Their first show was a transfer of the solo play "Harr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2025
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in November, including Tom Hanks starring in a play he co-wrote, Kristin Chenoweth in one of two musicals by Stephen Schwartz, Patrick Page a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2025
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2025
Laurie Metcalf as Sarah in rubber gloves and Micah Stock as Ethan in a face mask stand in front of a lone couch,  making awkward chit-chat until she finally says:"I'm, uh. Sorry about …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
This solo play co-written and starring "Severance" actress Jen Tullock is on one level the story of lesbian author Frances Reinhardt, who has written a new book about her abusive childhood i…
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