Sunday, May 24, 2026
Below is a manageable selection of recently published or forthcoming theater books that look to be good summer reads: Four memoirs or biographies, two books of history or criticism, four fir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2026
Below are the 14 most-read posts over the 14 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me on May 23, 2012, as well as a separate list of the 14 most popular posts in the 14th year of the site, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2026
Judging from their acceptance speeches, excerpted below, this season’s award-winning theater artists, AND the plays and musicals in which they’re involved, have been focused on finding a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2026
The musical “Hadestown” is brought to the screen with the original Broadway cast, followed by a live concert. Broadway songwriters Sara Bareilles and Alicia Keys are each profiled. There…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 79th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best — plus two poll questions about the future of the Tonys: which c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Heather Christian is both everywhere and nowhere to be found in this revival of her “Animal Wisdom,” which she first performed nine years ago, and which she still struggles to define. He…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2026
“Schmigadoon,” the Broadway musical adaptation of a TV series that affectionately parodies Broadway musicals from the Golden Age, won outstanding choreography, outstanding ensemble and t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE]The theater version of EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) is DOLT (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel and Tony), host Marla Mindelle joked at the start of the 70th annual Drama Desk …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2026
The 70th annual Drama Desk Award winners, announced as they unfold at Town Hall, with host Marla Mindelle, honoring achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2026
A dozen photographs at the Meet the Tony Nominees annual event of nominees meeting one another: Carrie Coon with Susannah Flood, Joshua Henry with Sam Tutty, Nathan Lane with John Lithgow, C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2026
Liberation was awarded outstanding play, and Mexidus outstanding musical at the 92nd annual Drama League Awards, today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Death of A Salesman and Ragtime were also sho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2026
Take the poll below to choose your favorite Broadway Showstopper of the Broadway 2025-2026 season. This is a category created for the Dorian Theater Awards, which just announced the nominati…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Below is a list of the nominations for the fourth annual Dorian Theater Awards, which reads like a countdown: Schmigadoon has received nine nominations, The Lost Boys eight, The Rocky Horror…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PM[SHARE]Below are the nominations for the five competitive categories in the 15th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The winners will be announced on May 27th, with a ceremony held at Sardi’s on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Bess Wohl’s ““Liberation” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The new musicals “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” each received 12 of the nominations for the 79th Tony Award…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:17AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2026
“The Balusters” was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and “Schmigadoon!” was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and four other awards at the 76th annual Outer Critics Circl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2026
Today on Mother’s Day, Laurie Metcalf as Linda Loman is telling off her children that attention must be paid; she means to her husband, not herself. Shoshana Bean as Lucy Emerson discovers…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2026
“Costume Art,” the Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition opening tomorrow, six days after the Met Gala celebrated it, isn’t what it may sound like. It pairs some 200 garments an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2026
Below are the honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2025-2026 theatrical season. The 80th Annual Theatre World …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2026
Muriel Mandell was born one year and one day after the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, and, 103 years later, she attended the Broadway musical “SUFFS,” abo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2026
For his performance in “Becky Shaw,” Alden Ehrenreich was acclaimed by five of the major theater awards that have been announced over the past two weeks — selected as Best Individual…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Below is a list of some theater artists who did not get a Tony nomination but I feel deserve some recognition. This is not a compilation of “snubs.” As is the case every year, the Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17PM[SHARE]The new musicals “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” received the most nominations, 12 each, for the 79th Tony Awards, as announced this morning by Darren Criss and Uzo Aduba. The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2026
“Liberation” by Bess Wohl was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “Bowl EP” by Nazareth Hassan and “Meet the Cartesians” by Talene Monahon were selected as finalists. Vinson Cu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM[SHARE]The Pulitzer Prize for Drama will be announced this afternoon, the nominations for the 79th Tony Awards tomorrow morning. In the past week, we learned the winners of the 2026 New York D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01AM[SHARE] “Mexodus,,” a two-man musical about the little-known history of Mexico as a refuge for thousands of escaping American slaves before the Civil War, won outstanding musical, director, le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2026
Spectacular stagecraft, thrilling young performers with terrific voices, a pulsing score by the indie-rock band the Rescues that has at least one tune I find memorable: “The Lost Boy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2026
Theater award season has begun in earnest, which means receptions for the shows and individuals nominated. Below are photographs of some of the people at an Outer Critics Circle party, ta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2026
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, with some starry and exciting fare, none of it on Broadway. Hugh Jackman is again affordable at Audible; “Heated Rivalry” gets a parody, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2026
“Little Bear Ridge Road,” playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s Broadway debut, has heen selected as the best play of the 2025-2026 season by The New York Drama Critics Circle, which gave Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PM[SHARE]Both “Schmigadoon” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” get lots of love in the nominations for the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies, announce…
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