Monday, May 1, 2023
When the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced tomorrow morning, it will be five days after the five final shows officially opened on Broadway, marking the end of the Broadway 2022-2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2023
In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week, here are ten plays by and/or about lesbians, none of which are being performed in New York currently, but the scripts are published, and worth reading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater in April, 2023, the end of the Broadway season? Answer these ten questions " and one doozy of a bonus question " to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2023
At the very end of Wesley Du's solo play about a Chinese-American boy named Pinky who wants to be a blues guitarist, Pinky reads aloud a letter from Cannonball, the irascible, bigoted Black …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2023
Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht sit at the same table but don't look at one another, nor talk to each other, at the beginning of this exquisitely acted production of David Auburn's gauzy, bit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM[SHARE]Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2023
 "Shucked" leads in the nominations for the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. The awa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2023
"Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today…"Â Anna Uzele as Francine starts to sing… "So leave already!" interrupts the brusque manager of the polka band for whom she's auditioning. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PM[SHARE]"New York, New York" followed by "Some Like It Hot" received the most nominations for the 72nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announced May 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Below are the nominations for the 89th annual Drama League Awards, announced this morning (video below) by Justin Guarini and Rogert Bart.. The awards ceremony, open to the public, wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]Below are the six longest-running shows currently on Broadway, with descriptions and links. This feels the right time for an update given that "The Phantom of the Opera," the longest show in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2023
When Sean Hayes as the concert pianist and celebrated wit Oscar Levant sits down at the piano to play "Rhapsody in Blue," I thought at first that it was a recording and he was simulating the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PM[SHARE]Three shows opened on Broadway within the last four days, four more will officially open within the next four days, and then the Broadway 2022-2023 season will officially end, and the theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 23, 2023
Almost immediately after she is raped, Tessa Ensler starts imagining the questions a defense attorney would ask her, and the witnesses he would call, to get the rapist off. "Legal instinct t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 22, 2023
In celebration of the 53rd annual Earth Day today, thirty blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehicular traffic, and alive with pop-up performances …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AM[SHARE]Friday, April 21, 2023
Sure I laughed. I laughed when Tinker Bell is electrocuted, and when Neil Patrick Harris's Masterpiece Theater-like chair somehow attacks him. But, after two hours watching an implausible pi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
Larissa FastHorse, whose often hilarious play is reportedly the first on Broadway by a Native American woman, sends up well-meaning white liberals, mocks the vanities and pretensions of thes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2023
It's a "banquet of the unbearable," one character calls the show he's in " a chronological account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as captured in the short plays and songs that S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2023
The Phantom of the Opera took a final Majestic bow last night after a record-breaking thirty-five years on Broadway. Its 13,981th performance played out before a red-carpeted crowd in white …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 16, 2023
There are bright shining moments aplenty in the latest Broadway revival of "Camelot," the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical about the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.Â…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2023
"Don't worry; I hear it's easy to understand," a Bengali-American in my row at Soho Rep reassured me, before "Public Obscenities" began.  For him, I thought. As it turns out, he was…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Sure, his uncle killed his father and is about to marry his mother, but Juicy, the big Black queer Southerner at the center of "Fat Ham,"  would prefer to forget about the revenge h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM[SHARE]Monday, April 10, 2023
If "White Girl in Danger" were an actual soap opera, it would unfold over several years, which would give us time to savor Michael R. Jackson's febrile intelligence and his subversive sense …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PM[SHARE]April is the kindest month; at least that's what Playbill president Philip S. Birsh is requesting in a full-page letter in the April edition of Playbill, in which he gently reminds audience …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2023
Philip Glass fell asleep in the middle of the pitch that actor and director Phelim McDermott was making for a theater piece the two could create together. "I've bored Philip Glass McDermo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:52PM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2023
Below is an explanation of the major annual New York theater awards, plus a 2023 calendar of nomination announcements and award ceremonies Why was Sarah Bernhardt " one of the world's greate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 6, 2023
Theatergoers wearing "I â¤ï¸Â My Josh" t-shirts filled a row of the Lunt-Fontanne the night I attended the fourth Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's dark…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Below are the nominations for the 38th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented at the annual ceremony on Sunday, May …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:39PM[SHARE]Oscar Isaac is making his Broadway debut in a last-minute addition to the Broadway season: Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," also starring Rachel Brosnahan (who ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 4, 2023
"Shucked" is corny. Corn is what the corn-growing townsfolk of Cob County sing about from the opening number of this new country-flavored Broadway musical; it's the subject of the "farm to f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 2, 2023
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