Monday, June 8, 2026
Of the 24 Broadway shows that received one or more nominations for the 79th Annual Tony Awards, only ten took home at least one trophy; seven of these are still running — most of them n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2026
“Liberation” won won best play at the 79th annual Tony Award, “Ragtime” best revival of a musical and “Death of A Salesman” best revival of a play. Below the list of winners. (He…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2026
Both New York’s basketball fans and theater fans are experiencing suspense and excitement at exactly the same time, which makes this feel the right time to revisit some shared history. Bel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2026
Below are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2026 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I’ve been maintaining since this blog began fourteen years ago. I am a critic, not a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2026
Susanna Kaysen was treated for eighteen months at the same psychiatric hospital as James Taylor, Sylvia Plath and Ray Charles. “Does this nuthouse, like, specialize in writers and artist-t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2026
On the red carpet for this year’s Theatre World Awards I asked the winners, all making their New York stage debuts, two questions (or tried to): When did they first realize they would be p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in June. Sting is bringing his Broadway musical, much changed, to the Metropolitan Opera, and this time starring in it. Two dystopian dramas about an …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05AM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2026
“Schmigadoon!” is continuing its winning streak, receiving the Dorian Theater Awards’ Outstanding Broadway Musical. “Prince Faggot” dominated the Off-Broadway categories. Joshua He…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PM[SHARE]The first show of the new Broadway season revolves around a rotating cast of celebrities roasting a rotating series of celebrity memoirs, provoking anew a perennial question: Is the relian…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2026
The distinctive theatrical duo who call themselves Xhloe and Natasha are bringing the rodeo to Hell’s Kitchen, in full clown makeup and as full-on Theater of the Absurd. “And Then The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 30, 2026
Answer these ten questions, plus a bonus question, in this quiz about the nominees for the 2026 Tony Awards. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2026
“Celebrity Autobiography,” a revue in which performers make fun of celebrities by reading from their cringe-worthy memoirs, made me laugh when I first saw it more than a decade ago at t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2026
Theater punditry explodes between Tony nominations and Tony broadcast, sometimes in startlingly unconventional ways — not just a historical/statistical approach (More Tony Talk: The Record…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2026
“Mexodus” was chosen best musical and “Masquerade” best unique theatrical experience among the five competitive categories at the 15th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, announced …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2026
“Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody” is of course exploiting the popularity of the TV series about two rival hockey players who over six episodes late last year had hot, s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2026
Memorial Day is both the unofficial start of summer and the federal holiday honoring the 1.1 million Americans who died fighting in U.S. wars; always a jarring dichotomy. But the closing of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18PM[SHARE]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…
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