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“The Lost Boys” leads the nominations for the 76th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning by Isa Briones and Sepideh Moafiat the Museum of Broadcasting. The winners …
With its spot-on, affectionate parodies of the most beloved Broadway musicals from the Golden Age, “Schmigadoon” felt like just the right TV series for theatergoers who had to go without…
Below are the nominations for the 92nd annual Drama League Awards announced this morning. The awards will be held May 15th at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Want to know what other New York theater …
Escape or engage? That seems to be the choice in the shows that opened in the past week: You could spend time in an elegant English drawing room or on Death Row. It’s more or less the choi…
Kelli O'Hara's drunken pratfalls, along with Rose Byrne's wildly skewed wig, mark the high point in the low comedy that most distinguishes this century-old trifle, written by a young Noel Co…
Fifteen of the plays produced in the Broadway 2025 2026 Season are publicly available to read. A couple of this season's musicals are adapted from novels; a third comes directly from a bo…
I attended "Off The Record" the same week as "The Fear of 13," both of which are about the failings of the American criminal justice system. The self-described '"theatrical intervention" Off…
Both Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri are making their Broadway debuts in this first Broadway revival of David Auburn's play about a family of mathematicians " the father a genius who became ment…
Adrien Brody in his Broadway debut tells the true story of a man who spent more than two decades on Death Row for a murder he did not commit. Lindsey Ferrentino's play is also the story of a…
What does it say about us that every night on Broadway, theatergoers now gather to laugh at two terrible American tragedies, both of which occurred on April 14. John Wilkes Booth assassinate…
The four shows that opened on Broadway this past week were already familiar to New York theatergoers. Two are revivals; the other two ran Off Broadway. Is this familiarity evidence of produc…
This silly, campy show, a mashup of Céline Dion songs with a jokey replay of the movie "Titanic," has moved to Broadway, virtually unchanged from the anything-for-a-laugh entertainment it w…
Sean Hayes' final performances in 'The Unknown" on stage this weekend are also available on screen, via The League of Live Stream Theater. The play is one of several recent or current the…
I happen to know the best writer in the world " Tony Kushner," Jean Smart as Deborah Vance says in the first episode of the final season of "Hacks." Her plan for a comeback is to win an EGOT…
This sixth Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's towering play is undeniably a Prestige Production, but it's one that strains for effect, from the casting of Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, wh…
When Arthur Miller died in 2005 at the age of 89, as Charles Bigsby tells us on the last page of his latest Miller book, it was on the anniversary of the opening night of the first Broadway …
There are solid reasons to celebrate the arrival on Broadway of this striking production, which recasts Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical as a Ballroom competition, with a cast of fabulously …
Last night, the crew of NASA's Artemis II traveled to the far side of the moon, 252,756 miles from Earth, the furthest any human beings have ever been from our home planet. From NASA: "In th…
The audience gasped almost as frequently as it laughed during the performance I attended of "Becky Shaw," Gina Gionfriddo's fierce, funny comedy that revolves around a bad blind date. What a…
It's raining dogs and cats on Broadway, with the opening last week of the play adaptation of "Dog Day Afternoon," and this week of the voguing version of the musical "Cats" " the start of Br…
Streaming now for free on PBS, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" tells the story of two Jewish cousins in 1939 who together invent a comic book superhero called the Escapist to…
Alexander Molochnikov had already turned "The Seagull" into a ballet for the Bolshoi, and planned to turn Chekhov's play into an avant-garde spectacle for the Moscow Art Theater. Then Rus…
Below are the discounted ticket offers from the shows opening on Broadway in April "mostly through digital lottery, digital rush, and/or in person rush. All but one of the shows charge under…
Five former theater artists meet clandestinely in a dystopian totalitarian society in the near future where "The Leader" has banned all art, and even banned the words that describe what arti…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including thirteen shows on Broadway, six musicals and seven plays, bursting with stars, many making their…
