New York City Theater

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with record-breaking Tony winner Kara Young

Born and raised in Harlem, Kara Young, whose parents immigrated to NYC from Belize, has not only smashed the clock on her proverbial “fifteen minutes of fame,” she has also just broken the Broadway...

Enjoy Broadway at home with these new TV and album releases

Recent and upcoming releases in TV and audio recording formats of four multi-award-nominated Broadway shows of the 2024-25 season are making performances of two plays available for viewing at home and...

A family’s struggle with mental illness in ‘Cracked Open’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

When eighteen-year-old Tilde experiences the onset of mental illness, her family struggles to navigate the conflicting diagnoses, complexities of treatment, and social stigma, their own fears, and...

2025 winners of the Chita Rivera Awards for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and film

The 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for outstanding choreography, featured dancers, and ensembles in shows and films that opened in the 2024-25 season, prior to Sunday, April 27, were presented tonight (May...

Winners of the 2025 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

At a cocktail reception and luncheon ceremony hosted by Frank DiLella at The Ziegfeld Ballroom from 11 am-3 pm today (Friday, May 16), the 91st annual Drama League Awards, honoring outstanding...

Project Y brings ‘The 10th Annual Women in Theater Festival’ to A.R.T./New York in June

Coming to the NYC stage in June, the 10th Annual Women in Theater Festival, presented by Project Y Theatre Company at A.R.T./New York Theatres, features a lineup of ten new works by women artists,...

Celebrating an illustrious composer, lyricist, and friend in ‘The Wizard and I: Liz Callaway Sings Stephen Schwartz’ at NYC’s 54 Below

With glorious vocals, personal stories, and a set list of songs that traces the nearly 60 years of an acclaimed career as a composer and lyricist for the stage and screen, Emmy-winning and Tony- and...

Gen Z satire of celebrity culture in ‘The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse’ Off-Broadway at Pershing Square Signature Center

Who is that fourth woman in the 2006 tabloid photo of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears, notoriously captioned “The Three Bimbos of the Apocalypse”? That’s the question three Gen Z...

Winners of the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

The winners of the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced via press release this morning (Monday, May 12) at 10:00. This year’s awards were presented in 27 competitive categories, with...

Velvety-smooth crooning of 20th-century standards and new originals in ‘Mark William: Technicolor Dreams 2.0’ at NYC’s Green Room 42

Singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, and two-time BroadwayWorld Award winner Mark William returned to The Green Room 42 on Saturday, May 10, for a one-night-only performance and livestream of...

New twist on the jukebox bio-musical in ‘Just in Time’ at Broadway’s Circle in the Square

The Tony Award nominations for the 2024-25 season have already been announced, and the immersive metatheatrical jukebox bio-musical Just In Time, about the life, career, and music of singer,...

Immersive live performance launches Artech’s new exhibition space in NYC

Opening to the public on May 9, 2025, Artech Space is a new exhibition gallery in NYC spanning 4,000 square feet on the ground floor of 445 Park Avenue, where art and technology meet. Founded by...

Recipients of the 2025 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards

The winners of the 2025 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards – the nation’s second-oldest playwriting award (after the Pulitzer Prize for Drama), which has been presented to the best new play of the...

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the ATCA New Play Award

This afternoon, Monday, May 5, at 3 pm, the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes (awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, which meets twice annually) were announced by administrator Marjorie Miller...

2025 honorees of NYC’s 79th Annual Theatre World Awards

The Board of Directors of NYC’s Theatre World Awards has announced the honorees for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production during the 2024-2025 theatrical season, as...

Winners of the 40th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway

The 40th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievements in Off-Broadway theater were presented tonight, Sunday, May 4, 2025, beginning at 7 pm, at the NYU Skirball Center, in sixteen...

Community, hard work, and self-esteem bring empowerment to Latina immigrants in ‘Real Women Have Curves’ at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

A new Broadway musical adapted from Josefina López’s 1990 play, which also inspired the 2002 HBO film of the same name, Real Women Have Curves, with music and lyrics by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez,...

Tony Award nominations for the 2024-25 Broadway season

Nominations for the 78th annual Tony Awards were announced this morning, Thursday, May 1, at 9:00 am, by past recipients Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce, live from Sofitel New York. The eligibility...

Nominations for the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway

This afternoon at 12:50, on Spectrum News NY1, Norm Lewis, along with anchor Rocco Vertuccio and On Stage host Frank DiLella, announced the nominations in four of the 31 categories for the 69th annual...

A high-spirited reimagining of an operetta classic in ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’ at Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre

Gilbert and Sullivan’s swashbuckling two-act comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, which premiered at NYC’s Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1879, is the subject of a new adaptation, Pirates! The Penzance...

2025 nominations for the Chita Rivera Awards for Broadway and film

Nominations for the 2025 Chita Rivera Awards, the only awards ceremony celebrating excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and film, were announced today at 10 am. Determined...

Exploitation of a real-life human tragedy in ‘Floyd Collins’ at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater

The winter of 2025 marks a century since a spelunker in rural Kentucky was trapped inside a cave, rescue efforts failed, and he died two weeks later at the age of 37, all of which triggered what’s...

Theme-park stylings come to the Broadway stage in ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ at the Marquis Theatre

A new stage prequel to the popular Netflix series created by the brothers Matt and Ross Duffer in 2016, Stranger Things: The First Shadow is now making its Broadway debut in an open-ended run at the...

Nominations for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

This morning at 11 am, nominations for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway were announced in 27 competitive categories by Oh, Mary! stars Cole Escola and Conrad Ricamora...

Staged revue ‘Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends’ pays tribute to the musical theater icon at Broadway’s Friedman Theater

Following the loss of the legendary multi-award-winning composer, lyricist, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Stephen Sondheim on November 26, 2021, at the age of 91, producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh – a...

Nominations announced for the 2025 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

In a livestreamed event at 11:00 this morning, co-hosted by Sarah Hyland (The Great Gatsby) and Orville Peck (Cabaret) at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, nominations...

Four short and cryptic plays by Caryl Churchill in ‘GLASS. KILL. WHAT IF IF ONLY. IMP.’ Off-Broadway at The Public Theater

Considered one of the greatest, most inventive, and groundbreaking British playwrights of our time, Caryl Churchill, now in her 80s, continues to write enigmatic and provocative new works in her...

Gen Z students and #MeToo deconstruct what makes a hero in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ at Broadway’s Booth Theatre

It’s 2018, in small-town Georgia, and Gen Z high-school juniors (five girls and two boys) are studying Sex Ed and working on an English honors class project on The Crucible with their supportive...

Composers, cast, and song list set for ‘Iconoclastic Voices’ at NYC’s Green Room 42

Produced by Iconoclast Theatre Collective and presented by The Green Room 42, Iconoclastic Voices, a one-night-only concert on Friday, April 25, starting at 7 pm, brings together a boundary-breaking...

The musical that goes wrong in ‘SMASH’ at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre

SMASH, a stage version of the 2012-13 NBC TV series Smash, which ran only two seasons before being cancelled, has come to Broadway’s Imperial Theatre in a meta-comedy musical-within-a-musical take-off...

Out-of-this-world parties of besties born on the same date in ‘birthday birthday birthday’ at NYC’s The Tank

Following its 2022 presentation as an MFA thesis project in Columbia University’s New Plays Festival, Johnny G. Lloyd’s birthday birthday birthday is now playing a limited engagement at The Tank as...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Erich Bergen

Andy Warhol’s proverbial “fifteen minutes of fame” don’t come close to the years of renown and acclaim amassed by stage and screen star Erich Bergen. Best known for his six-season run (2014-19) as...

A spectacular journey from cartoons to the real world in ‘BOOP! The Musical’ at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre

Created by Max Fleischer and introduced by Fleischer Studios in 1930, as part of the world’s first animated talkies, or Talkartoons, distributed by Paramount Studios, Betty Boop, an icon of the...

Reflections on a personal epiphany through art in ‘All the Beauty in the World’ at NYC’s DR2 Theatre

When journalist Patrick Bringley – who, at the age of 22, landed a prestigious full-time job at The New Yorker magazine – lost his 27-year-old brother Tom to cancer, he needed a place to heal, to...

Parallels between Brecht and now prompt a call to action in ‘A Mother’ at NYC’s Baryshnikov Arts

Founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov, Baryshnikov Arts has launched its 20th anniversary season with the world premiere of A Mother, a loose time-traveling metatheatrical...

Martha Graham Dance Company returns for its 99th season with ‘Dances of the Mind’ at NYC’s Joyce Theater

World-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by the legendary dancer and choreographer in 1926, as both the oldest dance company in the US and the longest integrated, returns to The Joyce...

Nominations for the 2025 Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway

The 2025 nominations for the 40th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievements in Off-Broadway theater, created in 1985 by the Off Broadway League, were announced on April 2, by actors...

Murrow faces off against McCarthyism in the intense and timely ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre

On March 9, 1954, veteran CBS broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow challenged the ethics and veracity of Junior Senator Joseph McCarthy and his aggressive anti-communist campaign and claims of...

Star-studded revival of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Broadway’s Palace Theatre explodes with anger and dark laughs

David Mamet’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross is back on Broadway with a cast of stars from the stage and screen, directed by Tony and Olivier winner Patrick Marber, in a new...

Diverse, dynamic, and dramatic dance in ‘Ailey II: New Vintage’ at NYC’s Ailey Citigroup Theater

Founded as the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble in 1974, Ailey II – the second company of groundbreaking dancer, choreographer, director, and activist Alvin Ailey (1931-89), representing the next...

2025 ‘Broadway by the Season’ series opens at NYC’s Kaufman Music Center with songs and stories from the musicals of 1934-35 and 1946-47

Now celebrating his 25th anniversary of presenting concerts and commentary on the history of Broadway musicals, creator, writer, director, and host Scott Siegel, who’s had more than 600 shows produced...

Four new stage-related book releases that appeal to a range of interests

Among the recent publications by and about the stage community are the memoir of a Tony-winning costume designer, a conductor’s comic book for children based on an iconic opera, a writer’s...

Recollections of outrageous behavior, familial dysfunction, and enduring love in ‘We Had a World’ Off-Broadway at New York City Center

In his autobiographical memory play We Had a World, now in its extended world premiere engagement with Manhattan Theatre Club at Off-Broadway’s New York City Center, award-winning playwright Joshua...

Madcap English comedy about a real WWII mission in ‘Operation Mincemeat’ at Broadway’s Golden Theatre

A stolen corpse, dressed in a British military uniform with a false plan to occupy Sardinia in his briefcase, fools Hitler and saves the Allied Forces and Sicily (the true target, to take back the...

Buckle up for the wild ride of an influential and hilariously dysfunctional family in ‘Purpose’ at Broadway’s Hayes Theater

Commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company and now in its Broadway premiere for a limited engagement at the Hayes Theater, Purpose, by Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins – markedly...

Egos, envy, anger, and rivalry of two legendary male conductors in ‘Last Call’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

When playwright Peter Danish was vacationing in Vienna, enjoying a Sacher torte at the historic Hotel Sacher and reading the recent publication of a collection of Leonard Bernstein’s letters, his...

Tour-de-force performance in the condensed updated solo adaptation of ‘Vanya’ Off-Broadway at the Lortel

Now playing a limited engagement at NYC’s Lucille Lortel Theatre following a sold-out run in London that opened to critical acclaim in 2023, Emmy and Olivier Award winner Andrew Scott brings to life...

Closing Women’s History Month with the program ‘Jennifer Ashley Tepper: Women Writing Musicals’ at NYC’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

In honor of Women’s History Month, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts welcomes theater historian, author, and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper (Creative and Programming Director, 54 Below) to the...

Florencia Cuenca on making her Broadway debut in ‘Real Women Have Curves’ at the James Earl Jones Theatre

As a young girl in Mexico City, performing since the age of three, singer-actor-writer-director Florencia Cuenca always loved the shows there and on Broadway, in addition to the music of her own...

A revealing deep dive into the Japanese national art in ‘SUMO’ Off-Broadway at The Public

As one of the world’s oldest forms of organized competition, the origins of sumo wrestling – Japan’s national art or kokugi, combining sport, sacred Shinto ritual, and cultural tradition – dates back...