Off Broadway Week 2026: 2 for 1 Tickets Tickets are now on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 26 shows, for performances from February 16 through March 12. Sixteen of the shows are newly discounted. Two that I've seen I can recommend: Data and…

Poll: Which 2026 Best Picture Oscar Nominee Would Work the Best and Worst on Broadway? In a year when one of the ten Oscar nominees for best picture ends with scenes from one of the greatest plays ever written, another is about a theater actress and her film director father, and a third has a…

Theater celebrates (Obies, Grammys) and protests! #Stageworthy News of the Week "Buena Vista Social Club" won the Grammy for best musical theater album, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande won for Best Pop Duo/Group Performances. Nazareth Hassan's "Bowl EP," Carmelita Tropicana and Whitney White were…

Buena Vista Social Club Wins Best Musical Theater Album Grammy 2026 Buena Vista Social Club has won the 2026 best musical theater album at the 68th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the fourth consecutive year that only Broadway cast…

February 2026 New York Theater Openings Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York. None are on Broadway, but there is enough happening Off and Off-Off Broadway to see a new show nearly every night in February. Many feature familiar faces: See February 4 Feb 6 Feb 7…

Obie Awards 2026 The 69th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes lifetime achievement awards to Carmelita Tropicana Performance artist, playwright, lecturer and Latina comedian and Kate Valk Founding…

Theater Quiz for January 2026 How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of January. Take this ten-question quiz and find out.

Oh our Minneapolis,I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst Here in our home they killed & roamed In the winter of ’26 We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/st...

The People's Filibuster, live and live-streamed, free, 11 am to 7 pm outside Public Theater, "in solidarity with our neighbors in Minnesota and across the country who are angry and grieving..." publictheater.org/productions/...

"Border Czar" Tom Homan is asked "how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?" Homan: "3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time...." "In theater"?!!

Theater Blog Roundup links to posts by broadwayandme.bsky.social, @halvorsen.bsky.social , @hesherman.bsky.social , @aszymkowicz.bsky.social, + people not on Blue Sky Ken Davenport, Don Shewey, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Chris Peterson, Philip Boroff more newyorktheater.me/2026/01/29/t...

Theater Blog Roundup: Looking Back in Anger The war on culture has played out in many ways over the past year, as chronicled by the bloggers/substackers,podcasters to whom I link below. There’s famously the mess at the Kennedy Center, but also a theater company “blacklisted”/defunded by a state…

(How did I miss this) Five Fronts in Trump's Culture War: 1. The Smithsonian Institution 2. Federal Architecture 3. The Federal Communications Commission 4. The National Endowment for the Arts/National Endowment for the Humanities and of course 5. The Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/a...

Lovely view of Mount Snowimanjaro

Masquerade Mania “Masquerade”  has just been extended through July 5 – proof, if you needed it, that the immersive version of “The Phantom of the Opera” has caught on.This wasn’t a given when it took over a six-story building on West 57th Street some six months ago. “It was very hard to make and…

Published today: Marc Shaiman's “ Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner” My review: newyorktheater.me/2026/01/08/n...

Under the Radar: Watch Me Walk Anne Gridley’s favorite neurologist has told her that people can only concentrate on walking for about eight seconds; human beings are designed to walk without thinking about it.  But her play asks the audience to spend nearly two hours thinking about her walking.…

2026 Tony Awards timeline April 26: Cut-off Opening Night date for eligibility May 5: Nominations announced June 7: The 79th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall and CBS

Broadway at the Oscars, in the Snow, at BroadwayCon. Sir Ian on the Edge. #Stageworthy News A record-breaking 11.4 inches of snow reportedly fell on Central Park on Sunday, and the shows went on -- mostly: Ten of the 31 shows currently running on Broadway did cancel. A storm warning remains in…

Watch Telly Leung, Ali Ewoldt, Shoba Nayaran et al perform at “This is What It Sounds Like: An AANHPI Concert of Joy” "I don't want to be an ambassador for Asians, but that's part of the job when you're in a country, and you work in an industry, that continues to see us as perpetual foreigners,…

Data Review “Data” speaks to the precise moment in which we are living to an astonishing degree, and not just because of our concerns about AI. It begins and ends with characters playing ping pong! It features immigrants at the mercy of the Department of Homeland Security! The amorality on display…

Three Broadway shows did cancel performances today -- Aladdin, The Lion King, and Ragtime -- and several Off-Broadway Details: newyorktheater.me/2026/01/24/b... Times Square 2 p.m.:

First #SnowDayDiscount: "Bug" from @mtc-nyc.bsky.social $45 at today's matinee Details: newyorktheater.me/2026/01/24/b...

Updates From meteorologists: It's not officially a blizzard in NYC because winds are under 35 mph. It's a "Major Storm" From Broadway League: "most" Broadway shows will go on. Details: newyorktheater.me/2026/01/24/b... TKTS booth at noon:

Update: Times Square at 10 am: Snow this morning will become a mix of wintry precipitation (sleet) for the afternoon. Temperature: 14, feels like minus 1. Broadway shows still going ahead as scheduled, says Broadway League. newyorktheater.me/2026/01/24/b...

My first update: Snow has arrived, it's 12 degrees in Times Square. "Most Broadway shows in New York City are currently scheduled to perform," Broadway League announces in its latest update. Here is what Times Square looks like 6 a.m. Sunday:

Broadway and the Blizzard 2026: Questions and Answers A massive snow storm is expected to reach New York City Sunday morning, January 25, 2026 leading New Yorkers to ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers to ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? What if I can’t…

The Lost Boys Broadway musical: First Look Below are two videos of LJ Benet, who will be making his Broadway debut as Michael Emerson in the forthcoming musical "The Lost Boys," explaining the show, and singing one of the numbers from it, "Belong to Someone," as part of the BroadwayCon 2026 First…

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Edward Review. 27 Objects That Tell A Life Ed Schmidt, a playwright and performer who should be better known, stood behind a table with twenty-seven objects on it, which he said were found in a box belonging to a man named Edward O’Connell. One by one he picked up each object -- a Bible, a group…

Jonathan Groff is so great in "Just in Time" (newyorktheater.me/2025/04/26/j...) one had to wonder, after they announced he would depart the show on March 29: Will the show go on? Yes. Jeremy Jordan will succeed in the role as Bobby Darin beginning April 21.

Theater-related films Oscar nods this morning: Best Picture + 8 for “Sentimental Value,” Best Picture _ 7 for "Hamnet" Best Actor for Ethan Hawke as lyricist Lorenz Hart in “Blue Moon” newyorktheater.me/2026/01/22/o...

Oscar Nominations 2026 The complete list of nominations for the 98th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 15, 2026 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised live on ABC starting at 7 p.m. ET

An Ark Review When this is over…things will have changed forever,” Ian McKellen told me near the start of “An Ark,” staring directly at me. I didn’t roll my eyes. At first that was only because my eyes were locked into special glasses that enabled me to view a three-dimensional projection of Sir…

Joining Rose Byrne & Kelli O'Hara in the cast of the Bway revival of Noel Coward's 1928 play "Fallen Angels," opening April 19: Christopher Fitzgerald, Aasif Mandvi, Tracee Chimo,Mark Consuelos

Trump Exhaustion Syndrome By Ashley Parker Among the greatest tricks Donald Trump ever pulled is convincing significant portions of the population that the slow erosion of their rights is not, actually, that big of a deal.... www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"Fascist" probably turns people off. ("Oh God, a lecture. Just tell me about theater coming up") ok, let's see. Two making their Broadway debuts 1. Adrien Brody, whose 2 Oscars were for playing characters who survived fascism. 2. Dylan Mulvaney, who was attacked for being trans...

Broadway Week. Fascist Year. #Stageworthy News Last week was full of theater news, and politics. Hell's Kitchen is closing; Darren Criss is leaving; Adrien Brody is making his Broadway debut. Dylvan Mulvaney is joining the cast of "Six."; Broadway Week begins today. Today also marks the…

"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace," Trump to Norway's president, about why he has designs on Greenland. I feel trapped in a satiric movie by Michael Moore.

“We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity” – Martin Luther King Jr, August 11, 1956. Seventy years later, do we have them?

“I’m so happy I didn’t sneeze” — Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Speech The day before he was assassinated, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr delivered what is usually called the “I've Been To The Mountaintop” speech because of its stirring final moments. But in it he also offered a humorous riff…

Audition: Three Insights about Theater in Katie Kitamura’s novel The unnamed central character in Katie Kitamura’s acclaimed novel "Audition" (Riverhead Books, 197 pages) is a middle-aged actress of some repute and of great perception, who offers some rich insights about actors and audiences,…

Prototype Festival: What To Wear. Richard Foreman’s opera on beauty and ducks. Why do the four opera singers repeat “This is Mad’line X” forty-one times?  What's with the big ducks and why are they playing golf? Is the ensemble a group of courtiers or a deck of cards? Why are these bedazzling and…

Finding Dorothy Parker Review Dorothy Parker hated the theater, especially the “wretched downtown plays. The actors represent characters like ‘truth’ or ‘poverty’ while the audience is content to represent ‘sleeping’ or ‘leaving.’” Or so says Jackie Hoffman, one of the four funny ladies in…

Hell”s Kitchen will close on Broadway on February 22, 2026, having opened on April 20, 2024 newyorktheater.me/2024/04/20/h...

Spring 2026 New York Theater Preview: 10 Shows to See* In a season that promises to be rich in starry revivals and adaptations of familiar titles, the ten shows below are largely from beyond Broadway -- most Off Broadway, some more out-of-the-way, but all of them in theaters and from theater…

It's deeply disappointing, and frankly infuriating, that "12 Last Songs," a piece that was to unfold over 12 hours as part of the Under the Radar festival on Jan 17, has been canceled, because 10 of the 13-member company haven't been able to get visas to the U.S.. utrfest.org/program/12-l...

Under the Radar: Try/Step/Trip “Try/Step/Trip,” a terrifically rhythmic, unconventional musical that merges rap with step-dancing, was inspired by the court-ordered stay in drug rehab by poet, composer and performer Dahlah Brathwaite after he was arrested when police pulled over his car and found…

Darren Criss will play his final performance as Oliver in Maybe Happy Ending on Sunday, May 17, 2026, Helen J Shen three months early on February 15 newyorktheater.me/2024/11/13/m...

Married couple and former Hadestown co-stars Reeve Carney and Eve Noblezada will take over as Jay and Daisy in the Great Gatsby, she on Feb 5, he on March 30. (Aisha Jackson exits Feb 1 Jeremy Jordan March 7)