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Theater journalist and critic Jonathan Mandell blogs at
https://newyorktheater.me
I can't put my hands around all the horrible things that happened over the weekend. Here's
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Titanique and Balusters coming to Broadway. Anna and Marjorie open. Kristin and Laurie to close. Stageworthy News. The Broadway theatergoer liked “Ragtime,” disliked “Queen of Versailles,” and wished “Boop” had been better. That’s the results so far of my annual poll. But who is “the Broadway…
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Titanique and Balusters coming to Broadway. Anna and Marjorie open. Kristin and Laurie to close. Stageworthy News.
The Broadway theatergoer liked “Ragtime,” disliked “Queen of Versailles,” and wished “Boop” had been better. That’s the results so far of my annual poll. But who is “the Broadway theatergoer”? The latest report from the Broadway League: The average Broadway theatergoer is female, white, about 41 years old, a resident of the United States and a college graduate with a household income of $276,465 a year. (Deadline) While Broadway had its second-highest attendance on record in the 2024-25 season, only 13 percent were from the suburbs, the lowest percentage in thirty years. Â
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/15/stageworthy-news-32/
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Anna Christie Review Michelle Williams portrays a former prostitute in a play that was so bold when Eugene O’Neill wrote it that critics objected on moral grounds when it won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, but it is now so dated that her scandalous past is couched in vague euphemism. “I didn’t…
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Anna Christie Review
Michelle Williams portrays a former prostitute in a play that was so bold when Eugene O’Neill wrote it that critics objected on moral grounds when it won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, but it is now so dated that her scandalous past is couched in vague euphemism. “I didn’t go wrong all at one jump,” the title character says, before confiding she eventually got into “a house.” It is hard to deny the creaky aura that hangs over “Anna Christie,” which is probably still best known for the play’s adaptation as silent screen star Greta Garbo’s first “talking picture” (“Garbo Talks” was the now legendary marketing slogan) – and that movie was released a full decade after the stage debut.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/14/anna-christie-review/
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Snow, not a bad thing— it turns New York City into Grovers’s corners — until the black slush arrives
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Poll: Best and Worst Broadway Show of 2025? Which did you think was the best of the thirty-four shows that opened on Broadway (+ three that had no official opening) in 2025? Which was the worst? Which did you most want to like, and might have liked better had there just been a few changes or if…
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Poll: Best and Worst Broadway Show of 2025?
Which did you think was the best of the thirty-four shows that opened on Broadway (+ three that had no official opening) in 2025? Which was the worst? Which did you most want to like, and might have liked better had there just been a few changes or if they had had more time? Take the three polls below. Judge the quality of the show as you see it, not how it did at the box office.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/13/poll-best-and-worst-broadway-show-of-2025/
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You can see Little Bear Ridge Road for as little as $49 on digital rush
newyorktheater.me/broadway-rus...
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No! Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road will close December 21, eight weeks earlier than scheduled, because of poor attendance. This is a wonderful play. Go while you can.
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Little Bear Ridge Road Broadway Review
Laurie Metcalf as Sarah in rubber gloves and Micah Stock as Ethan in a face mask stand in front of a lone couch,  making awkward chit-chat until she finally says:“I’m, uh. Sorry about your dad.”“So…
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/10/30/little-bear-ridge-road-broadway-review/
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All Out: Comedy about Ambition, starting tonight, announces lottery and rush -- both $45 Details on my Broadway Lottery and Rush page
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Broadway Spring 2026 The Broadway Spring season promises familiar stars in familiar shows, although both some of the stars and some of the shows are making their Broadway debuts. Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf return in "Death of a Salesman" -- his 27th turn on Broadway, her 12th, the play's…
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Broadway Spring 2026
The Broadway Spring season promises familiar stars in familiar shows, although both some of the stars and some of the shows are making their Broadway debuts. Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf return in "Death of a Salesman" -- his 27th turn on Broadway, her 12th, the play's seventh. Daniel Radcliffe is returning solo for his sixth Broadway show, "Every Brilliant Thing," which is coming to Broadway for the first time after hit runs in London and Off-Broadway. Alex Brightman will be returning to Broadway for the tenth time, Kelli O'Hara for the 15th, André De Shields for the 16th (if you count his two gigs as choreographer) John Lithgow (like Lane) for the 27th.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/12/broadway-spring-2026/
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The Future of Storytelling and Acting the Part Netflix is not just a streaming video platform anymore. It is now yet another example of immersive theater. There are new “Netflix Houses” – in Philadelphia, Dallas, and soon in Las Vegas -- where theatergoers participate in person in theatrical…
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The Future of Storytelling and Acting the Part
Netflix is not just a streaming video platform anymore. It is now yet another example of immersive theater. There are new “Netflix Houses” – in Philadelphia, Dallas, and soon in Las Vegas -- where theatergoers participate in person in theatrical re-creations of Netflix series, including “Bridgerton” and “Stranger Things.” It is one of the surprising examples in “The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World” (Artisan, 320 pages) a book by Charles Melcher that overwhelms us with the innovations in storytelling that are already out there.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/11/the-future-of-storytelling-and-acting-the-part/
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Oklahoma Samovar Review. Jews on the American frontier Jake Meyer, a Jew from Latvia, escapes conscription into the Russian Army by emigrating to America, landing first in New York, but winding up in Oklahoma,  where he and his bride Hattie are the only Jews. “We’re the only ones, but…these people…
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Oklahoma Samovar Review. Jews on the American frontier
Jake Meyer, a Jew from Latvia, escapes conscription into the Russian Army by emigrating to America, landing first in New York, but winding up in Oklahoma,  where he and his bride Hattie are the only Jews. “We’re the only ones, but…these people don’t know what a Jew is, so they don’t have any prejudice against us.” “How can we keep a Kosher home and celebrate the holidays if there are no other Jews?” Hattie asks. It’s one of the intriguing questions left largely unanswered in “Oklahoma Samovar,” which spans a century in the lives of one Jewish family.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/10/oklahoma-samovar-review-jews-on-the-american-frontier/
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The New Yorker magazine has named
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as its new theater critic, replacing Helen Shaw, who is replacing Jesse Green as chief theater critic at the NY Times. I loved Emily's writing when she was the magazine's TV critic. But what's her background in theater?
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10 Most Watched Broadway* Videos†in 2025 Watch the ten videos below that were the most viewed in 2025 of those that I’ve posted on my YouTube channel ,and/or this blog, arranged in order of popularity. The majority were created in 2025, but there's a catch: Four are shorts (one is 13 seconds…
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10 Most Watched Broadway* Videos†in 2025
Watch the ten videos below that were the most viewed in 2025 of those that I’ve posted on my YouTube channel ,and/or this blog, arranged in order of popularity. The majority were created in 2025, but there's a catch: Four are shorts (one is 13 seconds long). Most are from Broadway shows, but one of the most popular was about a film adaptation of a Broadway show and another a wordless performance by a popular comedian at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I add to the most popular my personal favorite from 2025.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/09/10-most-watched-broadway-videos%e2%80%a0-in-2025/
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Marjorie Prime Broadway Review “Marjorie Prime,” has turned even more uncanny in the ten years since its Off-Broadway run, when the 85-year-old Lois Smith gave a lustrous performance as the 85-year-old Marjorie, a widow whose family had bought her an artificial companion who looks precisely like…
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Marjorie Prime Broadway Review
“Marjorie Prime,” has turned even more uncanny in the ten years since its Off-Broadway run, when the 85-year-old Lois Smith gave a lustrous performance as the 85-year-old Marjorie, a widow whose family had bought her an artificial companion who looks precisely like her dead husband. In the new production of Jordan Harrison’s play that is opening tonight on Broadway, the 96-year-old June Squibb gives her own lustrous performance as Marjorie in a play set in the near future that is eerily nearer now than it was a decade ago. Squibb’s Marjorie, like Smith’s, is alternately confused, indignant, embarrassed, clever, whimsical, flirtatious, wise, steely — a full-fledged human being, rare for a character who is elderly.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/08/marjorie-prime-broadway-review/
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Theater on Screen 2025: From Merrily to Wicked, Hamnet to Blue Moon. Stageworthy News Over the weekend, “Merrily We Roll Along” and “Hamnet” opened in cinemas nationwide, each connected to live theater in very different ways – one, a recording of a live Broadway production, the other a movie about…
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Theater on Screen 2025: From Merrily to Wicked, Hamnet to Blue Moon. Stageworthy News
Over the weekend, “Merrily We Roll Along” and “Hamnet” opened in cinemas nationwide, each connected to live theater in very different ways – one, a recording of a live Broadway production, the other a movie about Shakespeare. Both are the latest in a banner year for theater on screen. Other recordings of live theatrical productions include “Waitress The Musical,” a capture of the 2016 Tony-nominated Broadway show, which is currently streaming on HBO Max, and “Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical,” which (despite its title) captured a production on the West End, and is streaming on Disney+.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/08/theater-on-screen-2025-from-merrily-to-wicked-hamnet-to-blue-moon-stageworthy-news/
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Gruesome Playground Injuries Review. Kara Young and Nicholas Braun as Rajiv Joseph’s fragile friends. Kara Young and Nicholas Braun were so much fun to watch in this latest production of Rajiv Joseph’s peculiar play that it hurt. As Kayleen and Doug, they portray friends who are consistently ill…
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Gruesome Playground Injuries Review. Kara Young and Nicholas Braun as Rajiv Joseph’s fragile friends.
Kara Young and Nicholas Braun were so much fun to watch in this latest production of Rajiv Joseph’s peculiar play that it hurt. As Kayleen and Doug, they portray friends who are consistently ill or injured over a span of thirty years, from age eight to 38. “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” like several other Joseph plays, tries to make pain funny. When Doug enters a scene in a wheelchair, the audience is meant to laugh, and we did; a queasy accomplishment.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/07/gruesome-playground-injuries-review/
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Peter and the Wolf at the Guggenheim The annual production of “Peter & the Wolf” at the Guggenheim Museum, which launched again last night and is running this year through December 13, has evolved in largely wonderful but also occasionally baffling ways since fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi first…
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Peter and the Wolf at the Guggenheim
The annual production of “Peter & the Wolf” at the Guggenheim Museum, which launched again last night and is running this year through December 13, has evolved in largely wonderful but also occasionally baffling ways since fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi first began narrating it eighteen years ago.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/06/peter-and-the-wolf-at-the-guggenheim/
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Hamnet movie. Was “Hamlet” healing for Mrs. Shakespeare? The scenes from the play “Hamlet” will make you cry in this latest film from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), but there is a catch. The scenes don’t occur until more than 90 minutes into “Hamnet,” after a story that focuses…
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Hamnet movie. Was “Hamlet” healing for Mrs. Shakespeare?
The scenes from the play “Hamlet” will make you cry in this latest film from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), but there is a catch. The scenes don’t occur until more than 90 minutes into “Hamnet,” after a story that focuses on a free-spirited woman named Agnes. Her story becomes a romance, then a family drama, then a study of grief, all during which, somewhat coyly, the name “William Shakespeare” is never uttered. We only hear it after the movie moves from the fields and farmhouses of Stratford to the playhouse in London.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/05/hamnet-movie-was-hamlet-healing-for-mrs-shakespeare/
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Merrily We Roll Along movie vs. stage musical The “Merrily We Roll Along” movie is different from the Wicked films; it’s not a film adaptation, it’s a recording of the live 2024 Tony-winning Broadway production that turned the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical from a notorious 40-year-old…
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Merrily We Roll Along movie vs. stage musical
The “Merrily We Roll Along” movie is different from the Wicked films; it’s not a film adaptation, it’s a recording of the live 2024 Tony-winning Broadway production that turned the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical from a notorious 40-year-old flop to an acclaimed hit, the stuff of Broadway legend. There is something worthwhile in offering a chance at experiencing such a show to theater lovers who didn’t make it to New York or couldn’t afford Broadway prices. Still, the film offers a different experience from the stage musical, in part because of the inherent qualities and expectations of the medium, but also because of directorial choices – some for the better, some for the worse -- by Maria Friedman, director of both the Broadway production and the film.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/04/merrily-we-roll-along-movie-vs-stage-musical/
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Dirty Books Review Is “Dirty Books” itself obscene? Not at all,  if we go by the Supreme Court’s three-pronged test. The theater company Bated Breath does enlist the audience to write erotica, but 1. The show begins with a history exhibition about book banning in the U.S. that certainly doesn’t…
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Dirty Books Review
Is “Dirty Books” itself obscene? Not at all,  if we go by the Supreme Court’s three-pronged test. The theater company Bated Breath does enlist the audience to write erotica, but 1. The show begins with a history exhibition about book banning in the U.S. that certainly doesn’t lack serious political and educational value, 2. The exhibition is followed by a plot that is so bland  one might wish for a little patent offensiveness, or even 3. prurience, but none exists.  Besides, the enlistment is half-hearted and the effect not all that erotic.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/03/dirty-books-review/
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Helen Shaw moves from the New Yorker to become the new chief theater critic of the New York Times.
www.nytco.com/press/helen-...
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Helen Shaw Joins Culture | The New York Times Company
https://www.nytco.com/press/helen-shaw-joins-culture/
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Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, curated by Clint Ramos, March 18-May 23, 2026, highlights: Ella & The Duke (March 18) Ruthie Ann Miles first solo concert (March 19); 50th anniversary concert of Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls..." (April 6)
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#BroadwayCon2026
will take place January 23-25, at 2 new hotels, Palladium Times Square & New York Westin at Times Square. Anthony Rapp, co-founder of the annual event in 2016, has described it “like Comic Con but with more jazz hands and green face paint”
www.broadwaycon.com
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Nathan Lane as Willy Loman. Marquees to Dim for Tom Stoppard twice. Stageworthy News of the Week Scrooge is back on stage this holiday season, as always, but as we head towards the end of a trying year, the question off-stage is which Scrooge will win out – the one at the beginning or the at the…
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Nathan Lane as Willy Loman. Marquees to Dim for Tom Stoppard twice. Stageworthy News of the Week
Scrooge is back on stage this holiday season, as always, but as we head towards the end of a trying year, the question off-stage is which Scrooge will win out – the one at the beginning or the at the end of the Dickens story? Today is #GivingTuesday: Before you donate, check out the charity. (as I point out here.) December 2025 NYC Theater Openings Holiday Shows in NYC 2025: A Spirited Guide Theater Quiz for November 2025
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/02/stageworthy-news-31/
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#GivingTuesday
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2025: What would Scrooge do? On this fourteenth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to a theater company or theater organization in New York City. This is what Scrooge would do (by the end of the story), if he were a theater lover But,…
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#GivingTuesday 2025: What would Scrooge do?
On this fourteenth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to a theater company or theater organization in New York City. This is what Scrooge would do (by the end of the story), if he were a theater lover But, given his business acumen, he would first check Charity Navigator to make sure the theater gets high ratings for accountability, transparency, financial health, impact and results. Below, I've selected ten New York theaters and theater companies, listed alphabetically, with links to their home page or donate page.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/02/giving-tuesday-2025-what-would-scrooge-do/
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December 2025 NYC Theater Openings Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in December. There are two new shows on Broadway, both with starry casts, one a revival of a futuristic play that feels almost present-day now (see Dec 8); the other has no official opening date (it begins Dec. 12)…
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December 2025 NYC Theater Openings
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in December. There are two new shows on Broadway, both with starry casts, one a revival of a futuristic play that feels almost present-day now (see Dec 8); the other has no official opening date (it begins Dec. 12) and it's arguable whether it's even theater. Beyond Broadway, there is another starry cast, led by Michelle Williams (Dec 14), and some serious plays about queer life, protest, war, epidemics, human rights. But much of the month of December is taken up with holiday fare (which…
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/01/december-2025-nyc-theater-openings/
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Marquees will also dim on December 9 for: Matthew Silver, Jerry Adler, Polly Holliday, Lauren B. Stevens, Robert Redford, John Christopher Jones, Patricia Routledge, Ted Hartley, Diane Keaton, June Lockhart, Diane Ladd, Elizabeth Franz, Pauline Collins, Harriet Slaughter and (again) Tom Stoppard.
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Broadway marquees will dim for Tom Stoppard tomorrow evening Dec 2. Stoppard, who died over the weekend at age 88, leaves an extraordinary legacy.
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Tom Stoppard, 1937 – 2025
Tom Stoppard, 88, an acclaimed author of some three dozen plays, had an extraordinary body of work, and lived an unusual life: Although he was viewed as one of the greatest English-language playwri…
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/30/tom-stoppard-1937-2025/
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Holiday Shows in NYC 2025: A Spirited Guide Any guide to holiday theatergoing in New York City must begin with the three annual staples: “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular” starring the Radio City Rockettes, “George Balanchine’s the Nutcracker” (and about a dozen sweet or sassy alternatives),…
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Holiday Shows in NYC 2025: A Spirited Guide
Any guide to holiday theatergoing in New York City must begin with the three annual staples: “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular” starring the Radio City Rockettes, “George Balanchine’s the Nutcracker” (and about a dozen sweet or sassy alternatives), and the many variations of “A Christmas Carol.” But there's more -- plays, ballets, operas, concerts, musicals, burlesques, and hybrid entertainments that have reappeared each December, some for decades. Some are bracingly expensive, most not; a few are surprisingly raunchy, most are family fare. There are always new holiday show; I include a few examples below that might be hoping to become future annual traditions.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/12/01/holiday-shows-in-nyc-2025-a-spirited-guide/
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"It’s a Homophobic Slur. What’s It Doing in So Much Theater?" Good question, Erik Piepenburg "this year at least six theater productions have used “faggot” in their titles, and it doesn’t feel like a coincidence."
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It’s a Homophobic Slur. What’s It Doing in So Much Theater?
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Tom Stoppard, 1937 – 2025 Tom Stoppard, 88, an acclaimed author of some three dozen plays, had an extraordinary body of work, and lived an unusual life: Although he was viewed as one of the greatest English-language playwrights of his generation, his first language was not English. Although he was…
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Tom Stoppard, 1937 – 2025
Tom Stoppard, 88, an acclaimed author of some three dozen plays, had an extraordinary body of work, and lived an unusual life: Although he was viewed as one of the greatest English-language playwrights of his generation, his first language was not English. Although he was an erudite intellectual and the most cerebral of playwrights, he dropped out of school as a teenager, never attending college. Although he was deeply involved with human rights issues and incorporated them into his plays,he said in 1979 that he considered himself a conservative in politics, literature, education and theater.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/30/tom-stoppard-1937-2025/
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Theater Quiz for November 2025 How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in the month of November? Take this quiz to find out.
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Theater Quiz for November 2025
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in the month of November? Take this quiz to find out.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/29/theater-quiz-for-november-2025/
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"Every exit is an entrance to somewhere else." RIP Tom Stoppard, 88, erudite and playful playwright, seven-time Tony winner frequently compared to Shakespeare.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html
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Holiday Gifts for Theater Lovers 2025 My fourteenth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about the theater,and theater on screen I also suggest some souvenirs and…
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Holiday Gifts for Theater Lovers 2025
My fourteenth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about the theater,and theater on screen I also suggest some souvenirs and knick-knacks intended as tangible reminders of an evanescent experience.Also: practical gifts for theater artists.And, just because it's Black Friday: Black Friday Deals on Amazon
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/28/holiday-gifts-for-theater-lovers-2025/
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Watch Broadway at the Thanksgiving Day Parade 2025 Below are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: Buena Vista Social Club, Ragtime and Just in Time, as well as Broadway veteran and Wicked star Cynthia Erivo leading the parade.
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Watch Broadway at the Thanksgiving Day Parade 2025
Below are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: Buena Vista Social Club, Ragtime and Just in Time, as well as Broadway veteran and Wicked star Cynthia Erivo leading the parade.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/27/watch-broadway-at-the-thanksgiving-day-parade-2025/
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Buena Vista Social Club Broadway Review
As a band and a brand, “Buena Vista Social Club” has been gold from the get-go: It was a hit Grammy-winning album that in 1996 had brought together an impromptu group of old-time Cuban musicians in…
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/03/19/buena-vista-social-club-broadway-review/
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#Ragtime
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Ragtime Broadway Review
The revival of “Ragtime” has taken on more of the epic feel to which it aspires, thanks to its move from an Encores series concert to a full Broadway production on the Vivian Beaumont’s grander sta…
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/10/16/ragtime-broadway-review/
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Just in Time Broadway Review. Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin.
There is a Sinatra vibe that Jonathan Groff nails from the start, when, in shiny tux and tie, he works his way around the café tables of Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater,  redesign…
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/04/26/just-in-time-broadway-review/
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The Baker’s Wife Review “The Baker’s Wife” offers dual stories of redemption that make it feel designed for the holidays: There is the fable of all the villagers in a small French town setting aside their petty squabbles to repair their baker’s marriage, thus giving them back their daily bread.…
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The Baker’s Wife Review
“The Baker’s Wife” offers dual stories of redemption that make it feel designed for the holidays: There is the fable of all the villagers in a small French town setting aside their petty squabbles to repair their baker’s marriage, thus giving them back their daily bread. Then there is the equally unlikely story of a 1976 musical with great promise – composed by Stephen Schwartz, the 28-year-old wunderkind at the time who had three hit shows running on Broadway simultaneously (Pippin, The Magic Show, and Godspell), with a book by legendary, Tony-winning librettist Joseph Stein (“Fiddler on the Roof”) – that was such an unfixable flop during a grueling cross-country pre-Broadway tryout tour that the members of the creative team themselves insisted to producer David Merrick that he shut down “The Baker’s Wife” before its intended Broadway run.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/26/the-bakers-wife-review/
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New York Times Notable Books of 2025 for theater lovers Once again, theater seems of little interest to the book review staff at the New York Times. Their Notable Books of 2025 features no published plays (although books of poetry are included), and few theater books of any kind. I sorted through…
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New York Times Notable Books of 2025 for theater lovers
Once again, theater seems of little interest to the book review staff at the New York Times. Their Notable Books of 2025 features no published plays (although books of poetry are included), and few theater books of any kind. I sorted through the list his year and found five that might reasonably be considered of particular interest to theater lovers, presented below ranked by most relevant, plus a sixth. I hope this encourages the Times to expand its concept of what’s notable.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/26/new-york-times-notable-books-of-2025-for-theater-lovers/
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Top 10 New York Theater for which I’m grateful in 2025 Below are works of theater that I saw this year in New York for which I’m most grateful.  I have been posting such a list around Thanksgiving Day every year since 2013, which is my annual “Top 10” list, although this year’s shows, listed more…
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Top 10 New York Theater for which I’m grateful in 2025
Below are works of theater that I saw this year in New York for which I’m most grateful.  I have been posting such a list around Thanksgiving Day every year since 2013, which is my annual “Top 10” list, although this year’s shows, listed more or less alphabetically, add up to more than ten (I group some together), and I wouldn’t necessarily rank all of these productions highest on aesthetic grounds. I’m thanking them for making a difference in some way, not least for offering fond, pointed or sustaining memories.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/25/top-10-new-york-theater-for-which-im-grateful-in-2025/
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"The Queen of Versailles" will play its final performance on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on January 4, 2026, less than two months after its Nov. 9th opening.
newyorktheater.me/2025/11/09/q...
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"Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James" (The courts do function on occasion)
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Liberation and Initiative, both currently performing in NY, are among the plays written by the finalists chosen for the 48th Annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the largest and oldest award recognizing women+ writers for plays of outstanding quality written for the English-speaking theater.
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Hanks and O’Hara. Erivo and Grande. Pitts and Tutty. Stageworthy News of the Week. Fixings and pairings will be on the table later this week, and were on stage this past week, with the revival of a couple of old musicals that needed to be fixed (were they?), and some starry pairings, and…
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Hanks and O’Hara. Erivo and Grande. Pitts and Tutty. Stageworthy News of the Week.
Fixings and pairings will be on the table later this week, and were on stage this past week, with the revival of a couple of old musicals that needed to be fixed (were they?), and some starry pairings, and re-pairings. Cynthia Erivo will open the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, part of a tradition of Broadway at the Parade. In the meantime, Broadway itself will be especially busy (before and after Thursday) Broadway Thanksgiving Week Schedule 2025 The Week in New York Theater Reviews
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/24/hanks-and-ohara-erivo-and-grande-pitts-and-tutty-stageworthy-news-of-the-week/
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Chess Broadway Review “Chess” is not a serious musical. That’s the key to appreciating this show, which is supposed to be about an American and a Russian grandmaster battling over both the game of chess and a woman. Not knowing English might help even more, since too many of the lines and lyrics…
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Chess Broadway Review
“Chess” is not a serious musical. That’s the key to appreciating this show, which is supposed to be about an American and a Russian grandmaster battling over both the game of chess and a woman. Not knowing English might help even more, since too many of the lines and lyrics detract from what’s enjoyable about the show, which is the catchy rock score and the performances by the exciting Broadway pros Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher. The music, by ABBA’s  Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is the only obvious reason why, 37 years after it flopped on Broadway,  “Chess” is being revived. Â
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/23/chess-broadway-review/
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Broadway Thanksgiving Week Schedule 2025 Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2025, which differs from the usual week’s schedule: Only one show of the 34 currently playing has a performance on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 27th (Chicago), but many have added performances…
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Broadway Thanksgiving Week Schedule 2025
Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2025, which differs from the usual week’s schedule: Only one show of the 34 currently playing has a performance on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 27th (Chicago), but many have added performances throughout the rest of the week, especially Monday evenings, and matinees on Friday. And, on Thanksgiving Day, after all, there’s the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The 99th edition of the annual parade will also of course feature the Radio City Rockettes who this year are celebrating their 100th anniversary, as well as musical and dance performances from the casts of Broadway's s…
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/22/broadway-thanksgiving-week-schedule-2025/
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I've added a new video, showing 90 seconds from the current production, to my review of "Two Strangers (Carrying A Cake Across New York)"
newyorktheater.me/2025/11/20/t...
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Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) Broadway Review
What I found most surprising about this modest, appealing two-person musical, whose title more or less sums up what happens, was the reaction to it on the night I attended – the ecstatic cheers at …
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/20/two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-new-york-broadway-review/
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How “Wicked: For Good” was built: Director Jon Chu + 8 film crew Alice Brooks has an unusual way of talking about the difference between 'Wicked" and its sequel "Wicked: For Good.," which is opening nationwide today. The making of the two Wicked movies was such a vast and intimidating process –…
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How “Wicked: For Good” was built: Director Jon Chu + 8 film crew
Alice Brooks has an unusual way of talking about the difference between 'Wicked" and its sequel "Wicked: For Good.," which is opening nationwide today. The making of the two Wicked movies was such a vast and intimidating process – shooting in 17 sound stages over I55 days – that, to get started, Brooks, the cinematographer for both movie, assigned a single word for each scene to express its “emotional intention.” “For the first movie, those words were yearning and longing and power and friendship and choice. And for the second movie, they were sacrifice and surrender and separation and consequence.
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/21/how-wicked-for-good-was-built-director-jon-chu-8-film-crew/
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Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) Broadway Review What I found most surprising about this modest, appealing two-person musical, whose title more or less sums up what happens, was the reaction to it on the night I attended – the ecstatic cheers at the start; the mobbed stage door…
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Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) Broadway Review
What I found most surprising about this modest, appealing two-person musical, whose title more or less sums up what happens, was the reaction to it on the night I attended – the ecstatic cheers at the start; the mobbed stage door afterwards. The show’s social media marketing campaign won over a couple waiting at the stage door, they told me, but they also just liked the show. I liked it as well, but I might be doing the musical a disservice by mentioning the audience enthusiasm, because it could set up misleading expectations. Â
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/11/20/two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-new-york-broadway-review/
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