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Theater journalist and critic Jonathan Mandell blogs at
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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 andâŠ
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Off Broadway Week 2026: 2 for 1Â 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 Mexodus (both titles are linked to my reviews.) Several shows havenât opened yet and look promising. Chinese Republicans, Night Side Songs, The Monsters, and What We Did Before Our Moth Days (The titles are linked to their websites.) Complete alphabetical list of shows:.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/02/03/off-broadway-week-2026-2-for-1-tickets/
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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 aâŠ
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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 subject (and a title) that's been on Broadway, while of the other nominated films feature car cashes or gun fights, it seems natural to wonder: Which of the ten movies would make the best stage play? The worst play? The best musical? Offer your opinion the poll below.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/02/03/poll-which-2026-best-picture-oscar-nominee-would-work-the-best-and-worst-on-broadway/
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Theater celebrates (Obies, Grammys) and protests!
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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 wereâŠ
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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 among the Obie winners. Three annual theater awards, including the Tonys, announced their timelines for the year. There is much to celebrate in theater, including a whole new month of exciting shows opening on New York stages: February 2026 New York Theater Openings But the new month also begins in protest. See the video below of the entire eight hours of "The People's Filibuster," a starry procession on the steps of the Public Theater ,"in solidarity with our neighbors in Minnesota and across the country who are angry and grievingâŠ" …
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/02/02/theater-celebrates-obies-grammys-and-protests-stageworthy-news-of-the-week/
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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 castâŠ
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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 recordings have been nominated in the category.) In another theater-related win, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance went to âDefying Gravity,â Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Below is info on all five musial theater album nominees (with the title linked to find out more or purchase), my reviews of the musicals,
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/02/01/buena-vista-social-club-wins-best-musical-theater-album-grammy-2026/
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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 7âŠ
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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 Feb 8 Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 12 Feb 12 Feb 14 Feb 16 Feb 16 Feb 16 Feb 18 Feb 22 Feb 23 Feb 24 Some are dark -- a new play about genocide, two about encounters with Nazis. One of these is co-written and starring Ethan Slater, showing an unknown side of mime Marcel Marceau.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/02/01/february-2026-new-york-theater-openings/
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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 FoundingâŠ
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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 Member and Director of The Wooster Group.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/31/obie-awards-2026/
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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.
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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.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/30/theater-quiz-for-january-2026/
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Oh our Minneapolis,I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist Weâll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst Here in our home they killed & roamed In the winter of â26 Weâll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis
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Streets of Minneapolis (Lyric Video) | Bruce Springsteen
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voiceSinging through the bloody mistWeâll take our stand for this landAnd the stranger in our midstHere in our home they killed and roamedIn the winter of â26Weâll reme...
https://brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/streets-of-minneapolis-lyric-video/
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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..."
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"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"?!!
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Theater Blog Roundup links to posts by
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, + people not on Blue Sky Ken Davenport, Don Shewey, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Chris Peterson, Philip Boroff more
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https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/29/theater-blog-roundup-looking-back-in-anger/
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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. Thereâs famously the mess at the Kennedy Center, but also a theater company âblacklistedâ/defunded by a stateâŠ
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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. Thereâs famously the mess at the Kennedy Center, but also a theater company âblacklistedâ/defunded by a state arts council; a student production canceled because of a new state anti-DEI law; a âvisa freezeâ thatâs wreaking havoc on international cultural exchange. Commenters look too at the way that theater has been responding. The theater blogosphereâs look back at 2025 is not all about outrage. There are Top 10 and Year in Review posts byÂ
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/29/theater-blog-roundup-looking-back-in-anger/
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(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...
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Five Fronts in Trumpâs Culture War
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/arts/trump-culture-war-smithsonian-kennedy-center.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.sU1M.LFfh-9sC4bhI&smid=bs-share
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Lovely view of Mount Snowimanjaro
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Masquerade Mania âMasqueradeâ  has just been extended through July 5 â proof, if you needed it, that the immersive version of âThe Phantom of the Operaâ has caught on.This wasnât a given when it took over a six-story building on West 57th Street some six months ago. âIt was very hard to make andâŠ
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Masquerade Mania
âMasqueradeâ  has just been extended through July 5 â proof, if you needed it, that the immersive version of âThe Phantom of the Operaâ has caught on.This wasnât a given when it took over a six-story building on West 57th Street some six months ago. âIt was very hard to make and very hard to figure out,â says Telly Leung, one of the six performers who portray the Phantom every night. âNever has an immersive show been this musical, and never has a musical been this immersive.â .I love the production…
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/28/masquerade-mania/
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Published today: Marc Shaiman's â Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winnerâ My review:
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Never Mind The Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner
Marc Shaiman, one-half the songwriting team behind the Broadway musicals âHairspray,â âCatch Me If You Can,â âSome Like It Hot,â and âSmash,â doesnât even start to tell us about any of his musicalsâŠ
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/08/never-mind-the-happy-showbiz-stories-from-a-sore-winner/
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Under the Radar: Watch Me Walk Anne Gridleyâs 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.âŠ
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Under the Radar: Watch Me Walk
Anne Gridleyâs 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. Gridley hobbles, accompanied by one of twenty walking sticks (âIâm the Imelda Marcos of mobility aids.â)  She has a disease called Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, or HSP, the same one her mother and grandmother had; it didn't affect her until she was in her thirties. Gridley is one of the founding members of Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a 20-year-old performance art group based in New York whose inventive antics (in such works asÂ
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/27/under-the-radar-watch-me-walk/
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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
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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 inâŠ
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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 effect Monday morning, nly four Broadway shows are scheduled for Monday performances (the others are normally dark on Mondays), and none have yet canceled their performances, but check their websites: Chicago, The Great Gatsby, Maybe Happy Ending, Six, They may not just be open for business but offer a #SnowDayDiscount. Check out my…
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/26/broadway-at-the-oscars-in-the-snow-at-broadwaycon-sir-ian-on-the-edge-stageworthy-news/
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Watch Telly Leung, Ali Ewoldt, Shoba Nayaran et al perform at âThis is What It Sounds Like: An AANHPI Concert of Joyâ "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,âŠ
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Watch Telly Leung, Ali Ewoldt, Shoba Nayaran et al perform at âThis is What It Sounds Like: An AANHPI Concert of Joyâ
"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, incapable of telling our own universal human stories." So said Tony winning actor Francis Jue at BroadwayCon's "This is What It Sounds Like: An AANHPI Concert of Joy" -- which stands for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander. Below, watch excerpts of his speech and of musical numbers by a handful of the dozens of Broadway veterans who performed at the concert, held at the Palladium Times Square on Friday.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/26/watch-telly-leung-ali-ewoldt-shoba-nayaran-et-al-perform-at-this-is-what-it-sounds-like-an-aanhpi-concert-of-joy/
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Data Review âDataâ 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 displayâŠ
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Data Review
âDataâ 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 mirrors arguments that Trump is using to take over Greenland. Some of this was deliberate: Playwright Matthew Libby has set his story in âthe mid-2020sâ adding that âit might already have happenedâ â a possibility that helps make âDataâ both riveting and dispiriting
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/25/data-review/
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Three Broadway shows did cancel performances today -- Aladdin, The Lion King, and Ragtime -- and several Off-Broadway Details:
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Times Square 2 p.m.:
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$45 at today's matinee Details:
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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 â how bad will it get? â and New York theatergoers to ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? What if I canâtâŠ
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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 â how bad will it get? â and New York theatergoers to ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? What if I canât make it to a show that hasnât been canceled? Will shows offer a snow day discount? Here are some answers as of early Saturday afternoon. This post will be periodically updated. The photographs above are of Times Square during the record-setting blizzard exactly a decade ago, on January 22-24, 2016, known officially as Winter Storm Jonas, which eventually dumped 27.5 inches of snow in Central Park.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/24/broadway-and-the-blizzard-2026-questions-and-answers/
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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 FirstâŠ
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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 Look and Showcase. "The Lost Boys," which is scheduled to open at the end of the Broadway 2025-2026 season at the Palace Theater, is a musical based on the 1987 film of the same name, a supernatural horror-comedy that was directed by Joel Schumacher, which follows two teenage brothers who move with their divorced mother to the fictional town of Santa Carla, California, only to discover that the town is a haven for vampires.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/24/the-lost-boys-broadway-musical-first-look/
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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 OâConnell. One by one he picked up each object -- a Bible, a groupâŠ
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Edward Review. 27 Objects That Tell AÂ 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 OâConnell. One by one he picked up each object -- a Bible, a group of four gaudy neckties, a pair of eyeglasses, a pocketknife, a Nader for President button â and told a story connected to it. âEdwardâ evokes Thornton Wilderâs âOur Town,â with Schmidt as the character of the Stage Manager, but rather than the ordinary lives of an entire town, the play pieces together the life of one ordinary man.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/23/edward-review-27-objects-that-tell-a-life/
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Jonathan Groff is so great in "Just in Time" (
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) 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.
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Theater-related films Oscar nods this morning: Best Picture + 8 for âSentimental Value,â Best Picture _ 7 for "Hamnet" Best Actor for Ethan Hawke as lyricist Lorenz Hart in âBlue Moonâ
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Oscar Nominations 2026
âSinnersâ received a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, followed by âOne Battle After Anotherâ with 13. Several theater-related films received nods, including nine (incluâŠ
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/22/oscar-nominations-2026/
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Oscar Nominations 2026 The complete list of nominations for the 98th annual Academy Awards, which will beâheld on Sunday, March 15, 2026 at the DolbyÂź Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised live on ABC starting at 7 p.m. ET
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Oscar Nominations 2026
The complete list of nominations for the 98th annual Academy Awards, which will beâheld on Sunday, March 15, 2026 at the DolbyÂź Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised live on ABC starting at 7 p.m. ET
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/22/oscar-nominations-2026/
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An Ark Review When this is overâŠthings will have changed forever,â Ian McKellen told me near the start of âAn Ark,â staring directly at me. I didnât 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 SirâŠ
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An Ark Review
When this is overâŠthings will have changed forever,â Ian McKellen told me near the start of âAn Ark,â staring directly at me. I didnât 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 Ian, sitting next to three other cast members, none of whom were actually, physically at The Shed for whatâs being billed as âthe first play created for mixed reality.â I avidly attend experiments in storytelling, whatever theyâre called (immersive, interactive, digital, VR, AR, MR, â
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/21/an-ark-review/
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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
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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....
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Trump Exhaustion Syndrome
Americans canât seem to keep up.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/trump-first-year-democracy/685658/?utm_campaign=one-story-to-read-today&utm_content=20260120&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&lctg=6050e4934c8a1e4095f2ce93&utm_term=One%20Story%20to%20Read%20Today
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"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...
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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 theâŠ
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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 anniversary of the presidential inauguration ("One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now While We Still Can.") Theater can't always escape politics -- see below for the story about a canceled show in the Under the Radar festival. Given what's happening in America, should theatergoers even try to?
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/20/broadway-week-fascist-year-stageworthy-news/
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"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.
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âWe need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity, but in love with humanityâ â Martin Luther King Jr, August 11, 1956. Seventy years later, do we have them?
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âIâm so happy I didnât sneezeâ â Martin Luther King Jrâs Final Speech The day before he was assassinated, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr delivered what is usually called the âI've Been To The Mountaintopâ speech because of its stirring final moments. But in it he also offered a humorous riffâŠ
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âIâm so happy I didnât sneezeâ â Martin Luther King Jrâs Final Speech
The day before he was assassinated, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr delivered what is usually called the âI've Been To The Mountaintopâ speech because of its stirring final moments. But in it he also offered a humorous riff on his having been stabbed in Harlem in 1958, as a way to look back at his life and the history of the Civil Rights Movement. In celebration today of Martin Luther King Jr Day, which has been an official federal holiday to honor the civil rights leader since 1986, it is worth reading the transcript below of his entire speech from April 3, 1968.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/19/im-so-happy-i-didnt-sneeze-martin-luther-king-jrs-final-speech/
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Audition: Three Insights about Theater in Katie Kitamuraâs novel The unnamed central character in Katie Kitamuraâs 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,âŠ
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Audition: Three Insights about Theater in Katie Kitamuraâs novel
The unnamed central character in Katie Kitamuraâs 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, including in the three passages that I excerpt below.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/18/audition-three-insights-about-theater-in-katie-kitamuras-novel/
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Prototype Festival: What To Wear. Richard Foremanâs opera on beauty and ducks. Why do the four opera singers repeat âThis is Madâline Xâ 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 andâŠ
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Prototype Festival: What To Wear. Richard Foremanâs opera on beauty and ducks.
Why do the four opera singers repeat âThis is Madâline Xâ 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 bewildering sixty minutes entitled âWhat To Wearâ? For answers, I turned to Richard Foreman, the revered and bonkers theater artist who wrote the libretto for this 20-year-old work being billed as a comedic post-rock opera, running at the Brooklyn Academy of Music only until tomorrow, as part of the Prototype Festival.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/17/prototype-festival-what-to-wear/
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Finding Dorothy Parker Review Dorothy Parker hated the theater, especially the âwretched downtown plays. The actors represent characters like âtruthâ or âpovertyâ while the audience is content to represent âsleepingâ or âleaving.ââ Or so says Jackie Hoffman, one of the four funny ladies inâŠ
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Finding Dorothy Parker Review
Dorothy Parker hated the theater, especially the âwretched downtown plays. The actors represent characters like âtruthâ or âpovertyâ while the audience is content to represent âsleepingâ or âleaving.ââ Or so says Jackie Hoffman, one of the four funny ladies in âFinding Dorothy Parker,â eighty minutes that are largely verbatim excerpts from the varied and abundant output by the witty writer known best for her quips ("Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" and "What fresh hell is this?" -- which is how, we're told, she answered her phone.) The show is "fashioned" and directed by playwright Douglas Carter Beane in an encore presentation at the Laurie Beechman Theater through January 22.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/16/finding-dorothy-parker-review/
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Hellâs Kitchen will close on Broadway on February 22, 2026, having opened on April 20, 2024
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Hellâs Kitchen Opens on Broadway
Alicia Keysâ lively, tuneful musical âHellâs Kitchenâ opens tonight at Broadwayâs Shubert Theater, with the same principal cast and creative team as its brief sold-outâŠ
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/20/hells-kitchen-opens-on-broadway/
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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 theaterâŠ
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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 artists that over the years have consistently provided provocations and delights. Still there are no guarantees. Some of these may well become âcanât missâ or âmust seeâ shows, but I donât know that yet for sure, and Iâve been burned enough times so that Iâm not using those phrases anymore.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/15/spring-2026-new-york-theater-preview-10-shows-to-see/
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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..
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12 Last Songs â U N D E R T H E R A D A R
https://utrfest.org/program/12-last-songs/
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Under the Radar: Try/Step/Trip âTry/Step/Trip,â 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 foundâŠ
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Under the Radar:Â Try/Step/Trip
âTry/Step/Trip,â 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 a couple of hallucinogenic mushrooms in his pocket. This is not a straightforward account of his personal experience. While he performs in the show, Brathwaite is just one of eight cast members, assuming the role of the Conductor, standing off to the side in front of a keyboard, while Tyrese Shawn Avery portrays a version of the character two decades earlier.
https://newyorktheater.me/2026/01/14/under-the-radar-try-step-trip/
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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
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Maybe Happy Ending Review
In forty years, there will still be fireflies, and there will still be love. But fireflies will only still exist on Jeju Island near Seoul, Korea, and when Oliver and Claire (Darren Criss and HelenâŠ
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/13/maybe-happy-ending-review/
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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)
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