New York theater

Now that the 2024-25 theater season has begun to wind down and awards are being handed out weekly, let’s take a look at a few of the most nominated Broadway shows to see if they’re worth checking out. The Tonys...

Tony Award Nominations for the 2024-25 New York Theater season were announced yesterday, May 1. And while many nominations were predicted and expected, there were not only some notable omissions, but also some surprising differences from the Drama Desk nominations...

Yesterday, April 30, the official end of 2024-25 New York theater season, the Drama Desk announced its nominations for the 69th Drama Desk Awards, which will be held on June 1 at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The...

**½ /***** (two and a half stars out of five) There’s a point late in Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor is the Villain—now in its Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre—when four high school girls engage in a sort of primal...

Most critics considered it far too esoteric for mainstream audiences, and unlikely to move to Broadway, but it has now transferred gloriously

A modern, somewhat interactive, minimalist interpretation come to New York from London’s Donmar Warehouse

**½ / ***** (two and a half stars out of five) Lennox Mutual—a new experimental and immersive theater piece from “alternate reality theater” company Candle House Collective—invites its audience to inhabit its singular world, one member at a time. Experienced...

****/***** (four out of five stars) There is no place quite like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and no people who know it quite as intimately as the hundreds of security guards who pace its marble and wood floors—and who...

April in New York in the theater world is the busiest time of all, with new shows opening at a rate of several per week, as producers try to launch their shows before the end-of-month deadlines for Tony Award nominations...