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2025 Off Broadway Alliance Award Winners Revealed
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 3, 2025

The Off Broadway Alliance has revealed the winners of the 14th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off Broadway during the 2024-2025 season.

2025 Off Broadway Alliance Awards Nominations
by Nicole Rosky - May 7, 2025

The Off Broadway Alliance, an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, has announced the nominees for the 14th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. We have the full list here!

MAYBE HAPPY ENDING and PURPOSE Take Top Prizes At New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards
by A.A. Cristi - May 6, 2025

The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose Best Play of the 2024-25 season. The award for Best Musical went to Maybe Happy Ending, book by Will Aronson and Hue Park, music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Hue Park.

New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards Will Be Announced Next Week
by Stephi Wild - Apr 30, 2025

The winners of the 2025 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards will be announced next week. The awards include a cash prize of $2,500 for Best Play, made possible by a grant from the Lucille Lortel Foundation.

Review Roundup: Phylicia Rashad Directs PURPOSE By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' On Broadway
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 18, 2025

The great Phylicia Rashad makes her Broadway directorial debut, with PURPOSE by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, opening tonight at the Helen Hayes Theater. Find out how the critics felt about their visit with the influential and dysfunctional Jasper family on Broadway. Read the reviews!

New York Drama Critics' Circle Unearths Long-Lost Award Plaque
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 25, 2025

The New York Drama Critics' Circle has unearthed the plaque that originally accompanied its annual award for Best American Play, and will return to awarding the plaque this year.

New York Live Arts Presents the World PremIere Of FRIDAY NIGHT RAT CATCHERS
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 21, 2025

New York Live Arts' will present the World Premiere of Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein's Friday Night Rat Catchers, the latest creation from an experimental duo whose unconventional performative frameworks are rooted in dance-adjacent physicality.

The Best Theater of 2024: Shows that Ruled the Year
by Sidney Paterra - Dec 28, 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, New York City's top theatre critics have been taking stock of this theatre season- deciding on their personal choices for their favorite productions of the year. The season has been full of so many stellar plays, musicals, revivals and new works, both on Broadway and off.

THE TROJANS, A Synthwave Musical By Leegrid Stevens, To Premiere At The Cell Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 12, 2024

Two-time Drama Desk Award-nominated Loading Dock Theatre and Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre will present the World Premiere of The Trojans, an 80s synthwave musical adaptation of The Iliad. Learn how to purchase tickets.

BWW Q&A: Spencer Whale on KIN at Making Our Space Theatre Co.
by Joshua Wright - Dec 4, 2024

This December, experience the magic of “Kin” as Anna, an Ivy-League poet scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal trainer, fall in love. In this play, however, we rarely see the two lovers together. The story is composed instead of scenes that might otherwise be found on the cutting room floor of a romantic dramedy. Audiences will come to know Anna and Sean’s love through a deeper look into their secondary relationships: Anna’s eccentric best friend, Sean’s agoraphobic mother, Anna’s distant father, and more. Friend and family ties stretch across Ireland and New York, revealing the complexities of connection and community.

Hope for Off-Off-Broadway: How The Tank Is Defying the Odds
by Cara Joy David - Nov 18, 2024

Rumors of the death of off-off-Broadway have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (the organizing entity, such that there is one, of off-off-Broadway companies) will tell you it has more members than it did twenty years ago. However, there is no doubt that things feel dire.

The Wallis Presents LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K From Handspring Puppet Company
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 6, 2024

Handspring Puppet Company, known for War Horse and stole hearts with Little Amal, joins Cape Town's Baxter Theatre to transform Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's 1983 Booker Prize-winning novel Life & Times of Michael K into theatre.

Temple Theaters to Present IF PRETTY HURTS UGLY MUST BE A MUHf**kA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 25, 2024

IF PRETTY HURTS UGLY MUST BE A MUHf**kA, a contemporary riff on a West African fable, comes to Temple University with live music and dance in October. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

Beverly Emmons Will Receive Ming Cho Lee Award
by Stephi Wild - Sep 18, 2024

Lighting designer Beverly Emmons will be honored with the Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design bestowed by the Henry Hewes Design Awards at the 60th annual ceremony on October 21.

2024 Hewes Design Awards Winners Revealed
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 11, 2024

The 2024 Hewes Design Awards winners have been revealed, recognizing outstanding achievements in theatrical design. Learn more about the honorees.

Audra McDonald, Sara Bareilles, Alan Cumming and More Set For 2024 New Yorker Festival
by Stephi Wild - Sep 5, 2024

This year's New Yorker festival is set to take place next month, and includes a host of Broadway names on its slate. The lineup will include talks with Alan Cumming, Audra McDonald, Ayad Akhtar, Sara Bareilles, and more. Additionally, a screening of the new film adapation of The Piano Lesson will be held.

Review Roundup: CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Opens Off-Broadway
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 21, 2024

Read the reviews for “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” at PAC NYC. As previously announced the limited run has extended now through Sunday, July 28, 2024. Performances began on June 13, 2024. 

Review Roundup: THE WELKIN Opens at Atlantic Theater Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 13, 2024

Read the reviews for The Welkin at Atlantic Theater Company.

Raja Feather Kelly's THE FIRES Extended at Soho Rep
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 29, 2024

Soho Rep will present a two-week extension of The Fires, the world premiere play written and directed by Raja Feather Kelly that opened to acclaim last week. Learn how to purchase tickets.

STEREOPHONIC and DEAD OUTLAW Take Top Prizes At New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards
by A.A. Cristi - May 13, 2024

The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named David Adjmi’s Stereophonic best play of the 2023-24 season. The award for best musical went to Dead Outlaw, music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, book by Itamar Moses. The selections were made at the organization’s 88th annual voting meeting.