Review: In ‘Wonderful Town,’ a Party for Writers and Weirdos

An awkward Encores! revival of the 1953 musical celebrates the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in the years when oddballs could still afford to live there.

Trump Seeks to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts

The president’s budget proposal also called for getting rid of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Idina Menzel’s ‘Redwood’ to Close Following Tony Nominations Shutout

The Broadway musical will play its final performance at the Nederlander Theater on May 18.

Tony Nominations Snubs and Surprises: ‘Othello’ Misses, Clooney Scores

Ensemble-driven plays like “Purpose” and “English” received a slew of nominations, while Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Idina Menzel were overlooked.

George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Sadie Sink Get Tony Nominations

The new musicals “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” tied for the most Tony nominations, with 10 each.

Tony Awards Nominations 2025: The Complete List

Nominations for the 78th Tony Awards were announced on Thursday. Here’s who made the list.

Who Should Be a Tony Awards Nominee in 2025?

Our chief theater critic makes his picks.

‘Ceremonies in Dark Old Men’ Review: A Father in Defeat

Norm Lewis stars as the resigned patriarch of two slippery sons in this revival of Lonne Elder III’s drama from 1969.

Ewan McGregor, Back Onstage, Is the Architect of His Own Folly

“My Master Builder,” a new take on the Ibsen classic, reduces a complex play to a tawdry marital melodrama.

When One Actor Contains Multitudes: An Old Form Finds (Eerie) New Life

Online, onstage and onscreen, performers are playing multiple parts. The effect of watching someone shape-shift can be both thrilling and unnerving.

You’ve Attended the Tale of Sweeney Todd. Now Hear Mrs. Lovett’s Story.

A new novel, “The Butcher’s Daughter,” imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.

Pierre Audi, Eminent Force in the Performing Arts, Dies at 67

After turning a derelict lecture hall into the daring Almeida Theater, he had a long career as a director and impresario in Europe and New York.

The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants

The endowment told arts organizations that it was withdrawing or canceling current grants just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in the next fiscal year.

Stephen Mo Hanan, Who Played Three Roles in ‘Cats,’ Dies at 78

He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he also starred in.

The Tony Nominations Are This Morning. Here’s What to Expect.

Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce which performers and which productions from a crowded 2024-25 Broadway season will vie for awards.

In Two New Works, the Power of Generational Connections

Two worlds of promise: “All the World’s a Stage,” a musical by Adam Gwon, and “Rheology,” Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s follow-up to “Public Obscenities.”

Where Can I Find a Cheap Broadway Ticket?

If you are determined to see a celebrity in a popular show on a busy night, you may be out of luck, but with flexibility and persistence, you can cut some costs.

In ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ Gary Oldman Hits Rewind

The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett’s bleak one-man play.

Broadway’s Debacles Live On at Joe Allen’s ‘Flop Wall’

The posters in the theater-district restaurant document the shows that went wrong.

My Life With Uncle Vanya, the Self-Pitying Sad Sack We Can’t Quit

What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages?

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Review: This American (Immigrant) Life

On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s dreams.

‘Dead Outlaw’ Review: This Bandit Has Mummy Issues

A truly twisted yarn about a long-lived corpse makes a surprisingly feel-good Broadway musical.

‘Just in Time’ Review: Jonathan Groff Channels Bobby Darin

Groff is sensational as the ’60s “nightclub animal” in a Broadway jukebox bio-musical that doesn’t live up to its star.

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Is Now a Broadway Show. Here Are 5 Things to Know.

The new musical is based on Josefina López’s original play and the 2002 film adaptation that starred America Ferrera.

Patrick Adiarte, Actor Seen in Musicals and on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 82

As a young immigrant from the Philippines, he had roles on Broadway in “The King and I” and “Flower Drum Song.” He was later a familiar face on TV.

How a Kentucky Man Trapped in a Cave Became a Broadway Musical

Floyd Collins was pinned under a rock while exploring a cave in 1925. That history, recounted in song, is now on Broadway.

Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Pirates,’ Now in Jazzy New Orleans

A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land.

‘Hold Me in the Water’ Review: Smitten, and Primed to Flirt

Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning “Dark Disabled Stories” with a rom-com.

No Power? No Problem. Nicole Scherzinger Sings With Bullhorn on Broadway.

The “Sunset Boulevard” star briefly entertained the crowd when “a technical malfunction on the sound side” forced the cancellation of a matinee performance.

Review: Little Adds Up in the Elusive ‘Grief Camp’

Les Waters’s production for Atlantic Theater Company is marvelously realized, despite the limitations of the play’s often maddening script.

Jeremy Jordan, Searching for Challenges Onstage

In “Floyd Collins,” playing a hardscrabble Kentuckian trapped while exploring a cave, the actor finds inspiration in the claustrophobic restrictions.

‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Review: An Origin Story for the Stage

This Broadway production delivers lots of spectacle as it winds back to the teenage years of Henry Creel, an antagonist from the Netflix series.

Pushing Sisyphean Beach Balls and Honoring Obstacles

Celia Rowlson-Hall’s “Sissy” at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, a dance-theater hybrid featuring Marisa Tomei, pokes at the boundaries between art and life.

‘Macbeth in Stride’ Review: A Leap and Stumble Into a Classic

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.