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The remarkable and insufficiently heralded David Greenspan will star as poet and scholar A. E. Housman looking back at his life and unrequited love in a revival of Tom Stoppard’s "The Invention of Love" Sept 17 - Oct 3 at Theaterlab. www.themaptheater.com/now-0
4 days after Geno Segers announced as new Hades in Hadestown, the casting has been nixed ("The producers of Hadestown & Geno Segers have mutually agreed that Mr. Segers will no longer join the Broadway production") There was an outcry about his mocking of trans people in (now-deleted) posts.
CATS: The Jellicle Ball will record a cast album to be released this winter on Atlantic Records. (The show is closing on Broadway August 8)
The Rocky HOrror Show has been extended through February 28, 2027 newyorktheater.me/2026/04/23/t...
New cast for Hadestown, starting September 1: Norbert Leo Butz as Hermes, Amber Iman as Persephone, Jasmin Savoy Brown as Eurydice, Kayko as Orpheus, and Geno Segers as Hades.
The Public Theater just announced that Oskar Eustis will step down as artistic director when his contract concludes on July 31, 2028, the end of the theater's 60th anniversary at Astor Place, and his 23 years at its head. A search for a new AD will begin this Fall.
A herd of 50 buffalo will roam through Brooklyn & Manhattan Sept 19-20 – and YOU can help bring one to life. These are life-sized puppets, from the same people who brought us Little Amal. Details of "Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi": stannswarehouse.org/show/return-...
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, was killed in action on Friday There are now 17 U.S. military personnel confirmed to have been killed in the Iran war since February 28.
A revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" starring Sam Rockwell, Marin Ireland and Alfred Molina, Nov 27-Feb 27, opens Dec 13, at La MaMa viewfromthebridgeplay.com/'
Dolly: A True Original musical will open at the St. James Theater on January 19, 2027 -- Dolly Parton's 81st birthday. Details: newyorktheater.me/2026/06/17/b...
Broadway revivals of A Few Good Men (opening October 8) and The Sound of Music (April 15) both at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont, now bring the total number of shows in Broadway 2026-27 w/ nailed venues and opening dates to 15. newyorktheater.me/2026/06/17/b...
Brad Lander is my new Congressperson, beating an incumbent, which is rare. What you should know about Lander is that he has a degree in urban planning and, before he was a politician (City Councilman, Comptroller), he was director of the Pratt Center for Community Development. He knows New York.
The new I Voted sticker You've got to 9 p.m., New Yorkers Where to vote; who's running: newyorktheater.me/2026/06/23/e...
Little Island's summer season features Julio Torres, Qween Jean's Legacy Ball, Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright Radiolab, Justin Vivan Bond, opera polymath Anthony Roth Costanzo Schedule and tckets at TodayTix: www.todaytix.com/nyc/category...
RIP Clive Davis, 94, "hit making titan of the music industry" who helped Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys. He was also a two-time Broadway producer, including the Tony-nominated "Leader of the Pack" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/a...
Three shows closing on Broadway today; The Balusters (which I will most miss) newyorktheater.me/2026/04/21/t... Chess newyorktheater.me/2025/11/23/c... Celebrity Autobiography newyorktheater.me/2026/05/29/c...
Masquerade announces a sixth extension through January 31, 2027, and a few new cast members. Long may it live! newyorktheater.me/2025/10/14/m...
Christopher Jackson returns to Hamilton as George Washington, September 8 - January 3. (from my 2016 review: "Christopher Jackson is stolid and completely credible...He gets his own rousing r&b number, “One Last Time,” but is also clearly an experienced rapper.") newyorktheater.me/2015/02/17/h...
"Paddington The Musical" is coming to Broadway. The hit West End musical adapting Michael Bond's 1958 children's book and 2014 movie, will begin March 30 and open April 18, 2027, at Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Tickets start at $69 and are now on sale at broadway.paddingtonthemusical.com.
"What a weekend, right?...It's collective effervescence!" - Tessa Thompson
Jane Fonda's 4 calls to action 1.Sign petition to block Paramount/Warner Bros merger 2.Join Freedom Summer, to support grassroots organizers in the South 3.Volunteer for the Election Protection Coalition 4.Become a poll worker (Details on the riseupsingout website) newyorktheater.me/2026/06/14/w...