New York Theater

Six albums have been nominated for the best musical theater album Grammy Award, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year that only Broadway cast recordings have...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/08/the-6-best-musical-theater-album-grammy-award-nominations-2025-listen/

“I will do my best to serve ALL citizens of Oz,” His Majesty the Scarecrow tells his subjects, having been appointed by the Wizard of Oz and Glinda the Good Witch to rule over Emerald City, w...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/07/la-mama-puppet-festival-the-scarecrow-kindred-widows-secrets-history-remembers/

“A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. ,” Kamala Harris said at Howard University this afternoon, conceding the presidential e...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/06/only-when-its-dark-enough-can-you-see-the-stars-kamal-harris-concession-speech-video-and-transcript/

Today is Election Day. You can vote until 9 pm.  (Find Your Pollsite and View Your Sample Ballot) And until 6 p.m. you can watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Martin Short, Judy Kuhn, Rosie Perez and many...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/05/election-day-watch-stars-at-the-polls-vote-a-thon/

More than a million New Yorkers voted during the nine days of early voting, which ended Sunday afternoon after a campaign season filled with more drama than any in memory. How will future dramati...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/04/election-drama-and-anxiety-maggie-smith-gavin-creel-light-dimming-dates-at-last-stageworthy-news-of-the-week/

George and Ira Gershwin wrote the songs for a trio of political satires in the 1930s,  the last of which, “Let ‘Em Eat Cake,” was about a president who loses his bid for re-election and, ...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/04/strike-up-the-band-the-gershwins-on-tariffs-and-cheesy-politicians/

See the Broadway performance schedule for the week of November 4 below. All but a half dozen Broadway shows are canceling their performances on Tuesday, November 5 — Election Day — which sh...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/02/election-week-broadway-schedule/

Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in November, including six shows on Broadway, all of them musicals — two of them about the well-known real-life Americans Tammy Faye Bakker...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/11/01/november-2024-new-york-theater-openings/

How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews during last full month before Election 2024? Answer these ten quiz questions and find out. Loading…

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/31/theater-quiz-for-october-2024/

“Nearly 250 years ago, America was born when we wrested freedom from a petty tyrant. Across the generations, Americans have preserved that freedom, expanded it, and in so doing, proved to the w...

https://newyorktheater.me/2024/10/30/kamala-harris-ellipse-speech-video-and-transcript/