Matthew Morrison and the cast of Just in Time. Photo by Matthew Murphy
Broadway News

Matthew Morrison Returns to Just in Time as Jeremy Jordan and Carrie St. Louis Set Final Performances

Just in Time, the only musical of the 2024–2025 Broadway season to have recouped its capitalization, will change its Bobby Darin in October: Jeremy Jordan plays his final performance at Circle in the Square Theatre on…

The Apple Boys key art. Key art by Scott Stowell
Off-Broadway News

The Apple Boys sets its Off-Broadway premiere at the Duke on 42nd Street

The Apple Boys, a musical comedy set among the sideshows and hot dog stands of Gilded Age Coney Island, arrives Off-Broadway this winter at the Duke on 42nd Street, with previews from Tuesday, February 16, 2027.

Bill Rauch, Zhailon Levingston, Troy Kotsur and Eva Price at Deaf West Theatre’s 35th-anniversary gala at Joe’s Pub. Photo by Curtis Brown
Off-Broadway News

Deaf West Theatre marks 35 years with its first New York gala at Joe’s Pub

Four honorees in front of a wall of logos: Deaf West Theatre brought its 35th birthday to New York on Monday, September 28, with One Night in New York at Joe’s Pub, the Los Angeles company’s first gala in the city.

Left to right: Laura Maria Censabella, Colette Robert, Audley Puglisi and abigail jean-baptiste. Photos by Jeff Colen Photography, Daniel J Vasquez and Annika Hansteen-Izora; jean-baptiste courtesy of Ensemble Studio Theatre
Off-Broadway News

Ensemble Studio Theatre Sets Beyond Words and lucky/bird for Its 58th Season

Ensemble Studio Theatre will open its 58th season with the New York premiere of Beyond Words, Laura Maria Censabella's play about a Harvard researcher and the African grey parrot she taught to talk, and follow it in the…

Christopher Dylan White as Target, in cow-print cosplay, in a bedroom full of plush toys in Degenerates at Playwrights Horizons
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: DEGENERATES at Playwrights Horizons

The reviews are in for Degenerates, the new play by Else Went and her second with her wife, the director Emma Rosa Went, after last season’s five-hour Initiative.

Justin Sudderth, Oscar Escobedo, Taylor Iman Jones, Gabi Carrubba and Amy Jo Jackson in rehearsal for The King’s Critique. Photo by Russ Rowland
Off-Broadway News

The King’s Critique goes into rehearsal ahead of its Off-Broadway run at the Signature Center

The King’s Critique, an original musical comedy from Nat Zegree and Eric Holmes, went into rehearsal this week, and the first photographs from the room are out ahead of its limited Off-Broadway run at the Pershing…

Cory Jeacoma as Leon in Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen at The Night Egg at the Culture Club. Photo by Andy Henderson
Off-Broadway News

First look at Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen inside the Night Egg

One shaft of light, an open pinstripe jacket, a face caught mid-thought. The first production photographs from Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen are out, just over two weeks before the new Duncan Sheik musical has its…

Billy Crystal stands with folded arms in front of a blue stage curtain beside the title 860
Special Offers

Billy Crystal's 860 sets $59 rush and lottery before Broadway previews begin

Rush seats for 860 are $59 at the Imperial Theatre box office on the day of each performance, and a digital rush and a digital lottery open at the same price. More matinee tickets have gone on sale through November 1.

Kelli Finglass in a magenta dress against a plain grey studio background
Broadway News

Kelli Finglass takes the opening monologue in Chicago on October 3

The opening monologue of Chicago belongs to a guest for one night on Saturday, October 3. Kelli Finglass, who has run the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders for 35 years, delivers it at the 8pm performance at the Ambassador…

Xolo Maridueña on a red carpet in a black jacket and white shirt with a floral brooch. Photo by Ian West/PA Images
Broadway News

Xolo Maridueña makes his Broadway debut in Buena Vista Social Club

Xolo Maridueña plays Juan de Marcos in Buena Vista Social Club for seven weeks from November 17, the fourth guest name the production has announced since August as it works its second year at the Schoenfeld.

The SIX logo, the title in white capitals under a gold crown on a purple ground
Broadway News

SIX sets its final Broadway Sing-Along for October 29

SIX will hold its last Sing-Along performance on Thursday, October 29 at 7pm, three months before the Broadway run ends.

A vast structure breaks apart in fire and forked lightning above a fogbound stage, two figures below it. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
Broadway News

Evan Alexander Smith plays Dr. Brenner for the final weeks of Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Evan Alexander Smith takes over as Dr. Brenner in Stranger Things: The First Shadow from tonight, and stays for the final fourteen weeks of the Broadway run.

Denee Benton and Jasmine Amy Rogers sit facing each other across a wooden cafeteria table in green and orange school uniforms
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

The reviews are in for School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Jocelyn Bioh’s 1986-set comedy about a Ghanaian boarding school where the Miss Ghana pageant recruiter is coming and the queen bee has just met her…

Liba Vaynberg, writer of The Blue Parts, photographed outdoors against a sunlit hedge
Off-Broadway News

Roundabout Underground returns in February with the world premiere of The Blue Parts

Roundabout Theatre Company reopens its new-work strand in February with The Blue Parts, a world premiere by Liba Vaynberg directed by Lee Sunday Evans — and every Underground seat is now pay-what-you-wish, starting at…

Key art for Imitation of Life: a woman in a wide white hat seen through a torn red poster carrying the show title and credits
Off-Broadway News

Jessica Vosk, Michael Luwoye and Charlie Thurston join Adrienne Warren in Imitation of Life

Jessica Vosk, Michael Luwoye, Charlie Thurston and Aleyse Shannon will play opposite Adrienne Warren in Imitation of Life, the new musical by Lynn Nottage and John Legend that begins performances at The Griffin Theater…

Roger Guenveur Smith, in a pinstriped suit, raises one hand at the microphone against a green-lit brick wall
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: IN HONOR OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT at New York Theatre Workshop

The reviews are in for In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the solo piece Roger Guenveur Smith has written, directed and performs at New York Theatre Workshop about the friend he met in a Los Angeles dance hall in 1982…

Gestapo officer Karl, in uniform and peaked cap, frisks Hannah against the wall of a white brick cell, her arms outstretched
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: MRS. STERN WANDERS THE PRUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY at 59E59 Theaters

The reviews are in for Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, Jenny Lyn Bader’s chamber drama about the eight days in 1933 that the young Hannah Arendt spent in a Gestapo cell in Berlin, accused of gathering…

Joey Arias in a red gown singing in front of a big band of marionette musicians on an art-deco bandstand
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: ARIAS WITH A TWIST at HERE Arts Center

The notices are in for Arias with a Twist, the return of Basil Twist and Joey Arias’s puppet-and-song spectacle to the HERE Arts Center, where it first played in 2008.

Jacob Ming-Trent alone on a wooden stage in front of tall panels projected with a green portrait of Shakespeare
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: HOW SHAKESPEARE SAVED MY LIFE at the Public Theater

The notices are in for How Shakespeare Saved My Life, which opened at the Public Theater on September 27 and runs to October 25.

Two men in black sit in a white paper rowboat beneath a pillar rigged as a mast, one holding a pole, in The Invention of Love at Theaterlab
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: THE INVENTION OF LOVE at Theaterlab

The notices are in for The Invention of Love, the MAP Theater’s rare New York revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1997 play about the Latin scholar and poet A. E.

New York Theatre Sale key art: the sale name across blue ticket shapes on a navy background, framed by artwork for Wicked, MJ The Musical, Chicago, The Book of Mormon and The Imaginary Invalid
Special Offers

New York Theatre Sale runs through October 4 on more than 70 shows

The New York Theatre Sale runs from September 15 to October 4, 2026, with reduced from-prices on more than 70 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.

Austin Scott, Julianne Hough and Neil Patrick Harris at the Yankee Stadium announcement of Damn Yankees on Broadway. Photo by Emilio Madrid
Broadway News

Damn Yankees returns to the Marquis in March with Neil Patrick Harris, Julianne Hough and Austin Scott

Damn Yankees returns to the Marquis Theatre next spring with Neil Patrick Harris as Applegate, Julianne Hough as Lola and Austin Scott as Young Joe, in the first Broadway revival of the 1955 musical in more than 30…

Key art for Broom Play, showing the mud-streaked faces of Matte Kranz and Mike Donovan
Off-Off-Broadway News

Broom Play brings two janitors and a nightly new ending to The Players Theatre

Two janitors, one mop, no brooms — and a different ending every night. Broom Play, a new physical tragicomedy written by and co-starring Matte Kranz, gets its world premiere in the third-floor loft at The Players…

Lucas Iverson, who joins the company of A Ghost in Your Ear at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre
Off-Broadway News

Lucas Iverson joins A Ghost in Your Ear as the run shifts to October 3

Lucas Iverson takes over from Harry Richardson in Audible Theater’s New York premiere of A Ghost in Your Ear, and the limited run at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre now begins on Saturday, October 3 and plays through…

Elaine Hendrix and Havana Rose Liu in performance at The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway in 2025. Photo courtesy of The 24 Hour Plays
Broadway News

The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway will honor Thomas Kail at the Todd Haimes Theatre

The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway returns to the Todd Haimes Theatre on Monday, November 2, and this year the one-night benefit is built around Thomas Kail.

Masked guests beneath pink light at Le Bal Macabre, the Halloween soirée staged by Masquerade in New York. Photo by Mark Minton
Off-Broadway News

Masquerade sets a second Le Bal Macabre for October 31, with tickets on sale now

Masquerade will follow its October 31 performance with a second Le Bal Macabre, a Halloween soirée staged on the production’s own set. Tickets went on sale on September 25.

Tina Benko and Bubba Weiler in The Holes at the Wild Project
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: THE HOLES at the Wild Project

The reviews are in for The Holes, Max Wolf Friedlich’s follow-up to Job, which opened at the Wild Project on September 22 under the direction of Michael Herwitz.

Richard Thomas, who performs Mark Twain Tonight! at The Town Hall on November 2
Upcoming and New Shows

Richard Thomas revives Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight! at The Town Hall on November 2

The Entertainment Community Fund has set a one-night benefit performance of Mark Twain Tonight! at The Town Hall on Monday, November 2, with Richard Thomas in the part Hal Holbrook wrote for himself and a post-show…

Billy Crystal stands with his arms folded in front of a blue stage curtain beside the title artwork for 860
Broadway News

Billy Crystal's 860 begins previews at the Imperial Theatre next week

Billy Crystal starts previews of his new one-man show 860 at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre on Thursday, October 1, with opening night set for Wednesday, October 21.

The New York Vocal Collective in performance
Cast Changes and Announcements

A Tectonic Cabaret names its lineup for October 26 at the Edison Ballroom

Tectonic Theater Project has filled out the bill for A Tectonic Cabaret, its annual benefit, which plays one night only at the Edison Ballroom on Monday, October 26 at 6:30 PM. Jenn Colella hosts.

Reece Weaver as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway. Photo by Jeremy Daniel
Broadway News

Reece Weaver extends as Roxie Hart in Chicago through November 1

Reece Weaver will stay on as Roxie Hart at the Ambassador Theatre for a further two weeks, playing Chicago through Sunday, November 1.

Stephanie Trudeau, arms spread wide in a red and black jorongo at a standing microphone, lit by green neon and a red backlight, with tequila bottles on a table beside her
Off-Off-Broadway News

Becoming Chavela brings its portrait of the ranchera singer to Teatro LATEA for three nights

Stephanie Trudeau’s Chavela Vargas has already been a cabaret set, a Bistro Award winner and a two-time Edinburgh Fringe entry.

The company of A Christmas Carol at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. Photo by Andy Henderson
Off-Broadway News

Andy Karl will play Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at PAC NYC

Andy Karl will spend the holidays as Ebenezer Scrooge, taking the central role in the Old Vic's production of A Christmas Carol when it returns to the Perelman Performing Arts Center in November.

Three Blue Man Group performers in holiday sweaters
Broadway News

Blue Man Group makes its Broadway debut with a holiday show at the Lunt-Fontanne

Three blue heads, three holiday sweaters, one knitted llama. That is the first look at Blue Man Group “A New Holiday Surprise”, and on November 12 it becomes the first Blue Man show ever to play a Broadway house.

Paul Tazewell, who receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the fourth annual Black Theatre United gala
Cast Changes and Announcements

Todrick Hall and Jasmine Amy Rogers join the Black Theatre United gala lineup

Todrick Hall and Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers have been added to the performer lineup for Black Theatre United's fourth annual gala, "Work to Do," at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Monday, October 5.

The company of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 on Broadway. Photo by Joan Marcus
Broadway News

The Rocky Horror Show fills October at Studio 54 with giveaways, partnerships and a Halloween costume parade

Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show has given over the whole of October at Studio 54 to giveaways, partnerships, a cocktail nobody will describe and a Halloween costume parade judged by the cast.

Will Burton, who plays Bert in Mary Poppins at Paper Mill Playhouse
Touring & Regional

Will Burton and Will Blum join the Mary Poppins company at Paper Mill Playhouse

Millburn, New Jersey has its Bert. Paper Mill Playhouse has named five more principals and the full creative team for Mary Poppins, the musical that opens the theater's 88th season in November.

Key art for 6 Out of 10, with McKinnon Powell between the Hollywood sign and a Walk of Fame star bearing his name, framed by a gold cross and cracked glass
Off-Off-Broadway News

6 Out of 10 gets one night at Theatre Row in the United Solo Theatre Festival

McKinnon Powell gets one performance at Theatre Row to tell it. 6 Out of 10, his solo show about an actor measuring himself against Hollywood and against the men he falls for, plays the United Solo Theatre Festival on…

Diego Rodriguez as Che, Rachel Zegler as Eva Perón and James Olivas as Juan Perón in Evita. Photo by Marc Brenner
Broadway News

Rodriguez, Olivas and Brown join Rachel Zegler in Evita on Broadway

Three members of the London company of Jamie Lloyd's Evita will cross to Broadway with Rachel Zegler when Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical opens at the Winter Garden Theatre next spring.

Sarah Jones in America, Who Hurt You? at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. Photo by HanJie Chow
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: AMERICA, WHO HURT YOU? at Theatre for a New Audience

The reviews are in for America, Who Hurt You?, the solo show Sarah Jones has brought to the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, where National Black Theatre and Theatre for a New Audience are presenting it through…

The company of The Cherry Orchard inside Saul Kim's glass house at the Park Avenue Armory. Photo: Studio AL, LG Arts Center
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: THE CHERRY ORCHARD at the Park Avenue Armory

The notices are in for The Cherry Orchard, Simon Stone’s Korean-language reinvention of Chekhov’s last play, which opened at the Park Avenue Armory on September 16 for a ten-day run in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who stars in the Broadway revival of Other Desert Cities at the Hudson Theatre. Photo by Christopher Anderson
Special Offers

Other Desert Cities sets a $49 rush and lottery before its first preview

Both discount routes into the first Broadway revival of Other Desert Cities are priced at the same figure, $49, and both open before the first preview on Tuesday, September 29.

Key art for Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen at The Night Egg at the Culture Club
Off-Broadway News

Marc delaCruz and Alexa De Barr join the company of Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen

Two performers join Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen days before the new musical begins performances off-Broadway. Marc delaCruz takes the role of Sakae; Alexa De Barr comes in as a swing.

Daniel J. Watts, who joins the cast of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at Lincoln Center Theater as Canewell
Off-Broadway News

Daniel J. Watts takes on Canewell in Lincoln Center Theater’s Seven Guitars

Daniel J. Watts joins Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars as Canewell, stepping in for Jason Dirden. Previews begin November 5 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

Lupita Nyong'o as A in Pre-Existing Condition at Greenwich House Theater. Photo by Jessica Kourkounis
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: PRE-EXISTING CONDITION at Greenwich House Theater

The reviews are in for Pre-Existing Condition, Marin Ireland’s play about a woman piecing her life together after an assault by her boyfriend, now running at Greenwich House Theater with Lupita Nyong’o as its first A.

Nancy Sun in Marginal Loss by Deborah Stein at the 2018 Humana Festival
Off-Off-Broadway News

Marginal Loss gets its first New York reading at the Clark Studio Theater

Nancy Sun in the 2018 Humana Festival production of Marginal Loss at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Photo by Dana Rogers The Obie Award-winning Cherry Lane Alternative will give Marginal Loss, Deborah Stein's play about…

Bernie Williams with his guitar. Photo by David Andrako
Broadway News

Bernie Williams joins the Buena Vista Social Club band as José Iglesias extends six weeks

The Yankees center fielder turned jazz guitarist takes a seat in the onstage band at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre from October 22 through November 29, while José “Candelita” Iglesias stays on as Narrator six weeks…

The 2026 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival
Off-Off-Broadway News

Breaking the Binary announces the full program for its fifth festival

Ten readings, a variety show and a closing celebration across seven nights in October, a free Lincoln Center concert in November, and a change of leadership at the end of the year.

Key art for Prince’s Purple Rain on Broadway: the title in purple neon script on a wet brick wall
Broadway News

Purple Rain sets a fan presale for September 22, with public seats two days later

Purple neon script on a wet brick wall, and a date underneath it. Purple Rain opens a fan presale for its Majestic Theatre run on Tuesday, September 22, and puts the rest of its seats on public sale two days after that.

A sun puppet looks down on a lit globe in Starcadia
Off-Off-Broadway News

Starcadia, a new immersive musical about the planets, workshops at Masquerade

Four late nights in October for a ninety-minute show led by The Starpeople, with Hamilton’s longest-serving George Washington as Saturn.

Key art for The Dog Show: Come. Sit. Stay. at the Triad Theater, four colored bands each carrying the show title with a dog’s head bursting through the letter O
Off-Broadway News

The Dog Show, a new comedy by David Javerbaum, opens at the Triad in October

Monologues from the dog’s point of view, from the former head writer of The Daily Show — and two seats at every performance reserved for an actual dog.

The Orpheum Theatre company of Slam Frank. Photo by Shawn Salley
Off-Broadway News

Slam Frank Opens Off-Broadway at the Orpheum on October 4

Previews are running on 2nd Avenue and the official opening is set for October 4. Slam Frank, the Anne Frank hip-hop satire that made its name downtown last season, is booked at the Orpheum Theatre through November 30.

Patti LuPone. Photo by Emilio Madrid
Cast Changes and Announcements

Patti LuPone, Shoshana Bean and Savion Glover join the Rodgers & Hart concert at Carnegie Hall

Six more performers have joined A Celebration of Rodgers & Hart, the one-night concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 5, taking the bill to sixteen.

Stagedoor 50: a one-night-only concert celebrating 50 years of Stagedoor Manor, September 28 2026 at Town Hall NYC
Broadway News

Nicholas Christopher and Ansel Elgort join Stagedoor 50 at the Town Hall

A one-night concert for fifty years of the Catskills theater camp that trained half a Broadway guest list, with all proceeds to the Entertainment Community Fund.

Key art for Spring Awakening at Studio Seaview: a figure in a white dress running through green woodland
Off-Broadway News

Spring Awakening names its principal cast for a twelve-week run at Studio Seaview

Eleven principals, four of them making Off-Broadway debuts and two cast from an open call that saw 2,532 performers, in Danya Taymor’s Off-Broadway staging.

The company of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 on Broadway. Photo by Joan Marcus
Broadway News

Rosie O'Donnell steps in as Narrator at The Rocky Horror Show for two weeks in October

Rosie O'Donnell plays the Narrator in Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 for two weeks in October, covering a short leave for Rachel Dratch.