Will Brill and Thomas Jay Ryan beside the foam in Kramer/Fauci at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Photo by Maria Baranova
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: KRAMER/FAUCI at St. Ann's Warehouse

The reviews are in for Kramer/Fauci, Daniel Fish’s staging of the 1993 C-SPAN call-in show in which the AIDS activist Larry Kramer and Dr.

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 extends for a seventh time, now playing through Memorial Day weekend 2027

Masquerade has extended again, for the seventh time. The immersive staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera will now run at 218 West 57th Street through Sunday, May 30, 2027, carrying it into Memorial…

Savy Jackson and Zachary Noah Piser in Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway. Photo by Matthew Murphy
Broadway News

Savy Jackson takes over as Claire in Maybe Happy Ending

Savy Jackson becomes the full-time Claire in Maybe Happy Ending at the Belasco Theatre on Tuesday, October 20, moving up from standby.

Quarter Rican, a hip-hop musical, at the Hostos Center in the Bronx
Upcoming and New Shows

CUNY Stages Festival brings a hip-hop musical, two Fornés plays and a new-work lab to the boroughs in October

CUNY's performing arts network has a new borough-wide festival this October, and its theater strand runs from a hip-hop musical in the Bronx to two plays by María Irene Fornés and a free new-work lab in Queens.

Off-Off-Broadway News

NAMT's 38th Festival of New Musicals names its eight shows and first cast

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre has two days at New World Stages, October 22–23, and eight new musicals to show the industry in 45 minutes apiece.

Off-Off-Broadway News

PRELUDE 2026: the Segal Center's free festival of new work spreads into Brooklyn, October 7–10

The CUNY Graduate Center's free festival of experimental theater and dance turns 23 this week, and this year it spreads into Brooklyn: four days, October 7–10, split between Midtown, a Red Hook studio, a Williamsburg…

Pete Simpson, who plays Byron in The Grief Eater Near North Bender
Off-Broadway News

Roundabout completes the cast of The Grief Eater Near North Bender

Roundabout Theatre Company has completed the cast of The Grief Eater Near North Bender, a new play by Dylan Guerra directed by Dustin Wills, which begins previews at the Laura Pels Theatre on January 21, 2027.

Bobby Conte, Cathryn Wake and the cast of Copperfield! The New Musical at The Duke on 42nd Street. Photo by Jeremy Daniel
Off-Broadway News

First production photos from Copperfield! as the Off-Broadway musical heads for its October 19 opening

The first production photos from Copperfield!, the new musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, are out. The show is in previews at The Duke on 42nd Street and opens on Monday, October 19, for a limited run through…

Octavia Spencer and Angelina Jolie with City Year AmeriCorps members and staff at the Stay Gold Project kickoff in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of The Outsiders
Touring & Regional

The Outsiders teams with City Year to take its Stay Gold Project to students nationwide

In Los Angeles on Sunday, October 4, an event marking the Hollywood Pantages Theatre opening of the national tour of The Outsiders also launched a partnership between the show’s Stay Gold Project and the education…