June Squibb (Photo: Joan Marcus) Marjorie Prime By David Schultz on December 31, 2026 What would it be like to conjure up a long-deceased family member and talk to them again in the twilight of your years? With Marjorie Prime, now at the Hayes, playwright Jordan Harrison has just done it, twice actually. Premiering originally…
Amber Gray, Matthew Broderick (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Tartuffe By Fern Siegel on December 26, 2025 Tartuffe, Moliere’s 17th-century farce about wealthy French people easily deluded by a religious hypocrite and moral reprobate, speaks to every age. Lucas Hnath’s new adaptation, now off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop, utilizes more modern language, but the message…
Michelle Williams (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Anna Christie By Deirdre Donovan St. Ann’s Warehouse revives Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Anna Christie with Michelle Williams inhabiting one of the most formidable roles in the American canon, under the assured direction of Thomas Kail. Set against the Brooklyn waterfront and supported by a distinguished ensemble including Tom Sturridge,…
Paloma Garcia-Lee, Jess Leprotto (Photo: Bjorn Bolinder) Gotta Dance! with American Dance Machine By Matthew Rolandon December 5, 2025 “The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.”…
Laurie Metcalf, Micah Stock (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Little Bear Ridge Road By David Schultz on December 4, 2026 Playwright Samuel D. Hunter makes his Broadway debut with this play that originally premiered last year at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Little Bear Ridge Road takes place in Idaho, somewhere on the outskirts of Troy, a desolate…
Patrick Page, Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet, Jake Berne, Kristin Nielsen (Photo: Joan Marcus) Archduke By Fern Siegel on December 2, 2025 The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 had cataclysmic results — Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia — and unleashed the carnage known as WWI. The assassination was carried out by 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, aided…
The cast of Initiative (Photo: Joan Marcus) Initiative By Deirdre Donovan on December 2, 2025 Initiative sweeps through four tumultuous years in a nowhere town on the California coast, where seven teenagers cling to one another as they stumble into friendship, first love, and the aching question of who they’re allowed to become. Guided with…
Aaron Tveit and the cast of Chess (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Chess By Deirdre Donovan on November 25, 2025 In its sweeping Broadway revival, Chess transforms a Cold War standoff into a pulse-pounding triangle of power, love, and betrayal. With Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher at its center, Michael Mayer’s new production turns the…
Mark Strong, Lesley Manville (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Oedipus By Deirdre Donovan on November 21, 2025 Robert Icke’s Olivier Award–winning Oedipus arrives on Broadway as a sleek, nerve-jangling thriller, propelled by Mark Strong and Lesley Manville reprising their celebrated West End roles. Set on a tense national election night where every revelation threatens to upend the…
Christiani Pitts, Sam Tutty (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) By Matthew Roland on November 21, 2025 Transferring from a successful run on the West End and the first fully original Broadway musical of the 2025–2026 season, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” tells the story of an…