2026 Drama Desk Award event and winners
May 17, 2026 — Winners and honorees for the 2026 Annual Drama Desk Awards were celebrated this evening at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street). Titanique’s Marla Mindelle hosted the […]
Attention demanded with formidable insistence in this Salesman
Death of a SalesmanFeaturing Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, Ben AhlersWinter Garden TheatreMarch 6, 2026 – August 9, 2026 [extension]production site Arthur Miller’s 1949 masterpiece of postwar identity reflection, Death […]
Family style revenge in an early Shakespearen gore fest with heart
Titus AndronicusFeaturing Patrick Page, Jesse Aaronson, Blair Baker, McKinley Belcher III, Francesca FaridanyRed Bull Theater at Pershing Square Signature CenterMarch 18, 2026 – May 3, 2026 [extension]production site Shakespeare’s early and […]
A courageous mother defends the indefensible
And Her Children (A Reimagining of Mother Courage)Featuring Hailey McAfee and Julia Hoffman (violinist)SoHo PlayhouseJanuary 14, 2026 – February 13, 2026 In the 1995 movie The American President, a final press […]
2025: excavation review
Calendar year 2025 productions, events, exhibitions at which I counted, built collaborations, and supported theater and its creatives.
Water, fog, and lingering accents in a Scandinavian immigrant story of love and loss
Anna ChristieFeaturing Michelle Williams, Tom Sturridge, Brian D’Arcy James, Mare WinninghamSt. Ann’s WarehouseNovember 25, 2025 – February 1, 2026production site We begin and end this story in the fog of a […]
Memory, holograms, and history that haunt and humanize
Marjorie PrimeFeaturing Danny Burstein, Christopher Lowell, Cynthia Nixon, June SquibbSecond Stage Theater at The Helen Hayes TheaterNovember 20, 2025 – February 15, 2026 [extension]production site The Broadway revival of 2015 Pulitzer […]
A taut procedural among colleagues in a hospital break room
DiversionFeaturing Tricia Alexandro, West Duchovny, Colleen ClintonThe Barrow GroupNovember 20, 2025 – January 11, 2026 [extension]production site Barrow Group often produces in a tiny proscenium space in a multi-theater rental building […]
Passion and politics adapted from an ancient text resonates with our time
OedipusFeaturing Mark Strong and Lesley ManvilleStudio 54October 30, 2025 – February 8, 2026production site There is that clock — a gimmick or a heartbeat? In Robert Icke’s adaption of Sophocles’ tragedy […]
Glaciers, mammoths, dread and dancing, and singing to find hope in our future
The Seat of Our PantsFeaturing Micaela Diamond, Shuler Hensley, Ruthie Ann MilesThe Public TheaterOctober 24, 2025 – December 7, 2025 [extension]production site The Seat of Our Pants, Ethan Lipton’s new musical […]
Legacies of class and race and hopes on the wheels of a dream
RagtimeFeaturing Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon UranowitzLincoln Center Theater at the Vivian BeaumontSeptember 26, 2025 – August 2, 2026 [extension]production site There is a thrill to the sound of a big, […]
Mothers and children and embracing next stages
CarolineFeaturing Amy Landecker, River Lipe-Smith, Chloë Grace MoretzMCC TheaterSeptember 12, 2025 – November 16, 2025 [extension]production site Caroline The resonance of the story in Caroline, three generations and a gender divide […]
History through song, looped song, and revelations
MexodusFeaturing Brian Quijada and Nygel d. RobinsonAudible’s Minetta Lane TheatreSeptember 9, 2025 – November 1, 2025 [extension]production site Mexodus is a musical that pushes boundaries — part hip-hop tune smithing, part […]
Mourning, precision, revelations, and humor in shadow and light
Well, I’ll Let You GoFeaturing Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Cricket Brown, Michael Chernus, Will Dagger, Emily Davis, Danny McCarthy, Constance Shulman, Amelia WorkmanThe Space at IrondaleJuly 29, 2025 – September 12, 2025 […]
Women Count VIII: Fifteen-Year View of Female and Non-Binary Hires Off-Broadway
[Selection from July 2025 report, published July 30, 2025 on the Women Count report series page.] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: WOMEN COUNT VIII The Women Count project collects, analyzes, and reports New York City production […]
Magician memoirist reveals himself with a PowerPoint
ta-da!Featuring Josh SharpGreenwich House TheaterJuly 7, 2025 – September 27, 2025 [extension]production site As soon as I saw the big screen and otherwise bare stage confronting us at Greenwich House Theater […]
urban excavations 