A record-breaking 11.4 inches of snow reportedly fell on Central Park on Sunday, and the shows went on — mostly: Ten of the 31 shows currently running on Broadway did cancel. A storm warning remains in effect Monday morning, nly four Broadway shows are scheduled for Monday performances (the others are normally dark on Mondays), and none have yet canceled their performances, but check their websites: Chicago, The Great Gatsby, Maybe Happy Ending, Six, They may not just be open for business but offer a #SnowDayDiscount.
Check out my Broadway and the Blizzard 2026: Questions and Answers
The Week in New York Theater Reviews
“Data” speaks to the precise moment in which we are living to an astonishing degree, and not just because of our concerns about AI. It begins and ends with characters playing ping pong! It features immigrants at the mercy of the Department of Homeland Security! The amorality on display mirrors arguments that Trump is using to take over Greenland. Some of this was deliberate: Playwright Matthew Libby has set his story in “the mid-2020s” adding that “it might already have happened” – a possibility that helps make “Data” both riveting and dispiriting
Ed Schmidt, a playwright and performer who should be better known, stood behind a table with twenty-seven objects on it, which he said were found in a box belonging to a man named Edward O’Connell. One by one he picked up each object — a Bible, a group of four gaudy neckties, a pair of eyeglasses, a pocketknife, a Nader for President button – and told a story connected to it.
“Edward” evokes Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” with Schmidt as the character of the Stage Manager, but rather than the ordinary lives of an entire town, the play pieces together the life of one ordinary man. The man, like the town, is exquisitely rendered — and fictitious
“When this is over…things will have changed forever,” Ian McKellen told me near the start of “An Ark,” staring directly at me. I didn’t roll my eyes. At first that was only because my eyes were locked into special glasses that enabled me to view a three-dimensional projection of Sir Ian, sitting next to three other cast members, none of whom were actually, physically present at The Shed for what’s being billed as “the first play created for mixed reality.”….In 47 minutes, “An Ark” spans the arc (ark?) of human life, from birth to death, with a lyrical script by acclaimed British playwright Simon Stephens
The Week in New York Theater News
Broadway in the Snow
A major storm hit New York on Sunday, delivering more than ten inches of snow, prompting New Yorkers to ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers to ask three more:
What if I can’t make it to a show that hasn’t been canceled?
Will shows offer a snow day discount?
At the links, some answers, with updates.:
Broadway at the Oscars
Several theater-related films received Academy Award nominations: Nine (including Best Picture) for “Sentimental Value,” which focuses on a theater actress and her film director father, and eight (including Best Picture) for “Hamnet,” a film that focuses on Shakespeare’s wife and ends with scenes from “Hamlet.” Ethan Hawke was nominated in his role as lyricist Lorenz Hart in “Blue Moon”
Full list of nominations for the 98th annual Academy Awards
BroadwayCon
The Lost Boys Broadway musical: First Look
Masquerade has extended through July 5th. My review.
Finding Dorothy Parker, directed by Douglas Carter Beane, will return to The Laurie Beechman Theatre for two performances on February 5 and 6. My review.
Mexodus, the musical written and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, will return at the Daryl Roth Theater March 6 t0 May 17. My review.
Music City is returning March 23 in a new venue on West 42nd Street meant to reproduce a Nashville honkytonk. (See video below of the musical’s songwriter JT Harding introducing the cast performing a number from the show.)
The Lost Boys full cast: Shoshana Bean, Lj Benet, Ali Louis Bourzgui, Benjamin Pajak,Maria Wirries, Paul Alexander Nolan, Jennifer Duka, Miguel Gil, Brian Flores, Sean Grandillo, and Dean Maupin will be joined by Ryan Behan, Grace Capeless, Mateus Leite Cardoso, Ben Crawford, Dominic Dorset, Carissa Gaughran, Ashley Jenkins, Liesie Kelly, Cameron Loyal, Pierre Marais, Mason Olshavsky, Hank Santos, Colin Trudell, Delaney Westfall and Pierce Wheeler
Cats complete cast: The newly announced “Jellicles” include Ken Ard (1982 CATS Original Broadway Cast Member) as ‘DJ Griddlebone,’ Kya Azeen (FX’s “Pose”) as ‘Etcetera,’ Bryson Battle (“The Voice” S26 Finalist) as ‘Jellylorum,’ Sherrod T. Brown (Hugh Jackman: From New York, With Love), Bryce Farris (Janet Jackson’s Together Again tour), Leiomy (“The Wonder Woman of Vogue” and lead judge on HBO’s “Legendary”) as ‘Macavity,’ Phumzile Sojola (Masquerade), Kendall Grayson Stroud (Broadway debut), B. Noel Thomas (Saturday Church), Kalyn West (The Prom), and Donté Nadir Wilder (Broadway debut). They join the previously announced cast: André De Shields as ‘Old Deuteronomy,’ Jonathan Burke as ‘Mungojerrie,’ Baby Byrne as ‘Victoria,’ Tara Lashan Clinkscales, Sydney James Harcourt as ‘Rum Tum Tugger,’ Dava Huesca as ‘Rumpleteazer,’ Dudney Joseph Jr. as ‘Munkustrap,’ Junior LaBeija as ‘Gus The Theatre Cat,’ Robert “Silk” Mason as ‘Magical Mister Mistoffelees,’ “Tempress” Chasity Moore as ‘Grizabella,’ Primo Thee Ballerino as ‘Tumblebrutus,’ Xavier Reyes as ‘Jennyanydots,’ Nora Schell as ‘Bustopher Jones,’ Bebe Nicole Simpson as ‘Demeter,’ Emma Sofia as Cassandra’/’Skimbleshanks,’ Garnet Williams as ‘Bombalurina,’and Teddy Wilson, Jr. as ‘Sillabub.’
The Week’s Theater Videos
(For a video of the full musical number, check out: The Lost Boys Broadway musical: First Look)
The cast of “Music City” perform at BroadwayCon:
The new cast of Operation Mincemeat perform at BroadwayCon
