The Pulitzer Prize for Drama will be announced this afternoon, the nominations for the 79th Tony Awards tomorrow morning. In the past week, we learned the winners of the 2026 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards and of the Lucille Lortel Awards , as well as the nominations for the Drama Desk Awards and for the Chita Rivera Awards. Over the next five weeks, we’ll learn the winners of the half dozen or so major New York theater awards, culminating in the Tony Awards on June 7. (To learn about the history of each of these awards, and how they differ, and when they’ll be announced this year, check out my New York Theater Awards Calendar and Guide 2026) Partying with the Nominees
May 2026 New York Theater Openings
The Week in New York Theater Reviews
Spectacular stagecraft, thrilling young performers with terrific voices, a pulsing score by the indie-rock band the Rescues that has at least one tune I find memorable: “The Lost Boys” is a Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 hit teenage vampire movie that has little in common with the trio of disappointing vampire musicals that ran briefly on Broadway two decades ago –Dance of the Vampires (56 performances), Dracula the Musical (157) and Lestat (39.) With its reliance on special effects and its appeal as a familiar franchise, it shares much more with a trio of currently running Broadway shows: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” and “The Outsiders.”
“The Lost Boys” is, in other words, a theatrical crowd-pleaser. But it also more or less faithfully follows the movie’s mix of gore, teenage angst, and humor, with an Act II dip into comic book silliness
The Week in New York Theater News
Longtime Lincoln Center Theater artistic director André Bishop, lighting designer Jules Fisher and playwright, director and Sondheim collaborator James Lapine will receive 2026 Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement.
Mary-Mitchell Campbell, musical director, supervisor, and arranger, will receive the 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her advocacy work through the arts
The 2026 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre will be given to 1/52 Project, which provides financial support to encourage early career designers from historically excluded groups, production and technical supervisor Jake Bell, branding designer Kenn Lubin, and entertainment lawyer Loren Plotkin.
The Jamie Lloyd-directed revival of “Evita,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, will be on Broadway in the Spring of 2027, with Rachel Zegler reprising her role as ‘Eva Perón’ at a Shubert theater to be announced, but without the London staging of “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” which took place outside the theater on an actual balcony overlooking the street (with the paying theatergoers watching the scene on a screen.)
Laura Linney will return to Broadway in Spring 2027 in David Hare’s new play, “Montauk,” portraying a writer who becomes entangled with a painter.
The Public Theater’s 2026-2027 season
At Astor Place: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, HOW SHAKESPEARE SAVED MY LIFE, GOOD TIME CHARLIE, WE’LL SEE, THE VERGE, WELCOME TABLE, and ARE THE BENNET GIRLS OK?. Two free productions at The Delacorte: Public Works’ PUBLIC RECORD and Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s SONGS FROM BARK OF MILLIONS.
New York City Center season
“In The Heights, October 28 – November 15.
“Beginning May 21, City Center will make 10,000 tickets available at $28 or less throughout the special three-week run via four initiatives,” including an event in Washington Heights for $28 Heights Rush Tickets
2027 New York City Center Encores! series
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown; February 3 – 14
Hallelujah, Baby! March 17 – 28
Kiss of the Spider Woman April 28 – May 9.
