{"id":268365,"date":"2026-06-16T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268365\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:02:23","slug":"what-a-week-stageworthy-news-new-york-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268365\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Week! Stageworthy News \u2013 New York Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Knicks won their first N.B.A. championship in 53 years, igniting orange-and-blue tinted celebrations in NYC streets\u2026 and on Broadway stages! The celebration will continue on Broadway \u2014 the street \u2014 on Thursday with a ticker-tape parade past City Hall.\u00a0\u00a0But the Knicks victory was just the noisiest in a very busy week, from the 25th\u00a0Tribeca Festival to the starry \u201cRise Up, Sing Out\u201d concert at The Town Hall (watch full video)<\/a>, part of a weekend full of resistance.<\/a> (And then there\u2019s the launch of the 2026 World Cup, and the Puerto Rican Day Parade \u2014 and the restoration over the weekend of the Kennedy Center\u2019s legal name!)<\/p>\n

Third row, left to right: The Rocky Horror Show, Hamilton, Every Brilliant Thing and &Juliet respond to Knicks win.<\/p>\n

The Week in New York Reviews (Tribeca Festival edition)<\/p>\n

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Hadestown on Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0A screen version of \u201cHadestown,\u201d which is currently showing at the Tribeca festival and will be in movie theaters in July,\u00a0\u00a0has one moment that is not part of the original stage musical: Backstage before the show begins, Andre De Shields leads the cast in three breaths:\u201cFirst breath is for community. Second breath is for being in the moment. Final breath is love.\u201d
It counts as ironic that that moment most stood out for me in this film of Anais Mitchell\u2019s sung-through musical, which is a recording of the 2025 West End production, featuring five of the original Broadway cast members performing alongside the London ensemble. The cast is as terrific as I remembered them, the score still a rewarding mix of sweet folk, snazzy New Orleans jazz, get-down blues and sinful soul. But something feels missing from the show I first saw Off-Broadway ten years ago. Full review.<\/a><\/p>\n

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AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About, at Tribeca Festival.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tribeca Festival Looks at NYC: Human Theories. Mario. Born to Kill. NY Making It Here Shorts.<\/a><\/p>\n

6 Tribeca Festival Award Winning Films of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

The Week in New York Theater News<\/p>\n

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The 79th Annual Tony Awards, with Pink as host, drew 5.06 million viewers, a slight decrease from last year\u2019s broadcast with Cynthia Erivo as host.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cRagtime\u201d\u00a0<\/a>will play its final performance\u00a0at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Sunday, August 16, an extension of two weeks after its four Tony wins, including Best Musical Revival. It is one of six 2026 Tony winners<\/a> that you can still see. (A seventh closed on Sunday.)<\/p>\n

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Spring Awakening <\/a>will open this fall at Studio Seaview, directed by Danya Taymor. The Duncan Sheik\/Steven Sater musical, which won eight Tony Awards including best musical, is based on Frank Wedekind 19th century play about repressed and oppressed adolescents.<\/p>\n

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Billy Crystal\u2019s new one-man show, 860, <\/a>will open at the Imperial Theater on October 21, running from October 1 to January 3, 2027. The title was the address of his home, which was lost in the Palisades fires.<\/p>\n

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\u201cStranger Things: The First Shadow<\/a>\u201d will complete its run at Broadway\u2019s Marquis Theater on January 3, 2027 (and at\u00a0\u00a0at the Phoenix Theatre in London\u2019s West End on December 27 2026.) By the time of its losing it will have run for a little more than a year and a half on Broadway. It won four Tony Awards, for its design and special effects. But those effects are a large reason why the show reportedly cost a million dollars a week.\u00a0Last week, it grossed $859,000 at the box office with 74 percent attendance.<\/p>\n

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Sherie Rene Scott\u00a0(Everyday Rapture, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) will join The Rocky Horror Show as \u201cMagenta,\u201d succeeding Juliette Lewis, beginning on\u00a0Friday,\u00a0June 26, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rosie O\u2019Donnell is returning to New York in July to present\u00a0her one-woman show \u201cCommon Knowledge,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which I reviewed at its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year.<\/p>\n

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HERE Arts Center\u2019s 2026-2027 season:<\/p>\n

Arias with a Twist<\/a>
A return of this popular show \u2014 part cabaret, part fever dream, part visual spectacle, in which Joey Arias\u2019s voice is unleashed inside Basil Twist\u2019s puppet universe. <\/p>\n

The Kick Inside
October 21 \u2013 November 7
Written by eleven New York City based playwrights, he story follows Alenka, a woman who grows awfully tired of the way that people talk to one another and begins experimenting with language in every scene.<\/p>\n

Dream Feed
November 19-22
The latest electro-acoustic vocal work from two-time Grammy Award\u00ae Winning theatrical family band The HawtPlates.<\/p>\n

See\/Unsee
March 2027
In an evening of music and storytelling, Lila Blue and their eight-piece band commune with the work and imagined life of artist Hilma af Klint, surfacing where Blue\u2019s life overlaps with that of the painter \u2013 in queerness, in love, and in loss Puppetopia 2027<\/p>\n

Puppetopia
April 2027
A springtime review of HERE\u2019s puppetry state of mind;<\/p>\n

Stone Belly
May 2027
A dance, music, and installation artwork that re-imagines myths of the Philippines<\/p>\n

The War on Culture<\/p>\n

Crews remove Trump\u2019s name from Kennedy Center, but hide results from the public (MSNow<\/a>)
The Washington National Opera sued to collect $17 million from the Kennedy Center\u00a0\u00a0(NY Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In Memoriam<\/p>\n

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Charles Dennis,<\/a> 77, downtown performance artist, dancer, choreographer, videographer, filmmaker and curator, who helped found P.S. 122<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Gina Ferrall,<\/a> 67, 11-time Broadway veteran, including the Tom Stoppard play \u201cThe Coast of Utopia\u201d and most recently his play \u201cLeopoldstadt.:<\/p>\n

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Janie Sell<\/a>, 86, Tony-winning actress (for \u201cOver Here,\u201d pictured) and seven other Broadway shows \u2014 \u00a0George M!\u00a0with\u00a0Joel Grey,\u00a0Irene\u00a0with\u00a0Debbie Reynolds,\u00a0I Love My Wife\u00a0with The Smothers Brothers,\u00a0Pal Joey\u00a0with Eleanor Parker, and\u00a0Happy End\u00a0with\u00a0Christopher Lloyd, as well as standby for Carol Burnett in\u00a0Moon Over Buffalo.<\/p>\n

This Week\u2019s Theater Video<\/p>\n

well, theatrical \u2014 the final moments of the NBA finals<\/p>\n

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