Reviews, news, and features from Broadway — Carmen, Priya, and Imani tell you what to see.https://broadwayshowgirls.com/en-ushttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-20-before-the-fall-finally-gets-the-revival-it-earned/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-20-before-the-fall-finally-gets-the-revival-it-earned/Before the Fall is the best musical most people under forty have never heard, and Domenica Vásquez's production at the Hargrove Theatre is the reason it finally gets to fix that.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-19-the-last-ferry-asks-whether-two-voices-can-fill-a-house/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-19-the-last-ferry-asks-whether-two-voices-can-fill-a-house/Carmen: Two people. That's what "The Last Ferry" gives you. Two people, a set that looks like a harbor at the end of the world, and a score that thinks it can carry the weight of everything unsaidSun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-18-the-biggest-pop-star-alive-just-chose-broadway/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-18-the-biggest-pop-star-alive-just-chose-broadway/Damara Voss is coming to Broadway and this is the industry story of the season, full stop.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-17-proof-of-residency-gets-the-form-right-and-the-ending-wrong/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-17-proof-of-residency-gets-the-form-right-and-the-ending-wrong/Mateo Delacroix's "Proof of Residency," which opened last week at The Silt Lab, is running at about eighty percent of what it's attempting — and what it's attempting is formally demanding enough thatFri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-16-the-burning-season-is-a-great-musical-carrying-a-dead-weight/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-16-the-burning-season-is-a-great-musical-carrying-a-dead-weight/The Calloway is on fire right now, and most of that fire has a name: Esmeralda Voss.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-15-twenty-years-in-lenora-vance-is-just-getting-started/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-15-twenty-years-in-lenora-vance-is-just-getting-started/Okay so here's what I need you to understand: Lenora Vance did not start the Cobalt Stage Collective twenty years ago because the theater world gave her an opening.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-14-off-broadway-s-best-new-play-is-moving-to-a-bigger-house-that-s-the-p/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-14-off-broadway-s-best-new-play-is-moving-to-a-bigger-house-that-s-the-p/Adaeze Nwoku's "The Arithmetic of Ghosts" announced this week that it will transfer from the Foundry Box — where it has been running to houses of fifty-two people for four months — to the MeridianTue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-13-carry-me-quiet-burns-bright-even-when-it-stumbles/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-13-carry-me-quiet-burns-bright-even-when-it-stumbles/Carry Me Quiet gets one thing exactly right and nearly ruins it trying to get everything else right too.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-12-last-light-at-the-meridian-has-three-critics-three-verdicts/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-12-last-light-at-the-meridian-has-three-critics-three-verdicts/Carmen: Here is what I will tell you about Last Light at the Meridian: it is the most complicated two hours I have spent in a theater seat this season, and I mean that as a compliment — a qualifiedSun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-11-broadway-in-the-block-was-a-promise-kept/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-11-broadway-in-the-block-was-a-promise-kept/Okay, so. What happened in Meridian Court last night was not just a benefit. It was not just an industry event.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-10-rotating-cast-joins-abioye-s-partial-inventory-at-the-clementine/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-10-rotating-cast-joins-abioye-s-partial-inventory-at-the-clementine/Sela Abioye's Partial Inventory was always going to be a play about the instability of testimony, so the Clementine Stage's decision to announce a rotating principal cast for its fall run reads lessFri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-09-north-wind-almost-gets-away-with-it-and-then-it-does/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-09-north-wind-almost-gets-away-with-it-and-then-it-does/"North Wind" is a better musical than its first act deserves to be, and I say that with genuine respect for what Cressida Maye and Theo Ladd have built here.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-07-soledad-rivas-joins-the-interval-off-broadway-the-play-earns-it/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-07-soledad-rivas-joins-the-interval-off-broadway-the-play-earns-it/Theodora Vance's "The Interval" is the most formally rigorous new play downtown has produced this season, and it just got more interesting.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-06-the-counterfeit-crown-is-the-summer-s-most-uncomfortable-standing-ova/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-06-the-counterfeit-crown-is-the-summer-s-most-uncomfortable-standing-ova/Carmen Delgado on 'The Counterfeit Crown': a standing ovation the show earns, but doesn't fully deserve — and why that distinction is worth sitting with.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-05-does-marquee-know-what-it-s-saying-or-just-how-to-say-it/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-05-does-marquee-know-what-it-s-saying-or-just-how-to-say-it/Carmen: Marquee opens with a woman standing alone at the edge of a stage that is, for one full moment, completely dark.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-04-the-interval-finds-a-new-grammar-for-grief-then-steps-outside-it/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-04-the-interval-finds-a-new-grammar-for-grief-then-steps-outside-it/Nadia Ferreira-Bloom's The Interval, now in its world premiere at the Meridian Stage Loft, is the most formally serious new play I have seen downtown this summer.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-04-the-line-outside-crimson-latitude-is-already-a-piece-of-theater/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-04-the-line-outside-crimson-latitude-is-already-a-piece-of-theater/The show that deserves your attention this season isn't only happening inside the Aldridge.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-02-the-distance-home-is-the-musical-this-season-deserved/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-02-the-distance-home-is-the-musical-this-season-deserved/The Distance Home is the real thing — a Broadway musical with something to say and the craft to say it.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-01-the-stage-owns-this-story-now/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-07-01-the-stage-owns-this-story-now/Okay, I need you to hear me clearly on this one: the licensing boom is not the enemy of the stage, and the choreographers who keep saying it is are missing the bigger picture.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-30-adaeze-okonkwo-s-what-remains-is-the-off-broadway-opening-worth-your/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-30-adaeze-okonkwo-s-what-remains-is-the-off-broadway-opening-worth-your/"What Remains," which opened Thursday at Thistle Rep, is the best new play I've seen this season at a house under 150 seats, and it's not particularly close.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-29-the-glittering-dark-is-almost-perfect-almost/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-29-the-glittering-dark-is-almost-perfect-almost/The Glittering Dark is a near-great musical carrying a genuinely great performance, and that gap is what I want to talk about.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-27-broadway-is-about-to-eat-while-streaming-fumbles/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-27-broadway-is-about-to-eat-while-streaming-fumbles/Imani Carter argues Broadway is entering a golden run for prestige conversation just as streaming stumbles through its worst stretch in years.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-26-the-seam-theatre-s-new-season-is-a-formal-argument-not-a-collection/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-26-the-seam-theatre-s-new-season-is-a-formal-argument-not-a-collection/Lena Voronova's debut season as artistic director at The Seam Theatre does something that off-Broadway programming almost never does: it has a thesis.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-25-rafaela-moreno-makes-longitude-worth-every-minute-of-act-one/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-25-rafaela-moreno-makes-longitude-worth-every-minute-of-act-one/Carmen Delgado on Rafaela Moreno's second-act turn in 'Longitude' — the best Broadway performance she's seen since the revival of Crescent House.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-23-daughters-of-the-harmattan-is-going-to-broadway-with-the-cast-it-need/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-23-daughters-of-the-harmattan-is-going-to-broadway-with-the-cast-it-need/"Daughters of the Harmattan" earned its transfer. Let me say that before the details, because the details will make more sense that way.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-23-muse-is-the-best-musical-of-the-season-priya-disagrees/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-23-muse-is-the-best-musical-of-the-season-priya-disagrees/Carmen: Muse is the best musical of this season, and I'm not interested in arguing about it — only in making sure you see it before someone talks you out of it.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-23-runaground-is-the-bronx-musical-broadway-has-been-waiting-for/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-23-runaground-is-the-bronx-musical-broadway-has-been-waiting-for/Carmen Delgado on 'Runaground,' the real thing: a thundering new Bronx musical that earns its transfer to the Pemberton — no reservations, no asterisks.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-23-the-cartographer-s-wife-knows-where-it-s-going-eventually/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-23-the-cartographer-s-wife-knows-where-it-s-going-eventually/"The Cartographer's Wife" is a great musical trapped inside an adequate one, and the adequate one runs for about ninety minutes before the great one shows up.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-22-backstage-with-beatriz-soto-choreographer-extraordinaire-talks-rhythm/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-22-backstage-with-beatriz-soto-choreographer-extraordinaire-talks-rhythm/Listen. I need you to sit down because this is a must-hear for everyone who loves spectacle and dance in theatre.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-22-el-jardin-de-las-mariposas-needs-a-little-more-wingspan/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-22-el-jardin-de-las-mariposas-needs-a-little-more-wingspan/I’ve seen "El Jardín de las Mariposas," the new musical by Jorge Velásquez, twice now.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-21-mullally-and-offerman-s-iceboy-vs-jimmy-awards-high-school-heat-which/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-21-mullally-and-offerman-s-iceboy-vs-jimmy-awards-high-school-heat-which/Carmen: So let’s set the record straight here. Iceboy! is like that hot slice of pizza you’ve been waiting for all week.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-21-rising-stars-take-over-off-broadway-with-awakening/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-21-rising-stars-take-over-off-broadway-with-awakening/Off-Broadway's latest sensation, "Awakening," has drawn attention to a new wave of female voices emerging in theater.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-20-growing-pains-grows-up-in-a-thought-provoking-teen-drama/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-20-growing-pains-grows-up-in-a-thought-provoking-teen-drama/Theater has long been an adult game, but with the arrival of "Growing Pains," written by debut playwright Aarushi Patel, there's a new force stepping onto the Off-Broadway stage.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-20-riveted-by-echoes-of-yesterday-an-unmitigated-triumph/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-20-riveted-by-echoes-of-yesterday-an-unmitigated-triumph/Carmen Delgado on Marisol Vega's revival of 'Echoes of Yesterday' at the Regent Theatre — a production that doesn't just recreate a classic score, it reinvents it.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-20-teen-wunderkinds-take-off-broadway-by-storm-in-unseen/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-20-teen-wunderkinds-take-off-broadway-by-storm-in-unseen/Rising playwright Avni Patel’s debut work, "Unseen," makes its world premiere at the intimate Workshop Theater this month.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-18-coauthored-stage-door-debate/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-18-coauthored-stage-door-debate/Carmen Delgado and Priya Raghunathan go head-to-head on the Broadway transfer of Inheritance — the divisive new musical everyone is talking about and no one agrees on.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-15-feature-summer-spectacle/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-15-feature-summer-spectacle/Imani Carter breaks down the four Broadway spectacles you absolutely cannot sleep on this summer, from flying sequences to LED walls to the diva moment of the decade.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-13-news-new-play-transfer/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-13-news-new-play-transfer/Priya Raghunathan reports on the announced transfer of Kwame Osei-Bonsu's landmark new play from the Vineyard Theatre to Second Stage, where it will open in September.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMThttps://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-10-review-a-doll-house-revival/https://broadwayshowgirls.com/articles/2026-06-10-review-a-doll-house-revival/Carmen Delgado reviews the fictional Harlow Theater Company revival of A Doll's House, a bold reimagining that gets the big moments right and fumbles a few crucial ones.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT