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What to see on Broadway, August 2026

As the summer winds down, several shows are Broadway close as the fall slate begins to start previews. Closing the weekend of 8/8-9 are *Cats*, *Death of a Salesman* and *Every Brilliant Thing*. The following week seeing the closing of *Ragtime* and the month ends with the closing of the long-running *Moulin Rouge*.  Holdovers, but […]

How to Rush a Broadway Show

The Insider’s Guide to Broadway Rush Tickets Tickets to Broadway shows can be expensive. For the 2025-26 Broadway season, which just concluded, the average ticket price was $131. That figure might seem low if you’ve shopped for tickets to the hottest shows you just watched perform on the Tony Awards—but the average includes the many […]

The Sad State of the Broadway Musical

For a brief moment, all 41 Broadway theaters were occupied, playing the latest plays and musicals, as we got closer to the TONY awards ceremony on June 5. But the season has not been a healthy one and the closings have begun. This past weekend, *Beaches* played their last performance. We’ve already had the closing […]

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  • The Loudest ‘Seagull’ Is Almost Entirely Silent August 21, 2026
    Performed in Flemish Sign Language, “[seagull]” revisits Anton Chekhov’s play with a cast of hearing and deaf actors. Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, met with the play’s director and lead actress at the Edinburgh International Festival.
    Helen Shaw, Léo Hamelin and Fraser Rice
  • ‘Les Miz’ Offers a Lifeline to a Battered Theater Industry August 20, 2026
    Regional theaters can once again produce “Les Misérables” because a national tour has ended. One veteran actor called the popular show “an instant moneymaker.”
    Michael Paulson and Roger Kisby
  • J.T. Harding on Crafting the Hits of ‘Music City’ August 20, 2026
    The Nashville songsmith J.T. Harding gives the lowdown on writing with Keith Urban, Uncle Kracker, Shane McAnally and more.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli
  • How to Make Sense of 4,000 Edinburgh Shows: Just Soak It All Up August 20, 2026
    From 60-minute plays to marathon dramas, surviving the festival and the Fringe isn’t about finding a common thread — it’s about surrendering to the chaos.
    Helen Shaw
  • Wagner Moura Puts Us on Trial in Edinburgh August 19, 2026
    Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, is in Scotland for the Edinburgh International Festival. For her, Christiane Jatahy’s modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” was a difficult but valuable theater experience.
    Helen Shaw, Léo Hamelin, Sutton Raphael and Fraser Rice
You've read S. E. Hinton's book, you've seen Francis Ford Coppola's film, now see the stirring musical adaptation. Folk showtunes by Jamestown Revival give new life to the story about teenage street gangsters finding hope and brotherhood in a world that rejects them.
This Tony Award-winning pop musical gives 16th-century drama a 21st-century feminist twist. The six wives of Henry VIII become a fierce girl group who take back their crowns and rewrite their histories in the style of a rousing arena concert.
A unique, contemporary rom-com that won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Musical, *Maybe Happy Ending* follows two robots who meet, connect, and maybe fall in love, getting a second shot at life after the world has deemed them obsolete.
Join the circle of life at this stage adaptation of the beloved Disney film, on Broadway for 25 years and counting. Awe-inspiring puppetry and timeless songs like "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" bring alive the story of a lion cub growing up to take his rightful place as a leader.