Key Highlights
- Mystification?
- The leisure to dream?
- Those expansive delights have all been smashed into our current trash compactor of Political Relevance All the Time.2025 in ReviewNew Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. And yet 2025 still managed to be a banner year for theatre.
- Artists responded to the omnidesperation of our hour by doubling down.
- Broadway became a place for challenging, thoughtful, wordy work again, like Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” (which won both the Tony and the Pulitzer), and Off Broadway seemed flush with adventure, too: the A24 revitalization of the Cherry Lane opened with Natalie Palamides’s deranged clown show “Weer”; Hugh Jackman and Sonia Friedman produced provocative relationship dramas at the Minetta Lane; and Jerry Lieblich’s enchantingly bizarre “The Barbarians,” at La MaMa, included my favorite conversation of the year .
