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 The questions on straight plays about crime and musicals with queer content seem to be easier than the one on movie adaptations.

About the time period bonus question: Several of the shows accept as correct more than one time period.

How well were you paying attention to the Broadway 2025-2026 season and its April finale? Take this quiz to find out.

Broadway Season Closer Quiz

Congrats!

How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of March? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a bonus question about Sondheim.

Theater Quiz for March 2026

 

Broadway Poll for the Final Stretch

Ten plays and six musicals  are opening on Broadway in March and April, in the final six weeks of the Broadway 2025-2026 season, starting this week and ending April 26, the final date of eligibility for this year’s Tony Awards. Of these, which play, and which musical, are you most looking forward to?

Somebody got a perfect score -- including the bonus question!

Theater Quiz for February 2026

How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of February? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a doozy of a bonus question.

In a year when one of the ten Oscar nominees for best picture ends with scenes from one of the greatest plays ever written, another is about a theater actress and her film director father, and a third has a subject (and a title) that’s been on Broadway before, while several of the other nominated films feature car cashes or gun fights, it seems natural to wonder: Which of the ten movies would make the best stage play? The worst play? The best musical? Offer your opinion in the poll 

Poll: Which 2026 Best Picture Oscar Nominee Would Work the Best and Worst on Broadway

Congrats. Average is under 70

How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of January. Take this ten-question quiz and find out.

 

Theater Quiz for January 2026

Three questions:

1. The show that you are most looking forward to, among the 16 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and the end of April, 2026?

2. Which show do you most want to know more about?

3. What’s the most you’d be willing to pay for your favorite show?

Broadway Poll: Spring 2026 Show you most want to see?

The average score has gone up. We have some walking theater encyclopedias. 

The affordability crisis, fascism, Artificial Intelligence, America’s 250th birthday: As 2026 begins, the theater is not immune to the large questions about what is happening in the country and the city at large, even as the theater community may also be wondering about more short-term matters (which shows in the Broadway Spring 2026 season will be hits, which misses?) 

The ten questions are mostly provoked by the issues, trends and events that stuck out in 2025.

10 Questions About Theater in 2026

Yankee, that's actually better than the average score for this quiz, which is 59. (The end of year quizzes are often the toughest.)

How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 10 questions to find out.

Year End Theater Quiz

 

For what it's worth, here's a review

An aggregation and analysis: Top 10 Lists of Top 10 NYC Theater in 2025: Liberation is number 1

"Liberation” is by far the most critically acclaimed theater of 2025, featured in nine of the ten Top 10 lists below. Bess Wohl’s play about a woman’s liberation group in the 1970s is followed by “John Proctor Is the Villain,” “Purpose,” “Ragtime,” and “Vanya,” each of which were listed by five of the critics."

There is no competition for worst -- Queen of Verssailles.

But it's interesting that that same musical currently leads in the third question, which one did you most want to like?

Ragtime is topping the first list (Best Broadway show)