Kobi Kassal

New York

Editor-in-Chief at Theatrely

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BOOP! THE MUSICAL Will Close On Broadway

3 days ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

We could go see Boop for a few more weeks! Boop! The Musical will play its final performance on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at the Broadhurst Theatre. The musical, at time of closing, will have played 25 previews and 112 regular performances.
DEAD OUTLAW Sets Closing Performance On Broadway

1 week ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

It’s time to close the coffin on Elmer McCurdy’s Broadway journey. Dead Outlaw will play its final performance at the Longacre Theatre on Sunday, June 29. At the time of closing, the new musical will have played 14 previews and 73 regular performances. With music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, a book by Itamar Moses, the show was directed by David Cromer. Read Theatrely critic Andrew Martini’s review of the Broadway production here.
REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES Sets Closing Date on Broadway

1 week ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

You have just a few more weeks to get down to the factory. Real Women Have Curves will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. At the time of closing, Real Women will have played 31 previews and 73 regular performances. The show officially opened April 27 of this year and chief critic Juan A. Ramirez called it a charming new musical. Read his review here.
Ella Beatty Is Taking In Every Moment In SEXUAL MISCONDUCT OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

Ella Beatty has had an incredible year in New York theatre. After joining the Tony-winning Appropriate as River when the show transferred theaters, she next joined Jack O’Brien’s much buzzed about production of Ghosts at Lincoln Center Theatre. Now, she is downtown starring opposite Hugh Jackman inSexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, a new work that is part of Together, a new theatrical initiative by Jackman and producer Sonia Friedman.
SMASH Sets Closing Date On Broadway

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

It's almost time for the curtain to fall. Smash will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at the Imperial Theatre. At the time of closing, Smash will have played 32 previews and 84 regular performances. Read Theatrely Chief Critic Juan A. Ramirez review here.
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING’s Darren Criss Wins 2025 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

Definitely a happy ending! Darren Criss has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in Maybe Happy Ending. Criss beat out fellow nominees Andrew Durand for Dead Outlaw, Tom Francis for Sunset Blvd., Jonathan Groff for Just in Time, James Monroe Iglehart for A Wonderful World, and Jeremy Jordan for Floyd Collins. Criss has been seen on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and American Buffalo.
SUNSET BLVD. Wins Tony Awards For Best Revival of a Musical

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

She’s come home at last to win a Tony! Sunset Blvd. has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Reivial of a musical. It beats out fellow nominees Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, and Floyd Collins. Starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical has been wowing audiences here in New York since opening last fall. Haunted by her memories and dreams, movie star Norma Desmond yearns to return to the big screen.
PURPOSE Wins Tony Award For Best Play

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Proctor is the Villain. For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface.
Get Your Tickets To This Off-Broadway Play… But They Aren’t Telling You What It Is

3 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

You gotta catch a potential audience’s attention in any way possible these days. From massive social campaigns to wild in-person activations, folks are trying everything. But one performance is trying a different route. Not telling you anything about it! For the past few weeks, some mysterious Instagram account has popped up with the username @_____comingsoon______ and has been posting mysterious photos including balloons and an upside down wheelbarrow.
Tony Nominee Marco Ramirez On The Research Of BUENA VISTA. SOCIAL CLUB

3 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

Tony AwardsMarco Ramirez | Photo: Michaelah Reynolds/TheatrelyBuena Vista Social Club has thrilled audiences since its first performance, thanks to its music and incredibly moving story of the famed band. Marco Ramirez, who’s nominated this year for Best Book of a Musical, shares some fascinating tidbits from his research trip to Cuba. Ramirez:It delights me to remember that perhaps the most popular song on Buena Vista Social Club's breakout album was written by one of its members.