An Interactive Tracker of Broadway Closing Dates

Collage of seven Playbills held up inside Broadway theatres: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, Ragtime, Oh Mary!, The Lost Boys, The Book of Mormon, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Aladdin.

Broadway closing dates will not sit still. Cats: The Jellicle Ball was booked into January and closed August 8. Titaníque was supposed to be gone in July and now runs through September 20. The Gazillion Bubble Show announced a final performance after 19 years, then changed its mind and extended into 2027 so it could celebrate its 20th anniversary instead.

So, I built a tracker.

It is one page: every Broadway show plus the Off-Broadway runs worth planning a trip around, roughly 70 productions at any given time. Each card shows the date that matters. A white date is an announced final performance, with a countdown that recalculates every time you open the page. A green date means the run is open-ended, and what you see is how far out tickets are on sale. That green date is a floor, not a closing; long runners like Hamilton and Wicked roll their booking windows forward every few weeks.

Shows that run a digital lottery or day-of rush are badged, and you can search by show, venue, or actor. Every date links to its source, so you can check my work before you buy anything. If you want to actually play those lotteries, here is how we saw 31 Broadway shows for about $47 a ticket.

I refresh it weekly, and each date gets verified against the show’s own site or its ticketing platform before it changes. The snapshot date at the top tells you how fresh the data is.

Where we eat and drink before a show:

3 Actually Good Restaurants Near Milan Centrale (2026)

The facade of Milano Centrale station in Milan, Italy

Last updated August 2026

The three best places to eat near Milano Centrale between trains are Osteria Italiana (six minutes’ walk, classic Italian, opens at 11:00), Berberè Pizzeria Centrale (eight minutes’ walk, sourdough pizza, opens at noon) and Bistrot Milano Centrale, a small food hall you can reach without leaving the station. Here is how to choose between them on a tight connection.

The authors standing together on a street in Milan on a sunny afternoon

Us in Milano.

We have been in this exaction situation more times than you can count. This list steers you away from the touristy restaurant strip right outside of Milano Centrale, the restaurants with laminated menus in 15 difference languages, and avoids the international fast food chains serving exactly what you would eat at home in the train station.

I would note, however, if you have more time and are just eating near Milano Centrale, there are better restaurants. They just aren’t ideal for a meal between trains!

Quick Comparison

  Walk from Centrale Opens Price Best for
Osteria Italiana 6 min 11:00 €€ An early lunch, a first trip to Italy, a long menu of the classics
Berberè Pizzeria Centrale 8 min 12:00 €€ Sourdough pizza and a room full of Milanese students, if you have 2 hours
Bistrot Milano Centrale Inside the station 6:00 €–€€ Under an hour, an early train, or when you cannot face moving your bags

Under 1 hour between trains → Bistrot Milano Centrale, inside the station.

2 hours or more, and it is after noon → Berberè Pizzeria Centrale.

2 hours or more, arriving before noon, or you want a proper sit-down meal → Osteria Italiana.

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An Interactive Photo Map of Conrad Rangali Island

Aerial view of Maldives atolls from a seaplane window, titled Rangali Island, an interactive photo map of the Conrad Maldives

We have stayed at Conrad Rangali Island four times now, and I have written about it here in pieces: the resort review, dinner underwater at Ithaa, the wine cellar, fifteen things I wish someone had told me first. What I never had was a way to show the whole island at once.

So here it is.

The map is satellite imagery of both islands with 25 places pinned on it. Click a pin and you get our photos of that exact spot, 171 of them, all captioned. There are 13 videos in there too, including a full walkthrough of Grand Water Villa 418 and one of the sunset water villas. Videos only load if you ask for one, so clicking through the photos stays quick.

None of it is a press photo. If you are deciding between a sunrise villa and a sunset villa, or you want to know how far Ithaa really is from the beach, or what the walk over to Vilu looks like at six in the morning, that is what this is for.

Everything else I have written about the Maldives:

And the stops we made on the way there and back:

I Used Emirates Dubai Connect on an 11-Hour Layover — An Honest Review

Dubai skyline seen on an Emirates layover between the Maldives and New York

I travel to the Maldives once a year from New York, often through Dubai. I almost always have an 11-hour overnight layover in Dubai flying home. My flight usually arrives at 9:30 PM, and my NY flight departs at 8:30 AM. I have flown this exact Maldives–Dubai–New York routing annually since 2020. I used Dubai Connect in November 2025, flying Emirates Economy from Malé to New York via Dubai.

The routing is always the same: out of New York with a stop in the Emirates Lounge at JFK, on to the Conrad Rangali, and back the same way. If your layover lands at a more civilized hour than mine, I have written separately about what to do on a Dubai layover.

This Dubai Connect review covers how to book it, who qualifies, how to use it, and what you can realistically expect from Emirates’ free layover hotel.

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A Culinary Journey Through Baku: Traditional Azerbaijani Foods to Try

Four folded qutab flatbreads on a blue plate, two filled with herbs and two topped with purple sumac

Baku, Azerbaijan (read my post about it here). I almost skipped a food tour. I was late planning, and I only found one option online. I booked it a few days in advance. Very unlike me. This turned out to be a fantastic idea, and took us on an Azeri culinary journey through Baku, trying all sorts of traditional Azerbaijani foods that we would never have discovered on our own. This post describes our food tour, and the delicious Azerbaijani foods we sampled.

Baku, Azerbaijan at dusk, with the illuminated Flame Towers rising above a fountain and park

Baku, Azerbaijan.

STOP ONE: A TRADITIONAL AZERBAIJANI DINNER

After meeting our guide in front of a KFC (yes, the US fried chicken chain) near Nizami Park, we jumped right into dinner at an approachable restaurant serving traditional Azerbaijani foods. Fisincan Restoran was our destination. The exterior reminded me a bit of a 1990s Parisian restaurant, with the interior featuring traditional tablecloths, but the ceiling full of plastic flowers popular with the Instagram crowd.

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