Deb Miller

Daniel Reichard spread the love and understanding in his new show ‘It’s You I Like’ at NYC’s Birdland

Broadway and concert star Daniel Reichard, best known for having originated the role of Bob Gaudio in the Tony- and Grammy-winning musical Jersey Boys, made his return to Birdland Jazz Club on Monday,...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Jesse JP Johnson

Originally from Colorado, Jesse JP Johnson has been racking up his non-stop “fifteen minutes of fame” by doing professional musical theater since he was ten, then leaving home for NYC at the age of...

World premiere of ‘Cat Kid Comic Club The Musical’ at Off-Broadway’s Lortel Theatre unleashes the power of creativity, inspiration, and perspective

When the world is threatened with destruction by a school of twenty-one angry tadpoles with psychokinetic brain powers, Cat Kid (who used to be evil, while seeking revenge against Dog Man) comes to...

Loud and crass sex farce ‘The Cottage’ at Broadway’s Hayes Theater lacks Noël Coward’s sophisticated wit and subtlety

If you find over-the-top juvenile jokes about sex, adultery, flatulence, and over-indulgence in Scotch and cigarettes hilarious Broadway-quality fare, the raucous and vulgar new American comedy The...

Casts and songs from Disney on Broadway and ‘How to Dance in Ohio’ featured at NYC’s ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ Week 3

This Thursday’s installment of the free outdoor lunchtime entertainment series Broadway in Bryant Park featured a selection of numbers from the Disney hits The Lion King, Frozen, and Aladdin, hosted...

Four selections for summer theater reading

Among the recent releases of theater-based publications are a smash hit show from the 2022-23 season, an actor’s first-person account of his work on a blockbuster musical, a biography of a star of the...

Ecstasy turns to anger and doubt in ‘The Saviour’ at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep

Now making its world stage premiere Off-Broadway in a limited summer engagement at Irish Repertory Theatre (following the work’s online streaming with the Cork Midsummer Festival and the Edinburgh...

Three podcast series offer a variety of topics for summer listening

Among the engaging podcast offerings this summer are the latest installments of casual interviews with artists from the New York stage, a documentary series on the history of a favorite LGBTQ+...

An intimate story of one gay man and the Holocaust in ‘Chanteuse’ at NYC’s HERE Arts Center

Before entering the downstairs theater at SoHo’s HERE Arts Center, an educational pop-up exhibition offers historical information about the Nazi persecution and attempted annihilation of LGBTQ+ people...

Week 2 of NYC’s free lunchtime concert series ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ sizzled

The only thing steamier than the weather on Thursday in New York, when the temperature soared into the 90s, was Broadway in Bryant Park. Now in its 23rd year, the free outdoor lunchtime concert...

Teenage fandom gone wild in ‘I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire’ at NYC’s cell theatre

In the cell theatre’s world premiere of the zany Y2K farce I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire, playwright Samantha Hurley takes us into the obsessed psyche of fourteen-year-old eighth-grader Shelby...

Behind the scenes with the stars of NYC’s ‘Broadway Barks’ 2023

The weather on Saturday in NYC was hot and steamy, but that didn’t stop a full roster of pet-loving stars from turning out for the 25th annual dog and cat adoption event Broadway Barks, produced by...

Site-specific meta-theatrical look at the struggles of our new nation in ‘The Democracy Project’ at NYC’s historic Federal Hall

For the month surrounding this year’s 4th of July celebration, visitors to NYC’s historic Federal Hall, facing Wall Street and Pine Street in the downtown Financial District, not only have the...

Online benefit auction of limited-edition Hirschfeld prints signed by the Broadway stars

Al Hirschfeld’s drawings, many capturing legendary Broadway shows and casts across eight decades, stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishing the visual language of modern art through...

Liz Callaway sparkles in the NYC premiere of her new show ‘Screen Gems’ at 54 Below

In addition to her illustrious career on the Broadway stage, from her debut in Merrily We Roll Along and Tony-nominated performance in Baby to five years as Grizabella in Cats and acclaimed roles in...

Stars come out on Saturday for the 25th Annual ‘Broadway Barks’ pet adoption at NYC’s Shubert Alley

On Saturday, July 8, Broadway Barks will return to Shubert Alley for its 25th annual star-studded dog and cat adoption event. Co-founded by best friends and animal lovers Bernadette Peters and Mary...

Fairy tales meet feminism in ‘Once Upon A One More Time’ at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre

The hit songs of Pop Princess Britney Spears are the impetus behind Broadway’s latest jukebox musical Once Upon A One More Time, with a book by Jon Hartmere that reimagines favorite childhood...

New season of NYC’s ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ at lunchtime each Thursday in July

Hosted and presented by 106.7 LITE FM radio, the 23rd annual outdoor lunchtime series Broadway in Bryant Park opens this summer on Thursday, July 6, and runs for the next three consecutive Thursdays...

Dystopian future of corporate AI in the new musical comedy ‘In Corpo’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Do you ever feel like corporate technology is taking over your life and the world, it might not be the best thing for personal autonomy and humanity in general, and it all seems so absurd? You are not...

The 14th Annual Jimmy Awards, featuring the next generation of theater artists, presented live at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre

Tonight (Monday, June 26) the 14th Annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards, better known as the Jimmy Awards, named for Broadway impresario James M. Nederlander and serving as a catalyst...

Alex Edelman interweaves hilarious anecdotes to examine identity, empathy, and bigotry in his solo comedy ‘Just for Us’ at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre

Why can’t we all be more like Koko the Gorilla – smart, sensitive, communicative, and loving, and never a member or ally of the White Nationalists? Her heartfelt reaction in sign language to the death...

Jukebox musical ‘Rock & Roll Man’ at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages traces the trailblazing legacy of DJ Alan Freed

The latest jukebox bio-musical to hit the NYC stage, Rock & Roll Man by Gary Kupper, Larry Marshak, and Rose Caiola, now playing a limited Off-Broadway run at New World Stages, considers the...

Reckoning with teen romance, political rhetoric, and religion in the quirky new musical comedy ‘The Gospel According to Heather’ at Off-Broadway’s Theater 555

People are not always what they seem in Sharonville, a small town in Ohio, where the super-smart seventeen-year-old agnostic “mystery girl” Heather Krebs doesn’t fit in, wants to find a boyfriend, and...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with ‘Lizard Boy’ creator and star Justin Huertas

Award-winning multi-talented Seattle-based playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, and musician Justin Huertas is now expanding his Warholian “fifteen minutes of fame” with a critically acclaimed...

An illuminating tour-de-force performance in ‘Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground’ at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s

A poll was conducted by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. of Harvard University in 1962, surveying 75 noted historians as to how they would rank the US Presidents in order of competence. The results...

Shakespeare Downtown’s eloquent adaptation of ‘The Lady of the Camellias’ at NYC’s Castle Clinton

Now in its seventh season, Shakespeare Downtown is dedicated to promoting an interest in classical theater by presenting works that are free and accessible to everyone, inside the walls of The...

The Boy Band Project delivers an intoxicating ‘Boy Band Brunch’ in their dazzling debut at City Winery NYC

In their spectacular debut at City Winery NYC on Saturday, June 17, The Boy Band Project dazzled a packed house with their biggest and best Boy Band Brunch ever (and that’s really saying something,...

A rousing night of fan favorites and new songs from ‘Joe Iconis & Family’ at NYC’s 54 Below

The return of Joe Iconis & Family to their home-away-from-home at 54 Below for a five-night engagement through Saturday features a changing line-up of over three dozen of the prolific Tony-nominated...

Discovering the superhero inside in the indie-rock musical ‘Lizard Boy’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

A smash hit at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with an original cast recording that has been streamed more than three million times on Spotify, Prospect Theater Company’s award-winning indie-rock...

Thoughts behind the magic in ‘A Simulacrum’ at NYC’s Atlantic Stage 2

According to the program notes, Atlantic Theater Company’s limited-engagement world-premiere Stage 2 production of A Simulacrum, written by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath with theater artist and...

Winners of the 76th Annual Tony Awards for Broadway’s 2022-23 season

Despite the ongoing strike of the Writers Guild of America, an agreement was reached for this year’s 76th Annual Tony Awards to go on as scheduled, without being picketed by members of the WGA....

Free outdoor performances from ‘Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth’ in Times Square

Stage and screen star Michael James Scott (Aladdin; Book of Mormon; Something Rotten!) is set to host of this year’s Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth concert, to be presented in the Duffy Square section...

NYC’s annual all-star Pride concert ‘Night of a Thousand Judys’ comes to Joe’s Pub on Monday

The 11th annual Night of a Thousand Judys – an all-star Pride concert to benefit The Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ+ homeless youth in NYC – comes to Joe’s Pub on Monday, June 12, with a starry line-up...

Revisiting Oakland, 1967-68, in ‘This Land Was Made’ at Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre

Told in the format of a memory play, the world premiere of Tori Sampson’s This Land Was Made, playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Vineyard Theatre, presents a fictionalized account of a...

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Hermitage Artist Retreat with Artistic Director and CEO Andy Sandberg

New York native and 2005 Yale alumnus Andy Sandberg has recently expanded his accomplished multi-hyphenate stage and screen career as a director, writer, performer, and Tony Award-winning producer...

Fun and harmony in Vangari’s ‘Moon Tunes & Mad Things’ at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama

The mother/daughter cabaret act Vangari – Evangeline (Vange) and Ariana (Ari) Johns – has returned to their home-away-from-home at Don’t Tell Mama this week for two performances of their new show Moon...

Confused combination of creepy, camp, and incohesive in ‘Grey House’ at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre

It’s 1977, there’s a blizzard raging outside, and a lost couple crashes their car into a deer on a mountain road, leaving it dead, him hurt, them stranded, and seeking shelter in an isolated cabin...

Tony winner John Rubinstein previews ‘Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground’ coming to Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s

Tony Award winner John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God), who, under the direction of Bob Fosse, made his Broadway debut in 1972, originating the eponymous role in the iconic musical Pippin, is...

NYC’s 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards winners announced

Winners of the 2022-23 Drama Desk Awards – voted on by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering theater, and the only major NYC theater awards for which productions on Broadway,...

Winners of the 2023 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

The Off Broadway Alliance – an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals – today announced the winners of its 12th annual Off...

New beginnings for a lovable loner in ‘Primary Trust’ at Off-Broadway’s Roundabout

Surviving the childhood trauma of losing his mother at the age of ten and growing up in an orphanage hasn’t been easy for Kenneth, but he’s had his BFF Bert to get him through, sharing their thoughts,...

Broadway’s 2022-23 season statistics rebound comparable to pre-pandemic levels

The Broadway League – the national trade association, founded in 1930, for the Broadway industry, with a current membership of more than 700 – today released statistics for the first full season since...

2023 winners of the Chita Rivera Awards for excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway, Off Broadway, and film

In a ceremony held tonight (May 21) at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and hosted by Jared Grimes, winners of the 2023 Chita Rivera Awards, recognizing excellence in dance and...

Camp sci-fi parody ‘Khan!!! The Musical’ has landed Off-Broadway at Players Theatre

Now playing a limited world-premiere engagement that opened on May the 4th (be with you) at Off-Broadway’s Players Theatre, Peekskill Productions’ Khan!!! The Musical – a wacky sci-fi parody of the...

Recipients of the 2023 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

Winners of the 89th Annual Drama League Awards were announced today (Friday, May 19), beginning at noon, at the organization’s annual luncheon ceremony at The Ziegfeld Ballroom, honoring seven...

Enduring bonds of male friendship in ‘King James’ at Off-Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club

Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York premiere of King James, playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at New York City Center, follows the path of an unexpected friendship between Matt and Shawn, two...

Winners of the 2023 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

This morning (Tuesday, May 16), the Outer Critics Circle announced the winners of its 72nd Annual Awards honoring achievements in the 2022-2023 Broadway and Off-Broadway season, which, for the first...

WGA will not picket unscripted broadcast of the Tony Awards on June 11

The striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) just announced that it will not picket an altered version of the 76th Annual Tony Awards, so the show can go on as scheduled on Sunday, June 11, in a live...

Update on Broadway’s 76th Annual Tony Awards for the 2022-23 season

The 76th Annual Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and hosted by Ariana DeBose, was scheduled to air live from NYC’s United Palace Theatre on Sunday, June 11,...

Nominations for the 2023 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

The Off-Broadway Alliance is an organization of Off-Broadway producers, general managers, venue owners, press agents, and marketing personnel dedicated to promoting and supporting Off-Broadway...