Deb Miller

Sharing a harrowing journey to a new beginning in ‘Walking with Bubbles’ at NYC’s AMT Theater

Created, written, and performed by Jessica Hendy (Cats; Aida; Amour) in the relatable everyday clothing of jeans, sneakers, and a tee-shirt, the new solo musical Walking with Bubbles, now playing a...

Jaime Lozano previews his upcoming ‘Immigrant Experiences’ at NYC’s Lortel Theatre and his concert residency at Lincoln Center

One of NYC’s busiest and most talented musical multi-hyphenates, as well as a dedicated advocate for the Latine immigrant community of musical theater artists, Mexican-born Jaime Lozano has some...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with The Boy Band Project’s Chris Messina

In addition to his fame as a member of the casts of Broadway’s Jersey Boys in 2005, the show’s Off-Broadway revival in 2021, and the Broadway production of A Bronx Tale: The Musical in 2016, Long...

Recipients of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for 2023

Founded in 1935 at the Algonquin Hotel by a group that included Brooks Atkinson, Walter Winchell, and Robert Benchley, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle is made up of 20 drama critics from daily...

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama goes to ‘English’ by Sanaz Toossi

The Pulitzer Prizes and Fellowships – established at NYC’s Columbia University in 1917, under the 1904 will of the Hungarian-born newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer as an incentive to excellence –...

Winners of the 2023 Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway

This evening, beginning at 7 pm, the 38th annual Lucille Lortel Awards were presented in fifteen categories to celebrate outstanding achievements in Off-Broadway theater. The 2023 awards presentation...

Riotous parody of political correctness in ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ at Broadway’s Hayes Theater

As Winston Churchill famously said, “History is written by the victors,” while the voices of those brutally conquered too often remain silenced. Offering the historically unheard perspective of the...

Dazzling spectacle with underdeveloped story and characters in ‘New York, New York’ at Broadway’s St. James Theatre

Now playing at Broadway’s St. James Theatre, the new musical New York, New York is, as its name implies, an homage to the “city that never sleeps” (or at least never did before the pandemic), as well...

NYC’s Museum of Broadway extends inaugural Hirschfeld exhibit and adds a series of free programs

By popular demand, the Museum of Broadway has announced that its special inaugural exhibition, The American Theatre as Seen by Hirschfeld, has been extended through Wednesday, June 21, 2023; the date...

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

Funny Girl star Lea Michele and 2022 Tony winner Myles Frost (MJ) announced the 76th Annual Tony Awards nominations this morning at 9:00, live from Sofitel New York and streaming on the official Tony...

Nostalgic storytelling in ‘Summer, 1976’ at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Commissioned and produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in a world-premiere Broadway engagement at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn’s Summer, 1976, directed...

Winners of the 2023 Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway debut performances

The Board of Directors of the Theatre World Awards – first presented in 1945, and the oldest awards given for Outstanding Broadway and Off-Broadway debut performances – has announced its 77th Annual...

Issues of mental health, entertainment, and exploitation in ‘Good Night, Oscar’ at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre

A multi-hyphenate of the 20th century, long before the term existed, Pittsburgh-born, NYC-trained, and Hollywood-based actor and comedian, concert pianist and composer, TV talk show host and frequent...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Badia Farha

Famous to theater-lovers (for well more than a Warholian fifteen minutes) for her engaging performances and powerhouse vocals in Broadway’s School of Rock, the 1st National Broadway Tour of Little...

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

Nominations for the 2023 Chita Rivera Awards, recognizing excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in film, as decided by three separate nominating committees, were...

Cracks in the façade of civility in TBTB’s off Broadway debut of the dark comedy ‘God of Carnage’ at Theatre Row

When Henry hits Benjamin in the face with a stick at the local playground in Brooklyn’s upscale Cobble Hill neighborhood, breaking two of the eleven-year-old’s teeth and causing nerve damage, their...

New take on over-the-top Elizabethan comedy ‘The Knight of the Burning Pestle’ at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre

With Red Bull Theater’s mission of sharing great classic stories and plays of heightened language, and Fiasco Theater’s dedication to presenting innovative and joyful productions that invite the...

Nonpareil solo performance addresses hot-button issue in ‘Prima Facie’ at Broadway’s Golden Theater

In both civil and criminal law, the Latin words prima facie, translated as “at first sight” or “based on first impression,” denotes that, upon initial examination, a legal claim has met the burden of...

Nominations for NYC’s 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards

Nominations for the 2022-23 Drama Desk Awards – the only major NYC theater awards for which productions on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway compete in the same categories – were announced...

Outer Critics Circle announces nominations for its 2023 Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

In a press release this morning at 10:00, the Outer Critics Circle – founded during the 1949-1950 Broadway season by theater journalist John Gassner as the official organization of writers on NYC...

Nominations for the 2023 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

This morning at 11:30, TV and stage star Justin Guarini (American Idol; Once Upon a One More Time) and Tony Award winner Roger Bart (The Producers; Back to the Future: The Musical) announced the...

Chronicling our pandemic times with humor, heart, and a sense of community in ‘Plays for the Plague Year’ at NYC’s Joe’s Pub

With the COVID-19 closure of theaters on March 12, 2020, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, a Pulitzer Prize winner and The Public Theater’s Writer-in-Residence, decided to put the time in lockdown to good...

Split-second timing and non-stop hilarity in Mischief’s ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre

As with its Tony-winning predecessor The Play That Goes Wrong (still playing an open-ended Off-Broadway transfer at New World Stages), Mischief’s latest Broadway offering, Peter Pan Goes Wrong –...

Perfectly balanced ingredients of heartbreak, horror, and humor in the Broadway revival of ‘Sweeney Todd’ at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Playing an open-ended engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, the new Broadway revival of the bloody 1979 musical thriller Sweeney Todd, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Hugh...

NYC’s Iconoclast Theatre Collective celebrates the launch of its latest projects for the 2023-24 season

On Tuesday, April 18, the NYC-based Iconoclast Theatre Collective hosted a celebration of theater, community, and new musical development with a party held at The Dickens – a recently opened...

Lincoln Center Theater’s anachronistic ‘Camelot’ takes the legendary magic out of a Broadway classic

An iconic figure since the Middle Ages, King Arthur still remains the subject of debate as to whether he was a fictional character or an actual historical person in post-Roman Britain of the 5th to...

Playwright Victor Vauban Júnior shares the background and significance of ‘Martin’s Truth’ at NYC’s Theater for the New City

Now playing a limited engagement through April 23, at Theater for the New City, Martin’s Truth, the latest play by Victor Vauban Júnior, who also directs, follows the compelling Summer 2021 production...

An over-abundance of corn in ‘Shucked’ at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre

When two teenagers fall in love and kill themselves because their families can’t get along, everyone agrees that it’s a tragedy. Comedy is not so universal; everyone has a different sense of humor and...

NYC premiere of ‘Emilie’ at The Flea resurrects an influential French female physicist of the 18th century

Commissioned and premiered by Costa Mesa, CA’s South Coast Rep in 2009, Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson (America’s most produced playwright of 2022-23) is...

A faltering return of ‘Eleanor and Alice’ to NYC’s Urban Stages

A series of eight fictionalized face-to-face conversations between real-life first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, spanning the years 1904-62, is the format for Ellen Abrams’...

PBS series ‘Next at the Kennedy Center’ to feature screen premiere of ‘Doña Perón’ by NYC’s Ballet Hispánico

If you missed it live and in-person during the winter of 2022, the next installment of the new PBS primetime performing arts series Next at the Kennedy Center, a multi-year collaboration between the...

Nominations for the 2023 Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway

This afternoon at 3 pm, Kimberly Akimbo stars Victoria Clark and Justin Cooley announced nominations in fifteen categories for the 38th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, founded by the eponymous actress...

Visually stunning and philosophically contemplative ‘Life of Pi’ at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre

Canadian novelist Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, an epic adventure of man versus nature, continues to have a long and successful life across continents and genres. The original book, which sold more than...

Exhilarating tribute to a legendary choreographer in ‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin’’ at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre

Now playing its first-ever Broadway revival at the Music Box Theatre, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, a rethought version of the eponymous choreographer’s original 1978 Tony-winning Dancin’ (which he also...

Myth and nature guide a destined human romance in ‘Iceland’ at NYC’s La MaMa

Presented by Overtone Industries with the support of BARE opera, the world premiere of Iceland: a re-Creation Myth – an interdisciplinary opera/theater work by composer/librettists O-Lan Jones and...

What’s good (and bad) about ‘Bad Cinderella’ at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre

Set in the “exceptionally beautiful kingdom of Belleville” (French for “beautiful city”), Bad Cinderella – the updated reimagined take by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Emerald Fennell (book), and David...

A heartrending and resonant revival of ‘Parade’ at Broadway’s Jacobs Theatre

The Broadway transfer of New York City Center’s reworked, highly acclaimed, sold-out revival of Parade – the award-winning musical drama by Alfred Uhry (book, co-conceived by Harold Prince) and Jason...

Minimalist re-envisioning of ‘A Doll’s House’ at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre

Renowned as a proto-feminist classic, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, which made its debut in Copenhagen in 1879, is the subject of a radical new woman’s adaptation by Amy Herzog, now playing a limited...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Hayley Podschun

A triple threat of the stage and screen, Hayley Podschun keeps rewinding the clock on her proverbial “fifteen minutes of fame” with credits that include everything from Broadway (Hello, Dolly;...

Exploring the formative years of an iconic American playwright in ‘Tennessee Rising’ at NYC’s AMT

Following a long pandemic delay, Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams – an earlier version of which won the award for Best One-Man Show in the 2017 United Solo Festival and headlined the...

Tour-de-force solo performance in Off-Broadway’s ‘Drinking in America’ at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre

When Drinking in America, written and performed by three-time Obie winner Eric Bogosian, made its Off-Broadway debut in 1986, it garnered both an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person...

Devastation wreaked by adultery in Japanese tragedy ‘The Hunting Gun’ at Off-Broadway’s Baryshnikov Arts Center

Performed in Japanese with English supertitles, the US premiere of The Hunting Gun, a stage adaptation by Serge Lamothe of acclaimed Japanese author and poet Yasushi Inoue’s 1949 novella, now playing...

Dark comedy of bungling killers in Elizabethan true crime thriller ‘Arden of Faversham’ from Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater

With its mission of bringing rarely seen classic plays to new life for contemporary audiences, Red Bull Theater is presenting a limited Off-Broadway engagement of the Elizabethan true crime drama...

A sensational debut of ‘The Brat Pack’ at NYC’s Birdland

On Monday evening, The Brat Pack – an all-new act starring top-notch Broadway talents Kathryn Allison (Aladdin; Wicked; Company), Sam Gravitte (Wicked), Luke Hawkins (Xanadu; Harry Connick, Jr.- A...

Hilarious and heartening Off-Broadway return of ‘Dog Man: The Musical’ at New World Stages

The eponymous part-man/part-canine superhero of writer and cartoonist Dav Pilkey’s worldwide #1 best-selling children’s graphic-novel series Dog Man (with over 50 million copies in print and...

Recent book releases on theater and the performing arts for fans of all ages

With the arrival of daylight savings and spring just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to grab a book, head out to the park, and catch up on your readings on theater and the performing arts....

Behind-the-scenes memoir of six decades in the entertainment industry in ‘Try Not to Hold It Against Me: A Producer’s Life’ by Julian Schlossberg

At the book launch celebration at Sardi’s of Try Not to Hold It Against Me: A Producer’s Life by veteran motion picture, television, and Broadway producer Julian Schlossberg – released by Beaufort...

NYC restaurants and attractions offering specials for March 21st Kids’ Night on Broadway

The Broadway League has announced that the Museum of Broadway and fifteen restaurants in the Times Square area will be participating in the 25th Kids’ Night on Broadway – an annual event in which kids...

Recipients and finalists of the Sixth Annual Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Awards

On Monday, March 6, the non-profit Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) – headquartered in NYC and founded in 1965, as an affiliate of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society –...

An absurdist struggle for roots, community, and stability in Off-Broadway’s ‘The Trees’ at Playwrights Horizons

In The Trees – a Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman Commission for Emerging Playwrights, now making its world premiere in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Playwrights Horizons, co-produced with Page...