Deb Miller

Celebrating women, love, and song with ‘Amanda McBroom & Ann Hampton Callaway: Divalicious’ at NYC’s 54 Below

What better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than with two of the greatest female singer/songwriters of our time? For three evenings this week, 54 Below is presenting the NYC premiere of Amanda...

Off-Broadway world premiere of shattering meta-theatrical memory play ‘The Best We Could (a family tragedy)’ at MTC

Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of The Best We Could (a family tragedy), written by Emily Feldman in 2018, and now playing a limited pandemic-delayed Off-Broadway engagement at New York City...

World premiere of 1931 feminist play ‘Becomes a Woman’ at Off-Broadway’s Mint

Best known for her 1943 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age debut novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (which served as the inspiration for two movies and a musical), author Betty Smith was also a devoted...

Winners of the 66th Obie Awards for Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway to be celebrated on February 27, in person and on YouTube

For more than sixty years, the Obie Awards, developed by the Village Voice in 1955, have honored the boundary-pushing achievements of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater, with informal awards...

A dazzling Diamond Series debut by ‘Jennifer Holliday’ at NYC’s 54 Below

The dazzling Jennifer Holliday, who burst onto the Broadway stage with her Tony- and Grammy-winning role of Effie in the original 1981 production of Dreamgirls, has returned to 54 Below this week with...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Jamyl Dobson

Jamyl Dobson, a NYC-based Pittsburgh native – as was Andy Warhol, who originated the well-known phrase “famous for fifteen minutes” – is breaking the clock with his acclaimed work on both the stage...

Analyzing family through photographs in Broadway’s ‘Pictures from Home’ at Studio 54

Adapted for the stage by Sharr White from the eponymous 1992 memoir by photographer Larry Sultan, Pictures from Home uses wall-size projections of actual vintage stills, childhood home movies, and the...

A celebratory evening with ‘Broadway Bound: The Musicals that Never Came to Broadway’ at NYC’s 54 Below

The third installment of the series Broadway Bound: The Musicals that Never Came to Broadway, co-hosted by podcasters Robert W. Schneider and Charles Kirsch, brought out an all-star roster of Broadway...

Roundabout’s NYC premiere of ‘The Wanderers’ interweaves chapters from two generations of broken marriages

Playwright Anna Ziegler returns to Roundabout Theatre Company with the New York premiere of The Wanderers, recounting chapters in the broken marriages of two Jewish couples – one Hasidic, one secular...

Misfits abound in the world premiere of ‘Cornelia Street’ at NYC’s Atlantic Theater Company

With an acclaimed award-winning cast and team, expectations were high for Atlantic Theater Company’s Cornelia Street, a world-premiere musical with a book by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of...

New Place Players’ intimate immersive ‘Othello’ at NYC’s historic Casa Clara

Following an extended pandemic hiatus, New Place Players has returned to NYC with a unique site-specific staging of Shakespeare’s 1603-04 tragedy Othello at the historic Casa Clara, a former foundry...

Tickets on sale now for Kids’ Night on Broadway, March 21, in NYC

Now celebrating its 25th year, Kids’ Night on Broadway – a national audience development program of The Broadway League – returns to New York City on Tuesday, March 21, with tickets on sale beginning...

NYC’s 2023 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre presented at a star-studded reception

Awards for the 33rd annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, totaling $100,000 each and payable over two years, were presented to Most Promising Musical Theatre Lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver (35mm: A...

Stellar cast delivers a potent ‘Endgame’ Off-Broadway at Irish Rep

Considered by Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright Samuel Beckett to be his personal favorite and his masterpiece, Endgame, a one-act tragicomedy on the absurdity of existence, made its Off-Broadway...

Reflecting on the wilder and better times of 1979 in ‘The Village! A Disco Daydream’ at NYC’s Dixon Place

After a sold-out premiere engagement in the Fall of 2022, The Village! A Disco Daydream, by writer and performer Nora Burns, has returned to Dixon Place by popular demand for an encore four-weekend...

Flashback to the disco era of Studio 54 with ‘Turn the Beat Around’ at NYC’s 54 Below

If you want to revisit the mood, music, and moves of the disco era, 54 Below has the perfect flashback for you on the first Wednesday of every month, for two shows per night, with its popular series...

NYC book launch for Julian Schlossberg’s memoir ‘Try Not To Hold It Against Me: A Producer’s Life’ at Sardi’s

Stars of the stage and screen turned out at Sardi’s iconic restaurant in the Broadway theater district to commemorate the 81st birthday of veteran motion picture, television, and Broadway producer...

A dazzling debut of ‘The Girl Band Project’ at NYC’s 54 Below

Broadway talent, exhilarating energy, powerhouse performances, and enthusiastic cheers filled the house at 54 Below with the spectacular one-night-only world premiere of The Girl Band Project, an...

Personal memories of love and loss in Anthony Rapp’s ‘Without You’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

When Anthony Rapp auditioned for a workshop production of Jonathan Larson’s soon-to-be smash hit RENT in September 1994, he was twenty-two years old and working a survival job at Starbucks. Although...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Jessica Vosk

The Broadway star and acclaimed singer will make her DC debut on February 14 with a one-night-only Valentine’s Day concert at Sixth & I.

Big truths and huge laughs in ‘Colin Quinn: Small Talk’ at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre

There’s nothing undersized or trivial about Colin Quinn: Small Talk, the new stand-up comedy show written and performed by the Brooklyn native – “okay, Park Slope” (one of the most desirable historic...

A fabricated view of ‘The Collaboration’ between Warhol and Basquiat at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

In 2012, writer Damian Weber published a compendium of every entry about Jean-Michel Basquiat from The Andy Warhol Diaires; they spanned just over four years, from 1982-1986. He did it, he wrote,...

Creator and producer Travis Nesbitt previews the world premiere of ‘The Girl Band Project’ at NYC’s 54 Below

A brand-new act is making its debut at 54 Below this month, featuring three alums from such iconic Broadway shows as Something Rotten, Jersey Boys, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. An offshoot of...

Will Swenson and the music of Neil Diamond dazzle in ‘A Beautiful Noise’ at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre

Jukebox bio-musicals have become a staple on Broadway, with an enthusiastic audience base of fans of the music and the stars that inspire them. The latest in the genre, now playing at the Broadhurst...

Memories of the AIDS epidemic triggered by the COVID lockdown in ‘Not About Me’ at NYC’s Theater for the New City

With the shutdown of theaters, sheltering in place, and isolation during the first two and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic came a lot of time to think. For Cuban American playwright, director,...

Winners announced for NYC’s 2023 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre

The Kleban Foundation – established in 1988, under the will of Edward L. Kleban (best known as the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist of the musical A Chorus Line) – has announced the recipients...

Migguel Anggelo’s emotional journey to an authentic self in ‘LatinXoxo’ at NYC’s Joe’s Pub

This year marks the eighteenth annual installment of The Public Theater’s internationally renowned Under the Radar Festival celebrating innovative new theater from around the world, while giving a...

Mid-century songs of love and longing from the masterful ‘John Lloyd Young: Broadway’s Jersey Boy’ at NYC’s 54 Below

Tony and Grammy winner John Lloyd Young, who originated the lead role of Frankie Valli in both the iconic Broadway musical Jersey Boys and the Warner Bros film adaptation directed by Clint Eastwood,...

NYC Broadway Week returns January 17-February 12, with select 2-for-1 tickets

Sales are now open for the return of NYC Broadway Week, the twice-a-year two-for-one offering of tickets to select performances of live theater on the Broadway stage. Produced by NYC & Company in...

Laughs and lies drive the Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ at Broadway’s The Hayes

Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Between Riverside and Crazy, written and set in 2014, is the latest of several Pulitzer Prize-winning shows to take the Broadway stage this season. Presented by Second Stage at...

Disturbing vision of the state of theater and humanity in ‘Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel’ Off-Broadway at SoHo Playhouse

As part of the fifteenth season of its International Fringe Encore Series, SoHo Playhouse is presenting a limited nine-performance engagement of Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel, an award-winning solo...

Broadway productions of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ and ‘Chicago’ set new records

At a time when the theater world is struggling to regain its audiences and to find its footing after reopening following the long pandemic hiatus, a total of fifteen Broadway productions will be...

Erik Ransom is making the holidays merry and gay!

Winner of London’s Off-West End Award in 2019 for GRINDR the Opera, his original musical inspired by the gay dating app, NYC-based New Jersey native Erik Ransom has continued his witty and incisive...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ co-star Justin Cooley

The prodigiously talented Justin Cooley, who just graduated high school in 2021, is accumulating those proverbial fifteen minutes upon fifteen minutes of fame with no end in sight! Originally from...

History-making production of ‘Ohio State Murders’ at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

This month’s opening of Ohio State Murders made history as both the inaugural production at the newly renovated and renamed James Earl Jones Theatre (formerly the Cort) and the belated Broadway debut...

Hilarious high-energy musical reimagining of ‘Some Like It Hot’ raises the temperature at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre

Based on the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love, Billy Wilder’s 1959 Hollywood screwball comedy Some Like It Hot, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe, has been named the funniest movie...

A heartwarming Off-Broadway musical adaptation of ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ at Irish Rep

One of the most beloved works of prose by Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53), A Child’s Christmas in Wales was begun in the 1940s, first recorded by the author for his BBC Radio broadcast in...

Feeling good with ‘Mark William: Technicolor Dreams’ at NYC’s The Green Room 42

A sold-out star-studded house welcomed the return of Mark William to The Green Room 42 with his latest show Technicolor Dreams, a smartly curated cabaret of songs and reflections that expressed his...

The Fled’s wildly creative and hilariously haunting ‘SERIALS’ at NYC’s The Flea

Originally created by Dominic Spillane and Stephen Stout and further developed by members of The Flea Theater’s former resident artist companies, the popular late-night episodic play competition...

Celebrating ‘The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld’ at NYC’s Algonquin and Museum of Broadway

On Tuesday evening, December 6, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation celebrated The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld with a launch party for the new book and the special inaugural exhibition of the same...

Broadway’s no-holds-barred absurdist farce ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ screams out, Oh yes there is

With this month’s opening of Ain’t No Mo’ at the Belasco Theatre, 27-year-old Obie-winning creator and performer Jordan E. Cooper made history in his debut as the youngest playwright on Broadway. And...

The arduous journey of Chinese immigrants to San Francisco in ‘The Far Country’ at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company

On May 6, 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act – the only federal legislation ever implemented to prohibit all members of a specific nationality or ethnicity from immigrating to the United States – was...

Immersive multimedia musical ‘KPOP’ electrifies Broadway’s Circle in the Square

When an earlier version of KPOP opened Off-Broadway in the Fall of 2017, it played to sold-out houses and was the recipient of multiple awards. Now on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre, the...

Christmas favorites return this month to NYC’s Lincoln Center

Celebrate the joy of the Christmas season this month at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with a selection of three of NYC’s most iconic holiday traditions, from classic ballet to oratorio...

A first-class trip down ‘Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road’ Off-Broadway at The York

In keeping with its dedication to the development of new musicals and the rediscovery of musical gems from the past, the iconic catalogue of one of the greatest composers from the early years of Jazz,...

Insights into their December shows in NYC from Migguel Anggelo, Jaime Lozano, and Florencia Cuenca

Beginning this week, two original musical productions from multi-talented Latin American artists will open in NYC. Playing December 1-3, at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater, is English with an...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with The Doo Wop Project’s Russell Fischer

A native “Jersey Boy” from Port Reading, in nearby Woodbridge Township, NYC-based singer and actor Russell Fischer made his professional stage debut at eight years old in The Sound of Music starring...

Irresistible kick-off to NYC’s annual Fringe Encore Series with ‘Made in America’ at SoHo Playhouse

Now in its 15th season off Broadway at SoHo Playhouse, the International Fringe Encore Series, this year running from November 25, 2022-January 8, 2023, is curated to bring the “Best of the Fests”...

Shakespeare meets post-modern pop and genderful empowerment in ‘& Juliet’ at Broadway’s Sondheim Theatre

In a goofy high-energy mash-up of then and now, following in the footsteps of Something Rotten and Six, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet has been re-envisioned as a coming-of-age jukebox...

Broadway stars and more scheduled to perform in the 2022 ‘Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade’ live in NYC, on TV, and streaming

Beginning at 8:45 am today the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will kick off live in NYC and on NBC TV, and will stream on Peacock from 9 am-noon. Click for details!