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Jefferson Mays’ one-man virtual sensation ‘A Christmas Carol’ is even better on Broadway

Deb Miller 2022-11-21

When theaters were shut down by COVID-19 in 2020, Tony-winning actor Jefferson Mays and director Michael Arden brought their one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved 1848 holiday classic A...

Mint’s Off-Broadway American debut of Noël Coward’s ‘The Rat Trap’ examines gender inequality in the imploding marriage of two writers

Deb Miller 2022-11-21

Written by budding eighteen-year-old English actor and playwright Noël Coward in 1918, The Rat Trap, a four-act drawing-room drama that takes a proto-feminist look at the subordination of women in...

Off-Broadway premiere of ‘Sandra’ at the Vineyard is an implausible mystery that lacks a climactic thrill

Deb Miller 2022-11-20

The Off-Broadway debut of Sandra at Vineyard Theatre launches its 40th season and marks the highly anticipated reunion of playwright David Cale and director Leigh Silverman, the team from the multiple...

Family-friendly fun under the big top with ‘Circus Vazquez’ at NY’s Citi Field

Deb Miller 2022-11-19

Founded in Mexico City in 1969, the four-generations-old Circus Vazquez is now celebrating twenty years of performing in NYC since its first appearance in 1993, with an international cast of acrobats,...

Off-Broadway premiere of dark surreal comedy ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing’ mines absurdist humor from mounds of angst

Deb Miller 2022-11-16

In The New Group’s production of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, the latest Off-Broadway premiere from playwright Will Arbery (a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his award-winning Heroes of the Fourth...

Staying afloat with laughter in ‘Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool’ at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater

Deb Miller 2022-11-16

What’s so funny about aging, illness, mortality, a highly chlorinated pool at the YMCA, and a naked old man in the locker room? Plenty, if you’re award-winning entertainer Mike Birbiglia. Back on...

David Leopold discusses his new book on Hirschfeld and inaugural exhibition at NYC’s Museum of Broadway

Deb Miller 2022-11-15

David Leopold, Creative Director of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation and the creative force behind both the just released book and the just opened exhibition The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld,...

The importance of art, theater, and connection in ‘A Man of No Importance’ at Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company

Deb Miller 2022-11-14

For his final show as departing Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company, John Doyle has directed a condensed one-act revival of the acclaimed 2002 musical A Man of No Importance by...

Uninspired screen-to-stage adaptation of ‘Almost Famous’ at Broadway’s Jacobs Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-11-11

The latest in the movie-to-Broadway genre of almost but not really new musicals, now playing an engagement at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, is Almost Famous, the coming-of-age rock-n-roll road-trip...

Radiotheatre’s eerie exploration of ‘The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street’ on site at NYC’s The Kraine

Deb Miller 2022-11-11

The house goes dark, haze envelopes the stage, two men in black appear in eerie blue spotlights, standing at lecterns with hand-held mics, and in their creepiest voices begin to chronicle the...

First Asian American casting of ‘A Delicate Balance’ at Off-Off-Broadway’s Connelly Theater delivers the characters’ dysfunction and despair

Deb Miller 2022-11-09

In collaboration with National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), Transport Group’s Off-Off-Broadway presentation of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, now playing a limited engagement at the...

NYC’s United Solo announces 2022 Special Award nominees

Deb Miller 2022-11-08

In conjunction with this year’s 13th annual United Solo Festival – the world’s largest solo theater festival, now playing at Theatre Row through November 20 – the NYC-based company has announced the...

GTG’s funny fast-paced one-act update of Shaw’s ‘Candida’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Deb Miller 2022-11-07

When playwright George Bernard Shaw created his original romantic comedy Candida in 1894, written in response to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House and first published in his Plays Pleasant collection in...

Traumatic past of a father from Communist China in ‘Good Enemy’ at Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-11-06

During the period following Chairman Mao’s 1966 Cultural Revolution in China and his death in 1976, the Communist country began to reopen to Western cultural influences and economic reform. But with...

Memories spoken and unspoken in ‘My Broken Language’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-11-06

In My Broken Language, now in its world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement at Pershing Square Signature Theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, who also directs, employs an...

Tender journey to a father-son connection in MTC’s ‘Where the Mountain Meets the Sea’ at Off-Broadway’s New York City Center

Deb Miller 2022-11-02

Commissioned by the 2020 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea by Haitian-American writer Jeff Augustin is now playing a limited...

Stage and screen star Ken Leung previews ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center

Deb Miller 2022-11-01

NYC-born actor Ken Leung has had an acclaimed career on screen, from his 1998 professional debut as Sang in Rush Hour, to such other popular roles Miles Straume in Lost, Admiral Statura in Star Wars:...

Aggressively reimagined Off-Broadway revival of ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ at The Public Theater

Deb Miller 2022-10-28

Lorraine Hansberry’s classic 1959 American drama A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to have a Broadway production; it’s now the first work by the acclaimed playwright to...

Gabriel Byrne brings his autobiographical tour-de-force ‘Walking with Ghosts’ to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-10-27

Adapted from his best-selling 2021 memoir of the same name, Walking with Ghosts by Irish stage and screen star Gabriel Byrne has already enjoyed highly acclaimed runs in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin...

Bidding now open for benefit auction of limited-edition Al Hirschfeld prints signed by the stars

Deb Miller 2022-10-27

Heritage Auctions, the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer, today launched an online auction of 21 limited-edition prints by acclaimed caricature artist Al Hirschfeld – signed by the iconic stage...

Broadway revival of ‘Topdog/Underdog’ tells a devastating comi-tragic tale of two abandoned brothers

Deb Miller 2022-10-26

The latest NYC production in a year filled with Pulitzer Prize-winning shows and the first-ever Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog is now playing a limited engagement at the John...

Ancient myths of female monsters reimagined in bluegrass concept musical ‘Monstress’ at NYC’s New Ohio Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-10-24

A talented ensemble of nine young musicians and singers retells a series of stories of female monsters from classical mythology in Monstress, a new experimental concept musical (and the company’s...

Masterful storytelling in new Off-Broadway adaptation of Japanese classic ‘Chushingura – 47 Ronin’ at A.R.T./New York

Deb Miller 2022-10-23

In keeping with its mission of bringing Japanese classics to an American audience, the English-Japanese bi-lingual company Amaterasu Za (meaning “theater that illuminates”) is now presenting the...

Hank Curry brings laughter to ‘Confusion’ in NYC’s United Solo Festival

Deb Miller 2022-10-22

Now in its thirteenth year, United Solo Festival is back at NYC’s Theatre Row through November 20, with dozens of shows from across the country and around the globe. For the 2022 season, the world’s...

Annual NYC Halloween benefit concert ‘I Put a Spell on You’ returns live and online

Deb Miller 2022-10-21

After two years of virtual fun and frights during the pandemic shutdown of theaters, the annual Halloween benefit I Put a Spell on You, presented by Kampfire Films and Jay Armstrong Johnson (The...

Upper West Side street-naming ceremony and upcoming performances at DC’s Kennedy Center for NYC’s Ballet Hispánico

Deb Miller 2022-10-19

Founded by National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez (1929-2022) in 1970, NYC’s Ballet Hispánico, based at 167 West 89th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, has provided training,...

Hilarious observations and non-stop laughs from ‘Julie Halston: De-Classified!’ at NYC’s Birdland

Deb Miller 2022-10-18

During the pandemic shut-down of live theater, stage and screen star Julie Halston – a co-founding member of Charles Busch’s legendary company Theatre-in-Limbo – took to the internet to keep fans...

Intense and powerful ‘Death of a Salesman’ at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-10-16

Playwright Arthur Miller’s original working title for his 1949 American classic Death of a Salesman (recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and six Tonys, including Best Play) was “The Inside of...

Cast of Roundabout’s Broadway revival of ‘1776’ represents those who were historically excluded

Deb Miller 2022-10-14

When 1776, with concept, music, and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone, premiered on Broadway in 1969, with only two female roles (of Abigail Adams and Martha Jefferson, the respective...

Nearly verbatim reenactment of the 1965 debate of ‘Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge’ Off-Broadway at The Public Theater

Deb Miller 2022-10-12

On February 18, 1965, The Cambridge Union – the oldest continuously running free speech and debating society in the world, founded at England’s Cambridge University in 1815 – hosted a debate between...

Tom Stoppard makes an epic return to Broadway with his indelible family masterpiece ‘Leopoldstadt’ at the Longacre Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-10-08

Now 85, Sir Tom Stoppard, the internationally acclaimed recipient of four Tony Awards for Best Play to date (the most of any playwright in history), has returned to Broadway, for the nineteenth time,...

The need for connection and caring in MTC’s ‘Cost of Living’ at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-10-07

After making its award-winning Off-Broadway debut with Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center in 2017, and receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2018, Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living is now...

Rare Sondheim revue ‘You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow’ coming to Brooklyn this month

Deb Miller 2022-10-06

For the first time since its NYC debut in 1983, the rarely seen Stephen Sondheim musical revue You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow is coming to Brooklyn’s The Great Room at Art NY Studios for a limited...

Lead actor Christopher Carver gives an inside look at the Off-Broadway world premiere of ‘Our Town . . . but Wilder’ at Actors Temple Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-10-05

The world premiere of Our Town . . . but Wilder began its Off-Broadway run at the Actors Temple Theatre on October 1, with an opening night set for Sunday, October 16. Written and directed by Richard...

Florencia Cuenca & Jaime Lozano reimagine ‘Broadway en Spanglish’ at NYC’s Joe’s Pub

Deb Miller 2022-10-04

For one night only during this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month, the Mexican-born and NYC-based husband and wife team of Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano returned to Joe’s Pub at The Public with their...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Laura Shoop

Deb Miller 2022-10-02

Now starring in David Harms’ new play Powerhouse, presented for a limited engagement this month at A.R.T./New York by Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Laura Shoop, a native of Illinois, a scholarship...

Lots of love, laughs, and fan favorites in ‘Vangari: Funny You Should Ask’ at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama

Deb Miller 2022-10-01

What could be more universally relatable in an intimate cabaret act than an underlying theme of human relationships? In Vangari: Funny You Should Ask, playing at the musical-comedy duo’s home away...

Fever dream of an undocumented Mexican immigrant in ‘american (tele)visions’ at Off-Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop

Deb Miller 2022-09-29

In the nonlinear multimedia memory play american (tele)visions, now playing a limited engagement at New York Theatre Workshop, Tow Playwright-in-Residence Victor I. Cazares relays how it might have...

Off-Broadway return of the wild and campy ‘Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical’ at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke’s

Deb Miller 2022-09-28

The Off-Broadway return of the zany 2021 multi-award-winning Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical – an irreverent spoof of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things, soon to enter its fifth and final...

Be part of the magic in ‘Asi Wind’s Inner Circle’ at NYC’s The Gym at Judson

Deb Miller 2022-09-26

For the remainder of the year and well into the next, NYC audiences will have the chance not just to enjoy, but to be part of the magic, in Asi Wind’s Inner Circle, presented at The Gym at Judson in...

Young gymnasts face the inconceivable pressures of Olympic training in ‘Body Through Which the Dream Flows’ at NYC’s The Tank

Deb Miller 2022-09-24

Now serving a life sentence for his repeated sexual abuse of at least 330 underage girls since the 1990s (in addition to his guilty pleas to charges of child pornography and tampering with evidence),...