Deb Miller

Broadway lifts audience mask requirement beginning July 1

The Broadway League, founded in 1930, as the national trade association for the Broadway industry, announced today that the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters in New York City will adopt...

Film and original cast recording of Off-Broadway musical ‘Trevor’ released today

To coincide with Pride Weekend, the Disney+ filmed version of Trevor: The Musical and Ghostlight Records’ original cast recording of the Off-Broadway production, which played at Stage 42 from October...

Mint’s top-notch Off-Broadway production of ‘Chains’ revives a little-known classic by Elizabeth Baker

Dedicated to producing forgotten plays from the past, Mint Theater Company began its “Meet Miss Baker” series in 2019, to give new life to the neglected work of the English woman playwright Elizabeth...

A dazzling ‘Diamond Series’ gem of NYC cabaret with ‘Brian Stokes Mitchell: Songs and Stories’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

For his debut engagement in this week’s first-class Diamond Series at Feinstein’s/54 Below, where he had performed three previous concerts, two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran, humanitarian,...

Recipients of NYC’s 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance

The 4th Annual Chita Rivera Awards, the only awards dedicated exclusively to dance, were presented this evening, Monday, June 20, beginning at 7:30 pm, at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing...

Shakespeare Downtown’s free open-air staging of ‘Saint Joan’ at NYC’s historic Castle Clinton

Inspired by the canonization of Joan of Arc in 1920, almost five centuries after her martyrdom in 1431, Irish playwright and activist George Bernard Shaw created his fictionalized historical tragedy...

Top picks for NYC Pride Weekend 2022

Among the many events honoring Pride in NYC next weekend (June 24-26), are a selection of three highly recommended top picks of award-winning shows and talents from Broadway and beyond. Playing on...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Brian Stokes Mitchell

A two-time Tony Award winner, inductee into the Theatre Hall of Fame, and veteran of ten Broadway shows (including Ragtime, Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me Kate, and Shuffle Along) – and those are but a few...

History and futurism clash in the Off-Broadway debut of ‘The Orchard’ at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

An anachronistic reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, the last work by the esteemed Russian playwright, written in 1903, is now making its Off-Broadway debut in a limited engagement at...

Tony winner André De Shields reprises his solo show ‘André De Shields is Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory’ for Juneteenth at New York’s Flushing Town Hall

On Sunday, June 19, Broadway star André De Shields (Hadestown; The Full Monty; Play On!; Ain’t Misbehavin’; The Wiz) returns to Flushing Town Hall to reprise his role as the esteemed abolitionist...

A staged concert of the award-winning ‘GRINDR The Opera’ coming to NYC’s The Green Room 42 for Pride month

After winning London’s Off West End Award for Best New Musical in 2019, the highly anticipated pandemic-delayed staged concert version of GRINDR The Opera is coming to NYC for two nights this Pride...

NYC favorites Dan Domenech, Andy Peterson, and Luis Villabon bring their talents to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

If you’re a theater-lover in search of a quick summer getaway, consider taking a trip out to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Center Valley, PA, less than two hours west of NYC along Route 78....

A conflict of professional ethics and ambition in NAATCO’s Off-Broadway debut of ‘Queen’ at A.R.T./New York

Close friends and fellow ecological researchers Sanam Shah and Ariel Spiegel have spent the past seven years investigating the cause of the worldwide decimation of the bee population, which they...

Winners of Broadway’s 2022 Tony Awards

Winners of the 75th Annual Tony Awards, honoring theater professionals of the 2021-2022 season for distinguished achievement on Broadway, were announced Sunday night, June 12, in a live ceremony at...

Sarah Silverman’s autobiographical ‘The Bedwetter’ at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company conquers childhood trauma with potty-mouthed humor

Based on Sarah Silverman’s bestselling 2010 memoir of the same name, The Bedwetter, with book by Silverman and Joshua Harmon, music by the late Adam Schlesinger (who died of COVID-19 in 2020), lyrics...

A reenacted dialogue between Black activist writers James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni on race and responsibility in Off-Broadway’s ‘Lessons in Survival: 1971’ at The Vineyard

During the pandemic closure of theaters in 2020, the grassroots theater collective The Commissary was formed. Its members gathered remotely each Wednesday on their digital devices to read plays and to...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Snow in Midsummer’ updates a 13th-century Chinese ghost story to the present

A young widow is wrongfully executed for a murder she didn’t commit, precipitating a snowfall in June that bespeaks a heinous miscarriage of justice. Her ghost comes back to haunt the community with...

Winners of NYC’s 2022 Drama Desk Awards

Winners of the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, presented since 1955, to honor outstanding achievement by professional theater artists and productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway –...

Pulitzer Prize winner ‘Fat Ham’ makes its blockbuster NYC debut Off-Broadway at The Public

The distinguished judges for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama most definitely got it right with their top recognition of James Ijames’ hilarious, heartfelt, and uplifting tragi-comedy Fat Ham, now in...

Delightful symphonic fairytale ‘Third Bird’ at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum holds appeal for all ages

The latest installment in the series of Works & Process at the Guggenheim is the delightful Third Bird, an original work by fashion designer and artist Isaac Mizrahi (libretto), Nico Muhly (music),...

Singer/songwriter Carol Lipnik discusses her upcoming ‘Blue Forest’ concert at Joe’s Pub in NYC

To celebrate the release of her new EP Blue Forest on her Mermaid Alley label, singer/songwriter Carol Lipnik will make a special one-night-only return to Joe’s Pub on Wednesday, June 8, at 7 pm, for...

10th annual ‘Night of a Thousand Judys’ commemorates the 100th birthday of Judy Garland at Joe’s Pub in NYC

This year’s Night of a Thousand Judys, coming to Joe’s Pub on Sunday, June 5, is a triple celebration. It not only marks the 10th anniversary of the annual Pride concert, but also the 100th...

Original cast album and Disney+ film of Off-Broadway hit ‘Trevor’ to be released for Pride Month

As part of the celebration of Pride Month 2022, Ghostlight Records has announced the release of the original cast recording of Trevor in digital and streaming formats on Friday, June 24, to coincide...

Griffin Stanton-Ameisen previews his ‘Free Space’ at Off-Broadway’s The Tank

Born and raised in Bryn Mawr, PA, and based in NYC, devisor/performer Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, widely known for creating the fictional “motivational sleeper” and internet sensation Yawn Yawnson, is...

PBS documentary ‘American Masters: Joe Papp in Five Acts’ features the life and work of the founder of Off-Broadway’s Public Theater

To commemorate this summer’s 60th anniversary season of Free Shakespeare in The Park, presented at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, PBS is broadcasting a new documentary in its popular arts...

NYC’s free ‘Lower East Side Festival of the Arts’ this weekend at Theater for the New City

The 27th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts is on for three full days this Memorial Day weekend, from Friday, May 27-Sunday, May 29, at Theater for the New City (TNC), with a wide array of...

New York City Opera’s ‘The Barber of Seville’ opens the season of free Picnic Performances in Bryant Park this Friday

Bryant Park has announced that the 2022 season of its popular free-of-charge Picnic Performances, presented by Bank of America, will kick off this Friday, May 27, starting at 7 pm, with New York City...

All-star performances of songs from jukebox musicals and revues in ‘Broadway by the Year: From Ziegfeld to Moulin Rouge!’ at NYC’s The Town Hall

For the latest installment of Broadway by the Year – the popular series of one-night-only concerts recounting the musical history of Broadway, created, written, and directed by host Scott Siegel – the...

A harrowing journey to Australia in Off-Broadway’s ‘Belfast Girls’ at Irish Rep

When the Irish Potato Blight – caused by an infectious fungus that spread throughout Europe – struck in 1845, it decimated the country’s staple crop, leading to food shortages and the Great Famine of...

Broadway musical ‘Paradise Square’ examines a momentous time in NYC’s Civil War history

The Broadway premiere of Paradise Square, an epic new musical ten-years in the making by the team of Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan (book), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (lyrics), and...

Broadway’s ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ resurrects mid-century Borscht Belt shtick

Adapted from the original 1992 film (which received mixed reviews and didn’t fare well at the box office when it opened 30 years ago), Mr. Saturday Night is now surprisingly a Broadway musical....

Winners of the 2022 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

Recipients of the 2022 Drama League Awards, the oldest theatrical honors in America, first presented in 1922, and formalized in 1935, were announced beginning at noon today (Friday, May 20) in a live...

Using humor to rebuke racist caricatures and racial exclusion in ‘Mr. Yunioshi’ at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse

In the 1961 Paramount Pictures film adaptation of Truman Capote’s 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Hollywood icon and big-name draw Mickey Rooney was cast in the small and significantly reimagined...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with ‘Broadway by the Year’ favorite Danny Gardner

Tap dancing his way to fame since the tender age of five in his hometown of Reading, PA, actor/dancer/choreographer Danny Gardner made his Broadway debut as Lucky in Dames at Sea in 2015, after...

Special honorees announced for NYC’s 2022 Theatre World Awards

It was announced today by the Theatre World Awards and The Dorothy Loudon Foundation that four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will receive the 9th Annual John Willis Award for Lifetime...

Examining the ethics of business, government, law, and personal relationships in Off-Broadway’s ‘Golden Shield’ at MTC

In 2016, a group of eight Chinese dissidents filed a class-action lawsuit against an American-based IT corporation for personal damages resulting from its collusion with the Chinese government on The...

Nominations announced for NYC’s 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance

Named for of one of the great dance icons in American musical theater, the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards is to celebrate and to promote dance and choreographic excellence. As the only awards...

Winners of the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for on and off Broadway

The winners of the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for outstanding achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2021-22 season were announced today (Tuesday, May 17). Originally...

Hit musical comedy ‘Romeo & Bernadette’ is back Off-Broadway and it’s bedduh than evuh

Amas Musical Theatre’s hilarious musical comedy Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn made its critically acclaimed Off-Broadway debut at A.R.T./NY in January 2020, when I first...

Nominations announced for NYC’s 2022 Drama Desk Awards

Nominations for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, voted on and presented by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering the theater, were announced this afternoon, Monday, May 16,...

Off-Broadway’s Theater Breaking Through Barriers to present free short play series ‘Out of the Box’ at Theatre Row

Now celebrating its 43rd season, Theater Breaking Through Barriers – the only professional Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to advancing artists and developing audiences of people with...

Off-Broadway debut of the new musical ‘¡Americano!’ tells the true story of a Dreamer

Ever since the attacks of 9/11, the young Tony Valdovinos, living with his family in Phoenix and working with his father in demolition and construction from the age of seven, dreamed of becoming a...

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards announced for the 2021-22 season

Winners of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards 2022 were announced this evening (Thursday, May 12), immediately following the organization’s 86th annual voting meeting. The second-oldest...

A stellar Broadway revival of ‘American Buffalo’ calls out toxic masculinity

After a two-year pandemic delay, the highly anticipated revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo is back on Broadway with a multi-award-winning all-star cast for a strictly limited engagement at...

The Off-Broadway Alliance offers its popular ‘20at20’ ticket deal in May

Now through Sunday, May 29, The Off-Broadway Alliance (OBA) is offering its bi-annual celebration of Off-Broadway theater with its popular promotion 20at20, making $20 tickets available to...

Nominations for Broadway’s 2022 Tony Awards

Nominations for the 75th Annual Tony Awards, honoring theater professionals of the 2021-2022 season for distinguished achievement on Broadway, were announced this morning (Monday, May 9, at 9 am) by...

Online art exhibition ‘You’ll Be Swell! You’ll Be Great!’ from NYC’s Helicline gallery features themes from the theater and performing arts

In addition to running, for more than 20 years, Keith Sherman & Associates – a public relations and marketing communications firm with its roots on Broadway – the founder and namesake of the company...

Honorees of NYC’s 76th Annual Theatre World Awards for 2022

In 1944, three young theater-lovers, Daniel Blum, Norman McDonald, and John Willis, had the idea of creating a yearly celebration that would acknowledge “Promising Personalities” – twelve premiere...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Suffs’ offers a rich, funny, and timely musical history lesson on women’s rights

Playing an extended world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement at The Public Theater, the ambitious sung-through musical Suffs, with book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub, who also leads a large...

Playwright James Ijames previews the Off-Broadway production of ‘Fat Ham’ at The Public

Critically acclaimed multiple award-winning Philadelphia-based playwright, director, actor, and educator James Ijames, an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University, a Co-Artistic Director...