Deb Miller

Off-Broadway’s anachronistic dark comedy ‘H*tler’s Tasters’ warns of the ever-present dangers of complacency

In December 2012, at the age of 95, Margot Wölk revealed a secret she had kept hidden for seven decades: her involuntary role in WWII as one of fifteen young Aryan women conscripted to serve as Adolf...

Pulitzer Prize-winning musical ‘A Strange Loop’ makes a blockbuster Broadway debut

Following its multi-award-winning Off-Broadway world-premiere engagement at Playwright’s Horizons in 2019, a pandemic-delayed critically-acclaimed regional production at DC’s Woolly Mammoth in 2021,...

Catching up with Alyssa May Gold of ‘How I Learned to Drive’ on the show’s long-awaited Broadway debut

In June 2020, Alyssa May Gold – NYC-based actress of the stage and screen and founder of the theater and film production company Pocket Universe – shared her insights and excitement about her return...

Winners of Off-Broadway’s 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards

In a return to a live in-person ceremony for the first time in three years, winners were announced tonight (Sunday, May 1) for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement...

Over-the-top political farce of women at the White House in the world premiere of ‘POTUS’ on Broadway

The mood is manic, with the White House in a state of panic, as a coterie of frantic females tries to deal with the PR nightmare that is the President, but creates an even bigger nightmare of their...

A smart, funny, and timely Broadway revival of ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ at Lincoln Center Theater

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897-December 7, 1975). To celebrate the enduring legacy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright and...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s ‘MJ the Musical’ star Myles Frost

DC-area native Myles Frost has taken Broadway by storm and skyrocketed to well more than fifteen minutes of fame with his stellar debut as Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, in the new musical MJ. The...

Groundbreaking choreopoem ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf’ makes a powerful return to Broadway

Last seen in NYC in 2019, in the Off-Broadway revival of poet/playwright Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking genre-defying “choreopoem” at The Public Theater (where it was first presented in 1976, and was...

Iconoclast Theatre Collective launches with a VIP release party at NYC’s Beauty Bar

There’s a hot new musical theater company in NYC and it launched on Monday, April 25, with a VIP reception and EP release party at Manhattan’s popular Beauty Bar. Self-described as “a genre-defying...

Nominations announced for the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for on and off Broadway

Originally begun during the 1949–1950 season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards, now in its 71st year, are presented annually for outstanding achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. The awards,...

2022 Drama League Awards nominations announced for Broadway and Off-Broadway

First presented in 1922, then formalized in 1935, the Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America and the only major theatrical awards chosen by the entire theater community of...

Bated Breath’s ‘Chasing Andy Warhol’ takes an immersive walk around NYC’s East Village inspired by the Pop icon

The latest street tour presentation by Bated Breath Theatre Company, following its award-winning production of Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec, is Chasing Andy Warhol, an immersive guided...

Broadway’s ‘The Minutes’ offers an uncanny reminder that history is written by the winners

Napoleon pondered, “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” And Winston Churchill has been credited with the adage, “History is written by the winners.” Both insightful observations are underscored...

McDonagh’s dark gallows humor shines a light on wrongful executions in ‘Hangmen’ at Broadway’s Golden Theatre

It’s 1963, and England’s second-best hangman Harry Wade is performing his last execution, of a young man protesting his innocence and desperately fighting for his life to the very end. Two years...

The new Broadway production of ‘The Little Prince’ creates a universe of hypnotic beauty

The new stage production of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 English-language novella The Little Prince – one of the world’s best-selling books and the second most translated (with 200 million copies...

One-night-only events from Off-Broadway’s Gingold Theatrical Group and Keen Company

This coming Saturday and Monday, April 23 and 25, two of Off-Broadway’s most noteworthy companies are presenting one-night-only events, one in person and one online, that celebrate classics from two...

Fundraising campaign for the Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center to honor the legacy of the Broadway legend

The non-profit Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center (OHMTEC) has initiated a campaign to raise funds for the purchase, restoration, and preservation of Highland Farm in Doylestown,...

Pan Asian Rep’s Off-Broadway world premiere of ‘Citizen Wong’ looks at Asian and American relations in the Gilded Age

To commemorate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, now in its 45th season, is presenting the world premiere of Citizen Wong, a new play by Richard...

A soaring Latinx line-up hits the heights in ‘Jaime Lozano’s Songs by an Immigrant’ at the Kaplan Penthouse in NYC’s Lincoln Center

For his headliner debut at the legendary Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the tremendously talented, always effervescent, Mexican-born musical multi-hyphenate Jaime Lozano brought his signature...

Years fly by but the show drags on in Broadway’s ‘Birthday Candles’ at Roundabout

Inspired by Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner of 1931 – a 35-minute one-act play tracing five generations through a fast-moving 90 years of Yuletide meals in the family dining room –...

Second Stage’s Broadway revival of ‘Take Me Out’ calls out homophobia and racism in baseball

When the mixed-race center fielder Darren Lemming, a seemingly unassailable superstar for the MLB Empires, nonchalantly reveals at a press conference that he’s gay, the unexpected news triggers...

The real-life story of Nazi brutality decimating the ‘Harmony’ at Off-Broadway’s NYTF

Following an extended pandemic delay, the highly anticipated production of Harmony: A New Musical, written by multi-award winner Barry Manilow (music and arrangements) and longtime collaborator Bruce...

Holiday weekend offerings in New York run the gamut from sacred to profane

Whether you practice the religious traditions of Easter or Passover, or celebrate Pop-culture icon Lady Bunny, there’s something for you to enjoy this holiday weekend in NYC, in person or online, in...

Recent book releases for artists, students, and fans of the theater

Among the latest topical publications on Broadway theater are the book releases of a recent play, a compilation of essays on landmark musicals, and an analytical history of the development of...

Retelling an ancient myth in the new musical comedy ‘Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written’ at Off-Broadway’s The York

In ancient Greek mythology, as recounted in Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. Despite her husband’s 20-year absence (while fighting the Trojan War, then...

Nominations announced for Off-Broadway’s 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards

Nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre with additional support provided by TDF,...

The tributes to Sondheim continue with a series of his films and a two-disc release of his songs

When Pulitzer Prize recipient and multiple-award winner Stephen Sondheim died at the age of 91 on November 26, 2021, he left the world with an extraordinary canon of work that forever changed the...

Things to do between shows in NYC this week

It’s a busy season in New York theater, with openings every day in advance of the April awards deadlines. There is also a wealth of things to do between shows, many with connections to theater and the...

Two songs and a discussion of ‘A Strange Loop’ at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum in advance of its Broadway debut and cast album release

In 2020, Michael R. Jackson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for A Strange Loop, his cutting-edge critically acclaimed “Big, Black & Queer-ass” musical that had its world premiere in May 2019,...

Jenna Pastuszek makes her debut at NYC’s The Green Room 42 with a tribute to Judy Garland

To celebrate this year’s 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Judy Garland (June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969), performer, writer, producer, and instructor Jenna Pastuszek and music director,...

The Broadway revival of ‘Plaza Suite’ offers an antiquated look at women and marriage in the 1960s

With the name power of the late Pulitzer Prize and four-time Tony Award winner Neil Simon (with more than 30 plays and musicals to his credit) and the stage-and-screen star power of two-time Emmy...

A variety of genres, styles, and moods in three concerts on the NYC cabaret scene

No matter what your taste in music and entertainment, NYC’s legendary nightclubs have it, as proven by three selections that kicked off the week at don’t tell mama, Birdland, and Joe’s Pub. And though...

André De Shields and Denée Benton to host NYC’s 2022 Drama League Awards nominations announcement on April 25

The Drama League (founded in 1916, as one of the longest-running arts service organizations in the country, providing life-long artistic resources for directors) has announced that two past Drama...

New Mexican/American musicals ‘Desaparecidas’ and ‘¡Americano!’ coming soon to NYC

A one-night-only concert and a limited-engagement musical are coming this week to NYC stages, created and performed by a talented roster of Latin American musical-theater artists. Both promise to be...

Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Awards announced 2022 live return and special honorees

The Lucille Lortel Awards, created by the Off-Broadway League in 1985, and presented annually to recognize Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, will return to a live in-person celebration on Sunday,...

A glorious tribute to a Broadway legend in ‘To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC

Legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (d. November 26, 2021) would have turned 92 on Tuesday, March 22. To honor his illustrious life and legacy in musical theater, Tony-nominated...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Lorna Luft

As the daughter of the legendary Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft, and sister to Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft has been in the spotlight from the day she was born. And that was just the beginning of her...

Something for everyone in ‘Broadway by the Year: The New Wave’ at The Town Hall

After a hiatus of 25 months over the course of the pandemic, creator, writer, director, and host Scott Siegel launched the 21st season of his popular critically acclaimed Broadway by the Year series...

Hunger & Thirst reimagines the myth of Apollo and Hyacinth in ‘Discus’ at A.R.T./New York Theatres

In ancient Greek mythology, Hyacinth was the beautiful prince of Sparta and lover of the sun god Apollo. His incomparably good looks also attracted the North Wind Boreas, the West Wind Zephyrus, and...

Irish Rep brings its explosive pandemic-delayed production of ‘A Touch of the Poet’ back to the Off-Broadway stage

Originally scheduled to open in March 2020, Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet, postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, made its appearance as a top-notch...

Two mad men vent their rage and the reasons in the dark comedy ‘Garbageman’ off Broadway at the Chain Theatre

Emmy-nominated stage and screen writer Keith Huff (TV’s Mad Men, House of Cards, and American Crime; Broadway’s A Steady Rain starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig) returns to the Chain Theatre with...

Internationally acclaimed violinist Marissa Licata discusses her eclectic style and her return to NYC’s Birdland

Following her successful headliner debut at NYC’s legendary Birdland in September 2021, violin sensation Marissa Licata returns with her Quartet (Licata on violin, Michael Aarons on guitar, Martin...

Broadway’s Liz Callaway previews her tribute to Sondheim at Feinstein’s/54 Below

Tony Award-nominated Emmy-winning actress, singer, and recording artist Liz Callaway is returning to Feinstein’s/54 Below for four nights this month with her new show To Steve with Love. It’s a...

Chatting with Joe Iconis about ‘The New Wave’ of Broadway

Tony Award-nominated writer and performer Joe Iconis (Be More Chill) isn’t just one of the most supremely talented people in NYC, he’s also one of the busiest and most prolific. Most recently, his...

Battery Dance, Gingold Theatrical Group, and ‘Rockers on Broadway’ streaming this week from NYC

Though theaters in NYC are open and vigilant about maintaining COVID-19 protocol, many companies continue to present online programming to ensure safety and to extend their outreach to audiences...

NYC comics to present ‘The Kraine for Ukraine Variety Comedy Benefit’ in-person and online

In response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, a line-up of NYC-based standups, clowns, and comedy favorites will come together for The Kraine for Ukraine Variety Comedy Benefit. Produced by Peter...

New Ohio Theatre’s hilarious Off-Broadway comedy ‘Jane Anger’ thrusts a feminist rapier at Shakespeare

Everything about New Ohio Theatre’s Off-Broadway premiere of Jane Anger, as you can discern from the extended title of The Lamentable Comedie of JANE ANGER, that Cunning Woman, and also of Willy...

Audible’s masterful return of the devastating docudrama ‘Coal Country’ at Off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre

After the world-premiere production of Coal Country, which opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on March 3, 2020, was unexpectedly cut short by the closure of theaters necessitated by the...

A musical anthology of challenges, connection, and hope in ‘Notes from Now’ at Off-Broadway’s 59E59

Following two years of pandemic shutdowns, isolation, loss, and socio-political divisiveness, Prospect Theater Company takes a look at the challenging journey of life and the need for connection and...

A dramedy of dysfunction in Keen Company’s ‘This Space Between Us’ at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row

Personal agendas, familial dysfunction, strained relationships, and an identity crisis drive the characters and conflicts in the Off-Broadway world premiere of This Space Between Us, presented by Keen...