Deb Miller

Reimagining a film classic in ‘Planet of the Grapes Live’ digital toy theater

Historic toy theater meets post-modern digital livestream in Planet of the Grapes Live, Peter Michael Marino’s wacky but meaningful reimagining of the 1968 sci-fi film classic Planet of the Apes. The...

Up next from Mint Theater Company

Off-Broadway’s award-winning Mint Theater Company continues the celebration of its 25th anniversary season with the latest installment in its Silver Lining Streaming Series on Monday, April 19, with a...

NYTF and Congress for Jewish Culture commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Monday, April 19, 2021, marks the 78th anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, a heroic act of Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland (and the single largest revolt by...

The latest from ‘As the Curtain Rises’ and Ellen’s Stardust Diner

After a brief hiatus from the main narrative and a series of bonus content installments airing since January, Broadway Podcast Network’s original digital soap opera As the Curtain Rises, written by...

Coming on Thursday: Charlayne Woodard’s ‘Neat’ and Titanic Remembrance Day

As the next offering in Manhattan Theatre Club’s virtual Curtain Call series celebrating acclaimed past productions, two-time Obie Award winner and Tony nominee Charlayne Woodard (Ain’t Misbehavin’)...

All-star benefit to help rebuild Off-Broadway’s York Theatre Company

After nearly a year’s hiatus due to the pandemic, Off-Broadway’s award-winning York Theatre Company – founded in 1969, and noted for developing and producing new musicals and resurrecting neglected...

Two more steps to reopening Broadway

It’s been thirteen months since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of Broadway theaters on March 12, 2020. But now efforts are underway to begin the reopening process, with two initiatives...

Coming soon from Red Bull, The Public, and MasterVoices

Three favorite NYC companies have new offerings making their virtual debut next week, in a variety of genres and styles. So whether you prefer a dramatization of a classic epic poem, an original audio...

A long struggle in ‘Whiterock Cliff’ with surviving depression and telling the story

Right from the start, Ryan McCurdy warns us that he won’t be telling the truth. Or maybe he does, at least in part, in his one-man Off-Broadway musical story Whiterock Cliff, performed and streamed...

Joe Iconis and Family streaming live at Adelphi University on Sunday

As part of Adelphi University’s Live from Adelphi concert series, Tony-nominated Be More Chill composer Joe Iconis and his close-knit group of collaborators (lovingly known as Iconis and Family) will...

Mark your calendar for a weekend lineup with Empathy, Heart, and Tennessee Williams

Top offerings for the upcoming weekend include two online concerts and conversations, and a live outdoor solo show at a popular off-off-Broadway venue, so be sure to mark your calendar in advance for...

New this week from Ballet Hispánico, Audible, and the Guggenheim

This week’s offering include a retrospective celebration of Latino dance, an audio play from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a museum pop-up performance by two acclaimed Broadway composers....

NY PopsUp at Broadway’s St. James Theatre

On Saturday, April 3, 2021, NY PopsUp – the statewide initiative to reinvigorate the arts – presented the first performance in more than a year inside a Broadway theater. The special event, which took...

New audio series and app from the Broadway Podcast Network

Today is the day that a variety of NYC shows and venues following all COVID-19 safety protocol have been given the official go-ahead to begin reopening. And, as always, if you’d like an engaging...

An upcoming auction of ‘Stage & Screen’ memorabilia to benefit The Actors Fund

In partnership with two-time Tony Award-winning actress Christine Baranski and Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers, The Actors Fund – providing human services for the performing arts and entertainment...

Nominations are in for the 87th annual Drama League Awards

The Drama League Awards, first presented in 1922, and formalized in 1935, have the distinction of being the oldest national theatrical honors, in addition to being the only major awards chosen by the...

Reopening of The Green Room 42 and return of the ‘Boy Band Brunch’ this weekend

Among the first of the NYC venues to reopen on April 2, in accordance with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s safety guidelines for the return of live performances, is The Green Room 42. Located on the 4th floor...

Celebrate and support ‘Pajama Cast Party’ and ‘Broadway Backwards’ this week

Start your week with a bang on Monday and Tuesday with two free events that celebrate the stars and shows of Broadway and also raise funds for important charitable causes through your voluntary...

Online now from Florencia Cuenca, the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, and The Tank

Among the range of current theater-based online offerings are a new interpretation of a familiar song from a hit Broadway musical, an exhibition of a legendary artist’s drawings of an iconic American...

Weekend streaming selections from Keen Company and Dzieci Theatre

The debut of a new audio play for our times and the virtual revival of an annual Eastertime event are among the compelling offerings of New York City theater to check out this weekend. Keen Company,...

Feeling the love for ‘Amour’ with Jennifer Sánchez

Set in the picturesque Parisian district of Montmartre shortly after World War II, Amour is a musical fantasy adapted from the 1943 short story Le Passe-Muraille by Marcel Aymé, with music by Michel...

Classics from Miles Malleson and Tennessee Williams streaming this week

If you’re an aficionado of theatrical classics and period pieces, you can connect online this week with an all-star reading of a world-renowned drama by a Pulitzer Prize-winning American icon and a...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with stage and screen star Adrienne Barbeau

From her Broadway debut in Fiddler on the Roof and her award-winning performance as Rizzo in the original Broadway production of Grease, to her legendary roles on the hit TV sit-com Maude (as Bea...

A global community celebrates Passover with ‘The Third Seder’ concert on Sunday

In the 1960s, young survivors of the Holocaust, striving to express their communal resilience and that of their mother-tongue, began the tradition of The Third Seder, with a unique stage performance...

Throughout the Broadway shutdown, ‘Hamilton’ continues to inspire

Although, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, live performances with an in-person audience at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre have been shut down for more than a year, since March 12, 2020,...

Weekend watching with SoHo Playhouse and Lincoln Center Theater

If you’re wondering what to watch this weekend, SoHo Playhouse and Lincoln Center Theater are streaming two options for your virtual viewing pleasure, both inspired by literary classics, in their...

Live events return to The Invisible Dog Art Center and Daryl Roth Theatre

In the move to begin the reopening of NYC venues and performances to live audiences, Off-Broadway companies are presenting compelling in-person shows that speak to our current times, with limited...

The Public’s bilingual podcast of ‘Romeo y Julieta’ to star Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o

Director Saheem Ali continues his audio exploration of William Shakespeare’s canon with Romeo y Julieta – a new bilingual podcast of The Bard’s beloved classic Romeo and Juliet – collaborating with...

Broadway’s J. Breckenridge debuts the music video of his new single ‘Y.O.U.’ with Red Card Records

As an actor, Southern California native Josh Breckenridge is known for his standout roles on Broadway in the revival of Terrence McNally’s play The Ritz at Studio 54, Kander and Ebb’s Tony-nominated...

Gingold’s ‘Irish Poetry Slam’ celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a star-studded line-up

In lieu of its usual Golden Shamrock Gala, Off-Broadway’s Gingold Theatrical Group – home of the comprehensive Project Shaw and the first company ever to present performances of every one of Irish...

Red Bull explores the gender themes of ‘Gallathea’ in two live online readings

John Lyly’s Elizabethan pastoral comedy Gallathea, first performed for the Queen and her court at Greenwich Palace on New Year’s Day, 1588, provides the theme for two live online pay-what-you-can...

Innovative shorts from Hunger & Thirst Theatre based on the game of telephone

Throughout the twelve-month pandemic shutdown of live theater, beginning with the closure of all Broadway performances a year ago today, artists have been creating innovative and experimental work...

Streaming soon from MTC, SoHo Playhouse, and Keen

Three mainstay Off-Broadway companies are closing out the week with debuts of their next online offerings this Thursday-Saturday, March 11-13. One is a reunion reading by the original cast of a...

Stars deliver ‘A Love Letter to Liza’ on her 75th birthday

Friday, March 12, 2021, marks the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown of Broadway theaters, but it’s also the 75th birthday of living legend Liza Minnelli. To honor the actress, singer,...

New recordings from Kyle Taylor Parker, Jane Monheit, and Collard & Rosenblatt

A must-hear selection of new and recent album releases offers the latest from a Broadway luminary, a top Billboard jazz and pop vocalist, and a writing team of rising stars. Kyle Taylor Parker,...

Jennifer Ashley Tepper’s ‘The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4’ released tomorrow, discussed on Keen After Hours tonight

On Tuesday, March 9, Dress Circle Publishing (founded by Broadway producers Brisa Trinchero and Roberta Pereira in 2011, and the only publishing company dedicated solely to producing books with...

Food for Thought opens season with Christopher Durang and Tennessee Williams

Founded by writer Susan Charlotte in the fall of 2000, Off-Broadway’s award-winning Food For Thought Productions (FFTP), now in its 21st year, was the first theater company back in live action in NYC...

Japan Society’s ‘Ludic Proxy: Fukushima’ streams live beginning on Saturday

In association with PlayCo (an Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway theater producing adventurous new plays from the US and around the world), Japan Society (founded in 1907, to foster the exchange of...

Cuomo announces April 2 reopening of Broadway Flex Venues, Equity calls for vaccines

As part of the NY PopsUp initiative, which began on February 20, with free public surprise performances across New York City and State, Governor Cuomo has announced that select Broadway theaters,...

A family in ‘Jericho’ shares a traumatic Thanksgiving dinner

With its inaugural production of Jack Canfora’s Jericho (which made its debut Off-Broadway at 59E59 in 2013), New Normal Rep – a new streaming theater company created during the pandemic and dedicated...

Video release of ‘Broadway Baby’ all-star reading for World Book Day

To commemorate World Book Day on Thursday, March 4, theater operator, producer, and author Russell Miller has released a video of One Grand Books’ February 21st virtual all-star reading of his...

Recipients named for NYSAF NEXUS grants and The Kleban Prize

The 2021 recipients of two prestigious theater initiatives for developing artists – one new, one well-established – have been named by New York Stage and Film and The Kleban Foundation. Lauded as “one...

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘Rent’ with the New York Theatre Workshop

2021 marks a major date in American theater history: the 25th anniversary of the opening of Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking rock musical Rent, which will be celebrated with a spectacular virtual...

Two must-see streams on Monday give perspectives on empathy and Shakespeare

As says the old English proverb – popularized by Jacobean playwright John Fletcher in his 1624 play A Wife for a Month – March is coming in like a lion this year, with two must-see events streaming on...

First annual ‘LGBTQ Short Play Festival’ from Triangle Rainbow Productions

In partnership with Van Dirk Fisher (Founding Artistic Director of the Riant Theatre/Strawberry One-Act Festival), Triangle Rainbow Productions Executive Director Anthony Fusco is presenting the...

Off-Broadway offerings for the weekend

There’s a full slate of streaming options coming this weekend from Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway, with a multi-faceted variety that truly offers something for everyone, from an audio drama to a...

Chapter two of ‘Myths and Hymns’ from MasterVoices

MasterVoices – the country’s first interracial and interfaith chorus, founded by famed American choral conductor Robert Shaw in 1941 – continues its presentation of Myths and Hymns by award-winning...

Classic plays from Red Bull and Mint streaming on Monday

Two acclaimed Off-Broadway companies continue their mission of presenting rarely produced plays from the past, and works by undeservedly forgotten women dramatists, with virtual productions on Monday....

Observing Purim with NYTF and the Congress for Jewish Culture

In celebration of Purim next week – the spring festival held to commemorate the defeat of Haman’s plot to massacre the Jews, as recorded in the Book of Esther (also known in Hebrew as the Megillah, or...

All-star virtual reading of ‘Broadway Baby’ children’s book on Sunday

A star-studded online reading of the new best-selling illustrated children’s book Broadway Baby, written by theater operator and producer Russell Miller (Guys & Dolls, Blood Brothers, Paramour, On The...