Deb Miller

And the 2020 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards go to . . .

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle announced the winners of its 85th annual theater awards today at 10 am, with selections in two categories and three special citations. This year’s award for Best...

Online offerings to include the performing arts in your home-schooling

With the closure of schools during the coronavirus pandemic, many parents are now overseeing their children’s home-schooling. Theater artists and organizations have responded to the need for making...

Nominations are in for the 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Lucille Lortel Awards, founded by the eponymous actress and producer in 1986, to recognize excellence in New York’s Off-Broadway theater. Nominations for...

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for 2020 to be announced on April 16

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle, founded in 1935, has been presenting its annual award for the Best New Play of the season since 1936, making it the second-oldest theater award after the Pulitzer...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Sarah Stiles

This month, during the indefinite precautionary closure of theaters in New York and around the world, Sarah Stiles continues to provide world-class entertainment to fans in self-isolation everywhere....

Current updates on Broadway

With the uncertainty surrounding the duration and impact of the coronavirus crisis, information and expectations are changing frequently. On April 8, The Broadway League announced that the suspension...

A song of hope from Jaime Lozano and Marina Pires

When their close friend and frequent musical-theater collaborator Mauricio Martinez, best known to Broadway fans for his starring role as Emilio Estefan in On Your Feet!, was facing his fourth bout...

Audible offers free audio-plays of hits from the New York stage

For a limited time, Audible Theater, a division of Amazon, is offering free audio versions of a selection of popular stage productions from the past year, narrated by the original cast. So if you...

Announcement of two emergency grants for the theater community with application deadlines in April and May

In response to the widespread impact of COVID-19 on the theater community, two more philanthropic organizations have recently announced the availability, by application, of emergency support over the...

A new pocket anthology of ‘Sondheim: Lyrics’ to commemorate his 90th birthday

This month marked the 90th birthday of Broadway icon Stephen Sondheim (b. March 22, 1930, NYC). The milestone in the life of the eight-time Tony award-winning composer and lyricist of the stage and...

Feinstein’s/54 Below launches its ‘At Home’ series of free cabaret concert streamings

Starting this evening, Feinstein’s/54 Below will offer an At Home series of free one-time-only streamings of its popular cabaret concerts to keep audiences entertained during the closure of all live...

The ‘Boy Band Brunch’ is on! An interview with The Boy Band Project’s Travis Nesbitt

With the current shutdown of all performance venues in New York, The Boy Band Project has found the perfect solution to keep its popular Sunday afternoon concert, the Boy Band Brunch, scheduled weekly...

Broadway coronavirus updates: emergency relief agreement for union employees and two major shows that will not go on

The coronavirus has upended the old maxim “The show must go on.” It was just announced that two major productions, which had been suspended through April 12, after playing a number of preview...

How the closure of NYC theaters affects press agents: an interview with Keith Sherman

With this week’s government-ordered closure of all theaters and performance venues in NYC, we’ve all become aware of the impact the safety precautions implemented to deal with the coronavirus has had...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Erik Ransom

Composer, lyricist, librettist, actor, singer, musician – Erik Ransom does it all, and does it all so famously that the New York-based artist was awarded last year’s Off West End (Offie) Award for...

The coronavirus makes the lights go out on Broadway: all shows suspended until April 13, 2020

It was just announced by The Broadway League that all Broadway performances are suspended immediately, in the midst of the busy opening season. This comes following the breaking news that an usher at...

Conor McPherson takes a new approach to the jukebox musical in ‘Girl from the North Country’ at the Belasco Theatre

In Girl from the North Country, playing an open engagement at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre following successful runs in London and Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, Irish playwright and director Conor...

One family’s struggle with immigration and deportation in ‘72 Miles to Go’ at Roundabout Theatre Company

Among the most widely debated topics in our country, not just during this current primary election season but over the past decade, are the laws and politicized views on immigration. In 72 Miles to...

A masterful exhibition of conceptual art and clowning by Joel Jeske in ‘The Artist Will Be with You in a Moment’ at A.R.T./NY Theatres

As you enter the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at A.R.T/NY, you make your way through a professionally installed conceptual art exhibit, in which the artist is one of the works on display. It’s a...

Concept overshadows content and quality in ‘West Side Story’ at the Broadway Theatre

Trouble and controversy have plagued Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s re-envisioned revival of West Side Story, playing an open-ended run at the Broadway Theatre, since the beginning, with a delayed...

How is Broadway addressing the issue of the coronavirus?

The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway theater industry, with more than 700 members comprising theater owners, operators, general managers, suppliers, producers, and...

An emotional elegy to love and art in ‘Incantata’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

Irish Repertory Theatre’s US premiere of Incantata, which made its acclaimed debut at the 2018 Galway International Arts Festival, is an emotion-packed elegy to the enchantment of love, life, and art...

Bittersweet lessons ‘About Love’ and life in Culture Project’s new adaptation of Turgenev at The Sheen Center

Russian author Ivan Turgenev’s autobiographical short story “First Love,” first published in 1860, is the subject of a new retelling in Culture Project’s About Love, now playing a limited engagement...

Observing depression across three generations of women in ‘Anatomy of a Suicide’ at the Atlantic Theater Company

Atlantic Theater Company’s American premiere of Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch paints a painful and disturbing portrait of life-threatening depression across three generations of women in a...

A harrowing story of the abduction and abuse of ‘Dana H.’ as recounted in her own voice at Vineyard Theatre

Award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath takes a provocative and personal approach to an acutely disturbing crime story and its aftermath in his latest work Dana H., making its New York debut at Vineyard...

A wild lampoon of the Wild West in Clubbed Thumb’s ‘Tumacho’ at the Connelly Theatre

Following its premiere run of Ethan Lipton’s Tumacho in 2016, Clubbed Thumb (a resident company of Playwrights Horizons) is back with the Obie Award-winning writer’s commissioned Wild West parody for...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Mauricio Martinez

A native of Monterrey, Mexico, and resident of New York City, Mauricio Martinez’s ongoing “fifteen minutes of fame” have spread like wildfire throughout his native country and the US with his...

Keen Company revisits 1930 Harlem in its stellar New York debut of ‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ at Theatre Row

Although it’s been twenty-five years since playwright Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky made its debut in Atlanta, the Keen Company’s current revival at Theatre Row marks the New York premiere...

It’s a wild wine-day Wednesday in ‘Happy Birthday Doug’ at SoHo Playhouse

Following his smash hit run with Bright Colors and Bold Patterns in 2017-18, writer/performer Drew Droege returns to SoHo Playhouse for a limited engagement of his latest comedy Happy Birthday Doug....

Mint Theater Company pairs two Russian giants in ‘Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories’ at Theatre Row

For the first time on stage, Mint Theater Company brings together two short stories by two of Russia’s foremost authors in Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories, playing a limited engagement at Theatre Row....

Surviving abuse in ‘Chasing the River’ at Chain Theatre

Chain Theatre’s world-premiere production of Chasing the River by Jean Dobie Giebel offers an intense, gripping, and momentous examination of the devastating trauma and ongoing repercussions of...

The New Group revisits the Swinging Sixties in ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ at The Pershing Square Signature Center

The creative team of Jonathan Marc Sherman (book), Duncan Sheik (music and lyrics), and Amanda Green (lyrics) takes a look back at the sexual revolution of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ through the lens of...

An up-close and personal evening of songs and stories in ‘Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway Starring Patina Miller’ at The Town Hall

“We’re all friends here, right?” And she didn’t just ask; that’s exactly how the radiant Patina Miller, award-winning star of stage and screen, made everyone feel with her open and gracious...

That adorable bear hits the New York stage with ‘Paddington Gets in a Jam’ at the DR2 Theatre

The latest leg on Paddington Bear’s journey from his native Peru to his adoptive home in London to TV and movie screens everywhere is his stage debut in New York City at the DR2 Theatre in Paddington...

A dazzling design in a new adaptation of ‘Paradise Lost’ at Theatre Row

Now playing a limited engagement at Theatre Row, Fellowship for Performing Arts’ production of Paradise Lost – Tom Dulack’s stage adaptation of John Milton’s epic poem of the 17th century – is a...

Going for laughs in the doldrums of marriage in ‘Grand Horizons’ at the Helen Hayes Theater

After 50 years of marriage and their move to a retirement community, Nancy and Bill want a divorce and their adult sons Ben and Brian want to do anything they can to prevent it. Amidst the unexpected...

Celebrating the Lunar New Year with ‘The Emperor’s Nightingale’ at Theatre Row

To coincide with the celebration of the Lunar New Year this weekend, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, now in its 43rd season, has presented a remount of The Emperor’s Nightingale (which made its debut...

Fighting a war on two fronts in ‘A Soldier’s Play’ at American Airlines Theatre

Roundabout Theatre Company’s profoundly affecting Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller’s 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Soldier’s Play, now playing a limited engagement at American Airlines...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with ‘Emojiland’ MIBSL Max Crumm

Pasadena native Max Crumm was catapulted to fame when he won the 2007 reality TV show Grease: You’re The One That I Want, which landed him the lead role of Danny Zuko in that year’s Broadway revival...

Shakespeare meets the Mafia in ‘Romeo & Bernadette’ at A.R.T./NY Theatres

When their date at a lamentable community theater performance of Romeo and Juliet leaves a Brooklyn Girl in tears and a Brooklyn Guy bored to tears, he needs to prove to her that he really is smart...

Lampooning the biggest hits of the Great White Way in ‘Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation’ at The York Theatre Company

Conceived, written, and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, the latest installment in his outrageous parodies of the shows and stars of the Great White Way,...

Haunting memories of a troubled past in ‘My Name Is Lucy Barton’ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Is it ever truly possible to escape the pain and turmoil of the past or will the disturbing memories always be there to haunt you and to impact your present life? That’s the issue at hand in My Name...

Learning to improvise with confidence and commitment in ‘Show Up, Kids!’ at The Kraine Theater

Imagine you’ve got tickets to the theater and the star attraction gets stage fright and sends a note that she’s not coming. But the house is full and the show must go on, so if you’re...

TOSOS celebrates blues legend Alberta Hunter in ‘Leaving the Blues’ at The Flea Theater

From her meager beginnings in Memphis through her rise to international fame and triumphant comeback after 20 years of service as a nurse, the life and times of renowned blues and jazz...

A farcical look at ‘sex and station’ in 19th-century England with ‘London Assurance’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

When Dion Boucicault’s premiere farce London Assurance made its debut at Covent Garden in 1841, the 20-year-old Irish actor and playwright became an instant success in England, garnering immediate...

Get your bells jingling with ‘The Boy Band Project Holiday Edition’ at The Green Room 42

It may be cold outside, but The Green Room 42 keeps on sizzling with The Boy Band Project Holiday Edition, a new seasonal version of the group’s super-popular Sunday afternoon cabaret The Boy Band...

Enter the fantasy world of the land inside the poem with Cirque du Soleil’s ‘‘Twas the Night Before . . .’ at Madison Square Garden

Cirque du Soleil’s first-ever Christmas show ‘Twas the Night Before . . . , making its debut at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater, presents a sparkling contemporary spin on the beloved 19th-century...

What it’s like to be ‘one in two’ at The Pershing Square Signature Center

Playwright Donja R. Love, prompted by the tenth anniversary of his own diagnosis, explores what it’s like to be Black, queer, and HIV+ in one in two, now playing at The Pershing Square Signature...

Bringing ‘the Word’ to life on the stage in ‘The Gospel of John’ at The Sheen Center

For this Christmas season, The Sheen Center – the arts center of the Archdiocese of New York – presents a limited engagement of The Gospel of John, a slightly condensed one-man performance of the...

Spice up your holidays with ‘Paige Turner: Jingle All the Way!’ at The Green Room 42

It’s a holly jolly raunchy campy Christmas in Paige Turner: Jingle All the Way!, back at The Green Room 42 for a second year of holiday fun. Created and performed by the New York drag sensation...