Deb Miller

Preserving and celebrating the legacy of a musical theater visionary in ‘The Jonathan Larson Project’ Off-Broadway at the Orpheum

When writer, composer, and lyricist Jonathan Larson died suddenly in 1996, at the age of 35, just a day before the Off-Broadway debut of his acclaimed musical RENT, the struggling young artist...

An 85th birthday celebration to remember from ‘Judy Collins and Friends’ at The Town Hall in NYC

Legendary singer/songwriter/musician and activist Judy Collins returned to stage at The Town Hall – where she first performed and recorded her first live album, Judy Collins in Concert, in 1964 – to...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with international Fringe favorite Chris Davis

A five-star regular on the international Fringe Festival circuit, writer/performer Chris Davis returns to NYC in April with his latest one-man hit The 40-Year-Old Ballerino, as part of the 2025 New...

New album releases from two Broadway musicals and a NYC cabaret concert

Among the latest album releases from the New York City stage are an EP from an upcoming Broadway musical, the original cast recording from a highly acclaimed hit of this season, and a signature...

Lies and manipulation in MTC’s ‘Dakar 2000’ Off-Broadway at New York City Center

Commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club through the Bank of America New Play Program and now in its world-premiere engagement at Off-Broadway’s New York City Center, Dakar 2000, written by Pulitzer...

TCG’s 2023 report on US nonprofit theaters’ ongoing recovery

The latest edition of Theatre Facts 2023 – Theatre Communications Group’s annual research report on the state of the US nonprofit theaters, produced in partnership with SMU DataArts – was released...

Immersive transportive journey of self-discovery in ‘AVALONA, A Musical Legend’ at The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew in NYC

After the well-deserved success of its initial developmental concert presentation in January, AVALONA, A Musical Legend, by creator and performer Dina Fanai, has returned for an additional limited...

Familial dysfunction, fateful decisions, and failed dreams in The New Group’s ‘Curse of the Starving Class’ Off-Broadway at The Pershing Square Signature Center

For the second production of its 30th anniversary season, The New Group is presenting a limited Off-Broadway engagement of Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s 1977 three-act OBIE Award-winning play...

Lessons learned through a lifelong bond in the hilarious and heartwarming ‘Conversations with Mother’ Off-Broadway at Theater 555

In his new semi-autobiographical comedy Conversations with Mother, Matthew Lombardo examines the dynamics of the mother-son relationship between the feisty Italian Catholic matriarch Maria Collavechio...

A lot of talk, a lot of time, and a lot of baring offer no feminist solutions in ‘Liberation’ Off-Broadway at Roundabout

Roundabout Theatre Company’s world-premiere of Liberation by playwright Bess Wohl addresses the efforts and failures of the Women’s Movement over the 50+ years since 1970, in a meta-theatrical go-back...

Pride and ambition conflict with Socialist ideals in the Mint’s NYC premiere of ‘Garside’s Career’ at Theatre Row

After Garside’s Career, a cautionary tale of the ill effects of pride and ambition by English playwright Harold Brighouse, made its successful US debut with an extended run in Boston in 1919, it was...

Special offers and activities for ‘Kids’ Night on Broadway’ returning on March 4

Since 1996, more than 200,000 kids and teens have attended Broadway shows. Kids’ Night on Broadway – a year-round national audience development program of The Broadway League, presented by The New...

Dorian Harewood previews ‘Songs from the Brill Building’ at NYC’s 54 Below

Following his Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award-nominated return to Broadway in The Notebook after a 45-year hiatus, acclaimed stage and screen star, voice actor and singer Dorian Harewood is...

29 shows offering 2-for-1 tickets for ‘NYC Off-Broadway Week’ Winter 2025

New York City Tourism + Conventions, in partnership with The Off-Broadway League, is offering its twice-yearly promotion of 2-for-1 tickets during NYC Off-Broadway Week, running for a full three weeks...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Jason Tam

Known to millions of devoted fans and social media followers of the musical Be More Chill for originating the role of the SQUIP in the 2018-19 Off-Broadway and Broadway productions, triple threat...

Pan Asian Rep’s real-life drama of ‘My Man Kono’ at A.R.T./NY’s Mezzanine Theatre

Now in its 48th season, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, with a mission of providing professional opportunities for Asian American artists and creating new works focused on issues of social justice,...

Fearless autobiographical look at a queer indie music icon in ‘B*tchcraft’ at NYC’s wild project

Indie rock star, artist, and writer Bitch – known to followers for her band Bitch and Animal, as the opening act for Indigo Girls and Ani Difranco, and for her cameo appearance in John Cameron...

Fans flock to ‘BroadwayCon 10’ at the New York Marriott Marquis

The 10th installment of BroadwayCon launched across multiple floors at the New York Marriott Marquis on Friday, February 7, with a full house of fans, a full slate of events, and appearances by stars...

Comical reading of eight women’s stories of failed marriages in ‘My First Ex-Husband’ Off-Broadway at MMAC Theater

Writer, stand-up comic, performer of the stage and screen, long-time Emmy-winning co-host of ABC’s talk show The View, and native Brooklynite Joy Behar has now brought My First Ex-Husband, her...

Funny and affecting Off-Broadway remount of ‘Still’ at The Sheen Center

Following a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere at the DR2 Theatre in April 2024, playwright Lia Romeo’s two-hander romantic dramedy Still, on the possibility – or impossibility – of rekindling...

Feminist critique of misogyny and more in ‘Mrs. Loman’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

In her unauthorized sequel to Arthur Miller’s 1949 tragedy Death of a Salesman, playwright Barbara Cassidy considers what might have happened to Willy Loman’s wife Linda after his suicide, in Mrs....

Winners of NYC’s 68th Obie Awards for off- and off-off-Broadway theater

This evening, in a broadcast of NY1’s On Stage, hosted by Frank DiLella on Spectrum News, 2024 Obie winners Marla Mindelle and Ryan J. Haddad announced a selection of winners of the American Theatre...

A sneak peek at ‘The Jonathan Larson Project’ coming soon to NYC’s Orpheum Theatre

When composer, lyricist, and playwright Jonathan Larson died suddenly of an aortic dissection at the age of 35 on January 25, 1996 – the day before the premiere of his new musical RENT, for which he...

Sparks fly between Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando in ‘Kowalski’ Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street

In his autobiography, director Elia Kazan referenced the first meeting between the 36-year-old Tennessee Williams and the 23-year-old Marlon Brando at the former’s beach house in Provincetown, MA, on...

10th annual ‘BroadwayCon’ coming February 7-9, at the New York Marriott Marquis

Now in its tenth year, BroadwayCon – the must-do annual convention for Broadway and theater superfans – will offer a full weekend of more than 100 hours of in-depth programming from February 7-9, at...

Three top picks to celebrate the Year of the Snake in NYC

Celebrated by an estimated two billion people around the globe (or a quarter of the world’s population), the Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, begins with the first new moon of the...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Melissa Gilbert

Born in LA and a resident of NYC, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated actor, director, producer, and best-selling author Melissa Gilbert began accumulating her non-stop fifteen minutes of fame as...

The return of ‘Broadway Week’ and 2-for-1 tickets to 27 participating shows

Tickets are now available for this winter’s installment of Broadway Week – the popular biannual event presented by NYC Tourism and The Broadway League – offering 2-for-1 pricing to a selection of 27...

Go ‘Back To The 90’s’ on New Year’s Eve with Broadway’s Casey Likes and The Boy Band Project at Hurley’s NYC

There’s nothing like New Year’s Eve in New York City, with the annual live public celebration and countdown to the ball drop in Times Square, hosted this year by Jonathan Bennett and Jeremy Hassell,...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Nancy McKeon

Since the age of two, when she began modeling baby clothes for the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, actress/director/producer/writer Nancy McKeon, a native of Westbury, NY, and childhood resident of Forest...

Hilarious and timely aha moments in MTC’s ‘Eureka Day’ at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Inclusivity, diversity, equality, and everyone’s point of view matters are the woke ideals at an elite private elementary school in Berkeley, California, until they aren’t, in Eureka Day, playing a...

A wild yuletide celebration like no other in ‘The 14th Annual Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza’ at NYC’s 54 Below

With a cast and team of more than 60, a fully scripted installment of new skits, characters, and songs added to the familiar favorites of the past decades, and immersive staging throughout the...

Socio-cultural truth-telling through dance in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s ‘Legacy in Motion’ at New York City Center

For Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 2024-25 season Legacy in Motion and their annual residency at New York City Center, the company, founded in 1958 by the eponymous dancer/choreographer to...

Two strangers reveal traumatic secrets in a hotel room in Amsterdam in ‘A Guide for the Homesick’ at NYC’s DR2 Theatre

There’s a lot going on in a double room at a cheap hotel near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, where two American strangers end up together for what might have been a casual one-night stand after meeting...

Reflecting on a lifelong international friendship through letters in ‘Pen Pals’ Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clement’s

In 1955, when they were both fourteen-year-old high-school students, Bernadette, from Newark, NJ, and Margaret, from Sheffield, England, began a correspondence, launched by their teachers, that would...

The impact of ‘Wicked’ the movie on ticket sales of the Broadway production

As Wicked the Musical continues to break records in its 21st anniversary on Broadway, a new report shows that the movie adaptation, starring Ariana Grande-Butera as Galinda and Cythia Erivo as...

Recent book releases for theater-lovers

If you have some time off for the holidays, you can catch up on your reading with these three recent releases on historic contributions to the theater in London’s West End, at Yale University, and by...

Three top picks for the holidays, on stage in NYC

If you’re looking for a fabulous way to celebrate the joy of Christmas at a theater in NYC, there are two annual themed concerts and a new Broadway musical based on a popular movie that are guaranteed...

Laughs and thrills for all ages from ‘Circus Vazquez’ at New York’s Citi Field

Continuing its 55-year legacy of dare-devil feats, breathtaking acrobatics, and hilarious clowning, Circus Vazquez, America’s largest family-owned big-top circus, is entertaining audiences of all ages...

Tour-de-force one-man adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at NYC’s historic Merchant’s House

Returning for the twelfth year this holiday season, Summoners Ensemble Theatre and the Merchant’s House Museum once again present the solo adaptation by actor John Kevin Jones and director Rhonda Dodd...

Guests and locals at an historic inn unpack baggage in ‘Welcome to the Big Dipper’ Off-Broadway at the York

When a monster blizzard and a crash on the highway strand two very different groups of travelers for three days at an historic Black-owned inn on the brink of closure in upstate New York, a lot of...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with The Boy Band Project’s Sam Harvey

It’s been a busy month for triple threat Sam Harvey, an actor, singer, self-described “mover/groover,” and rotating member of The Boy Band Project, racking up more and more of his burgeoning fifteen...

Broadway shows and stars to perform in NYC’s 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

2024 marks the 98th year of kicking off the holiday season with Macy’s world-renowned Thanksgiving Day Parade, averaging an annual 3.5 million people experiencing it live along its 2.5 mile route in...

Harrowing seafaring parable of guilt and redemption in ‘Swept Away’ at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre

Framed in the format of a memory play, the new jukebox musical Swept Away, with a book by John Logan and songs by the folk-rock band the Avett Brothers (including five from their 2004 concept album...

Hilarious high camp musical adaptation of ‘Death Becomes Her’ at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

An all-in, way-out cast brings to life the new musical stage adaptation of Robert Zemeckis’s 1992 dark-comedy cult-classic film Death Becomes Her at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, following its...

Deep dive into the mind and work of a brilliant bipolar artist in ‘300 Paintings’ Off-Broadway at Vineyard Theatre

Part autobiography, part art history lecture, part psycho-therapy session, part stand-up comedy routine, and fully brilliant, revealing, engaging, and funny, 300 Paintings, written by and starring the...

34th annual ‘Jane Elissa Extravaganza’ at NYC’s Times Square Marriott Marquis raises funds for leukemia and cancer research

Now in its 34th year, the Jane Elissa Extravaganza – an annual benefit for the Jane Elissa Endowment Fund for Leukemia/Lymphoma and Cancer Research, founded in 1989, when her mother was diagnosed with...

A sweet and poignant tale of robot love in ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre

Retired robots Oliver and Claire have been neighbors for more than a decade, living alone, in the future, in their one-room apartments at The Helperbot Yards outside Seoul, Korea, but they don’t meet...

Origins of a classic form of Japanese theater in ‘Okuni: The Woman Who Created Kabuki’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Performed in Japanese with brief thematic narrations and projected translations in English, Amaterasu Za’s world premiere of Okuni: The Woman Who Created Kabuki at NYC’s Theatre Row traces the...

Jubilant reunion of three Broadway co-stars in ‘Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

Though they’ve remained the best of friends since originating the roles of the 1960s teenagers Tracy, Amber, and Penny in the Tony Award-winning Broadway premiere of Hairspray in 2002, Tony winner...