Deb Miller

Coming out with a Shakespearean twist in ‘Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves’ at ART/NY

Boomerang Theatre Company’s world premiere of Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves at ART/NY puts a Shakespearean twist on coming of age and coming out in NJ in 2005. Written by Gina Femia, the...

Honoring the life and legacy of jazz great Louis Armstrong in ‘A Wonderful World’ at Broadway’s Studio 54

One of the world’s most acclaimed and influential jazz vocalists and trumpeters, New Orleans native Louis Armstrong (1901-71) had a Grammy Award-winning career that spanned five decades of...

Big Apple Circus celebrates NYC with ‘Hometown Playground’ at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park

Founded in 1977, and based in NYC, the Big Apple Circus has returned to Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park for the holiday season with its all-new one-ring Hometown Playground, paying homage to the City,...

Unpacking the damage of dating in ‘Strategic Love Play’ Off-Broadway at Minetta Lane Theatre

After meeting virtually on a dating app, two matched – or more accurately, mismatched -strangers get together at a bar for a disastrous evening that keeps on going in the NYC debut of writer Miriam...

Challenging ingrained church doctrine through wildly irreverent comedy in ‘Catholic Guilt’ at NYC’s SoHo Playhouse

As part of its International Fringe Encore Comedy Series, SoHo Playhouse is presenting a two-week NYC engagement of Catholic Guilt, following critically acclaimed award-nominated runs at Edinburgh...

The journey of six Egyptian student activists of the Arab Spring in ‘We Live in Cairo’ Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop

In 2011, Egyptian student activists took to the streets of Cairo during the uprising of the Arab Spring to oust the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak, only to see an escalation in...

Bitingly funny and ferocious feminocracy in ‘Teeth’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

Based on the 2007 cult classic comedy horror film of the same name, itself inspired by the mythic goddess and cautionary folk-tale tradition of vagina dentata (“That’s Latin” for ‘toothed vagina’),...

Immersive ‘Little House on the Ferry: The Musical’ reopens the upstairs cabaret at NYC’s The Duplex

Closed for two years due to damage caused by a fire in 2022, the intimate upstairs cabaret space at The Duplex, an iconic West Village performance venue since the 1960s, has now reopened as the Fire...

Real-life romantic dramedy ‘Left on Tenth’ at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

Adapted for the stage from her best-selling 2022 memoir of the same name, Left on Tenth, by novelist and screenwriter Delia Ephron (You’ve Got Mail), recounts her late-in-life love story and second...

Failures of the system in the current mental health crisis in ‘Rawshock’ at NYC’s Chain Theatre

Originally presented by Manhattan Repertory Theatre in a developmental production in June 2023, Rawshock, by playwright Rita Lewis, is now back with Manhattan Rep for a limited engagement at NYC’s...

Celebrating the release of ‘The Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot’ at NYC’s Algonquin Hotel

Just in time for the Halloween season, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation hosted ‘A Spooky Season Soirée’ on Tuesday, October 22, from 5-7 pm, at The Algonquin Hotel, to celebrate the release of The...

Queens face off in ‘DRAG: The Musical’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

Fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and everyone else with a taste for fabulous dressed-up, made-up, wigged-out fun, will love DRAG: The Musical, making its Off-Broadway debut at New World Stages. The...

Comical imagining of Ben Franklin’s failings as a father in ‘Franklinland’ at NYC’s EST

In his comedy Franklinland, which debuted at Chicago’s Jackalope Theatre in 2018, and is now playing a limited engagement at NYC’s EST (Ensemble Studio Theatre, where it received a workshop production...

Timeless and affecting revival of ‘Our Town’ at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre

For the first time in more than two decades, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 American classic Our Town is back on Broadway for a limited engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with J. Harrison Ghee

As the first nonbinary actor to win a Tony for best lead performance in a musical for the transitioning role of Jerry/Daphne in the 2022-23 Broadway production of Some Like It Hot (which also garnered...

Musical harmony leads to familial disharmony in ‘The Hills of California’ at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre

Veronica is dying, so her still single adult daughter Jill, who never left her childhood home and has dutifully served as her mother’s caretaker, sends word to her sisters Ruby, Gloria, and Joan to...

Coming of age and learning hard lessons in ‘Sump’n Like Wings’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Mint Theater Company’s NYC premiere of the 1925 coming-of-age story Sump’n Like Wings by Lynn Riggs – whose Green Grow the Lilacs, written in 1930, and first produced in 1931, served as the basis for...

Discovering the value of human connection at a small-town diner in ‘The Counter’ Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company

Playwright Meghan Kennedy returns to Roundabout Theatre Company for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center’s Laura Pels Theatre with her latest commission The...

AI triumphs in ‘McNeal’ at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center

Acclaimed novelist Jacob McNeal, an unlikeable, narcissistic liar, cheat, and mentally unstable substance abuser, who dismisses his personal transgressions, professional plagiarism, and lack of ethics...

All-star reading of a new adaptation of ‘Holiday’ at NYC’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater to benefit The Acting Company

On Sunday, October 6, beginning at 7 pm, a special one-night-only star-studded event was held at The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at CUNY’s John Jay College to benefit the national tours and education...

Uproariously zany and riotously raunchy high-camp musical farce ‘The Big Gay Jamboree’ at Off-Broadway’s Orpheum Theater

When a very hungover Stacey wakes up from a night of blacking out after downing eighteen shots of Jägermeister, she finds herself Off-Broadway, on stage before a live audience, in a 1940s Golden Age...

Debating the pros and cons of gentrification in ‘Good Bones’ Off-Broadway at The Public

Philadelphia-based Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames (Fat Ham) is back Off-Broadway at The Public Theater with the NYC premiere of his latest work Good Bones, directed again by The...

Attorney’s conflict between his professional ambition and his Native American heritage in ‘Distant Thunder’ at Off-Broadway’s A.R.T./New York

Presented by Amas Musical Theatre, in association with Tall Tree Productions, and making its NYC debut in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at A.R.T., Distant Thunder, with a book by Lynne...

A sharp-witted quasi-autobiographical look at the complexities of race, casting, and politics in ‘Yellow Face’ at Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company

Self-described as an “unreliable memoir” by three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony winner David Henry Hwang (the first Asian American playwright to receive the award), Yellow Face, which made its...

TCG releases lists of America’s most-produced plays and playwrights of the 2024-25 season

American Theatre magazine, published daily online and quarterly in print by Theatre Communications Group (TCG) – the national organization for theatre founded in 1961, with a membership of more than...

Verbatim dramatization of a true court case from the January 6th insurrection in ‘Fatherland’ Off-Broadway at New York City Center

The Fountain Theatre production of Fatherland, a new verbatim play conceived and directed by Stephen Sachs and now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at New York City Center following its...

Richard Lear previews The Mint’s NYC premiere of ‘Sump’n Like Wings’ at Theatre Row

Actor, director, and producer Richard Lear has been performing since high school, when he was first cast as a Union Soldier in the Columbia Pictures mini-series The Blue and The Gray. The role...

Surreal trip into Trump’s brain in the new musical comedy ‘Ghost of John McCain’ at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse

On the day of his death, Arizona Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain finds himself in the lobby of a 3* hotel that turns out not to be the wonderful afterlife he anticipated in heaven,...

Rap version of a Euripides classic in ‘Medea: Re-versed’ at NYC’s Sheen Center

First performed in 431 BC, Euripides’ tragedy Medea, based on the ancient Greek myth, tells the story of the titular enchantress of divine descent, abandoned after ten years together by her husband...

Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano lead a rousing celebration of her ‘Broadway en Spanglish’ album release at NYC’s 54 Below

The multi-talented Mexican-born, NYC-based husband-and-wife team Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano returned to 54 Below this Hispanic Heritage Month with Broadway en Spanglish, a one-night-only...

Spot-on spoofs bring non-stop laughs in ‘FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: Merrily We Stole a Song’ at Off-Broadway’s Theater 555

Calling all theater nerds! Writer/director Gerard Alessandrini’s satirical series FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, which made its debut in 1982, has returned with a new installment of his witty spoofs of popular...

Tensions rise as NYPD officers face questioning in ‘The Witness Room’ at NYC’s AMT Theater

Following its extended sold-out world-premiere run at LA’s Whitefire Theatre in March 2024, The Witness Room, an explosive behind-the-scenes NYPD courtroom drama by writer and civil rights/criminal...

The return of ‘NYC Off-Broadway Week’ offers 2-for-1 tickets to 29 participating shows

Now in its fifteenth year, NYC Off-Broadway Week, presented by NYC Tourism + Conventions, supported by NYC Media & Entertainment, and sponsored by Amtrak, returns from September 30–October 13, 2024,...

Preview of the new exhibition ‘Edges of Ailey’ at NYC’s Whitney Museum

Opening on Wednesday, September 25, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Edges of Ailey is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dance, influences, and enduring legacy of...

Arlekin’s new adaptation of ‘Our Class’ at Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company

After its multiple-award-nominated sold-out run at Brooklyn Academy of Music earlier this year, Our Class has transferred Off-Broadway to Classic Stage Company, as part of Massachusetts-based Arlekin...

Immersive multi-sensory performance with dinner explores our connection with food in ‘A Meal’ at NYC’s HERE

If you’re accustomed to the non-stop fast pace of NYC, there’s an innovative theatrical event that slows it down and transports you to another plane of dreamlike existence and meditative sensibilities...

Project ALS benefit ‘An Evening with Aaron Lazar’ coming to City Winery NYC in October

Coming to City Winery NYC on Tuesday, October 22, is An Evening with Aaron Lazar – a star-studded benefit for Project ALS, which identifies and funds the most promising research and recruits the...

Mismatched connection brings surprising transformations in ‘The Roommate’ at Broadway’s Booth Theatre

After her divorce, Sharon needs a housemate for the first time in her life to share her home and expenses in Iowa City. Robyn, a woman from a completely different background in the Bronx, moves in and...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Nicole Vanessa Ortiz

With her Forbidden Broadway debut in Merrily We Stole a Song, now playing Off-Broadway at Theater 555 on West 42nd Street, Nicole Vanessa Ortiz, a native of Newark, NJ, continues to rack up her...

Smart, funny, and heated intergenerational debate between donor and fundraiser in ‘The Ask’ at NYC’s wild project

Playwright Matthew Freeman, with thirteen years of experience as a fundraiser for the ACLU, considers the comically tense socio-political dynamics of soliciting and contributing charitable donations...

Annual ‘Table of Silence Project 9/11’ will be live and livestreamed from NYC’s Lincoln Center on Wednesday

It’s been 23 years since the 9/11 attacks, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with Buglisi Dance Theatre, will once again commemorate the tragic events, and the current crises...

Seth Sikes and Nicolas King celebrate the Golden Age of Hollywood in ‘The New Belters Sing MGM’ at NYC’s 54 Below

Seth Sikes and Nicolas King, both award-winning artists known for their smooth, swinging, blockbuster deliveries of classics from the Great American Songbook, have been touring the country with their...

Mark your calendar for the 38th annual ‘Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction’ in the heart of NYC’s Theater District

Now in its 38th year, the popular Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, supported by corporate sponsors The New York Times and United Airlines, returns...

A conversation with celebrated actor Dorian Harewood

Nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League Awards in the 2023-24 season for his leading role on Broadway in The Notebook, acclaimed stage, screen, and voice actor Dorian Harewood just received...

Get your 2-for-1 tickets now for 23 shows participating in ‘NYC Broadway Week’ in September

Tickets are on sale now for NYC Broadway Week, returning for more than a week, from September 3-15! Presented by NYC Tourism, in partnership with The Broadway League, and supported by the Mayor’s...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s A.J. Shively

From his Broadway roles in Bright Star, garnering a Drama Desk nomination, La Cage aux Folles, a benefit performance of Brigadoon, and Paradise Square, for which he received Tony and Outer Critics...

Processing grief in ‘someone spectacular’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center

When their grief counselor Beth inexplicably fails to show up for her weekly group therapy session with six recently bereaved strangers in present-day Manhattan, they take a vote and decide to proceed...

Stage and screen producer Julian Schlossberg launches the second volume of his memoir at Sardi’s in NYC

At a private NYC release event at Sardi’s on Tuesday, August 13, starting at 1 pm, long-time stage and screen producer, broadcaster, podcaster, and author Julian Schlossberg launched the second volume...

Unabashedly goofy mid-century musical ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ is back on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s iconic 1835 fairytale “The Princess and the Pea,” the over-the-top musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress, with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and...

Combining the reality and fantasy of dementia in ‘{IN}TANGIBLE A Circus Play’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

While living in a care facility, Q, a woman struggling with dementia, is visited by her family and her memories in the world premiere of {IN}TANGIBLE A circus play, now in a four-night engagement at...