New York City Theater

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...

An encore performance of ‘Vangari: Cautionary Tales’ coming to NYC’s don’t tell mama

Following a successful run in 2021, the musical mother/daughter duo Vangari returns to the iconic NYC nightspot don’t tell mama on West 46th Street’s Restaurant Row for a special encore performance of...

Feeling the excitement and love streaming from NYC with ‘Mauricio Martínez: Back at 54th Street’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

In his return to NYC nightspot Feinstein’s/54 Below, actor and singer Mauricio Martínez, renowned in his native Mexico, on Broadway, and beyond for his concerts, albums, and acclaimed appearances on...

Six new audio-play releases from Audible

Audible Inc., the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, has just released a new slate of Audible Original theater titles, to continue to deliver the theater experience to a...

Red Bull Theater, Mauricio Martínez, and Lynn Nottage streaming this week from NYC

Streaming this week are three top picks from NYC that offer a variety of events to suit every taste, from a staged reading of a re-envisioned classic to a contemporary cabaret concert by a Broadway...

It’s a dream come true with ‘Lindsay Lavin: The Beatles Unplugged’ at NYC’s The Green Room 42

Like so many of us, Lindsay Lavin grew up listening to The Beatles – in her case and her family’s, as she noted, to the point of being “completely obsessed!” So it was a “huge item on her bucket list”...

Satisfy your appetites with the ‘Boy Band Brunch’ at NYC’s Chelsea Table + Stage

On Sunday, February 27, The Boy Band Project kicked off their Boy Band Brunch residency at Chelsea Table + Stage, playing every other Sunday at 2 pm, through April 24. And it was absolutely...

An uplifting absurdist search for the meaning of life in Off-Broadway’s world premiere of ‘sandblasted’ at the Vineyard

For their return to live in-person performances after the long pandemic shutdown, Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre and WP Theater have teamed up for the world-premiere co-production of sandblasted....

Spencer Day reimagines songs from iconic musicals on his new album ‘Broadway By Day’ from Club44 Records

On his debut album with Club44 Records – an independent label that highlights the music of Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and the American Songbook – #1 Billboard jazz/pop singer and songwriter Spencer Day...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with musical multi-hyphenate Jaime Lozano

Musician, composer, arranger, orchestrator, music director, and vocal coach Jaime Lozano has taken the term multi-hyphenate and extended his flourishing fame with it, from his homeland of Mexico to...

The impact of learning a foreign language on cultural identity in ‘English’ at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company

When four adult students enroll in a six-week course to prepare to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) in 2008 Karaj, Iran, issues arise that lead them and their teacher to examine...

Stellar portrayals of class conflict, familial dysfunction, and Freudian psychology in ‘The Daughter-in-Law’ at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theater Company

After keeping audiences connected to its mission of preserving under-represented plays and forgotten classics with a pandemic-time series of archival streams of its previous productions, Mint Theater...

The Broadway revival of ‘The Music Man’ at the Winter Garden Theatre hits high notes and low notes

When con man Howard Hill arrives by train to River City, Iowa, it’s to swindle the townsfolk with promises of forming a marching band that will keep their kids out of trouble and away from the pool...

A cutting-edge account of the cold-hearted Cold War in Off-Broadway’s ‘Space Dogs’ at MCC

Creators/performers Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes take a highly entertaining, astute, and affecting look at the cold-blooded values of the Cold War and man’s inhumanity to animals in the world premiere...

A stirring cry to stop the hatred in The New Group’s world premiere of ‘Black No More’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center

The world-premiere musical adaptation of author George S. Schuyler’s 1931 Afrofuturist novel Black No More, by John Ridley (book), Tariq Trotter (music and lyrics), and Anthony Tidd, James Poyser, and...

Mark William filled the house with music and love on Valentine’s Day at NYC’s Chelsea Table + Stage

For his Valentine’s Day debut at NYC’s new nightspot Chelsea Table + Stage, new-age crooner Mark William celebrated love with a special curated set list of standards, more recent hits, and an original...

DC’s Happenstance Theater embodies the fatal faux pas of the aristocracy in ‘Barococo’ at NYC’s 59E59

What’s an 18th-century aristocrat to do, when trapped inside a luxurious salon while the French revolution rages right outside the door? The DC area’s Happenstance Theater shows us, in the ingenious...

Celebrate Valentine’s Day live and online from NYC

Valentine’s Day is on Monday, and love is in the air, with two star-studded online events coming direct to your home from NYC. One is an open-mic Zoom celebration; the other a live in-person concert...

TCG Books Play Collection goes live on Drama Online

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) – the national organization for theater, founded in 1961, and North America’s largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature – has announced that the TCG...

A boffo birthday bash with Billy Stritch and friends at NYC’s Birdland

Multiple award recipient and Grammy-nominated pianist, singer, and songwriter Billy Stritch – known for his 25-year collaboration with Liza Minnelli as accompanist and opening act, his recent tour...

Original cast albums of ‘Love in Hate Nation’ and ‘Space Dogs’ from Ghostlight Records

On Friday, February 11, Ghostlight Records – the leading independent force in original Broadway cast recordings, with a library of more than 200 records over the past 20 years, and a mission of...

Mark William and The Boy Band Project coming soon to NYC’s Chelsea Table + Stage

Though its launch was put on hold by the pandemic closure of public venues in 2020, NYC’s newest high-end supper club, Chelsea Table + Stage, located in the lower level of the Hilton New York Fashion...

The trauma of anti-Semitism across five generations in MTC’s ‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Off-Broadway at New York City Center

Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Prayer for the French Republic, written by Drama Desk Award winner Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews; Significant Other), directed by Tony winner David Cromer (The...

Lincoln Center to offer free programming in NYC and online

To make the arts more accessible to everyone, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced an exciting spring season of free and choose-what-you-pay programming, beginning on Sunday, February...

Broadway’s ‘MJ’ offers a spectacular and sensitive look at the brilliance and pain of Michael Jackson

Lauded and beloved by fans around the globe as one of the world’s best-selling music artists in history and one of the most successful entertainers of all time, with an unsurpassed number of awards...

Two festivals of dance and theater this month in NYC

This month, two NYC festivals – one in dance and one in theater – will offer audiences the excitement of being among the first to experience original works by emerging and returning artists. Founded...

New book releases for wintertime reading

With the freezing cold weather, the forecast of more storms to come, and Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow this Groundhog’s Day, predicting another six weeks of winter, it’s a good time to get warm...

Major Attaway brings his Broadway magic to ‘The Genie’s Jukebox’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

Major Attaway was the first to take over the role of The Genie in Aladdin from Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart and currently holds the title of Broadway’s longest running Genie, with over 1500...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Shhhh’ presents an explicit study on the effects of rape culture that isn’t easy to watch

“If you push this button, you could kill all the heterosexual men in the world. I would be ethically obligated to push that button.” So says Francis, a young woman unabashedly sharing the sexual...

MTC’s funny and astute Broadway premiere of ‘Skeleton Crew’ extols core values and a human support system in hard times

The Broadway premiere of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre,...

A heartrending reminder never to forget in New York City Opera’s ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’ at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

Opening last night on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the world premiere of the American operatic adaptation of The Garden of the Finzi- Continis by Ricky Ian Gordon (composer) and Michael...

What a night in NYC with ‘John Lloyd Young: Broadway’s Jersey Boy’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

He’s got the voice, the personality, and the look, together with a sincere passion for the songs he sings and a true appreciation for his audiences, and that all adds up to a fabulous night at...

A shattering pandemic-time reimagining of ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ Off-Broadway at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre

Audible Theatre’s new stage production of Eugene O’Neill’s 1957 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic Long Day’s Journey into Night – a thinly-fictionalized autobiographical drama...

A revealing séance in spit&vigor’s ‘Ectoplasm’ at Off-Broadway’s The Players

It’s 1912, and guests at an intimate dinner party, including a world-famous magician, have gathered for a private séance. Will the otherworldly exploration reveal secrets of life and death, or debunk...

A listening party for ‘The Sunday Set’ album and a concert of songs from ‘The World to Come’ streaming this week

Let the music of New York keep you warm this week, with two terrific online events that you can stream at home without having to brave the freezing weather! Just released by Club44 Records on Friday,...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s ‘Aladdin’ star Major Attaway

In 2016, Major Attaway – a more than 20-year veteran entertainer who began his career in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area – made his Broadway debut in Disney’s Aladdin, playing and understudying the...

Tony and Grammy winner John Lloyd Young returns to NYC for six nights and a livestream at Feinstein’s/54 Below

Fans in NYC have been waiting for nearly a year since John Lloyd Young, who was scheduled for a six-night engagement at Feinstein’s/54 Below from March 17-22, 2021, had that appearance postponed three...

Award-winning vocalist Jeff Harnar offers ‘A Collective Cy’ salute to Cy Coleman at NYC’s Birdland

On Monday, January 31, at 7 pm, Birdland Jazz Club will present acclaimed vocalist Jeff Harnar and his salute to the legendary Emmy, Grammy, and Tony-winning songwriter Cy Coleman (1929-2004) in A...

Broadway theaters to dim their lights in honor of Sidney Poitier

To commemorate the life of prolific actor, director, and cultural icon Sidney Poitier (1927-2022), who died of heart failure at his Beverly Hills home on Thursday, January 6, at the age 94, the...

Be An #ArtsHero/Arts Workers United to testify before Congress

The national non-partisan grassroots campaign Be An #ArtsHero, which has evolved into Arts Workers United, has worked closely with Democratic and Republican representatives over the past eight months...

Celebrate MLK Day with a free virtual concert from Off-Broadway’s NYTF and a music release from Miri Ben-Ari and Flo Rida

In honor of Martin Luther King Day on Monday are two free online offerings – one a rebroadcast of an annual concert, the other a new music/video release – that capture shared experiences of the...

2-for-1 tickets for NYC Broadway Week and updated COVID-19 protocols

After a two-year hiatus during the pandemic, NYC Broadway Week – a twice-yearly celebration produced by NYC & Company in partnership with The Broadway League since it was inaugurated in 2011 – returns...

Off-Broadway’s award-winning ‘The Last Boy’ to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day in April at The Town Hall

It was announced this week that The Last Boy . . . a new play with music by Steven Fisher, which had its sold-out and critically acclaimed world premiere production at The Theatre at St. Clements in...

Go backstage with the stars in ‘Great Performances – Reopening: The Broadway Revival’ on PBS

As part of its #PBSForTheArts programming – a multiplatform campaign that began last spring to celebrate the arts in America – PBS will air the new documentary film Reopening: The Broadway Revival in...

A musical melodramedy with a message in ‘The Streets of New York’ at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre

First presented at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre in 2002, in the aftermath of 9/11, The Streets of New York is back live on stage through the end of January in the company’s current...

Streaming selections from BPN, Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater, and Club44 Records

If the cold weather and COVID are keeping you inside, here are three star-studded streaming selections for listening and viewing this month that will keep you entertained in the warmth and safety of...

The classical ‘Salomon Series’ by Peoples’ Symphony Concerts goes live and virtual from NYC’s The Town Hall

The Town Hall continues is centennial season celebration in a collaboration with Peoples’ Symphony Concerts (PSC) – NYC’s oldest concert series offering some of the most affordable ticket prices for...

Broadway’s ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ announces a two-month hiatus

December is typically a boomtime for ticket sales to Broadway shows, followed by a post-holiday decline in January-February. But this season, with the unprecedented spread of COVID-19 Omicron variant...

An electrifying night of songs and stories with ‘John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Return to the Origin of Love’ at NYC’s The Town Hall

With its huge cult following of “Hed-heads” and significant place in both theater and LGBTQIA history, the four-time Tony Award-winning alt-culture musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes that don’t go wrong with Chris Lanceley from ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages

Since moving to the US, British-born and NYC-based Chris Lanceley from Liverpool, who has appeared on network television (FBI; Blue Bloods) and Off-Broadway, is either “a terrible actor” or “the...