New York City Theater

Free December streamings from NYC’s The Mint and The Bad Kids

Through the pandemic shutdown, theaters reopening, and many performances currently being canceled to ensure safety, NYC companies continue to present online shows. Among the range of digital events...

Darlene Love gives it all and gets it back from NYC in ‘Love for the Holidays’ at The Town Hall

Legendary singer and actress Darlene Love treated NYC fans to her extraordinary talents in a one-night-only concert at The Town Hall, Love for the Holidays, and what a gift it was! Now 80, Love has...

Three mid-century icons take a long trip in the Broadway premiere of ‘Flying over Sunset’ at Lincoln Center

Typically lasting eight to twelve hours, a trip on LSD, because of the distorted perception of time induced by the drug, can feel much longer than it actually is. It certainly does in the new...

COVID-19 updates on show schedules from The Broadway League and The Rockettes

With the surge of COVID-19 infections in NYC and the now daily announcements of the need to cancel scheduled performances of shows both on and off Broadway due to breakthrough cases among the cast,...

The Broadway revival of ‘Company’ takes a gender-swapped look at relationships in NYC

When the Broadway production of Company, written by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and George Furth (book), premiered in 1970, it was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Awards and won...

One captivating actor and 34 classic characters in ‘One Christmas Carol’ Off-Broadway at The Chain Theatre

After making its New York debut in 2019, One Christmas Carol, a one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 holiday favorite A Christmas Carol, is back in the City for a limited engagement at...

December concerts by Judy Collins, Darlene Love, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask at NYC’s The Town Hall

This year marks the centennial anniversary of NYC’s The Town Hall, centrally located on West 43rd Street in the heart of the Times Square district. Originally conceived as a meeting place for...

Broadway producers Tom and Michael D’Angora honored with NY State Senate Proclamation for their charitable work

On Sunday, Dec 12, 2021, Broadway producers Tom and Michael D’Angora were honored by Senator Brad Hoylman with a State Senate Proclamation naming it Tom and Michael D’Angora Appreciation Day in New...

Off-Broadway’s Gingold Theatrical Group to honor Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, and Ethan E. Litwin

Next up in Gingold Theatrical Group’s 2021-22 season of Project Shaw – a monthly series offering some of the greatest works of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries – is the Irish playwright’s...

A preposterous new musical adaptation of ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ at Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre

The new big-budget musical-theater production of the popular 1993 award-winning movie starring Robin Williams, Mrs. Doubtfire is the latest in a long list of screen-to-stage adaptations that bank on...

Dances Patrelle’s ‘The Yorkville Nutcracker’ at NYC’s Hunter College takes audiences on a magical Christmas journey through Olde New York

Now in its 33rd year, the Manhattan-based non-profit ballet company Dances Patrelle (dP) celebrates the 25th anniversary of founding artistic director and choreographer Francis Patrelle’s The...

Author Candace Bushnell ponders ‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ in her autobiographical solo show at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre

In her new one-woman show Is There Still Sex in the City?, making its Off-Broadway debut at the Daryl Roth Theatre in a limited engagement through February 6, writer Candace Bushnell – the now...

All the feelings and the moves from ‘The Boy Band Project: Holiday Edition’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

Along with shining a spotlight on the group’s sizzling Broadway-caliber talent, The Boy Band Project: Holiday Edition, which played at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Monday, December 6, provided fabulous...

Off-Broadway musical adaptation of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ at Atlantic Theater Company combines hilarious dark comedy with a meaningful message

Virgil’s ancient Roman maxim “tempus fugit” is nowhere more apparent than in the life of New Jersey teenager Kimberly Levaco in 1999. Afflicted with a rare genetic disorder that causes her body to age...

Broadway’s Brian Stokes Mitchell accepts $100,000 donation to The Actors Fund from the Tabernacle Choir in advance of its 20th-anniversary retrospective broadcast

At a luncheon at Feinstein’s/54 Below, Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss Me, Kate), on behalf of The Actors Fund, for which he has served as Chairman of the Board since 2004, accepted a...

All I want for Christmas is ‘The Boy Band Project: Holiday Edition’ at NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below

Following a dazzling debut at Feinstein’s/54 Below in August, The Boy Band Project returned to a packed house at the famed nightclub for one night only on December 6, with a new incarnation of their...

Twizted Sisterz returns to NYC’s Laurie Beechman Theatre with ‘Distorted Diznee’ drag revue

The long-running hit parody Distorted Dizney by drag performance group Twizted Sisterz has re-awakened from the pandemic-time curse on live performances to resume its eight-year run on select Fridays...

Celebrate the holidays with ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live on Stage’ in NYC and ‘A Paddington Christmas’ and ‘Estella Scrooge’ streaming on demand

Three long-time holiday favorites are getting a new life this season – one with a live on-stage production of an animated TV special, one with an all-new streaming puppet film, and one with an updated...

2nd Stage brings a hilarious and hopeful ‘Clyde’s’ to Broadway’s Hayes Theater

Set in the hectic kitchen of a truck-stop sandwich shop on a stretch of road in Berks County, PA, Clyde’s, by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined; Sweat), dishes up a full and...

A dazzling world premiere of ‘Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood’ at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre Company

Following the pandemic shutdown in March 2020, and a flood that forced them from their 30-year home at St. Peter’s Theater in January, the York Theatre Company has returned with their first live...

Broadway theaters will dim the lights on December 8, in honor of Stephen Sondheim

As the Broadway community continues to mourn the loss of legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who passed away on November 26, at age 91, The Broadway League announced that the Committee...

Nylon Fusion’s unsettling world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Candlelight’ at Off-Off-Broadway’s New Ohio Theatre

Self-described as “a Nuyorican comic romantic tragedy covered with magic and dipped in Brooklyn blood,” Nylon Fusion Theatre Company’s world premiere of Candlelight by Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Free virtual encore presentation of ‘Putting It Together’ with James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim from NYC’s The Town Hall and Strand Book Store

To celebrate the legacy of one of the greatest American composers, lyricists, and Broadway icons, The Town Hall and Strand Book Store will present an encore presentation of their conversation on...

Three top holiday picks for the upcoming week from NYC

The holiday season has arrived and there are three must-see shows from NYC in the upcoming week, both in person and on TV, that are sure to dazzle. Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting – Last...

A Chanukah celebration of Jewish food and song with ‘ESN’ from NYC’s National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) is dishing up some exciting new Chanukah programming as part of its 107th season, with an online celebration of Jewish food through song and cooking...

Enjoy a global celebration of the holidays with the ‘Tinsel’ festival at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre

Beginning on Monday, December 6, and continuing throughout the entire month, Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre will present its seasonal series Tinsel: A Global Holiday Celebration. The...

Award-winning attraction ‘THE RIDE NYC: Holiday Edition’ celebrates the season in Manhattan

One of NYC’s most acclaimed and popular sightseeing attractions is back on the streets after the long pandemic hiatus with its special seasonal version of THE RIDE NYC: Holiday Edition. Self-described...

Holmes meets Scrooge in ‘A Sherlock Carol’ at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages

It’s Christmas Eve, 1894, London. Moriarty is dead and so is Ebenezer Scrooge. Now a doctor at a struggling children’s hospital, Tiny Tim (aka Dr. Timothy Cratchit) enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes...

A rare chamber concert of Sondheim and Bernstein by Opus Two at NYC nightclub Feinstein’s/54 Below

It’s not often that Feinstein’s/54 Below – the iconic NYC supper club known as “Broadway’s living room” – offers a performance of chamber music. But the nightspot’s intimate space and beautiful...

NYC’s ‘Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade’ returns live with a roster of Broadway stars

This year marks the 95th anniversary of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and it’s back live on the streets of New York City and on NBC TV, hosted by the Today show’s Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, and...

Audible brings ‘Approval Junkie’ to Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre before its release as an audio-play

Prior to the digital release of a live recording of the show on the Audible streaming platform in December, Faith Salie’s Approval Junkie is making its New York debut for a limited four-week...

From acquiescence to outrage in Roundabout’s Broadway premiere of ‘Trouble in Mind’ at American Airlines Theatre

After its acclaimed Off-Broadway opening in 1955, Alice Childress’s Obie-winning play Trouble in Mind was scheduled to transfer to Broadway in 1957, with the stipulation of the show’s white producers...

Red Bull’s world-premiere Off-Broadway adaptation of ‘The Alchemist’ delivers the laughs and the lessons

With its timely setting in the London plague year of 1606, Jeffrey Hatcher’s new time-traveling adaptation of Ben Jonson’s 1610 classic The Alchemist for Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater, now playing...

Opus Two celebrates Sondheim and Bernstein at NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below

In keeping with their dedication to championing the works of great American composers, internationally acclaimed duo Opus Two (violinist William Terwilliger and pianist Andrew Cooperstock) will pay...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with stage and screen star Alley Mills

Now starring in the Off-Broadway revival of Paul Osborn’s classic American comedy Morning’s at Seven, stage and screen star Alley Mills has long-since exceeded the running time allotted in Andy...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Blue Man Group’ celebrates its 30th anniversary at Astor Place Theatre

There’s good reason why the iconic award-winning Blue Man Group is celebrating the major milestone of its 30th anniversary this month at the intimate downtown space of Off-Broadway’s Astor Place...

The 25th anniversary celebration of ‘Chicago’ on Broadway

On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Chicago, as it nears its 10,000th performance on Broadway, celebrated 25 years of “Razzle Dazzle” with a special anniversary celebration. Produced by Barry and Fran...

A star-studded cast delivers an amusing slice of Americana in the Off-Broadway revival of ‘Morning’s at Seven’ at St. Clement’s

It’s a regular day in the autumn of 1922, and the four aging Gibbs sisters – Cora, Ida, Arry, and Esther, now in their sixties and seventies – are living ordinary lives very near to each other in a...

It’s payback politics and high finance per usual in Off-Broadway’s ‘A Turtle on a Fence Post’ at Theater 555

In the new musical comedy/vanity project A Turtle on a Fence Post by Prisoner #11RO731 (aka political consultant and broker Hank Morris), the writer continues his public feud with New York’s embattled...

The Anthropologists skewer sexist state laws in ‘No Pants in Tucson’ at A.R.T./New York

In a series of historically based vignettes, The Anthropologists – creating original ensemble-devised investigative theater centered on women’s experiences and marginalized voices – take a sardonic...

ZviDance premieres ‘The Art of Fugue’ this weekend at New York Live Arts

Founded by Israeli-born New York-based Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner in 1989, ZviDance – a collaborative alliance among artists dedicated to creating a vision of community through its...

An uplifting lifesaving musical adaptation of ‘Trevor’ at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42

Getting through adolescence can be a challenge, especially when your classmates and teachers think you’re “weird” and your parents and priest don’t really understand you. For Trevor Nelson – a...

Marking the 30th anniversary and 16,000th show of ‘Blue Man Group’ at Off-Broadway’s Astor Place Theatre

This month marks two major milestones in one of Off-Broadway’s longest running and most successful productions since its debut at Astor Place Theatre in 1991. On Sunday, November 7, at 2 pm. the...

Latest COVID-19 protocol and attendance updates from The Broadway League

It was announced by the The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway industry, founded in 1930, and presently with more than 700 members, including theater owners and...

New online Hirschfeld exhibit for the ‘New Season’ of theater

The latest digital exhibition from The Al Hirschfeld Foundation, curated by Creative Director David Leopold to coincide with the reopening of live theater, is Al Hirschfeld’s New Season. It presents a...

A meditative mix of object theater, cinema, and music in ‘SHEEP #1’ at NYC’s Japan Society

Without speaking a word, Japanese-born NYC-based creator and performer Sachiyo Takahashi – a three-time grant recipient from The Jim Henson Foundation in 2017, 2018, and 2021, for her innovative work...

The new musical adventure of ‘Winnie the Pooh’ at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row is sweeter than honey

Much to the delight of young (and young-at-heart) audiences, Stage 3 at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row has been transformed into the Hundred Acre Wood and that lovable bear Winnie the Pooh has arrived...

The Broadway debut of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ‘Lackawanna Blues’ offers a heartfelt tribute in a tour-de-force performance

Now in its Broadway debut with MTC at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Lackawanna Blues, masterfully written, performed, and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, offers a supremely...

A lot of talk and little action in ‘Morning Sun’ at Off-Broadway’s MTC

Commissioned by MTC as part of the Bank of America New Play Program, the world premiere of Morning Sun by Tony Award-winning English playwright Simon Stephens (Sea Wall; Heisenberg; The Curious...

Megan Hilty sparkles in the ‘Diamond Series’ at NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below

Feinstein’s/54 Below continues its premiere selection of cabaret concerts in the elite Diamond Series this week with Tony-nominated stage and screen star Megan Hilty, making her debut at the popular...