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A grateful farewell to our New York correspondent, Deb Miller

For nearly a decade, Deb Miller has covered New York theater for DC Theater Arts superbly. By NICOLE HERTVIK

Winners of Broadway’s 2026 Tony Awards

Recipients of the 79th Annual Tony Awards for the 2025-26 Broadway season were announced tonight (Sunday, June 7), starting at 8 pm, in a star-studded celebration at Radio City Music Hall, presented...

Rise and fall of a community leader in ‘A Woman Among Women’ Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center

Conceived and written by Julia May Jonas as a contemporary female-centric counterpoint to Arthur Miller’s 1946 American classic All My Sons, A Woman Among Women (the title inspired by a quote from...

Winners of the 2026 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

The Off Broadway Alliance, an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, has announced the winners of the 15th Annual Off-Broadway...

Attempt at cross-cultural father-daughter bonding in the satirical ‘Indian Princesses’ Off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theater

Inspired by her real-life experience in a diverse father-daughter YMCA bonding program that first began in the 1950s, the semi-autobiographical satire Indian Princesses by playwright Eliana...

Winners of the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography

Tonight (Monday, May 18), starting at 7:30 pm, the Chita Rivera Awards – the only awards dedicated specifically to honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in film –...

NYC debut of the now completed ‘Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium’ Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company

At the time of his death at the age of 78, legendary American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) – the only writer with the distinction of having won the Pulitzer Prize for both drama...

Winners of the 2026 Drama Desk Awards for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway

This evening (Sunday, May 17), winners of the 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring outstanding achievements of the 2025-26 season of NYC theater, were announced at The Town Hall, marking the...

Winners of the 2026 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

The winners of the 92nd annual Drama League Awards in seven competitive categories were announced today (Friday, May 15) at the Drama League Awards Luncheon, starting at 11 am, at NYC’s Ziegfeld...

A timely examination of our right to freedom of speech in ‘The People Versus Lenny Bruce’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

On April 3, 1964, after a series of arrests for a charity scam, drug possession, and obscenity charges, stand-up comic Lenny Bruce (1925-66), known for his satirical socio-political commentary and...

Nominations for the 2026 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

Since 2011, The Off Broadway Alliance – an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals – has honored the best commercial and...

Winners of the 2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

Through a press release this morning at 10:00, the winners of the 2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards – the official organization of writers on NYC theater for out-of-town, national, and digital news...

Honorees of the 80th Annual Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

The 2026 honorees of the 80th annual Theatre World Awards were announced today for Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production, and Rachael Stirling (Giant) was named...

Nominations for Broadway’s 2026 Tony Awards

The American Theatre Wing’s 79th Annual Tony Awards nominations were announced by Uzo Aduba and Darren Criss at 9:00 this morning (Tuesday, May 5), live from the Sofitel New York, with a selection...

Finalists and winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Named for Hungarian-American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer (who was the first to endorse university-level training for journalists), the Pulitzer Prize was established as an incentive to...

Winners of the 41st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for the 2025-26 Off-Broadway season

This evening (Sunday, May 3), beginning at 7 pm, the winners of the Lucille Lortel Awards for the 2025-26 Off-Broadway season were announced in an event at NYU Skirball, produced by the Off-Broadway...

New book release of ‘Hirschfeld’s Icons’ celebrated with an exhibition in NYC’s historic Oak Room at The Algonquin

To celebrate the release of Hirschfeld’s Icons, the second in the Al Hirschfeld Foundation’s series of poster books of drawings by the eponymous artist, a themed exhibition of his works, with copies...

Winners of the 2026 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards

This evening (Thursday, April 30, 2026) at 8 pm, winners of the 2026 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, recognizing excellence in NYC theater of the 2025–2026 season, were announced immediately...

Nominations for the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography

As the only awards dedicated specifically to dance, the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards – founded as the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards in 1982, and renamed in 2017, after the Tony-winning icon...

Nominations for the 2026 Drama Desk Awards for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway

Raúl Esparza (Company) and Helen J Shen (Maybe Happy Ending) announced the nominations for the 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards – honoring outstanding achievements in NYC theater of the 2025-26 season –...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Amanda Jill Robinson

Currently making her Broadway debut in the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat, Long Island native Amanda Jill Robinson – appearing as WWII MI5 Intelligence Officer Johnny Bevan...

Musical adaptation of ‘Beaches’ at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre follows the ups and downs of two women’s 30-year friendship

More than a decade after its world premiere at Arlington, Virginia’s Signature Theatre in 2014, the musical adaptation of Beaches, based on the 1985 novel by Iris Rainer Dart and the 1988 film...

Physics meets theater in ‘Rheology’ Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons

Returning to the NYC stage after its 2025 premiere at The Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, Rheology, now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Playwrights Horizons, is an experimental collaboration...

It’s neighbor against neighbor in MTC’s wildly funny and incisive comedy ‘The Balusters’ at Broadway’s Friedman Theatre

Commissioned by MTC and now making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, The Balusters, written by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning playwright David...

Nominations for the 2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

Live from the Museum of Broadway this morning at 10, stage and screen stars Isa Briones (Just in Time; “The Pitt”) and Sepideh Moafi (New Born; “The Pitt”) announced the nominations in 26 categories...

Nominations for the 2026 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

Having the distinction of being the oldest theatrical honors in America, first presented in 1922 and formalized in 1935, the Drama League Awards revealed its 2025-26 nominations today (Monday, April...

NYC’s Lincoln Center announces its free and choose-what-you-pay 2026 ‘Summer for the City’ line-up

From June 10–August 8, 2026, in keeping with its mission of making art accessible, everyone is invited to come as you are and to enjoy the power of movement, live performance, and community...

The New Group’s darkly satiric and deeply disturbing revival of ‘The Adding Machine’ Off-Broadway at the Theater at St. Clement’s

To launch its 2026 inaugural season in a new Off-Broadway home at the Theater at St. Clement’s, The New Group is presenting a revival of Elmer L. Rice’s 1923 play The Adding Machine, with revisions to...

Vibrantly voguing humanized Housecats come out on the catwalk in ‘CATS: The Jellicle Ball’ at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre

After a critically acclaimed, record-breaking, Obie-winning Off-Broadway debut at the PAC in 2024, CATS: The Jellicle Ball – a queer Ballroom-culture reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1982 musical...

Winners of the inaugural Broadway Ensemble Awards of 2025-26

Hosted by actor and choreographer Thayne Jasperson (who portrayed Samuel Seabury in the original cast of Hamilton), the first-ever Broadway Ensemble Awards, honoring the “unsung heroes of the Broadway...

Latest music releases from the NYC stage and stars

Among the most recent releases of recordings from NYC musicals and their performers are two original Broadway cast albums, one of an Off-Broadway production, and the debut record of an actor known for...

Nominations for the 41st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for the 2025-26 Off-Broadway season

Today at 2 pm, at Sardi’s, Amber Gray and Harvey Guillén, now starring in the Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show, announced the nominations for the 41st annual Lucille Lortel Awards,...

Deep dive into the impact of a breakup in ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ at NYC’s DR2

Following its acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Melbourne’s Rising Festival, and London’s Soho Theatre, Heartbreak Hotel, created by the New Zealand company EBKM, comprised of director...

Red Bull offers a pan-temporal view of Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’ Off-Broadway at Pershing Square Signature Center

Written ca. 1588-93, Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s first tragedy, recounts an epic melodrama of political intrigue and corruption in ancient Rome that unleashes a cycle of savage inhumanity,...

Vampires take a big bite out of the Big Apple stage

Though myths of the undead returning to cause harm can be traced back to antiquity, the word vampire (from the Serbian “vampir”) originated in Eastern Europe and spread throughout the folkloric...

Musical reimagining of the epic Dumas novel in ‘Monte Cristo’ Off-Broadway at The York

Alexandre Dumas’ epic 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo, about the betrayal, retribution, and redemption of a falsely accused and wrongfully imprisoned man, provided the inspiration – along with...

Celebrate ‘The 54 Below First Annual Gala’ via livestream on March 23

Known to the NYC theater community as “Broadway’s Living Room,” the Tony Award-winning venue 54 Below – an intimate cabaret club that opened in 2012, in the cellar beneath what was the legendary...

20th anniversary of Off Broadway Alliance’s ‘20at20’ discounts coming this month

The Off Broadway Alliance (OBA) – a nonprofit organization composed of theater professionals dedicated to supporting, promoting, and sustaining Off-Broadway theater while making live performance more...

All the joys of life, and the stage, in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre

To deal with the trauma of his mother’s attempts at suicide when he was a child and a teen, and then with his own depression as an adult, a son compiles a growing list of a million things that make...

Nominations for the inaugural Broadway Ensemble Awards of 2025-26

At 1:00 this afternoon, nominations for the inaugural Broadway Ensemble Awards for the 2025-26 season were introduced by Bradley Dean (now appearing in Chess) and announced in eight categories by Kurt...

A billionaire’s quest for immortality in ‘Spare Parts’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Would you want to live forever? And if you did, at what cost? Those are the questions posed in Spare Parts, a new play by David J. Glass, now playing a limited engagement at NYC’s Theatre Row. The...

Whirlwind test of human endurance in Pony Cam’s zany ‘Burnout Paradise’ Off-Broadway at Astor Place Theatre

Created by the award-winning Australian collective Pony Cam, the madcap theatrical endurance feat Burnout Paradise is now playing at Off-Broadway’s Astor Place Theatre for a limited run through June,...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Christopher Borg

Originally trained as an actor by the late Kenneth Washington at the University of Utah, and then in the classics as an Acting Fellow under the tutelage of Michael Kahn at the Shakespeare Theatre in...

Healing through connection in ‘Night Side Songs’ Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center

Presented at Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow Theater through its LCT3 initiative, dedicated to producing the work of new artists and building new audiences, Night Side Songs – originally...

Acting up for love and safety in TOSOS’ world premiere of ‘Our House’ at A.R.T./New York

Presented by TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence – NYC’s oldest and longest producing LGBTQIA+ theater company) for a limited world-premiere engagement at A.R.T./New York’s Jeffrey and Paula Gural...

Women climbing the ladder of corporate finance in ‘Chinese Republicans’ Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company

In his new work Chinese Republicans, now in its world premiere for a limited Off-Broadway engagement with Roundabout Theatre Company, playwright Alex Lin considers an American story of cultural...

Courageous backstory of the world’s greatest mime in ‘Marcel on the Train’ Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company

Few people know that before Marcel Marceau (1923-2007) became internationally renowned as the world’s greatest mime, he was a young Jewish man (née Marcel Mangel) in Nazi-occupied France, who joined...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Kelsie Watts

Actress, singer, and songwriter Kelsie Watts’s reign as Jane Seymour in SIX, which earned her an iHeartRadio Music Award nomination for “Favorite Broadway Debut,” came to an end on Sunday, February...

A confusing look at a women’s support group in ‘The Dinosaurs’ Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons

To inaugurate its new “Unplugged” programming – a format focused on simplicity in design to decrease production costs and to prioritize actors’ pay – Playwrights Horizons, committed to championing the...

New theater releases for reading and streaming

Among the new releases for NYC theater lovers are the memoir of a Tony-winning director, the book of a wildly original musical by a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the free online presentation of a filmed...