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NYC Off-Broadway Week returns with 2-for-1 tickets

Deb Miller 2022-09-14

Sponsored by NYC & Company, Inc. and Mastercard, and supported by NYC Media & Entertainment, NYC Off-Broadway Week, a twice-a-year 2-for-1 ticket offer for Off-Broadway productions in collaboration...

A scintillating night of song and conversation in ‘Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway starring Jane Krakowski’ at NYC’s Town Hall

Deb Miller 2022-09-13

Originally scheduled for Monday, January 31, but postponed due to Omicron, Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway starring Jane Krakowski was rescheduled for September 12, and the wildly appreciative house clearly...

A preview of Vangari’s new show ‘Funny You Should Ask’ at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama

Deb Miller 2022-09-13

Starting this coming weekend, the delightful mother/daughter musical comedy duo Vangari (Evangeline and Ariana Johns) returns to Don’t Tell Mama – the renowned cabaret club, piano bar, and restaurant...

Composer Jaime Lozano previews his work for the upcoming Broadway musical on Frida Kahlo

Deb Miller 2022-09-10

On Wednesday night, September 7, the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts had a full house and a long waiting line of fans hoping to get in for Jaime Lozano’s ¡Viva La...

Free Shakespeare in the Park’s ‘As You Like It’ fills NYC’s Delacorte Theater with the joy of love and community

Deb Miller 2022-09-09

When the reimagined musical production of As You Like It, co-adapted by Shaina Taub (who also created the music and lyrics) and Laurie Woolery (The Public Theater’s Director of Public Works, who also...

Physics and human behavior collide in ‘Strings Attached’ Off-Broadway at Theatre Row

Deb Miller 2022-09-08

In Pulse Theatre’s Off-Broadway premiere of Strings Attached at Theatre Row, playwright Carole Buggé explores the uncertainties of physics and human behavior, which collide in a cathartic train ride...

Finalists announced for the Clive Barnes Awards for Theater and Dance

Deb Miller 2022-09-07

The Clive & Valerie Barnes Foundation, under the leadership of Holly Jones and Lloyd Mayor, has announced the finalists and date for the 12th Annual Clive Barnes Awards, recognizing excellence in...

Annual ‘Table of Silence Project 9/11’ returns to NYC’s Lincoln Center on Sunday morning

Deb Miller 2022-09-06

On Sunday, September 11, beginning at 8 am, Buglisi Dance Theatre and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with Dance/NYC, will present a live performance of the Table of Silence...

Beautiful stories of human connection in the Off-Broadway premiere of ‘Los Otros’ at A.R.T./New York Theatres

Deb Miller 2022-08-31

Presented by Premieres NYC as part of its revived bi-annual Inner Voices series, the new one-act musical Los Otros, by Tony Award nominees Ellen Fitzhugh (book and lyrics) and Michael John LaChiusa...

John Lloyd Young makes a stirring return to NYC with a soulful new concert at 54 Below

Deb Miller 2022-08-30

For his current six-night engagement at 54 Below, stage, screen, and concert star John Lloyd Young has curated a new set list of Mostly Soul: Beloved Hits from Motown to Broadway, featuring stirring...

Off-Broadway revival of ‘Kinky Boots’ dazzles at Stage 42

Deb Miller 2022-08-28

When it premiered on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2013, the blockbuster stage adaptation of Kinky Boots, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, book by Harvey Fierstein, and direction and...

Lessons in Japanese culture, language, and humor in ‘Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo’ at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages

Deb Miller 2022-08-26

In 1999, Katsura Sunshine – born Gregory Robic in Toronto, Canada, to parents of Slovenian origin – went to Japan to pursue studies in Japanese theater. In 2008, he began a strict three-year...

Off-Broadway time-traveling comedy ‘Don’t Do This To Us!’ at The Tank has a remedy for recent anti-Semitism

Deb Miller 2022-08-24

Now in its world premiere at The Tank, Don’t Do This To Us!, written by and co-produced with Stephanie Swirsky, takes a novel “What if?” approach to increasing anti-Semitism in the US. In it, a...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with John Lloyd Young

Deb Miller 2022-08-23

Known and loved by fans everywhere for his multi-award-winning portrayal of the Four Seasons’ lead singer Frankie Valli in the original Broadway musical and Warner Bros. movie adaptation of Jersey...

Mash-up of hypnosis and improv comedy fails to mesmerize in ‘HYPROV’ at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre

Deb Miller 2022-08-22

Co-created by comedian Colin Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), hypnotist Asad Mecci, and Mochrie’s manager Jeff Andrews in 2016, HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis is now playing a twelve-week limited...

Broadway musical director David Loud to discuss his autobiography ‘Facing the Music’ at NYC’s Barnes & Noble

Deb Miller 2022-08-21

On Wednesday, August 24, Broadway musical director, arranger, and conductor David Loud (The Visit, The Scottsboro Boys, Sondheim on Sondheim, Curtains, Ragtime, A Class Act, Steel Pier, and revivals...

One-night performance of ‘Lyrics From Lockdown’ live and livestreaming from NYC’s Apollo Theater

Deb Miller 2022-08-19

The award-winning theatrical hip-hop and multimedia production Lyrics From Lockdown, written and performed by renowned artist, writer, and activist Bryonn Bain, will play one historic performance to a...

Talents from Broadway unite for the benefit ‘NF Hope Concert 2022’ at NYC’s The Green Room 42

Deb Miller 2022-08-17

On Sunday, August 21, a roster of Broadway talents will unite at The Green Room 42 for NYC’s fourth annual NF Hope Concert – a great night of music and entertainment that will take place both in...

Broadway’s Paul Schoeffler previews the new play ‘Strings Attached’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Deb Miller 2022-08-17

Known to fans everywhere for his roles in Broadway’s Rock of Ages (Hertz), Sweet Charity (Vidal), Sunset Boulevard (DeMille), Peter Pan (Hook), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), Cyrano (Le Bret), in...

NYC Broadway Week returns in September with 2-for-1 ticket offers

Deb Miller 2022-08-15

Ticket sales for the general public begin on Tuesday, August 16, for the return of NYC Broadway Week, produced by NYC & Company in collaboration with the Broadway League and running from September...

Into the mind of ‘The Butcher Boy’ in a world-premiere musical adaptation at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep

Deb Miller 2022-08-12

In 2017, Irish Repertory Theatre was approached by Asher Muldoon (Dear Evan Hansen National Tour), then a senior in high school, with a new musical adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s unsettling 1992 novel...

Ingeniously wacky campy musical parody ‘Titanique’ at Asylum NYC has all the makings of a cult classic

Deb Miller 2022-08-10

Not only does the over-the-top hilarious musical parody Titanique, now playing an open-ended engagement at the Daryl Roth Theatre following its run at Asylum NYC, bring “kooky crazy” non-stop laughs,...

Recent and upcoming book releases for theater-lovers

Deb Miller 2022-08-09

If you love reading about the works and stars of the theater almost as much as seeing them, check out the variety of offerings in these four new and soon-to-be-released books of plays and biographies....

Finding your family in TOSOS’ ‘House of Chavis’ at Off-Off-Broadway’s The Flea

Deb Miller 2022-08-06

Robert Macke’s House of Chavis, a world-premiere play presented at The Flea Theater by TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) – NYC’s oldest and longest producing professional LGBTQIA+ theater company –...

Graffiti artists clash in ‘Hit the Wall’ at Off-Broadway’s The Kraine

Deb Miller 2022-08-05

When Rae, a protégé, friend, and apartment mate of Amir, the world’s most famous graffiti artist, comes close to painting the perfect wall, it goes viral and results in conflict, jealousy, and...

A madcap reimagining of the Great Crash in ‘The Panic of ‘29’ at NYC’s 59E59

Deb Miller 2022-08-03

When the New York stock market crashed in October of 1929, it triggered the beginning of the Great Depression, bringing a sudden end to the prosperity of America and the decadence of the Roaring...

FRIGID New York’s ‘The Little Shakespeare Festival’ begins this week at Off-Off-Broadway’s Under St. Marks

Deb Miller 2022-08-02

This year for its annual Shakespeare fest, FRIGID New York presents The Little Shakespeare Festival, a celebration of independent theater and performance featuring Bardic classics as well as...

Recent releases of a cast album, a solo recording, and a soundtrack for theater fans

Deb Miller 2022-07-31

Among the latest album releases for theater fans this June, July, and August are a cast recording from a current Broadway musical, the soundtrack of a film version of a previous Broadway production,...

Free outdoor performance and culture festivals coming to NYC in August

Deb Miller 2022-07-29

Mark your calendar for two popular outdoor festivals coming to lower Manhattan and Queens in August, with free offerings of culture and dance. In celebration of the 60th year of independence of the...

Coming to Lincoln Center’s ‘Summer for the City’ in August

Deb Miller 2022-07-27

Presented as part of this year’s Festival of New York, Summer for the City builds on the success of Lincoln Center’s 2021 Restart Stages, which created an outdoor performing arts center so that the...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Evan Zes

Deb Miller 2022-07-26

Now making his Broadway debut in The Kite Runner, actor and writer Evan Zes has amassed a long list of stage and screen credits throughout his ever increasing “fifteen minutes of fame,” since...

An enthralling Broadway premiere of ‘The Kite Runner’ at the Hayes Theater

Deb Miller 2022-07-24

Based on Khaled Hosseini’s internationally acclaimed best-selling novel of 2003 (published in 70 countries, in 60 languages, with 31.5 million copies sold to date, and an Oscar-nominated film version...

Writing your own happy ending in Off-Broadway’s ‘Between the Lines’ at the Tony Kiser Theater

Deb Miller 2022-07-22

When Delilah and her preoccupied, deeply pained mother move to a different town after her parents’ contentious divorce, the seventeen-year-old struggles with her lack of acceptance by the mean kids at...

Free lunchtime performance series ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ returns to NYC in August

Deb Miller 2022-07-20

106.7 LITE FM has announced the long-awaited return of its popular annual lunchtime musical-theater series Broadway in Bryant Park, which has not been presented on a regular schedule over the past two...

A stirring night of music and truth with ‘Jaime Lozano & Mauricio Martínez: Hermanos y Familia’ at NYC’s 54 Below

Deb Miller 2022-07-19

The one-night-only concert of Jaime Lozano & Mauricio Martínez: Hermanos y Familia reaffirmed Lin-Manuel Miranda’s timely sentiment in Hamilton, “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done).” ¡Ay, Dios mío, did...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ celebrates its 40th anniversary on Saturday with a free block party

Deb Miller 2022-07-18

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the multi-award-winning Off-Broadway cult-musical sensation Little Shop of Horrors, producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, and Hunter Arnold, in partnership with...

Jade Anouka’s ‘Heart’ at Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre is poetry in motion and emotion

Deb Miller 2022-07-17

In the world-premiere limited engagement of Heart at the Minetta Lane Theatre, presented by Audible in association with Kate Pakenham Productions, acclaimed London-based performer and poet Jade Anouka...

In-person and livestreamed short play readings at NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to benefit Ukraine crisis response efforts

Deb Miller 2022-07-17

An in-person and virtual fundraiser, with proceeds benefitting the Ukraine crisis response efforts of HIAS – founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in 1881, to assist Jews fleeing pogroms in...

International spectacle ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ makes its NYC debut at Lincoln Center

Deb Miller 2022-07-15

Adapted by writer Luc Plamondon and composer Richard Cocciante from Victor Hugo’s epic 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the musical spectacle Notre Dame de Paris has played to more than 15...

Broadway’s Will Roland gives a sneak peek at the world-premiere play ‘The Panic of ‘29’ coming to NYC’s 59E59

Deb Miller 2022-07-14

Fresh off a series of concerts with Joe Iconis & Family last week at 54 Below, sessions at this month’s BroadwayCon, and his long-pandemic-delayed June wedding, NYC native Will Roland (Be More Chill;...

The Broadway transfer of ‘Into the Woods’ is superlative in every way

Deb Miller 2022-07-13

When Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, premiered on Broadway in 1987, it won three of that season’s top Tony Awards. When Off-Broadway’s New York City...

Three-time Emmy winner Christian Le Blanc previews his Off-Broadway debut in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at the Theatre at St. Clements

Deb Miller 2022-07-12

Known to fans everywhere for his TV roles as a series regular on In the Heat of the Night, As the World Turns, and more than 30 years playing the lawyer Michael Baldwin on The Young and the Restless,...