New York

Streaming this week: ‘Stupid Kids’ from Broadway’s Best Shows and ‘Do Re #MeToo’ from AAF

While NYC venues are continuing to reopen with live in-person performances, there are still top offerings accessible to theater fans everywhere via the internet. Two picks for the week will make their...

World premiere of ‘F.I.R.E.’ concludes New Normal Rep’s online inaugural season

Founded last year during, and because of, the COVID-19 shutdown of live in-person performances, the online theater company New Normal Rep (NNR) – with a mission of producing new and lesser-known plays...

Autobiographical dramedy ‘I Squeezed Really Hard’ makes delectable lemonade out of a childhood full of lemons

California-born NYC-based writer and performer Anthony Misiano (TV’s Awkwafina is Nora from Queens) takes a revealing look back at his relentlessly tortured childhood and dysfunctional family in the...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with crooner Mark William

This coming weekend, singer, actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and voiceover artist Mark William, who has played such iconic venues as Feinstein’s/54 Below and The McKittrick Hotel, returns to...

A star-studded grand finale to Broadway’s ‘Curtain Up!’ festival

Confetti rained down on Times Square following a weekend of free public events to welcome back Broadway, bringing a spectacular conclusion to a star-studded grand finale of the Curtain Up! festival on...

Celebrating the return of Broadway with the ‘Curtain Up!’ festival in Times Square

Broadway is back, and to celebrate the long-awaited good news, this weekend’s Curtain Up! festival launched today with a line-up of free outdoor public events in Times Square. We were there, to...

Release of Off-Broadway’s ‘Marguerite’ and ‘Unknown Soldier’ original cast recordings

The original cast recordings of two acclaimed Off-Broadway musicals with compelling scores and narratives are available in physical and digital formats this month. Recently released on Broadway...

Recipients of the 2020-21 NYIT Honorary Awards

Last night, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards – recognizing, honoring, and advocating for individuals, companies, and productions from NYC’s Off-Off-Broadway/Indie theater community for the past...

Free outdoor dance performances by General Mischief and Kinesis Project this weekend

As the summer comes to a close this month, two NYC-based dance companies are offering free outdoor performances over the upcoming weekend, while the weather is still agreeable and with COVID-19...

Unabating after-effects of a break-up in ‘The Last of the Love Letters’ at Atlantic Theater Company

Atlantic Theater Company’s world-premiere production of The Last of the Love Letters, written by Ngozi Anyanwu, co-starring the award-winning playwright and Tony Award nominee Daniel J. Watts (Tina:...

A gay history murder mystery is finally solved in ‘Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story’ at the Gene Frankel Theatre

Now playing a world-premiere engagement at Off-Off-Broadway’s Gene Frankel Theatre, Notsew Productions’ Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story by artistic director, executive producer, and playwright...

A stellar reopening of Broadway with ‘Pass Over’ at the August Wilson Theatre

Under a stark city streetlight, two homeless men, Moses and Kitch, are stuck in the same spot, in the same worn and dirty clothing, repeating the same routine, day after day. While dreaming of the...

Electric violinist Marissa Licata makes her debut at Birdland on Monday

Based in NYC and Boston, Honduran-American violinist Marissa Licata is a noted presence on the orchestral and chamber music scenes, with more than fifteen years of classical violin training, and...

9/11 tributes from Battery Dance and Irish Rep

On Saturday, September 11, Battery Dance and Irish Repertory Theatre will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, respectively, with a live and an...

Richard Nelson closes his ‘Rhinebeck Panorama’ with ‘What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad’ at Hunter College

After following the stories of three fictional Upstate white middle-class families – The Apples, The Gabriels, and The Michaels – for twelve years through a series of twelve plays and a pandemic-time...

Jaime Lozano celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with his Feinstein’s/54 Below debut

Since 1968 (when President Lyndon Johnson began the observance for a week, which was expanded to 30 days, from September 15-October 15, by Ronald Reagan in 1988), Americans have celebrated National...

Lincoln Center’s ‘Big Umbrella Outdoors’ welcomes young audiences on the autism spectrum

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ commitment to audiences with disabilities continues, experimenting with multi-sensory work in an outdoor setting and creating spaces that are socially inclusive...

Rapid Lemon Productions to stage modern take on 1916 anti-racist play

Aladrian C. Wetzel’s new adaptation of ‘Rachel’ by Angelina Weld Grimké to be offered both in person and streaming.

A vibrant ‘Godspell’ brings back the joy at Toby’s

A lively reprise of the first show on its stage 41 years ago with the parables updated to the minute.

Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap pair perfectly on ‘Broadway in the Park’

A triumphant 90-minute concert headlined by Renée Elise Goldsberry and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Ariana Johns and Vampingo Productions launch a new Salon in September

This month, Ariana Johns, Producing Artistic Director of Vampingo Productions, will introduce and host a free midtown Salon series featuring original new writing and music, with the possibility of...

Actress/activist Sis organizes ‘Trans March on Broadway’ for respect and visibility

When asked in an August interview with London’s Telegraph if he would consider reimagining the familiar role of Mary Poppins as a trans woman, producer Cameron Mackintosh (Les Misérables; The Phantom...

Monologues by finalists in the ‘Hear Me Out’ competition to be presented online

This year’s second annual Hear Me Out New American Monologue Competition – founded by Roland Tec in 2020, to encourage exploration of the monologue form and to expand the audience for new work –...

DC Jazz Fest’s blockbuster weekend at The Wharf

September 4 and 5, an eclectic multi-musician lineup from mid-day to midnight.

A touching ‘Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees’ from Edge of the Universe Players 2

Three of DC’s finest actors in an audio play about family, memories, and mortality.

Lineup announced for the ‘Curtain Up! Festival’ in Times Square

To celebrate the return of Broadway, Playbill, The Broadway League, the Times Square Alliance, and lead sponsor Prudential are partnering to present Curtain Up! – a free live three-day festival to be...

Three special events to commemorate 9/11 at Lincoln Center

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the US on September 11, 2001, a date that changed history and will live on in infamy. In recognition of the innocent lives lost...

Oprah helps launch ‘This Is Broadway’ campaign

As theaters begin to reopen following the industry’s 18-month pandemic shutdown, The Broadway League, founded in 1930, as the national trade association for the Broadway industry, and co-presenter of...

Oh, what a show by ‘The Doo Wop Project’ at BRT!

The rain held off, the show went on, and, oh, what a show! NYC-based The Doo Wop Project delivered a spectacular finale to Bristol Riverside Theatre’s William Penn Bank Summer Music Fest with a...

Broadway stars turn out for Sunday’s ‘Elsie Fest’ in Prospect Park

A starry roster of entertainers from the world of Broadway and pop music is set to celebrate the reopening of theaters and the joy of musicals in Elsie Fest on Sunday, August 29. Founded in 2015, the...

Offie Award winner Erik Ransom stars in the latest episode of ‘April Is the Cruelest Month’ podcast

Just launched this month as the fifth stand-alone episode in Reign or Shine Productions’ six-installment podcast series April Is the Cruelest Month (the title and concept of which were inspired by the...

Get out of the city this weekend with ‘The Doo Wop Project’ in BRT’s outdoor summer concert series

The award-winning Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bucks County, PA, heats up the end of its Summer Music Fest with a high-energy concert by NYC’s The Doo Wop Project this Friday-Saturday, August 27-28....

Playwright Jeffery S. Jones reopens the case of Dorian Corey in his original LGBTQIA+ murder-mystery dramedy

Dorian Corey (ca. 1937-93) was a legend on the New York drag circuit of the 1970s-80s, as founder of both the clothing label Corey Design and the voguing House of Corey, which won more than 50 grand...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Anthony Rapp

Obie-winning star of the stage and screen Anthony Rapp is not only an accomplished actor, he’s also a singer and writer, whose talent and sensitivity come shining through in everything he does. From...

Robert Dubac’s ‘The Book of Moron’ at SoHo Playhouse will keep you laughing and leave you thinking

The Book of Moron is back Off-Broadway, and it’s as timely as it ever was. The acclaimed one-man comedy, written and performed by Robert Dubac (The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?) and originally...

A sensational debut of ‘The Boy Band Project’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

What hurricane? The show must go on, and it did. While the tempest was downgraded to a tropical storm, The Boy Band Project upgraded the night from rainy to on fire with the group’s debut at...

NCMT to present a star-studded outdoor staged concert of ‘Songs for a New World’ at Radial Park

For its inaugural event, New City Music Theatre (NCMT) – a non-profit company originally founded as Cleveland Musical Theatre in 2014, to create inclusive experiences for a contemporary generation –...

Let music put you in a ‘New York State of Mind’ with an all-star video and free opera in Bryant Park

As NYC continues to reopen with COVID-19 safety protocol in place, audiences can enjoy two stellar concert performances today, online and/or in person. And even better, you don’t have to choose, you...

A free online open discussion on ‘What Producing Companies Need to Start Producing Again’ with TRU

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) – the 27-year-old leading network for developing theater professionals – has announced a multi-tiered initiative to serve small-to-medium-sized non-profit producing...

Explore ‘The Musicals of Tomorrow’ in a new podcast series from New York Theatre Barn and BPN

Dedicated to incubating new musicals since 2007, Off-Broadway’s non-profit New York Theatre Barn, in association with the Broadway Podcast Network – a leader in theater and theater-related podcasts,...

A BPN encore of ‘With Love, Now and Forever!’ to support COVID-19 relief

In his parody podcast The Wrong Cat Died, theater outsider Mike Abrams, who adamantly believes that Grizabella was the wrong cat to die at the Jellicle Ball, interviews cast members, superfans, and...

Irish Rep revisits ‘George M. Cohan Tonight!’ in an abridged digital presentation

Legendary American actor, singer, dancer, composer, lyricist, playwright, and producer George M. Cohan (1878-1942) epitomized the multitude of skills and accomplishments of a multi-hyphenate long...

New COVID-19 safety protocol now in effect in NYC for indoor entertainment and activities

On Monday, August 16, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio issued Emergency Executive Order 225, requiring COVID-19 vaccination for all indoor entertainment, recreation, dining, and fitness settings, to mitigate...

The latest musical offerings from Broadway stars Adam Pascal and Ben Platt

Theater-lovers can enjoy the latest offerings from two luminaries of the NYC stage – one with a new online concert, the other with the release of a new album and an upcoming tour. On Tuesday, August...

Joe Iconis and Lauren Marcus live this weekend at The Argyle Theatre and Rockwood Music Hall

Broadway sensations Joe Iconis and Lauren Marcus (Be More Chill; Love in Hate Nation) are two of the busiest artists in NYC theater, and with good reason; they’re also two of the most talented,...

A profoundly affecting look at familial love in ‘Leaves’ at Theater for the New City

By all appearances, Muriel is a normal African American housewife living a happy, if sometimes exhausting, middle-class life in upstate NY, sharing a loving relationship with her devoted husband...

Strange and unexpected pairings in ‘Falling in Love with Mr. Dellamort’ on BPN

Jack Feldstein’s new three-part audio musical adaptation of Falling in Love with Mr. Dellamort by Feldstein (book and co-lyrics) and Paul Doust (music and co-lyrics), which had its world premiere on...

The Tony Awards are coming in September, but will be different this year

As was previously announced, the 74th annual Tony Awards, presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, will take place on Sunday, September 26, beginning at 7:00 pm, with a reduced...

Five iconic NYC dance companies ‘BAAND Together’ at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts continues it Restart Stages initiative – designed to spearhead the revitalization of NYC during these pandemic times through its activation of ten outdoor spaces...

‘Theater people are magic’: A Q&A with Deaf and gay artivist Joshua Castille

The LA-based performance artist—now appearing as Romeo at the Frederick Shakespeare Festival—talks about being labeled and falling in love.