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PBS takes TV viewers ‘Beyond the Golden Age’ of Broadway

As part of its acclaimed series of Great Performances, the new PBS TV documentary Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959-1983, as recounted in the personal anecdotes...

40th annual ‘Battery Dance Festival’ to feature livestreamed and in-person performances

In partnership with lower Manhattan’s Battery Park City Authority, Battery Dance Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary as NYC’s longest-running free public dance festival this month, with a new...

Insights into the family drama ‘Leaves’ from playwright Victor Vauban Júnior

If you ask Brazilian-born Bronx-based playwright, actor, director, and circus performer Victor Vauban Júnior what he considers to be the most important qualities of a successful marriage, he will...

TV broadcasts of Broadway musicals ‘Wicked’ and ‘Come From Away’ coming soon

The latest hits from the Broadway stage to be featured on the TV screen for at-home viewers are coming soon, to mark the long-awaited return of live in-person theater and to commemorate the 20th year...

Live shows this weekend at The Players Theatre, Pier 76, and Prospect Park

Among this weekend’s top picks for live performances around NYC are a musical send-up of a retro-thriller, the grand finale of a reinvigorating pop-up festival, and the inventive reworking of a...

Broadway begins its reawakening with the reopening of the August Wilson Theatre

Wednesday, August 4, marked the highly anticipated reopening of Broadway, with the first preview performance of Pass Over at the August Wilson Theatre, located on W. 52nd Street, between Broadway and...

On directing R&J with a Deaf Romeo: A Q&A with Christine Mosere

Broadway veteran Joshua Castille (Deaf West’s ‘Spring Awakening’) comes to Frederick Shakespeare Festival and a classic gets a rethink.

Broadway reopens with ‘Pass Over’ at the August Wilson Theatre

Broadway is back! Live preview performances of Pass Over, produced by Lincoln Center Theater, Matt Ross, Jujamcyn Theatres, and others, began August 4, 2021, for a limited nine-week engagement that...

It’s time to say ‘No shot, no show,’ by Stephen Beaudoin

The executive director of The Washington Chorus calls on DC Metro performing arts organizations to make a vaccination policy rooted in respect.

Exhibition of ‘Spectacular Costumes from Stage and Screen’ on 42nd Street

If you’re someone who’s dazzled by the design of a show and love the character-defining clothing worn by the cast, there’s a new must-see exhibition opening this week that shines a spotlight on...

Travis Nesbitt gives the 411 on The Boy Band Project’s debut at Feinstein’s/54 Below

On Sunday night, August 22, The Boy Band Project – the award-winning group of rotating musical-theater stars from on and off Broadway, recreating, reimagining, and revitalizing the sound, moves, and...

Original cast recording of Joe Iconis’s ‘Love in Hate Nation’ coming this Fall

Ghostlight Records and Two River Theater have announced that the label is recording an original cast album today (Monday, August 2), for release in the Fall, of the Joe Iconis musical Love in Hate...

Summer reading selections for theater-lovers

With the imminent reopening of Broadway, theater-lovers can get back into the mood and in the know with these suggestions for summer reading. From recent plays to an independent take-off on a new...

For Quotidian’s farewell, an encore of its Horton Foote world premiere

Theater grande dame Jane Squier Bruns, starring in ‘The Day Emily Married,’ talks about the challenge of playing ‘the mother from hell.’

All of Broadway to require proof of COVID vaccination

Audience members, performers, backstage crew, and theater staff must show proof of shots or negative test at least through October 20.

A surreal and unsettling trip down memory lane in ‘Samuel’ at The Tank

What starts off as a spirited dinner with four adult sisters – Charlie, Jane, Delia, and Wynette – sharing memories and laughs at their childhood home, quickly turns dark in Alexis Roblan’s Samuel, an...

Theater-related podcasts gain popularity

Podcasts have been popular for a long time, but the shutdown has brought house-bound theater professionals many new reasons to create their own audio recordings. The combination of having more spare...

Broadway legends James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim are ‘Putting It Together’ with The Town Hall

At the beginning of his career in 1982, playwright and director James Lapine met legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Shortly thereafter, they decided to write a musical...

Due to variant concern, DC theatergoers still reluctant to return, says new study

And 7 in 10 favor allowing only vaccinated patrons to attend.

News for developing actors and writers from Maggie Flanigan Studio and Theater Breaking Through Barriers

With the gradual reopening of the performing arts to live and in-person events comes news from two important NYC organizations that foster the development of the theater and its artists. Founded by...

A new audio musical thriller with an all-star cast on Broadway Podcast Network

The eerie sound of the theremin – an electronic musical instrument patented in 1928 by its eponymous inventor and controlled by the movement of the hands of its player, without making any physical...

NYSAF continues its summer programming with new musicals by Michael R. Jackson and Billy Porter

New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), which has operated as a vital incubator for artists and their work for the past 37 years, continues its 2021 summer programming, running through August 2, with...

Final installment of the ‘Rhinebeck Panorama’ to debut in August at Hunter College

Playwright and director Richard Nelson’s Rhinebeck Panorama – a twelve-year series of a dozen plays following the lives of three families (the Apples, the Gabriels, and the Michaels) from the...

A virtual revival of the Broadway musical ‘First Date’ streams live this weekend

Watch real-life married couple and American Idol alums Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young meet and try to find love all over again in this weekend’s livestream of First Date, presented exclusively on Stellar...

NYTF celebrates ‘A Yiddish Renaissance’ and Zalmen Mlotek’s 70th birthday

On Monday, July 26, beginning at 2 pm, more than 140 actors, singers, and musicians from across globe will come together remotely with the award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) for...

Watch Tony-winning stars in an encore streaming of the hilarious ‘Judgment Day’ on Stellar

In association with Stellar Events, Barrington Stage Company (BSC), located in Pittsfield, MA, is streaming an encore presentation of last summer’s audience favorite Judgment Day by Rob Ulin...

A benefit concert from Disney on Broadway reopens the New Amsterdam Theatre

Last night, Broadway’s historic New Amsterdam Theatre – built in 1902–03, and located at 214 West 42nd Street, in the center of Midtown Manhattan and the NYC Theater District – reopened with Live at...

Tony-winner Lillias White releases her first solo album ‘Get Yourself Some Happy!’ on Friday

Internationally acclaimed for her work on both the stage and screen, Brooklyn native Lillias White – who won a Tony Award for Best Featured Performance by an Actress in a Musical for Cy Coleman’s The...

Disney on Broadway returns live this weekend

In advance of the return of its popular musicals to theaters this fall, Disney on Broadway presents Live at the New Am – a concert to benefit The Actors Fund and to celebrate the reopening of Broadway...

Actors’ Equity Association opens membership with its new ‘Open Access’ policy

Effective immediately, Actors’ Equity Association (Equity) – the US labor union founded in 1913, representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theater – is implementing...

A live talk on his new book ‘In the Heights: Finding Home’ with Lin-Manuel Miranda

As part of the series Live Talks Los Angeles, Stellar is streaming An Evening with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes & Jeremy McCarter on Wednesday, July 21, beginning at 9 pm EST (6 pm PST)....

The Daily Show Writers Stand-Up Tour is coming and I can’t wait

A fan and pracitioner of satire riffs on post-COVID late-night comedy and why hosts have turned into YouTubers.

ADM21 releases film of ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do’ in memory of Nick Cordero

In keeping with its vision of creating and maintaining a “Living Archive” of great works of musical theater choreography, American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21) – a 501c3 non-profit...

Mauricio Martínez returns live to Feinstein’s/54 Below

This Wednesday, July 21, Mauricio Martínez makes his live return to Feinstein’s/54 Below with a brand-new show, Mauricio Martínez: Back on 54th Street. The NYC-based Mexican-born International Emmy...

John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda in virtual conversation to support the Vineyard Theatre

Off-Broadway’s acclaimed Vineyard Theatre concludes its 2021 Gala Series on Thursday, July 22, beginning at 7 pm, with a live watch party featuring a conversation between two of Broadway’s greatest...

Get out of the city for a flashback to the ‘Totally Awesome 80s’ with Broadway stars at Bristol Riverside Theatre

Bristol Riverside Theatre’s outdoor performance of Totally Awesome 80s at Bristol Township’s new open-air amphitheater – a great day trip and an easy ride down I95 to Bucks County, near the scenic...

Applications now open for free ‘Write It Out!’ virtual workshop with Donja R. Love

Created in 2019 by award-winning playwright Donja R. Love (one in two), and supported by partners National Queer Theater, The Lark, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, MOBI, The Each Other Project, and...

Broadway stars parody Golden Age musicals in ‘Schmigadoon’ on Apple TV+

With the extended shutdown of theaters during the past sixteen months of the pandemic, many favorites of the Broadway stage have crossed over to the big and small screens. Making its global debut on...

Singer Lori Brown Mirabal reflects on her ‘Charmed Life’ and career at Urban Stages

It seems only right that such an outstanding talent, beautiful spirit, and all-around charmer as Lori Brown Mirabal should lead a Charmed Life. She’s the first to admit that she does, and she’s...

Watch ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ and ‘The Jimmy Awards’ online tonight and on demand

Theater-lovers have two great online options to choose from this evening, with a benefit reading of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder and the virtual ceremony of the 12th Jimmy Awards. If you can’t...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Forrest McClendon

Actor and educator Forrest McClendon is famous to fans everywhere for his Tony-nominated blockbuster performance as Mr. Tambo in The Scottsboro Boys and his later reprisal of the role in the London...

A new play with music about ‘The Last Boy’ to survive Terezin concentration camp

The world-premiere workshop engagement of The Last Boy in the Second Republic of SHKID, a new play with music by Steven Fisher, opened at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s on July 10, with the...

Free sculpture, sound, and performance installation ‘You Are Here’ at Lincoln Center

As part of its ongoing Restart Stages initiative – activating and reimagining outdoor public spaces for our new era through artistic and community involvement – Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...

A spectacular view of the city in The Ride’s ‘Eyes on New York’ at Staten Island’s Empire Outlets

If you’re a fan of song, dance, and circus arts, you’ll be amazed by The Ride’s latest venture, Eyes on New York, presented at Empire Outlets, located on Staten Island’s large natural harbor. If...

Storytellers Theater Arts to offer ‘Hamlet’ live and outdoors

Storytellers Theater Arts Professional Acting Company presents Hamlet by William Shakespeare performed outdoors live and outdoors July 22 to 31, 2021. Directed by Terry Sweet Bouma, the production...

New short play festival on the theme of ‘Restoration’ from Red Bull

Off-Broadway’s acclaimed Red Bull Theater will livestream its 11th Annual Short New Play Festival: Restoration on Monday, July 12, beginning at 7:30 pm. Featuring seven world premieres in one night,...

Nicolas King looks back at the past year in ‘Hindsight is 2020’ at The Green Room 42

Since the age of four, the prodigious Nicolas King has been performing, with appearances in three Broadway shows (Beauty and the Beast, A Thousand Clowns opposite Tom Selleck, and Hollywood Arms...

Monumental’s ‘Songs for a New World’ is breathtaking

These top-tier performers make fabulously good music.

An examination of the inequities in public education in ‘Lines in the Dust’ at New Normal Rep

New Normal Rep, founded during the coronavirus shutdown of live theater in 2020, is dedicated to presenting both new and under-produced plays on the internet, centered primarily on works that explore...

Theatre World Awards to present special honors in a virtual celebration on Sunday

As a result of the pandemic shutdown of the 2020 Broadway season, the Theatre World Awards – presented annually since 1944, in recognition of twelve outstanding debut performances on and off Broadway...