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New survey shows young talent are staying hopeful despite pandemic

Despite the ongoing pandemic, high school and college arts students are cautiously optimistic and still committed to pursuing their dreams of being a part of the arts community, according to a new...

Celebrate and support ‘Pajama Cast Party’ and ‘Broadway Backwards’ this week

Start your week with a bang on Monday and Tuesday with two free events that celebrate the stars and shows of Broadway and also raise funds for important charitable causes through your voluntary...

Online now from Florencia Cuenca, the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, and The Tank

Among the range of current theater-based online offerings are a new interpretation of a familiar song from a hit Broadway musical, an exhibition of a legendary artist’s drawings of an iconic American...

Weekend streaming selections from Keen Company and Dzieci Theatre

The debut of a new audio play for our times and the virtual revival of an annual Eastertime event are among the compelling offerings of New York City theater to check out this weekend. Keen Company,...

Feeling the love for ‘Amour’ with Jennifer Sánchez

Set in the picturesque Parisian district of Montmartre shortly after World War II, Amour is a musical fantasy adapted from the 1943 short story Le Passe-Muraille by Marcel Aymé, with music by Michel...

A year into COVID, how theater is changing maybe forever

At first, the shutdown of live theater came as a shock. Then, once artists were left to think quick on their feet, an extraordinary evolution began to happen. At the beginning of the coronavirus...

Classics from Miles Malleson and Tennessee Williams streaming this week

If you’re an aficionado of theatrical classics and period pieces, you can connect online this week with an all-star reading of a world-renowned drama by a Pulitzer Prize-winning American icon and a...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with stage and screen star Adrienne Barbeau

From her Broadway debut in Fiddler on the Roof and her award-winning performance as Rizzo in the original Broadway production of Grease, to her legendary roles on the hit TV sit-com Maude (as Bea...

A global community celebrates Passover with ‘The Third Seder’ concert on Sunday

In the 1960s, young survivors of the Holocaust, striving to express their communal resilience and that of their mother-tongue, began the tradition of The Third Seder, with a unique stage performance...

Throughout the Broadway shutdown, ‘Hamilton’ continues to inspire

Although, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, live performances with an in-person audience at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre have been shut down for more than a year, since March 12, 2020,...

Weekend watching with SoHo Playhouse and Lincoln Center Theater

If you’re wondering what to watch this weekend, SoHo Playhouse and Lincoln Center Theater are streaming two options for your virtual viewing pleasure, both inspired by literary classics, in their...

Live events return to The Invisible Dog Art Center and Daryl Roth Theatre

In the move to begin the reopening of NYC venues and performances to live audiences, Off-Broadway companies are presenting compelling in-person shows that speak to our current times, with limited...

The Public’s bilingual podcast of ‘Romeo y Julieta’ to star Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o

Director Saheem Ali continues his audio exploration of William Shakespeare’s canon with Romeo y Julieta – a new bilingual podcast of The Bard’s beloved classic Romeo and Juliet – collaborating with...

Broadway’s J. Breckenridge debuts the music video of his new single ‘Y.O.U.’ with Red Card Records

As an actor, Southern California native Josh Breckenridge is known for his standout roles on Broadway in the revival of Terrence McNally’s play The Ritz at Studio 54, Kander and Ebb’s Tony-nominated...

Gingold’s ‘Irish Poetry Slam’ celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a star-studded line-up

In lieu of its usual Golden Shamrock Gala, Off-Broadway’s Gingold Theatrical Group – home of the comprehensive Project Shaw and the first company ever to present performances of every one of Irish...

Red Bull explores the gender themes of ‘Gallathea’ in two live online readings

John Lyly’s Elizabethan pastoral comedy Gallathea, first performed for the Queen and her court at Greenwich Palace on New Year’s Day, 1588, provides the theme for two live online pay-what-you-can...

Innovative shorts from Hunger & Thirst Theatre based on the game of telephone

Throughout the twelve-month pandemic shutdown of live theater, beginning with the closure of all Broadway performances a year ago today, artists have been creating innovative and experimental work...

Streaming soon from MTC, SoHo Playhouse, and Keen

Three mainstay Off-Broadway companies are closing out the week with debuts of their next online offerings this Thursday-Saturday, March 11-13. One is a reunion reading by the original cast of a...

Stars deliver ‘A Love Letter to Liza’ on her 75th birthday

Friday, March 12, 2021, marks the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown of Broadway theaters, but it’s also the 75th birthday of living legend Liza Minnelli. To honor the actress, singer,...

New recordings from Kyle Taylor Parker, Jane Monheit, and Collard & Rosenblatt

A must-hear selection of new and recent album releases offers the latest from a Broadway luminary, a top Billboard jazz and pop vocalist, and a writing team of rising stars. Kyle Taylor Parker,...

‘Broadway Princess Party’ cast shares the joy and magic behind the show

By Kirstin Franko (guest author) and David Siegel Nothing can stop the Broadway Princess Party with its celebration of empowerment for who you are or want to be. It’s a performance that aims to kick...

Jennifer Ashley Tepper’s ‘The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4’ released tomorrow, discussed on Keen After Hours tonight

On Tuesday, March 9, Dress Circle Publishing (founded by Broadway producers Brisa Trinchero and Roberta Pereira in 2011, and the only publishing company dedicated solely to producing books with...

Food for Thought opens season with Christopher Durang and Tennessee Williams

Founded by writer Susan Charlotte in the fall of 2000, Off-Broadway’s award-winning Food For Thought Productions (FFTP), now in its 21st year, was the first theater company back in live action in NYC...

Japan Society’s ‘Ludic Proxy: Fukushima’ streams live beginning on Saturday

In association with PlayCo (an Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway theater producing adventurous new plays from the US and around the world), Japan Society (founded in 1907, to foster the exchange of...

Cuomo announces April 2 reopening of Broadway Flex Venues, Equity calls for vaccines

As part of the NY PopsUp initiative, which began on February 20, with free public surprise performances across New York City and State, Governor Cuomo has announced that select Broadway theaters,...

A family in ‘Jericho’ shares a traumatic Thanksgiving dinner

With its inaugural production of Jack Canfora’s Jericho (which made its debut Off-Broadway at 59E59 in 2013), New Normal Rep – a new streaming theater company created during the pandemic and dedicated...

Video release of ‘Broadway Baby’ all-star reading for World Book Day

To commemorate World Book Day on Thursday, March 4, theater operator, producer, and author Russell Miller has released a video of One Grand Books’ February 21st virtual all-star reading of his...

Recipients named for NYSAF NEXUS grants and The Kleban Prize

The 2021 recipients of two prestigious theater initiatives for developing artists – one new, one well-established – have been named by New York Stage and Film and The Kleban Foundation. Lauded as “one...

Virus and racism have dramatically reshaped local audience views on theater

The findings of a new study of DC-area theatergoers reveal a dramatic shift in attitudes toward theater as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. The study...

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘Rent’ with the New York Theatre Workshop

2021 marks a major date in American theater history: the 25th anniversary of the opening of Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking rock musical Rent, which will be celebrated with a spectacular virtual...

Two must-see streams on Monday give perspectives on empathy and Shakespeare

As says the old English proverb – popularized by Jacobean playwright John Fletcher in his 1624 play A Wife for a Month – March is coming in like a lion this year, with two must-see events streaming on...

First annual ‘LGBTQ Short Play Festival’ from Triangle Rainbow Productions

In partnership with Van Dirk Fisher (Founding Artistic Director of the Riant Theatre/Strawberry One-Act Festival), Triangle Rainbow Productions Executive Director Anthony Fusco is presenting the...

Off-Broadway offerings for the weekend

There’s a full slate of streaming options coming this weekend from Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway, with a multi-faceted variety that truly offers something for everyone, from an audio drama to a...

Chapter two of ‘Myths and Hymns’ from MasterVoices

MasterVoices – the country’s first interracial and interfaith chorus, founded by famed American choral conductor Robert Shaw in 1941 – continues its presentation of Myths and Hymns by award-winning...

Classic plays from Red Bull and Mint streaming on Monday

Two acclaimed Off-Broadway companies continue their mission of presenting rarely produced plays from the past, and works by undeservedly forgotten women dramatists, with virtual productions on Monday....

Observing Purim with NYTF and the Congress for Jewish Culture

In celebration of Purim next week – the spring festival held to commemorate the defeat of Haman’s plot to massacre the Jews, as recorded in the Book of Esther (also known in Hebrew as the Megillah, or...

All-star virtual reading of ‘Broadway Baby’ children’s book on Sunday

A star-studded online reading of the new best-selling illustrated children’s book Broadway Baby, written by theater operator and producer Russell Miller (Guys & Dolls, Blood Brothers, Paramour, On The...

New play festivals from TRU and LAByrinth streaming next week

On Sunday, February 21, beginning at 5 pm, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) – the leading non-profit network for developing theater professionals – presents its annual fundraising gala via Zoom as a...

GMU students have a winner in ‘Sing Happy! The Music of Kander & Ebb’

The joys of a new online musical await: Sing Happy! The Music of Kander & Ebb, an engaging, confidently performed, energy-filled one-hour revue performed by the talent-rich students of George Mason...

Model Majority celebrates the Lunar New Year with a Saturday night of comedy

On Saturday, February 20, at 8 pm, NYC’s premiere Asian American sketch comedy team, Model Majority, founded by Veronica Dang in 2018, presents a night of laughs and more to celebrate the Lunar New...

A university’s need to ‘Adjust the Procedure’ amidst pandemic crises and cover-ups

A co-presentation by JCS Theater Company and Spin Cycle, the world premiere of Adjust the Procedure, written and directed by Jake Shore (award-winning Off-Broadway playwright and Director of the...

Intrepid Museum’s Kids Week offers performing arts programs on Wednesday

Kids Week (February 15-19) at the Intrepid Museum is going virtual this year, with dozens of streaming demonstrations, shows, workshops, performances, and special guests that will keep kids of all...

A virtual remount of ‘Borders’ examines international separation and connection in online dating

Amidst the ongoing pandemic shutdown of live performance venues, Off-Off-Broadway’s Dirty Laundry Theatre adapted emerging Israeli playwright Nimrod Danishman’s original stage play Borders, which the...

Marsha Mason leads an all-star cast in Keen Company’s ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’ benefit broadcast

Off-Broadway’s Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company continues its 21st season with an all-star audio presentation of Lucille Fletcher’s classic radio thriller Sorry, Wrong Number. The...

A weekend of Valentine concerts from Broadway favorites

Valentine’s Day falls on Sunday this year, but the celebration is not limited to just one day. Three favorites from the NYC stage are offering a full weekend line-up of romantic concerts you’ll love,...

A return to the performing arts with 100 days of ‘NY PopsUp’ events

Governor Andew M. Cuomo has just announced that, beginning on Saturday, February 20, an unprecedented and expansive festival featuring hundreds of pop-up performances (many of which are free of charge...

Selections for streaming this week

Numbering among this week’s assorted streaming selections are a timely discussion, a revealing interactive phone call, and the remount of an iconic concert from the ‘60s. Queer Amory: Queer Love in...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Andrew Barth Feldman

At the age of eighteen, Long Island native Andrew Barth Feldman has already far surpassed his Warholian fifteen minutes of fame and has a lifetime more coming. After winning the Best Actor Award at...

Choreographer Jenn Rose is honored with the 4th annual SDCF Breakout Award

The not-for-profit Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), founded in 1965, as an affiliate of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, has announced that the recipient of this...

Five upcoming audio-plays from Audible feature award-winning casts

Audible – a leader in creating and providing the best in audio storytelling – announced its new slate of audio-plays to be released this month through April, which will feature performances by Tony...