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Flushing Town Hall’s ‘Black History Trilogy’ features solo performances by Broadway stars

To honor Black History Month, Flushing Town Hall presents its Black History Trilogy, a three-part series of Broadway luminaries showcasing the speeches and music of influential African-American...

Mint Theater Company presents ‘Katie Roche’ in its Silver Lining Streaming Series

Next up in Mint Theater’s free on-demand Silver Lining Streaming Series – celebrating the award-winning Off-Broadway company’s silver anniversary and marking “twenty-five years of unearthing and...

New from Red Bull Theater: Exploring ‘King Lear’ with André De Shields and a call for ‘Restoration’ new short-play entries

This Monday’s installment of Red Bull Theater’s ongoing RemarkaBULL Podversation series, Exploring King Lear with André De Shields, considers Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of ca. 1605-06, inspired by...

Top picks for weekend streaming from Lauren Marcus, Mariza, and The Seeing Place

This weekend’s top streaming picks include headline concerts by a multi-hyphenate Broadway favorite and an international Fado artist, along with a post-apocalyptic dark comedy with songs from a...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Birdland’s Jim Caruso

Famed showman and impresario Jim Caruso hasn’t let the coronavirus pandemic slow him down. He continues to keep audiences connected to the New York nightclub scene, musical theater, and performing...

Rapping about ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ with Shockwave and Young Nees

Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan has co-created just that as an original member of the eponymous hip-hop improv squad and its 2019 Broadway show Freestyle Love Supreme. Begun by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel...

Stars of the stage and screen observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day with the Museum of Jewish Heritage

It must never be forgotten that more than one million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust and countless others survived the horror. Some, like the well-known and widely read Anne Frank,...

Story Pirates’ virtual ‘Sleep Squad’ launches kids into dreamland through February

An award-winning leader in online entertainment for kids, with a #1 podcast that’s been downloaded more than 25 million times, NYC-based Story Pirates, in partnership with Tony-winning producer Eva...

New album releases by Broadway’s Nicolas King, Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert

Theater-goers and music-lovers who are missing the voices of their favorite Broadway stars can enjoy two new album releases from PS Classics (founded in 2000, and recipient of nine Grammy Award...

TCG books releases ‘A Strange Loop’ by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael R. Jackson

One of the most highly acclaimed productions of the 2019-20 season, A Strange Loop, which made its Off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons, earned multiple awards, including Best Musical from the...

All-star benefit concert to ‘Save Birdland’ scheduled for January 24

As previously reported, the iconic Birdland jazz club, located in the heart of NYC’s Theater District at 315 West 44th Street, has suffered financial setbacks due to the extended shutdown of live...

NewYorkRep’s anti-racism short-play festival ‘CivilWrights’ debuts this Sunday

To honor Martin Luther King Day, NewYorkRep, in association with Tony-nominated producer Rashad V. Chambers and Five Ohm Productions, is responding to the national crisis of systemic racism with...

Freestyle Love Supreme Academy begins its winter sessions for kids this weekend

Created by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale in 2004, the critically acclaimed improv troupe Freestyle Love Supreme – famed for its successful run on Broadway in 2019, and as the...

Atlantic Theater Company’s ‘African Caribbean MixFest’ launches next week

Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company – committed to connecting with audiences from a broad range of economic backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, and perspectives – returns next week with its annual...

NYTF’s ‘Soul to Soul’ concert explores parallels in African-American and Jewish history

In commemoration of Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 18, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) premieres its tenth annual, and first virtual, production of Soul to Soul – an...

An all-star cast of MasterVoices launches ‘Myths and Hymns’ theatrical song cycle

As the pandemic shutdown of in-person performances continues, MasterVoices (formerly The Collegiate Chorale) is bringing its 79th 2021 season online from January through May, with Myths and Hymns, a...

Monday night with ‘Jim Caruso’s Pajama Cast Party’ and into the future with Birdland

With the pandemic shutdown of live performance venues in NYC, performer and impresario Jim Caruso took his famed Monday-night Cast Party – “the mother of all open mic night/variety shows,” which he’s...

Red Bull Theater’s reading of ‘The African Company Presents Richard III’ reflects on a real moment in Black history

On Monday, January 11, Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater will premiere its live benefit reading of Twin-Cities playwright Carlyle Brown’s 1987 work The African Company Presents Richard III at 7:30 pm....

Front Row Productions Fellowship established at Columbia University to support emerging producers and increasing diversity

Multiple Tony Award nominees and Olivier Award winners Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey’s announced today that Front Row Productions – founded by Byrd to bring major works with diverse casts,...

Mint Theater Company continues its free streaming series in 2021

Beginning now and continuing through June, Off-Broadway’s Obie Award-winning Mint Theater Company brings its popular Silver Lining Streaming Series into the New Year by sharing, free and on demand...

The Public Theater’s ‘Under the Radar Festival’ begins streaming this week

For the first time in its seventeen-year history, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival will be going completely virtual in 2021, with twelve days of free performances beginning on Wednesday,...

Two theater students start a podcast that asks stars “Whatcha Doin’?”

Two enterprising Catholic University of America seniors are hosting a new podcast to connect current theater industry professionals with future theater industry professionals through interviews on...

Viral sensation ‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ raises over $1 million for The Actors Fund

If anyone ever believed that the theater is really dead, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical has resoundingly proven otherwise, giving it new life through Gen-Z social media and post-modern tech. The...

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with the stars of Broadway

Though Times Square will be closed to crowds for New Year’s Eve and you won’t be able to watch the iconic ball drop in person this year, you can still celebrate the arrival of 2021 in New York style,...

The year that COVID canceled live theater and a revolution came to life

Theater history will long remember that 2020 was the year that COVID canceled live performance. It canceled lots else, of course, including, tragically, hundreds of thousands of lifetimes. But it is...

Register now for Artistic Stamp’s second season of plays-by-mail

After the success of Artistic Stamp’s sold-out inaugural season, the plays-by-mail theater company will return with its second round of original interactive narrative adventures in the form of...

Shakina Nayfack’s ‘Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club’ on Audible offers a transformative experience for everyone

Presented as part of the virtual 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival, the world-premiere audio-play release of transgender writer, performer, and activist Shakina Nayfack’s Chonburi International Hotel...

Long-awaited government relief package includes $15 billion to Save Our Stages

Following a full week of complaints, delay, and criticism of the 5,593-page $2.3 trillion omnibus US fiscal bill, the President at last signed it into law on Sunday night, December 27, in time to...

A tribute to Lorraine Treanor, Washington theater’s booster-in-chief

In June 2005 Lorraine Treanor, a relatively new theater-maker transplant from Chicago, who had followed her husband’s work to settle in the Greater Washington area, joined with Walter “Ronnie” Ruff to...

The Boy Band Project sings in the New Year

On January 1, 2021, The Boy Band Project – NYC’s Broadway World Award-winning “Best Group” of 2019 (and currently honored with eight nominations in the 2020 BWW Awards, for which voting is still open)...

A new virtual installment of ‘Sondheim Unplugged’ from Feinstein’s/54 Below

For the latest edition of its ongoing offerings of new streamed concerts in 54 Below Premieres, Feinstein’s/54 Below presents the first virtual iteration of one of the nightclub’s longest-running...

Joe Iconis and Lauren Marcus rally support for a virtual Christmas telethon to save the West Bank Cafe and Laurie Beechman Theatre

As is the case with so many of New York’s favorite restaurants and venues, the West Bank Cafe and Laurie Beechman Theatre are in danger of closing permanently due to losses suffered during the...

Mark your calendar for three virtual holiday events airing on Monday

With three special holiday shows for children and adults all streaming on Monday (the night when theaters traditionally were dark), it will be hard to decide which one to watch. Fortunately, you won’t...

Three world premieres from wild project and Audible

This week will see the debut of three original new works, all redesigned for digital presentation during the continuing coronavirus pandemic. One is part of Audible’s collaboration with the 2020...

NBC-TV special raises over $3 million to aid the Broadway community

NBC’s One Night Only: The Best of Broadway was not only a dazzling celebration of the hottest shows and stars from the New York stage, it was also a smashing success in raising $3,051,297 in donations...

A virtual revival of Kim David Smith’s ‘A Wery Weimar Christmas’ at Club Cumming

A recurrent act on the NYC cabaret scene, Australian-born New York-based actor and singer Kim David Smith makes a virtual return with his holiday hit A Wery Weimar Christmas for two nights this week...

What to watch this week

With the holidays upon us, digital events are in full swing, offering a variety of seasonal productions to suit every taste. These five picks for the week present a wide range of themes, styles, and...

A new digital production of the old-fashioned ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ from Irish Repertory Theatre

Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 2020 online season with a new digital production of Meet Me in St. Louis, a show last presented on stage by the company in 2007. The familiar piece...

A Stellar concert event with the cast of ‘Jagged Little Pill’ goes live online this Sunday

After a ten-month pandemic hiatus of live performances at the Broadhurst Theatre, the stars and team of the fifteen-time Tony-nominated musical Jagged Little Pill (recently featured in the televised...

Using Zoom in a new way to create theater that transforms how we see

By Neal Davidson “Dramatic Betweenness”: A new theatrical experience Here’s an incredibly simple idea: a play written and performed as a video call. Nothing more. Not a streamed live production, a...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Norm Lewis

Norm Lewis, who can currently be seen starring in the Netflix film Da 5 Bloods by Spike Lee and the Hulu miniseries Mrs. America, has smashed the clock on Andy Warhol’s proverbial fifteen minutes of...

An enchanting stream of the annual ‘Broadway Princess Holiday Party’ from Feinstein’s/54 Below

Although fans of Broadway’s favorite musical princesses can’t attend their annual concert at Feinstein’s/54 Below in person this year, everyone around the world can watch them in the 2020 virtual...

Special shows to stream this week

As the holidays approach, the internet is lighting up with a selection of special shows to stream this week. Among them are a medievalizing experimental Off-Off-Broadway mainstay, a naughty...

New releases from the 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival on Audible

Instead of cancelling its 2020 season, as many were compelled to do by the coronavirus pandemic, the Williamstown Theatre Festival – renowned for bringing top playwrights, actors, directors, and...

Some personal insights from Grace McLean on ‘In the Green’ and her December livestream concert

In everything singer-actress-writer-educator Grace McLean does, she brings her unique blend of creativity, passion, introspection, intelligence, and talent; she is a true original, with historical...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene celebrates Chanukah with a global star-studded event

To usher in this year’s Festival of Lights, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents its Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular – a virtual evening of music, comedy, celebration, and community, with more...

Broadway stars coming to NBC-TV this week

After its popular holiday broadcasts of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, and The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes – At...

A chat with The Doo Wop Project, streaming ‘Live In Your Home For The Holidays’ on December 12

After the sensational success of The Doo Wop Project: Live In Your Living Room – a knockout virtual concert livestreamed from New World Stages in October – the super-popular vocal group brings its...

John Lloyd Young’s holiday concert and the new ‘Theality TV’ series are streaming this weekend

If you’re wondering what to watch this weekend, here are two very different picks you can stream at home that will keep you entertained with songs and themes from the New York stage. John Lloyd...

An immersive production and livestream of ‘The Nutcracker at Wethersfield’ by BalletCollective

A Christmas tradition has been reimagined for our time of social distancing by NYC’s BalletCollective (BC), with an exclusive safety-compliant live engagement of The Nutcracker at Wethersfield from...