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In ‘Hamilton,’ Angelica Schuyler’s husband is called ‘not a lot of fun.’ Here’s his real story.

By Daryl Austin The hip-hop musical Hamilton is being released on Disney+ on Friday (July 3)—a full 15 months ahead of schedule—so you can watch the drama and all of its love stories and scandals...

‘Black Stories Matter’ live storytelling show to benefit Black Lives Matter DC

Black Stories Matter, a live online storytelling show benefiting Black Lives Matter DC, will be presented by the DMV’s Better Said Than Done on Zoom July 10, 2020. Black Stories Matter features eight...

How to join the ‘Hamilton’ revolution

Founding Father Alexander Hamilton (ca. 1757-1804) was a key figure in the American Revolution, so it’s only fitting that the stage musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, and lyrics)...

Significant streaming for the week of the 4th

While most of us will be celebrating Independence Day remotely this year, there’s a significant selection of virtual performances by New York theater artists that will enrich your 4th of July week. In...

What ‘Into the Woods’ can teach us about surviving COVID-19

Broadway has been dark since March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the longest shutdown in its history. With theaters shuttered from Broadway to the Beltway, musical theater fans have an...

Broadway closure extended again, through the remainder of 2020

The Broadway League has just announced another extension of the cancellation of Broadway performances due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ticket refunds and exchanges on all Broadway shows are now...

Two entertaining serial podcasts for summer binge-listening

Originally issued in weekly installments, the complete editions of two engaging serial podcasts are now available in full, so you can binge on them all at once, or listen to the individual chapters at...

Ballet Hispánico’s upcoming ‘Noche Unidos’ brings people together through dance

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ballet Hispánico, America’s leading Latino dance organization, with a mission of giving voice to the community’s cultural identity and experience through...

Continuing the celebration of Pride month

For this last week of Pride month, New York theaters and performing artists continue their celebrations of the LGBTQIA+ community and its history with an ongoing calendar of events culminating, on...

Summer reading selections of theater-themed books

New, recent, and soon-to-be-released books on theater-related topics offer a variety of genres for interesting summer reading. From personal recollections to historical fiction to the spotlighting of...

Winners of Broadway Black’s inaugural Antonyo Awards for 2020

Recipients of the first annual Antonyo Awards, created and presented by Broadway Black (in association with The Black Theatre Society) to recognize achievements of Black theater artists for both...

Black Lives Matter and the universality of Shakespeare come together this Juneteenth in a powerful new video from The Public Theater

As part of its weekly digital series #BraveNewShakespeare, which challenges members of the theater community to create their own interpretations of what Shakespeare’s words mean to them today, The...

Peter Michael Marino to livestream ‘Desperately Seeking the Exit’ in The Queerly Festival

With the NYC Pride Parade going virtual for this year’s 50th-anniversary celebration, The Queerly Festival – Frigid New York’s annual Pride platform for LGBTQ+ indie theater artists since 2014 – is...

Stars of ‘The Prom’ kick off Pride episodes of ‘My Broadway Memory’ on BPN

Co-hosts Michael Kushner and Brian Sedita welcome actors Caitlin Kinnunen and Josh Lamon to kick off their first Pride episode of “My Broadway Memory” on Thursday, June 18, at 7 pm. The live weekly...

Broadway Podcast Network launches its new ‘My First Show’ interview series

Broadway Podcast Network (BPN) – offering a wide range of premiere digital programming in theater and the performing arts, with all-star hosts, actors, storytellers, producers, writers, and other...

TOSOS to livestream Robert Heide’s ‘The Bed’ for Gay Pride

In the mid-1960s, Joe Cino, founder of the iconic Greenwich Village coffee-house theater Caffe Cino (hailed as the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway), urged some of his trailblazing playwrights to write...

See who won the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards

Recipients of the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards for outstanding achievements in New York theater (on, Off, and Off-Off Broadway) of the 2019-20 season were announced tonight by a star-studded roster...

Diverse online offerings to watch this weekend

Even though it’s remote, you can still keep your connection to the theater strong with a diverse selection of virtual offerings this weekend. From livestream concerts, original cast readings, and...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with stage and screen star Alyssa May Gold

Last seen on the New York stage in her critically-acclaimed performance in the award-nominated supernatural coming-of-age comedy Our Dear Dead Drug Lord at Off-Broadway’s WP Theater, Alyssa May Gold,...

Theatermakers of color call white theater to account for systemic racism

The cultural momentum powering protests that followed the May 25 murder of George Floyd has galvanized a national and local movement for transformational change in American theater led by Black,...

Actor Jamyl Dobson discusses his livestream reading of ‘one in two’ for Playbill’s Pride Plays

For its first installment in this month’s primetime series of Pride Plays, commemorating the 50th anniversary of New York’s Gay Pride Parade with livestreams of four significant LGBTQIA+ works,...

Nominations are in and voting is on for Broadway Black’s first Antonyo Awards

In a livestream ceremony on Facebook and YouTube last night, hosts Kristolyn Lloyd (Dear Evan Hansen) and Bryan Terrell Clark (Hamilton) announced the nominations in 23 categories, along with a...

Gay Pride goes virtual for this year’s 50th anniversary star-studded festivities

This year marks the 50th anniversary of New York’s first Pride Parade. And despite the ongoing shutdown of large public gatherings to guard against the spread of the coronavirus, the celebration will...

Exploring Sondheim’s ‘Finishing the Hat’ on ‘Poetry in America’ with The Sheen Center

To continue this year’s milestone celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday, Off-Broadway’s The Sheen Center is teaming up with Poetry in America – a new series produced by Verse Video...

LA TI DO revises LA TI DOnline launch to support Black Lives Matter

LA TI DO Productions (LTD) has delayed its launch of LA TI DOnline to create space for the communities its connected to in support of focusing on Black Lives Matter protests resulting from the deaths...

Jesse Corbin’s new song ‘Dance (On Our Own Together)’ delivers a much-needed uplifting message

Actor/singer/songwriter Jesse Corbin has been spending his time in isolation productively. In addition to his weekly appearance with The Boy Band Project in the group’s brunch-time Digital Get Down on...

Free streamings of two top musicals to end May with a bang!

Two blockbuster show-biz-themed period-piece musicals – one classic, one cult-classic, and both filled with spirited song and dance – are available for complimentary streaming this weekend to end your...

Call for submissions for the first ‘Virtual Theatre Festival’ this summer

Broadway Theatre Studio, producers of the popular long-running Off-Broadway musical-mixology series The Imbible, is partnering with the iconic theater magazine Playbill to host a brand-new Virtual...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Lauren Marcus of ‘Be More Chill’ fame

Sheltering in place hasn’t kept actress/singer/songwriter Lauren Marcus from creating, performing, and entertaining audiences everywhere with her talent, passion, and commitment. Just in time for the...

An Equity press call with Dr. David Michaels on what’s needed for a safe reopening of theaters

On April 21, the Council of Actors’ Equity Association (the national union for professional actors and stage managers in live theater) unanimously passed a new internal membership rule that members...

What’s streaming this weekend

There’s something for everyone this weekend, with online viewing of everything from play readings to theater-based films and cabaret. So if you’re a New York theater-lover looking for some suggestions...

Winners of the 10th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards

In a livestream announcement this morning on Crowdcast.com by the Off Broadway Alliance (OBA), President Peter Breger introduced Charles Busch and Julie Halston (both recipients of the organization’s...

Five great films about theater (to help you survive staying home)

Karen Richards (Celeste Holm) the playwright’s wife: A part in a play. You’d do all that for a part in a play? Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) conniving actress: I’d do much more for a part that good....

New music videos in the time of coronavirus from The Boy Band Project and Baba Brinkman

Two recently released music videos by New York favorites The Boy Band Project and Baba Brinkman, both masterfully produced while at home in quarantine, deal in their own unique styles with the impact...

Record-breaking assistance for the entertainment community from The Actors Fund

The Actors Fund – a national human services organization founded in 1882, to foster stability and resiliency, and to provide a safety net for professionals in the performing arts and entertainment...

The Al Hirschfeld Foundation’s ‘Socially Distant Theater’ offers a digital exhibition of the artist’s iconic caricatures of solo performances

In keeping with our period of self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, the The Al Hirschfeld Foundation presents Socially Distant Theater – a virtual exhibition of 25 works by the master...

Refunds and exchanges on Broadway tickets: Performances suspended through September 6

With the ongoing shutdown of Broadway theaters and suspension of shows due to the coronavirus until further notice, The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway industry,...

A gripping new audio performance of ‘Bleeding Love’ on the Broadway Podcast Network

Following its successful world-premiere run in 2015, live on stage in Denmark’s Fredericia Teater, Bleeding Love is now available on digital platforms to a worldwide audience in a new three-part audio...

When shows go on again, audiences across America will be slow to show up, says new survey.

Shugoll Research, a national marketing research company in Bethesda, Maryland, is releasing a Phase III study of theatergoers and their intent to return to the theater when it reopens after the...

Honorees for the 70th Anniversary Outer Critics Circle Awards of 2020

In a video feed this afternoon featuring presentations by past award recipients Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bryan Cranston, Kristin Chenoweth, and Patrick Stewart, The Outer Critics Circle (OCC)...

Theaters are closed but the music plays on in Ghostlight Records’ original cast albums

Though audiences aren’t able to enjoy live on-stage performances during the ongoing coronavirus shutdown, Ghostlight Records offers cast recordings from a selection of popular musicals for digital...

Many theatergoers in no hurry to go back to Broadway, new survey finds

Shugoll Research, a national marketing research company in Bethesda, Maryland, is releasing a new study of theatergoers and their intent to return to the theater when it reopens after the coronavirus...

Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle is acting as an advocate for the theater community

Known for her acting on stage and screen in such notable productions as Jekyll & Hyde, Cabaret, and Legally Blonde on Broadway, the national tour of Fun Home, and the 2004 movie thriller The Stepford...

Michael R. Jackson’s ‘A Strange Loop’ wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy, former senior editor at The New York Times, announced the finalists and winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes via video stream this afternoon at 3:00. The...

A new video reunites the closing-night cast of ‘Altar Boyz’ for its 10th anniversary

January 10, 2020, marked a decade since the closing-night cast members of the Off-Broadway mega-hit Altar Boyz, who worked together for almost two years, took their final bows at New World Stages,...

Announcing the winners of the 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway

Winners of the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced tonight in a virtual ceremony beginning at 7 pm. Produced by the League of Off-Broadway...

The Drama League announces nominations for its 86th annual awards while expressing gratitude to the theater community

During tonight’s streaming of The Gratitude Awards Spring 2020 – a special pre-recorded online fundraiser celebrating hope, positivity, and acts of kindness by members of the New York theater...

The Apple Family returns with ‘What Do We Need to Talk About?’ on Zoom

In 2010, award-winning playwright Richard Nelson began his series of plays in The Rhinebeck Panorama, named for the town in upstate New York where he lives. After ten years of installments on the...

Nominations for the 2020 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

The Off Broadway Alliance (OBA) – an organization comprised of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, with annual awards honoring the best in...

Changes for 2020 in the Outer Critics Circle Awards

Because of the current pandemic and the resultant shutdown of live public performances in New York beginning on March 12, the leadership of the Outer Critics Circle – founded during the 1949-50 season...