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New release and free audio streaming of ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ from Audible Theater

The latest title in the popular Audible Theater series of audio-plays, Sea Wall/A Life – the sold-out New York stage hit double bill of two moving direct-address monologues reflecting on love, life,...

Meet the winners in American Pops Orchestra’s ‘Voices of Tomorrow’ competition

“What a fantastic NextGen competition, the talent was exceptional! I’m happy to say that we had an unprecedented amount of participation, both in viewers and votes. We’re committed to promoting new...

Broadway stars celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday with ‘Take Me to the World’ benefit

Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim turned 90 on March 22, and in honor of that milestone, an all-star roster of Broadway favorites will commemorate the life and career of the timeless composer and...

Broadway actor-singer Dan Domenech: Stranded on a cruise ship but safe

Good news update to the story below: It’s now Saturday, May 9, Day 60, and Dan Domenech and the other healthy Americans who were stranded at sea with him (a total of 70 US citizens) were finally...

Updates on 2020 awards from New Dramatists and The Drama League

The suspension of all public events during this time of quarantine has brought a halt to the live in-person celebrations of theater awards nominations, honors, and presentations. But many established...

Nominations are announced for the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards

Nominations for the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, founded in 1955 to celebrate outstanding achievements in on, off, and off-off Broadway theater, were announced this afternoon by hosts Seth Rudetsky...

DCMTA Spring 2020 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Community Theater Productions, Performances, and Design Elements

Normally we who cover theater for DC Theater Arts collect our favorites as the year draws to a close, but this has not been a normal year. In mid-March the 2020 season was interrupted by a pandemic...

Three top picks from New York for free streaming this weekend

If you’re missing the shows and stars of the Great White Way – and who isn’t? – you can tune in this weekend for three free streams of concerts that are guaranteed to keep the spirit of Broadway alive...

And the 2020 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards go to . . .

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle announced the winners of its 85th annual theater awards today at 10 am, with selections in two categories and three special citations. This year’s award for Best...

Online offerings to include the performing arts in your home-schooling

With the closure of schools during the coronavirus pandemic, many parents are now overseeing their children’s home-schooling. Theater artists and organizations have responded to the need for making...

Nominations are in for the 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Lucille Lortel Awards, founded by the eponymous actress and producer in 1986, to recognize excellence in New York’s Off-Broadway theater. Nominations for...

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for 2020 to be announced on April 16

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle, founded in 1935, has been presenting its annual award for the Best New Play of the season since 1936, making it the second-oldest theater award after the Pulitzer...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Sarah Stiles

This month, during the indefinite precautionary closure of theaters in New York and around the world, Sarah Stiles continues to provide world-class entertainment to fans in self-isolation everywhere....

Current updates on Broadway

With the uncertainty surrounding the duration and impact of the coronavirus crisis, information and expectations are changing frequently. On April 8, The Broadway League announced that the suspension...

A song of hope from Jaime Lozano and Marina Pires

When their close friend and frequent musical-theater collaborator Mauricio Martinez, best known to Broadway fans for his starring role as Emilio Estefan in On Your Feet!, was facing his fourth bout...

Audible offers free audio-plays of hits from the New York stage

For a limited time, Audible Theater, a division of Amazon, is offering free audio versions of a selection of popular stage productions from the past year, narrated by the original cast. So if you...

Announcement of two emergency grants for the theater community with application deadlines in April and May

In response to the widespread impact of COVID-19 on the theater community, two more philanthropic organizations have recently announced the availability, by application, of emergency support over the...

A new pocket anthology of ‘Sondheim: Lyrics’ to commemorate his 90th birthday

This month marked the 90th birthday of Broadway icon Stephen Sondheim (b. March 22, 1930, NYC). The milestone in the life of the eight-time Tony award-winning composer and lyricist of the stage and...

Feinstein’s/54 Below launches its ‘At Home’ series of free cabaret concert streamings

Starting this evening, Feinstein’s/54 Below will offer an At Home series of free one-time-only streamings of its popular cabaret concerts to keep audiences entertained during the closure of all live...

The ‘Boy Band Brunch’ is on! An interview with The Boy Band Project’s Travis Nesbitt

With the current shutdown of all performance venues in New York, The Boy Band Project has found the perfect solution to keep its popular Sunday afternoon concert, the Boy Band Brunch, scheduled weekly...

Broadway coronavirus updates: emergency relief agreement for union employees and two major shows that will not go on

The coronavirus has upended the old maxim “The show must go on.” It was just announced that two major productions, which had been suspended through April 12, after playing a number of preview...

How the closure of NYC theaters affects press agents: an interview with Keith Sherman

With this week’s government-ordered closure of all theaters and performance venues in NYC, we’ve all become aware of the impact the safety precautions implemented to deal with the coronavirus has had...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Erik Ransom

Composer, lyricist, librettist, actor, singer, musician – Erik Ransom does it all, and does it all so famously that the New York-based artist was awarded last year’s Off West End (Offie) Award for...

An open letter to the DMV theater community

As passionate theater lovers and as members of the DC Theater Arts leadership team, we applaud the DMV theaters that have announced closure or postponement of current and upcoming productions. We can...

The coronavirus makes the lights go out on Broadway: all shows suspended until April 13, 2020

It was just announced by The Broadway League that all Broadway performances are suspended immediately, in the midst of the busy opening season. This comes following the breaking news that an usher at...

Conor McPherson takes a new approach to the jukebox musical in ‘Girl from the North Country’ at the Belasco Theatre

In Girl from the North Country, playing an open engagement at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre following successful runs in London and Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, Irish playwright and director Conor...

One family’s struggle with immigration and deportation in ‘72 Miles to Go’ at Roundabout Theatre Company

Among the most widely debated topics in our country, not just during this current primary election season but over the past decade, are the laws and politicized views on immigration. In 72 Miles to...

A masterful exhibition of conceptual art and clowning by Joel Jeske in ‘The Artist Will Be with You in a Moment’ at A.R.T./NY Theatres

As you enter the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at A.R.T/NY, you make your way through a professionally installed conceptual art exhibit, in which the artist is one of the works on display. It’s a...

Concept overshadows content and quality in ‘West Side Story’ at the Broadway Theatre

Trouble and controversy have plagued Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s re-envisioned revival of West Side Story, playing an open-ended run at the Broadway Theatre, since the beginning, with a delayed...

How is Broadway addressing the issue of the coronavirus?

The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway theater industry, with more than 700 members comprising theater owners, operators, general managers, suppliers, producers, and...

An emotional elegy to love and art in ‘Incantata’ at Irish Repertory Theatre

Irish Repertory Theatre’s US premiere of Incantata, which made its acclaimed debut at the 2018 Galway International Arts Festival, is an emotion-packed elegy to the enchantment of love, life, and art...

Bittersweet lessons ‘About Love’ and life in Culture Project’s new adaptation of Turgenev at The Sheen Center

Russian author Ivan Turgenev’s autobiographical short story “First Love,” first published in 1860, is the subject of a new retelling in Culture Project’s About Love, now playing a limited engagement...

Observing depression across three generations of women in ‘Anatomy of a Suicide’ at the Atlantic Theater Company

Atlantic Theater Company’s American premiere of Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch paints a painful and disturbing portrait of life-threatening depression across three generations of women in a...

A harrowing story of the abduction and abuse of ‘Dana H.’ as recounted in her own voice at Vineyard Theatre

Award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath takes a provocative and personal approach to an acutely disturbing crime story and its aftermath in his latest work Dana H., making its New York debut at Vineyard...

A wild lampoon of the Wild West in Clubbed Thumb’s ‘Tumacho’ at the Connelly Theatre

Following its premiere run of Ethan Lipton’s Tumacho in 2016, Clubbed Thumb (a resident company of Playwrights Horizons) is back with the Obie Award-winning writer’s commissioned Wild West parody for...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Mauricio Martinez

A native of Monterrey, Mexico, and resident of New York City, Mauricio Martinez’s ongoing “fifteen minutes of fame” have spread like wildfire throughout his native country and the US with his...

Keen Company revisits 1930 Harlem in its stellar New York debut of ‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ at Theatre Row

Although it’s been twenty-five years since playwright Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky made its debut in Atlanta, the Keen Company’s current revival at Theatre Row marks the New York premiere...

‘Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally’ reveals the quotidian miseries of family at Baltimore’s Center Stage

Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally, playing at Baltimore’s Center Stage through March 1, feels oddly familiar in several ways, and in others, 100 percent fresh. Playwright Noah Diaz delicately dances on...

It’s a wild wine-day Wednesday in ‘Happy Birthday Doug’ at SoHo Playhouse

Following his smash hit run with Bright Colors and Bold Patterns in 2017-18, writer/performer Drew Droege returns to SoHo Playhouse for a limited engagement of his latest comedy Happy Birthday Doug....

Mint Theater Company pairs two Russian giants in ‘Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories’ at Theatre Row

For the first time on stage, Mint Theater Company brings together two short stories by two of Russia’s foremost authors in Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories, playing a limited engagement at Theatre Row....

Surviving abuse in ‘Chasing the River’ at Chain Theatre

Chain Theatre’s world-premiere production of Chasing the River by Jean Dobie Giebel offers an intense, gripping, and momentous examination of the devastating trauma and ongoing repercussions of...

Rorschach’s ‘The Toxic Avenger’ is the campy musical you didn’t know you needed in your life

Poor Melvin Ferd the Third just can’t catch a break. The ladies shun him, the jocks harass him, and the pretty blind librarian he has a crush on? Well, she thinks he’s a scrawny dweeb. But don’t fret...

The New Group revisits the Swinging Sixties in ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ at The Pershing Square Signature Center

The creative team of Jonathan Marc Sherman (book), Duncan Sheik (music and lyrics), and Amanda Green (lyrics) takes a look back at the sexual revolution of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ through the lens of...

An up-close and personal evening of songs and stories in ‘Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway Starring Patina Miller’ at The Town Hall

“We’re all friends here, right?” And she didn’t just ask; that’s exactly how the radiant Patina Miller, award-winning star of stage and screen, made everyone feel with her open and gracious...

The Mason Cabaret is in splendid voice with ‘The Great American Songbook!’ at GMU

With personality galore and voices full of pizzazz and warmth, The Mason Cabaret in Concert delivered a wonderful evening of Celebrating the Great American Songbook! Under the direction of James...

That adorable bear hits the New York stage with ‘Paddington Gets in a Jam’ at the DR2 Theatre

The latest leg on Paddington Bear’s journey from his native Peru to his adoptive home in London to TV and movie screens everywhere is his stage debut in New York City at the DR2 Theatre in Paddington...

A dazzling design in a new adaptation of ‘Paradise Lost’ at Theatre Row

Now playing a limited engagement at Theatre Row, Fellowship for Performing Arts’ production of Paradise Lost – Tom Dulack’s stage adaptation of John Milton’s epic poem of the 17th century – is a...

Going for laughs in the doldrums of marriage in ‘Grand Horizons’ at the Helen Hayes Theater

After 50 years of marriage and their move to a retirement community, Nancy and Bill want a divorce and their adult sons Ben and Brian want to do anything they can to prevent it. Amidst the unexpected...

Celebrating the Lunar New Year with ‘The Emperor’s Nightingale’ at Theatre Row

To coincide with the celebration of the Lunar New Year this weekend, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, now in its 43rd season, has presented a remount of The Emperor’s Nightingale (which made its debut...

Fighting a war on two fronts in ‘A Soldier’s Play’ at American Airlines Theatre

Roundabout Theatre Company’s profoundly affecting Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller’s 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Soldier’s Play, now playing a limited engagement at American Airlines...