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Combining the reality and fantasy of dementia in ‘{IN}TANGIBLE A Circus Play’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

While living in a care facility, Q, a woman struggling with dementia, is visited by her family and her memories in the world premiere of {IN}TANGIBLE A circus play, now in a four-night engagement at...

Free summer concerts by Jaime Lozano & The Familia at NYC’s Lincoln Center and Bryant Park

As part of Lincoln Center’s free Summer for the City events, running through Saturday, August 10, the Mexican-born and NYC-based musical sensation Jaime Lozano, who was a resident artist at Lincoln...

Gimmicky political play inspired by an infamous 2016 event in ‘The Meeting: The Interpreter’ Off-Broadway at St. Clement’s

With the 2024 presidential election campaign in full swing, the time is right for author Catherine Gropper’s new political play The Meeting: The Interpreter, based on the actual events of the infamous...

Thunder and rain cancel the 26th annual ‘Broadway Barks’ in NYC’s Shubert Alley

The adorable adoptable pets were out in Shubert Alley at 3 pm, to meet and greet their prospective forever families, the participating shelters and rescue groups were set up with adoption forms,...

Eavesdropping on a high-stakes crisis-therapy session in ‘Job’ at Broadway’s Hayes Theatre

When Jane, a content moderator for a major tech company, has a screaming meltdown at work that goes viral, she is put on leave and can only return on the condition that she get the okay from a crisis...

Another blockbuster performance by ‘Joe Iconis & Family’ at NYC’s 54 Below

Back at their home-away-from-home at 54 Below for a five-night residency with an all-new show and a rotating self-described “Rogue’s Gallery of showtune punks,” Joe Iconis & Family: Meditations in an...

Conflicts and laughs from unexpected interfaith love in the musical rom-com ‘The Sabbath Girl’ at Off-Broadway’s 59E59

Following a run this May at Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, NY, The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical by Cary Gitter (book and lyrics) and Neil Berg (music and lyrics), is now making its Off-Broadway...

Funny and poignant unraveling of what really happened in ‘It’s Not What It Looks Like’ at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse

When, to the sounds of rain, thunder, and flashes of lightning, M and W (their real names are bleeped) are seen by everyone with fresh blood on their hands, arms, faces, and clothing, they have to go...

Behind the scenes of the ‘Boy Band Brunch’ at City Winery NYC

Did you ever wonder what happens before The Boy Band Project takes the stage in front of a live audience at City Winery NYC for its bi-weekly Boy Band Brunch residency? Wonder no more. Guest...

Roster of stars to participate in the 26th annual ‘Broadway Barks’ in NYC’s Shubert Alley

Broadway Barks, co-founded by Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters in 1998, has become New York City’s premiere animal adoption event, with approximately 85% of the more than 2,000 cats and dogs...

Three favorites return to the NYC stage in August

Closing out the summer season next month are three returning fan favorites offering something for all ages around NYC, from the city’s longest running dance festival to a kids’ participatory show, to...

The return of ‘Kids’ Night on Broadway’ in August

Designed to introduce a new generation to the experience of live theater, Kids’ Night on Broadway, a year-round national audience development program of The Broadway League, presented by The New York...

Soaring vocals, funny stories, and warm connections in ‘Laura and Linda Benanti: Mothers Know Best’ at NYC’s 54 Below

The intimate space of 54 Below, known as “Broadway’s living room,” provided the perfect up-close and personal setting for the warm connections, funny background stories, and amazing vocal prowess of...

Imaginative puppetry and surreal fantasy in ‘Bill’s 44th’ birthday party at NYC’s HERE

Things don’t go as planned with the birthday party he’s throwing for himself in Bill’s 44th, a comical, fantastical, and poignant puppet play by creators and master puppeteers Dorothy James and Andy...

Jakob Karr discusses his creative process for ‘Ain’t Done Bad’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center

Described as “a hybrid theatrical dance experience,” Ain’t Done Bad, starring, conceived, directed, and choreographed by Jakob Karr (a native of Orlando, FL, who began dancing at the age of twelve and...

Funny and moving recollections of reckless youth and eternal love in ‘David’s Friend’ at NYC’s SoHo Playhouse

By popular demand, writer, performer, and downtown legend Nora Burns brings her highly acclaimed theatrical memoir David’s Friend, which made its debut at La Mama in 2017, to SoHo Playhouse through...

FRIGID New York presents ‘The Little Shakespeare Festival’ at Under St. Marks and via livestream in August

Making its return in August, The Little Shakespeare Festival is FRIGID New York’s annual celebration of independent theater and performance that takes its inspiration from the immortal canon of the...

Facts intermingle with fiction in a female-centric ‘Empire: The Musical’ at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages

Just voted the #1 attraction in the world by Tripadvisor’s 2024 Traveler’s Choice Awards for Best of the Best, the iconic Empire State Building – built on the former site of the Waldorf Astoria hotel...

4th annual ‘BAAND Together Dance Festival’ at NYC’s Lincoln Center

Five of New York’s most celebrated dance companies – Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem – return on July...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Jared Zirilli

Over the past fifteen years, multi-talented stage and screen star Jared Zirilli has appeared on and off Broadway, in regional theater, and in 1st national tours around the country, with major roles in...

Four recommended recent releases of theater books and recordings

When you’re chilling at the beach or relaxing in the park, you can keep up with NYC theater by reading or listening to these four top picks of newly released books and recordings. Corsicana/Evanston...

Post-modern gay reimagining of the ancient myth of ‘Echo and Narcissus’ at NYC’s The Tank

Following a developmental reading at The Tank’s PrideFest 2023, a fully staged workshop production of Echo & Narcissus Blast Third Eye Blind Outside a Diner in New Jersey at 2AM, written by NJ-based...

A fabulous Pride edition of the ‘Boy Band Brunch’ at City Winery NYC

The Boy Band Project celebrated Pride Weekend at its home away from home at City Winery NYC with another fabulous edition of the Boy Band Brunch on Saturday, June 29, beginning at noon. The latest...

Two Democratic Congresswomen of different generations go head-to-head in ‘N/A’ Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center’s Newhouse Theater

Now in its world premiere for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, N/A by Mario Correa – a new play about power politics inspired by former Speaker of the...

NYC’s free ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ lunchtime concert series returns in July

Beginning on July 11, the popular free lunchtime concert series Broadway in Bryant Park returns for four consecutive Thursdays through August 1, with cast members from some of Broadway’s favorite...

Winners of the 2024 Jimmy Awards

Tonight (Monday, June 24), beginning at 7:30, the 15th annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards, better known as the Jimmy Awards (named for the late Tony-winning producer James M....

Updates on the upcoming 2024 Jimmy Awards at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre

The Broadway League Foundation has announced the 102 nominees who have arrived in NYC for the 15th annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards, better known as the Jimmy Awards, to make their...

Presentation of the 2024 Off Broadway Alliance Awards at Sardi’s

At a luncheon ceremony held today (Tuesday, June 18) at Sardi’s, beginning at 2 pm, the Off Broadway Alliance celebrated the winners of its 13th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards for the 2023-24...

Winners of Broadway’s 2024 Tony Awards

The 77th Annual Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing for excellence on Broadway during the 2023-24 season, aired live tonight (Sunday, June 16, 8-11 pm) from...

Clarity of language and storytelling in Shakespeare Downtown’s ‘Macbeth’ at NYC’s Castle Clinton

Now presenting its eighth free outdoor production at Battery Park’s historic Castle Clinton National Monument since June 2016, Shakespeare Downtown, founded by Artistic Director Billie Andersson and...

Three top picks for Pride Weekend in NYC

The month-long celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride culminates on the last weekend of June, beginning on Friday, June 28 (the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots), and closes on Sunday, June 30, with the...

Old Testament king meets mid-century stylings in ‘David, A New Musical’ Off-Off-Broadway at AMT

Framed in the format of a memory play, David, A New Musical, with music, book, and lyrics by Albert M. Tapper and book and lyrics by Martha Rosenblatt and Gary Glickstein, reimagines the complex and...

Atlantic Theater Company’s Off-Broadway premiere of ‘The Welkin’ is loud, long, and loaded with anachronisms

Though set in rural England in 1759, The Welkin, a new dark comedy written by Lucy Kirkwood and now making its Off-Broadway debut at Atlantic Theater Company, is filled with heavy-handed anachronisms,...

Winners of the 2024 Drama Desk Awards for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway

In a star-studded ceremony at NYU Skirball Center beginning at 6:15 tonight (Monday, June 10) and co-hosted by Sutton Foster and Aaron Tveit, winners of the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards – the only...

Five recent releases for summer reading by and about key women in the theater

Among the recently released theater publications are works by one twice-nominated and two Tony-winning women playwrights, and two books about the woman who founded a major company in DC and headed a...

Roundabout’s superlative revival of ‘Home’ opens at Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre

It’s been more than four decades since Samm-Art Williams’ Tony-nominated play Home, originally presented by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1979, was seen on Broadway, and the new production by...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway sensation Ali Louis Bourzgui

It’s not only the eponymous character that’s a “Sensation” in The Who’s Tommy, now playing an open-ended engagement at the Nederlander Theatre, so is Ali Louis Bourzgui, the breakout star who plays...

Struggling through the trauma of childhood sexual abuse in ‘The Opposite of Love’ at NYC’s Royal Family Performing Arts Space

Written by Ashley Griffin and starring Griffin and Danny Gardner, NewYorkRep’s world premiere production of The Opposite of Love, now playing a limited engagement at the Royal Family Performing Arts...

Hilarious self-examination in ‘Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares’ Off-Broadway at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre

Stage and screen star Laura Benanti has been a regular on Broadway since the age of eighteen, when she made her debut as Maria in The Sound of Music. Since then, she’s appeared in ten more Broadway...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with multi-award-winning singer Natalie Douglas

Thirteen-time MAC Award, BroadwayWorld Best Cabaret Vocalist Award, and two-time Backstage Bistro Award and Nightlife Award winner Natalie Douglas returns to Birdland Jazz Club on Monday, June 17,...

Raising a glass to female friendship and drinking in ‘Winesday the Wine Tasting Musical’ Off-Broadway at The Theater Center

Every Wednesday night a group of five 30-40-something women get together for drinking wine and talking about their lives under the pretense of a book club (or yoga class or tap dancing, since no one...

Winners of the 2024 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

On Tuesday, May 28, the Off Broadway Alliance – an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals – announced the winners of its 13th...

New online exhibit ‘Hirschfeld’s Drag Show’ curated by Charles Busch for Pride Month

With June just days away, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation is celebrating Pride Month with its latest online exhibition Hirschfeld’s Drag Show, now live on the Foundation’s website through August 15....

The Broadway League’s stats for the 2023-24 season show Broadway is back!

Just released by The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway industry, founded in 1930, and representing more than 700 members from nearly 200 national and international...

NYC’s 12th annual Pride concert ‘Night of a Thousand Judys’ comes to Joe’s Pub on June 3

Grammy Award winner Nathan Lee Graham, Tony Award nominee Grey Henson, Grammy Award winner Nicole Zuraitis, Antwayn Hopper, violinist and vocalist Edmund Bagnell, Tammy Faye Starlite, Timothy Hughes,...

Winners of the 2024 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography on Broadway and in film

Tonight (Monday, May 20), the winners of the 2024 Chita Rivera Awards, celebrating dance and choreographic excellence on Broadway and in film, were announced in five competitive categories and three...

Winners of NYC’s 2024 Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance

Ashlee Fucarino and Isaiah Baston were named Outstanding Performers at the 14th Annual Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance on Sunday, May 19, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John...

Winners of the 2024 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

At a luncheon this afternoon (Friday, May 17), hosted at the Ziegfeld Ballroom by NY1’s Frank DiLella, the 90th annual Drama League Awards – the oldest theatrical awards in America, chosen by Drama...

New Broadway film and photo exhibition at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

An essential resource for everyone with an interest in exploring the history of theater, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center houses one of the world’s most extensive...

Honorees of the 2024 Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

On Tuesday, May 14, the 2024 honorees were announced for the 78th annual Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production, the 15th Annual Dorothy Loudon...