2022

Erik Ransom is making the holidays merry and gay!

Winner of London’s Off-West End Award in 2019 for GRINDR the Opera, his original musical inspired by the gay dating app, NYC-based New Jersey native Erik Ransom has continued his witty and incisive...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ co-star Justin Cooley

The prodigiously talented Justin Cooley, who just graduated high school in 2021, is accumulating those proverbial fifteen minutes upon fifteen minutes of fame with no end in sight! Originally from...

History-making production of ‘Ohio State Murders’ at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

This month’s opening of Ohio State Murders made history as both the inaugural production at the newly renovated and renamed James Earl Jones Theatre (formerly the Cort) and the belated Broadway debut...

Hilarious high-energy musical reimagining of ‘Some Like It Hot’ raises the temperature at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre

Based on the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love, Billy Wilder’s 1959 Hollywood screwball comedy Some Like It Hot, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe, has been named the funniest movie...

A heartwarming Off-Broadway musical adaptation of ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ at Irish Rep

One of the most beloved works of prose by Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53), A Child’s Christmas in Wales was begun in the 1940s, first recorded by the author for his BBC Radio broadcast in...

Feeling good with ‘Mark William: Technicolor Dreams’ at NYC’s The Green Room 42

A sold-out star-studded house welcomed the return of Mark William to The Green Room 42 with his latest show Technicolor Dreams, a smartly curated cabaret of songs and reflections that expressed his...

The Fled’s wildly creative and hilariously haunting ‘SERIALS’ at NYC’s The Flea

Originally created by Dominic Spillane and Stephen Stout and further developed by members of The Flea Theater’s former resident artist companies, the popular late-night episodic play competition...

Celebrating ‘The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld’ at NYC’s Algonquin and Museum of Broadway

On Tuesday evening, December 6, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation celebrated The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld with a launch party for the new book and the special inaugural exhibition of the same...

Broadway’s no-holds-barred absurdist farce ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ screams out, Oh yes there is

With this month’s opening of Ain’t No Mo’ at the Belasco Theatre, 27-year-old Obie-winning creator and performer Jordan E. Cooper made history in his debut as the youngest playwright on Broadway. And...

The arduous journey of Chinese immigrants to San Francisco in ‘The Far Country’ at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company

On May 6, 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act – the only federal legislation ever implemented to prohibit all members of a specific nationality or ethnicity from immigrating to the United States – was...

Immersive multimedia musical ‘KPOP’ electrifies Broadway’s Circle in the Square

When an earlier version of KPOP opened Off-Broadway in the Fall of 2017, it played to sold-out houses and was the recipient of multiple awards. Now on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre, the...

Christmas favorites return this month to NYC’s Lincoln Center

Celebrate the joy of the Christmas season this month at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with a selection of three of NYC’s most iconic holiday traditions, from classic ballet to oratorio...

A first-class trip down ‘Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road’ Off-Broadway at The York

In keeping with its dedication to the development of new musicals and the rediscovery of musical gems from the past, the iconic catalogue of one of the greatest composers from the early years of Jazz,...

Insights into their December shows in NYC from Migguel Anggelo, Jaime Lozano, and Florencia Cuenca

Beginning this week, two original musical productions from multi-talented Latin American artists will open in NYC. Playing December 1-3, at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater, is English with an...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with The Doo Wop Project’s Russell Fischer

A native “Jersey Boy” from Port Reading, in nearby Woodbridge Township, NYC-based singer and actor Russell Fischer made his professional stage debut at eight years old in The Sound of Music starring...

Irresistible kick-off to NYC’s annual Fringe Encore Series with ‘Made in America’ at SoHo Playhouse

Now in its 15th season off Broadway at SoHo Playhouse, the International Fringe Encore Series, this year running from November 25, 2022-January 8, 2023, is curated to bring the “Best of the Fests”...

Shakespeare meets post-modern pop and genderful empowerment in ‘& Juliet’ at Broadway’s Sondheim Theatre

In a goofy high-energy mash-up of then and now, following in the footsteps of Something Rotten and Six, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet has been re-envisioned as a coming-of-age jukebox...

Broadway stars and more scheduled to perform in the 2022 ‘Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade’ live in NYC, on TV, and streaming

Beginning at 8:45 am today the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will kick off live in NYC and on NBC TV, and will stream on Peacock from 9 am-noon. Click for details!

Jefferson Mays’ one-man virtual sensation ‘A Christmas Carol’ is even better on Broadway

When theaters were shut down by COVID-19 in 2020, Tony-winning actor Jefferson Mays and director Michael Arden brought their one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved 1848 holiday classic A...

Mint’s Off-Broadway American debut of Noël Coward’s ‘The Rat Trap’ examines gender inequality in the imploding marriage of two writers

Written by budding eighteen-year-old English actor and playwright Noël Coward in 1918, The Rat Trap, a four-act drawing-room drama that takes a proto-feminist look at the subordination of women in...

Off-Broadway premiere of ‘Sandra’ at the Vineyard is an implausible mystery that lacks a climactic thrill

The Off-Broadway debut of Sandra at Vineyard Theatre launches its 40th season and marks the highly anticipated reunion of playwright David Cale and director Leigh Silverman, the team from the multiple...

Family-friendly fun under the big top with ‘Circus Vazquez’ at NY’s Citi Field

Founded in Mexico City in 1969, the four-generations-old Circus Vazquez is now celebrating twenty years of performing in NYC since its first appearance in 1993, with an international cast of acrobats,...

Off-Broadway premiere of dark surreal comedy ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing’ mines absurdist humor from mounds of angst

In The New Group’s production of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, the latest Off-Broadway premiere from playwright Will Arbery (a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his award-winning Heroes of the Fourth...

Staying afloat with laughter in ‘Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool’ at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater

What’s so funny about aging, illness, mortality, a highly chlorinated pool at the YMCA, and a naked old man in the locker room? Plenty, if you’re award-winning entertainer Mike Birbiglia. Back on...

David Leopold discusses his new book on Hirschfeld and inaugural exhibition at NYC’s Museum of Broadway

David Leopold, Creative Director of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation and the creative force behind both the just released book and the just opened exhibition The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld,...

The importance of art, theater, and connection in ‘A Man of No Importance’ at Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company

For his final show as departing Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company, John Doyle has directed a condensed one-act revival of the acclaimed 2002 musical A Man of No Importance by...

Uninspired screen-to-stage adaptation of ‘Almost Famous’ at Broadway’s Jacobs Theatre

The latest in the movie-to-Broadway genre of almost but not really new musicals, now playing an engagement at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, is Almost Famous, the coming-of-age rock-n-roll road-trip...

Radiotheatre’s eerie exploration of ‘The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street’ on site at NYC’s The Kraine

The house goes dark, haze envelopes the stage, two men in black appear in eerie blue spotlights, standing at lecterns with hand-held mics, and in their creepiest voices begin to chronicle the...

First Asian American casting of ‘A Delicate Balance’ at Off-Off-Broadway’s Connelly Theater delivers the characters’ dysfunction and despair

In collaboration with National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), Transport Group’s Off-Off-Broadway presentation of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, now playing a limited engagement at the...

NYC’s United Solo announces 2022 Special Award nominees

In conjunction with this year’s 13th annual United Solo Festival – the world’s largest solo theater festival, now playing at Theatre Row through November 20 – the NYC-based company has announced the...

GTG’s funny fast-paced one-act update of Shaw’s ‘Candida’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

When playwright George Bernard Shaw created his original romantic comedy Candida in 1894, written in response to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House and first published in his Plays Pleasant collection in...

Traumatic past of a father from Communist China in ‘Good Enemy’ at Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre

During the period following Chairman Mao’s 1966 Cultural Revolution in China and his death in 1976, the Communist country began to reopen to Western cultural influences and economic reform. But with...

Memories spoken and unspoken in ‘My Broken Language’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Theatre

In My Broken Language, now in its world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement at Pershing Square Signature Theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, who also directs, employs an...

Tender journey to a father-son connection in MTC’s ‘Where the Mountain Meets the Sea’ at Off-Broadway’s New York City Center

Commissioned by the 2020 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea by Haitian-American writer Jeff Augustin is now playing a limited...

Stage and screen star Ken Leung previews ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center

NYC-born actor Ken Leung has had an acclaimed career on screen, from his 1998 professional debut as Sang in Rush Hour, to such other popular roles Miles Straume in Lost, Admiral Statura in Star Wars:...

Aggressively reimagined Off-Broadway revival of ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ at The Public Theater

Lorraine Hansberry’s classic 1959 American drama A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to have a Broadway production; it’s now the first work by the acclaimed playwright to...

Gabriel Byrne brings his autobiographical tour-de-force ‘Walking with Ghosts’ to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre

Adapted from his best-selling 2021 memoir of the same name, Walking with Ghosts by Irish stage and screen star Gabriel Byrne has already enjoyed highly acclaimed runs in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin...

Bidding now open for benefit auction of limited-edition Al Hirschfeld prints signed by the stars

Heritage Auctions, the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer, today launched an online auction of 21 limited-edition prints by acclaimed caricature artist Al Hirschfeld – signed by the iconic stage...

Broadway revival of ‘Topdog/Underdog’ tells a devastating comi-tragic tale of two abandoned brothers

The latest NYC production in a year filled with Pulitzer Prize-winning shows and the first-ever Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog is now playing a limited engagement at the John...

Ancient myths of female monsters reimagined in bluegrass concept musical ‘Monstress’ at NYC’s New Ohio Theatre

A talented ensemble of nine young musicians and singers retells a series of stories of female monsters from classical mythology in Monstress, a new experimental concept musical (and the company’s...

Masterful storytelling in new Off-Broadway adaptation of Japanese classic ‘Chushingura – 47 Ronin’ at A.R.T./New York

In keeping with its mission of bringing Japanese classics to an American audience, the English-Japanese bi-lingual company Amaterasu Za (meaning “theater that illuminates”) is now presenting the...

Hank Curry brings laughter to ‘Confusion’ in NYC’s United Solo Festival

Now in its thirteenth year, United Solo Festival is back at NYC’s Theatre Row through November 20, with dozens of shows from across the country and around the globe. For the 2022 season, the world’s...

Annual NYC Halloween benefit concert ‘I Put a Spell on You’ returns live and online

After two years of virtual fun and frights during the pandemic shutdown of theaters, the annual Halloween benefit I Put a Spell on You, presented by Kampfire Films and Jay Armstrong Johnson (The...

Upper West Side street-naming ceremony and upcoming performances at DC’s Kennedy Center for NYC’s Ballet Hispánico

Founded by National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez (1929-2022) in 1970, NYC’s Ballet Hispánico, based at 167 West 89th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, has provided training,...

Hilarious observations and non-stop laughs from ‘Julie Halston: De-Classified!’ at NYC’s Birdland

During the pandemic shut-down of live theater, stage and screen star Julie Halston – a co-founding member of Charles Busch’s legendary company Theatre-in-Limbo – took to the internet to keep fans...

Intense and powerful ‘Death of a Salesman’ at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre

Playwright Arthur Miller’s original working title for his 1949 American classic Death of a Salesman (recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and six Tonys, including Best Play) was “The Inside of...

Cast of Roundabout’s Broadway revival of ‘1776’ represents those who were historically excluded

When 1776, with concept, music, and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone, premiered on Broadway in 1969, with only two female roles (of Abigail Adams and Martha Jefferson, the respective...

Nearly verbatim reenactment of the 1965 debate of ‘Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge’ Off-Broadway at The Public Theater

On February 18, 1965, The Cambridge Union – the oldest continuously running free speech and debating society in the world, founded at England’s Cambridge University in 1815 – hosted a debate between...

Tom Stoppard makes an epic return to Broadway with his indelible family masterpiece ‘Leopoldstadt’ at the Longacre Theatre

Now 85, Sir Tom Stoppard, the internationally acclaimed recipient of four Tony Awards for Best Play to date (the most of any playwright in history), has returned to Broadway, for the nineteenth time,...

The need for connection and caring in MTC’s ‘Cost of Living’ at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

After making its award-winning Off-Broadway debut with Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center in 2017, and receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2018, Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living is now...