2022

Rare Sondheim revue ‘You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow’ coming to Brooklyn this month

For the first time since its NYC debut in 1983, the rarely seen Stephen Sondheim musical revue You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow is coming to Brooklyn’s The Great Room at Art NY Studios for a limited...

Lead actor Christopher Carver gives an inside look at the Off-Broadway world premiere of ‘Our Town . . . but Wilder’ at Actors Temple Theatre

The world premiere of Our Town . . . but Wilder began its Off-Broadway run at the Actors Temple Theatre on October 1, with an opening night set for Sunday, October 16. Written and directed by Richard...

Florencia Cuenca & Jaime Lozano reimagine ‘Broadway en Spanglish’ at NYC’s Joe’s Pub

For one night only during this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month, the Mexican-born and NYC-based husband and wife team of Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano returned to Joe’s Pub at The Public with their...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Laura Shoop

Now starring in David Harms’ new play Powerhouse, presented for a limited engagement this month at A.R.T./New York by Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Laura Shoop, a native of Illinois, a scholarship...

Lots of love, laughs, and fan favorites in ‘Vangari: Funny You Should Ask’ at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama

What could be more universally relatable in an intimate cabaret act than an underlying theme of human relationships? In Vangari: Funny You Should Ask, playing at the musical-comedy duo’s home away...

Fever dream of an undocumented Mexican immigrant in ‘american (tele)visions’ at Off-Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop

In the nonlinear multimedia memory play american (tele)visions, now playing a limited engagement at New York Theatre Workshop, Tow Playwright-in-Residence Victor I. Cazares relays how it might have...

Off-Broadway return of the wild and campy ‘Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical’ at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke’s

The Off-Broadway return of the zany 2021 multi-award-winning Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical – an irreverent spoof of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things, soon to enter its fifth and final...

Be part of the magic in ‘Asi Wind’s Inner Circle’ at NYC’s The Gym at Judson

For the remainder of the year and well into the next, NYC audiences will have the chance not just to enjoy, but to be part of the magic, in Asi Wind’s Inner Circle, presented at The Gym at Judson in...

Young gymnasts face the inconceivable pressures of Olympic training in ‘Body Through Which the Dream Flows’ at NYC’s The Tank

Now serving a life sentence for his repeated sexual abuse of at least 330 underage girls since the 1990s (in addition to his guilty pleas to charges of child pornography and tampering with evidence),...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Felicia Curry

Now making her Broadway debut and proliferating her proverbial “fifteen minutes of fame” as an understudy for six roles (The Baker’s Wife, The Witch, Jack’s Mother, and Cinderella’s Mother/Granny/The...

C is for colorful, clever, and cute in ‘Sesame Street: The Musical’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Since its debut in 1969, TV’s iconic Sesame Street children’s show has been entertaining and educating kids for 52 seasons in the US, has won a record 214 Emmy Awards and eleven Grammys, and is seen...

New book, album, and Sunday concerts at NYC’s 54 Below pay tribute to Sondheim

Since the passing of Stephen Sondheim last November, tributes to the life and legacy of the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist have continued with unabated love, respect, and admiration. Among...

Lincoln Center Theater opera ‘Intimate Apparel’ to have broadcast premiere on PBS

As part of the 50th anniversary season of the Great Performances series on PBS (channel 13 in NYC) and the PBS video app, Intimate Apparel will have its broadcast premiere this Friday, September 23,...

Spectacular celebration of the history of Broadway song and dance in ‘Broadway By The Year’ at NYC’s Town Hall

To conclude the 21st season of the historic Town Hall’s popular series Broadway By The Year, creator, writer, director, and host Scott Siegel traced the momentous contributions of dance to the...

Free ‘Curtain Up Broadway Festival’ returns to Times Square for three days of star-studded events

The upcoming Curtain Up Broadway Festival will bring more than fifteen free interactive public events and live performances to the heart of NYC, from Times Square to Duffy Square, between 45th and...

Riotous indictment of the CIA in spy thriller farce ‘Our Man in Santiago’ at Off-Off-Broadway’s AMT Theater

In 1970, the Nixon administration enlisted the CIA in a covert operation to overthrow Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, who ultimately died in a violent...

Agonized parents deal with a son’s incurable illness in ‘Jasper’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center

Winner of the TRU New Voices Award in 2018, Jasper, written by Grant MacDermott and produced by Yonder Window Theatre Company, is now making its powerful world premiere in a limited Off-Broadway...

NYC Off-Broadway Week returns with 2-for-1 tickets

Sponsored by NYC & Company, Inc. and Mastercard, and supported by NYC Media & Entertainment, NYC Off-Broadway Week, a twice-a-year 2-for-1 ticket offer for Off-Broadway productions in collaboration...

A scintillating night of song and conversation in ‘Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway starring Jane Krakowski’ at NYC’s Town Hall

Originally scheduled for Monday, January 31, but postponed due to Omicron, Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway starring Jane Krakowski was rescheduled for September 12, and the wildly appreciative house clearly...

A preview of Vangari’s new show ‘Funny You Should Ask’ at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama

Starting this coming weekend, the delightful mother/daughter musical comedy duo Vangari (Evangeline and Ariana Johns) returns to Don’t Tell Mama – the renowned cabaret club, piano bar, and restaurant...

Composer Jaime Lozano previews his work for the upcoming Broadway musical on Frida Kahlo

On Wednesday night, September 7, the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts had a full house and a long waiting line of fans hoping to get in for Jaime Lozano’s ¡Viva La...

Free Shakespeare in the Park’s ‘As You Like It’ fills NYC’s Delacorte Theater with the joy of love and community

When the reimagined musical production of As You Like It, co-adapted by Shaina Taub (who also created the music and lyrics) and Laurie Woolery (The Public Theater’s Director of Public Works, who also...

Physics and human behavior collide in ‘Strings Attached’ Off-Broadway at Theatre Row

In Pulse Theatre’s Off-Broadway premiere of Strings Attached at Theatre Row, playwright Carole Buggé explores the uncertainties of physics and human behavior, which collide in a cathartic train ride...

Finalists announced for the Clive Barnes Awards for Theater and Dance

The Clive & Valerie Barnes Foundation, under the leadership of Holly Jones and Lloyd Mayor, has announced the finalists and date for the 12th Annual Clive Barnes Awards, recognizing excellence in...

Annual ‘Table of Silence Project 9/11’ returns to NYC’s Lincoln Center on Sunday morning

On Sunday, September 11, beginning at 8 am, Buglisi Dance Theatre and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with Dance/NYC, will present a live performance of the Table of Silence...

Beautiful stories of human connection in the Off-Broadway premiere of ‘Los Otros’ at A.R.T./New York Theatres

Presented by Premieres NYC as part of its revived bi-annual Inner Voices series, the new one-act musical Los Otros, by Tony Award nominees Ellen Fitzhugh (book and lyrics) and Michael John LaChiusa...

John Lloyd Young makes a stirring return to NYC with a soulful new concert at 54 Below

For his current six-night engagement at 54 Below, stage, screen, and concert star John Lloyd Young has curated a new set list of Mostly Soul: Beloved Hits from Motown to Broadway, featuring stirring...

Off-Broadway revival of ‘Kinky Boots’ dazzles at Stage 42

When it premiered on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2013, the blockbuster stage adaptation of Kinky Boots, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, book by Harvey Fierstein, and direction and...

Lessons in Japanese culture, language, and humor in ‘Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo’ at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages

In 1999, Katsura Sunshine – born Gregory Robic in Toronto, Canada, to parents of Slovenian origin – went to Japan to pursue studies in Japanese theater. In 2008, he began a strict three-year...

Off-Broadway time-traveling comedy ‘Don’t Do This To Us!’ at The Tank has a remedy for recent anti-Semitism

Now in its world premiere at The Tank, Don’t Do This To Us!, written by and co-produced with Stephanie Swirsky, takes a novel “What if?” approach to increasing anti-Semitism in the US. In it, a...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with John Lloyd Young

Known and loved by fans everywhere for his multi-award-winning portrayal of the Four Seasons’ lead singer Frankie Valli in the original Broadway musical and Warner Bros. movie adaptation of Jersey...

Mash-up of hypnosis and improv comedy fails to mesmerize in ‘HYPROV’ at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre

Co-created by comedian Colin Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), hypnotist Asad Mecci, and Mochrie’s manager Jeff Andrews in 2016, HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis is now playing a twelve-week limited...

Broadway musical director David Loud to discuss his autobiography ‘Facing the Music’ at NYC’s Barnes & Noble

On Wednesday, August 24, Broadway musical director, arranger, and conductor David Loud (The Visit, The Scottsboro Boys, Sondheim on Sondheim, Curtains, Ragtime, A Class Act, Steel Pier, and revivals...

One-night performance of ‘Lyrics From Lockdown’ live and livestreaming from NYC’s Apollo Theater

The award-winning theatrical hip-hop and multimedia production Lyrics From Lockdown, written and performed by renowned artist, writer, and activist Bryonn Bain, will play one historic performance to a...

Talents from Broadway unite for the benefit ‘NF Hope Concert 2022’ at NYC’s The Green Room 42

On Sunday, August 21, a roster of Broadway talents will unite at The Green Room 42 for NYC’s fourth annual NF Hope Concert – a great night of music and entertainment that will take place both in...

Broadway’s Paul Schoeffler previews the new play ‘Strings Attached’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Known to fans everywhere for his roles in Broadway’s Rock of Ages (Hertz), Sweet Charity (Vidal), Sunset Boulevard (DeMille), Peter Pan (Hook), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), Cyrano (Le Bret), in...

NYC Broadway Week returns in September with 2-for-1 ticket offers

Ticket sales for the general public begin on Tuesday, August 16, for the return of NYC Broadway Week, produced by NYC & Company in collaboration with the Broadway League and running from September...

Into the mind of ‘The Butcher Boy’ in a world-premiere musical adaptation at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep

In 2017, Irish Repertory Theatre was approached by Asher Muldoon (Dear Evan Hansen National Tour), then a senior in high school, with a new musical adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s unsettling 1992 novel...

Ingeniously wacky campy musical parody ‘Titanique’ at Asylum NYC has all the makings of a cult classic

Not only does the over-the-top hilarious musical parody Titanique, now playing an open-ended engagement at the Daryl Roth Theatre following its run at Asylum NYC, bring “kooky crazy” non-stop laughs,...

Recent and upcoming book releases for theater-lovers

If you love reading about the works and stars of the theater almost as much as seeing them, check out the variety of offerings in these four new and soon-to-be-released books of plays and biographies....

Finding your family in TOSOS’ ‘House of Chavis’ at Off-Off-Broadway’s The Flea

Robert Macke’s House of Chavis, a world-premiere play presented at The Flea Theater by TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) – NYC’s oldest and longest producing professional LGBTQIA+ theater company –...

Graffiti artists clash in ‘Hit the Wall’ at Off-Broadway’s The Kraine

When Rae, a protégé, friend, and apartment mate of Amir, the world’s most famous graffiti artist, comes close to painting the perfect wall, it goes viral and results in conflict, jealousy, and...

A madcap reimagining of the Great Crash in ‘The Panic of ‘29’ at NYC’s 59E59

When the New York stock market crashed in October of 1929, it triggered the beginning of the Great Depression, bringing a sudden end to the prosperity of America and the decadence of the Roaring...

FRIGID New York’s ‘The Little Shakespeare Festival’ begins this week at Off-Off-Broadway’s Under St. Marks

This year for its annual Shakespeare fest, FRIGID New York presents The Little Shakespeare Festival, a celebration of independent theater and performance featuring Bardic classics as well as...

Recent releases of a cast album, a solo recording, and a soundtrack for theater fans

Among the latest album releases for theater fans this June, July, and August are a cast recording from a current Broadway musical, the soundtrack of a film version of a previous Broadway production,...

Free outdoor performance and culture festivals coming to NYC in August

Mark your calendar for two popular outdoor festivals coming to lower Manhattan and Queens in August, with free offerings of culture and dance. In celebration of the 60th year of independence of the...

Coming to Lincoln Center’s ‘Summer for the City’ in August

Presented as part of this year’s Festival of New York, Summer for the City builds on the success of Lincoln Center’s 2021 Restart Stages, which created an outdoor performing arts center so that the...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Evan Zes

Now making his Broadway debut in The Kite Runner, actor and writer Evan Zes has amassed a long list of stage and screen credits throughout his ever increasing “fifteen minutes of fame,” since...

An enthralling Broadway premiere of ‘The Kite Runner’ at the Hayes Theater

Based on Khaled Hosseini’s internationally acclaimed best-selling novel of 2003 (published in 70 countries, in 60 languages, with 31.5 million copies sold to date, and an Oscar-nominated film version...

Writing your own happy ending in Off-Broadway’s ‘Between the Lines’ at the Tony Kiser Theater

When Delilah and her preoccupied, deeply pained mother move to a different town after her parents’ contentious divorce, the seventeen-year-old struggles with her lack of acceptance by the mean kids at...