2022

Free lunchtime performance series ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ returns to NYC in August

106.7 LITE FM has announced the long-awaited return of its popular annual lunchtime musical-theater series Broadway in Bryant Park, which has not been presented on a regular schedule over the past two...

A stirring night of music and truth with ‘Jaime Lozano & Mauricio Martínez: Hermanos y Familia’ at NYC’s 54 Below

The one-night-only concert of Jaime Lozano & Mauricio Martínez: Hermanos y Familia reaffirmed Lin-Manuel Miranda’s timely sentiment in Hamilton, “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done).” ¡Ay, Dios mío, did...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ celebrates its 40th anniversary on Saturday with a free block party

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the multi-award-winning Off-Broadway cult-musical sensation Little Shop of Horrors, producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, and Hunter Arnold, in partnership with...

Jade Anouka’s ‘Heart’ at Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre is poetry in motion and emotion

In the world-premiere limited engagement of Heart at the Minetta Lane Theatre, presented by Audible in association with Kate Pakenham Productions, acclaimed London-based performer and poet Jade Anouka...

In-person and livestreamed short play readings at NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to benefit Ukraine crisis response efforts

An in-person and virtual fundraiser, with proceeds benefitting the Ukraine crisis response efforts of HIAS – founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in 1881, to assist Jews fleeing pogroms in...

International spectacle ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ makes its NYC debut at Lincoln Center

Adapted by writer Luc Plamondon and composer Richard Cocciante from Victor Hugo’s epic 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the musical spectacle Notre Dame de Paris has played to more than 15...

Broadway’s Will Roland gives a sneak peek at the world-premiere play ‘The Panic of ‘29’ coming to NYC’s 59E59

Fresh off a series of concerts with Joe Iconis & Family last week at 54 Below, sessions at this month’s BroadwayCon, and his long-pandemic-delayed June wedding, NYC native Will Roland (Be More Chill;...

The Broadway transfer of ‘Into the Woods’ is superlative in every way

When Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, premiered on Broadway in 1987, it won three of that season’s top Tony Awards. When Off-Broadway’s New York City...

Three-time Emmy winner Christian Le Blanc previews his Off-Broadway debut in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at the Theatre at St. Clements

Known to fans everywhere for his TV roles as a series regular on In the Heat of the Night, As the World Turns, and more than 30 years playing the lawyer Michael Baldwin on The Young and the Restless,...

A cautionary fairytale of unrequited love in ‘Prince Charming, You’re Late’ Off-Broadway at Theatre Row

In TigerBear Productions’ world premiere of Prince Charming, You’re Late at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row, writer/performer Billy Hipkins, a veteran Broadway dresser with 27 shows to his credit to date,...

A current deconstruction of ‘Richard III’ from NYC’s Free Shakespeare in the Park

The 60th season of The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park has opened at the Delacorte Theater with a new production of Richard III, directed by Tony Award nominee Robert O’Hara (Slave...

A joyful return of ‘Joe Iconis & Family Live’ to NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below

To celebrate last month’s release of Album on Ghostlight Records, Tony-nominated writer and performer Joe Iconis (Be More Chill) and a massive mega-talented group of his collaborators and friends from...

Talking about the newly released ‘Album’ with Joe Iconis and Family

On Friday, June 17, Ghostlight Records released Album, the latest recording by musical theater sensation Joe Iconis, featuring 44 tracks from his original canon of songs. Performed with 70 members of...

Watch favorites from the NYC stage free on screen this week

If you haven’t seen them yet, you still have a little more time to catch these two top picks by favorites from the NYC stage on screen this week. One is a filmed broadcast of a live concert by The Doo...

BroadwayCon returns live to NYC July 8-10

Featuring 135 sessions over a full three days, the popular theater convention BroadwayCon, after a two-year pandemic hiatus, is back live in NYC this summer, running from July 8-10, at Manhattan...

All-star line-up announced for the return of ‘Broadway Barks’ to NYC’s Shubert Alley

For its 24th annual star-studded dog and cat adoption special, Broadway Barks returns live and in-person to Shubert Alley on Saturday, July 9, 2022, for the first time since 2018. Co-founded by...

NBC and Peacock to air ‘Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular’ live from NYC

Fireworks will fly high above the East River once again on Monday, when the 46th annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular takes over New York City skies, accompanied by a full line-up of...

Free ‘Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music’ at NYC’s South Street Seaport Museum

After moving to its digital incarnation during the COVID-19 closure of public venues in April 2020, then evolving into the preeminent virtual chantey sing in the world, South Street Seaport Museum’s...

Broadway lifts audience mask requirement beginning July 1

The Broadway League, founded in 1930, as the national trade association for the Broadway industry, announced today that the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters in New York City will adopt...

Film and original cast recording of Off-Broadway musical ‘Trevor’ released today

To coincide with Pride Weekend, the Disney+ filmed version of Trevor: The Musical and Ghostlight Records’ original cast recording of the Off-Broadway production, which played at Stage 42 from October...

Mint’s top-notch Off-Broadway production of ‘Chains’ revives a little-known classic by Elizabeth Baker

Dedicated to producing forgotten plays from the past, Mint Theater Company began its “Meet Miss Baker” series in 2019, to give new life to the neglected work of the English woman playwright Elizabeth...

A dazzling ‘Diamond Series’ gem of NYC cabaret with ‘Brian Stokes Mitchell: Songs and Stories’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below

For his debut engagement in this week’s first-class Diamond Series at Feinstein’s/54 Below, where he had performed three previous concerts, two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran, humanitarian,...

Recipients of NYC’s 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance

The 4th Annual Chita Rivera Awards, the only awards dedicated exclusively to dance, were presented this evening, Monday, June 20, beginning at 7:30 pm, at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing...

Shakespeare Downtown’s free open-air staging of ‘Saint Joan’ at NYC’s historic Castle Clinton

Inspired by the canonization of Joan of Arc in 1920, almost five centuries after her martyrdom in 1431, Irish playwright and activist George Bernard Shaw created his fictionalized historical tragedy...

Top picks for NYC Pride Weekend 2022

Among the many events honoring Pride in NYC next weekend (June 24-26), are a selection of three highly recommended top picks of award-winning shows and talents from Broadway and beyond. Playing on...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Brian Stokes Mitchell

A two-time Tony Award winner, inductee into the Theatre Hall of Fame, and veteran of ten Broadway shows (including Ragtime, Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me Kate, and Shuffle Along) – and those are but a few...

History and futurism clash in the Off-Broadway debut of ‘The Orchard’ at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

An anachronistic reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, the last work by the esteemed Russian playwright, written in 1903, is now making its Off-Broadway debut in a limited engagement at...

Tony winner André De Shields reprises his solo show ‘André De Shields is Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory’ for Juneteenth at New York’s Flushing Town Hall

On Sunday, June 19, Broadway star André De Shields (Hadestown; The Full Monty; Play On!; Ain’t Misbehavin’; The Wiz) returns to Flushing Town Hall to reprise his role as the esteemed abolitionist...

A staged concert of the award-winning ‘GRINDR The Opera’ coming to NYC’s The Green Room 42 for Pride month

After winning London’s Off West End Award for Best New Musical in 2019, the highly anticipated pandemic-delayed staged concert version of GRINDR The Opera is coming to NYC for two nights this Pride...

NYC favorites Dan Domenech, Andy Peterson, and Luis Villabon bring their talents to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

If you’re a theater-lover in search of a quick summer getaway, consider taking a trip out to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Center Valley, PA, less than two hours west of NYC along Route 78....

A conflict of professional ethics and ambition in NAATCO’s Off-Broadway debut of ‘Queen’ at A.R.T./New York

Close friends and fellow ecological researchers Sanam Shah and Ariel Spiegel have spent the past seven years investigating the cause of the worldwide decimation of the bee population, which they...

Winners of Broadway’s 2022 Tony Awards

Winners of the 75th Annual Tony Awards, honoring theater professionals of the 2021-2022 season for distinguished achievement on Broadway, were announced Sunday night, June 12, in a live ceremony at...

Sarah Silverman’s autobiographical ‘The Bedwetter’ at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company conquers childhood trauma with potty-mouthed humor

Based on Sarah Silverman’s bestselling 2010 memoir of the same name, The Bedwetter, with book by Silverman and Joshua Harmon, music by the late Adam Schlesinger (who died of COVID-19 in 2020), lyrics...

A reenacted dialogue between Black activist writers James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni on race and responsibility in Off-Broadway’s ‘Lessons in Survival: 1971’ at The Vineyard

During the pandemic closure of theaters in 2020, the grassroots theater collective The Commissary was formed. Its members gathered remotely each Wednesday on their digital devices to read plays and to...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Snow in Midsummer’ updates a 13th-century Chinese ghost story to the present

A young widow is wrongfully executed for a murder she didn’t commit, precipitating a snowfall in June that bespeaks a heinous miscarriage of justice. Her ghost comes back to haunt the community with...

Winners of NYC’s 2022 Drama Desk Awards

Winners of the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, presented since 1955, to honor outstanding achievement by professional theater artists and productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway –...

Pulitzer Prize winner ‘Fat Ham’ makes its blockbuster NYC debut Off-Broadway at The Public

The distinguished judges for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama most definitely got it right with their top recognition of James Ijames’ hilarious, heartfelt, and uplifting tragi-comedy Fat Ham, now in...

Delightful symphonic fairytale ‘Third Bird’ at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum holds appeal for all ages

The latest installment in the series of Works & Process at the Guggenheim is the delightful Third Bird, an original work by fashion designer and artist Isaac Mizrahi (libretto), Nico Muhly (music),...

Singer/songwriter Carol Lipnik discusses her upcoming ‘Blue Forest’ concert at Joe’s Pub in NYC

To celebrate the release of her new EP Blue Forest on her Mermaid Alley label, singer/songwriter Carol Lipnik will make a special one-night-only return to Joe’s Pub on Wednesday, June 8, at 7 pm, for...

10th annual ‘Night of a Thousand Judys’ commemorates the 100th birthday of Judy Garland at Joe’s Pub in NYC

This year’s Night of a Thousand Judys, coming to Joe’s Pub on Sunday, June 5, is a triple celebration. It not only marks the 10th anniversary of the annual Pride concert, but also the 100th...

Original cast album and Disney+ film of Off-Broadway hit ‘Trevor’ to be released for Pride Month

As part of the celebration of Pride Month 2022, Ghostlight Records has announced the release of the original cast recording of Trevor in digital and streaming formats on Friday, June 24, to coincide...

Griffin Stanton-Ameisen previews his ‘Free Space’ at Off-Broadway’s The Tank

Born and raised in Bryn Mawr, PA, and based in NYC, devisor/performer Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, widely known for creating the fictional “motivational sleeper” and internet sensation Yawn Yawnson, is...

PBS documentary ‘American Masters: Joe Papp in Five Acts’ features the life and work of the founder of Off-Broadway’s Public Theater

To commemorate this summer’s 60th anniversary season of Free Shakespeare in The Park, presented at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, PBS is broadcasting a new documentary in its popular arts...

NYC’s free ‘Lower East Side Festival of the Arts’ this weekend at Theater for the New City

The 27th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts is on for three full days this Memorial Day weekend, from Friday, May 27-Sunday, May 29, at Theater for the New City (TNC), with a wide array of...

New York City Opera’s ‘The Barber of Seville’ opens the season of free Picnic Performances in Bryant Park this Friday

Bryant Park has announced that the 2022 season of its popular free-of-charge Picnic Performances, presented by Bank of America, will kick off this Friday, May 27, starting at 7 pm, with New York City...

All-star performances of songs from jukebox musicals and revues in ‘Broadway by the Year: From Ziegfeld to Moulin Rouge!’ at NYC’s The Town Hall

For the latest installment of Broadway by the Year – the popular series of one-night-only concerts recounting the musical history of Broadway, created, written, and directed by host Scott Siegel – the...

A harrowing journey to Australia in Off-Broadway’s ‘Belfast Girls’ at Irish Rep

When the Irish Potato Blight – caused by an infectious fungus that spread throughout Europe – struck in 1845, it decimated the country’s staple crop, leading to food shortages and the Great Famine of...

Broadway musical ‘Paradise Square’ examines a momentous time in NYC’s Civil War history

The Broadway premiere of Paradise Square, an epic new musical ten-years in the making by the team of Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan (book), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (lyrics), and...

Broadway’s ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ resurrects mid-century Borscht Belt shtick

Adapted from the original 1992 film (which received mixed reviews and didn’t fare well at the box office when it opened 30 years ago), Mr. Saturday Night is now surprisingly a Broadway musical....

Winners of the 2022 Drama League Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway

Recipients of the 2022 Drama League Awards, the oldest theatrical honors in America, first presented in 1922, and formalized in 1935, were announced beginning at noon today (Friday, May 20) in a live...