2022

Using humor to rebuke racist caricatures and racial exclusion in ‘Mr. Yunioshi’ at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse

In the 1961 Paramount Pictures film adaptation of Truman Capote’s 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Hollywood icon and big-name draw Mickey Rooney was cast in the small and significantly reimagined...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with ‘Broadway by the Year’ favorite Danny Gardner

Tap dancing his way to fame since the tender age of five in his hometown of Reading, PA, actor/dancer/choreographer Danny Gardner made his Broadway debut as Lucky in Dames at Sea in 2015, after...

Special honorees announced for NYC’s 2022 Theatre World Awards

It was announced today by the Theatre World Awards and The Dorothy Loudon Foundation that four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will receive the 9th Annual John Willis Award for Lifetime...

Examining the ethics of business, government, law, and personal relationships in Off-Broadway’s ‘Golden Shield’ at MTC

In 2016, a group of eight Chinese dissidents filed a class-action lawsuit against an American-based IT corporation for personal damages resulting from its collusion with the Chinese government on The...

Nominations announced for NYC’s 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance

Named for of one of the great dance icons in American musical theater, the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards is to celebrate and to promote dance and choreographic excellence. As the only awards...

Winners of the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for on and off Broadway

The winners of the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for outstanding achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2021-22 season were announced today (Tuesday, May 17). Originally...

Hit musical comedy ‘Romeo & Bernadette’ is back Off-Broadway and it’s bedduh than evuh

Amas Musical Theatre’s hilarious musical comedy Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn made its critically acclaimed Off-Broadway debut at A.R.T./NY in January 2020, when I first...

Nominations announced for NYC’s 2022 Drama Desk Awards

Nominations for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, voted on and presented by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering the theater, were announced this afternoon, Monday, May 16,...

Off-Broadway’s Theater Breaking Through Barriers to present free short play series ‘Out of the Box’ at Theatre Row

Now celebrating its 43rd season, Theater Breaking Through Barriers – the only professional Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to advancing artists and developing audiences of people with...

Off-Broadway debut of the new musical ‘¡Americano!’ tells the true story of a Dreamer

Ever since the attacks of 9/11, the young Tony Valdovinos, living with his family in Phoenix and working with his father in demolition and construction from the age of seven, dreamed of becoming a...

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards announced for the 2021-22 season

Winners of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards 2022 were announced this evening (Thursday, May 12), immediately following the organization’s 86th annual voting meeting. The second-oldest...

A stellar Broadway revival of ‘American Buffalo’ calls out toxic masculinity

After a two-year pandemic delay, the highly anticipated revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo is back on Broadway with a multi-award-winning all-star cast for a strictly limited engagement at...

The Off-Broadway Alliance offers its popular ‘20at20’ ticket deal in May

Now through Sunday, May 29, The Off-Broadway Alliance (OBA) is offering its bi-annual celebration of Off-Broadway theater with its popular promotion 20at20, making $20 tickets available to...

Nominations for Broadway’s 2022 Tony Awards

Nominations for the 75th Annual Tony Awards, honoring theater professionals of the 2021-2022 season for distinguished achievement on Broadway, were announced this morning (Monday, May 9, at 9 am) by...

Online art exhibition ‘You’ll Be Swell! You’ll Be Great!’ from NYC’s Helicline gallery features themes from the theater and performing arts

In addition to running, for more than 20 years, Keith Sherman & Associates – a public relations and marketing communications firm with its roots on Broadway – the founder and namesake of the company...

Honorees of NYC’s 76th Annual Theatre World Awards for 2022

In 1944, three young theater-lovers, Daniel Blum, Norman McDonald, and John Willis, had the idea of creating a yearly celebration that would acknowledge “Promising Personalities” – twelve premiere...

Off-Broadway’s ‘Suffs’ offers a rich, funny, and timely musical history lesson on women’s rights

Playing an extended world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement at The Public Theater, the ambitious sung-through musical Suffs, with book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub, who also leads a large...

Playwright James Ijames previews the Off-Broadway production of ‘Fat Ham’ at The Public

Critically acclaimed multiple award-winning Philadelphia-based playwright, director, actor, and educator James Ijames, an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University, a Co-Artistic Director...

Off-Broadway’s anachronistic dark comedy ‘H*tler’s Tasters’ warns of the ever-present dangers of complacency

In December 2012, at the age of 95, Margot Wölk revealed a secret she had kept hidden for seven decades: her involuntary role in WWII as one of fifteen young Aryan women conscripted to serve as Adolf...

Pulitzer Prize-winning musical ‘A Strange Loop’ makes a blockbuster Broadway debut

Following its multi-award-winning Off-Broadway world-premiere engagement at Playwright’s Horizons in 2019, a pandemic-delayed critically-acclaimed regional production at DC’s Woolly Mammoth in 2021,...

Catching up with Alyssa May Gold of ‘How I Learned to Drive’ on the show’s long-awaited Broadway debut

In June 2020, Alyssa May Gold – NYC-based actress of the stage and screen and founder of the theater and film production company Pocket Universe – shared her insights and excitement about her return...

Winners of Off-Broadway’s 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards

In a return to a live in-person ceremony for the first time in three years, winners were announced tonight (Sunday, May 1) for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement...

Over-the-top political farce of women at the White House in the world premiere of ‘POTUS’ on Broadway

The mood is manic, with the White House in a state of panic, as a coterie of frantic females tries to deal with the PR nightmare that is the President, but creates an even bigger nightmare of their...

A smart, funny, and timely Broadway revival of ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ at Lincoln Center Theater

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897-December 7, 1975). To celebrate the enduring legacy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright and...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s ‘MJ the Musical’ star Myles Frost

DC-area native Myles Frost has taken Broadway by storm and skyrocketed to well more than fifteen minutes of fame with his stellar debut as Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, in the new musical MJ. The...

Groundbreaking choreopoem ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf’ makes a powerful return to Broadway

Last seen in NYC in 2019, in the Off-Broadway revival of poet/playwright Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking genre-defying “choreopoem” at The Public Theater (where it was first presented in 1976, and was...

Iconoclast Theatre Collective launches with a VIP release party at NYC’s Beauty Bar

There’s a hot new musical theater company in NYC and it launched on Monday, April 25, with a VIP reception and EP release party at Manhattan’s popular Beauty Bar. Self-described as “a genre-defying...

Nominations announced for the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for on and off Broadway

Originally begun during the 1949–1950 season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards, now in its 71st year, are presented annually for outstanding achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. The awards,...

2022 Drama League Awards nominations announced for Broadway and Off-Broadway

First presented in 1922, then formalized in 1935, the Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America and the only major theatrical awards chosen by the entire theater community of...

Bated Breath’s ‘Chasing Andy Warhol’ takes an immersive walk around NYC’s East Village inspired by the Pop icon

The latest street tour presentation by Bated Breath Theatre Company, following its award-winning production of Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec, is Chasing Andy Warhol, an immersive guided...

Broadway’s ‘The Minutes’ offers an uncanny reminder that history is written by the winners

Napoleon pondered, “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” And Winston Churchill has been credited with the adage, “History is written by the winners.” Both insightful observations are underscored...

McDonagh’s dark gallows humor shines a light on wrongful executions in ‘Hangmen’ at Broadway’s Golden Theatre

It’s 1963, and England’s second-best hangman Harry Wade is performing his last execution, of a young man protesting his innocence and desperately fighting for his life to the very end. Two years...

The new Broadway production of ‘The Little Prince’ creates a universe of hypnotic beauty

The new stage production of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 English-language novella The Little Prince – one of the world’s best-selling books and the second most translated (with 200 million copies...

One-night-only events from Off-Broadway’s Gingold Theatrical Group and Keen Company

This coming Saturday and Monday, April 23 and 25, two of Off-Broadway’s most noteworthy companies are presenting one-night-only events, one in person and one online, that celebrate classics from two...

Fundraising campaign for the Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center to honor the legacy of the Broadway legend

The non-profit Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center (OHMTEC) has initiated a campaign to raise funds for the purchase, restoration, and preservation of Highland Farm in Doylestown,...

Pan Asian Rep’s Off-Broadway world premiere of ‘Citizen Wong’ looks at Asian and American relations in the Gilded Age

To commemorate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, now in its 45th season, is presenting the world premiere of Citizen Wong, a new play by Richard...

A soaring Latinx line-up hits the heights in ‘Jaime Lozano’s Songs by an Immigrant’ at the Kaplan Penthouse in NYC’s Lincoln Center

For his headliner debut at the legendary Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the tremendously talented, always effervescent, Mexican-born musical multi-hyphenate Jaime Lozano brought his signature...

Years fly by but the show drags on in Broadway’s ‘Birthday Candles’ at Roundabout

Inspired by Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner of 1931 – a 35-minute one-act play tracing five generations through a fast-moving 90 years of Yuletide meals in the family dining room –...

Second Stage’s Broadway revival of ‘Take Me Out’ calls out homophobia and racism in baseball

When the mixed-race center fielder Darren Lemming, a seemingly unassailable superstar for the MLB Empires, nonchalantly reveals at a press conference that he’s gay, the unexpected news triggers...

The real-life story of Nazi brutality decimating the ‘Harmony’ at Off-Broadway’s NYTF

Following an extended pandemic delay, the highly anticipated production of Harmony: A New Musical, written by multi-award winner Barry Manilow (music and arrangements) and longtime collaborator Bruce...

Holiday weekend offerings in New York run the gamut from sacred to profane

Whether you practice the religious traditions of Easter or Passover, or celebrate Pop-culture icon Lady Bunny, there’s something for you to enjoy this holiday weekend in NYC, in person or online, in...

Recent book releases for artists, students, and fans of the theater

Among the latest topical publications on Broadway theater are the book releases of a recent play, a compilation of essays on landmark musicals, and an analytical history of the development of...

Retelling an ancient myth in the new musical comedy ‘Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written’ at Off-Broadway’s The York

In ancient Greek mythology, as recounted in Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. Despite her husband’s 20-year absence (while fighting the Trojan War, then...

Nominations announced for Off-Broadway’s 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards

Nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre with additional support provided by TDF,...

The tributes to Sondheim continue with a series of his films and a two-disc release of his songs

When Pulitzer Prize recipient and multiple-award winner Stephen Sondheim died at the age of 91 on November 26, 2021, he left the world with an extraordinary canon of work that forever changed the...

Things to do between shows in NYC this week

It’s a busy season in New York theater, with openings every day in advance of the April awards deadlines. There is also a wealth of things to do between shows, many with connections to theater and the...

Two songs and a discussion of ‘A Strange Loop’ at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum in advance of its Broadway debut and cast album release

In 2020, Michael R. Jackson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for A Strange Loop, his cutting-edge critically acclaimed “Big, Black & Queer-ass” musical that had its world premiere in May 2019,...

Jenna Pastuszek makes her debut at NYC’s The Green Room 42 with a tribute to Judy Garland

To celebrate this year’s 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Judy Garland (June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969), performer, writer, producer, and instructor Jenna Pastuszek and music director,...

The Broadway revival of ‘Plaza Suite’ offers an antiquated look at women and marriage in the 1960s

With the name power of the late Pulitzer Prize and four-time Tony Award winner Neil Simon (with more than 30 plays and musicals to his credit) and the stage-and-screen star power of two-time Emmy...

A variety of genres, styles, and moods in three concerts on the NYC cabaret scene

No matter what your taste in music and entertainment, NYC’s legendary nightclubs have it, as proven by three selections that kicked off the week at don’t tell mama, Birdland, and Joe’s Pub. And though...