2023

The Boy Band Project makes the season bright with a naughty and nice ‘Boy Band Brunch Holiday Edition’ at City Winery NYC

The Boy Band Project gave their adoring fans the happiest of holidays with the December installment of their monthly Boy Band Brunch series at City Winery. Playing to a super-enthusiastic packed...

Groundbreaking, funny, and moving ‘How to Dance in Ohio’ at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre

It’s not just the vibrant and youthful dance choreography that’s actively moving in the new musical How to Dance in Ohio, now playing an open-ended run at the Belasco Theatre. It’s also the...

Music and memories of Havana’s ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company

Known as Cuba’s “Golden Age of Music,” the 1930s-50s were vibrant times in Havana, when nightlife was at its peak and nightclubs were pulsing with the sounds of the Afro-Cuban genres of son, bolero,...

Historical parallels of insatiable avarice in ‘Manahatta’ Off-Broadway at The Public Theater

In 1626, Peter Minuit, a Netherlandish merchant and Director General of the Dutch West India Company, purchased the island of Manahatta (or “Island of Many Hills”) from the Lenape people, who did not...

Christmas from the trees’ perspective in ‘An Axemas Story’ at NYC’s The Players Theatre

Cartwheel Theatrical has returned with a three-week limited engagement, at The Players Theatre, of An Axemas Story, its wacky holiday musical parody of ‘80s slasher films from the perspective of...

An evening of unsurpassed holiday cheer in ‘The 13th Annual Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza’ at NYC’s 54 Below

After a three-year pandemic hiatus, the supremely talented, incomparably funny, and emotionally insightful Joe Iconis is back at 54 Below with a cast of more than 50 members of his intrepid musical...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with The Boy Band Project’s Nic Metcalf

Recently seen performing with The Boy Band Project in Michael Mott & Friends Fourth Annual Holiday Show at The Green Room 42 and the Jane Elissa Extravaganza benefit for leukemia research at the...

Old friends battle and bond over birthday brunch in ‘Madwomen of the West’ at Off-Broadway’s Actors Temple Theatre

When Marilyn decides to throw a surprise birthday brunch for Claudia at Jules’ sleekly furnished $10 million Brentwood home, Zoey, a successful actress-turned-Yoga-advocate who’s been living in...

Magic and mystery in Happenstance Theater’s ‘ADRIFT: A Medieval Wayward Folly’ at NYC’s 59E59

“What do we do now?” ponder five bewildered characters from the Dark Ages floating on a crowded ship of fools. As part of its Co-Op Residency at NYC’s 59E59 Theaters, DC-based performance group...

Celebrating the joy of the season with music and camaraderie in ‘Michael Mott & Friends Fourth Annual Holiday Show’ at NYC’s Green Room 42

On Saturday, December 2, Michael Mott & Friends Fourth Annual Holiday Show launched a fabulous kick-off to the festive season with a one-night-only performance and livestream at The Green Room 42....

A funny and hopeful look at ‘The Jerusalem Syndrome’ at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre Company

The York Theatre Company’s limited holiday engagement of The Jerusalem Syndrome – a world-premiere musical comedy by Laurence Holzman and Felicia Needleman (book and lyrics) and Kyle Rosen (music) –...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Max Sangerman

Queens resident and Indiana native Max Sangerman made his Broadway debut in the Fall of 2022, in the original cast of A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, as a member of the show’s vibrant...

Nothing is sacred in the riotous Broadway revival of ‘Spamalot’ at the St. James Theatre

Adapted for the stage from the 1975 British hit film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a zany satire on the medieval legend of King Arthur, Spamalot, with book, lyrics, and music by Eric Idle (an...

Magic goes wrong but the comedy goes right in ‘Mind Mangler’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

England’s Mischief Theatre, the company that brought us the madcap calamitous comedies The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, is back with its latest sidesplitting screw-up spoof, Mind...

Big Apple Circus and Circus-Theater Roncalli take a ‘Journey to the Rainbow’ under the big top in NYC’s Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center

For this year’s 46th anniversary season, the Big Apple Circus (founded by Paul Binder and Michael Christensen in 1977, as a more intimate one-ring alternative to the American three-ring circus) has...

Living the dream in ‘John Lloyd Young’s Broadway’ at NYC’s 54 Below

In John Lloyd Young’s Broadway, the Tony- and Grammy-winning star of the original Broadway cast and Clint Eastwood’s Warner Bros. film adaptation of Jersey Boys proclaims that “every Broadway career...

Gingold Theatrical Group deftly skewers social and military pretense with Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Although it was only the fourth in his canon of 65 plays, George Bernard Shaw’s farcical three-act comedy Arms and the Man, written in 1894, became one of his first successes and remains one of his...

Ambition and greed trump ethics and trust in the Off-Broadway revival of ‘I Can Get It for You Wholesale’ at Classic Stage Company

Rarely seen since its Broadway premiere in 1962, the dark musical comedy I Can Get It for You Wholesale by Jerome Weidman (book) and Harold Rome (music and lyrics), adapted for the stage from...

A sensational return to NYC’s Rockwood Music Hall by the incomparable Lauren Marcus

Mega-talented super-charismatic multi-hyphenate Lauren Marcus made a spectacular return to the Lower East Side on Sunday evening for the opening date of her second singer/songwriter residency at...

The humor and heart inherent in hoarding in ‘I Need That’ at Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre

Award-winning playwright Theresa Rebeck takes a very human look at hoarding, loss, the cherished memories inherent in objects, and the need to move on in the world-premiere comedy I Need That,...

A lurid look at the seamy side of Hollywood and demise of four B-listers in ‘Ode to the Wasp Woman’ at Off-Broadway’s Actors Temple Theatre

In Ode to the Wasp Woman, an original play with music now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Actors Temple Theatre, writer and director Rider McDowell delves into the last 48 hours in the...

Traveling big-top ‘Circus Vazquez’ brings its all-new show to NJ and NYC for audiences of all ages

Now in its 54th year, Circus Vazquez, the largest family-owned circus in the US, currently run by the five third-generation Vazquez brothers, is touring with an all-new 2023 show, in what is presently...

A sensational finale to the inaugural year of ‘Broadway by the Season’ at NYC’s Kaufman Music Center

This year’s inaugural series of Broadway by the Season, written, directed, and hosted by theater historian and impresario Scott Siegel, concluded on Monday, October 30, at Kaufman Music Center’s...

Caroline Aaron returns to the NYC stage in “Madwomen of the West” at Actors Temple Theatre

For five seasons, from 2017-23, stage and screen veteran Caroline Aaron – a native of Richmond, Virginia, and a performing arts graduate of American University in Washinton, DC, who later studied...

Sexually explicit memories of a debased dirty old man in ‘Sabbath’s Theater’ at Off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center

The New Group has opened its 2023-24 season with the world premiere of Sabbath’s Theater, adapted for the stage by Ariel Levy and John Turturro from Philip Roth’s 1995 novel of the same name, for a...

Vietnamese immigrants’ personal journey in the wildly funny and insightful ‘Poor Yella Rednecks’ at Off-Broadway’s New York City Center

Co-commissioned by South Coast Repertory and Manhattan Theatre Club, Poor Yella Rednecks, written by Qui Nguyen and directed by May Adrales, is a wildly inventive, hilarious, and insightful follow-up...

Madcap sapphic comedy shatters cisgender hetero paradigms in ‘Merry Me’ at the New York Theatre Workshop

Playwright Hansol Jung and director Leigh Silverman, both “Usual Suspect” affiliates of the New York Theatre Workshop, have teamed up for the NYTW production of Merry Me, an over-the-top mash-up of...

High-camp tribute to the greatest thing ever in ‘A Musical about Star Wars’ at NYC’s AMT Theater

When A Musical About Star Wars: Or, Why Star Wars is the Greatest Thing to Ever Happen in the History of the Galaxy Much, Much Better Than Star Trek!, with a book by Tom D’Angora, Taylor Crousore, and...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with the Millionaires’ Magician Steve Cohen

Known as the “Millionaires’ Magician” for having entertained such famous patrons as Warren Buffett, Stephen Sondheim, Michael Bloomberg. Buzz Aldrin, Guillermo del Toro, Katie Couric, Seth Rogen, the...

Exploring the big questions of life and the cosmos in ‘Emergence’ at NYC’s Pershing Square Signature Center

Creator and performer Patrick Olson explores science, philosophy, and human perception through a mix of direct-address monologues, original live music, stylized movement, and immersive visual imagery...

Stars and fans filled the Skylight Room of NYC’s Marriott Marquis for the ‘33rd Annual Jane Elissa Extravaganza’ benefitting leukemia and cancer research

After a four-year pandemic hiatus, the Jane Elissa Extravaganza returned on Monday night, October 23, for its 33rd annual installment to raise funds for leukemia and cancer research. Held high above...

Personal stories and songs from Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca in ‘Mi Ofrenda, Mis Canciones’ at NYC’s Kraine Theater

As part of FRIGID New York’s 2nd annual Days of the Dead Festival, the Mexican-born NYC-based husband-and-wife team Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca appeared at the Kraine Theater for one night only...

Non-stop laughs in the play-within-a-play parody ‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

For the first time since 2011, when they starred together in the original Broadway cast of The Book of Mormon, long-time friends and stellar scene partners Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells have reunited...

A Victorian woman’s view of what makes a happy ‘Partnership’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

The final installment in Mint Theater Company’s three-play series of undeservedly forgotten works by English playwright Elizabeth Baker is the American premiere of Partnership, which made its debut at...

Four seasonal picks to get you in the Halloween spirit

Among the selections for this year’s Halloween season, in addition to such fabulously creepy hits as Dracula, playing Off-Broadway at New World Stages, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...

Crime thriller ‘Down the Road’ goes into the mind of a serial killer at NYC’s Arts on Site

When husband and wife journalists Dan and Iris Henniman spend weeks interviewing convicted serial killer, rapist, and kidnapper William Reach for a book they’ve been commissioned to write about him...

Understanding and embodying Shakespeare’s villains in ‘All the Devils Are Here’ at Off-Broadway’s DR2 Theatre

The dramatic canon of William Shakespeare is unsurpassed for its universal themes and insights into the minds, motivations, and human nature of its complex three-dimensional characters, both heroic...

Exploring the history, essence, and cosmic connections of juggling in ‘Reflex’ at NYC’s Baruch PAC

With a mission of “blurring the lines between circus, dance, and theater,” Hideaway Circus – a Brooklyn-based multi-media producing company founded and run by Josh and Lyndsay Aviner – seamlessly...

Autobiographical stories and songs in ‘Melissa Etheridge: My Window’ at Broadway’s Circle in the Square

As noted in her extended bio in the current show’s Playbill, rock singer, songwriter, and musician Melissa Etheridge first appeared on Broadway in 2011, playing the character St. Jimmy in Green Day’s...

Three-part Black family epic ‘The Refuge Plays’ makes a riveting Off-Broadway debut at the Steinberg Center

Three plays, 70 years, ten characters, three-and-a-half hours; if you’re concerned about the length of The Refuge Plays – an Off-Broadway debut production of Roundabout Theatre Company, in conjunction...

Community, comedy, and crisis in ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

In the world premiere of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a production of Manhattan Theatre Club playing a limited engagement at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh,...

Join Broadway and daytime TV stars for the ‘33rd Annual Jane Elissa Extravaganza’ at NYC’s Marriott Marquis Hotel to benefit cancer research

When her mother was diagnosed with leukemia in 1989, artist/designer Jane Elissa created an endowment fund for leukemia/lymphoma and cancer research, along with a star-studded fundraiser to support...

How music and a hug can change a life in ’20 Seconds’ at NYC’s Pershing Square Signature Center

Did you know that the power of music and a long hug can change a life? Music therapist, writer, composer, and actor Thomas Sweitzer does, and he tells us that and a whole lot more in his...

Stellar Broadway revival of ‘Purlie Victorious’ at the Music Box Theatre delivers over-the-top laughs with a resonant message

Now playing a limited engagement at the Music Box Theatre, the first-ever Broadway revival of actor, director, activist, and writer Ossie Davis’s Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the...

A joyful return of ‘Jenn Colella: Out and Proud’ at NYC’s 54 Below

Tony nominee and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Grammy Award winner Jenn Colella, whose long list of stage credits includes Broadway’s Come From Away, If/Then, Chaplin, High Fidelity, and Urban...

Recent releases of books and albums from the NYC stage

Catch up on your reading and listening with these four selections of recent book and music releases from artists and shows of the New York stage, including an original cast album, the second volume of...

An inside look at the making of a Broadway musical in ‘Bill Russell: My Side of the Show’ at NYC’s Birdland

In the one-night-only New York premiere of Bill Russell: My Side of the Show at Birdland Jazz Club on Monday, September 25, the Tony-nominated librettist and lyricist traced the development of his and...

Broadway Flea Market and Off-Broadway Week return to NYC in October

Two big events are returning to NYC in October that give fans the opportunity to bid on pieces of Broadway history and to attend trailblazing shows for half the regular ticket price in intimate...

Behind the scenes of Scott Siegel’s ‘Broadway by the Season’ series at NYC’s Kaufman Music Center

The critically acclaimed Broadway by the Season series continues in October with the last of its four-concert inaugural season at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall. A follow-up to creator, producer,...

Audible Theater celebrates its 5th anniversary at Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane and previews the upcoming season

On Monday evening, September 18, Audible Inc., the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, hosted a celebration of the 5th anniversary of Audible Theater, in its Off-Broadway home...