2024

Go ‘Back To The 90’s’ on New Year’s Eve with Broadway’s Casey Likes and The Boy Band Project at Hurley’s NYC

There’s nothing like New Year’s Eve in New York City, with the annual live public celebration and countdown to the ball drop in Times Square, hosted this year by Jonathan Bennett and Jeremy Hassell,...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Nancy McKeon

Since the age of two, when she began modeling baby clothes for the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, actress/director/producer/writer Nancy McKeon, a native of Westbury, NY, and childhood resident of Forest...

Hilarious and timely aha moments in MTC’s ‘Eureka Day’ at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Inclusivity, diversity, equality, and everyone’s point of view matters are the woke ideals at an elite private elementary school in Berkeley, California, until they aren’t, in Eureka Day, playing a...

A wild yuletide celebration like no other in ‘The 14th Annual Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza’ at NYC’s 54 Below

With a cast and team of more than 60, a fully scripted installment of new skits, characters, and songs added to the familiar favorites of the past decades, and immersive staging throughout the...

Socio-cultural truth-telling through dance in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s ‘Legacy in Motion’ at New York City Center

For Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 2024-25 season Legacy in Motion and their annual residency at New York City Center, the company, founded in 1958 by the eponymous dancer/choreographer to...

Two strangers reveal traumatic secrets in a hotel room in Amsterdam in ‘A Guide for the Homesick’ at NYC’s DR2 Theatre

There’s a lot going on in a double room at a cheap hotel near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, where two American strangers end up together for what might have been a casual one-night stand after meeting...

Reflecting on a lifelong international friendship through letters in ‘Pen Pals’ Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clement’s

In 1955, when they were both fourteen-year-old high-school students, Bernadette, from Newark, NJ, and Margaret, from Sheffield, England, began a correspondence, launched by their teachers, that would...

The impact of ‘Wicked’ the movie on ticket sales of the Broadway production

As Wicked the Musical continues to break records in its 21st anniversary on Broadway, a new report shows that the movie adaptation, starring Ariana Grande-Butera as Galinda and Cythia Erivo as...

Recent book releases for theater-lovers

If you have some time off for the holidays, you can catch up on your reading with these three recent releases on historic contributions to the theater in London’s West End, at Yale University, and by...

Three top picks for the holidays, on stage in NYC

If you’re looking for a fabulous way to celebrate the joy of Christmas at a theater in NYC, there are two annual themed concerts and a new Broadway musical based on a popular movie that are guaranteed...

Laughs and thrills for all ages from ‘Circus Vazquez’ at New York’s Citi Field

Continuing its 55-year legacy of dare-devil feats, breathtaking acrobatics, and hilarious clowning, Circus Vazquez, America’s largest family-owned big-top circus, is entertaining audiences of all ages...

Tour-de-force one-man adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at NYC’s historic Merchant’s House

Returning for the twelfth year this holiday season, Summoners Ensemble Theatre and the Merchant’s House Museum once again present the solo adaptation by actor John Kevin Jones and director Rhonda Dodd...

Guests and locals at an historic inn unpack baggage in ‘Welcome to the Big Dipper’ Off-Broadway at the York

When a monster blizzard and a crash on the highway strand two very different groups of travelers for three days at an historic Black-owned inn on the brink of closure in upstate New York, a lot of...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with The Boy Band Project’s Sam Harvey

It’s been a busy month for triple threat Sam Harvey, an actor, singer, self-described “mover/groover,” and rotating member of The Boy Band Project, racking up more and more of his burgeoning fifteen...

Broadway shows and stars to perform in NYC’s 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

2024 marks the 98th year of kicking off the holiday season with Macy’s world-renowned Thanksgiving Day Parade, averaging an annual 3.5 million people experiencing it live along its 2.5 mile route in...

Harrowing seafaring parable of guilt and redemption in ‘Swept Away’ at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre

Framed in the format of a memory play, the new jukebox musical Swept Away, with a book by John Logan and songs by the folk-rock band the Avett Brothers (including five from their 2004 concept album...

Hilarious high camp musical adaptation of ‘Death Becomes Her’ at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

An all-in, way-out cast brings to life the new musical stage adaptation of Robert Zemeckis’s 1992 dark-comedy cult-classic film Death Becomes Her at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, following its...

Deep dive into the mind and work of a brilliant bipolar artist in ‘300 Paintings’ Off-Broadway at Vineyard Theatre

Part autobiography, part art history lecture, part psycho-therapy session, part stand-up comedy routine, and fully brilliant, revealing, engaging, and funny, 300 Paintings, written by and starring the...

34th annual ‘Jane Elissa Extravaganza’ at NYC’s Times Square Marriott Marquis raises funds for leukemia and cancer research

Now in its 34th year, the Jane Elissa Extravaganza – an annual benefit for the Jane Elissa Endowment Fund for Leukemia/Lymphoma and Cancer Research, founded in 1989, when her mother was diagnosed with...

A sweet and poignant tale of robot love in ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre

Retired robots Oliver and Claire have been neighbors for more than a decade, living alone, in the future, in their one-room apartments at The Helperbot Yards outside Seoul, Korea, but they don’t meet...

Origins of a classic form of Japanese theater in ‘Okuni: The Woman Who Created Kabuki’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Performed in Japanese with brief thematic narrations and projected translations in English, Amaterasu Za’s world premiere of Okuni: The Woman Who Created Kabuki at NYC’s Theatre Row traces the...

Jubilant reunion of three Broadway co-stars in ‘Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

Though they’ve remained the best of friends since originating the roles of the 1960s teenagers Tracy, Amber, and Penny in the Tony Award-winning Broadway premiere of Hairspray in 2002, Tony winner...

Coming out with a Shakespearean twist in ‘Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves’ at ART/NY

Boomerang Theatre Company’s world premiere of Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves at ART/NY puts a Shakespearean twist on coming of age and coming out in NJ in 2005. Written by Gina Femia, the...

Honoring the life and legacy of jazz great Louis Armstrong in ‘A Wonderful World’ at Broadway’s Studio 54

One of the world’s most acclaimed and influential jazz vocalists and trumpeters, New Orleans native Louis Armstrong (1901-71) had a Grammy Award-winning career that spanned five decades of...

Big Apple Circus celebrates NYC with ‘Hometown Playground’ at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park

Founded in 1977, and based in NYC, the Big Apple Circus has returned to Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park for the holiday season with its all-new one-ring Hometown Playground, paying homage to the City,...

Unpacking the damage of dating in ‘Strategic Love Play’ Off-Broadway at Minetta Lane Theatre

After meeting virtually on a dating app, two matched – or more accurately, mismatched -strangers get together at a bar for a disastrous evening that keeps on going in the NYC debut of writer Miriam...

Challenging ingrained church doctrine through wildly irreverent comedy in ‘Catholic Guilt’ at NYC’s SoHo Playhouse

As part of its International Fringe Encore Comedy Series, SoHo Playhouse is presenting a two-week NYC engagement of Catholic Guilt, following critically acclaimed award-nominated runs at Edinburgh...

The journey of six Egyptian student activists of the Arab Spring in ‘We Live in Cairo’ Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop

In 2011, Egyptian student activists took to the streets of Cairo during the uprising of the Arab Spring to oust the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak, only to see an escalation in...

Bitingly funny and ferocious feminocracy in ‘Teeth’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

Based on the 2007 cult classic comedy horror film of the same name, itself inspired by the mythic goddess and cautionary folk-tale tradition of vagina dentata (“That’s Latin” for ‘toothed vagina’),...

Immersive ‘Little House on the Ferry: The Musical’ reopens the upstairs cabaret at NYC’s The Duplex

Closed for two years due to damage caused by a fire in 2022, the intimate upstairs cabaret space at The Duplex, an iconic West Village performance venue since the 1960s, has now reopened as the Fire...

Real-life romantic dramedy ‘Left on Tenth’ at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

Adapted for the stage from her best-selling 2022 memoir of the same name, Left on Tenth, by novelist and screenwriter Delia Ephron (You’ve Got Mail), recounts her late-in-life love story and second...

Failures of the system in the current mental health crisis in ‘Rawshock’ at NYC’s Chain Theatre

Originally presented by Manhattan Repertory Theatre in a developmental production in June 2023, Rawshock, by playwright Rita Lewis, is now back with Manhattan Rep for a limited engagement at NYC’s...

Celebrating the release of ‘The Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot’ at NYC’s Algonquin Hotel

Just in time for the Halloween season, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation hosted ‘A Spooky Season Soirée’ on Tuesday, October 22, from 5-7 pm, at The Algonquin Hotel, to celebrate the release of The...

Queens face off in ‘DRAG: The Musical’ Off-Broadway at New World Stages

Fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and everyone else with a taste for fabulous dressed-up, made-up, wigged-out fun, will love DRAG: The Musical, making its Off-Broadway debut at New World Stages. The...

Comical imagining of Ben Franklin’s failings as a father in ‘Franklinland’ at NYC’s EST

In his comedy Franklinland, which debuted at Chicago’s Jackalope Theatre in 2018, and is now playing a limited engagement at NYC’s EST (Ensemble Studio Theatre, where it received a workshop production...

Timeless and affecting revival of ‘Our Town’ at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre

For the first time in more than two decades, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 American classic Our Town is back on Broadway for a limited engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with J. Harrison Ghee

As the first nonbinary actor to win a Tony for best lead performance in a musical for the transitioning role of Jerry/Daphne in the 2022-23 Broadway production of Some Like It Hot (which also garnered...

Musical harmony leads to familial disharmony in ‘The Hills of California’ at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre

Veronica is dying, so her still single adult daughter Jill, who never left her childhood home and has dutifully served as her mother’s caretaker, sends word to her sisters Ruby, Gloria, and Joan to...

Coming of age and learning hard lessons in ‘Sump’n Like Wings’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

Mint Theater Company’s NYC premiere of the 1925 coming-of-age story Sump’n Like Wings by Lynn Riggs – whose Green Grow the Lilacs, written in 1930, and first produced in 1931, served as the basis for...

Discovering the value of human connection at a small-town diner in ‘The Counter’ Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company

Playwright Meghan Kennedy returns to Roundabout Theatre Company for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center’s Laura Pels Theatre with her latest commission The...

AI triumphs in ‘McNeal’ at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center

Acclaimed novelist Jacob McNeal, an unlikeable, narcissistic liar, cheat, and mentally unstable substance abuser, who dismisses his personal transgressions, professional plagiarism, and lack of ethics...

All-star reading of a new adaptation of ‘Holiday’ at NYC’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater to benefit The Acting Company

On Sunday, October 6, beginning at 7 pm, a special one-night-only star-studded event was held at The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at CUNY’s John Jay College to benefit the national tours and education...

Uproariously zany and riotously raunchy high-camp musical farce ‘The Big Gay Jamboree’ at Off-Broadway’s Orpheum Theater

When a very hungover Stacey wakes up from a night of blacking out after downing eighteen shots of Jägermeister, she finds herself Off-Broadway, on stage before a live audience, in a 1940s Golden Age...

Debating the pros and cons of gentrification in ‘Good Bones’ Off-Broadway at The Public

Philadelphia-based Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames (Fat Ham) is back Off-Broadway at The Public Theater with the NYC premiere of his latest work Good Bones, directed again by The...

Attorney’s conflict between his professional ambition and his Native American heritage in ‘Distant Thunder’ at Off-Broadway’s A.R.T./New York

Presented by Amas Musical Theatre, in association with Tall Tree Productions, and making its NYC debut in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at A.R.T., Distant Thunder, with a book by Lynne...

A sharp-witted quasi-autobiographical look at the complexities of race, casting, and politics in ‘Yellow Face’ at Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company

Self-described as an “unreliable memoir” by three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony winner David Henry Hwang (the first Asian American playwright to receive the award), Yellow Face, which made its...

TCG releases lists of America’s most-produced plays and playwrights of the 2024-25 season

American Theatre magazine, published daily online and quarterly in print by Theatre Communications Group (TCG) – the national organization for theatre founded in 1961, with a membership of more than...

Verbatim dramatization of a true court case from the January 6th insurrection in ‘Fatherland’ Off-Broadway at New York City Center

The Fountain Theatre production of Fatherland, a new verbatim play conceived and directed by Stephen Sachs and now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at New York City Center following its...

Richard Lear previews The Mint’s NYC premiere of ‘Sump’n Like Wings’ at Theatre Row

Actor, director, and producer Richard Lear has been performing since high school, when he was first cast as a Union Soldier in the Columbia Pictures mini-series The Blue and The Gray. The role...

Surreal trip into Trump’s brain in the new musical comedy ‘Ghost of John McCain’ at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse

On the day of his death, Arizona Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain finds himself in the lobby of a 3* hotel that turns out not to be the wonderful afterlife he anticipated in heaven,...