2025

Familial dysfunction, fateful decisions, and failed dreams in The New Group’s ‘Curse of the Starving Class’ Off-Broadway at The Pershing Square Signature Center

For the second production of its 30th anniversary season, The New Group is presenting a limited Off-Broadway engagement of Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s 1977 three-act OBIE Award-winning play...

Lessons learned through a lifelong bond in the hilarious and heartwarming ‘Conversations with Mother’ Off-Broadway at Theater 555

In his new semi-autobiographical comedy Conversations with Mother, Matthew Lombardo examines the dynamics of the mother-son relationship between the feisty Italian Catholic matriarch Maria Collavechio...

A lot of talk, a lot of time, and a lot of baring offer no feminist solutions in ‘Liberation’ Off-Broadway at Roundabout

Roundabout Theatre Company’s world-premiere of Liberation by playwright Bess Wohl addresses the efforts and failures of the Women’s Movement over the 50+ years since 1970, in a meta-theatrical go-back...

Pride and ambition conflict with Socialist ideals in the Mint’s NYC premiere of ‘Garside’s Career’ at Theatre Row

After Garside’s Career, a cautionary tale of the ill effects of pride and ambition by English playwright Harold Brighouse, made its successful US debut with an extended run in Boston in 1919, it was...

Special offers and activities for ‘Kids’ Night on Broadway’ returning on March 4

Since 1996, more than 200,000 kids and teens have attended Broadway shows. Kids’ Night on Broadway – a year-round national audience development program of The Broadway League, presented by The New...

Dorian Harewood previews ‘Songs from the Brill Building’ at NYC’s 54 Below

Following his Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award-nominated return to Broadway in The Notebook after a 45-year hiatus, acclaimed stage and screen star, voice actor and singer Dorian Harewood is...

29 shows offering 2-for-1 tickets for ‘NYC Off-Broadway Week’ Winter 2025

New York City Tourism + Conventions, in partnership with The Off-Broadway League, is offering its twice-yearly promotion of 2-for-1 tickets during NYC Off-Broadway Week, running for a full three weeks...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Jason Tam

Known to millions of devoted fans and social media followers of the musical Be More Chill for originating the role of the SQUIP in the 2018-19 Off-Broadway and Broadway productions, triple threat...

Pan Asian Rep’s real-life drama of ‘My Man Kono’ at A.R.T./NY’s Mezzanine Theatre

Now in its 48th season, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, with a mission of providing professional opportunities for Asian American artists and creating new works focused on issues of social justice,...

Fearless autobiographical look at a queer indie music icon in ‘B*tchcraft’ at NYC’s wild project

Indie rock star, artist, and writer Bitch – known to followers for her band Bitch and Animal, as the opening act for Indigo Girls and Ani Difranco, and for her cameo appearance in John Cameron...

Fans flock to ‘BroadwayCon 10’ at the New York Marriott Marquis

The 10th installment of BroadwayCon launched across multiple floors at the New York Marriott Marquis on Friday, February 7, with a full house of fans, a full slate of events, and appearances by stars...

Comical reading of eight women’s stories of failed marriages in ‘My First Ex-Husband’ Off-Broadway at MMAC Theater

Writer, stand-up comic, performer of the stage and screen, long-time Emmy-winning co-host of ABC’s talk show The View, and native Brooklynite Joy Behar has now brought My First Ex-Husband, her...

Funny and affecting Off-Broadway remount of ‘Still’ at The Sheen Center

Following a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere at the DR2 Theatre in April 2024, playwright Lia Romeo’s two-hander romantic dramedy Still, on the possibility – or impossibility – of rekindling...

Feminist critique of misogyny and more in ‘Mrs. Loman’ at NYC’s Theatre Row

In her unauthorized sequel to Arthur Miller’s 1949 tragedy Death of a Salesman, playwright Barbara Cassidy considers what might have happened to Willy Loman’s wife Linda after his suicide, in Mrs....

Winners of NYC’s 68th Obie Awards for off- and off-off-Broadway theater

This evening, in a broadcast of NY1’s On Stage, hosted by Frank DiLella on Spectrum News, 2024 Obie winners Marla Mindelle and Ryan J. Haddad announced a selection of winners of the American Theatre...

A sneak peek at ‘The Jonathan Larson Project’ coming soon to NYC’s Orpheum Theatre

When composer, lyricist, and playwright Jonathan Larson died suddenly of an aortic dissection at the age of 35 on January 25, 1996 – the day before the premiere of his new musical RENT, for which he...

Sparks fly between Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando in ‘Kowalski’ Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street

In his autobiography, director Elia Kazan referenced the first meeting between the 36-year-old Tennessee Williams and the 23-year-old Marlon Brando at the former’s beach house in Provincetown, MA, on...

10th annual ‘BroadwayCon’ coming February 7-9, at the New York Marriott Marquis

Now in its tenth year, BroadwayCon – the must-do annual convention for Broadway and theater superfans – will offer a full weekend of more than 100 hours of in-depth programming from February 7-9, at...

Three top picks to celebrate the Year of the Snake in NYC

Celebrated by an estimated two billion people around the globe (or a quarter of the world’s population), the Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, begins with the first new moon of the...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Melissa Gilbert

Born in LA and a resident of NYC, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated actor, director, producer, and best-selling author Melissa Gilbert began accumulating her non-stop fifteen minutes of fame as...

The return of ‘Broadway Week’ and 2-for-1 tickets to 27 participating shows

Tickets are now available for this winter’s installment of Broadway Week – the popular biannual event presented by NYC Tourism and The Broadway League – offering 2-for-1 pricing to a selection of 27...