Playing an open-ended engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, the new Broadway revival of the bloody 1979 musical thriller Sweeney Todd, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a boo…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:22PMOn Tuesday, April 18, the NYC-based Iconoclast Theatre Collective hosted a celebration of theater, community, and new musical development with a party held at The Dickens – a recently open…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:55PMAn iconic figure since the Middle Ages, King Arthur still remains the subject of debate as to whether he was a fictional character or an actual historical person in post-Roman Britain of the…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:38PMNow playing a limited engagement through April 23, at Theater for the New City, Martin’s Truth, the latest play by Victor Vauban Júnior, who also directs, follows the compelling Summer 2…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:20AMWhen two teenagers fall in love and kill themselves because their families can’t get along, everyone agrees that it’s a tragedy. Comedy is not so universal; everyone has a different sens…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:52PMCommissioned and premiered by Costa Mesa, CA’s South Coast Rep in 2009, Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson (America’s most produced playwright …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:30PMA series of eight fictionalized face-to-face conversations between real-life first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, spanning the years 1904-62, is the format for Elle…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMIf you missed it live and in-person during the winter of 2022, the next installment of the new PBS primetime performing arts series Next at the Kennedy Center, a multi-year collaboration bet…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:20PMThis afternoon at 3 pm, Kimberly Akimbo stars Victoria Clark and Justin Cooley announced nominations in fifteen categories for the 38th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, founded by the eponymous…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:44PMCanadian novelist Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, an epic adventure of man versus nature, continues to have a long and successful life across continents and genres. The original book, which sold…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:53PMNow playing its first-ever Broadway revival at the Music Box Theatre, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, a rethought version of the eponymous choreographer’s original 1978 Tony-winning Dancin’ (w…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:19AMPresented by Overtone Industries with the support of BARE opera, the world premiere of Iceland: a re-Creation Myth – an interdisciplinary opera/theater work by composer/librettists O-Lan J…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:22AMSet in the “exceptionally beautiful kingdom of Belleville” (French for “beautiful city”), Bad Cinderella – the updated reimagined take by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Emerald Fen…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:33PMThe Broadway transfer of New York City Center’s reworked, highly acclaimed, sold-out revival of Parade – the award-winning musical drama by Alfred Uhry (book, co-conceived by Harold Prin…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:38PMRenowned as a proto-feminist classic, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, which made its debut in Copenhagen in 1879, is the subject of a radical new woman’s adaptation by Amy Herzog, now p…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:43PMA triple threat of the stage and screen, Hayley Podschun keeps rewinding the clock on her proverbial “fifteen minutes of fame” with credits that include everything from Broadway (Hello,…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:20PMFollowing a long pandemic delay, Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams – an earlier version of which won the award for Best One-Man Show in the 2017 United Solo Festival and hea…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:15PMWhen Drinking in America, written and performed by three-time Obie winner Eric Bogosian, made its Off-Broadway debut in 1986, it garnered both an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00PMPerformed in Japanese with English supertitles, the US premiere of The Hunting Gun, a stage adaptation by Serge Lamothe of acclaimed Japanese author and poet Yasushi Inoue’s 1949 novella, …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:13PMWith its mission of bringing rarely seen classic plays to new life for contemporary audiences, Red Bull Theater is presenting a limited Off-Broadway engagement of the Elizabethan true crime …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:30PMOn Monday evening, The Brat Pack – an all-new act starring top-notch Broadway talents Kathryn Allison (Aladdin; Wicked; Company), Sam Gravitte (Wicked), Luke Hawkins (Xanadu; Harry Connic…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:58PMThe eponymous part-man/part-canine superhero of writer and cartoonist Dav Pilkey’s worldwide #1 best-selling children’s graphic-novel series Dog Man (with over 50 million copies in print…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMWith the arrival of daylight savings and spring just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to grab a book, head out to the park, and catch up on your readings on theater and the perform…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:20PMAt the book launch celebration at Sardi’s of Try Not to Hold It Against Me: A Producer’s Life by veteran motion picture, television, and Broadway producer Julian Schlossberg, released by…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:44PMThe Broadway League has announced that the Museum of Broadway and fifteen restaurants in the Times Square area will be participating in the 25th Kids’ Night on Broadway – an annual event…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:12AMOn Monday, March 6, the non-profit Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) – headquartered in NYC and founded in 1965, as an affiliate of the Stage Directors and Choreographer…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:43PMIn The Trees – a Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman Commission for Emerging Playwrights, now making its world premiere in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Playwrights Horizons, co-produce…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:30PMWhat better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than with two of the greatest female singer/songwriters of our time? For three evenings this week, 54 Below is presenting the NYC premier…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:34PMManhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of The Best We Could (a family tragedy), written by Emily Feldman in 2018, and now playing a limited pandemic-delayed Off-Broadway engagement at New…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00PMBest known for her 1943 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age debut novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (which served as the inspiration for two movies and a musical), author Betty Smith was also a…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMFor more than sixty years, the Obie Awards, developed by the Village Voice in 1955, have honored the boundary-pushing achievements of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater, with informal…
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