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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Online benefit auction of limited-edition Hirschfeld prints signed by the Broadway stars by Deb Miller

Al Hirschfeld’s drawings, many capturing legendary Broadway shows and casts across eight decades, stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishing the visual language of modern …

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Friday, July 7, 2023

Liz Callaway sparkles in the NYC premiere of her new show ‘Screen Gems’ at 54 Below by Deb Miller

In addition to her illustrious career on the Broadway stage, from her debut in Merrily We Roll Along and Tony-nominated performance in Baby to five years as Grizabella in Cats and acclaimed …

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

Stars come out on Saturday for the 25th Annual ‘Broadway Barks’ pet adoption at NYC’s Shubert Alley by Deb Miller

On Saturday, July 8, Broadway Barks will return to Shubert Alley for its 25th annual star-studded dog and cat adoption event. Co-founded by best friends and animal lovers Bernadette Peters a…

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Fairy tales meet feminism in ‘Once Upon A One More Time’ at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre by Deb Miller

The hit songs of Pop Princess Britney Spears are the impetus behind Broadway’s latest jukebox musical Once Upon A One More Time, with a book by Jon Hartmere that reimagines favorite childh…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:10PM
Thursday, June 29, 2023

New season of NYC’s ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ at lunchtime each Thursday in July by Deb Miller

Hosted and presented by 106.7 LITE FM radio, the 23rd annual outdoor lunchtime series Broadway in Bryant Park opens this summer on Thursday, July 6, and runs for the next three consecutive T…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:56PM
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Dystopian future of corporate AI in the new musical comedy ‘In Corpo’ at NYC’s Theatre Row by Deb Miller

Do you ever feel like corporate technology is taking over your life and the world, it might not be the best thing for personal autonomy and humanity in general, and it all seems so absurd? Y…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PM
Monday, June 26, 2023

The 14th Annual Jimmy Awards, featuring the next generation of theater artists, presented live at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre by Deb Miller

Tonight (Monday, June 26) the 14th Annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards, better known as the Jimmy Awards, named for Broadway impresario James M. Nederlander and serving as a c…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:04PM

Alex Edelman interweaves hilarious anecdotes to examine identity, empathy, and bigotry in his solo comedy ‘Just for Us’ at Broadway’s Hudson The by Deb Miller

Why can’t we all be more like Koko the Gorilla – smart, sensitive, communicative, and loving, and never a member or ally of the White Nationalists? Her heartfelt reaction in sign languag…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00PM
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Jukebox musical ‘Rock & Roll Man’ at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages traces the trailblazing legacy of DJ Alan Freed by Deb Miller

The latest jukebox bio-musical to hit the NYC stage, Rock & Roll Man by Gary Kupper, Larry Marshak, and Rose Caiola, now playing a limited Off-Broadway summer run at New World Stages, c…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:02AM
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Reckoning with teen romance, political rhetoric, and religion in the quirky new musical comedy ‘The Gospel According to Heather’ at Off-Broadway� by Deb Miller

People are not always what they seem in Sharonville, a small town in Ohio, where the super-smart seventeen-year-old agnostic “mystery girl” Heather Krebs doesn’t fit in, wants to find …

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15 Questions in 15 Minutes with ‘Lizard Boy’ creator and star Justin Huertas by Deb Miller

Award-winning multi-talented Seattle-based playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, and musician Justin Huertas is now expanding his Warholian “fifteen minutes of fame” with a critically a…

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

An illuminating tour-de-force performance in ‘Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground’ at Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s by Deb Miller

A poll was conducted by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. of Harvard University in 1962, surveying 75 noted historians as to how they would rank the US Presidents in order of competence. T…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00PM
Monday, June 19, 2023

Shakespeare Downtown’s eloquent adaptation of ‘The Lady of the Camellias’ at NYC’s Castle Clinton by Deb Miller

Now in its seventh season, Shakespeare Downtown is dedicated to promoting an interest in classical theater by presenting works that are free and accessible to everyone, inside the walls of T…

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Sunday, June 18, 2023

The Boy Band Project delivers an intoxicating ‘Boy Band Brunch’ in their dazzling debut at City Winery NYC by Deb Miller

In their spectacular debut at City Winery NYC on Saturday, June 17, The Boy Band Project dazzled a packed house with their biggest and best Boy Band Brunch ever (and that’s really saying …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:49PM
Thursday, June 15, 2023

A rousing night of fan favorites and new songs from ‘Joe Iconis & Family’ at NYC’s 54 Below by Deb Miller

The return of Joe Iconis & Family to their home-away-from-home at 54 Below for a five-night engagement through Saturday features a changing line-up of over three dozen of the prolific To…

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Discovering the superhero inside in the indie-rock musical ‘Lizard Boy’ at NYC’s Theatre Row by Deb Miller

A smash hit at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with an original cast recording that has been streamed more than three million times on Spotify, Prospect Theater Company’s award-winning…

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Thoughts behind the magic in ‘A Simulacrum’ at NYC’s Atlantic Stage 2 by Deb Miller

According to the program notes, Atlantic Theater Company’s limited-engagement world-premiere Stage 2 production of A Simulacrum, written by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath with theater arti…

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

Winners of the 76th Annual Tony Awards for Broadway’s 2022-23 season by Deb Miller

Despite the ongoing strike of the Writers Guild of America, an agreement was reached for this year’s 76th Annual Tony Awards to go on as scheduled, without being picketed by members of the…

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Saturday, June 10, 2023

Free outdoor performances from ‘Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth’ in Times Square by Deb Miller

Stage and screen star Michael James Scott (Aladdin; Book of Mormon; Something Rotten!) is set to host of this year’s Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth concert, to be presented in the Duffy Sq…

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Friday, June 9, 2023

NYC’s annual all-star Pride concert ‘Night of a Thousand Judys’ comes to Joe’s Pub on Monday by Deb Miller

The 11th annual Night of a Thousand Judys – an all-star Pride concert to benefit The Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ+ homeless youth in NYC – comes to Joe’s Pub on Monday, June 12, with a …

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

Revisiting Oakland, 1967-68, in ‘This Land Was Made’ at Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre by Deb Miller

Told in the format of a memory play, the world premiere of Tori Sampson’s This Land Was Made, playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Vineyard Theatre, presents a fictionalized accoun…

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Hermitage Artist Retreat with Artistic Director and CEO Andy Sandberg by Deb Miller

New York native and 2005 Yale alumnus Andy Sandberg has recently expanded his accomplished multi-hyphenate stage and screen career as a director, writer, performer, and Tony Award-winning p…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:33PM
Monday, June 5, 2023

Fun and harmony in Vangari’s ‘Moon Tunes & Mad Things’ at NYC’s Don’t Tell Mama by Deb Miller

The mother/daughter cabaret act Vangari – Evangeline (Vange) and Ariana (Ari) Johns – has returned to their home-away-from-home at Don’t Tell Mama this week for two performances of the…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:15PM
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Confused combination of creepy, camp, and incohesive in ‘Grey House’ at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre by Deb Miller

It’s 1977, there’s a blizzard raging outside, and a lost couple crashes their car into a deer on a mountain road, leaving it dead, him hurt, them stranded, and seeking shelter in an isol…

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Tony winner John Rubinstein previews ‘Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground’ coming to Off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s by Deb Miller

Tony Award winner John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God), who, under the direction of Bob Fosse, made his Broadway debut in 1972, originating the eponymous role in the iconic musical Pip…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:01AM
Thursday, June 1, 2023

NYC’s 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards winners announced by Deb Miller

Winners of the 2022-23 Drama Desk Awards – voted on by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering theater, and the only major NYC theater awards for which productions o…

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Winners of the 2023 Off Broadway Alliance Awards by Deb Miller

The Off Broadway Alliance – an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals – today announced the winners of its 12th ann…

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Thursday, May 25, 2023

New beginnings for a lovable loner in ‘Primary Trust’ at Off-Broadway’s Roundabout by Deb Miller

Surviving the childhood trauma of losing his mother at the age of ten and growing up in an orphanage hasn’t been easy for Kenneth, but he’s had his BFF Bert to get him through, sharing t…

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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Broadway’s 2022-23 season statistics rebound comparable to pre-pandemic levels by Deb Miller

The Broadway League – the national trade association, founded in 1930, for the Broadway industry, with a current membership of more than 700 – today released statistics for the first ful…

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Monday, May 22, 2023

2023 winners of the Chita Rivera Awards for excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway, Off Broadway, and film by Deb Miller

In a ceremony held tonight (May 21) at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and hosted by Jared Grimes, winners of the 2023 Chita Rivera Awards, recognizing excellence in dance a…

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Sunday, May 21, 2023

Camp sci-fi parody ‘Khan!!! The Musical’ has landed Off-Broadway at Players Theatre by Deb Miller

Now playing a limited world-premiere engagement that opened on May the 4th (be with you) at Off-Broadway’s Players Theatre, Peekskill Productions’ Khan!!! The Musical – a wacky sci-fi…

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All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards