Sunday, May 5, 2019
Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75), best known as the author of nearly 3400 fairytales, including such iconic stories as The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid, and The U…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMFriday, May 3, 2019
Who says New York City has to be expensive? Every month the Big Apple is filled with free events in the arts and culture that are open to the public, without advance reservations or ticketin…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
A follow-up to her popular environmentalist TV series and touring show Green Porno, Isabella Rossellini’s Link Link Circus – presented by the Hunter Theater Project at the Frederick Loe…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and three-time nominated Brandon Victor Dixon announced the nominations for the American Theatre Wing’s 73rd Annual Tony Awards this morning, chose…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMMonday, April 29, 2019
Now playing a limited engagement at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Ink, written by James Graham and directed by Rupert Goold, premiered to critical acclaim in Lon…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:13PMSunday, April 28, 2019
From the moment you enter the theater, it’s as if you’ve been transported to a different realm. Purple, blue, and green lights, ominous fog effects, and eerie music swirl around the dark…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PMSaturday, April 27, 2019
The committees of the Chita Rivera Awards, named for the legendary star of such iconic Broadway hits as Chicago, Bye Bye Birdie, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Nine, have announced their nomi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34AMFriday, April 26, 2019
When Tootsie the movie was released in 1982, it gave audiences a lighthearted look at rampant sexism, mistaken gender identity, and sexual harassment through the lens of the TV industry, as …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16PMThursday, April 25, 2019
Nominations for the 64th annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this afternoon for the 2018-19 season, honoring the outstanding achievements of professional theater artists on Broadway, Of…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08PMMonday, April 22, 2019
One of the most haunting love stories of all time is the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, recounted in Virgil’s Georgics, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and other literary classics. De…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMSunday, April 21, 2019
What’s so funny about mounds of bloody, dismembered, and spurting bodies, flatulence and excrement, necrophilia, and penises – lots and lots of penises? That depends on your sense of hum…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMThursday, April 18, 2019
Can you imagine a parallel universe in which the politics of the 2008 US presidential campaign are played out by people with the same names, situations, and inter-relationships as the real-l…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Actor/singer/dancer John Edwards is not just a triple threat, he’s also an awards-nominated one, and deservedly so. A current member of the Grammy-nominated Broadway Inspirational Voices g…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PMSunday, April 14, 2019
Among the unimaginable atrocities perpetrated under Adolf Hitler’s command was Aktion T4 (or the “Euthanasia Decree”) – the systematic murder of an estimated 200,000 people with disa…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:00PMSaturday, April 13, 2019
Now playing at New World Stages as “the famously handsome wizard boy Cedric” in the long-running Off-Broadway hit Puffs – a critically-acclaimed laugh-out-loud comedy inspired by the H…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:13AMMonday, April 8, 2019
When Maggie Miller just can’t take any more abuse from the popular clique of mean girls, dream guys, and high-school bullies, her cries for help are answered by the Devil himself. At the c…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMSunday, April 7, 2019
“’Tis the times’ plague when madmen lead the blind” (King Lear, Act IV, Scene 1) Based on the legendary Leir – ancient Celtic King of the Britons, whose story was recounted in Geof…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49AMThursday, April 4, 2019
Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960) – half of the legendary team of Rodgers and Hammerstein (with composer Richard Rodgers), recipient of eight Tony Awards and two Oscars, and writer of the word…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Absurdist dark comedy meets the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements in the Vineyard Theatre’s New York premiere of Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s Do You Feel Anger? Directed by Margot Bordelon, the b…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMFrom Dear Evan Hansen to Be More Chill, Will Roland has played a major role in two of the biggest hits on Broadway, both focused on teenage characters and relevant themes that appeal to a ne…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:02PMSunday, March 31, 2019
John Webster’s bloody Jacobean revenge tragedy of 1612, filled with infidelity, deceit, greed, and corruption, is brilliantly re-envisioned for our times in Red Bull Theater’s current pr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
In the nineteenth season’s second installment of Broadway by the Year: Broadway Musicals of 1943 & 1951, director and host Scott Siegel took audiences on a retrospective journey along …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:56PMMonday, March 25, 2019
Fifteen minutes of fame don’t even come close to the phenomenal success and widespread renown of Be More Chill and its cast, from the show’s origins in New Jersey in 2015, through its wi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:27PMThursday, March 21, 2019
One of the all-time greatest vocal groups from the golden age of Motown in the 1960s, The Temptations topped the charts with such iconic R&B and crossover hits as “The Way You Do The T…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PMWinner of the first Tony Award for Best Musical when it made its debut in 1948, Kiss Me, Kate has a long history as one of the great Broadway classics by the legendary Cole Porter, who wrote…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Based on actual events of World War II and sorely relevant today in light of the resurgence of hate-mongering and anti-Semitism in our current socio-political climate and widespread acts of …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Be More Chill has. Following its sold-out extended run at The Pershing Square Signature Center, the sensational high-school musical that d…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
One of the darkest periods in modern American politics was the McCarthy Era of the mid-20th century. Fueled by the anti-Communist sentiment of the Cold War, the government issued a list of s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMMaking its New York premiere in the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row, Keen Company’s resonant production of Surely Goodness and Mercy by playwright Chisa Hutchinson is an uplifting present-d…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMThursday, March 7, 2019
Making its debut at Off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre, Chick Flick the Musical – a new work “written by a woman about women for women” (but directed by a man) – unapologetically empl…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMSunday, March 3, 2019
Before the advent of purpose-built theaters in Elizabethan England, the coach yards, covered balconies, and galleries of inns and taverns – historical forerunners of the British pub – ha…
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