Saturday, January 18, 2020
From her meager beginnings in Memphis through her rise to international fame and triumphant comeback after 20 years of service as a nurse, the life and times of renowned blues and jazz singe…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMFriday, January 3, 2020
When Dion Boucicault’s premiere farce London Assurance made its debut at Covent Garden in 1841, the 20-year-old Irish actor and playwright became an instant success in England, garnering i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36PMMonday, December 16, 2019
It may be cold outside, but The Green Room 42 keeps on sizzling with The Boy Band Project Holiday Edition, a new seasonal version of the group’s super-popular Sunday afternoon cabaret The …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:02PMSaturday, December 14, 2019
Cirque du Soleil’s first-ever Christmas show ‘Twas the Night Before . . . , making its debut at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater, presents a sparkling contemporary spin on the belo…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Playwright Donja R. Love, prompted by the tenth anniversary of his own diagnosis, explores what it’s like to be Black, queer, and HIV+ in one in two, now playing at The Pershing Square Sig…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMSunday, December 8, 2019
For this Christmas season, The Sheen Center – the arts center of the Archdiocese of New York – presents a limited engagement of The Gospel of John, a slightly condensed one-man performan…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMSaturday, December 7, 2019
It’s a holly jolly raunchy campy Christmas in Paige Turner: Jingle All the Way!, back at The Green Room 42 for a second year of holiday fun. Created and performed by the New York drag sens…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMThursday, December 5, 2019
High-voltage energy, powerhouse vocals, acerbic humor, and a dynamic design come together to express the urgency of youth and the raw emotions of dealing with social, political, and familial…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PMMaking its Off-Broadway debut with The York Theatre Company as part of its 50th anniversary season, the new musical revue Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Musical World of Maury Yesto…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:45PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
It’s father versus son in Harry Townsend’s Last Stand, George Eastman’s new play about coming to terms with aging and dealing with an elderly parent, now playing a limited Off-Broadway…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMMonday, December 2, 2019
Presently appearing as Mary Magdalene in the 50th anniversary national touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar (a superlative that originated in Andy Warhol’s Factory), Jenna Rubaii, …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMFriday, November 29, 2019
Tony Kushner’s newly revised first play, A Bright Room Called Day, written and debuted during the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, is back for our present time in an updated incar…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:39PMMonday, November 25, 2019
In his highly anticipated debut at The Green Room 42, Mexican composer, musician, and director Jaime Lozano brought together a blockbuster all-Latino line-up and band for a one-night-only co…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10PMSunday, November 24, 2019
Although Lauren Gunderson has been twice recognized as our country’s most produced playwright, none of her celebrated works has made its world premiere in New York until now, with The Half…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:06PMSaturday, November 23, 2019
Following a season of sold-out performances at The Green Room 42 after his debut at the popular midtown nightclub in November 2018, Mark William returned to the venue on Friday with the prem…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47PMFriday, November 22, 2019
Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday classic of 1843 comes alive like never before in London’s acclaimed Old Vic production of A Christmas Carol, now on Broadway for a strictly limited eight…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PMThursday, November 21, 2019
Drawing its inspiration from E.M. Forster’s 1910 masterpiece Howards End, playwright Matthew Lopez re-envisions the story of social conventions and heritage in turn-of-the-century England …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:03PMWednesday, November 20, 2019
President Jimmy Carter’s farsighted and cautionary “malaise speech” on the disastrous effects of unchecked climate change on the future of our planet, and the concurrent movement to ra…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMMonday, November 18, 2019
New York-based actor and comedian Remy Germinario is gearing up for his fourth appearance with drag sensation Paige Turner (host and co-creator/producer of NYC’s live drag reality show So …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PMSunday, November 17, 2019
First presented at The Public Theater in 1976, the Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, by playwright/poet Ntozake Shange – a pioneeri…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:06PMFriday, November 15, 2019
Following in the footsteps of SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, The Cher Show, and the rash of jukebox bios that have permeated Broadway over the past several years, Tina: The Tina Turner Mu…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PMThursday, November 14, 2019
Just in time for the winter weather, the international touring production of Slava’s Snowshow, created and staged by world-renowned Russian clown and mime Slava Polunin, has arrived at the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
With campaigning for the 2020 US election in full swing and impeachment inquiries dominating the news, the theme of presidential politics is a timely one. The Great Society – the second of…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Celebrate the season in New York City this year with a wide array of Christmas-themed shows that offers something to delight everyone. From time-honored traditions and classic works to eye-p…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13AMThursday, November 7, 2019
Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel The Enchanted April, set during the devastating aftermath of World War I and a severe epidemic of the influenza that ravaged England at the time, has been …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10PMMaking its Off-Broadway debut at the Daryl Roth Theatre, following a developmental presentation by Goodspeed Musicals in August 2018, is The New Group’s production of Cyrano – Erica Schm…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Mexican composer/arranger/orchestrator/director Jaime Lozano – a native of Monterrey and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of Arts, with a Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre Writing …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AMMonday, November 4, 2019
On November 29, 2015, Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M Butterfly) survived a potentially fatal knife attack to his neck on the street near his home in Brooklyn. That unprov…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:06PMFriday, November 1, 2019
Acclaimed Irish playwright Brian Friel is a master wordsmith, captivating storyteller, and consummate observer of the human condition, and that is nowhere more evident than in the Keen Comp…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:25PMThursday, October 31, 2019
Part biography, part history lesson, and part turn-out-the-vote rally, Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Awards favorite Harvey Fierstei…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
Adapted from the best-selling young adult novel by Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, now in its Broadway debut at the Longacre Theatre (following a blockbuster Of…
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