Wednesday, April 21, 2021
This Friday, April 23, three acclaimed Off-Broadway companies get the weekend off to a great start with an enticing variety of offerings – a podcast, a livestream celebration, and a live i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PMTuesday, April 20, 2021
Every April I’m reminded of the incisive question posed by the Guerrilla Girls – an anonymous group of feminist performance artists, formed in NYC in 1985, to fight sexism and racism wit…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMAmong this week’s streaming selections are a newly commissioned puppet show and a cautionary butoh dance piece, both with significant themes related to the annual commemoration of Earth Da…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMMonday, April 19, 2021
Historic toy theater meets post-modern digital livestream in Planet of the Grapes Live, Peter Michael Marino’s wacky but meaningful reimagining of the 1968 sci-fi film classic Planet of th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AMSunday, April 18, 2021
Off-Broadway’s award-winning Mint Theater Company continues the celebration of its 25th anniversary season with the latest installment in its Silver Lining Streaming Series on Monday, Apri…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:49PMFriday, April 16, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021, marks the 78th anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, a heroic act of Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland (and the single largest r…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24PMThursday, April 15, 2021
After a brief hiatus from the main narrative and a series of bonus content installments airing since January, Broadway Podcast Network’s original digital soap opera As the Curtain Rises, w…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
As the next offering in Manhattan Theatre Club’s virtual Curtain Call series celebrating acclaimed past productions, two-time Obie Award winner and Tony nominee Charlayne Woodard (Ain’t …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:08PMTuesday, April 13, 2021
After nearly a year’s hiatus due to the pandemic, Off-Broadway’s award-winning York Theatre Company – founded in 1969, and noted for developing and producing new musicals and resurrect…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMMonday, April 12, 2021
It’s been thirteen months since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of Broadway theaters on March 12, 2020. But now efforts are underway to begin the reopening process, with two initi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMSaturday, April 10, 2021
Three favorite NYC companies have new offerings making their virtual debut next week, in a variety of genres and styles. So whether you prefer a dramatization of a classic epic poem, an orig…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMFriday, April 9, 2021
Right from the start, Ryan McCurdy warns us that he won’t be telling the truth. Or maybe he does, at least in part, in his one-man Off-Broadway musical story Whiterock Cliff, performed and…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:02PMWednesday, April 7, 2021
As part of Adelphi University’s Live from Adelphi concert series, Tony-nominated Be More Chill composer Joe Iconis and his close-knit group of collaborators (lovingly known as Iconis and F…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PMTuesday, April 6, 2021
Top offerings for the upcoming weekend include two online concerts and conversations, and a live outdoor solo show at a popular off-off-Broadway venue, so be sure to mark your calendar in ad…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32PMMonday, April 5, 2021
This week’s offering include a retrospective celebration of Latino dance, an audio play from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a museum pop-up performance by two acclaimed Broadway co…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMSunday, April 4, 2021
On Saturday, April 3, 2021, NY PopsUp – the statewide initiative to reinvigorate the arts – presented the first performance in more than a year inside a Broadway theater. The special eve…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31PMFriday, April 2, 2021
Today is the day that a variety of NYC shows and venues following all COVID-19 safety protocol have been given the official go-ahead to begin reopening. And, as always, if you’d like an en…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:29PMWednesday, March 31, 2021
In partnership with two-time Tony Award-winning actress Christine Baranski and Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers, The Actors Fund – providing human services for the performing arts and en…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
The Drama League Awards, first presented in 1922, and formalized in 1935, have the distinction of being the oldest national theatrical honors, in addition to being the only major awards chos…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMMonday, March 29, 2021
Among the first of the NYC venues to reopen on April 2, in accordance with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s safety guidelines for the return of live performances, is The Green Room 42. Located on th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMSunday, March 28, 2021
Start your week with a bang on Monday and Tuesday with two free events that celebrate the stars and shows of Broadway and also raise funds for important charitable causes through your volunt…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AMFriday, March 26, 2021
Among the range of current theater-based online offerings are a new interpretation of a familiar song from a hit Broadway musical, an exhibition of a legendary artist’s drawings of an icon…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:38PMThursday, March 25, 2021
The debut of a new audio play for our times and the virtual revival of an annual Eastertime event are among the compelling offerings of New York City theater to check out this weekend. Keen …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMWednesday, March 24, 2021
Set in the picturesque Parisian district of Montmartre shortly after World War II, Amour is a musical fantasy adapted from the 1943 short story Le Passe-Muraille by Marcel Aymé, with music …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMMonday, March 22, 2021
If you’re an aficionado of theatrical classics and period pieces, you can connect online this week with an all-star reading of a world-renowned drama by a Pulitzer Prize-winning American i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PMFrom her Broadway debut in Fiddler on the Roof and her award-winning performance as Rizzo in the original Broadway production of Grease, to her legendary roles on the hit TV sit-com Maude (a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMSaturday, March 20, 2021
In the 1960s, young survivors of the Holocaust, striving to express their communal resilience and that of their mother-tongue, began the tradition of The Third Seder, with a unique stage per…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMFriday, March 19, 2021
Although, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, live performances with an in-person audience at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre have been shut down for more than a year, since March 12,…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMThursday, March 18, 2021
If you’re wondering what to watch this weekend, SoHo Playhouse and Lincoln Center Theater are streaming two options for your virtual viewing pleasure, both inspired by literary classics, i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
In the move to begin the reopening of NYC venues and performances to live audiences, Off-Broadway companies are presenting compelling in-person shows that speak to our current times, with li…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:12PMDirector Saheem Ali continues his audio exploration of William Shakespeare’s canon with Romeo y Julieta – a new bilingual podcast of The Bard’s beloved classic Romeo and Juliet – col…
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