Thursday, April 20, 2023
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 03:22PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
On 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 10:55PMMonday, April 17, 2023
An 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 05:38PMSaturday, April 15, 2023
Now 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 11:20AMWednesday, April 12, 2023
When 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 07:30PMMonday, April 10, 2023
A 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 07:00PMSaturday, April 8, 2023
If 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 12:20PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
This 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 04:44PMSunday, April 2, 2023
Canadian 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 04:53PMFriday, March 31, 2023
Now 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 10:19AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Presented 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 10:22AMMonday, March 27, 2023
Set 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 04:33PMSaturday, March 25, 2023
The 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 06:38PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Renowned 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 02:43PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
A 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 01:20PMMonday, March 20, 2023
Following 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 05:15PMSunday, March 19, 2023
When 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 09:00PMFriday, March 17, 2023
Performed 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 09:13PMThursday, March 16, 2023
With 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 07:30PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
On 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 12:58PMMonday, March 13, 2023
The 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 07:00PMSunday, March 12, 2023
With 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 01:20PMFriday, March 10, 2023
At 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 08:44PMWednesday, March 8, 2023
The 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 09:12AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
On 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 09:43PMSunday, March 5, 2023
In 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 09:30PMFriday, March 3, 2023
What 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 05:34PMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Manhattan 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 09:00PMMonday, February 27, 2023
Best 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 07:00PMSaturday, February 25, 2023
For 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…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:18PM 
