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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Review: ‘Vitaly: An Evening of Wonders’ at The Westside Theatre by Deb Miller

Russian-born, Israeli-raised, and now-Canadian resident Vitaly Beckman, known to US audiences from his successful appearance on the hit TV show “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (he did!), …

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Review: ‘Lonesome Blues’ at The York Theatre Company by Deb Miller

The latest incarnation of Alan Govenar and Akin Babatundé’s evolving musical tribute to Blind Lemon Jefferson, following their award-winning productions of Blind Lemon: Prince of Country …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Review: ‘The Maid’s Tragedy’ at Access Theater by Deb Miller

With its all-too familiar themes of ambition and power, sexual misconduct and attempted cover-up, disclosure, remorse, and ultimate retribution, the plot of Francis Beaumont and John Fletche…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32PM
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Review: ‘Romeo & Juliet’ at New York Classical Theatre by Deb Miller

For nineteen seasons, New York Classical Theatre has delivered free performances of more than 40 revered masterworks to sites throughout the city, enjoyed to date by nearly a quarter-million…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM
Monday, June 11, 2018

Reflections on the 2018 Tony Awards by Deb Miller

From the opening number by hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles to the big winners of the 2017-18 Broadway season, the 72nd Annual Tony Awards presentation, held at Radio City Music Hall and…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PM
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Celebrating Broadway’s Biggest Season in History with ‘Stars in the Alley®’ by Deb Miller

The statistics are in for the 2017-18 Broadway season, and according to The Broadway League (Broadway.org) – the national trade association for the Broadway industry, founded in 1930 – i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PM
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Review: ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ at Vineyard Theatre by Deb Miller

An imaginative, lyrical, and bittersweet stage adaptation of Henry James’ heartbreaking novella of 1903, The Beast in the Jungle reunites the celebrated team of John Kander (music), David …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Review: ‘Woman and Scarecrow’ at Irish Repertory Theatre by Deb Miller

Marking its first production of a work by the internationally-lauded Dublin-born playwright Marina Carr, Irish Repertory Theatre’s New York premiere of Woman and Scarecrow, potently direct…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PM
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Review: ‘Unexpected Joy’ at The York Theatre Company by Deb Miller

Though gynocentric themes featuring lead roles for women are a welcome new trend in contemporary theater, there’s little new or unexpected in Unexpected Joy, an original musical by Bill Ru…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Review: ‘It Came from Beyond’ at St. Luke’s Theatre by Deb Miller

Mid-century aficionados and other interested earthlings can take a time-traveling trip back to the ‘50s at St. Luke’s Theatre with the Off-Broadway premiere of It Came from Beyond, a sil…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:56PM
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ at the Lyric Theatre by Deb Miller

Amazing bursts of magic that dazzle in the darkness, distinctive characterizations of a host of eccentric, endearing, and evil personalities by an enthralling cast, a complex and compelling …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AM
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Review: ‘SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical’ at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre by Deb Miller

As with all of the shows in its genre, the latest offering in the surge of biographical jukebox musicals on Broadway, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, holds appeal for a built-in audience o…

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Review: ‘The Seafarer’ at Irish Repertory Theatre by Deb Miller

Mystic realism and metaphor meet the Irish gift of gab and a dire predilection for alcohol in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, a disturbingly dark and devilish comedy about lost souls, drun…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM

Review: ‘Three Tall Women’ at the Golden Theatre by Deb Miller

Brilliant. Extraordinary. Ingenious. Superb. The best. Yet all adjectives and superlatives pale in comparison with the truly unsurpassed quality of the script, performances, direction, desig…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18PM
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Previewing ‘Stepchild, A New Musical’ in the Rough Draft Festival at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center: An Interview with David James Boyd, Chad Ke by Deb Miller

As part of LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival, IRT Theater and TGF 12 Productions have teamed up for a workshop presentation of Stepchild, A New Musical, inspired by t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30AM
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Review: ‘Children of a Lesser God’ at Studio 54 by Deb Miller

When Mark Medoff‘s award-winning play Children of a Lesser God premiered on Broadway in 1980, followed by the highly-lauded film adaptation in 1986, it provided groundbreaking insights int…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Review: ‘Mean Girls’ at the August Wilson Theatre by Deb Miller

If you’ve ever witnessed (or worse yet, experienced, encouraged, or participated in) the “girl-on-girl crime” of high-school cliques, malicious gossip, fierce competitiveness, and vici…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM

Review: ‘Wicked Frozen’ at St. Luke’s Theatre by Deb Miller

What do you get when you cross the super-popular hits Wicked and Frozen with a Boston accent? The laugh-out-loud musical parody Wicked Frozen, presented by John Lant and making its Off-Broad…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PM
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Review: ‘Lobby Hero’ at Second Stage Theater by Deb Miller

In the current American climate of daily accusations of “fake news,” public denials of misdeeds, not-so-secret cover-ups of illegal activities, and arbitrary job terminations of public o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PM
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Review: ‘Rocktopia’ at The Broadway Theatre by Deb Miller

A mash-up of classical music with classic rock, Rocktopia, co-created by vocalist Rob Evan (of New York stage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra fame) and Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer (a noted…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM
Sunday, March 25, 2018

Review: ‘Angels in America’ at the Neil Simon Theatre by Deb Miller

London’s blockbuster National Theatre production of Angels in America – Tony Kushner’s sweeping two-part eight-hour epic about AIDS, politics, and gay life in America in the 1980s …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PM
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Review: ‘Dogs of Rwanda’ at Urban Stages by Deb Miller

In Dogs of Rwanda, now making its Off-Broadway debut at Urban Stages, playwright Sean Christopher Lewis revisits the horrors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the scars they left – both…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42PM
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Review: ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ at the Marquis Theatre by Deb Miller

If you’re in the mood for a fun-filled island vacation, look no further than Manhattan Island and the Broadway premiere of Escape to Margaritaville at the Marquis Theatre. With music and l…

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Monday, March 12, 2018

Review: ‘Admissions’ at Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater by Deb Miller

A new twist on the old adage attributed to former Philadelphia Police Chief and Mayor Frank Rizzo, “A liberal is a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet,” Lincoln Center Theater’s …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Review: ‘All the Ways to Say I Love You’ on Audible by Deb Miller

If you love the New York stage and its stars, but can’t make it to the theater in person to see a live performance, Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon and the world’s largest purveyor of au…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PM
Friday, March 2, 2018

Review: ‘Rap Guide to Consciousness’ at SoHo Playhouse by Deb Miller

Do you ever wonder about the nature of awareness and the mechanics of perception? Luckily for us, Baba Brinkman does, and returns to SoHo Playhouse with his well-conceived and brilliantly en…

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

An Interview with Award-Winning Actor Dan Hodge: Making his Off-Broadway Debut in the New York Premiere of ‘Dogs of Rwanda’ by Deb Miller

Just concluding his comic roles in the Walnut Street Theatre’s national touring production of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, with its final performances this week i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PM
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Review: ‘The Amateurs’ at Vineyard Theatre by Deb Miller

The latest work by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs, now making its world premiere at Vineyard Theatre, is a profound and witty meta-theatrical meditation on the purpose…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Review: ‘Brilliant Traces’ at The WorkShop Theater by Deb Miller

Through the hand of fate, two lonely and damaged strangers have been brought together in an isolated cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, each suffering the effects of familial trauma, the devas…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:20PM
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Review: ‘Frankenstein’ at St. Luke’s Theatre by Deb Miller

Marking the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel of 1818, Frankenstein, a new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Eric B. Sirota, focuses less on the monster and mor…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AM
Friday, February 9, 2018

Review: ‘The Chekhov Dreams’ at Theatre Row by Deb Miller

Whether you love the works of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov or hate them, you can’t help but enjoy The Chekhov Dreams, a dark and witty world-premiere rom-com by John McKinney. Presente…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PM

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Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
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Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
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Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre