Saturday, 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 10:18PMThursday, February 23, 2023
The dazzling Jennifer Holliday, who burst onto the Broadway stage with her Tony- and Grammy-winning role of Effie in the original 1981 production of Dreamgirls, has returned to 54 Below this…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:47PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Jamyl Dobson, a NYC-based Pittsburgh native – as was Andy Warhol, who originated the well-known phrase “famous for fifteen minutes” – is breaking the clock with his acclaimed work on…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:52PMSaturday, February 18, 2023
Adapted for the stage by Sharr White from the eponymous 1992 memoir by photographer Larry Sultan, Pictures from Home uses wall-size projections of actual vintage stills, childhood home movie…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:39PMThursday, February 16, 2023
The third installment of the series Broadway Bound: The Musicals that Never Came to Broadway, co-hosted by podcasters Robert W. Schneider and Charles Kirsch, brought out an all-star roster …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:53PMPlaywright Anna Ziegler returns to Roundabout Theatre Company with the New York premiere of The Wanderers, recounting chapters in the broken marriages of two Jewish couples – one Hasidic, …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:30PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
With an acclaimed award-winning cast and team, expectations were high for Atlantic Theater Company’s Cornelia Street, a world-premiere musical with a book by Simon Stephens (The Curious In…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00PMSaturday, February 11, 2023
Following an extended pandemic hiatus, New Place Players has returned to NYC with a unique site-specific staging of Shakespeare’s 1603-04 tragedy Othello at the historic Casa Clara, a form…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:30PMWednesday, February 8, 2023
Now celebrating its 25th year, Kids’ Night on Broadway – a national audience development program of The Broadway League – returns to New York City on Tuesday, March 21, with tickets on…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:45PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
Awards for the 33rd annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, totaling $100,000 each and payable over two years, were presented to Most Promising Musical Theatre Lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver (…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:56PMMonday, February 6, 2023
Considered by Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright Samuel Beckett to be his personal favorite and his masterpiece, Endgame, a one-act tragicomedy on the absurdity of existence, made its Off-…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:22PMSaturday, February 4, 2023
After a sold-out premiere engagement in the Fall of 2022, The Village! A Disco Daydream, by writer and performer Nora Burns, has returned to Dixon Place by popular demand for an encore four-…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:55PMThursday, February 2, 2023
If you want to revisit the mood, music, and moves of the disco era, 54 Below has the perfect flashback for you on the first Wednesday of every month, for two shows per night, with its popula…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:16PMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Stars of the stage and screen turned out at Sardi’s iconic restaurant in the Broadway theater district to commemorate the 81st birthday of veteran motion picture, television, and Broadway …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:47AMFriday, January 27, 2023
Broadway talent, exhilarating energy, powerhouse performances, and enthusiastic cheers filled the house at 54 Below with the spectacular one-night-only world premiere of The Girl Band Projec…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:20PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
When Anthony Rapp auditioned for a workshop production of Jonathan Larson’s soon-to-be smash hit RENT in September 1994, he was twenty-two years old and working a survival job at Starbucks…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMTuesday, January 24, 2023
As part of her two-month sixteen-cities concert tour starting this month and running through March, Broadway star and acclaimed singer Jessica Vosk will make her DC debut on Tuesday, Februar…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:55AMMonday, January 23, 2023
There’s nothing undersized or trivial about Colin Quinn: Small Talk, the new stand-up comedy show written and performed by the Brooklyn native – “okay, Park Slope” (one of the most d…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:30PMSunday, January 22, 2023
In 2012, writer Damian Weber published a compendium of every entry about Jean-Michel Basquiat from The Andy Warhol Diaires; they spanned just over four years, from 1982-1986. He did it, he …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:36PMThursday, January 19, 2023
A brand-new act is making its debut at 54 Below this month, featuring three alums from such iconic Broadway shows as Something Rotten, Jersey Boys, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. An offs…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:56PMWednesday, January 18, 2023
Jukebox bio-musicals have become a staple on Broadway, with an enthusiastic audience base of fans of the music and the stars that inspire them. The latest in the genre, now playing at the Br…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:14PMWith the shutdown of theaters, sheltering in place, and isolation during the first two and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic came a lot of time to think. For Cuban American playwright, d…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:00PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
The Kleban Foundation – established in 1988, under the will of Edward L. Kleban (best known as the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist of the musical A Chorus Line) – has announced …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:50PMFriday, January 13, 2023
This year marks the eighteenth annual installment of The Public Theater’s internationally renowned Under the Radar Festival celebrating innovative new theater from around the world, while …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:24PMThursday, January 12, 2023
Tony and Grammy winner John Lloyd Young, who originated the lead role of Frankie Valli in both the iconic Broadway musical Jersey Boys and the Warner Bros film adaptation directed by Clint E…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:22PMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Sales are now open for the return of NYC Broadway Week, the twice-a-year two-for-one offering of tickets to select performances of live theater on the Broadway stage. Produced by NYC & C…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:56PMWednesday, January 4, 2023
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Between Riverside and Crazy, written and set in 2014, is the latest of several Pulitzer Prize-winning shows to take the Broadway stage this season. Presented by Seco…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:29PMTuesday, January 3, 2023
As part of the fifteenth season of its International Fringe Encore Series, SoHo Playhouse is presenting a limited nine-performance engagement of Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel, an award-winn…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:03PMMonday, January 2, 2023
At a time when the theater world is struggling to regain its audiences and to find its footing after reopening following the long pandemic hiatus, a total of fifteen Broadway productions wil…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:34PMThursday, December 22, 2022
Winner of London’s Off-West End Award in 2019 for GRINDR the Opera, his original musical inspired by the gay dating app, NYC-based New Jersey native Erik Ransom has continued his witty and…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:33PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
The prodigiously talented Justin Cooley, who just graduated high school in 2021, is accumulating those proverbial fifteen minutes upon fifteen minutes of fame with no end in sight! Originall…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:31PM 
