Tuesday, 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 03:31PMThursday, December 15, 2022
This month’s opening of Ohio State Murders made history as both the inaugural production at the newly renovated and renamed James Earl Jones Theatre (formerly the Cort) and the belated Bro…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:26PMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Based on the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love, Billy Wilder’s 1959 Hollywood screwball comedy Some Like It Hot, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe, has been named the fu…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:40PMMonday, December 12, 2022
One of the most beloved works of prose by Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53), A Child’s Christmas in Wales was begun in the 1940s, first recorded by the author for his BBC Radio …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:56PMSunday, December 11, 2022
A sold-out star-studded house welcomed the return of Mark William to The Green Room 42 with his latest show Technicolor Dreams, a smartly curated cabaret of songs and reflections that expres…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:37PMFriday, December 9, 2022
Originally created by Dominic Spillane and Stephen Stout and further developed by members of The Flea Theater’s former resident artist companies, the popular late-night episodic play compe…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:25PMThursday, December 8, 2022
On Tuesday evening, December 6, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation celebrated The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld with a launch party for the new book and the special inaugural exhibition o…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:37PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
With this month’s opening of Ain’t No Mo’ at the Belasco Theatre, 27-year-old Obie-winning creator and performer Jordan E. Cooper made history in his debut as the youngest playwright o…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:00PMMonday, December 5, 2022
On May 6, 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act – the only federal legislation ever implemented to prohibit all members of a specific nationality or ethnicity from immigrating to the United Stat…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00PMSaturday, December 3, 2022
When an earlier version of KPOP opened Off-Broadway in the Fall of 2017, it played to sold-out houses and was the recipient of multiple awards. Now on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatr…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:38PMFriday, December 2, 2022
Celebrate the joy of the Christmas season this month at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with a selection of three of NYC’s most iconic holiday traditions, from classic ballet to ora…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:18PMThursday, December 1, 2022
In keeping with its dedication to the development of new musicals and the rediscovery of musical gems from the past, the iconic catalogue of one of the greatest composers from the early year…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Beginning this week, two original musical productions from multi-talented Latin American artists will open in NYC. Playing December 1-3, at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater, is Englis…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:37PMSunday, November 27, 2022
A native “Jersey Boy” from Port Reading, in nearby Woodbridge Township, NYC-based singer and actor Russell Fischer made his professional stage debut at eight years old in The Sound of Mu…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:18PMSaturday, November 26, 2022
Now in its 15th season off Broadway at SoHo Playhouse, the International Fringe Encore Series, this year running from November 25, 2022-January 8, 2023, is curated to bring the “Best of th…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:45PMFriday, November 25, 2022
In a goofy high-energy mash-up of then and now, following in the footsteps of Something Rotten and Six, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet has been re-envisioned as a coming-of…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:22AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
On Thursday, November 24, beginning at 8:45 am, the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will kick off live in NYC and on NBC TV, and will stream on Peacock from 9 am-noon in all tim…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:13PMMonday, November 21, 2022
When theaters were shut down by COVID-19 in 2020, Tony-winning actor Jefferson Mays and director Michael Arden brought their one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved 1848 holiday cla…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:30PMWritten by budding eighteen-year-old English actor and playwright Noël Coward in 1918, The Rat Trap, a four-act drawing-room drama that takes a proto-feminist look at the subordination of …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMSunday, November 20, 2022
The Off-Broadway debut of Sandra at Vineyard Theatre launches its 40th season and marks the highly anticipated reunion of playwright David Cale and director Leigh Silverman, the team from th…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:00PMSaturday, November 19, 2022
Founded in Mexico City in 1969, the four-generations-old Circus Vazquez is now celebrating twenty years of performing in NYC since its first appearance in 1993, with an international cast of…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:54PMWednesday, November 16, 2022
In The New Group’s production of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, the latest Off-Broadway premiere from playwright Will Arbery (a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his award-winning Heroes of the F…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:00PMWhat’s so funny about aging, illness, mortality, a highly chlorinated pool at the YMCA, and a naked old man in the locker room? Plenty, if you’re award-winning entertainer Mike Birbiglia…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:00PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
David Leopold, Creative Director of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation and the creative force behind both the just released book and the just opened exhibition The American Theatre as seen by Hirs…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:03PMMonday, November 14, 2022
For his final show as departing Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company, John Doyle has directed a condensed one-act revival of the acclaimed 2002 musical A Man of No Imp…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:30PMFriday, November 11, 2022
The latest in the movie-to-Broadway genre of almost but not really new musicals, now playing an open-ended engagement at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, is Almost Famous, the coming-of-age ro…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:02PMThe house goes dark, haze envelopes the stage, two men in black appear in eerie blue spotlights, standing at lecterns with hand-held mics, and in their creepiest voices begin to chronicle th…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:56PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
In collaboration with National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), Transport Group’s Off-Off-Broadway presentation of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, now playing a limited engage…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:15PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
In conjunction with this year’s 13th annual United Solo Festival – the world’s largest solo theater festival, now playing at Theatre Row through November 20 – the NYC-based company h…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:54PMMonday, November 7, 2022
When playwright George Bernard Shaw created his original romantic comedy Candida in 1894, written in response to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House and first published in his Plays Pleasant colle…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:39PMSunday, November 6, 2022
During the period following Chairman Mao’s 1966 Cultural Revolution in China and his death in 1976, the Communist country began to reopen to Western cultural influences and economic reform…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:01PM 
