Sunday, 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 09:01PMIn My Broken Language, now in its world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement at Pershing Square Signature Theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, who also directs, empl…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Commissioned by the 2020 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea by Haitian-American writer Jeff Augustin is now playing a…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:00PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
NYC-born actor Ken Leung has had an acclaimed career on screen, from his 1998 professional debut as Sang in Rush Hour, to such other popular roles Miles Straume in Lost, Admiral Statura in S…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:45PMFriday, October 28, 2022
Lorraine Hansberry’s classic 1959 American drama A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to have a Broadway production; it’s now the first work by the acclaimed p…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:13PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Adapted from his best-selling 2021 memoir of the same name, Walking with Ghosts by Irish stage and screen star Gabriel Byrne has already enjoyed highly acclaimed runs in London, Edinburgh, a…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:00PMHeritage Auctions, the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer, today launched an online auction of 21 limited-edition prints by acclaimed caricature artist Al Hirschfeld – signed by the…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:50PMWednesday, October 26, 2022
The latest NYC production in a year filled with Pulitzer Prize-winning shows and the first-ever Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog is now playing a limited engagement at…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:50PMMonday, October 24, 2022
A talented ensemble of nine young musicians and singers retells a series of stories of female monsters from classical mythology in Monstress, a new experimental concept musical (and the comp…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:56PMSunday, October 23, 2022
In keeping with its mission of bringing Japanese classics to an American audience, the English-Japanese bi-lingual company Amaterasu Za (meaning “theater that illuminates”) is now presen…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:30PMSaturday, October 22, 2022
Now in its thirteenth year, United Solo Festival is back at NYC’s Theatre Row through November 20, with dozens of shows from across the country and around the globe. For the 2022 season, t…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:55PMFriday, October 21, 2022
After two years of virtual fun and frights during the pandemic shutdown of theaters, the annual Halloween benefit I Put a Spell on You, presented by Kampfire Films and Jay Armstrong Johnson …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:45AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Founded by National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez (1929-2022) in 1970, NYC’s Ballet Hispánico, based at 167 West 89th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, has provided t…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:43PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
During the pandemic shut-down of live theater, stage and screen star Julie Halston – a co-founding member of Charles Busch’s legendary company Theatre-in-Limbo – took to the internet t…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:10PMSunday, October 16, 2022
Playwright Arthur Miller’s original working title for his 1949 American classic Death of a Salesman (recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and six Tonys, including Best Play) was “Th…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:49PMFriday, October 14, 2022
When 1776, with concept, music, and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone, premiered on Broadway in 1969, with only two female roles (of Abigail Adams and Martha Jefferson, the …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:40PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
On February 18, 1965, The Cambridge Union – the oldest continuously running free speech and debating society in the world, founded at England’s Cambridge University in 1815 – hosted a …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:37PMSaturday, October 8, 2022
Now 85, Sir Tom Stoppard, the internationally acclaimed recipient of four Tony Awards for Best Play to date (the most of any playwright in history), has returned to Broadway, for the ninetee…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:29PMFriday, October 7, 2022
After making its award-winning Off-Broadway debut with Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center in 2017, and receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2018, Martyna Majok’s Cost of L…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:10PMThursday, October 6, 2022
For the first time since its NYC debut in 1983, the rarely seen Stephen Sondheim musical revue You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow is coming to Brooklyn’s The Great Room at Art NY Studios for a l…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:48AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
The world premiere of Our Town . . . but Wilder began its open-ended Off-Broadway run at the Actors Temple Theatre on October 1, with an opening night set for Sunday, October 16. Written and…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:41PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
For one night only during this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month, the Mexican-born and NYC-based husband and wife team of Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano returned to Joe’s Pub at The Publ…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:38PMSunday, October 2, 2022
Now starring in David Harms’ new play Powerhouse, presented for a limited engagement this month at A.R.T./New York by Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Laura Shoop, a native of Illinois, a scho…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:05PMSaturday, October 1, 2022
What could be more universally relatable in an intimate cabaret act than an underlying theme of human relationships? In Vangari: Funny You Should Ask, playing at the musical-comedy duo’s h…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:18PMThursday, September 29, 2022
In the nonlinear multimedia memory play american (tele)visions, now playing a limited engagement at New York Theatre Workshop, Tow Playwright-in-Residence Victor I. Cazares relays how it mig…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
The Off-Broadway return of the zany 2021 multi-award-winning Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical – an irreverent spoof of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things, soon to enter its fifth and…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:52PMMonday, September 26, 2022
For the remainder of the year, NYC audiences will have the chance not just to enjoy, but to be part of the magic, in Asi Wind’s Inner Circle, presented at The Gym at Judson in Greenwich Vi…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:07PMSaturday, September 24, 2022
Now serving a life sentence for his repeated sexual abuse of at least 330 underage girls since the 1990s (in addition to his guilty pleas to charges of child pornography and tampering with e…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:25PMNow making her Broadway debut and proliferating her proverbial “fifteen minutes of fame” as an understudy for six roles (The Baker’s Wife, The Witch, Jack’s Mother, and Cinderella’…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:54PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Since its debut in 1969, TV’s iconic Sesame Street children’s show has been entertaining and educating kids for 52 seasons in the US, has won a record 214 Emmy Awards and eleven Grammys,…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:13PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Since the passing of Stephen Sondheim last November, tributes to the life and legacy of the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist have continued with unabated love, respect, and admiratio…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:50PM 
