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Friday, August 5, 2022

Graffiti artists clash in ‘Hit the Wall’ at Off-Broadway’s The Kraine by Deb Miller

When Rae, a protégé, friend, and apartment mate of Amir, the world’s most famous graffiti artist, comes close to painting the perfect wall, it goes viral and results in conflict, jealous…

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Wednesday, August 3, 2022

A madcap reimagining of the Great Crash in ‘The Panic of ‘29’ at NYC’s 59E59 by Deb Miller

When the New York stock market crashed in October of 1929, it triggered the beginning of the Great Depression, bringing a sudden end to the prosperity of America and the decadence of the Roa…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:22PM
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

FRIGID New York’s ‘The Little Shakespeare Festival’ begins this week at Off-Off-Broadway’s Under St. Marks by Deb Miller

This year for its annual Shakespeare fest, FRIGID New York presents The Little Shakespeare Festival, a celebration of independent theater and performance featuring Bardic classics as well as…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:58PM
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Recent releases of a cast album, a solo recording, and a soundtrack for theater fans by Deb Miller

Among the latest album releases for theater fans this June, July, and August are a cast recording from a current Broadway musical, the soundtrack of a film version of a previous Broadway pro…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:29PM
Friday, July 29, 2022

Free outdoor performance and culture festivals coming to NYC in August by Deb Miller

Mark your calendar for two popular outdoor festivals coming to lower Manhattan and Queens in August, with free offerings of culture and dance. In celebration of the 60th year of independence…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:44PM
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Coming to Lincoln Center’s ‘Summer for the City’ in August by Deb Miller

Presented as part of this year’s Festival of New York, Summer for the City builds on the success of Lincoln Center’s 2021 Restart Stages, which created an outdoor performing arts center …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:27PM
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Evan Zes by Deb Miller

Now making his Broadway debut in The Kite Runner, actor and writer Evan Zes has amassed a long list of stage and screen credits throughout his ever increasing “fifteen minutes of fame,” …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:29PM
Sunday, July 24, 2022

An enthralling Broadway premiere of ‘The Kite Runner’ at the Hayes Theater by Deb Miller

Based on Khaled Hosseini’s internationally acclaimed best-selling novel of 2003 (published in 70 countries, in 60 languages, with 31.5 million copies sold to date, and an Oscar-nominated f…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:32PM
Friday, July 22, 2022

Writing your own happy ending in Off-Broadway’s ‘Between the Lines’ at the Tony Kiser Theater by Deb Miller

When Delilah and her preoccupied, deeply pained mother move to a different town after her parents’ contentious divorce, the seventeen-year-old struggles with her lack of acceptance by the …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:47PM
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Free lunchtime performance series ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ returns to NYC in August by Deb Miller

106.7 LITE FM has announced the long-awaited return of its popular annual lunchtime musical-theater series Broadway in Bryant Park, which has not been presented on a regular schedule over th…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:56PM
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

A stirring night of music and truth with ‘Jaime Lozano & Mauricio Martínez: Hermanos y Familia’ at NYC’s 54 Below by Deb Miller

The one-night-only concert of Jaime Lozano & Mauricio Martínez: Hermanos y Familia reaffirmed Lin-Manuel Miranda’s timely sentiment in Hamilton, “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done).�…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:19PM
Monday, July 18, 2022

Off-Broadway’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ celebrates its 40th anniversary on Saturday with a free block party by Deb Miller

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the multi-award-winning Off-Broadway cult-musical sensation Little Shop of Horrors, producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, and Hunter Arnold, in partnersh…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:15PM
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Jade Anouka’s ‘Heart’ at Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre is poetry in motion and emotion by Deb Miller

In the world-premiere limited engagement of Heart at the Minetta Lane Theatre, presented by Audible in association with Kate Pakenham Productions, acclaimed London-based performer and poet J…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00PM

In-person and livestreamed short play readings at NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to benefit Ukraine crisis response efforts by Deb Miller

An in-person and virtual fundraiser, with proceeds benefitting the Ukraine crisis response efforts of HIAS – founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in 1881, to assist Jews fleeing pog…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:51PM
Friday, July 15, 2022

International spectacle ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ makes its NYC debut at Lincoln Center by Deb Miller

Adapted by writer Luc Plamondon and composer Richard Cocciante from Victor Hugo’s epic 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the musical spectacle Notre Dame de Paris has played to more …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:05PM
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Broadway’s Will Roland gives a sneak peek at the world-premiere play ‘The Panic of ‘29’ coming to NYC’s 59E59 by Deb Miller

Fresh off a series of concerts with Joe Iconis & Family last week at 54 Below, sessions at this month’s BroadwayCon, and his long-pandemic-delayed June wedding, NYC native Will Roland …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:08PM
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The Broadway transfer of ‘Into the Woods’ is superlative in every way by Deb Miller

When Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, premiered on Broadway in 1987, it won three of that season’s top Tony Awards. When Off-Broadway’s…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:05PM
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Three-time Emmy winner Christian Le Blanc previews his Off-Broadway debut in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at the Theatre at St. Clements by Deb Miller

Known to fans everywhere for his TV roles as a series regular on In the Heat of the Night, As the World Turns, and more than 30 years playing the lawyer Michael Baldwin on The Young and the …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:03PM

A cautionary fairytale of unrequited love in ‘Prince Charming, You’re Late’ Off-Broadway at Theatre Row by Deb Miller

In TigerBear Productions’ world premiere of Prince Charming, You’re Late at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row, writer/performer Billy Hipkins, a veteran Broadway dresser with 27 shows to his …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:56PM
Monday, July 11, 2022

A current deconstruction of ‘Richard III’ from NYC’s Free Shakespeare in the Park by Deb Miller

The 60th season of The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park has opened at the Delacorte Theater with a new production of Richard III, directed by Tony Award nominee Robert O’Har…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:00AM
Saturday, July 9, 2022

A joyful return of ‘Joe Iconis & Family Live’ to NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

To celebrate last month’s release of Album on Ghostlight Records, Tony-nominated writer and performer Joe Iconis (Be More Chill) and a massive mega-talented group of his collaborators and …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:36PM
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Talking about the newly released ‘Album’ with Joe Iconis and Family by Deb Miller

On Friday, June 17, Ghostlight Records released Album, the latest recording by musical theater sensation Joe Iconis, featuring 44 tracks from his original canon of songs. Performed with 70 m…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:58PM

Watch favorites from the NYC stage free on screen this week by Deb Miller

If you haven’t seen them yet, you still have a little more time to catch these two top picks by favorites from the NYC stage on screen this week. One is a filmed broadcast of a live concer…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:34PM
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

BroadwayCon returns live to NYC July 8-10 by Deb Miller

Featuring 135 sessions over a full three days, the popular theater convention BroadwayCon, after a two-year pandemic hiatus, is back live in NYC this summer, running from July 8-10, at Manha…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:13PM
Thursday, June 30, 2022

All-star line-up announced for the return of ‘Broadway Barks’ to NYC’s Shubert Alley by Deb Miller

For its 24th annual star-studded dog and cat adoption special, Broadway Barks returns live and in-person to Shubert Alley on Saturday, July 9, 2022, for the first time since 2018. Co-founded…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:32PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

NBC and Peacock to air ‘Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular’ live from NYC by Deb Miller

Fireworks will fly high above the East River once again on Monday, when the 46th annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular takes over New York City skies, accompanied by a full line-…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:38PM
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Free ‘Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music’ at NYC’s South Street Seaport Museum by Deb Miller

After moving to its digital incarnation during the COVID-19 closure of public venues in April 2020, then evolving into the preeminent virtual chantey sing in the world, South Street Seaport …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:52PM
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Broadway lifts audience mask requirement beginning July 1 by Deb Miller

The Broadway League, founded in 1930, as the national trade association for the Broadway industry, announced today that the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters in New York City …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:42PM
Friday, June 24, 2022

Film and original cast recording of Off-Broadway musical ‘Trevor’ released today by Deb Miller

To coincide with Pride Weekend, the Disney+ filmed version of Trevor: The Musical and Ghostlight Records’ original cast recording of the Off-Broadway production, which played at Stage 42 f…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:49PM
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Mint’s top-notch Off-Broadway production of ‘Chains’ revives a little-known classic by Elizabeth Baker by Deb Miller

Dedicated to producing forgotten plays from the past, Mint Theater Company began its “Meet Miss Baker” series in 2019, to give new life to the neglected work of the English woman playwri…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PM
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

A dazzling ‘Diamond Series’ gem of NYC cabaret with ‘Brian Stokes Mitchell: Songs and Stories’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

For his debut engagement in this week’s first-class Diamond Series at Feinstein’s/54 Below, where he had performed three previous concerts, two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran, …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic