Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Tap dancing his way to fame since the tender age of five in his hometown of Reading, PA, actor/dancer/choreographer Danny Gardner made his Broadway debut as Lucky in Dames at Sea in 2015, af…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PMIt was announced today by the Theatre World Awards and The Dorothy Loudon Foundation that four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will receive the 9th Annual John Willis Award for Lifet…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:37PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
In 2016, a group of eight Chinese dissidents filed a class-action lawsuit against an American-based IT corporation for personal damages resulting from its collusion with the Chinese governme…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PMNamed for of one of the great dance icons in American musical theater, the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards is to celebrate and to promote dance and choreographic excellence. As the only a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:01PMThe winners of the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for outstanding achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2021-22 season were announced today (Tuesday, May 17). Origi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMMonday, May 16, 2022
Amas Musical Theatre’s hilarious musical comedy Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn made its critically acclaimed Off-Broadway debut at A.R.T./NY in January 2020,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMNominations for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, voted on and presented by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering the theater, were announced this afternoon, Monday…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:04PMSunday, May 15, 2022
Now celebrating its 43rd season, Theater Breaking Through Barriers – the only professional Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to advancing artists and developing audiences of people wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:29AMFriday, May 13, 2022
Ever since the attacks of 9/11, the young Tony Valdovinos, living with his family in Phoenix and working with his father in demolition and construction from the age of seven, dreamed of beco…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PMThursday, May 12, 2022
Winners of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards 2022 were announced this evening (Thursday, May 12), immediately following the organization’s 86th annual voting meeting. The second-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16PMAfter a two-year pandemic delay, the highly anticipated revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo is back on Broadway with a multi-award-winning all-star cast for a strictly limited engage…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08PMWednesday, May 11, 2022
Now through Sunday, May 29, The Off-Broadway Alliance (OBA) is offering its bi-annual celebration of Off-Broadway theater with its popular promotion 20at20, making $20 tickets available to b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39AMMonday, May 9, 2022
Nominations for the 75th Annual Tony Awards, honoring theater professionals of the 2021-2022 season for distinguished achievement on Broadway, were announced this morning (Monday, May 9, at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37AMSunday, May 8, 2022
In addition to running, for more than 20 years, Keith Sherman & Associates – a public relations and marketing communications firm with its roots on Broadway – the founder and namesak…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:19PMFriday, May 6, 2022
In 1944, three young theater-lovers, Daniel Blum, Norman McDonald, and John Willis, had the idea of creating a yearly celebration that would acknowledge “Promising Personalities” – twe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55PMThursday, May 5, 2022
Playing an extended world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement at The Public Theater, the ambitious sung-through musical Suffs, with book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub, who also leads a larg…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:56PMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Critically acclaimed multiple award-winning Philadelphia-based playwright, director, actor, and educator James Ijames, an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University, a Co-Artisti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
In December 2012, at the age of 95, Margot Wölk revealed a secret she had kept hidden for seven decades: her involuntary role in WWII as one of fifteen young Aryan women conscripted to serv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMMonday, May 2, 2022
Following its multi-award-winning Off-Broadway world-premiere engagement at Playwright’s Horizons in 2019, a pandemic-delayed critically-acclaimed regional production at DC’s Woolly Mamm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06PMIn June 2020, Alyssa May Gold – NYC-based actress of the stage and screen and founder of the theater and film production company Pocket Universe – shared her insights and excitement abou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21AMSunday, May 1, 2022
In a return to a live in-person ceremony for the first time in three years, winners were announced tonight (Sunday, May 1) for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achieveme…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:28PMThe mood is manic, with the White House in a state of panic, as a coterie of frantic females tries to deal with the PR nightmare that is the President, but creates an even bigger nightmare o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:23PMFriday, April 29, 2022
This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897-December 7, 1975). To celebrate the enduring legacy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15PMThursday, April 28, 2022
DC-area native Myles Frost has taken Broadway by storm and skyrocketed to well more than fifteen minutes of fame with his stellar debut as Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, in the new musica…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PMLast seen in NYC in 2019, in the Off-Broadway revival of poet/playwright Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking genre-defying “choreopoem” at The Public Theater (where it was first presented …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
There’s a hot new musical theater company in NYC and it launched on Monday, April 25, with a VIP reception and EP release party at Manhattan’s popular Beauty Bar. Self-described as “a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:58PMOriginally begun during the 1949–1950 season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards, now in its 71st year, are presented annually for outstanding achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PMMonday, April 25, 2022
First presented in 1922, then formalized in 1935, the Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America and the only major theatrical awards chosen by the entire theater commun…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:39PMSunday, April 24, 2022
The latest street tour presentation by Bated Breath Theatre Company, following its award-winning production of Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec, is Chasing Andy Warhol, an immersive g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46PMFriday, April 22, 2022
Napoleon pondered, “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” And Winston Churchill has been credited with the adage, “History is written by the winners.” Both insightful observation…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PMThursday, April 21, 2022
It’s 1963, and England’s second-best hangman Harry Wade is performing his last execution, of a young man protesting his innocence and desperately fighting for his life to the very end. T…
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