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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PMThis coming Saturday and Monday, April 23 and 25, two of Off-Broadway’s most noteworthy companies are presenting one-night-only events, one in person and one online, that celebrate classic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PMThe new stage production of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 English-language novella The Little Prince – one of the world’s best-selling books and the second most translated (with 200…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMThe non-profit Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center (OHMTEC) has initiated a campaign to raise funds for the purchase, restoration, and preservation of Highland Farm in Doyl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMTo commemorate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, now in its 45th season, is presenting the world premiere of Citizen Wong, a new play …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMFor his headliner debut at the legendary Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the tremendously talented, always effervescent, Mexican-born musical multi-hyphenate Jaime Lozano brought his…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48PMInspired by Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner of 1931 – a 35-minute one-act play tracing five generations through a fast-moving 90 years of Yuletide meals in the family dining …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMWhen the mixed-race center fielder Darren Lemming, a seemingly unassailable superstar for the MLB Empires, nonchalantly reveals at a press conference that he’s gay, the unexpected news tri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PMFollowing an extended pandemic delay, the highly anticipated production of Harmony: A New Musical, written by multi-award winner Barry Manilow (music and arrangements) and longtime collabora…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PMWhether you practice the religious traditions of Easter or Passover, or celebrate Pop-culture icon Lady Bunny, there’s something for you to enjoy this holiday weekend in NYC, in person or …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMAmong the latest topical publications on Broadway theater are the book releases of a recent play, a compilation of essays on landmark musicals, and an analytical history of the development o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:29PMIn ancient Greek mythology, as recounted in Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. Despite her husband’s 20-year absence (while fighting the Tro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMNominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre with additional support provide…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:45PMWhen Pulitzer Prize recipient and multiple-award winner Stephen Sondheim died at the age of 91 on November 26, 2021, he left the world with an extraordinary canon of work that forever change…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PMIt’s a busy season in New York theater, with openings every day in advance of the April awards deadlines. There is also a wealth of things to do between shows, many with connections to the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:58PMIn 2020, Michael R. Jackson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for A Strange Loop, his cutting-edge critically acclaimed “Big, Black & Queer-ass” musical that had its world prem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17AMTo celebrate this year’s 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Judy Garland (June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969), performer, writer, producer, and instructor Jenna Pastuszek and music d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:06PMWith the name power of the late Pulitzer Prize and four-time Tony Award winner Neil Simon (with more than 30 plays and musicals to his credit) and the stage-and-screen star power of two-time…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13PMNo matter what your taste in music and entertainment, NYC’s legendary nightclubs have it, as proven by three selections that kicked off the week at don’t tell mama, Birdland, and Joe’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50PMThe Drama League (founded in 1916, as one of the longest-running arts service organizations in the country, providing life-long artistic resources for directors) has announced that two past …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMA one-night-only concert and a limited-engagement musical are coming this week to NYC stages, created and performed by a talented roster of Latin American musical-theater artists. Both promi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMThe Lucille Lortel Awards, created by the Off-Broadway League in 1985, and presented annually to recognize Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, will return to a live in-person celebration o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AMLegendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (d. November 26, 2021) would have turned 92 on Tuesday, March 22. To honor his illustrious life and legacy in musical theater, Tony-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:11PMAs the daughter of the legendary Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft, and sister to Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft has been in the spotlight from the day she was born. And that was just the beginn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:28PMAfter a hiatus of 25 months over the course of the pandemic, creator, writer, director, and host Scott Siegel launched the 21st season of his popular critically acclaimed Broadway by the Yea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08PMIn ancient Greek mythology, Hyacinth was the beautiful prince of Sparta and lover of the sun god Apollo. His incomparably good looks also attracted the North Wind Boreas, the West Wind Zephy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMOriginally scheduled to open in March 2020, Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet, postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, made its appearance as a t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMEmmy-nominated stage and screen writer Keith Huff (TV’s Mad Men, House of Cards, and American Crime; Broadway’s A Steady Rain starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig) returns to the Chain…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMFollowing her successful headliner debut at NYC’s legendary Birdland in September 2021, violin sensation Marissa Licata returns with her Quartet (Licata on violin, Michael Aarons on guitar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMTony Award-nominated Emmy-winning actress, singer, and recording artist Liz Callaway is returning to Feinstein’s/54 Below for four nights this month with her new show To Steve with Love. I…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:05AMTony Award-nominated writer and performer Joe Iconis (Be More Chill) isn’t just one of the most supremely talented people in NYC, he’s also one of the busiest and most prolific. Most rec…
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