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Thursday, April 21, 2022

McDonagh’s dark gallows humor shines a light on wrongful executions in ‘Hangmen’ at Broadway’s Golden Theatre by Deb Miller

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 09:30PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

One-night-only events from Off-Broadway’s Gingold Theatrical Group and Keen Company by Deb Miller

This 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 09:55PM

The new Broadway production of ‘The Little Prince’ creates a universe of hypnotic beauty by Deb Miller

The 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 09:45AM
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Fundraising campaign for the Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center to honor the legacy of the Broadway legend by Deb Miller

The 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 10:00AM
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Pan Asian Rep’s Off-Broadway world premiere of ‘Citizen Wong’ looks at Asian and American relations in the Gilded Age by Deb Miller

To 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 02:30PM
Saturday, April 16, 2022

A soaring Latinx line-up hits the heights in ‘Jaime Lozano’s Songs by an Immigrant’ at the Kaplan Penthouse in NYC’s Lincoln Center by Deb Miller

For 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 11:48PM
Friday, April 15, 2022

Years fly by but the show drags on in Broadway’s ‘Birthday Candles’ at Roundabout by Deb Miller

Inspired 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 02:54PM
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Second Stage’s Broadway revival of ‘Take Me Out’ calls out homophobia and racism in baseball by Deb Miller

When 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 02:22PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

The real-life story of Nazi brutality decimating the ‘Harmony’ at Off-Broadway’s NYTF by Deb Miller

Following 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 09:00PM
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Holiday weekend offerings in New York run the gamut from sacred to profane by Deb Miller

Whether 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 07:55PM
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Recent book releases for artists, students, and fans of the theater by Deb Miller

Among 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 03:29PM
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Retelling an ancient myth in the new musical comedy ‘Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written’ at Off-Broadway’s The York by Deb Miller

In 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 07:00PM

Nominations announced for Off-Broadway’s 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards by Deb Miller

Nominations 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 01:45PM
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

The tributes to Sondheim continue with a series of his films and a two-disc release of his songs by Deb Miller

When 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 10:12PM
Monday, April 4, 2022

Things to do between shows in NYC this week by Deb Miller

It’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 07:58PM

Two songs and a discussion of ‘A Strange Loop’ at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum in advance of its Broadway debut and cast album release by Deb Miller

In 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 12:17AM
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Jenna Pastuszek makes her debut at NYC’s The Green Room 42 with a tribute to Judy Garland by Deb Miller

To 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 05:06PM
Thursday, March 31, 2022

The Broadway revival of ‘Plaza Suite’ offers an antiquated look at women and marriage in the 1960s by Deb Miller

With 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 09:13PM
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

A variety of genres, styles, and moods in three concerts on the NYC cabaret scene by Deb Miller

No 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 02:50PM
Monday, March 28, 2022

André De Shields and Denée Benton to host NYC’s 2022 Drama League Awards nominations announcement on April 25 by Deb Miller

The 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 11:17PM
Saturday, March 26, 2022

New Mexican/American musicals ‘Desaparecidas’ and ‘¡Americano!’ coming soon to NYC by Deb Miller

A 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 01:35PM
Friday, March 25, 2022

Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Awards announced 2022 live return and special honorees by Deb Miller

The 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 11:02AM
Thursday, March 24, 2022

A glorious tribute to a Broadway legend in ‘To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC by Deb Miller

Legendary 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 04:11PM
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Lorna Luft by Deb Miller

As 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 04:28PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Something for everyone in ‘Broadway by the Year: The New Wave’ at The Town Hall by Deb Miller

After 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 09:08PM
Monday, March 21, 2022

Hunger & Thirst reimagines the myth of Apollo and Hyacinth in ‘Discus’ at A.R.T./New York Theatres by Deb Miller

In 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 12:38PM
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Irish Rep brings its explosive pandemic-delayed production of ‘A Touch of the Poet’ back to the Off-Broadway stage by Deb Miller

Originally 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 10:00AM
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Two mad men vent their rage and the reasons in the dark comedy ‘Garbageman’ off Broadway at the Chain Theatre by Deb Miller

Emmy-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 08:00PM
Friday, March 18, 2022

Internationally acclaimed violinist Marissa Licata discusses her eclectic style and her return to NYC’s Birdland by Deb Miller

Following 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 10:00AM
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Broadway’s Liz Callaway previews her tribute to Sondheim at Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

Tony 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 10:05AM
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Chatting with Joe Iconis about ‘The New Wave’ of Broadway by Deb Miller

Tony 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…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:54AM

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Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
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