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Friday, December 17, 2021

The Broadway revival of ‘Company’ takes a gender-swapped look at relationships in NYC by Deb Miller

When the Broadway production of Company, written by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and George Furth (book), premiered in 1970, it was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Award…

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

One captivating actor and 34 classic characters in ‘One Christmas Carol’ Off-Broadway at The Chain Theatre by Deb Miller

After making its New York debut in 2019, One Christmas Carol, a one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 holiday favorite A Christmas Carol, is back in the City for a limited engagement…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05PM
Monday, December 13, 2021

December concerts by Judy Collins, Darlene Love, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask at NYC’s The Town Hall by Deb Miller

This year marks the centennial anniversary of NYC’s The Town Hall, centrally located on West 43rd Street in the heart of the Times Square district. Originally conceived as a meeting place …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM

Broadway producers Tom and Michael D’Angora honored with NY State Senate Proclamation for their charitable work by Deb Miller

On Sunday, Dec 12, 2021, Broadway producers Tom and Michael D’Angora were honored by Senator Brad Hoylman with a State Senate Proclamation naming it Tom and Michael D’Angora Appreciation…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:40AM
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Off-Broadway’s Gingold Theatrical Group to honor Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, and Ethan E. Litwin by Deb Miller

Next up in Gingold Theatrical Group’s 2021-22 season of Project Shaw – a monthly series offering some of the greatest works of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries – is the Irish…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:48PM

A preposterous new musical adaptation of ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ at Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre by Deb Miller

The new big-budget musical-theater production of the popular 1993 award-winning movie starring Robin Williams, Mrs. Doubtfire is the latest in a long list of screen-to-stage adaptations that…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:09PM
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Dances Patrelle’s ‘The Yorkville Nutcracker’ at NYC’s Hunter College takes audiences on a magical Christmas journey through Olde New York by Deb Miller

Now in its 33rd year, the Manhattan-based non-profit ballet company Dances Patrelle (dP) celebrates the 25th anniversary of founding artistic director and choreographer Francis Patrelle’s …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:29PM
Friday, December 10, 2021

Author Candace Bushnell ponders ‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ in her autobiographical solo show at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre by Deb Miller

In her new one-woman show Is There Still Sex in the City?, making its Off-Broadway debut at the Daryl Roth Theatre in a limited engagement through February 6, writer Candace Bushnell – the…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PM
Thursday, December 9, 2021

All the feelings and the moves from ‘The Boy Band Project: Holiday Edition’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

Along with shining a spotlight on the group’s sizzling Broadway-caliber talent, The Boy Band Project: Holiday Edition, which played at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Monday, December 6, provide…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AM
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Off-Broadway musical adaptation of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ at Atlantic Theater Company combines hilarious dark comedy with a meaningful message by Deb Miller

Virgil’s ancient Roman maxim “tempus fugit” is nowhere more apparent than in the life of New Jersey teenager Kimberly Levaco in 1999. Afflicted with a rare genetic disorder that causes…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM

Broadway’s Brian Stokes Mitchell accepts $100,000 donation to The Actors Fund from the Tabernacle Choir in advance of its 20th-anniversary retrospec by Deb Miller

At a luncheon at Feinstein’s/54 Below, Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss Me, Kate), on behalf of The Actors Fund, for which he has served as Chairman of the Board since 2004, a…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PM
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

All I want for Christmas is ‘The Boy Band Project: Holiday Edition’ at NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

Following a dazzling debut at Feinstein’s/54 Below in August, The Boy Band Project returned to a packed house at the famed nightclub for one night only on December 6, with a new incarnatio…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:14PM

Twizted Sisterz returns to NYC’s Laurie Beechman Theatre with ‘Distorted Diznee’ drag revue by Deb Miller

The long-running hit parody Distorted Dizney by drag performance group Twizted Sisterz has re-awakened from the pandemic-time curse on live performances to resume its eight-year run on selec…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55AM
Monday, December 6, 2021

Celebrate the holidays with ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live on Stage’ in NYC and ‘A Paddington Christmas’ and ‘Estella Scrooge’ streaming by Deb Miller

Three long-time holiday favorites are getting a new life this season – one with a live on-stage production of an animated TV special, one with an all-new streaming puppet film, and one wit…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PM
Friday, December 3, 2021

2nd Stage brings a hilarious and hopeful ‘Clyde’s’ to Broadway’s Hayes Theater by Deb Miller

Set in the hectic kitchen of a truck-stop sandwich shop on a stretch of road in Berks County, PA, Clyde’s, by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined; Sweat), dishes up a full…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PM
Thursday, December 2, 2021

A dazzling world premiere of ‘Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood’ at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre Company by Deb Miller

Following the pandemic shutdown in March 2020, and a flood that forced them from their 30-year home at St. Peter’s Theater in January, the York Theatre Company has returned with their firs…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM

Broadway theaters will dim the lights on December 8, in honor of Stephen Sondheim by Deb Miller

As the Broadway community continues to mourn the loss of legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who passed away on November 26, at age 91, The Broadway League announced that the C…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:42PM

Nylon Fusion’s unsettling world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Candlelight’ at Off-Off-Broadway’s New Ohio Theatre by Deb Miller

Self-described as “a Nuyorican comic romantic tragedy covered with magic and dipped in Brooklyn blood,” Nylon Fusion Theatre Company’s world premiere of Candlelight by Pulitzer Prize-w…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PM
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Free virtual encore presentation of ‘Putting It Together’ with James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim from NYC’s The Town Hall and Strand Book Store by Deb Miller

To celebrate the legacy of one of the greatest American composers, lyricists, and Broadway icons, The Town Hall and Strand Book Store will present an encore presentation of their conversatio…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:24PM
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Three top holiday picks for the upcoming week from NYC by Deb Miller

The holiday season has arrived and there are three must-see shows from NYC in the upcoming week, both in person and on TV, that are sure to dazzle. Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PM
Sunday, November 28, 2021

A Chanukah celebration of Jewish food and song with ‘ESN’ from NYC’s National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene by Deb Miller

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) is dishing up some exciting new Chanukah programming as part of its 107th season, with an online celebration of Jewish food through song and cookin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:31PM

Enjoy a global celebration of the holidays with the ‘Tinsel’ festival at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre by Deb Miller

Beginning on Monday, December 6, and continuing throughout the entire month, Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre will present its seasonal series Tinsel: A Global Holiday Celebration. Th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PM
Friday, November 26, 2021

Award-winning attraction ‘THE RIDE NYC: Holiday Edition’ celebrates the season in Manhattan by Deb Miller

One of NYC’s most acclaimed and popular sightseeing attractions is back on the streets after the long pandemic hiatus with its special seasonal version of THE RIDE NYC: Holiday Edition. Se…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PM
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Holmes meets Scrooge in ‘A Sherlock Carol’ at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages by Deb Miller

It’s Christmas Eve, 1894, London. Moriarty is dead and so is Ebenezer Scrooge. Now a doctor at a struggling children’s hospital, Tiny Tim (aka Dr. Timothy Cratchit) enlists the help of S…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23PM
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

A rare chamber concert of Sondheim and Bernstein by Opus Two at NYC nightclub Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

It’s not often that Feinstein’s/54 Below – the iconic NYC supper club known as “Broadway’s living room” – offers a performance of chamber music. But the nightspot’s intimate …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46PM
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

NYC’s ‘Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade’ returns live with a roster of Broadway stars by Deb Miller

This year marks the 95th anniversary of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and it’s back live on the streets of New York City and on NBC TV, hosted by the Today show’s Savannah Guthrie…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34PM
Monday, November 22, 2021

Audible brings ‘Approval Junkie’ to Off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre before its release as an audio-play by Deb Miller

Prior to the digital release of a live recording of the show on the Audible streaming platform in December, Faith Salie’s Approval Junkie is making its New York debut for a limited four-we…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PM

From acquiescence to outrage in Roundabout’s Broadway premiere of ‘Trouble in Mind’ at American Airlines Theatre by Deb Miller

After its acclaimed Off-Broadway opening in 1955, Alice Childress’s Obie-winning play Trouble in Mind was scheduled to transfer to Broadway in 1957, with the stipulation of the show’s wh…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AM
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Red Bull’s world-premiere Off-Broadway adaptation of ‘The Alchemist’ delivers the laughs and the lessons by Deb Miller

With its timely setting in the London plague year of 1606, Jeffrey Hatcher’s new time-traveling adaptation of Ben Jonson’s 1610 classic The Alchemist for Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theate…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM

Opus Two celebrates Sondheim and Bernstein at NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

In keeping with their dedication to championing the works of great American composers, internationally acclaimed duo Opus Two (violinist William Terwilliger and pianist Andrew Cooperstock) w…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:58AM
Saturday, November 20, 2021

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with stage and screen star Alley Mills by Deb Miller

Now starring in the Off-Broadway revival of Paul Osborn’s classic American comedy Morning’s at Seven, stage and screen star Alley Mills has long-since exceeded the running time allotted …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:07AM

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