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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 …

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Thursday, November 18, 2021

Off-Broadway’s ‘Blue Man Group’ celebrates its 30th anniversary at Astor Place Theatre by Deb Miller

There’s good reason why the iconic award-winning Blue Man Group is celebrating the major milestone of its 30th anniversary this month at the intimate downtown space of Off-Broadway’s Ast…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PM
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The 25th anniversary celebration of ‘Chicago’ on Broadway by Deb Miller

On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Chicago, as it nears its 10,000th performance on Broadway, celebrated 25 years of “Razzle Dazzle” with a special anniversary celebration. Produced by Bar…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PM
Monday, November 15, 2021

A star-studded cast delivers an amusing slice of Americana in the Off-Broadway revival of ‘Morning’s at Seven’ at St. Clement’s by Deb Miller

It’s a regular day in the autumn of 1922, and the four aging Gibbs sisters – Cora, Ida, Arry, and Esther, now in their sixties and seventies – are living ordinary lives very near to ea…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM
Sunday, November 14, 2021

It’s payback politics and high finance per usual in Off-Broadway’s ‘A Turtle on a Fence Post’ at Theater 555 by Deb Miller

In the new musical comedy/vanity project A Turtle on a Fence Post by Prisoner #11RO731 (aka political consultant and broker Hank Morris), the writer continues his public feud with New York�…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:59PM
Friday, November 12, 2021

The Anthropologists skewer sexist state laws in ‘No Pants in Tucson’ at A.R.T./New York by Deb Miller

In a series of historically based vignettes, The Anthropologists – creating original ensemble-devised investigative theater centered on women’s experiences and marginalized voices – ta…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AM
Thursday, November 11, 2021

ZviDance premieres ‘The Art of Fugue’ this weekend at New York Live Arts by Deb Miller

Founded by Israeli-born New York-based Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner in 1989, ZviDance – a collaborative alliance among artists dedicated to creating a vision of community through its in…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PM
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

An uplifting lifesaving musical adaptation of ‘Trevor’ at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42 by Deb Miller

Getting through adolescence can be a challenge, especially when your classmates and teachers think you’re “weird” and your parents and priest don’t really understand you. For Trevor …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PM

Marking the 30th anniversary and 16,000th show of ‘Blue Man Group’ at Off-Broadway’s Astor Place Theatre by Deb Miller

This month marks two major milestones in one of Off-Broadway’s longest running and most successful productions since its debut at Astor Place Theatre in 1991. On Sunday, November 7, at 2 p…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:02PM
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Latest COVID-19 protocol and attendance updates from The Broadway League by Deb Miller

It was announced by the The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway industry, founded in 1930, and presently with more than 700 members, including theater owners …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AM
Sunday, November 7, 2021

New online Hirschfeld exhibit for the ‘New Season’ of theater by Deb Miller

The latest digital exhibition from The Al Hirschfeld Foundation, curated by Creative Director David Leopold to coincide with the reopening of live theater, is Al Hirschfeld’s New Season. I…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PM
Friday, November 5, 2021

A meditative mix of object theater, cinema, and music in ‘SHEEP #1’ at NYC’s Japan Society by Deb Miller

Without speaking a word, Japanese-born NYC-based creator and performer Sachiyo Takahashi – a three-time grant recipient from The Jim Henson Foundation in 2017, 2018, and 2021, for her inno…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:10PM
Thursday, November 4, 2021

The new musical adventure of ‘Winnie the Pooh’ at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row is sweeter than honey by Deb Miller

Much to the delight of young (and young-at-heart) audiences, Stage 3 at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row has been transformed into the Hundred Acre Wood and that lovable bear Winnie the Pooh has…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM

The Broadway debut of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ‘Lackawanna Blues’ offers a heartfelt tribute in a tour-de-force performance by Deb Miller

Now in its Broadway debut with MTC at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Lackawanna Blues, masterfully written, performed, and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, offers a supr…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PM
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

A lot of talk and little action in ‘Morning Sun’ at Off-Broadway’s MTC by Deb Miller

Commissioned by MTC as part of the Bank of America New Play Program, the world premiere of Morning Sun by Tony Award-winning English playwright Simon Stephens (Sea Wall; Heisenberg; The Cur…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM

Megan Hilty sparkles in the ‘Diamond Series’ at NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

Feinstein’s/54 Below continues its premiere selection of cabaret concerts in the elite Diamond Series this week with Tony-nominated stage and screen star Megan Hilty, making her debut at t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:09PM
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Relive a critical time in NYC history with ‘Tammany Hall’ at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse by Deb Miller

A combative NYC mayoral election in 1929, with allegations of voter fraud, money laundering, and pay-offs, scandalous affairs and mob connections, provides the inspiration for the all-new fu…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM
Monday, November 1, 2021

Celebrate the release of the new book ‘When The Lights Are Bright Again’ with a free livestream launch party on Broadway on Demand by Deb Miller

NYC-based artist Andrew Norlen’s new book, When The Lights Are Bright Again, published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books and spotlighting the 2020-21 theater shutdown, is available to…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:21PM
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Roundabout’s Broadway revival of ‘Caroline, or Change’ is a must-see musical for these crucial times by Deb Miller

It’s Louisiana 1963. The Civil Rights movement is igniting long-overdue progress and protests to end racial discrimination in America, MLK is preaching non-violence, and JFK is promising t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32AM
Friday, October 29, 2021

Visit ArtExpo, Bryant Park, and the Library for the Performing Arts between shows this weekend in NYC by Deb Miller

With the reawakening of NYC after the long pandemic shutdown, theatergoers can enjoy a variety of events between shows this weekend, from art exhibitions to a seasonal favorite in the heart …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PM
Thursday, October 28, 2021

New gender-neutral categories announced for Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Awards by Deb Miller

The Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring outstanding achievements Off-Broadway (productions in Manhattan venues with 100-499 seats), has announced that its awards for acting will no longer be def…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30PM

Halloween treats from NYC by Deb Miller

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a themed selection of three top picks that include an online event, a live in-person show, and a new album release. I Put a Spell on You: The Sanderson …

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

GTG’s stellar Off-Broadway production of ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’ remains sorely relevant today by Deb Miller

In 2021, data shows that women across the US are still making only 82 cents on the dollar for what men make. What that means in effect is that US women stop getting paid on October 29 of thi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

An exuberant fun-filled concert celebration of ‘The World to Come’ podcast at NYC’s The Green Room 42 by Deb Miller

Now that the first season of the post-apocalyptic podcast The World to Come is complete and available for binge listening on all popular streaming platforms, members of the audio cast and te…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PM
Monday, October 25, 2021

Darren Lee Cole and Alexander Wright revisit 1929 ‘Tammany Hall’ at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse by Deb Miller

For nearly two centuries, the NYC-based political organization Tammany Hall, founded as the Society of St. Tammany in 1786, functioned as the main local political machine of the New York Dem…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PM
Sunday, October 24, 2021

Exhibition and livestream performance series by theatrical artists group ‘My Barbarian’ at NYC’s Whitney Museum of American Art by Deb Miller

Theatrical art collective My Barbarian, founded in Los Angeles in 2000, and now based in LA and NYC, is the subject of a new exhibition and live in-person and livestream performance series …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:28PM
Saturday, October 23, 2021

An online auction from the collection of Marin Mazzie to benefit the Cancer Support Community by Deb Miller

Three-time Tony Award nominee and Theater Hall of Fame inductee Marin Mazzie (Passion; Ragtime; Kiss Me, Kate), who lost her battle with ovarian cancer on September 13, 2018, would have cele…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:22PM
Friday, October 22, 2021

An epic history of the rise and demise of one family’s American Dream and financial empire in ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ on Broadway by Deb Miller

If you’re concerned about the potential discomfort or waning attention precipitated by sitting through a three-part production with a running time of more than three hours and two intermis…

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Thursday, October 21, 2021

BPN podcast ‘This Is Reality’ amplifies the true story of whistleblower Reality Winner, told in ‘Is This a Room’ on Broadway by Deb Miller

In association with the Broadway Podcast Network, multi-award winner Dori Berinstein and Tony nominee Sally Horchow, producers of the acclaimed Broadway show Is This a Room (which I reviewed…

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Laugh, learn, and love with Broadway’s ‘Chicken & Biscuits’ at Circle in the Square by Deb Miller

When the Jenkins family gets together for the funeral of their patriarch B – the late pastor of a Black Baptist church – personalities clash, conflicts resurface, sparks fly, and secrets…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:50PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The Broadway return of ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ continues to amaze at the Booth Theatre by Deb Miller

Before launching its national tour in 2022, the incomparable improv musical sensation Freestyle Love Supreme has made its return to Broadway for a limited engagement at the Booth Theatre, af…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM

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Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
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Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
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