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Monday, September 20, 2021

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with crooner Mark William by Deb Miller

This coming weekend, singer, actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and voiceover artist Mark William, who has played such iconic venues as Feinstein’s/54 Below and The McKittrick Hotel, …

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A star-studded grand finale to Broadway’s ‘Curtain Up!’ festival by Deb Miller

Confetti rained down on Times Square following a weekend of free public events to welcome back Broadway, bringing a spectacular conclusion to a star-studded grand finale of the Curtain Up! f…

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Friday, September 17, 2021

Celebrating the return of Broadway with the ‘Curtain Up!’ festival in Times Square by Deb Miller

Broadway is back, and to celebrate the long-awaited good news, this weekend’s Curtain Up! festival launched today with a line-up of free outdoor public events in Times Square. We were ther…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:56PM
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Release of Off-Broadway’s ‘Marguerite’ and ‘Unknown Soldier’ original cast recordings by Deb Miller

The original cast recordings of two acclaimed Off-Broadway musicals with compelling scores and narratives are available in physical and digital formats this month. Recently released on Broad…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46AM
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Recipients of the 2020-21 NYIT Honorary Awards by Deb Miller

Last night, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards – recognizing, honoring, and advocating for individuals, companies, and productions from NYC’s Off-Off-Broadway/Indie theater community…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:54PM
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Free outdoor dance performances by General Mischief and Kinesis Project this weekend by Deb Miller

As the summer comes to a close this month, two NYC-based dance companies are offering free outdoor performances over the upcoming weekend, while the weather is still agreeable and with COVID…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:57PM
Monday, September 13, 2021

Unabating after-effects of a break-up in ‘The Last of the Love Letters’ at Atlantic Theater Company by Deb Miller

Atlantic Theater Company’s world-premiere production of The Last of the Love Letters, written by Ngozi Anyanwu, co-starring the award-winning playwright and Tony Award nominee Daniel J. Wa…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM

A gay history murder mystery is finally solved in ‘Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story’ at the Gene Frankel Theatre by Deb Miller

Now playing a world-premiere engagement at Off-Off-Broadway’s Gene Frankel Theatre, Notsew Productions’ Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story by artistic director, executive producer, and …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PM
Saturday, September 11, 2021

A stellar reopening of Broadway with ‘Pass Over’ at the August Wilson Theatre by Deb Miller

Under a stark city streetlight, two homeless men, Moses and Kitch, are stuck in the same spot, in the same worn and dirty clothing, repeating the same routine, day after day. While dreaming …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:06PM
Friday, September 10, 2021

Electric violinist Marissa Licata makes her debut at Birdland on Monday by Deb Miller

Based in NYC and Boston, Honduran-American violinist Marissa Licata is a noted presence on the orchestral and chamber music scenes, with more than fifteen years of classical violin training,…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43PM
Thursday, September 9, 2021

9/11 tributes from Battery Dance and Irish Rep by Deb Miller

On Saturday, September 11, Battery Dance and Irish Repertory Theatre will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, respectively, with a live and a…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PM

Richard Nelson closes his ‘Rhinebeck Panorama’ with ‘What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad’ at Hunter College by Deb Miller

After following the stories of three fictional Upstate white middle-class families – The Apples, The Gabriels, and The Michaels – for twelve years through a series of twelve plays and a …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AM
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Jaime Lozano celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with his Feinstein’s/54 Below debut by Deb Miller

Since 1968 (when President Lyndon Johnson began the observance for a week, which was expanded to 30 days, from September 15-October 15, by Ronald Reagan in 1988), Americans have celebrated N…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PM
Monday, September 6, 2021

Lincoln Center’s ‘Big Umbrella Outdoors’ welcomes young audiences on the autism spectrum by Deb Miller

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ commitment to audiences with disabilities continues, experimenting with multi-sensory work in an outdoor setting and creating spaces that are social…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39PM
Saturday, September 4, 2021

Ariana Johns and Vampingo Productions launch a new Salon in September by Deb Miller

This month, Ariana Johns, Producing Artistic Director of Vampingo Productions, will introduce and host a free midtown Salon series featuring original new writing and music, with the possibil…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:47PM
Friday, September 3, 2021

Actress/activist Sis organizes ‘Trans March on Broadway’ for respect and visibility by Deb Miller

When asked in an August interview with London’s Telegraph if he would consider reimagining the familiar role of Mary Poppins as a trans woman, producer Cameron Mackintosh (Les Misérables;…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PM

Monologues by finalists in the ‘Hear Me Out’ competition to be presented online by Deb Miller

This year’s second annual Hear Me Out New American Monologue Competition – founded by Roland Tec in 2020, to encourage exploration of the monologue form and to expand the audience for ne…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PM
Thursday, September 2, 2021

Lineup announced for the ‘Curtain Up! Festival’ in Times Square by Deb Miller

To celebrate the return of Broadway, Playbill, The Broadway League, the Times Square Alliance, and lead sponsor Prudential are partnering to present Curtain Up! – a free live three-day fes…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:43PM
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Three special events to commemorate 9/11 at Lincoln Center by Deb Miller

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the US on September 11, 2001, a date that changed history and will live on in infamy. In recognition of the innocent liv…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PM
Monday, August 30, 2021

Oprah helps launch ‘This Is Broadway’ campaign by Deb Miller

As theaters begin to reopen following the industry’s 18-month pandemic shutdown, The Broadway League, founded in 1930, as the national trade association for the Broadway industry, and co-p…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AM
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Oh, what a show by ‘The Doo Wop Project’ at BRT! by Deb Miller

The rain held off, the show went on, and, oh, what a show! NYC-based The Doo Wop Project delivered a spectacular finale to Bristol Riverside Theatre’s William Penn Bank Summer Music Fest w…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PM
Friday, August 27, 2021

Broadway stars turn out for Sunday’s ‘Elsie Fest’ in Prospect Park by Deb Miller

A starry roster of entertainers from the world of Broadway and pop music is set to celebrate the reopening of theaters and the joy of musicals in Elsie Fest on Sunday, August 29. Founded in …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PM
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Offie Award winner Erik Ransom stars in the latest episode of ‘April Is the Cruelest Month’ podcast by Deb Miller

Just launched this month as the fifth stand-alone episode in Reign or Shine Productions’ six-installment podcast series April Is the Cruelest Month (the title and concept of which were ins…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:41PM
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Get out of the city this weekend with ‘The Doo Wop Project’ in BRT’s outdoor summer concert series by Deb Miller

The award-winning Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bucks County, PA, heats up the end of its Summer Music Fest with a high-energy concert by NYC’s The Doo Wop Project this Friday-Saturday, Aug…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:44PM

Playwright Jeffery S. Jones reopens the case of Dorian Corey in his original LGBTQIA+ murder-mystery dramedy by Deb Miller

Dorian Corey (ca. 1937-93) was a legend on the New York drag circuit of the 1970s-80s, as founder of both the clothing label Corey Design and the voguing House of Corey, which won more than …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PM
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Anthony Rapp by Deb Miller

Obie-winning star of the stage and screen Anthony Rapp is not only an accomplished actor, he’s also a singer and writer, whose talent and sensitivity come shining through in everything he …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:01PM
Monday, August 23, 2021

Robert Dubac’s ‘The Book of Moron’ at SoHo Playhouse will keep you laughing and leave you thinking by Deb Miller

The Book of Moron is back Off-Broadway, and it’s as timely as it ever was. The acclaimed one-man comedy, written and performed by Robert Dubac (The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?) and origin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PM

A sensational debut of ‘The Boy Band Project’ at Feinstein’s/54 Below by Deb Miller

What hurricane? The show must go on, and it did. While the tempest was downgraded to a tropical storm, The Boy Band Project upgraded the night from rainy to on fire with the group’s debut …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:22PM
Sunday, August 22, 2021

NCMT to present a star-studded outdoor staged concert of ‘Songs for a New World’ at Radial Park by Deb Miller

For its inaugural event, New City Music Theatre  (NCMT) – a non-profit company originally founded as Cleveland Musical Theatre in 2014, to create inclusive experiences for a contemporary …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PM
Saturday, August 21, 2021

Let music put you in a ‘New York State of Mind’ with an all-star video and free opera in Bryant Park by Deb Miller

As NYC continues to reopen with COVID-19 safety protocol in place, audiences can enjoy two stellar concert performances today, online and/or in person. And even better, you don’t have to c…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PM
Friday, August 20, 2021

A free online open discussion on ‘What Producing Companies Need to Start Producing Again’ with TRU by Deb Miller

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) – the 27-year-old leading network for developing theater professionals – has announced a multi-tiered initiative to serve small-to-medium-sized non-prof…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic