For the last twenty years, The Town Hall‘s signature series Broadway by the Year, created, written, and hosted by Scott Siegel, has celebrated musical theater’s most memorable past songs…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:27PMThe award-winning Off-Broadway musical A Letter to Harvey Milk, based on the eponymous short story by Lesléa Newman and adapted for the musical stage by Jerry James, Laura I. Kramer, Ellen …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMCurrently in the midst of live weekend performances of his original digital toy theater production of Planet of the Grapes Live – a zany and meaningful take-off on the sci-fi classic Plane…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01AMA one-night-only bi-coastal livestream jam-fest by alumni of the five-time Tony-nominated rock musical sensation Rock of Ages will celebrate the 12th anniversary of its opening on Broadway a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:05PMThis Friday, April 23, three acclaimed Off-Broadway companies get the weekend off to a great start with an enticing variety of offerings – a podcast, a livestream celebration, and a live i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PMEvery April I’m reminded of the incisive question posed by the Guerrilla Girls – an anonymous group of feminist performance artists, formed in NYC in 1985, to fight sexism and racism wit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMAmong this week’s streaming selections are a newly commissioned puppet show and a cautionary butoh dance piece, both with significant themes related to the annual commemoration of Earth Da…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMHistoric toy theater meets post-modern digital livestream in Planet of the Grapes Live, Peter Michael Marino’s wacky but meaningful reimagining of the 1968 sci-fi film classic Planet of th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AMOff-Broadway’s award-winning Mint Theater Company continues the celebration of its 25th anniversary season with the latest installment in its Silver Lining Streaming Series on Monday, Apri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:49PMMonday, April 19, 2021, marks the 78th anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, a heroic act of Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland (and the single largest r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24PMAfter a brief hiatus from the main narrative and a series of bonus content installments airing since January, Broadway Podcast Network’s original digital soap opera As the Curtain Rises, w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PMAs the next offering in Manhattan Theatre Club’s virtual Curtain Call series celebrating acclaimed past productions, two-time Obie Award winner and Tony nominee Charlayne Woodard (Ain’t …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:08PMAfter nearly a year’s hiatus due to the pandemic, Off-Broadway’s award-winning York Theatre Company – founded in 1969, and noted for developing and producing new musicals and resurrect…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMIt’s been thirteen months since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of Broadway theaters on March 12, 2020. But now efforts are underway to begin the reopening process, with two initi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMThree favorite NYC companies have new offerings making their virtual debut next week, in a variety of genres and styles. So whether you prefer a dramatization of a classic epic poem, an orig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMRight from the start, Ryan McCurdy warns us that he won’t be telling the truth. Or maybe he does, at least in part, in his one-man Off-Broadway musical story Whiterock Cliff, performed and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:02PMAs part of Adelphi University’s Live from Adelphi concert series, Tony-nominated Be More Chill composer Joe Iconis and his close-knit group of collaborators (lovingly known as Iconis and F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PMTop offerings for the upcoming weekend include two online concerts and conversations, and a live outdoor solo show at a popular off-off-Broadway venue, so be sure to mark your calendar in ad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32PMThis week’s offering include a retrospective celebration of Latino dance, an audio play from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a museum pop-up performance by two acclaimed Broadway co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMOn Saturday, April 3, 2021, NY PopsUp – the statewide initiative to reinvigorate the arts – presented the first performance in more than a year inside a Broadway theater. The special eve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31PMToday is the day that a variety of NYC shows and venues following all COVID-19 safety protocol have been given the official go-ahead to begin reopening. And, as always, if you’d like an en…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:29PMIn partnership with two-time Tony Award-winning actress Christine Baranski and Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers, The Actors Fund – providing human services for the performing arts and en…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMThe Drama League Awards, first presented in 1922, and formalized in 1935, have the distinction of being the oldest national theatrical honors, in addition to being the only major awards chos…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMAmong the first of the NYC venues to reopen on April 2, in accordance with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s safety guidelines for the return of live performances, is The Green Room 42. Located on th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMStart your week with a bang on Monday and Tuesday with two free events that celebrate the stars and shows of Broadway and also raise funds for important charitable causes through your volunt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AMAmong the range of current theater-based online offerings are a new interpretation of a familiar song from a hit Broadway musical, an exhibition of a legendary artist’s drawings of an icon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:38PMThe debut of a new audio play for our times and the virtual revival of an annual Eastertime event are among the compelling offerings of New York City theater to check out this weekend. Keen …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMSet in the picturesque Parisian district of Montmartre shortly after World War II, Amour is a musical fantasy adapted from the 1943 short story Le Passe-Muraille by Marcel Aymé, with music …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMIf you’re an aficionado of theatrical classics and period pieces, you can connect online this week with an all-star reading of a world-renowned drama by a Pulitzer Prize-winning American i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PMFrom her Broadway debut in Fiddler on the Roof and her award-winning performance as Rizzo in the original Broadway production of Grease, to her legendary roles on the hit TV sit-com Maude (a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMIn the 1960s, young survivors of the Holocaust, striving to express their communal resilience and that of their mother-tongue, began the tradition of The Third Seder, with a unique stage per…
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