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Sunday, February 14, 2021

Intrepid Museum’s Kids Week offers performing arts programs on Wednesday by Deb Miller

Kids Week (February 15-19) at the Intrepid Museum is going virtual this year, with dozens of streaming demonstrations, shows, workshops, performances, and special guests that will keep kids …

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Saturday, February 13, 2021

A virtual remount of ‘Borders’ examines international separation and connection in online dating by Deb Miller

Amidst the ongoing pandemic shutdown of live performance venues, Off-Off-Broadway’s Dirty Laundry Theatre adapted emerging Israeli playwright Nimrod Danishman’s original stage play Borde…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:03PM
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Marsha Mason leads an all-star cast in Keen Company’s ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’ benefit broadcast by Deb Miller

Off-Broadway’s Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company continues its 21st season with an all-star audio presentation of Lucille Fletcher’s classic radio thriller Sorry, Wrong Numb…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PM
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

A weekend of Valentine concerts from Broadway favorites by Deb Miller

Valentine’s Day falls on Sunday this year, but the celebration is not limited to just one day. Three favorites from the NYC stage are offering a full weekend line-up of romantic concerts y…

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Monday, February 8, 2021

A return to the performing arts with 100 days of ‘NY PopsUp’ events by Deb Miller

Governor Andew M. Cuomo has just announced that, beginning on Saturday, February 20, an unprecedented and expansive festival featuring hundreds of pop-up performances (many of which are free…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PM
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Selections for streaming this week by Deb Miller

Numbering among this week’s assorted streaming selections are a timely discussion, a revealing interactive phone call, and the remount of an iconic concert from the ‘60s. Queer Amory: Qu…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PM
Thursday, February 4, 2021

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Andrew Barth Feldman by Deb Miller

At the age of eighteen, Long Island native Andrew Barth Feldman has already far surpassed his Warholian fifteen minutes of fame and has a lifetime more coming. After winning the Best Actor A…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:44PM
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Choreographer Jenn Rose is honored with the 4th annual SDCF Breakout Award by Deb Miller

The not-for-profit Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), founded in 1965, as an affiliate of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, has announced that the recipient …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PM
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Five upcoming audio-plays from Audible feature award-winning casts by Deb Miller

Audible – a leader in creating and providing the best in audio storytelling – announced its new slate of audio-plays to be released this month through April, which will feature performan…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PM
Monday, February 1, 2021

Flushing Town Hall’s ‘Black History Trilogy’ features solo performances by Broadway stars by Deb Miller

To honor Black History Month, Flushing Town Hall presents its Black History Trilogy, a three-part series of Broadway luminaries showcasing the speeches and music of influential African-Ameri…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:52PM
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Mint Theater Company presents ‘Katie Roche’ in its Silver Lining Streaming Series by Deb Miller

Next up in Mint Theater’s free on-demand Silver Lining Streaming Series – celebrating the award-winning Off-Broadway company’s silver anniversary and marking “twenty-five years of un…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PM
Saturday, January 30, 2021

New from Red Bull Theater: Exploring ‘King Lear’ with André De Shields and a call for ‘Restoration’ new short-play entries by Deb Miller

This Monday’s installment of Red Bull Theater’s ongoing RemarkaBULL Podversation series, Exploring King Lear with André De Shields, considers Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of ca. 1605…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PM
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Top picks for weekend streaming from Lauren Marcus, Mariza, and The Seeing Place by Deb Miller

This weekend’s top streaming picks include headline concerts by a multi-hyphenate Broadway favorite and an international Fado artist, along with a post-apocalyptic dark comedy with songs f…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:06PM
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Birdland’s Jim Caruso by Deb Miller

Famed showman and impresario Jim Caruso hasn’t let the coronavirus pandemic slow him down. He continues to keep audiences connected to the New York nightclub scene, musical theater, and pe…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:20PM
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Rapping about ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ with Shockwave and Young Nees by Deb Miller

Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan has co-created just that as an original member of the eponymous hip-hop improv squad and its 2019 Broadway show Freestyle Love Supreme. Begun by Thomas Kail, L…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:42AM
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Stars of the stage and screen observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day with the Museum of Jewish Heritage by Deb Miller

It must never be forgotten that more than one million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust and countless others survived the horror. Some, like the well-known and widely read Ann…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50PM
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Story Pirates’ virtual ‘Sleep Squad’ launches kids into dreamland through February by Deb Miller

An award-winning leader in online entertainment for kids, with a #1 podcast that’s been downloaded more than 25 million times, NYC-based Story Pirates, in partnership with Tony-winning pro…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PM
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

New album releases by Broadway’s Nicolas King, Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert by Deb Miller

Theater-goers and music-lovers who are missing the voices of their favorite Broadway stars can enjoy two new album releases from PS Classics (founded in 2000, and recipient of nine Grammy Aw…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PM
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

TCG books releases ‘A Strange Loop’ by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael R. Jackson by Deb Miller

One of the most highly acclaimed productions of the 2019-20 season, A Strange Loop, which made its Off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons, earned multiple awards, including Best Musical …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:22PM
Sunday, January 17, 2021

All-star benefit concert to ‘Save Birdland’ scheduled for January 24 by Deb Miller

As previously reported, the iconic Birdland jazz club, located in the heart of NYC’s Theater District at 315 West 44th Street, has suffered financial setbacks due to the extended shutdown …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PM
Friday, January 15, 2021

NewYorkRep’s anti-racism short-play festival ‘CivilWrights’ debuts this Sunday by Deb Miller

To honor Martin Luther King Day, NewYorkRep, in association with Tony-nominated producer Rashad V. Chambers and Five Ohm Productions, is responding to the national crisis of systemic racism …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AM
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Freestyle Love Supreme Academy begins its winter sessions for kids this weekend by Deb Miller

Created by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale in 2004, the critically acclaimed improv troupe Freestyle Love Supreme – famed for its successful run on Broadway in 2019,…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:16PM

Atlantic Theater Company’s ‘African Caribbean MixFest’ launches next week by Deb Miller

Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company – committed to connecting with audiences from a broad range of economic backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, and perspectives – returns next week wit…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

NYTF’s ‘Soul to Soul’ concert explores parallels in African-American and Jewish history by Deb Miller

In commemoration of Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 18, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) premieres its tenth annual, and first virtual, production of Soul to Soul –…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07PM
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

An all-star cast of MasterVoices launches ‘Myths and Hymns’ theatrical song cycle by Deb Miller

As the pandemic shutdown of in-person performances continues, MasterVoices (formerly The Collegiate Chorale) is bringing its 79th 2021 season online from January through May, with Myths and …

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Sunday, January 10, 2021

Monday night with ‘Jim Caruso’s Pajama Cast Party’ and into the future with Birdland by Deb Miller

With the pandemic shutdown of live performance venues in NYC, performer and impresario Jim Caruso took his famed Monday-night Cast Party – “the mother of all open mic night/variety shows…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:38PM
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Red Bull Theater’s reading of ‘The African Company Presents Richard III’ reflects on a real moment in Black history by Deb Miller

On Monday, January 11, Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater will premiere its live benefit reading of Twin-Cities playwright Carlyle Brown’s 1987 work The African Company Presents Richard III…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PM
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Front Row Productions Fellowship established at Columbia University to support emerging producers and increasing diversity by Deb Miller

Multiple Tony Award nominees and Olivier Award winners Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey’s announced today that Front Row Productions – founded by Byrd to bring major works with diverse…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PM
Monday, January 4, 2021

Mint Theater Company continues its free streaming series in 2021 by Deb Miller

Beginning now and continuing through June, Off-Broadway’s Obie Award-winning Mint Theater Company brings its popular Silver Lining Streaming Series into the New Year by sharing, free and o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PM
Sunday, January 3, 2021

The Public Theater’s ‘Under the Radar Festival’ begins streaming this week by Deb Miller

For the first time in its seventeen-year history, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival will be going completely virtual in 2021, with twelve days of free performances beginning on…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PM
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Viral sensation ‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ raises over $1 million for The Actors Fund by Deb Miller

If anyone ever believed that the theater is really dead, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical has resoundingly proven otherwise, giving it new life through Gen-Z social media and post-modern tech…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26PM

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