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Monday, May 11, 2020

A gripping new audio performance of ‘Bleeding Love’ on the Broadway Podcast Network by Deb Miller

Following its successful world-premiere run in 2015, live on stage in Denmark’s Fredericia Teater, Bleeding Love is now available on digital platforms to a worldwide audience in a new thre…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:14PM

Honorees for the 70th Anniversary Outer Critics Circle Awards of 2020 by Deb Miller

In a video feed this afternoon featuring presentations by past award recipients Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bryan Cranston, Kristin Chenoweth, and Patrick Stewart, The Outer Critics Ci…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PM
Friday, May 8, 2020

Theaters are closed but the music plays on in Ghostlight Records’ original cast albums by Deb Miller

Though audiences aren’t able to enjoy live on-stage performances during the ongoing coronavirus shutdown, Ghostlight Records offers cast recordings from a selection of popular musicals for…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PM
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle is acting as an advocate for the theater community by Deb Miller

Known for her acting on stage and screen in such notable productions as Jekyll & Hyde, Cabaret, and Legally Blonde on Broadway, the national tour of Fun Home, and the 2004 movie thriller…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:29PM
Monday, May 4, 2020

Michael R. Jackson’s ‘A Strange Loop’ wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by Deb Miller

Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy, former senior editor at The New York Times, announced the finalists and winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes via video stream this afternoon at 3:00.…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54PM

A new video reunites the closing-night cast of ‘Altar Boyz’ for its 10th anniversary by Deb Miller

January 10, 2020, marked a decade since the closing-night cast members of the Off-Broadway mega-hit Altar Boyz, who worked together for almost two years, took their final bows at New World S…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PM
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Announcing the winners of the 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway by Deb Miller

Winners of the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced tonight in a virtual ceremony beginning at 7 pm. Produced by the League of Off-Broad…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02PM
Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Drama League announces nominations for its 86th annual awards while expressing gratitude to the theater community by Deb Miller

During tonight’s streaming of The Gratitude Awards Spring 2020 – a special pre-recorded online fundraiser celebrating hope, positivity, and acts of kindness by members of the New York th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34PM
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

The Apple Family returns with ‘What Do We Need to Talk About?’ on Zoom by Deb Miller

In 2010, award-winning playwright Richard Nelson began his series of plays in The Rhinebeck Panorama, named for the town in upstate New York where he lives. After ten years of installments o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:50PM

Nominations for the 2020 Off Broadway Alliance Awards by Deb Miller

The Off Broadway Alliance (OBA) – an organization comprised of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, with annual awards honoring th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PM

Changes for 2020 in the Outer Critics Circle Awards by Deb Miller

Because of the current pandemic and the resultant shutdown of live public performances in New York beginning on March 12, the leadership of the Outer Critics Circle – founded during the 19…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31AM
Monday, April 27, 2020

New release and free audio streaming of ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ from Audible Theater by Deb Miller

The latest title in the popular Audible Theater series of audio-plays, Sea Wall/A Life – the sold-out New York stage hit double bill of two moving direct-address monologues reflecting on l…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:18PM
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Broadway stars celebrate Sondheim’s 90th birthday with ‘Take Me to the World’ on Sunday by Deb Miller

Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim turned 90 on March 22, and in honor of that milestone, an all-star roster of Broadway favorites will commemorate the life and career of the timeless composer…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:22PM
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Broadway actor-singer Dan Domenech: Stranded on a cruise ship but safe by Deb Miller

When Broadway’s ‘Bootleg Famous’ Dan Domenech set out on February 29, to perform on the Sky Princess – Princess Cruises’ newest ship and one of the largest in the world – little …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:06PM

Updates on 2020 awards from New Dramatists and The Drama League by Deb Miller

The suspension of all public events during this time of quarantine has brought a halt to the live in-person celebrations of theater awards nominations, honors, and presentations. But many es…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49PM
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Nominations are announced for the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards by Deb Miller

Nominations for the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, founded in 1955 to celebrate outstanding achievements in on, off, and off-off Broadway theater, were announced this afternoon by hosts Seth…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PM
Friday, April 17, 2020

Three top picks from New York for free streaming this weekend by Deb Miller

If you’re missing the shows and stars of the Great White Way – and who isn’t? – you can tune in this weekend for three free streams of concerts that are guaranteed to keep the spirit…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25PM
Thursday, April 16, 2020

And the 2020 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards go to . . . by Deb Miller

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle announced the winners of its 85th annual theater awards today at 10 am, with selections in two categories and three special citations. This year’s awar…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AM
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Online offerings to include the performing arts in your home-schooling by Deb Miller

With the closure of schools during the coronavirus pandemic, many parents are now overseeing their children’s home-schooling. Theater artists and organizations have responded to the need f…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PM
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Nominations are in for the 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards by Deb Miller

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Lucille Lortel Awards, founded by the eponymous actress and producer in 1986, to recognize excellence in New York’s Off-Broadway theater. Nomin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PM
Monday, April 13, 2020

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for 2020 to be announced on April 16 by Deb Miller

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle, founded in 1935, has been presenting its annual award for the Best New Play of the season since 1936, making it the second-oldest theater award after th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PM
Friday, April 10, 2020

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Sarah Stiles by Deb Miller

This month, during the indefinite precautionary closure of theaters in New York and around the world, Sarah Stiles continues to provide world-class entertainment to fans in self-isolation ev…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:57PM

Current updates on Broadway by Deb Miller

With the uncertainty surrounding the duration and impact of the coronavirus crisis, information and expectations are changing frequently. On April 8, The Broadway League announced that the s…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05PM
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

A song of hope from Jaime Lozano and Marina Pires by Deb Miller

When their close friend and frequent musical-theater collaborator Mauricio Martinez, best known to Broadway fans for his starring role as Emilio Estefan in On Your Feet!, was facing his four…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39AM
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Audible offers free audio-plays of hits from the New York stage by Deb Miller

For a limited time, Audible Theater, a division of Amazon, is offering free audio versions of a selection of popular stage productions from the past year, narrated by the original cast. So i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:18PM

Announcement of two emergency grants for the theater community with application deadlines in April and May by Deb Miller

In response to the widespread impact of COVID-19 on the theater community, two more philanthropic organizations have recently announced the availability, by application, of emergency support…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:59PM
Monday, March 30, 2020

A new pocket anthology of ‘Sondheim: Lyrics’ to commemorate his 90th birthday by Deb Miller

This month marked the 90th birthday of Broadway icon Stephen Sondheim (b. March 22, 1930, NYC). The milestone in the life of the eight-time Tony award-winning composer and lyricist of the st…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Feinstein’s/54 Below launches its ‘At Home’ series of free cabaret concert streamings by Deb Miller

Starting this evening, Feinstein’s/54 Below will offer an At Home series of free one-time-only streamings of its popular cabaret concerts to keep audiences entertained during the closure o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PM
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

The ‘Boy Band Brunch’ is on! An interview with The Boy Band Project’s Travis Nesbitt by Deb Miller

With the current shutdown of all performance venues in New York, The Boy Band Project has found the perfect solution to keep its popular Sunday afternoon concert, the Boy Band Brunch, schedu…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10PM
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Broadway coronavirus updates: emergency relief agreement for union employees and two major shows that will not go on by Deb Miller

The coronavirus has upended the old maxim “The show must go on.” It was just announced that two major productions, which had been suspended through April 12, after playing a number of pr…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:44PM
Thursday, March 19, 2020

How the closure of NYC theaters affects press agents: an interview with Keith Sherman by Deb Miller

With this week’s government-ordered closure of all theaters and performance venues in NYC, we’ve all become aware of the impact the safety precautions implemented to deal with the corona…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:15AM

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