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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 of…
An insurrection by far-right extremists within the U.S. Capitol; Washington, DC, looking like a war zone prepared for battle; and capitols around the country braced for violence on the eve o…
There is something inherently Shakespearean about DC. It's easy to picture Lincoln wandering the corridors of the White House reciting his favorite passages. In his journal, John Adams once …
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 …
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, a…
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 with its …
Silver Spring Stage proudly presents the area community theater premiere of Lauren Gunderson's Ada and the Engine, directed by Jon Jon Johnson and produced by Alika Codispoti and Maura Suile…
Round House Theatre, in association with McCarter Theater Center, concludes its festival of works by celebrated playwright Adrienne Kennedy with the world premiere of Etta and Ella on the Up…
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 " a…
Hot tea is the recommended beverage for viewing Chicago-based playwright Rohnia Malik's Unveiled, available online through January 2021 from Baltimore Theatre Project. The one-woman show int…
In celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, The Essential Theatre Performances in Cyberspace will present Rosa Parks: Such a Time. Written and performed by Gwendolyn B…
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 …
Studio Theatre looks back at the politics and precariousness of 2020 through two intimate and immediate Studio in Your Ears audio plays available for free now on its website. Studio's fi…
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," w…
What does a gay man call another gay man to whom he is committed? The character Cal in Terrence McNally's Mothers and Sons gropes for the right word: Andre and I were what people called "boy…
In The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson has written a story for this moment in time about Dr. Nathan Wolfe, the award-winning virologist who years before the COVID-19 outbreak proposed a plan…
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 at …
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 cas…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with IAMA Theatre Company present Ryan J. Haddad's celebrated autobiographical solo show Hi, Are You Single? directed by Laura Savia and Jess Mc…
Hot off of winning the 2020 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, the 4615 Theatre has created a multifaceted solution to meet the challenge posed by the pandemic. For…
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 on …
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 W…
Two enterprising Catholic University of America seniors are hosting a new podcast to connect current theater industry professionals with future theater industry professionals through intervi…
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…
By Roslyn "Roz" Ward During quarantine, the biggest loss is the people. The feeling and energy that one gets from a live audience cannot be replicated virtually. Torn"a play written and …