In addition to the Awards, NYSAF creates Indigenous Voices of the Northeast Residency Summer Season at Marist College which launches July 14 with a kick-off concert "Joe Iconis & Family"…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . For the past couple of weeks, I'd been wondering if my visit to the Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet was to be or not to be. First, a weather s…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Everyone should write their own story. But how is this possible if an omnipotent narrator demands obedience upon the threat of banishment? We discover dreams can…
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast for Covenant by York Walker, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene. Covenant explores the power of belief and the thin line between ru…
The final play of the acclaimed "Meet Miss Baker" Series Mint Theater Company will return to Theatre Row with the American premiere of Elizabeth Baker's Partnership, directed by Jackson Grac…
A Broadway musical adaptation of Imitation of Life, based on the 1933 Fannie Hurst novel and the two screen adaptations by Universal Pictures in 1934 and 1959, is being developed for the Bro…
That's the million-dollar question. Now playing for a limited run at Chicago's Studebaker Theater, Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical celebrates the life, career, and unforgettable songs o…
Jerry Orbach's Broadway will be presented at 54 Below on July 24. The evening of music honors the beloved performer, who started out Off-Broadway in The Threepenny Opera and The Fantasticks,…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Popular New York entertainer Steven Maglio, with his "big band orchestra," opened at the Cutting Room last week for the first of a monthly residency, in an impressive,…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . To quote the great Noel Coward: "I've been to a marvelous party." It was filled with soigné New Yorkers of every age and shape, dressed in glamorous 1920s-in…
The New York Theater Workshop and co-producer American Repertory Theater will present The Half-God of Rainfall, a new play by award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams (Barber Shop Chron…
By Cynthia Reitman … THE GREAT GATSBY, The Immersive Show, made its official American debut in New York City. This immersive theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale was…
By Alix Cohen . . . Alex Edelman has been doing stand-up since he was a teenager and honing his show, Just For Us (which has just moved to Broadway's Hudson Theatre), since 2018. Charism…
Tony Winner and Broadway legend Faith Prince will teach a two-day, immersive master class in the art form of Cabaret in September at The 92nd Street Y, New York School of Music. The workshop…
Backstage Babble Live! returns to 54 Below on July 17th. Based on the popular podcast hosted by 15-year-old expert Charles Kirsch, the concert will feature performances and stories from his …
Broadway Barks returns to Shubert Alley on Saturday, July 8, 2023, for the 25th annual star-studded dog and cat adoption event. Co-founded by Bernadette Peters and the late Mary Tyler Moore,…
By Myra Chanin . . . Harrumph!!! Where in the world can a theatergoer find a well performed farce nowadays? I just reveled in the perpetually amusing Will Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors …
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Anyone remotely involved in the world of entertainment knows the meaning of the phrase "triple threat": someone who can act, sing and dance. Anyone who has be…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . You don't see a miracle? Luckily, there's a quick fix for that dilemma"this weekend only"if you can grab a ticket to City Center Encores' vocally gorgeous and emo…
One of the last greats of Broadway's Golden Age, and celebrated lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick died Friday in NYC at the age of 99. Born in Chicago in 1924, Harnick …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Given the cultish popularity of the 1989 high school movie Heathers, about serial killings, and of its 2014 stage musical version, you'd imagine anyone contempl…
It's been 50 years since the TKTS booth in Times Square, where so many of us have waited on line to get half-price tickets for that day's Broadway shows, first appeared. A grand celebrati…
Drew & Dane Productions presents Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen in a limited 18-week engagement, September 4 " January 7, at New World Stages (340 West …
Second Stage Theater has announced complete casting for TOROS by Danny Tejera anddirected by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Abubakr Ali (Anything's Possible), b (American (Tele)Visions) and Tony Awar…
The New Jersey Repertory Company will present the world premiere of Michael Tucker's (LA Law, Radio Days) comedy A Tailor Near Me. Directed by James Glossman, the show stars Tony nominee …