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Show at Birdland benefits The Actors Fund
April 16, 2019:Â Hostess/producer Jamie DeRoy brought her multi-MAC Award-winning Variety Show, Jamie deRoy & friends, back to Birdland on…
Paper Mill Playhouse Presents Star Showcase for Bryce Pinkham in East Coast Premiere of Benny & Joon, Adapted from the Film Starring Johnny Depp
By: Ellis Nassour
Monday, April…
OH, OH, OH . . . HE'S ON FIRE
By: Samuel L. Leiter
Adam Driver (TV's "Girls," BlackkKlansman) is giving an incendiary performance in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987…
Musical revue fails to shine despite stellar Hammerstein songs.
By:Â Patrick Christiano
April 14, 2019:Â Sincerely, Oscar is billed as a new musical, conceived and written by Do…
6th Annual "TOMATOES GOT TALENT" Contest Takes Center Stage at the TRIAD.
On April 15, 2019, 12 uniquely-talented women have been hand-picked to compete in the 6th Annual "Tomatoes Got Ta…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 13, 2019: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Oklahoma! was based on Lynn Riggs' forgotten and largely forgettable Green Grow the Lilacs. The show's premiere at…
By: David Sheward
April 10, 2019: Some actors are larger than life, but not life-like. We admire their craft rather than identify with the characters they are portraying and the emotions…
"Last Flight to Senegal"
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 8, 2019: As Kermit the Frog reminded us, it's not easy being a color different from that of the dominant culture. Some black Ameri…
Drama Desk winner Michael Urie will host the 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards
April 8, 2019: The 64th Annual Drama Desk Award will be presented Sunday, June 2 at The Town Hall in New York C…
New York premiere of I Carry Your Heat by Georgette Kelly at 59E59 Theaters
April 4, 2019:Â 59E59 Theaters is thrilled to present the New York premiere of I Carry Your Heart, a moving …
By: Iris Wiener
April 5, 2019: Though he had been performing and tap dancing since he was 5 years old, it was working on a high school production of Me and My Girl that changed the path…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2019: If "A Midsummer Night's Dream in a post-apocalyptic future, fleeing from zombies" doesn't sound like your idea of a great show, Be More Chill, may feel ch…
By: David Sheward
April 3, 2019: Three disparate visions of America, two focusing on capitalism and one on the constitution, raise a multitude of questions about where we've been and whe…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2019: A most memorable of Broadway Valentines, Kiss Me Kate, is getting a rousing revival at Studio 54, with Kelli O'Hara (Lilli Vanessi) and Will Chase (Fred …
Lyrics & Lyricists celebrated legendary composer Stephen Sondheim in "Wordplay" at the 92Y's renowned series on 3/30-4-1/19.
By: Linda Amiel Burns
April 2, 2019: In 1971 Stephen …
Benefit and Silent Auction Tuesday, April 2nd
April 1, 2019: The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling with ACA Galleries is hosting The Anyone Can Fly Benefit and Silent A…
Bruce High Quality Foundation: The End of Western Art, March 29 through May 24, 2019
March 30, 2019: An exhibition by Bruce High Quality foundation opened at ACA Galleries, 520 West 29th…
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 31, 2019: If Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with its misogynistic undertones, is sometimes hard to swallow. Cole Porter, and Samuel and Bella Spewack's …
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 31, 2019: Superhero has a book by John Logan who won a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League award for his play Red, and is credited with man…
Life Is Filled with (Wonderful) Surprises
April 1, 2019: Nine years ago I was holding auditions for a staged reading of my musical In the Schoolyard at the Dramatist Guild. Most of the p…
"They're Gonna Make You Love Them (Oh, Yes, They Will)"
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 29, 2019: There a lot of words in the full title of this latest jukebox musical but the essence of t…
Brian d'Arcy James Leads New American Cast of The Ferryman
By: Ellis Nassour
Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman is one of the most acclaimed plays of this or any season. In its London West…
By: David Sheward
March 26, 2019: John Guare takes us on a wild romp through personal ups and downs, toxic pop culture, murder mystery tropes, literary and cinema allusions in his off-ki…
Thomas Bradshaw's provocative melodrama closes out The Flea's Color Brave Season.
March 24: 2019:Â The Flea's Artistic Director, Niegel Smith, has helmed a disturbing new production of…
