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GMU students have a winner in ‘Sing Happy! The Music of Kander & Ebb’

The joys of a new online musical await: Sing Happy! The Music of Kander & Ebb, an engaging, confidently performed, energy-filled one-hour revue performed by the talent-rich students of George Mason...

Model Majority celebrates the Lunar New Year with a Saturday night of comedy

On Saturday, February 20, at 8 pm, NYC’s premiere Asian American sketch comedy team, Model Majority, founded by Veronica Dang in 2018, presents a night of laughs and more to celebrate the Lunar New...

A university’s need to ‘Adjust the Procedure’ amidst pandemic crises and cover-ups

A co-presentation by JCS Theater Company and Spin Cycle, the world premiere of Adjust the Procedure, written and directed by Jake Shore (award-winning Off-Broadway playwright and Director of the...

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

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 Borders, which the...

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

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 Number. The...

A weekend of Valentine concerts from Broadway favorites

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 you’ll love,...

Selections for streaming this week

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: Queer Love in...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Andrew Barth Feldman

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 Award at...

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

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 of this...

Five upcoming audio-plays from Audible feature award-winning casts

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 performances by Tony...

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

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-American...

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

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 unearthing and...

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

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 from a...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Birdland’s Jim Caruso

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 performing...

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

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, Lin-Manuel...

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

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 Anne Frank,...

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

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 Award...

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

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 from the...

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

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 live...

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

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, and as the...

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

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 annual...

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

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 – an...

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

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 Hymns, a...

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

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,” which he’s...

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

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 7:30 pm....

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

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 casts,...

Mint Theater Company continues its free streaming series in 2021

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 demand...

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

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 Wednesday,...

Two theater students start a podcast that asks stars “Whatcha Doin’?”

Two enterprising Catholic University of America seniors are hosting a new podcast to connect current theater industry professionals with future theater industry professionals through interviews on...

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

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. The...

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with the stars of Broadway

Though Times Square will be closed to crowds for New Year’s Eve and you won’t be able to watch the iconic ball drop in person this year, you can still celebrate the arrival of 2021 in New York style,...

The year that COVID canceled live theater and a revolution came to life

Theater history will long remember that 2020 was the year that COVID canceled live performance. It canceled lots else, of course, including, tragically, hundreds of thousands of lifetimes. But it is...

Register now for Artistic Stamp’s second season of plays-by-mail

After the success of Artistic Stamp’s sold-out inaugural season, the plays-by-mail theater company will return with its second round of original interactive narrative adventures in the form of...

Long-awaited government relief package includes $15 billion to Save Our Stages

Following a full week of complaints, delay, and criticism of the 5,593-page $2.3 trillion omnibus US fiscal bill, the President at last signed it into law on Sunday night, December 27, in time to...

A tribute to Lorraine Treanor, Washington theater’s booster-in-chief

In June 2005 Lorraine Treanor, a relatively new theater-maker transplant from Chicago, who had followed her husband’s work to settle in the Greater Washington area, joined with Walter “Ronnie” Ruff to...

The Boy Band Project sings in the New Year

On January 1, 2021, The Boy Band Project – NYC’s Broadway World Award-winning “Best Group” of 2019 (and currently honored with eight nominations in the 2020 BWW Awards, for which voting is still open)...

A new virtual installment of ‘Sondheim Unplugged’ from Feinstein’s/54 Below

For the latest edition of its ongoing offerings of new streamed concerts in 54 Below Premieres, Feinstein’s/54 Below presents the first virtual iteration of one of the nightclub’s longest-running...

Joe Iconis and Lauren Marcus rally support for a virtual Christmas telethon to save the West Bank Cafe and Laurie Beechman Theatre

As is the case with so many of New York’s favorite restaurants and venues, the West Bank Cafe and Laurie Beechman Theatre are in danger of closing permanently due to losses suffered during the...

Mark your calendar for three virtual holiday events airing on Monday

With three special holiday shows for children and adults all streaming on Monday (the night when theaters traditionally were dark), it will be hard to decide which one to watch. Fortunately, you won’t...

Three world premieres from wild project and Audible

This week will see the debut of three original new works, all redesigned for digital presentation during the continuing coronavirus pandemic. One is part of Audible’s collaboration with the 2020...

NBC-TV special raises over $3 million to aid the Broadway community

NBC’s One Night Only: The Best of Broadway was not only a dazzling celebration of the hottest shows and stars from the New York stage, it was also a smashing success in raising $3,051,297 in donations...

A virtual revival of Kim David Smith’s ‘A Wery Weimar Christmas’ at Club Cumming

A recurrent act on the NYC cabaret scene, Australian-born New York-based actor and singer Kim David Smith makes a virtual return with his holiday hit A Wery Weimar Christmas for two nights this week...

What to watch this week

With the holidays upon us, digital events are in full swing, offering a variety of seasonal productions to suit every taste. These five picks for the week present a wide range of themes, styles, and...

A new digital production of the old-fashioned ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ from Irish Repertory Theatre

Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 2020 online season with a new digital production of Meet Me in St. Louis, a show last presented on stage by the company in 2007. The familiar piece...

A Stellar concert event with the cast of ‘Jagged Little Pill’ goes live online this Sunday

After a ten-month pandemic hiatus of live performances at the Broadhurst Theatre, the stars and team of the fifteen-time Tony-nominated musical Jagged Little Pill (recently featured in the televised...

Using Zoom in a new way to create theater that transforms how we see

By Neal Davidson “Dramatic Betweenness”: A new theatrical experience Here’s an incredibly simple idea: a play written and performed as a video call. Nothing more. Not a streamed live production, a...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Broadway’s Norm Lewis

Norm Lewis, who can currently be seen starring in the Netflix film Da 5 Bloods by Spike Lee and the Hulu miniseries Mrs. America, has smashed the clock on Andy Warhol’s proverbial fifteen minutes of...

An enchanting stream of the annual ‘Broadway Princess Holiday Party’ from Feinstein’s/54 Below

Although fans of Broadway’s favorite musical princesses can’t attend their annual concert at Feinstein’s/54 Below in person this year, everyone around the world can watch them in the 2020 virtual...

Special shows to stream this week

As the holidays approach, the internet is lighting up with a selection of special shows to stream this week. Among them are a medievalizing experimental Off-Off-Broadway mainstay, a naughty...

New releases from the 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival on Audible

Instead of cancelling its 2020 season, as many were compelled to do by the coronavirus pandemic, the Williamstown Theatre Festival – renowned for bringing top playwrights, actors, directors, and...