If you’d like to catch up on your reading during this extended hiatus of live theater, these top three book selections offer a variety of themes for different ages and interests, from the …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:47PMStreaming this week and beyond are two new series of original short works from two significant mainstay organizations of the New York theater community: Theater Breaking Through Barriers (T…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMAmong the latest releases of music from stars and shows of the New York stage are a current single with a duet performance of a vintage song from the 1920s, the original cast recording of a …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:20PMWhile the pandemic shutdown of Broadway continues, New York theater artists continue to reach out to fans with virtual presentations and a few live Off-Off-Broadway events that will keep the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10PMAward-winning New York-based composer, librettist, and lyricist Erik Ransom (his hit GRINDR The Opera won London’s Off West End Award for Best New Musical in 2019) has joined forces once a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMAuthors and music specialists Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom present a densely packed, meticulously researched, and painstakingly incisive portrait of a jazz icon and his times in their recent…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55PMIn a co-production with DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (where SHIPWRECK made its American debut in February), The Public Theater presents the New York audio version premiere of Anne W…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23PMToday at noon on YouTube, nominations for this year’s 74th annual Tony Awards were announced to honor outstanding achievements in the 2019-20 Broadway season, cut short by the precautionar…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PMFirst performed in 1959, by dancers Tatsumi Hijikata (1928–86) and Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010), the abstract, expressive, and unconventional art of butoh (“dance of darkness”) developed i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:34PMFounded in 1824, and ranked seventh on the list of the world’s most visited art museums in 2019, The National Gallery in London is home to an encyclopedic collection of more than 2,300 wor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMIn 1935, with the ascent of Hitler and Mussolini and the rise of fascism in Europe, Sinclair Lewis (the first writer from the US to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in Literature) published hi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50PMThis promises to be a great month for listening, as two major stars of Broadway and beyond share their experiences and reminiscences in new virtual conversations that are guaranteed to hold …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMAs anticipated, it was just confirmed by The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway industry – that the suspension of all Broadway performances has now been ex…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06AMAs the 2020 awards season continues, two organizations – the Ziegfeld Club, Inc. and New York Innovative Theatre Awards (NYIT) – have announced updates this week on their annual honors.…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMTo say that Dwayne Cooper is a triple threat would be a gross under-estimation of his many talents. He’s had featured roles in the Broadway casts of Motown: The Musical and Hairspray, ea…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMIn response to the coronavirus pandemic, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS research) has temporarily expanded its nearly four-decade study of infectious diseases and their impact on marginalize…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:33PMWhat happens when NYC theaters remain closed to protect artists and audiences from the spread of the coronavirus? Innovative solo performers take their acts outdoors, for live pop-up events …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39PMThis month, Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater – dedicated to bringing new life and a modern sensibility to classic plays for current audiences – will investigate Shakespeare’s Othello …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMLaunched in March, following the closure of arts venues necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, Folksbiene! LIVE offers an online celebration of Yiddish culture, featuring livestreamed pr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMAs part of this month’s rolling world premiere, Philadelphia Theatre Company will stream its debut of Days of Re-Creation: A Virtual Play on Wednesday, September 30, at 7 pm. Conceived by …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39PMThe celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (as inaugurated by LBJ in 1968) continues in October with two more big events: a new album release by musician/composer Jaime Lozano; and a virtual…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PMIn 2006, John Lloyd Young became the only American actor to date to receive the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World Awards in a Broadway debut as Outstanding Lead Actor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:28PMIn a new online exhibition apropos to this year’s spectacle of presidential campaigning – “one of the few shows playing around the country at the moment” – The Al Hirschfeld Founda…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21PMAward-winning Brooklyn-based mentalist Vinny DePonto can’t go to Coney Island this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, so he’s bringing his new interactive mind-reading magic show …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36PMRepresentatives from The Broadway League and the theater industry joined Senate Minority Leader and long-time arts advocate Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in Duffy Square yesterday in support …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:58AMThis month has seen the arrival of three must-have albums from the hit shows and top stars of Broadway. From a special new edition of an original cast album, to the second volume of a concep…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PMIn a virtual press event held on Thursday, September 17, at 11 am ET, the recipients of the 2020 Doris Duke Artist Awards were revealed in the fields of contemporary dance, jazz, and theater…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMIf you’re Zoomed out and desperately missing an organic connection to the theater, Shelley Butler and West Hyler – a husband-and-wife duo of Broadway directors, each with more than 20 ye…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMWhile social distancing, masks, and frequent sanitizing continue to be necessary safety precautions to combat the spread of COVID-19, some experimental Off-Off-Broadway theater companies are…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55AMFirst established as Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968, the national recognition of the influence and achievements of Latinx people to the history and culture of the US was expanded in 1988, to…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39PMSince 2010, audiences have been following the dinnertime conversations of the fictional Apples, an ordinary white middle-class family in upstate New York. The live on-stage performances were…
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