By Ron Fassler . . . The mission statement of the J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company states their intention to bring back three lesser known Broadway musicals a season with minimal design elements and reduced orchestrations in much the way Encores!, the York Theater...
Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster Opens on Broadway By Melissa Griegel . . . The Music Man opened to great fanfare last night with a 45-piece NYC high school marching band starting off...
by JK Clarke . . . The cast was giddy with joy on opening night February 10, 2022 at the Winter Garden Theatre post performance of The Music Man.Theater Pizzazz' JK Clarke was on the scene to capture the fun. Stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, Jefferson Mays and...
By Ron Fassler. . . I confess to having had a difficult time at Tambo and Bones, Dave Harris’s new play which opened Monday night at Playwrights Horizons in a co-production with the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. Works that explore race relations in this country...
By JK Clarke One of the more intriguing components of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night is its deliberate length—crafted to make the audience viscerally experience the Tyrone family's agonizing day. We are invited into the family home to...
Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Hal Luftig announced today the complete cast for the first-ever New York revival of Neil Simon’s classic comedy about marriage, Plaza Suite, as rehearsals commence today under...
By Cooper Lawrence . . . At first glance, it’s perplexing why Lynn Nottage (Book) and Christopher Wheeldon (Director/Choreographer) would want to celebrate a deeply flawed icon like Michael Jackson. Through a 2022 cancel culture lens, with current celebrities,...
By Carol Rocamora . . . Compassion is such a precious commodity these days, isn’t it? That’s what makes the revival of Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morriseau’s heartwarming 2016 play, so welcome and so watchable in these turbulent and contentious times. Indeed, the...
By Ron Fassler . . . As you enter the Atlantic Theatre Company’s production of Clare Barron’s new play Shhhh, the stage space is broken into sections: a sofa (perhaps representing a living room), a bed (a bedroom), a bit of a kitchen, and a bathroom (complete with...
The Broadway premiere of the Olivier Award-winning and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-winning Royal Court Theatre/Atlantic Theater Company production of Martin McDonagh’s new comedy Hangmen will bow at...
Clue, the mystery boardgame of my youth, has been wonderfully, intelligently and hysterically brought to the stage of the Paper Mill Playhouse. It’s no mystery why this deftly directed and designed production is so entertaining. Every aspect of the show is well done...
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Once again, you must come and meet those dancing feet – except this time, they’re not on 42nd Street but on 55th Street, where City Center Encores! has launched its 2022 season with a superbly performed production of the 1983 musical The...
Summer of 2022 celebrates 60 years of more than 150 productions of Free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater. The first production of intriguing political drama is RICHARD III, directed by Tony nominee Robert O’Hara, featuring Danal Gurira in the...
La MaMa presents the world premiere of Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless, the newest work from seminal theater company Talking Band. Written and composed by OBIE and Drama Desk Award winning playwright and composer Ellen Maddow, Lemon Girls or Art for Artless is a...
by Marcina Zaccaria . . . In the family-friendly MITU580, young and old gather to view a performance experience about juggling, the ancient tradition that dates back over 4,000 years.Juggling is an act of balance, dexterity, and sheer skill. One ball isn’t two,...
EXTENDED THRU MARCH 13 . . . By Brian Scott Lipton . . . “How do I tell him, at the end of his life, that his daughter is asking the same question he heard his parents ask when he was a little boy?” These words, while haunting on the page, positively sting on the...
NYC & Company, New York City’s official destination marketing organization and convention and visitors bureau, in partnership with Mastercard, today announced that NYC Off-Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets are officially on sale to the public...
"Sometime Child: a Reclamation and a Redemption," a new play by Richard Bruce, directed by Eric Oleson. Performances are February 10 to 20 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. The playing schedule is Thursdays...
By Marilyn Lester . . . Very significantly, with an opening on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a new contemporary opera composed by Ricky Ian Gordon with libretto by Michael Korie, premiered to a sold-out...
New York Theatre Barn will launch the 15th season of its award-winning New Works Series on Monday, February 21, 2022 at 7PM ET at Theaterlab (357 W 36th St, NYC). The live and in-person presentation will feature excerpts from the new musicals Two Nights & Three...
The Vineyard Theatre, in co-production with WP Theater presents sandblasted by Charly Evon Simpson, directed by Summer L. Williams. sandblasted stars Marinda Anderson (Miss You Like Hell), Brittany Bellizeare (The...
Black No More, a production from The New Group. This new musical, inspired by George S. Schuyler’s 1931 novel of the same name, features Book by John Ridley; Lyrics by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter; Music by Tariq Trotter, Anthony...
The Broadway revival of “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” (written by Ntozake Shange) and directed and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown, now begin performances April 1, one month later than...
After 12 weeks of tremendous performances, Classic Stage Company regrets to announce all remaining performances of Assassins have been cancelled due to positive COVID-19 tests within the company. All ticket holders will be refunded. Please email...
By Myra Chanin . . . One of the best things about New York is that you can intend to perform a mitzvah, a commanded-by-God virtuous deed, by attending or streaming a performance of a play with a crazy title, i.e., Crazy Meshuge Hurricane Earthquake, in some way...
By Bart Greenberg . . . The Irish Repertory Theatre have revived The Streets of New York by Dion Boucicault in an adaptation by Charlotte Moore, who also contributed the songs that decorate the melodrama and directed the entire production in a consistent...
The York Theatre Company presents Penelope or How the Odyssey Was Really Written – a musical comedy- with book/lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music by Stephen Weiner. Direction/Choreography by Emily Maltby. The production begins performances March 2 and runs thru April...
Sesame Street Live! Let’s Party! - Everyone’s invited to take part in the sunniest and funniest street celebration in Sesame Street Live! Let’s Party!. This Feld Entertainment, Inc. production features favorite Sesame Street pals Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and more...
Within a stone’s throw from New York City is the fabulous Bucks County Playhouse where you can see the following upcoming productions: Feb. 4 thru 6 – “That’ll Be the Day – a Rock n’ Roll Romance” starry Buddy Holly’s Andy Christopher and Ester Stilwell Feb. 19 – 20 –...
By Brian Scott Lipton . . .Over the past 20 years, the theater troupe The Civilians has primarily specialized in documentary theater, using interviews of real people to explore such topics as the environment, pornography, and the evangelical Christian movement....
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