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Sky of Darkness

Sky of Darkness

By Marcina Zaccaria . . .  In an effort to build bigger business, West Africans battle with Chinese fighter pilots in Sky of Darkness. With convincing and upsetting spoken text and a series of video portraits, much is revealed about the Chinese occupation of...

Quince

Quince

By Yani Perez . . .  Quince—written and co-created by Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez; directed and co-created by Ellpetha Tsivicos—is a lively, interactive birthday party, a feel-good show that is worth the trip to Bushwick.  Quiroz-Vázquez and Tsivicos create a...

Mr. Parker

Mr. Parker

By Samuel L. Leiter . . . I have a bone to pick, but first the play: Mr. Parker, originally produced by Island City Stage, Fort Lauderdale, in 2018. Michael McKeever (Daniel’s Husband) has written a smartly-acted, briskly-paced, 90-minute domestic drama about Terry...

Almost Famous Coming to Broadway

Almost Famous Coming to Broadway

Producers Lia Vollack and Michael Cassel Group have announced that Almost Famous, the new musical with book and lyrics by Academy Award® and Grammy Award® winner Cameron Crowe, based on his iconic film, will open on Broadway this fall. Directed by Tony Award® and...

A Kid Like Rishi

A Kid Like Rishi

  by Carole di Tosti . . .                                                            Rishi was a teenager, a Dutch National of Surinamese descent who was shot dead by a Dutch police officer called to the Holland Spoor Railway Station in the Hague to investigate a tip...

A Black and White Cookie – The Tank Theater

A Black and White Cookie – The Tank Theater

The New York Premiere of the Broadway World Award-winning play A Black and White Cookie, written by Gary Morgenstein and directed by Marcello Rollando, will be presented at The Tank Theater (312 West 36th Street New York, NY...

Will Reynolds and Eric Price ‘Radioactive’

Will Reynolds and Eric Price ‘Radioactive’

Songwriting team Will Reynolds and Eric Price, winners of the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Writing, announce the release of a music video for their song “Getting Closer” from their forthcoming musical Radioactive, performed by Hannah Corneau (Wicked). The song...

Two New Productions Added to 2d Stage

Two New Productions Added to 2d Stage

Tony Award-nominee Bess Wohl will return to the Tony Kiser Theater (305 West 43rd Street) this Fall with the New York premiere of CAMP SIEGFRIED, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer. Spring 2023 will see the Broadway premiere...

New Production of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

New Production of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, in a new production by Ruth Stage (www.RuthStage.org), will play The Theater at St. Clements (423 W. 46th Street) beginning previews July 15, and opening night is set for July 24. The original scheduled run of this production, which had been...

…what the end will be

…what the end will be

By Brian Scott Lipton . . .  What does it mean to be a gay black male in America today? It’s a question that’s been pondered on many New York stages this past season, in shows ranging from A Strange Loop to Thoughts of a Colored Man to A Case for the Existence of...

Michael McKeever’s latest: Mr. Parker

Michael McKeever’s latest: Mr. Parker

Penguin Rep Theatre (Joe Brancato, Artistic Director; Andrew M. Horn, Executive Director), present the Off-Broadway premiere of Mr. Parker, a new play written by Michael McKeever (Daniel’s Husband) and directed by Joe Brancato. Performances begin TONIGHT, Wednesday,...

Outer Critics Circle Presents 2021/22 Awards

Outer Critics Circle Presents 2021/22 Awards

by Sandi Durell . . . The Outer Critics have celebrated 71 years of theater on and off-Broadway in multiple categories. Founded during the Broadway season of 1949-50 as the Outer Circle, this group of dedicated drama critics banded together under the leadership of...

22nd Cimientos Play Development

22nd Cimientos Play Development

IATI Theater (Winston Estevez, Artistic Director) culminates the 22nd Cimientos Play Development Program with its Staged Readings Series presenting new works by ten national and cross-continental playwrights selected to participate in a year-long...

Funny Girl

Funny Girl

By Samuel L. Leiter . . .  Barbra Streisand was a relatively unknown 21-year-old singer in 1964 when she exploded into Broadway superstardom as Manhattan-born vaudeville comedienne Fania Borach, I mean Fanny Brice (1891-1951), her stage name, in the hit...

Fat Ham Extended thru July 17

Fat Ham Extended thru July 17

By Samuel L. Leiter . . .  Before this year, there were only three plays that won a Pulitzer Prize before being produced in New York: The Kentucky Cycle in 1992, Anna in the Tropics in 2003, and Water by the Spoonful in 2012. ...

Into The Woods Moves to Broadway

Into The Woods Moves to Broadway

The hugely acclaimed and completely sold-out New York City Center Encores! production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s beloved musical, Into the Woods, will transfer to Broadway for a strictly limited, 8-week engagement. Performances begin...

Urban Stages Celebrates 38 Years

Urban Stages Celebrates 38 Years

By Sandi Durell . . . Through the many years of hard work, dedication and effort, Founder and Artistic Director Francis Hill has built a theatrical empire giving voice to new playwrights and artists with the enthusiastic assistance of a diligent and persevering Board...

RICHARD III TAKES OVER CENTRAL PARK NEXT MONTH

RICHARD III TAKES OVER CENTRAL PARK NEXT MONTH

RICHARD III, Directed by Robert O'Hara, begins June 17 at The Delacorte Theater in Central ParkTony Award nominee Robert O'Hara (Slave Play, The Public's Barbecue) brings his sharp wit and story-telling genius to The Delacorte with a bold new...

Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Free in the Parks

Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Free in the Parks

New York Classical Theatre (Stephen Burdman, Artistic Director; Matthieu Chapman, Literary Director; Hillary Cohen, Managing Director) has announced casting for Shakespeare’s romantic adventure Cymbeline, directed by Stephen Burdman. The...

Mikhail Baryshnikov to Appear Off-Broadway in The Orchard

Mikhail Baryshnikov to Appear Off-Broadway in The Orchard

By Melissa Griegel . . . Director Igor Golyak, founder and artistic director of the Arlekin Players Theatre, is bringing a unique piece of theater to Off-Broadway. The Orchard is based on The Cherry Orchard, the last play by Anton Chekov. It was translated by Carol...

A Case For the Existence of God

A Case For the Existence of God

By Brian Scott Lipton . . .  Faith and hope can often be in short supply these days, whether in Twin Falls, Idaho, the setting of Samuel D. Hunter’s delicate, beautifully acted two-hander, A Case for the Existence of God, or in the audience of the Signature...

Mr. Saturday Night

Mr. Saturday Night

By Samuel L. Leiter . . .  In 1992, comedian Billy Crystal made his movie directing debut with Mr. Saturday Night, which he co-wrote and in which he also starred as Buddy Young, Jr., a washed-up Borscht Belt-era comedian. It received mixed reviews, and, while...

2022 Drama League Award Winners Announced

2022 Drama League Award Winners Announced

 Frank DiLella hosted the 88th Annual Drama League Awards alongside theatrical legends and Tony Award winners, Patti LuPone (Company, Evita, Gypsy), Ben Vereen (Pippin, Fosse, Wicked), Sutton Foster (The Music Man, Anything Goes, Thoroughly Modern Milly), and...

Kimberly Akimbo Coming to Broadway

Kimberly Akimbo Coming to Broadway

Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, the Broadway-bound KIMBERLY AKIMBO has announced its pre-sale and...

True or False? Jackman to Timberlake?

True or False? Jackman to Timberlake?

According to Page Six, there’s rumor that Hugh Jackman may be passing the baton to Justin Timberlake. Producers of “The Music Man” are in talks with the “SexyBack” singer to take over the iconic role of Professor Harold Hill in the Broadway musical. But Timberlake’s...

New and Current Shows on the Other Side of the Pond

New and Current Shows on the Other Side of the Pond

GREASE Dominion Theatre, London Booking now until 29 October 2022 The first new production of GREASE in 29 years returns to London's West End. The musical features beloved songs, including Summer Nights, Greased Lightnin’, Hopelessly Devoted To You and You’re The One...

Chita Rivera Awards 2022 Nominees Are . . .

Chita Rivera Awards 2022 Nominees Are . . .

Nominations for the 2022 Chita Rivera Awards were announced. In keeping with the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards, nominators considered shows and films that opened during the 2019-2022 theater season.  The 2022 Chita Rivera Awards will...

True Confessions of the Straight Man

True Confessions of the Straight Man

Celebrate Pride Month with Retro 90's Farce TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE STRAIGHT MAN, June 9 – 30 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe. Antonia Kasper's TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE STRAIGHT MAN. is a retro 90's farce with music, in which everyone thinks Todd...

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