The Off Broadway Alliance has announced that its hugely popular semi-annual ticket promotion 20at20, will return from January 23 – February 11. 20at20 makes $20 tickets available to most off Broadway shows 20 minutes prior to curtain for 20 days. Peter Breger, President of the...

    By Barbara & Scott Siegel       We’re now in that time period when it seems like almost everyone is obsessed with all the new Broadway shows that opened just in time to get in under the wire for the Tony cut-off date. But in the mad scramble for attention,...

    By Barbara & Scott Siegel   At the elegantly produced Lortel Awards on Sunday night, it was noted that two of the four Broadway musicals competing for Outstanding Musical Tony Awards this season, and three of the four Broadway plays competing for Outstanding Play Tony...

  The Off-Broadway League has announced the following nominations in 19 categories for the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. The Lortel Awards will be presented on Sunday, May 7, 2017. Outstanding Play Indecent – Produced by Vineyard Theatre in...

      Theater for the New City (Executive Director, Crystal Field) presents the world premiere of THE FOLK SINGER, a new musical about contemporary times, which opens on Sunday October 9th at Theater for the New City (155 First Avenue at 10th Street).Previews began Thursday,...

        By Sandi Durell   Nothing in life is sacred or off limits in this pop culture sensibility. We laugh, instead of cry when the emotional roller coaster takes us to places of pain from which we need relief. And, along the way, sometimes, we find love in the most...

    The 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Achievement Off-Broadway took place Sunday night, May 1 at NYU’s Skirball Center. Awards were presented to recipients in 18 categories, with two special awards and two honorary awards also bestowed. The Lortel Awards were hosted by...

  By Barbara & Scott Siegel     It’s rather remarkable that in a season in which everyone knows that Hamilton is the odds-on favorite to sweep the Tony’s in most of the major creative categories, that there are so many other musicals choosing to open at the end of the...

              By Sandi Durell     This slickly written dark comedy, by Aaron Loeb, hails from the San Francisco Playhouse. If you want to witness group paranoia at its ultimate, Ideation will give you the best inside view. When a team of management...

      By Sandi Durell     It’s all upside down! A mirror image! That’s Sandra Goldmark’s set design, a challenging give-a-way in Anna Ziegler’s Boy, produced by Keen Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre. A living room space, an office – and hanging above it, upside...

        By Sandi Durell     One of theater’s most lauded playwrights, John Patrick Shanley (Doubt), puts forth his own life in Prodigal Son (as author and director), along with 11 of his plays that will be produced by Manhattan Theatre Club. Is Prodigal Son...

        By Sandi Durell     Ah, the joys of family and the holidays as the Shealys gather for Christmas in the neat little home where Dotty’s memory (Dot played by Marjorie Johnson) has begun to fade and her eldest daughter Shelly (a woman on the verge, Sharon...

        Theater in the Raw   by Marilyn Lester   Tennessee Williams’ genius was often troubled. He lived a perpetual identity crisis, battling with drugs and alcohol for most of his life. Perhaps as a result, Williams’ plots sometimes deal with repellent themes such as...

      No excuses now!  You can catch up on the latest off Broadway participating shows offering $20 tickets to the public 20 minutes before curtain for 20 days. Get a sneak peek at the next big show, or revisit a favorite – all for only $20 each!   From February 22nd –...

      by Susan Hasho Dark Vanilla Jungle, by Philip Ridley, is an extraordinary monologue/play that dramatizes the complete breakdown of a human psyche from the inside. He is able to so eloquently get inside a woman’s experience that we are drawn in, in spite of the rugged...

  By Myra Chanin   To me, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict boils down to this image: a rowboat, full of holes that let water in, claimed by two people who can’t stop arguing about ownership long enough to plug the holes and bail out the water, because they would rather sink than let...

  Kathleen Chalfant gives life to the most famous matriarch of the 20th Century.      By Joel Benjamin     I couldn’t help thinking as I sat through Kathleen Chalfant’s brilliantly touching performance in Rose, that such an epic, century-spanning tale of a tragically...

  by: Susan Hasho     The musical Songbird opens with Kate Baldwin spotlighted behind a microphone as Tammy Trip singing in her Grand Ole Opry debut, “Small Town Heart.” The play then segues to a bar in Nashville, Tennessee. Boy, there’s a lot of drinkin’ that goes on in...

    By: Sandi Durell   Looking at the two-tiered setting (David Zinn) of a somewhat dilapidated, sparsely furnished apartment with spiral staircase, the immediate impression might be ‘boy, somebody scored some nice NYC digs.” But that’s only until you look closer to see it’s...

    by: Sandi Durell   The cast and creatives were available at a press junket for photos in preparation for the upcoming production of “Laugh It Up, Stare It Down” beginning at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street in the West Village on August 26th,  ...

                by: Michael Bracken   Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.       Tell that to sports agent Liz Rico (Karen Pittman). She’s hard as nails, but hardly uneasy, at least not in the early stretches of King Liz, at...

                                                    By Brian Scott Lipton and Sandi Durell   The 71st Annual Theatre World Awards, honoring the year’s...

              It was a busy, exciting evening May 31, 2015 as the Drama Desk Winners were announced at Town Hall and many made their way (even in the rainy weather) to the Press Room at the Marriott Marquis for photos and  interviews. Here are some of the...

                The Perennial Question: Was This a Good Season?   by: Barbara and Scott Siegel   Almost every season has its peaks and valleys; the question is, were the peaks on the scale of Bear Mountain or The Rockies? And were the valleys...

            Review By: Sandi Durell   Two old hit men living in “the wilds of New Jersey” are more like an old married couple – Richard Zavaglia (Donnie Brasco), as Dom, loves to cook and the other, Dan Lauria (Lombardi, A Christmas Story the Musical,...