By Byrne Harrison After reading about the upcoming Little Rock Nine Project, I spoke with Red Shirt Entertainment's Producing Artistic Director Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj to find out more. …
This is the kind of news we love to hear. A high school drama club from Alice, Texas visits New York, sees some shows, including Peter and the Starcatcher, Newsies and Matilda. D…
Red Shirt Entertainment, in association with Camp AmeriKids, Be.Do.Fly! and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, is announcing a new concert piece entitled "The Little Rock Nine Project." The event wil…
City Center's Encores! series to tackle Off-Broadway musicals. After staffing changes, John Pollano's Small Engine Repair to open Off-Broadway this fall. Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dea…
The Public Theater announced today that, for the first and only time, Sting will perform songs from his new album, The Last Ship, for 10 concerts to benefit The Public Theater in their intim…
Photo courtesy of The Art House Varla Jean Merman (aka Jeffery Roberson) has been the acknowledged entertainment Queen of P-town for the past decade. Each summer brings the anticipated pre…
Well-Strung: the Singing String Quartet will return to Provincetown's Art House theater this season. Since the group's 3-month run at the venue last summer, they've been on a roll - with two…
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College announces its 59th season of music, dance, theater, and family programming reflecting the multicultural diversity of Brooklyn.&nbs…
Joe Franklin, who invented the television talk show format in 1950, relives some of the magic of the Golden Age of Television in a unique stage show at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd&nb…
New Jersey artists featured in this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival. American Ballet Theater presents Sleeping Beauty. Playwright Snoo Wilson dies at 64. Today in theatre history…
Batman '66 launches. DC Comics does a retrospective of the highlights of '66 including "It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman!" which opened that year. Julee Antonellis and P…
Hot Summer Nights: Naked Boys Improvising The Improvisation News Team Presents: HOT SUMMER NIGHTS "You'll Laugh Your Pants Off" Improvisational Theater like you've never seen before... 5…
The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) presents their Fourteenth Anniversary Season LAUNCH PARTY on Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 8pm at Gonzalez y Gonzalez, 192 Mercer Street, NYC (bet…
By Jose Solis Whenever trying to turn issues into compelling drama, artists usually tend to take the preachy route and forget all notions of nuance. The postcard and synopsis for Velve…
By Jose Solis In Catch the Spider, playwright Sara Ilyse Jacobson intends to weave a complex relation between memory, unrequited love and Celtic mythology, but the results end up having…
Theater for the New City has announced the upcoming production of a new musical adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel, "Tom Jones," written and composed by John Taylor Thomas (Pride and Preju…
Shelly Watson & Thirsty Girl Present CLASSICAL TASSELS An Evening of Live Chamber Music, Art, Songs, Opera, Ballet & Burlesque! Friday July 12 @ The Cutting Room Featuring:…
By Byrne Harrison It's nearly time for another trip to the Home for Wayward Girls and Fallen Women. Hotsy Totsy Burlesque is ready for their next evening of salacious strippers and …
The New York Times profiles the mermaid shows at the Newton Perry Underwater Theater in Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida. New book "Afrocentric Theatre" by Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. M…
By Byrne Harrison Luke Leonard (center) withBum and Debbie Phillips Luke Leonard is a director and artist living in New York. He is a founding member and the Producing Artistic Direc…
By Byrne Harrison Photo courtesy of WNET John Godfrey Saxe once talked about laws and sausages and how it's best never to see how either is made. Now me, I find such things fascinatin…
By Byrne Harrison Mac Rogers' latest production, Frankenstein Upstairs, is a retelling of Mary Shelley's classic horror tale. Rogers, whose adaptation of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (…
By Judd Hollander Photos by Joan Marcus While the new rock musical Venice (book by Eric Rosen, music by Matt Sax, lyrics by Matt Sax and Eric Rosen, additional music by Curtis Moore) isn'…
By Byrne Harrison Today is the 31st Annual Mermaid Parade in Coney Island. I know many members of the NYC theatre community who participate in this annual event (any excuse to show of…
By Mark A. Newman Photos by Scott Suchman After a 2012 " 2013 season that got off to a less-than-stellar start with Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, all is forgiven after Signature Theatre…