1,495 stories by "Deb Miller"
August 26, 2020, marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, giving women the right to vote. To commemorate the momentous anniversary, special even…
After the sold-out run of the Irish Repertory Theatre's world-premiere Off-Broadway production of Love, Noël in the summer of 2019, the show has returned in a re-imagined digital reprise …
Among this week's top livestreams from New York are three different genres of new musical offerings " a short musical narrative, a thematic song cycle, and a cabaret-style concert " that mak…
The one and "onliest" James Jackson, Jr. is a New York City-based actor, performance artist, Kabarettist, vocal coach, producer, and everything else a fabulous entertainer should be. From th…
If you missed seeing them live at the theater, Gloria: A Life and Bella Bella, two popular Off-Broadway shows from the 2018 and 2019 seasons, are now available to everyone at home, in the re…
A conversation with New York's most lauded playwright of the past season and an all-star digital world-premiere musical are among the offerings streaming early this week, so be sure to reser…
Last night, the Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF " a national charity that supports playwrights, composers, lyricists, and book writers at all stages of their careers, sponsors educational p…
Two compelling mid-week offerings with weighty themes take different approaches " one profoundly dramatic, one bitingly comic " to deliver their timely messages of the need for socio-politic…
Cabaret sensation Kim David Smith just released his first concert album Live at Joe's Pub earlier this month, recorded during one of his recurrent sold-out performance at the iconic downtown…
In 2017, when Andrew Goren, CEO and Founder of Harmony Helper, developed the new digital app to help vocalists with singing, rehearsing, and perfecting their harmonizing skills from the comf…
It's not just the weather that's steaming; there are some sizzling shows streaming this Saturday to keep you entertained and engaged, with a choreographed concert of pop favorites from the '…
Actress, singer/songwriter, and Albuquerque, New Mexico native Jennifer Sánchez made her Broadway debut in the 2009 revival West Side Story, singing the iconic "America" by Leonard Bernst…
For the second installment of its online 2020 summer season, Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting an all-new third-time revival of Dublin-born playwright Conor McPherson's aw…
This weekend's top online offerings include a new album release of a cabaret concert from a favorite downtown nightclub, a virtual variety show featuring a roster of luminaries from the New …
Although COVID-19 has caused the cancellation of this year's outdoor summer performances of free Shakespeare in the Park, it hasn't stopped The Public Theater from offering another installme…
Following two postponements of its annual presentation, in May and June, in light of the coronavirus crisis and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, the 65th annual Obie Awards …
With the extension of the shutdown of live theater through at least January 3, 2021, the ever-creative New York theater community is continuing to go digital with an increasing number of onl…
Despite the coronavirus shutdown of Broadway, theater-lovers can still enjoy new works and stellar performances by favorites from The Great White Way via the upswing in offerings on digital …
Be An #ArtsHero " an intersectional grassroots social media campaign organized to mobilize a movement in support of emergency arts relief from the government " calls on the 5.1 million Ameri…
Musical theater icon Carol Channing (1921-2019) made her Broadway debut in 1941, then went on to become one of its biggest stars, after her famed appearance in the 1949 hit Gentlemen Prefer …
As the coronavirus wreaks havoc on the world, and on live theater on and off Broadway, The Public Theater has responded with a virtual world premiere of The Line " an original Zoom docudrama…
Ghostlight Records, an independent leader in original Broadway cast albums and music by luminaries from the New York stage, continues to release new recordings during this extended pandemic …
From an expert conversation about a Shakespearean classic to a series of three rarely produced period-pieces to a documentary drama about NYC's front-line workers in the current coronavirus …
With the official announcement from The Broadway League earlier this week that all Broadway performances are now suspended through January 3, 2021 (at the earliest), theater-makers and theat…
While most of us will be celebrating Independence Day remotely this year, there's a significant selection of virtual performances by New York theater artists that will enrich your 4th of Jul…