1,495 stories by "Deb Miller"
Russian-born, Israeli-raised, and now-Canadian resident Vitaly Beckman, known to US audiences from his successful appearance on the hit TV show "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" (he did!), …
The latest incarnation of Alan Govenar and Akin Babatundé's evolving musical tribute to Blind Lemon Jefferson, following their award-winning productions of Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Bl…
With its all-too familiar themes of ambition and power, sexual misconduct and attempted cover-up, disclosure, remorse, and ultimate retribution, the plot of Francis Beaumont and John Fletche…
For nineteen seasons, New York Classical Theatre has delivered free performances of more than 40 revered masterworks to sites throughout the city, enjoyed to date by nearly a quarter-million…
From the opening number by hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles to the big winners of the 2017-18 Broadway season, the 72nd Annual Tony Awards presentation, held at Radio City Music Hall and…
The statistics are in for the 2017-18 Broadway season, and according to The Broadway League (Broadway.org) " the national trade association for the Broadway industry, founded in 1930 " it's …
An imaginative, lyrical, and bittersweet stage adaptation of Henry James' heartbreaking novella of 1903, The Beast in the Jungle reunites the celebrated team of John Kander (music), David Th…
Marking its first production of a work by the internationally-lauded Dublin-born playwright Marina Carr, Irish Repertory Theatre's New York premiere of Woman and Scarecrow, potently directed…
Though gynocentric themes featuring lead roles for women are a welcome new trend in contemporary theater, there's little new or unexpected in Unexpected Joy, an original musical by Bill Russ…
Mid-century aficionados and other interested earthlings can take a time-traveling trip back to the '50s at St. Luke's Theatre with the Off-Broadway premiere of It Came from Beyond, a silly m…
Amazing bursts of magic that dazzle in the darkness, distinctive characterizations of a host of eccentric, endearing, and evil personalities by an enthralling cast, a complex and compelling …
As with all of the shows in its genre, the latest offering in the surge of biographical jukebox musicals on Broadway, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, holds appeal for a built-in audience o…
Mystic realism and metaphor meet the Irish gift of gab and a dire predilection for alcohol in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, a disturbingly dark and devilish comedy about lost souls, drunke…
Brilliant. Extraordinary. Ingenious. Superb. The best. Yet all adjectives and superlatives pale in comparison with the truly unsurpassed quality of the script, performances, direction, desig…
As part of LaGuardia Performing Arts Center's Rough Draft Festival, IRT Theater and TGF 12 Productions have teamed up for a workshop presentation of Stepchild, A New Musical, inspired by the…
When Mark Medoff's award-winning play Children of a Lesser God premiered on Broadway in 1980, followed by the highly-lauded film adaptation in 1986, it provided groundbreaking insights into …
If you've ever witnessed (or worse yet, experienced, encouraged, or participated in) the "girl-on-girl crime" of high-school cliques, malicious gossip, fierce competitiveness, and vicious ba…
What do you get when you cross the super-popular hits Wicked and Frozen with a Boston accent? The laugh-out-loud musical parody Wicked Frozen, presented by John Lant and making its Off-Broad…
In the current American climate of daily accusations of "fake news," public denials of misdeeds, not-so-secret cover-ups of illegal activities, and arbitrary job terminations of public offic…
A mash-up of classical music with classic rock, Rocktopia, co-created by vocalist Rob Evan (of New York stage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra fame) and Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer (a not…
London's blockbuster National Theatre production of Angels in America – Tony Kushner's sweeping two-part eight-hour epic about AIDS, politics, and gay life in America in the 1980s " ha…
In Dogs of Rwanda, now making its Off-Broadway debut at Urban Stages, playwright Sean Christopher Lewis revisits the horrors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the scars they left – both…
If you're in the mood for a fun-filled island vacation, look no further than Manhattan Island and the Broadway premiere of Escape to Margaritaville at the Marquis Theatre. With music and lyr…
A new twist on the old adage attributed to former Philadelphia Police Chief and Mayor Frank Rizzo, "A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet," Lincoln Center Theater's producti…
If you love the New York stage and its stars, but can't make it to the theater in person to see a live performance, Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon and the world's largest purveyor of audiob…
