Start banging the trash cans: Stomp, the long-running percussion extravaganza that’s been a popular Off Broadway audience draw for nearly 30 years, will resume performances on Tuesday, July 20, yet another sign that New York City’s theater scene is emerging from its now-15-month Covid hibernation.
When it returns to…
Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, American Son) will take on the lead role of Seymour when Off Broadway’sLittle Shop of Horrors returns to the stage on Sept. 21, joining original cast members Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle under the direction of Michael Mayer.
Jordan had previously been set to join the company on March…
Jersey Boys, the Four Seasons jukebox musical that moved to Off Broadway shortly after the show’s popular Broadway run came to a close, will reopen at New York City's New World Stages on November 15, producers announced today.
Written by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe…
The Off Broadway smashLittle Shop of Horrors will resume its pandemic-interrupted run at the Westside Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 21, producers announced today.
Casting for the Drama Desk Award winning production, which initially starred Jonathan Groff and later Gideon Glick, will be announced in coming months. Tickets…
Playwright Israel Horovitz, whose Off Broadway productions provided early stages for such soon-to-be-stars as Al Pacino, Marsha Mason, John Cazale and Richard Dreyfus but whose later career was severely damaged by repeated accusations of sexual assault, died at his Manhattan home of cancer on Nov. 9. He was 81.
His…
If Saturday Night Live can do it, why not Off Broadway? That’s one of the arguments in a lawsuit filed by six small New York theaters and two comedy clubs against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the city’s ongoing pandemic shutdown of such venues.
The lawsuit filed in United…
EXCLUSIVE: Bedlam, the small, critically acclaimed Off Broadway theater company known for its clever, spare and unconventional stagings of classics like The Crucible and Saint Joan, is developing Bedlam: The Series, an eight-episode New Media mash-up of Shakespeare plays using the Bard’s own language.
The series, to…
Off Broadway’s Signature Theatre will take its acclaimed production of Lauren Yee’s play with music Cambodian Rock Band on the road, marking the theater company’s first production to tour. The production, with songs by L.A. band Dengue Fever and directed by Chay Yew, was praised by critics upon its Signature opening…
The Obie Awards, Off Broadway’s most prestigious honor, has rescheduled its prerecorded 65th annual award ceremony for July 14 on YouTube. The original premiere date of June 4 was scratched amid nationwide upheaval following the police killing of George Floyd.
The Obies, presented by the American Theatre Wing and…
Audra McDonald, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical and its star Adrienne Warren, LaChanze, Aziza Barnes’ play BLKS and the Off Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf were among the big winners at tonight’s inaugural Antonyo Awards for black theater…
Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The MusicalandThe Inheritance were named outstanding musical and play of the 2019-20 theater season by New York’s Drama League, the organization announced today.
The 86th Annual Drama League Awards – announced virtually in lieu of an in-person gathering – covered the shortened theater season…
