Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root uses the case of the Jena Six as a template to examine the origin of prejudice and racism. Set in a high school in the American South, the play shows teenagers going about their daily lives seemingly unaware of …Read more

Part of the Brits off-Broadway series at 59E59 Theatres, City Stories fuses drama and music and weaves a series of interconnected love stories into a journey through the city of London. We asked the writer and director James Phillips and singer and s …Read more

Set in modern-day Toronto and 1960s Egypt, This Time is the newest presentation by Rising Circle Theater Collective, a nexus of artists of color creating original work. The play, based on the memoir by Rising Circle member Kareem Fahmy’s grandmother …Read more

Nico Tortorella is a very funny guy, and while he hasn’t had a chance to show off his comedic chops in television shows like The Following (it’s about serial killers!) or Younger (a comedy sure, but he’s the romantic interest, rather than the comedic …Read more

Life is all about change, often referred to as “metamorphosis” by the natural science folks. We all do it as we grow, but some do it more than others. One such person is young playwright and leading actor J.B. Alexander, the author and star of the Pr …Read more

Ann Hampton Callaway has built a career in the entertainment industry that will live on for generations to come. In addition to performing on numerous television shows and specials, as well as in the Broadway musical, Swing! (in which she was also a …Read more

To celebrate the release of their new EP A Little Single, songwriters Lance Horne and Drew Brody are doing a special show at Feinstein’s/54 Below on May 11. The EP is a collection of witty, personal songs about romance, dating and friendship that see …Read more

Singer/songwriter Grace McLean has a deliciously eclectic style that sees her combining elements from jazz, folk, musical theatre and pop. In songs like “Natural Disaster”, which she performs with her band (Grace McLean & Them Apples) she sounds …Read more

In their 33rd birthday gala, called Do You Hear the People Sing, The New York Pops celebrated the works of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg best known for Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, and truly, one of those would have been enough to save …Read more

Leah Nanako Winkler is a New York-based playwright, but before that, she made a home in Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her work is consistently playful, painfully frank and delights in skewering stereotypes and cliches — often by amplifyin …Read more