How to Be an American! - 2016 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 1

Celebration Arts will present Colman Domingo's play DOT, exploring a West Philadelphia family navigating their matriarch's cognitive decline during the holiday season.

Vineyard Theatre named Nigerian American playwright Onyekachi Iwu as the recipient of the 2026-2027 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, which includes a cash prize and yearlong residency.

The Fisher Center at Bard, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College, will present EVIDENCE: 2026 LAB International Festival.

Jack Wolfe will perform at the Rufus & Martha Wainwright benefit concert at Town Hall, featuring Cyndi Lauper, Alice Phoebe Lou, and family members. Proceeds support Folk Cancer: The Kate McGarrigle Project.

Pianist David Kaplan will release his second solo album centered on Beethoven's two Sonatas quasi una Fantasia, exploring the boundary between composition and improvisation alongside works by Ligeti, Couperin, Schumann, and Brahms on Orchid Classics.

The documentary examines the 2016 killer clown sightings that sparked nationwide panic, featuring archive footage, viral videos and interviews with witnesses and law enforcement.

Comedian and Emmy Award winner Craig Ferguson will record special tapings at Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado. Tickets are currently available.

The Assembly announced five projects selected for its 2026-2027 Deceleration Lab, including works by Catalina Beltrán, Brett Ashley Robinson, and ensembles CAN TUNA and Friend of Friend.

The producers of the North American tour of HADESTOWN, in partnership with Broadway in Victoria, have announced that single tickets are to go on sale. HADESTOWN makes its eagerly awaited Victoria premiere at the Royal Theatre.

Multi-Grammy Award-winning rock band CHICAGO will return to The Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas for its tenth consecutive year as the venue's longest-running residency artist.

Eva Marie Saint, an Academy Award-winning actress known for ON THE WATERFRONT and NORTH BY NORTHWEST, died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. Her career spanned more than 70 years in film, television, stage and radio.

The Driehaus Museum will partner with The Joffrey Ballet for a month-long holiday celebration featuring an immersive installation of World's Fair memorabilia, costumed dancers, and family programming.

BET announced the SOUL TRAIN AWARDS 2026 nominees, with fan voting for R&B/Soul Song of the Year on BET.com and a new Spotify R&B X International Artist category voted on Spotify.

Pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier releases the self-titled debut album of her quartet AMALTHEA, featuring vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, bassist Thomas Morgan, and drummer Dan Weiss via Pyroclastic Records.

SLASH FT. MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS announced a world tour in 2027 supporting their fifth studio album FLYING BLIND, arriving February 26 via Gibson Records. Early ticket access begins October 9.

Concord Theatricals announced the cast for a development workshop of IN MARRAKECH, a new original musical by Kate Marlais and Alex Young directed by Josh Seymour, featuring Niamh Cusack, Edward Bennett, and Katherine Kingsley.

The Verdi Chorus opens its 43rd season with a concert featuring operatic sequences from Verdi's works alongside selections from Leoncavallo and Puccini at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica.

Theatrical costume designer and artist Beaver Bauer presents a fifty-year retrospective at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, displaying five decades of artistic work. The free exhibition runs in the Jewett Gallery and Koret Lobby.

Oscar Valdes' political drama imagines intimate White House conversations between President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania during the July 2018 Helsinki summit crisis.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 29, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess will discuss his award-winning memoir and perform live dance excerpts with his company at Oxford Community Center in Maryland.

the cell in Chelsea will present 22 new projects from over 27 resident playwrights, composers, designers, and interdisciplinary artists developing new work through readings, workshops, and staged productions.

Lightning Rod Theater will soon present the world-premiere of Paul Hoan Zeidler's historical reimagining, Hamlet in the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the committee composing the Declaration of Independence wrote a nation into existence.  

Tangerine Records released the first vinyl pressing of Ray Charles' complete 75-minute 1964 Shrine Auditorium concert, while Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr. debuted their duo album Nearness featuring standards, spirituals, and originals.