Gigglemug’s musical revisits 1991’s cake-or-biscuit VAT dispute, John C Reilly gets romantic and Beauty and the Beast rock out Is it a cake or is it a biscuit? That’s the juicy question at the centre of t…

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The festive season is fast approaching, and with it comes the usual cavalcade of openings keen to get in before the holidays proper: just think of the numerous prospects for tickets as presents! Among the bustl…

Savoy theatre, LondonState-of-the-art animatronics, imaginative staging, fabulous performances and some marvellous songs about marmalade make for an evening that will fill you with joy and melt your heart Here…

Paddington The Musical opened at the Savoy Theatre on the West End, marking the official start of the world premiere run of the new musical, and reviews are rolling in. The show features an actual Paddington on…

Review: Paddington The Musical at Savoy Theatre "Paddington has found his perfect home on stage, and it is glorious" The post Review: Paddington The Musical at Savoy Theatre appeared first on Theatre Weekly.

“Is this bear an endangered species?” asks Tarinn Callender as the hapless helper of Victoria Hamilton-Barritt’s (very) arch-villainess Millicent Price. With growling glee as insanely delicious as it is m…

The musical Chess premiered in London in 1986 and then on Broadway two years later. Despite its gorgeous score with music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim Rice, audiences weren…

Music by RICHARD RODGERSLyrics by LORENZ HARTNew Book by RICHARD LaGRAVENESEInspired by John O’Hara’s novel, based on the ‘Pal Joey’ stories published in The New YorkerChoreographed by SAVION GLOVERCo-…

The Awards are Bestowed Annually to DC Area Theater Artists WASHINGTON, DC – November 24 – The Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theater Arts presented four awards Monday night, November 17, at …

The playwright won an Academy Award for “Shakespeare in Love.” But he also helped provide dialogue for the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Indiana Jones.

The Wicked universe is officially expanding in all its technicolor splendor. Author Gregory Maguire, whose 1995 novel inspired the Broadway phenomenon-turned-Universal blockbuster starring Ariana Grande and Cyn…

Leslie Odom, Jr., jazz recording artist, composer, author, and star of stage, film, and television, returned to Baltimore for a program of holiday music in the new “Live at the Meyerhoff” series of solo con…

“Producing ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ this fall felt like an appropriate theatrical celebration for our 40th anniversary season of the musical theatre program at the Catholic University of America, given th…

Paddington The Musical is officially open at the Savoy Theatre on the West End, with the world premiere of the new musical running through October 25, 2026. The cast, including the titular bear himself, took th…

Review by Ron Fassler . . . Friends who have been performing together in tandem for almost twenty-two years, Christine Ebersole, a two-time Tony Award winning actress and Billy Stritch, a Grammy Award-winning…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere, talk about the passing of Tom Stoppard. Discussions include The Seat Of Our Pants: A New Musical @ The Public Theater, Gotta Dance @ The York, Reunions @ N…

Woody Allen turns 90 today, and his great collaborators Diane Keaton and Marshall Brickman have recently passed way. The moment seems worth observing. Allen may or may not have directed his last film, but he ha…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 30, 2025 are about the new Stiller and Meara documentary, the early films of Woody Allen, and a wonderful anti-fascist film penned by Donald Ogden Stewart called Kee…

Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gifts on the screen.

Ben Stiller and I are exactly the same age (3 weeks different) so I happen to know that today he reaches a fraught birthday threshold. Sans doute, it’s no coincidence that he just released this documentary fi…

Watermill theatre, NewburyRelocating the Hans Christian Andersen tale to Cornwall, with its folk musicians and fishermen, Elgiva Field and Lara Barbier’s show is cheery and sweet Christmas has gone undersea f…

Tom Stoppard, 88, an acclaimed author of some three dozen plays, had an extraordinary body of work, and lived an unusual life: Although he was viewed as one of the greatest English-language playwrights of his g…

The comedians on their first meeting, pissing each other off, and a shared obsession with Pride and Prejudice Born in London in 1982, Cariad Lloyd is a comedian, actor and podcaster. She met comedian and musici…

Gaiety theatre, AyrA rosy-cheeks-and-spotty-socks kind of show full of generous laughs, Fraser Boyle’s take on Aladdin also has several original innovations and a subversive streak Who needs a flying carpet …

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, West End leading man Charlie Stemp celebrates Dick Van Dyke, legen…

November 30 was the birthday of Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980). As we share a given name (I’m Donald Travis Stewart, according to my birth certificate), I have long been aware of this Algonquin Roundtable c…

Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonAfrobeat-tinged music, an AI love interest, Elon Musk as a panto villain, and a cast who are clearly having a ball mean there is something for everyone in this flashy festive…

Nobody advanced or cherished the English language more than Stoppard, Tim Curry noted. Colleagues and fans agreed.

A Frontmezzjunkies Film Review: The History of Sound By Ross “My father said it was a gift from God. How I could see music. I thought everyone could see sound.” These are the first lines spoken, from a man …

Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88 Continue reading...

The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen – here are some of his very best With his restless imagination, Tom Stoppard showed us a mind on the m…

Before she was a TV mainstay, Judi Love was a single mum juggling standup with care work. Now she’s back on stage for a show that finds humour in past trauma: ‘It’s laughter that helped me’, she says. J…

One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue After the first night of his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the National Theat…

The dramatic truth is that there is no difference between "theater" and "theatre," Connecticut has just added to both the clarification and the confusion.

Productions of holiday classic are happening throughout the state, including a ballet backed by a live orchestra for the first time in over 15 years.

The playwright, who learned about his Jewish heritage late in life, addressed it in the Tony Award-winning drama “Leopoldstadt.”

Kristin Hanggi directed, and Karla Puno Garcia choreographed the new musical at Stage 42.

Caricature king Ken Fallin works his artistic magic once again — this time turning his sharp pen toward the hilariously heartfelt cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, now playing at New World S…

Sir Tom Stoppard — the dazzling, erudite playwright and screenwriter whose wit, intellect, and love of language shaped modern theatre and film — died peacefully on November 29, 2025, at his home in Dorset…

Stoppard's prolific playwriting career earned him the most Tony Awards for Best Play in theatrical history.

Academy and Tony Award-winning actress Judi Dench detailed the realities of her eye condition, which has led to a loss of sight and her stepping back from the stage and screen. “No, you don’t [see me on cam…

It's a magical story made all the more magical being retold in this period space. The post A Christmas Carol at the Merchant’s House appeared first on The Front Row Center.

Last night, the Broadway musical MJ kicked off the holiday season with special post show performances of the Jackson 5’s iconic holiday tune, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." The post-show performances come b…

In works like “Travesties” and “Arcadia,” the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, exhilarating shape.

Tonight's performance of Just In Time will be led by covers in all three primary roles, with Matthew Magnusson as Bobby Darin, Gabrielle Carrubba as Connie Francis, and Larkin Reilly as Sandra Dee. Magnusson is…

In a new video, Andrew Lloyd Webber shared that he thinks Wicked's Jonathan Bailey would make a great Phantom in his iconic musical Phantom of the Opera. The Fiyero actor said in a recent interview that his dre…

Review: My Fair Lady at The Mill at Sonning "beautifully staged, impeccably performed and brimming with heart" The post Review: My Fair Lady at The Mill at Sonning appeared first on Theatre Weekly.

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Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 29, 2025 are about Otis Turner, director of the first Oz plays; and Broadway and vaudeville performer Lillian Fitzgerald and her several notable relatives who also w…

The award-winning British playwright and screenwriter died Saturday at the age of 88.

Tom Stoppard, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose intellectually challenging dramas made him one of the leading writers of the stage, has died, according to The Guardian. He was 88. Stoppard wr…

Oedipus – 25 November 2025 Robert Icke’s bold modernization of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex imagines a politician (Mark Strong) in the last hours of his campaign finding out that his commitment to honesty ha…

Off-Broadway’s Beau the Musical successfully spins from endless kick-ass energy to moving introspection and back to tongue in cheek humor, melding country, rock and gospel in a basement temporarily converted …

The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the passing of prolific playwright Tom Stoppard, who dies at his home in Dorset, England. He was 88 years old. The news was shared earlier today by United Agents: pic.twitter…

November 29 was the D.O.B. of theatrical and cinematic Jack-of-All-Trades Otis Turner (1862-1918). What a name! Suggesting on the one hand a mash-up of James Otis and Turn: Washington’s Spies, on the other pe…

As the theater industry and admirers around the world mourn Tom Stoppard, the community that gave the 3x Olivier Award winner his start is paying tribute. Following Stoppard’s death at age 88, the Olivier Awa…

Magnificent playwright Tom Stoppard has died in London at age 88. A statement from United Agents said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved client and friend, Tom Stoppard, has died peacefully…

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A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter Tom Stoppard: a life in pictures A brilliant dramatist w…

The self-described ‘bounced Czech’ created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion – and always understood the ways of our world All the best dramatists extend the frontiers of drama. Beckett …

The questing Czech-born playwright gave us plays that explored arcadias, utopias and affecting notions of home Tom Stoppard’s breakthrough play opened on a bare stage, with two characters in the middle of now…

Tom Stoppard, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love and 5x Tony-winning playwright, has died. He was 88. United Agents announced on Saturday that Stoppard died “peacefully” at his Dorset, En…

Drawing comparisons A Czech-born English dramatist, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades and awards on both sides of the Atlantic.

The British playwright won acclaim for 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,' 'The Real Thing' and 'Leopoldstadt' and received an Oscar for 'Shakespeare in Love.'

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner for his plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Travesties,” “The Real Thing” and “The Coast of Utopia” and an Oscar win…

BroadwayWorld’s Broadway Pets series introduces the fluffy friends of Broadway’s best, highlighting the animals who share the spotlight behind the scenes. In this episode, we meet Easter, the rescue dog of …

I was first put wise to the existence of Lillian Fitzgerald (1882-1947) and her industrious theatrical family through Kevin Fitzpatrick of the Lambs Club. Fitzgerald’s son-in-law, whom we’ll come to, was a …

The Toronto Theatre Review: Kanika Ambrose’s Moonlight Schooner By Ross A ship and its crew at sea trying to survive a storm is a powerfully terrifying and engaging beginning of almost any play, just ask Shak…

The event, coordinated by Sonia Kramer, begins on November 29th with "NIGHT STORIES: Tales by Avrom Sutzkever," and runs until November 30th with a musical performance by the Living with Yiddish group.

With its mix of Jewish immigrants, Black residents of Harlem, and privileged white characters, the Broadway show Ragtime is resonating strongly with audiences in the current political climate.

ATLANTA — Elaine Hendrix, the “Parent Trap” actress turning 55 next month, was in position to become the oldest winner of “Dancing with the Stars” Tuesday night. But she came in fifth Tuesday night, c…

The Manchester CT Jazz Festival features eight acts over two days ranging from high school ensembles to New York talent.