Jess and Morgs, the creators of weird and wonderful works that blur the boundaries between live performance and digital, have reached the big time: the Paris Opera.

Daniel Radcliffe stepped out to celebrate opening night of Every Brilliant Thing on Broadway, Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe's inventive one-person play. The Harry Potter alum and Merrily We Roll Along T…

New year, new cast member! Social media creator Melissa Becraft, best known for her digital presence and dance-centered content, will be joining Cost n' Mayor and Hideaway Circus' 11 to Midnight, a theatrical d…

Alisha Sopher, Morgan Fairchild and Luke Yankee – title characters in the play Marilyn, Mom and Me” Photo by Nicole Stranz My friend John Guare wrote a successful Broadway play entitled Six Degrees Of Sepa…

The 98th annual Oscars celebrated several actors with roots in theater during a ceremony hosted by Conan O’Brien in Los Angeles.

Jessie Buckley has won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet. This is the first Oscar win for the actress and her second nomination, having been nominated for Bes…

Josh Groban hit the stage during the 98th Academy Awards for a hilarious segment with host Conan O'Brien. Following O'Brien's monologue, Groban appeared in full royal garb to perform a winning song as O'Brien w…

"Golden," the hit song from the Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters, has received an Academy Award for Best Original Song, beating out songs from Sinners, Train Dreams, Viva Verdi! and Diane Warren: Relent…

EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami, the singing voices behind HUNTR/X, took the stage to perform the Oscar-winning original song “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters at the 98th Academy Awards. Check out their perf…

The Pulitzer-prize winning play by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview, made its LA premier last night at Rogue Machine Theatre. While this is clearly a play where the less you know about it the better, I am recomm…

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As previously reported, Barbra Streisand paid tribute to her late co-star Robert Redford at the 98th Academy Awards, where she performed a snippet of "The Way We Were,” as featured in their 1973 movie of the …

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Plus, see the Sinners musical performance from the Oscars.

The Broadway Women's Fund revealed its 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway list, the seventh list from the fund spotlighting women in leadership in theater. The list covers women working regional theaters, Off-B…

Sinners actor Miles Caton and musician Raphael Saadiq took the stage to lead a performance of the Oscar-nominated original song “I Lied To You,” from the movie at the 98th Academy Awards. They were join…

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  Coming soon to the Cavern Club Celebrity Theater is The Passion of Love Connie. It’s the greatest story ever told and Love Connie is telling it the only way she can, through mime, dance and drag. In The Pa…

★★★★☆ David Ireland's black comedy fires verbal bullets at celebrity culture with brutal precision The post Ulster American: Irish Rep’s Scalding Satire Pulls No Punches appeared first on New York S…

David Ireland’s Ulster American, now playing at the Irish Rep, is a well-crafted skewering of straight, white, male creative types of a certain age who are desperate to maintain their relevancy — and assert…

★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick stars as a clueless film idol in Irish Rep’s U.S. premiere of a prickly comedy The post Ulster American: Satirical Savagery appeared first on New York Stage Review.

In my role as a critic, I see a lot of shows. While I enjoy many of them, I rarely leave planning to buy tickets for my family. However, by the end of Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel Radcliffe (yes-the Ha…

One Battle After Another won the Oscar for best picture and five other awards, including best director. “Sinners” won four awards including Michael B. Jordan for best actor. Jessie Buckley won best actress …

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It's Oscars night! The 98th Academy Awards, celebrating the best of film from this past year, will take place tonight, March 15, 2026. Hosted by comedian Conan O'Brien, the ceremony airs live on ABC at 7pm ET/4…

Stephen Sondheim’s oft-revamped Merrily We Roll Along prevails in Zoetic Stage’s glorious production in a fresh vision of the musical, visually and passionately different than the acclaimed 2022-23 revival.…

Primary Stages' production of Libby Carr's coming-of-age play Calf Scramble, opening today at 59E59 Theaters, offers up an intriguing premise and a well-executed series of set pieces about a circle of five rura…

Performance Now’s A Chorus Line features strong dancing at the Lakewood Cultural Center.

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Every Brilliant Thing, Ulster American @ Irish Rep, Zack @ Mint Theater Company, The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits @ SoHo Playhouse, Calf Scramble …

Today’s new Travalanche post for March 15, 2026 is about about Andrew Jackson and our recent trip to The Hermitage. Also, it’s the Ides of March — so here’s a post on Julius Caesar in the movies Earlier…

The Ides of March happens to be the birthday of that American Caesar, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). This is not a U.S. history blog per se, but there are numerous places of overlap here with our usual themes, mak…

By Alix Cohen “Maybe if we stopped chasing grace, we’d learn to love the process of becoming Grace.” Elizabeth Addison apparently has no theater and barely any music training. Like Irving Berlin, she can …

James Caverly and Andrew Morrill star as Deaf roommates in their new comedy at the Perelman Performing Arts Center.

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, she's got a host of 2026 Olivier Award-nominated show tunes, plus …

Recently moved into a new warehouse space in Aloha, the company mounts "Flanagan's Wake," a new production that thrusts viewers into a comical Irish wake.

The Frontmezzjunkies Film Review: Goodbye June By Ross Sitting down to stream “Goodbye June“, anticipation arrived ahead of the story. Oddly enough, it was carried less by its premise and more by the curios…

These weekly essays are meant to connect stories from the week to larger trends and ideas across the arts world. This week we collected 118 stories. Here's what I learned:

Baldwin, Broadway, and the Power of Maybe with Brandon Victor Dixon In this thoughtful and heartfelt episode, host Lauren Van Hemert sits down with acclaimed actor, producer, and musician Brandon Victor […] …

Racism, Friendship and Banned Books This episode dives into the play Native and the independent film adaptation The Problem of the Hero, both of which explore the relationship and ideological conflict betwee…

From Mindfulness to Mincemeat, Gerianne Perez Shares Her Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Hits Gerianne Perez (Operation Mincemeat) joins the pod squad to talk about her journey from singing in her […] The pos…

Broadway favorites Lorna Courtney and Samantha Barks are bringing the 2017 movie musical to the stage.

This episode of Beltline to Broadway features a thoughtful conversation with director and artist N.J. Agwuna, exploring her journey through Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theater, including her work on�…

Kennedy Caughell—currently starring as Jersey in the national tour of Hell’s Kitchen— joins the pod squad to share her journey from growing up on a small Oklahoma farm to building […] The post Kennedy C…

Currently playing at AMT Theater (354 West 45th Street) through April, The Paparazzi features music and lyrics by Al Tapper and a book by Tony Sportiello. Directed by Nancy Robillard with musical direction by D…

What begins as a satirical clash between corporate swagger and academic idealism gradually deepens into a more unsettling inquiry. The play’s true subject, it turns out, is not merely the arrogance of billion…

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While not the classic that "Hobson’s Choice" has become, Harold Brighouse’s follow-up play "Zack" proves to be a charming Edwardian comedy drama in the Mint Theater Company’s production which may be the f…

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Which of the ten Oscar nominees for best film this year would work best (and worst) adapted for the Broadway stage?   It’s a year of at least a few clear answers, given that one of the movies revolves arou…

Watch Mary Testa perform "My Stuff" from Lincoln Center Theater 3's Night Side Songs, running at LCT3's Claire Tow Theater through March 29. Night Side Songs is a new musical that explores how song heals peo…

Eliya Smith, the playwright best known for her Off-Broadway debut Grief Camp, will return to the New York City stage with her new play Dad Don’t Read This at St. Luke’s Theatre this May.

Come for the frolic and high energy professional stagecraft; stay to experience this creative ensemble’s answer to: Who the hell are we, facing the end?

Few crime stories have captured the public imagination quite like Dog Day Afternoon. What began as a shocking real-life bank robbery in the 1970s quickly evolved into one of the most celebrated crime dramas in …

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory about their newest play, "What We Did Before Our Moth Days." They've been working together for five decades.

Su Teatro revives Just Like Us, a Denver-set immigration drama about friendship and identity.

Today’s new Travalanche post for March 14, 2026 is about artist Reginald Marsh. Earlier Travalanche posts for March 14 (in no particular order) include ones on: The Mathematicians of Travalanche (For Pi Day) …

The gold statuette has weathered 97 ceremonies, countless acceptance-speech tears and at least one airport dumpster. But can it survive being reinterpreted by an ensemble of boundary-pushing West Coast artists?

Ahead of Sunday’s ceremony, Carter talks Springfield, “Seinfeld” — and the Massachusetts connection to “Sinners” costumes. The post Springfield native Ruth E. Carter keeps making Oscars history appe…

Michelle Collins chats about her new show at Joe's Pub Wait Why Don't I Know You in New York City with Theatrely Editor-in-Chief Kobi Kassal

Legally Blonde star Amber Davies has opened up on a "tough 48 hours" and cleared up reports she is taking a break from the West End show.

Most of the reviews for Cold War Choir Practice devote most of their word count to laying out its multi-pronged plot which includes Soviet spies, former Black Panthers, Regan-era conservatives, the dangers of …

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If you want to see, and even interact with, your favorite stars—get to the theatre.

Inevitably we come to celebrate Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) today, mostly on account of his memorializing of Coney Island, the Bowery, Times Square, dance halls, vaudeville, and burlesque. In light of which, it�…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Pedro Pascal Revives Haynes’ Long-Awaited Project By Ross Some film projects seem destined to linger in limbo, forgotten in a pile on some executive’s desk, gathering dust in their…

The three-actor musical tale of a green-skinned boy emerging from his "outsider" shell soars with an intimate comic-book aura and a garbage-band vibe.

It's Oscars weekend! Ahead of Sunday's awards show, we want to know which nominated film you would like to see on stage. Whether it be a play or musical, choose between Sinners, Bugonia, Song Sung Blue, Train D…

This week, John Cusack joins us to talk high school reunions, graphic novels, and the secrets to keeping your Vespa's tank full. Plus, panelists Rachel Coster, Adam Felber, and Joyelle Nicole Johnson go on spri…

Her smash hit second album left the pop star also known as Self Esteem feeling the pressure to deliver an equally thrilling follow-up. Now, she’s playing a spiralling rock star in a major West End revival of …