Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.

DALLAS — Bill Abbott is something of an expert on Christmas movies. Abbott founded and serves as CEO of Arlington-based Great American Media, a growing North Texas media company that makes family-friendly ent…

ATLANTA — Atlanta actress Charity Jordan was hankering for bigger roles, tired of auditioning for minor characters like the supportive best friend. “I wanted to make a path to play the roles I wanted,” sh…

In Stamford and West Hartford, members of the diaspora collect and display stitched artwork and teach classes to keep the tradition alive

It wasn’t bad enough that Tuesday night’s Kennedy Center Honors garnered the lowest TV ratings in the history of the show. Now it turns out that there was no Christmas Eve jazz show, as planned. The evening…

A transcendent new take on King Lear, a thrilling Evita and a show at Glasgow’s revamped Citizens that reduced one viewer to a ‘blubbering wreck’ are among your highlights• More on the best culture of 2…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: My Favourite Christmas Films By Ross Every December, I find myself returning to A Christmas Carol, not so much as a ritual to be checked off my list that I check twice, but as a story …

Imani Smith, a former child actor who starred in “The Lion King” on Broadway, was found dead on Dec. 21, according to a press release from Middlesex County, N.J., Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Thomas…

The 35-year-old actor, comedian, musician and podcaster says he’s finally starting to learn his professional bandwidth after years of dabbling in several sectors of the industry: “I think we all lie to ours…

Michael Ball, the musical's original Marius, made a special appearance.

Imani Smith, who played Young Nala in Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway from 2011-2012, died after being stabbed on December 21, according to the Middlesex, NJ County Prosecutor’s Office. She was 26. Polic…

By near-universal consensus, Stephen Sondheim was the greatest musical theater composer of his generation—celebrated, among other things, for the wit, sophistication, and intricacy of shows from West Side Sto…

The "meaning" of Samuel Beckett's 1953 absurdist masterwork Waiting for Godot will be parsed forever and will never be fully discerned. Some theatregoers will be enthralled by the experience. Others will be utt…

The press rep at Irish Repertory Theatre, always helpful and cheery, seemed even more effusive than usual, as if she were about to hand out tickets to a winner. She wasn't wrong. The Honey Trap, Irish Rep's New…

Full disclosure: It's a Wonderful Life is probably my favorite movie. As a movie-addled teenager I wrote Frank Capra a fan letter about it, and he responded, in part: "In thanking me so sincerely, so artlessly,…

Many prize the state of Idaho as a go-to destination for outdoor recreational opportunities, white water rapids, hot springs, and majestic mountains. But playwright Samuel D. Hunter has a way of conjuring up hi…

Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2025, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption. Most of these were taken from Stageworth…

Playbill's Margaret Hall breaks down the many connections between the 26 stars of the hit video series.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage play prequel set in 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, first opened at Broadway's Marquis Theatre in April. Now, with season five of the Netflix series wrapping up the mystery w…

Today’s new Travalanche post for December 24, 2025 is about Eugène Scribe and the Well Made Play. In honor of the season, here are some highlights of the Christmas section of Travalanche: The History of Sant…

The series features Broadway artists performing their favorite songs outside of the showtune genre.

The Phantom of the Opera star is joined by guests Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aled Jones, and the Gregorian choir.

By Tulis McCall This is a play that you should see because it has affected you.  Whether you know it or not. Meg Crane invented the first at-home-pregnancy test in 1968.  Called “Predictor.” On the day I …

Review by Ron Fassler . . . It’s that time of year and Broadway stalwart Norm Lewis is back at 54 Below with “Christmas Lives Here.”

Imani Dia Smith, who previously starred as Young Nala on Broadway in Disney’s Lion King, has died at the age of 25. Smith was killed by her boyfriend, Jordan Jackson-Small, who has been charged with murder, w…

Ms. Smith played Young Nala in the long-running production.

Francesca Zambello is directing the classic musical at the Shakespeare Theatre Company with choreography by Joshua Bergasse.

The reading is a benefit for the Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre and honors the legacy of Stella Adler.

Musica Sacra's "Classics for Christmas" at Carnegie Hall offers a transcendent musical experience that celebrates the season's joy and contemplation. Under Kent Tritle's masterful direction, with luminous perfo…

Melbourne, Australia’s Circus Oz is performing at New York's New Victory Theater this holiday season! Featuring jaw-dropping stunts, slapstick comedy, live music, and a multi-generational cast, Circus Oz's Me…

Merry Christmas Eve, BroadwayWorld! It is December 24, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, C…

The newly-reimagined national E quity tour of Les Misérables at the Broward Center is alternately spectacle and moving theater. Even after multiple viewings, this beloved mega-musical reassures us anew that i…

Mamma Mia! has audiences dancing in their seats at the Winter Garden Theatre to ABBA's greatest hits. The fabulous Jalynn Steele plays Tanya, who raises the roof with her second act showstopper, “Does Your M…

I love the theater. Wherever I travel around the country, I look to see what regional theater is playing there. I touch base with regional theater leaders in those areas. I want to see the quality of their prod…

What Sutzkever has to say is important, possibly priceless.

Well, if you’re named “Scribe”, you had better be a writer. Eugène Scribe (1791-1861) was to be one of the most prolific and influential playwrights in theatrical history. He turned out some 500 produced…

Previews will begin at London's King's Head Theatre in January.

By Holli Harms Birth + Carnage is the story of the life of celestial stars, from conception to growth to destruction and what happens after that cataclysm. It is truly one of the most gorgeous pieces of dance/t…

The Off-Broadway Review: Gruesome Playground Injuries By Ross “What happened to your face?” It’s a simple question, asked by an eight-year-old girl in a school nurse’s office, but it becomes the first s…

There are movies that you watch because they add to humanity’s great history of finding life’s meaning through art, and then there are movies that you watch because it’s fun to hear someone say, in panick…

‘Liberation’ is prompting spontaneous applause, raw emotion and an unusual social rule that forces audiences to fully surrender to the moment

By JOCELYN NOVECK NEW YORK (AP) — On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-raising group, you can …

More and more screen stars will return to their theatrical roots in 2026 to give their stage muscles a workout. Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo is back after a 12-year absence to the West End, as Deadline was first to…

With its profanity-laced script, Lucas Hnath’s Molière adaptation, starring Matthew Broderick, is a mischievous clash of the old and the new.

The National Theatre’s Hamlet, Northern Ballet’s Merlin and the musical Scissorhandz are among the highlights of the Guardian photographer’s stage spectaculars Continue reading...

Yes, ’tis the season for ticket scams I am afraid. My venue often sees an uptick in complaints around the holidays. We often attribute it to the fact we have people attending events at our venue for the first…

Here are ten of the biggest stories involving theater this year 1. The Federal War on Culture and the Arts Near the beginning of 2025, President Donald Trump took over the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts…

If you love BSR, it's time to get your tickets to our 20th anniversary event, Party with the Critics, at Indy Hall on January 15, 2026.

Sarah Ruhl partners with Opera Philadelphia’s Anthony Roth Costanzo and Antonio Vivaldi for a visually spectacular new work that ultimately lacks dramatic structure. Gail Obenreder reviews.

In a new interview with Collider, Broadway star turned Hollywood leading man, Patrick Wilson revealed that he has more than a little itch to return home to the Broadway stage. According to the interview, Wilson…

Theatre legend Michael Crawford is being honored at the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony and a number of Broadway favorites are stepping out to pay tribute to Broadway's original Phantom, including Laura Osn…

Theatre legend Michael Crawford is being honored at the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony and according to the star, "there are no words," to describe his excitement about earning the distinction. Watch a vid…

Enter to win two tickets to opening night on Sunday, April 12, 2026, dinner, and a merch pack from Titanique on Broadway! The prize includes opening night tickets, dinner for two, and a merch prize pack....

Theo Armstrong on new works by A Heather Dutton/Middle Child Dance Theatre, Emily Tarrier + Emory Ferra Campbell, and Ke’ron J. Wilson

Broadway shows are a hot gift this year, with 30 productions enjoying 90% or higher capacity.

The holiday season is bringing Broadway some box office bounty, with grosses for the week ending December 21 totaling $47,437,512, an 8% boost over the previous week. Attendance for the 36 shows was 317,531, ab…

A family is going viral on TikTok after their Christmas gathering turned into a Broadway-worthy lip sync performance of Dreamgirls. In a new video posted by Greg Wiley Jr., a family decided to do a lip sync bat…

The box office bump came amid the release of the final season of the Netflix series and as the indusry heads into its lucrative holiday weeks.

New cast members have joined the cult hit musical, currently running at Off-Broadway's New World Stages.

​You can now get a first look at Kuhoo Verma as 'Veronica Sawyer' in Heathers the Musical Off-Broadway, alongside Jackera Davis, who recently joined the cast as Heather Duke, and more members of the cast! Hea…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/21/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

Just in time for Christmas, Sarah Brightman has released her 2021 special "A Christmas Symphony" in full on her YouTube channel. The special, which originally premiered on PBS in conjunction with her tour, saw …

Today’s new Travalanche posts for December 23, 2025 are about Cecil and Sally (John Patrick and Helen Troy) and Harry Guardino. Other earlier Travalanche posts for December 23 (in no particular order) include…

“Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas” is a mashup of the holiday classic “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and Alicia Keys’ “The Gospel.”

The company is presenting a new take on the James Joyce work at Off-Broadway's Public Theater.

Duron is accompanied by the musical's Tony-winning co-creator, Will Aronson.

The anthology for students participating in the annual nationwide Poetry Out Loud program now excludes poems by Langston Hughes and many others. Anndee Hochman looks closer.