Roundhouse, LondonRichard, Duke of Gloucester, is wearing a boar's head. He struts across the steeply raked stage, a sinister figure who you wouldn't want to meet in the forest on a dark night. He raises a gun …

The premiere of An Officer and a Gentleman appears to cement Sydney as the new mecca of the home-grown musical. No longer middle managers of the syndicated variety, Australian producers are developing and stagi…

The 57th Annual Obie Awards were given out at a ceremony tonight at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village. The awards were presented by acclaimed stage actors Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryc…

Attention thinking theater-goers! If you haven’t caught up with Freud’s Last Session, the return of its original cast should goose you into action. This is a really smart, intriguing play, not for a moment …

Paula Vogel's knotty, time-shifting memory play "How I Learned to Drive" takes a meandering road to a gloomy lesson learned for its main character, Li'l Bit. Capital Stage Melanie Marshall, left, Eric Whee…

Shakespeare's Globe, LondonIf all the theatre in Georgia comes anywhere close to the standard of the Marjanishvili company, then the job of theatre critic there must be the most covetable in the land. At the en…

A hard-knock year for musicals on Broadway may get a little sunnier come November. Producers announced on Monday that the revival of "Annie" has set an opening date of Nov. 8 at the Palace Theatre

For this week's Curtain Raisers column, playwright and director Adam Rapp went with us to see Will Eno's "Title and Deed," a one-man show that conspicuously dispenses with any dramatic momentum or apparent stru…

"Call Me Adam" chats with film, television, theatre, and radio star Ralph Cole Jr. about family, winning the NAACP Theatre Award and the FRED Award, starring in "Eating Out: The Open Weekend," "K-11," guest sta…

The Broadway and television star is preparing for a big benefit at Bay Street, co-hosting the Drama Desk Awards, and making his cabaret debut at 54 Below.

As legendary performer Des O’Connor joins the cast this week, we’re offering the chance to win the ultimate Wizard of Oz experience. This fabulous prize includes: 2 stall tickets to the show A backstage…

Constellations starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins is to run in the West End at the end of this year.

Danny Devito makes his West End debut starring opposite Richard Griffiths in a new version of Neil Simon's vaudevillian comedy THE SUNSHINE BOYS, directed by Thea Sharrock at the Savoy Theatre this summer. Come…

The Royal Court has announced that Nick Payne’s Constellations will follow Posh and Jumpy at the West End’s Duke of York’s Theatre as part of the venue’s latest West End season. Constel…

Whatever there is to say about The Ice Child (and there’s a fair amount to say), no one can claim the play is spinning its wheels. To realize the tale of a girl captured and imprisoned in a basement freezer b…

The acclaimed London revival of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, staged to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens birth, opens tonight in the Westn End after a su…

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 22 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

Further casting has been announced for Theatre Royal Bath’s summer season, the first since the departure of Peter Hall, who has overseen productions at the venue for the past eight years. As previously a…

Taking place in a disused warehouse, this meditation on 'Hamlet' is full of suspicion, paranoia and surprises

Alexander Gilmour and Griselda Murray Brown sample 'Richard II' in Arabic, 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' in Shona and 'Macbeth' in Polish

Megan Hilty's confident brashness and powerful singing voice overcome the inevitable memories of Marilyn, Brendan Lemon writes

Welcome elements such as a heterogeneous ensemble and brave musical choices are thwarted by the choreographer's style, writes Apollinaire Scherr

What this production offers is more or less a straight run through 'Richard III' save for three significant interpolations, says Ian Shuttleworth

The plot is tissue thin, but there's exuberant choreography in a production that's delivered with zest and polish, writes Sarah Hemming

The Grimm fairy tale becomes an affair of bruising tedium in the hands of choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, writes Clement Crisp

Edward Bond's play is a grim parable about a future society where security trumps humanity, Sarah Hemming writes

This was a wide-ranging and admirably well-danced programme from a company known for its boldness, writes Clement Crisp

Television actor John Simm returns to the stage for Pinter's 'Betrayal'. He talks to Peter Aspden about Hollywood remakes – and the joy of the ukelele

FT writers review a sample of Week Four's offerings – from a standing only perspective – from the ambitious six-week festival

Stage director Benedict Andrews's fearless approach to classic works is set to continue with his 'Caligula' for ENO, writes Laura Battle

It's the quality of the acting that distinguishes this drama about sexual identity, writes Brendan Lemon

Theater Shelf, a recurring feature by our reviewer Brad Hathaway, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others …

The great French actor and director Jean-Louis Barrault wrote, in his Reflections on the Theatre, that dramatic art extends between two extremes of pure gesture and pure speech. As an example of the first …

Pirates of Penzance has sailed into the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick. The Gilbert and Sullivan classic romps its way through an amusing storyline full of slapstick and farcical revelations, all set within the par…

The Tony winning musical ‘Billy Elliot’ comes to San Jose in May 2013, from the 7th to the 12th, for a week-long run at the Center for the Performing Arts, as part of its ongoing national tour. Based on the…

It’s ironic that Oscar Wilde should escape to the Lake District in 1891 to write a play satirising London society, his first success in the theatre. He took such a shine to the region’s place names that he …

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Following a staggering 1,200 solo appearances at the London Palladium, Des O'Connor is set to star at the world renowned venue for the very first time in a stage musical. He takes over the iconic role of The Wi…

Following its run at the Landor Theatre, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, based on Dickens final unfinished novel, with book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, directed by Matthew Gould, will get a 4-week season at…

The 30th anniversary Elliot Norton Awards, honoring excellence in theater within the Greater Boston area, were given out by The Boston Theater Critics Circle in a ceremony at the Paramount Mainstage, on Monday,…

February House, the new musical by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley that centers around the bohemian residents of the Brooklyn Heights address of 7 Middagh Street, officially opens Off-Broadway May 22 at the Pub…

New York's cabaret community celebrates the life and legacy of the late Donald F. Smith May 22 at The Town Hall in an evening titled Remembering Donald Smith — A Memorial Concert.

New York Theatre Workshop presents its 2012 spring gala, honoring board chair Barbara Warner Howard, Thomas Schumacher and Disney Theatrical Group, May 22 at the Plaza.

Following open-call auditions attended by more than 500 kids, the creative and producing team of the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell selected five boys and five girls (plus one "sw…

PS Classics, the record label devoted to the American Songbook and the heritage of musical theatre, releases a studio cast album of George Gershwin and B.G. DeSylva's 1924 musical Sweet Little Devil on…

PS Classics releases the two-disc Broadway revival cast album of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, featuring Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, May 22.

The hit TV music-filled series "Glee" concludes its third season May 22. The season finale episode, entitled "Goodbye," airs at 9 PM ET on Fox and features guest star Gloria Estefan.

The 2012 Second Stage Uptown season begins May 22 with the first preview of the world premiere of Alena Smith's The Bad Guys, about five pals from childhood who reunite one summer. Michael Braun, Roe Hartra…

Spiegelworld, the producer of tent-housed theatrical events that draw on circus, cabaret, variety and burlesque traditions, returns to New York City on May 22 for a 15-week run of a new show called Empire, in t…

Audra McDonald, Megan McGinnis, Christopher Sieber and the American Repertory Theater production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess are the winners of Boston's 30th annual Elliot Norton Awards, which were…

Spencer Kayden, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for her performance in Roundabout's Don't Dress for Dinner, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits…

Dog's LifeSometimes, when the dust has settled, it is nice to go backby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI was walking my dog a few days ago when off in the distance, coming toward me, was a man and his dog. In a few secon…

Starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, Bunheads centers on a Las Vegas showgirl who impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law’s (Kelly Bi…

Opera News, 76 years old and one of the leading classical music magazines in the country, said on Monday that it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan Opera, a policy prompted by the Met’s dissatisfaction ove…

Neimah Djourabchi is a Brooklyn-based actor, stunt performer, musician, and Leatherman utility tool. He's appearing in Gideon Production's SOVEREIGN at the Secret Theater this coming June. He was born in Portla…

Daryl Lathon is one of the premiere downtown talents working in theatre today.  A classically trained actor, Daryl honed his craft a prestigious regional theatres (including The Shakespeare Theatre, New St…

The Lion King comes out on top again, with Wicked closely behind. But the biggest story might be Evita. The production has broken the house record at the Marquis Theatre for the seventh time, and secures a spot…

The Drama League has announced its winners for the 78th Annual Drama League Awards. Four-time Tony award winner Audra McDonald won the Drama League Distinguished Performance Award on May 18 for her performance …

Cleanup of the watery aftermath of a burst pipe joint will continue at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this week, but it is not expected to interfere with the next performance of The Lion King road sho…

I'm not a member of Actor's Equity, nor does my company work with Actor's Equity actors, but for those of you who are involved, you will be interested in this note that the League sent to its members: My name…

Anastasia Barzee, Marva Hicks, Judy Kuhn, and Laura Osnes performed selections from and signed copies of Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project at the 86th Street Barnes and Noble on Monday, May 21. Over …

Tony Goldwyn and Julie White hosted the Born for Broadway benefit, presented by The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation at the American Airlines Theatre on Monday, May 21. The concert featured direction by …

The Village Voice presented the 57th Annual Obie Awards, honoring the best of Off-Broadway Theater, at Webster Hall on Monday, May 21. Amy Herzog won an Obie for Best New American Play for 4000 Miles, which c…

The 57th Annual Obie Awards, honoring the best of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, were given out at a ceremony May 21 at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village.

Click, click, click. That’s the precision with which practically every jubilant act of irreverence registers in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s deliriously happy-making version of Carlo Goldoni’s “The Ser…

  By: Linda Amiel Burns 1975 was a very good year for Broadway Musicals that included, among others, the long-running and iconic A Chorus Line, Chicago, Shenandoah, The Wiz and The Rocky Horror Show. Scott…

Other Obies for top performances went to Steven Boyer in "Hand to God" and the acting ensemble in "Sweet and Sad."

The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis has announced additions to its 2012-2013 season, including a production of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Parkin the McGuire Proscenium Stage, to run…

Tony Award nominee Gabriel Byrne will co-star in the History Channel's first scripted series, Vikings, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to the site, the drama, to be written by Michael Hirst…

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Nelly Furtado Big Hoops (Bigger the Better) - Billboard Music Awards Performance 2012 - MissP Recap Nelly Furtado performed her new hit song "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" at the 2012 Billboard Musi…

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Director Ilesa Duncan skillfully weaves the stories of two woman - from different parts of the world - dealing with HIV. The audience is left to decide for themselves exactly how to feel about these issues, bu…

Nick Jonas gave a goodbye speech at the final performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway, May 20, 2012. He spoke about his return to Broadway as a man, acknowledged Daniel Radcl…

Stage and screen veteran Polly Draper will star in Bay Street Theatre's American premiere of Geraldine Aron's My Brilliant Divorce (May 29-June 24), to be directed by Matt McGrath. The solo piece foc…

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE STORY? The tortured elements in the life of the great rhythm and blues artist Marvin Gaye would be fascinating fodder for a powerfully tragic stage play. Either that, or bypass…