Marc Shaiman accompanies the Broadway favorite at the keys in the performance from the 2025 Broadway Dreams gala.

The 100-minute English adaptation is penned by Jacob Ashworth and Rory Pelsue.

The film's original director Jon M. Chu is overseeing the staging.

The evening will be held at Sony Hall.

Having done a single post on two Elaines just a couple of days ago, I promise this post on two Peggies represents a coincidence, not a trend. These otherwise completely unconnected women share a first name and …

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, the new rock musical, is now in performances at Greenwich House Theatre. Adapted from Joan Lindsay’s novel, with book and lyrics by Hilary Bell and music and arrangements by Greta Gert…

When Hell’s Kitchen composer Alicia Keys stepped on stage at the curtain call of Yolanda Adams’ first performance as Miss Liza Jane, the audience realized something special was happening. “Have you ever h…

Rachel Kavanaugh will direct the revival of the William Nicholson drama.

Errico has penned the lyrical theatrical experience that reflects on the human cost of WWI.

The West End return of the Tony-winning musical opened at the Lyric in February 2024.

The festival has partnered with the formerly bipartisan institution to put on the annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Ash K. Tata will direct Shakespeare's play, running at Brooklyn's Polonsky Shakespeare Center this spring.

Portia Krieger is directing the new musical with choreography by Mayte Natalio.

New sneak peeks have been released from the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, held earlier this month in Washington, D.C. The annual tradition honors those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contri…

Zachary Quinto is putting on his attorney hat in The Artist, the new Gilded Age-era murder mystery on The Network streaming service. The performer, who was most recently seen on Broadway in 2024’s Cult of Lov…

The last Broadway show of 2025, “All Out,” has provoked complaints anew about high ticket prices, at the same time that a new study concludes “affordability challenges for artists have reached a breakin…

The Queen of Versailles played its final performance on Broadway yesterday. The Kristin Chenoweth-led musical took its final bows at the St. James Theatre, also starring F. Murray Abraham, Melody Butiu, Nina Wh…

Last week, All Out: Comedy About Ambition by Simon Rich held its gala performance. VIP guests included P!nk, Jimmy Fallon, J.J. Abrams, Mike Birbiglia, Sara Chase, Jesse Eisenberg, Susie Essman, Ilana Glazer, S…

The 2000s has been a great time for musical theatre.

The star from the hit Netflix series reprised his role as Henry Creel onstage.

Find out what’s happening in the opera, concert, and dance scene this week.

High schoolers in Indianapolis, Indiana, are bringing their community together.

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: The Baker’s Wife By Ross It all begins before the lights officially dim, with the theatre itself becoming a sun-drenched French serenade. The village plaza wakes up to a new d…

Full casting has been revealed for the highly anticipated West End production of William Nicholson’s Shadowlands The post Full Casting Announced for Shadowlands at the Aldwych Theatre appeared first on Theatr…

Menier Chocolate Factory has announced a special one-night-only performance of Coward & Friends starring Janie Dee and Stefan Bednarczyk The post Janie Dee and Stefan Bednarczyk to Perform Coward & Frie…

Broadway and television star Daniel Breaker will join the critically acclaimed West End production of Hadestown as Hermes The post Broadway and Television Star Daniel Breaker to Join West End Production of Hade…

The D.C. theatre’s incoming artistic director reflects on his path to leadership, the importance of risk-taking, and possibilities for brave new theatre. 

We were fortunate to have seen 17 different productions in 2025: 14 on Broadway and 3 off-Broadway. These are the shows we considered in all categories this year: Bat Boy: The Musical. Buena Vista Social Club,…

The post And the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to … Liv Ullmann! appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

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About half of the revenue for American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker." Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum fairies.

Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.

No two of the rooms are decorated alike. Some have fireplaces and others glimpses of water or village life.

Chadderton Town Hall, OldhamSet over the course of local village hall fundraiser, Jim Cartwright’s play is charmingly performed and has a built-in sense of community Yesterday it was the salsa class. Coming u…

An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.

This year, “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes” pays homage to the legacy of the group, but its future seems to be more about sisterhood than dancing.

John Malkovich gives the theater adaptation of Suzanne Collins' wildly popular dystopian series some star power, playing President Snow in pre-recorded snippets at a 1,200-seater purpose-built venue.

The post Nominations announced for the 2025 Sydney Theatre Awards appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

The day after I saw the Radio City Christmas Spectacular for the first time in decades, I attended the New York Nutcracker for the first time ever. Both were holiday shows, though one cost up to $700, the other…

Broadway’s lights are shining brightly, but behind the scenes, producers are feeling the squeeze. Rising costs have made it harder than ever for shows to break even. “It’s just so difficult for producers …

By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III The People’s Critic For many years I have been an enthusiastic follower of the brilliant pop singing star, Michael Bublé. When it comes to skillful renditions of The American Songboo…

Cutting jobs and curtailing speech.

★★★☆☆ Hilary Bell, Greta Gertler Gold musicalize scary novel and movie, Portia Kreigler directs The post Picnic at Hanging Rock: Tasty Picnic, Some Ants Intruding appeared first on New York Stage Revi…

Albert Rhodes, Jr. and Joyce DiDonato in a scene from the Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theat…

By Alix Cohen Moses Pendleton’s 2022 Alice, aka this Alice in Wonderland-ish dance/theater piece, is a visual feast: wildly imaginative, impressionistic and allusive, rather than depicting Alice in Wonderland…

Earlier this week, BroadwayWorld's Next On Stage, Broadway's biggest national competition for high school and college students, returned to reveal the Top 3 performers in both age groups. The Season 6 finalists…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Tartuffe @ New York Theatre Workshop, The Bridges Of Madison County: In Concert @ Carnegie Hall, Diversion @ The Barrow Group, Christine Pedi’s…

Night Stories – 18 December 2025 Night Stories, presented by the Congress for Jewish Culture, took four stories by Avrom Sutzkever and brought them to life on stage. Spoken in Yiddish with projected supertitl…

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: This World of Tomorrow by Ross Quietly charming and deeply nostalgic, This World of Tomorrow, a new play written by and starring Tom Hanks alongside writer James Glossman, is pr…

The opening sequence established that tone. “Deck the Hall” and “We Need a Little Christmas” moved briskly and confidently, their energy functional rather than decorative. Reineke kept the wit light and…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for December 21, 2025 are about western sidekick Guy Wilkerson and the late Melanie Winter, vaudeville descendent and environmental activist. Other earlier Travalanche posts for …

At Greenwich House Theater, Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell’s stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s novel hovers between reverie and reality.

I just heard from my old friend Dan Hagen that the lovely Melanie Winter (b. 1958) passed away from cancer a couple of months ago. The context in which I became acquainted with Melanie is an indication of the s…

Julie Benko as Sarah Brown and Jacob Dickey as Sky Masterson in “Guys and Dolls.”December 21, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. As musicals go, Guys and Dolls is a show I’ve seen produc…

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, it's Paige's most Christmassy Christmas show yet, with wall-to-wal…

Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn Priestley’s shenanigan-filled 1934 comedy, three couples discover they are not married after all – meaning the men lose authority and the women gain freedoms Stomachs are tight, …

Chichester Festival theatreA musical adaptation of Matt Haig’s children’s book is visually delightful and heroically performed by Chichester Festival Youth Theatre but the songs are humdrum This origin stor…

A brief nod in the direction of western character actor Guy Wilkerson (1899-1971). Wilkerson was a native of Whitewright, Texas, an hour north of Dallas, just over the Oklahoma border. He began dancing and clow…

On December 19, Megan Hilty joined Steven Reineke, Essential Voices USA, and The New York Pops for a special holiday concert at Carnegie Hall. Songs performed included "Deck the Halls," "Santa Baby," and "A Pla…

The Courant relives 10 of the top special memories from the dozens of performances around the state in 2025.

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?

The return of Yasmina Reza's play starring James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, and Bobby Cannavale, is at the Music Box Theatre.

Scott Rudin's Broadway producing return stars Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock.

The Stephen Schwartz musical stars and is co-produced by Kristin Chenoweth.

Renowned caricaturist Ken Fallin lends his signature flair to the cast of Marjorie Prime, immortalizing the poignant, futuristic drama with a stroke of wit and reverence. His latest illustration features Danny …

Robert Icke’s modern adaptation of Oedipus, now running at Studio 54, is less a retelling of Sophocles’s tragedy and more a shattering meditation on truth, power, and the unbearable weight of revelation. St…

I attended the staged reading of The People Versus Lenny Bruce at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, presented in association with the Writers Guild of America East and the Society for Ethical Culture. T…

Michelle Williams and Tom Sturridge in a scene from Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” at St. Ann’s Warehouse (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Successful plays of one era tend to date badly as mores, s…

Picnic at Hanging Rock – 19 December 2025 While this season on Broadway is offering a smattering of low stakes, light new musicals, Off-Broadway musicals like Picnic at Hanging Rock are serving as primary r…

Here are a dozen of my favorite Broadway performances of 2025, listed (more or less) alphabetically, with a dozen more below, who performed on or beyond Broadway and are just as worthy. Some already have Tony A…

As the curtain falls on 2025, check out the top show guides that have captured the most attention on StageAgent this year. Are any of your favorites included?!🎭