Wonder Woman is the first red-carpet celebrity to arrive at the Kennedy Center Honors. Lynda Carter is looking regal — perhaps her superpower is imperviousness to weather, which is a miserable slush-sleet hyb…

To summarize The Lion in Winter as a drama about a dysfunctional family is to facilely devalue this examination of just how base the human animal can be in the grip of power and ambition. Director William Haye…

Mr. Molinaro had many television shows and movies to his credit, but “La Cage aux Folles” is his best-known work.    

Looking for a foolproof “theater treat” for holiday visitors? “Million Dollar Quartet” might well be just the thing. After five record-breaking years here, this Chicago musical phenomenon is still shake…

DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. If you missed the U. S. debut scre…

The big BSFC winner was "12 Years a Slave," which beat "The Wolf of Wall Street" for Best Picture, Best Director (Steve McQueen), and Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

Playwright LaBute's hard-hitting work exposes some raw nerves.

My View Stephen Sorokoff: Cynthia Farrell - A Voice To Be Heard: Usually the thick velvet curtains that separate the bar area from the performance room of the Metropolitan Room prevent you from hearing a vocali…

That love in all its forms is something worth dancing about is a fact that proves equally joyous and tragic in Chéri.

When I say that the new stage version of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” is like a Tyler Perry comedy, only better, I do not mean to cast aspersions on the entertainment empire Perry’s built on obvious l…

DANCE REVIEW: '... And sometimes we were lost, but always we became found' ★★½ DANCE REVIEW: '... And sometimes we were lost, but always we became found' ★★½ Chicago Dance Crash steps…

THEATER REVIEW: 'A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: 'A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½ "A Q Brothers' Ch…

DANCE REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre ★★★½ DANCE REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre ★★★½ ... It's the season for indulgence—indulg…

Phoebe Legere radiates an aura of excess. Dressed in an Elizabethan-era costume with fetishistic accents, she has a buoyantly outsized presence and a tendency to indulge in a presentational acting style that of…

Center Stage’s presentation of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration is a unique Christmas tale with local roots. Set in and around Washingto…

Broadway favorites Santino Fontana (Cinderella) and Tony nominee Tony Shalhoub will both appear as iconic writer/director Moss Hart in Lincoln Center’s upcoming production of Act One. The new play, writte…

"Striving for the unreachable is really quite splendid." Rudolf Serkin (quoted in Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber, Rudolf Serkin: A...

Booker T. and the MGs play "Red Beans and Rice" in Oslo in 1967: (This is the latest in a...

I'm off to Chicago this morning, there to break bread with Our Girl and see three shows, Remy Bumppo's revival...

In Lower Manhattan, the Flea, an Off Off Broadway theater, has managed to persevere and thrive after the post-Sept. 11 devastation.    

Low-budget thriller set in the Philippines is standout winner at 2013 Bifas, with director Sean Ellis also named best director• Interview: Sean EllisA shoestring-budget heist thriller set in the Philippines …

The musical Little Women, a troubled piece which replaced its songwriting team prior to a short Broadway life has toured to Seattle in the past without leaving any strong impression.

This is a fun, tuneful, and well-performed show, which is equally entertaining for adults and children, and a worthwhile option for theatergoers this time of year.

Christmas has come early at the 10th Avenue Theatre, where Circle Circle Dot Dot unwrapped its charming and laugh-filled holiday comedy “Bearded” on Friday night.

OVER THE DARK HARBOR WATER Walking a cold, mostly deserted Santa Monica Pier on the way to this show, I passed a photographer’s booth blaring the Azealia Banks song about “cunt getting eaten.”  A Bre…

EXPENSIVE VANILLA-SCENTED PERFUME For its inaugural stage dramatic production at the glittering new Bram Goldsmith Theater, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is presenting a charming candy box…

Patina Miller could do no wrong Friday night at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, even when things weren’t quite going right. The Tony-winning star of Broadway’s current “Pippin” nearly forgot to …

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 8 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

In SNL's condensed version of The Sound of Music Live, Captain von Trapp introduces his children, including Dooneese, to their new governess Maria.

The former BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT winner told the London Observer that she visited a specialist a year ago, who noted her 'above-average IQ.' In the interview, Boyle also opened up about her learning disabilities…

Yesterday's SIPs came from Broadway's own CINDERELLA, Laura Osnes, who claims she's just 'one of the guys,' the national tours of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and EVITA, as well as La Jolla's SIDE SHOW, and more

Broadway's Sierra Boggess returned to 54 Below by popular demand for a series of shows on December 2-7. Below, check out a look back at her concert

Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop has announced that actors Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub will both be featured as the legendary writerdirector Moss Hart…

After NBC's foray into musical theatre with last week's live broadcast of The Sound of Music starring Carrie Underwood, and with Laura Osnes' Cinderella sashaying on the Great White Way, the continued sway of B…

On Friday night, December 6, 2013, with only two months of training and rehearsals to ready its young performers, Synetic Theater staged an impressive opening night Teen production of A Midsummer Night’s Drea…

  by: Sandi Durell   If you’re thinking about ringing in the New Year with a real bang, think Broadway Legend and two-time Tony Award Winner CHITA RIVERA!  She’ll be...The post Chita Rive…

The production, based on interviews with people affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion in 2010, is to have its premiere this spring.    

Ira Gershwin, whose lyrics sometimes get short shrift compared to George’s music, earns his due in a new show.

Santino Fontana ("Frozen") and a third actor still to be cast will also stand in for the legendary writer-director in James Lapine's Broadway adaptation of Hart's classic showbiz autobiography.NEW YORK -- Santi…

“Around the World,” a streamlined concert reading of Orson Welles and Cole Porter’s musical adaptation of the Jules Verne tale, is at the Mint Theater.    

RECOMMENDED The devil sure knows his way around Chicago. Besides the usual mixture of gang violence and Rham-style politics, Satan has been a feature of many recent stage productions including his recent stint …

By Iulia Popovici. Writing about a national theater as far away from the United States as the Romanian one means, in the end, performing exoticism—playing the monkey for the zoo visitors that do expect a monk…

Before heading out to the theatre today, best check for cancellations. The first notice came in from NextStop Theater. Both shows are cancelled for Sunday, January 8th.  More notices are trickling in our DCTS&…

The New York Times 12/07/13

Updated 3:11 PM Here are shows canceled tonight due to the weather and projections for icy weather: 1st Stage’s performances of Noises Off is cancelled. Annapolis Shakespeare Company-A Midsummer Night…

Santino Fontana, Tony Award-nominated for his performance in Cinderella, and Tony Shalhoub, a two-time Tony nominee for Golden Boy and Conversations with My Father, will star in Act One, a new play written and …

This is the Part 4 in a series of interviews with the director and cast members of Annapolis Shakespeare Company‘s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Meet Joel DeCandio. How did you become involved with…

The end-of-the-semester crush is upon me, and I find myself scrambling to grade papers, plan finals, meet with students, and yet still keep up with my blogging backlog. As Tevye said, "It isn't easy."…

Premiere at Hartford's TheaterWorksThe show : "Christmas on the Rocks" at Hartford's TheaterWorks

Dave Cunningham enjoys some Christmas songs from New York at Manchester's Palace Theatre.

PG Wodehouse Society treasurer Jeremy Neville praises a clever, cross-dressing stage translation that stays true to the books – and is enormously enjoyableTranslating PG Wodehouse to the stage isn't easy. He'…

In live comedy, it seems that no one feels any further need to apologise for using material about Operation Yewtree. But should they?How soon is too soon to joke about the crimes of Jimmy Savile? In comedy, gag…

Watch the complete ‘The Sound of Music LIVE’ on MD Theatre Guide below.  To comment about the movie, click here.

By HowlRound TV. Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles presents " Aristotle was a Man! ", a panel discussion unpacking the assumptions made by the original dramaturg regarding dramatic structure and discuss the …

Tony Shalhoub and Santino Fontana are to portray the playwright and theater director Moss Hart in a stage adaptation of “Act One,” based on Mr. Hart’s 1959 autobiography.    

    Shakespeare & Elizabeth I: The Reality Show                     By: Patrick ChristianoQueen Phoebe Legere is now holding court at the Theater for the New City in the World Premiere …

Today is the birthday of David Carradine (1936-2009). Given the fact that I was between the ages of seven and ten when his his show Kung Fu aired (1972-1975), I could not let this day pass without a big time …

Today is the birthday of beloved American humorist James Thurber (1894-1961), among many other things, author of the 1939 short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. This may strike some of you…

Backstage 12/06/13

The Guardian (UK) 12/02/13

Would it be all that nervy to ask if, in the coming years, there might be more, not less, musical experimentation? Couldn't the Boston Pops commission a new seasonal work and showcase it?

Tony winner Marc Shaiman might be best known to musical theater fans as the man to brought music to 1960′s Baltimore in Hairspray, or for his memorable score to Bombshell on NBC’s SMASH; but Shaiman…

Meet Me in St. Louis, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Produced by Bucks County Playhouse, adapted by Joe Landry, based on the Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane, Hugh Wheeler musical. Directed by Gordon Greenberg, featurin…

By: Sandi Durell     It’s always a treat to hear the rich and formidable voice of James Barbour – albeit, too infrequently I must admit.   But harken Barbour...The post James Barbour Takes Yo…

A stalwart of the Theatre Royal's pantomime since 1984, Martin Barrass discusses York's theatrical institution.

Put Actors’ Playhouse production of Making God Laugh pretty much in the insightful column. Playwright Sean Grennan uses our recognition of the laughter and pain common to most familial relationships and uses …

My nine-year-old companion enjoyed Alice in Wonderland rather more than I did, but with one of the Polka’s child-centric shows that is as it should be. I found the acting style very children’s-TV-pr…

I haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey.  But something tells me that Cuff Me:  The Unauthorized Fifty Shades of Grey Musical would make me laugh. It just sounds funny.  Frankly, Fifty Shades of Grey, …

-- And Ghosts For Hartford Stage's 16th Edition The show: "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas" at Hartford Stage

In further observation of Sammy Davis Jr, ‘s birthday, a fairly unobjectionable holiday clip, featuring a jazzing up of “Jingle Bells” To find out more about the variety arts past and presen…

Continuing on with our Christmas themed series of posts… Here is a true television classic, from the first season of The Odd Couple (1970), when the poker players were still regular characters and the …

Continuing our series of Christmas themed posts. This 1947 Christmas episode of Jack Benny’s radio program returns us to the recurring Benny theme of last minute holiday shopping. Nothing says “Chri…

Kipling's classic gets reinterpreted in Leeds. Lively and imaginative but don't expect Disney.

A diverse selection of shows promised by Leeds' Playhouse next year.

Mistral's Artistic Director and flutist Julie Scolnik knows, after 17 successful years, how to run a terrific series - hire the best people, present a unifying theme, and program excellent music.

She's played a seductive killer, a damaged prostitute, and an anguished schizophrenic. Does Ruth Wilson never fancy doing something lighter? As she makes her directing debut, she talks to Andrew Dickson"Um," s…

Soho theatre, LondonThis filthy new musical version of Anthony Neilson's 1995 Christmas play about an out-of-sorts city boy piles on the sentimentalityGary (Navin Chowdhry) is a former city boy turned coun…

Musical depicts the decline of the shipbuilding industry in the town where the star grew up.

Adapted from a post originally published in 2011.  The name Georges Méliès (born this day in 1861) is no doubt on everyone’s lips very much these days thanks to the recent release of Scorsese’…