Alan Golub and Laura Goldfader's musical will have had 16 performances by the end of its run.

The Book of Mormon, The Scottsboro Boys, and Once are all up for the coveted Best New Musical honor.

The cast of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best musical ONCE will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day all week from Tuesday, March 11 through Sunday, March 16. The cast will perform a special selection of traditio…

It’s been five years since the very first Get Your Show Off The Ground seminar, and I’m thrilled to say we’ve had some fantastic success stories.  One author’s show went Off Broadway. …

The celebration will take place tonight, March 10.

The nominations for the 2014 Olivier Awards, the West End’s equivalent of Broadway’s Tonys, were announced March 10, with new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the acclaimed revival of S…

If audiences are walking out of shows more often, as has been suggested recently, perhaps we should be asking why

This week's column discusses the Broadway cast album of Andrew Lippa's Big Fish, along with Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill in the original production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Chocolate Show!, Alan Golub and Laura Goldfader's new musical, will end its run at the 47th Street Theatre March 16. 

Details have been announced for two readings that are part of The York Theatre's Company Developmental Reading Series: Storm, written and directed by P.J. Barry; and God's Country, which features book a…

At This Performance, the Musicals Tonight! series that salutes Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys, understudies and alternates, continues March 10 at 7 PM at The Lion Theatre.

Tony Award winner Harriet Harris, most recently on Broadway in Cinderella, has landed a role in the NBC pilot "Lifesaver," according to Deadline.com.

Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will present a solo concert to benefit Hunter College Elementary School April 4 at 7:30 PM.

Richard LaGravenese's ABC drama pilot, inspired by Dangerous Liaisons, will feature Katie Holmes.

The original Broadway production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show opened March 10, 1975. It starred Tim Curry as Frank 'N' Furter and played 45 performances.

The first trailer for the hotly-awaited reimagined and remixed version of the musical Annie is now available, revealing details about how screenwriters Will Gluck, Aline Brosh McKenna, and Emma Thompson (yes, t…

In 1931, Peter Kurten terrorized Germany with little reason. Other than it sexually gratified him. Trolling Dusseldorf, he raped, beat, and murdered without prejudice. Men, women, and children. No one was safe …

West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsJohn Steinbeck's affecting story of two Depression-era farmhands carries too much dramatic dead weight in this low-testosterone productionIt's time for a new adaptation of John St…

Analog.Ue at the National Theatre is the latest in a line of one-man shows with an added gizmo – a tradition that takes in Samuel Beckett and Ken CampbellIt must be pretty lonely being a one-man show. Not to …

Wes Montgomery rehearses and plays Horace Silver's "Nica's Dream" in 1965: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related...

Satchmo at the Waldorf continues to run off Broadway at the Westside Theatre. John Douglas Thompson's performance--incredibly--grows deeper and deeper....

Rehearsals begin today for Neil Patrick Harris’ return to Broadway in the new production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the musical with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, dir…

The love that dare not speak its name runs shirtless into Theater for the New City.

Hackney Empire, London: Joining operas by Britten and Tippett on ETO's national tour is Mozart's philosophical comedy, due to play some 17 venues from Truro to Perth between now and the end of May. It…

Phones 4u Arena, Manchester: The past few years has seen a meteoric rise for the south-west London raised son of former theatrical agent Michael - now a willing sidekick/stooge - culminating last year with him …

The Hope Theatre, London: Writer Matt Osman questions the nature of humanity, grief and suspicion in this play, in which werewolves terrorise London. When a young girl goes missing Sam Elvin seems an obvious su…

Grand Theatre, Leeds: Martha Leebolt looks ravishing in the title role, her power and beauty are captivating. Her costumes and those of her hand-maidens (played by the corps de ballet) are delectable and there …

Musicals Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Merrily We Roll Along have secured the most number of Oliver Award nominations this year for a singular production. The two shows have been recognised with seven n…

Whether you call her Idina Menzel or Adele Kazeem, that wickedly talented gal is headlining one of the most star-studded, talked about new musicals of the season.  And I do mean star-studded! In addit…

The trailer for the movie adaptation of Larry Kramer’s award-winning play The Normal Heart is out, and it looks like HBO got everything right. Directed by Ryan Murphy, the film is an unflinching look at t…

  Today’s Highlights: * MCC Theater‘s Hand to God, by Robert Askins, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, with Steven Boyer, Marc Kudisch, Geneva Carr, Michael Oberholtzer and Sarah Stiles, ope…

Second Stage Theatre has announced complete casting for its upcoming production of Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire, which will now begin previews April 10 prior to an official opening April 27.

Nominations for the 2014 Olivier Awards, which were announced March 10, are led by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Merrily We Roll Along (with seven nominations each), with the London transfers of Once, T…

North Wall, OxfordEven if you don't like the Beatles, Mitch Benn's jaunty lecture on the Fab Four makes for an engaging eveningMany people have been credited as "the fifth Beatle" over the years. Now Radio 4 mu…

Molotov Theatre Group has an uncanny knack for converting its tiny black-box nook into an auditorium-scale operating theater for surgical dissection of the dark side of human nature. With its new production of�…

"The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the...

It’s been a long time coming to the London stage following its original Off-Broadway run in 1999, but Urinetown, currently playing at the St James Theatre, has undoubtedly been well worth the wait. It would b…

Kill the Beast burst onto the fringe theatre scene last year with a spatter of blood and a porcine squeal. Its debut show, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, based on Tom Baker’s novella of the same name, was met with …

This entertaining Jane Austen themed improvisation show has something missing

Devil take the hindmost ...

The nominations have been announced for the 38th annual Olivier Awards with new musicals leading the shortlists

Stephen Sondheim’s master work has been seen on Broadway in revival several times, and in a movie starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Onstage it has attracted  the likes of Angela Lansbury, Le…

Charles Busch is a gifted writer of comedies that have light hearts and he writes them with nimble fingers. By that I mean they are gossamer — lighter than air, they invite you to join him in a world of w…

Small Almeida theatre is nominated in 10 categories, while women dominate best director nominations• Full list of nominations• Michael Billington: Where are the great new plays?One new musical, Charlie and …

The complete list of nominees for this year's Olivier awards, celebrating the best of British theatre, dance and opera• Michael Billington: Where are the great new plays?Best actorHenry Goodman – The Resist…

Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica stands head and shoulders above the other nominees. This year's lineup confirms that British theatre's current success lies more in interpretation than in original creationAs always, t…

Hello and welcome again to Vaudephone, your one stop shopping for all the best contemporary variety acts, viewed through our patented retroscope. Today we feature the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus’s Keith Ne…

The new production at Shakespeare's Globe in the indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle played as a whacky comedy.

The Park Theatre's first musical sounded more promising than it s .

breezy ninety-minutes of music and fun

David Lindsay-Abaire's play has landed in London, at Edward Hall's Hampstead Theatre and it's a sellout

POP MISSES AN OP Pacific Opera Project’s production of Carmen is difficult to review, only because the benchmark is unclear. Bizet’s ever-popular four-act 1875 opera about a gypsy temptress and the soldier …

Supporters gathered for “The Who & The What.”

Antony and Cleopatra Was Set Where?: Antony and Cleopatra at the Public is lost in translation by the Public, the Royal Shakespeare Company of Britain and GableStage of Miami.

Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini: The Axis Theater Company takes on Harry Houdini in Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini, by Randy Sharp.

Stephen Sorokoff Mr View: You Didn’t Have To Remind Us Norm Lewis: “I don’t want anybody looking at the view behind me!”

Amanda McBroom Project With Eric Michael Gillett: Broadway knows him from Kiss Me, Kate, Sweet Smell of Success, The Frogs & others.

The celebration for Tom Gold's handpicked dance company was a welcome and somewhat more casual and boisterous addition to the social calendar.

The young nonprofit charged with building a performing-arts center at the World Trade Center faces an uphill battle.

Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” is a play with a fantastic theme, but, as directed by Linda Ames Key (at the Pearl), it’s not so fantastic to watch. First produced in Paris in 1944, “…

Gerard Mortier, a Belgian opera director whose nonconformist style often grated the tradition-bound elite and who became a fiercely avant-garde impresario, has died. He was 70. Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo made …

JBN sits down with Edmund Bagnell, an accomplished vocalist, actor, and violinist. A member of the highly-acclaimed all-male string quartet, Well-Strung (well-strung.com), Edmund has performed to sold-out crowd…

I’ve run rehearsals in the past for very small projects; I’ve been an assistant director sitting in on rehearsals and taking notes, giving feedback and providing all manner of support. But nothing is as ter…

David Bobee’s Russian Hamlet is, among other things, a strong argument for age-appropriate casting. While in Britain we like our Princes of Denmark to be ‘accomplished’ actors (read ’30 …

Chris Vervain Theatre’s production of Euripides’ Women of Troy paid homage to the Ancient Greek tradition of theatre performed in masks. As it was my first time seeing a piece that used this convention, I w…

As agit-prop theatre goes, Max Stafford-Clark's production of Stella Feehily's "This May Hurt a Bit" must surely rank as one of the most stylish ever staged

This week's highlights include Urinetown opening, Jersey Boys transferring and Olivier Awards nominations

New Rep Theatre's production at the New Diorama Theatre is enjoyable but doesn't pack the emotional punch needed

  Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr.      Bobbi Horowitz presented another of her series “Great Songwriters Up Close” at the Metropolitan Room on March 9 to a full house...The post Great Songwriters …

The full title of Jackie Sibblies Drury's inventive and challenging play is We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the  German Sudwestafrik…

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Victoria Melody has turned her remarkable true story of beauty pageants and dog shows into a funny takedown of the beauty myth    

    Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr.   Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series at the Allen Room scored another winner March 8 when they invited Broadway star Norm Lewis to...The post Norm Lewis: W…

    By: JK Clarke       The idea, and the prevailing mental image, of Hell is fire and brimstone—a place of torture and physical agony. It is an...The post No Exit – Hell & Dam…

It’s rare finding a simple piece of new writing that doesn’t rely on bombarding effects and clever use of space and props to compete with the money and bling put into West End shows. But when you find one, …

Michael Coveney looks at some of the hidden gems beyond the West End

Three people find themselves together in a locked room in hell. All three — total strangers — know that they’re dead and they know what they did to deserve this punishment, but they are a litt…

 by Joel Benjamin     Why in the world create a new dance company in a world teeming with them?  In the case of Tom Gold, formerly an outstanding soloist...The post Tom Gold Dance appeared first on …