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.

Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.

PBS has shared sneak peek clips from Happiness, the new musical series airing weekly on the channel. The clips, taken from the fifth and final episodes, are available to watch below. The new episodes premiere S…

Get a first look at MRS. DOUBTFIRE's 2nd North American tour. The non-equity tour features Craig Allen Smith in the title role of Daniel Hillard/Euphegenia Doubtfire (everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny), join…

From roller skates to bratty curls, this Tony winner's resume is a feat of physical comedy.

That’s right! Harry Guardino (1925-1995)! Born a century ago today! And gone three decades. I don’t know if there ever was such a thing as a Clint Eastwood stock company, but if there was Guardino would qua…

A class action lawsuit was filed December 22, claiming that the Off-Broadway venue engaged in racial discrimination.

Timbers is one of a select few directors in Broadway history to have four shows running simultaneously.

Bryce Pinkham has been living with Chess for nearly a decade. “I’ve been working on it with [writer] Danny Strong and [director] Michael Mayer since the Kennedy Center,” he says. “It’s almost 10 years…

The week before Christmas always has me thinking about Betty Comden. It all has to do with what she once told me about those seven arduous days she spent in 1952. Comden, lifetime collaborator Adolph Green and …

Curio Theatre Company’s Hansel & Gretel is a truly interactive arts experience for all ages, letting kids join in and even create a performance for everyone. Melissa Strong reviews.

The show reunited Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz for the first time since “Wicked.” It wasn’t enough to counter poor word of mouth and other challenges.

The campaign is in response to an article that said that "theatre kid" is the new conservative insult.

Explore Iceland by day and have Broadway stars sing to you at night.

A new video of Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas has now been released featuring newly added Hell's Kitchen cast member, Yolanda Adams, as well as current and recent cast members Amanda Reid, Philli…

Performance art has a distinct urgency in Los Angeles, a city that in a perpetual state of rehearsal.

The Arden’s latest production for children is beautifully designed and respectfully adapted, if occasionally hard to follow. Jill Ivey reviews.

As a holiday gift to her fans, Lady Gaga has set the digital premiere of Harlequin Live: One Night Only on December 24. The concert film, recorded on September 30, 2024, at the Los Angeles Belasco Theatre, feat…

Moki Cherry, an interdisciplinary 20th-century Swedish-born artist whose revolutionary work has gained recognition in recent years, gets a new show at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Aaron Pond reviews.

Grammy winner Yolanda Adams recently made her Broadway debut in Hell's Kitchen, an opportunity that serves as a return to her roots. On a visit to TODAY with Jenna & Friends, the gospel singer shared how sh…

The original Korean production of Maybe Happy Ending has sold out every performance of its Seoul engagement and has announced plans for a nationwide tour following the conclusion of its run. The musical opened …

Playwrights Horizons, one of New York’s premiere Off Broadway theaters and producers, is being sued by a New Jersey musician who claims that the venue’s recent discount offered to people of color is raciall…

“A lot of our students have anxiety about how am I going to support myself when I leave here? And verticals seem to be the one industry right now that is booming, that's growing,” said George Huang, a profe…

Hamilton infused songs by Michael Jackson, Sam Smith and Beyoncé into their 2025 Red Bucket Follies performance. Watch the video of “Sons of Liberty Gone Wild,” a piece written, directed and choreographed …

Audiences are now deep in the dangerous depths of the Upside Down, with the ongoing fifth season of Stranger Things now streaming. Stranger Things 5, which is dropping in three batches, is the epic conclusion t…

André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz, and Tony Award nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson star in the first trailer for The Dutchman. Directed by Andre Gaines, the movie is a modern film adaptation of the award…

The Funny Girl star is heading back to Broadway next month in the revival of Ragtime.

The film is a modernized adaptation of the 1964 Obie-winning play.

Sidney Myer is a cross between a mensch and an elf.  At over 6 feet tall, with rosy cheeks, a curly mop of hair and an actual twinkle in his eye, Myer is an inside joke personified.  From the second he steps …

The radio comedy team of Cecil and Sally were John Patrick (John Patrick Goggin, 1905-1995) and Helen Troy (1903-1942). Their collaboration enjoyed a brief window of fame in the late ’20s and early ’30s, wa…

Thea Sharrock directs the world premiere of Eric Roth's stage adaptation of the classic film.

Ellen Wacher is closing her Pigs Do Fly troupe which has produced plays for nine years focusing on characters and topics depicting people over 50 years old. The post Pigs Do Fly Closing On Work Focused On’Ov…

Survival Jobs is back with Episode 147, hosted by Jason A. Coombs and Samantha Tuozzolo, featuring two time Emmy Award winner Danny Strong in an in depth conversation centered on his latest project, the incredi…

The planned Singapore engagement of Beetlejuice The Musical has been canceled less than a month before its scheduled opening. The production was produced by Michael Cassel Group and Warner Bros. Theatre Venture…

For Patti LuPone, starring in The Artist was more than just another acting job: it was entering an entirely new world. "I was gobsmacked when I walked in the door, and because I am obsessed with the real Gilded…

Aidan Close plays Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. For six weeks, he’s taking fans backstage at the Lyric Theatre to see where the real magic happens. For this week's episode…

New York Theatre Workshop has announced that there will be an added final performance of the world premiere of a new version of Molière’s Tartuffe, by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath on Sunday January 25, 202…

Following its sold-out, award-winning international premiere, Beaches, A New Musical will open on Broadway this spring at the Majestic Theatre, for a limited New York engagement to launch its multi-city Nat…

The 95-year-old actor reflects on her rich and rewarding stage career, and the life it drew from and made for her.

Hi Friends!  Happy Holidays!  Here is my 2025 rundown. Another year of being a full time playwright!  It's been about 2 and a half years now.  I feel like I'm still getting used to it.  I think part of me…

Ballet Jörgen’s holiday scare reaffirmed its mission: taking the art form to remote towns and outposts where most people have never seen a pas de deux.

Billy Porter has taken to Instagram to share an update on his health, after suffering from "a serious case of sepsis." As BroadwayWorld reported in September, Porter withdrew from the Broadway production of Cab…

Vikki Stone’s festive tomfoolery, staged after the Covid lockdowns, captured that strange time and achieved a special giddiness When I was a child, I did not go to pantos. I was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, whe…

LOS ANGELES — Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for directing. Neither did Stanley Kubrick nor Robert Altman nor Sidney Lumet nor Federico Fellini nor Orson Welles. It’s a group almost as distinguished as…

There’s an argument to be made that Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), the protagonist of Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” could be the father of Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), the protagonist of Josh and …