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, Paige offers a whole range of show tunes, inclu…
Today is New York City’s 400th birthday. The official celebration seems to have been pegged to 1609/2009, the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s exploration of the area around what is no…
Matt reviews the Broadway production of ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Patreon: BroadwayRadiohttps://www.patreon.com/broadwayradio For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@b…
Leeds PlayhouseDash Arts’ community-inspired production finds warmth and urgency in the local pub – even if its theatrical elements don’t always cohereThe English pub is the perfect cr…
Having enjoyed breakout fame on Taskmaster and Last One Laughing, the subversive Australian comic has been handed the reins of his own, very strange sitcom. Get ready for feet animations and…
69 Humber Street, HullMarc Graham’s debut stretches from festival short to full-length play, tackling inheritance, class and familial resentment with plenty of theatrical confidenceThere a…
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Memorial Day may unofficially begin the Hamptons season, though the real social calendar explodes between now and the end of June. This is the sweet spot before July traffic becomes psycholo…
The Outer Critics Circle Awards continued their celebration of the 2025–2026 Broadway and Off-Broadway season with an afternoon that felt equal parts theatrical reunion, victory lap, and e…
Atlantic Theater Company and Rattlestick Theatre Off-Broadway premiere of Indian Princesses arrives carrying the weight of multiple conversations before the lights even dim. Written by Elia…
Jessica Vosk and Kelli Barrett star in the screen-to-stage musical.
TV stars Mariska Hargitay and Tracee Ellis Ross are waiting in the wings to succeed the Tony winner.
The longtime playwright earned her first Tony Award nomination for the “savage comedy.”
The venerated ballroom choreographers have made their mark on Broadway.
THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA York Walker’s Southern Gothic keeps its secrets close and its audience on edge “Everybody got a secret” That is the line that opens Covenant, the grippin…
A CITY BUILT TO BE SEEN FROM THE WATER Chicago’s celebrated architecture tour transforms familiar landmarks into a living history lesson For tourists, cruising the Chicago River on a top-r…
OLD SONGS GET NEW LIFE FROM TALENTED YOUNG GUYS WHO ARE OLD SOULS Zip and zing with musical fizz and sparkle Hooray! They’re back!! Bryce Edwards—the mercurial, merry multi-talented, m…
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Over forty years ago, I directed Paul Zindel’s drama “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” so I made every effort look at Caro Dubberly’s vision for Silver Spring…
Heather Christian's 'Animal Wisdom,' is her profound musical requiem of mourning and expiation in a rich ceremonial tribute to spiritual familial influences.
The trials and downfall of groundbreaking 1960s counterculture comedian Lenny Bruce is a fascinating story judging from the success of Julian Barry’s play "Lenny," Bob Fosse’s film versi…
Today’s new Travalanche posts for May 23, 2026 are about Douglas Fairbanks and a new book about the Flying Karamazov Brothers. Also it’s World Wrestling Day: check out the wrestling sect…
off-Broadway – venue at 218 West 57 Street. April 29-Dec. 31, 2026. Musical. Book: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics: Charles Hart w/ Richard Stil…
A must see if you are interested in Lenny Bruce. I thank Anthony Marsellis for making this interview happen. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYseQ93SFN_/?igsh=ZHV5cXdlMjNvdDg2 A Corine�…
With one look, Nicole continues to captivate audiences. Recorded in October 2025, Nicole Scherzinger made her Royal Albert Hall debut in London in a special performance filmed for PBS. Ba…
As promised in our previous post, today we proffer a little funding air to help navigate our numerous posts related to the career of silent screen star Douglas Fairbanks. Essays Fairbanks in…
Yes, yes not the Dostoevsky ones, the Flying ones, the ones who juggle! I had known that Flying Karamazov Brother Howard Patterson had a memoir in the works because I’ve had the pleasure o…
Hollywood has reinvented its core model at least six times in a century. The nonprofit arts model has reinvented itself exactly once. Now there may no choice. But what's the case?
First produced on Broadway in 1972, directed and choreographed by the legendary Bob Fosse (with book by Roger O. Hirson and music by Stephen Schwartz), “Pippin” retains every ounce of it…
The first thing to know about Lantern Theater Company’s Franklinland is that the direction is solid, the actors first-rate, and their back-and-forth conversations are punchy and funny. The…
In the nine years between 1974 and 1983, some 30,000 Argentinians disappeared in a meticulous campaign of state-sanctioned erasure. Anyone seen as a threat to the right-wing military leaders…
Currently playing at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at Pershing Square Signature Center, Heather Christian’s “Animal Wisdom” is a self-described “requiem within a requiem” th…
For a long time, relatively few people knew the name Aphra Behn. That a 17th-century woman ever made her living as a playwright was a fact lost to literary obscurity. In the centuries that f…
Kate Hamill Camps Up Dracula with Victorian Vamps by Mary Lou Herlihy In a wildly entertaining goth romp, we join freedom fighting feminists, taking revenge on monstrous men. Dracula, the wo…
The claws and fangs and Schmigs were out this week as the race to the Tony Awards heated up.
The concert with the Tony-winning Sunset Blvd. star was recorded at Royal Albert Hall.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2027 season will range from "Hamlet" to the broad comedy of "Shrek the Musical," with the world-premiere comedy "A Loco-Motive for Murder" and more in the n…
There’s a small handful of other performers with a May 22 birthday I have the option of writing about this morning, but I’ve chosen instead to fill in a little gap in our existing Traval…
The entertainer had stepped away from producing his event in 2015 amid health issues: "My mission is simple: bring joy and fun to the world and help inspire people through weight loss, welln…
Original Broadway Cast, 2011 (Ghostlight) The presence of leading men Aaron Tveit and Norbert Leo Butz guaranteed high expectations for this stage musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s …
What to Watch: Musicals Plus: Behind the scenes of Broadway, a new “Rising Artist” episode and a look at immersive art. THE ALL ARTS NEWSLETTER You’re reading a post from the ALL ARTS…
Below are the 14 most-read posts over the 14 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me on May 23, 2012, as well as a separate list of the 14 most popular posts in the 14th year of the site, w…
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in a podcast with Wong, whose solo show from Portland Center Stage and Boom Arts combines comedy with the serious plight for many of access to food.
Dirty Books – 21 May 2026 An immersive dive into Comstock’s anti-obscenity crusade, Dirty Books is a playful, imaginative look at the forbidden fruits of hedonism. Centering around two c…
The London England Theatre Review: Jinkx Monsoon delivers a thrilling and emotionally bruising portrait of Judy Garland in Rupert Hands’ haunting revival By Ross “Madness,” our descrip…
Broadway keeps chugging along, and so do we. Yes, awards are silly, even stupid. Yes, the choice of Pink is bizarre. But predicting winners is fun, and a yearly review of Broadway is always …
Deposit slips, vintage ledgers and more: David Korins’s Tony-nominated, 27,000-pound set for “Dog Day Afternoon” is as much a technical feat as a 1970s throwback.
Fans are traveling great distances for the chance to meet Tom Felton, who has revived a now grown-up Draco Malfoy on Broadway in “Harry Potter and The Cursed Child.”
This week, we bid a fond farewell to our beloved Bill Kurtis with Brandi Carlile and panelists Luke Burbank, Negin Farsad, and Paula PoundstoneSee pcm.adswizz.com for information about our c…
