Loneliness and love, two subtle but powerful constructs that rule the world and our senses, making us all act foolish and desperate at times, mostly because many of us don’t really know the true meaning of ei…

The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: CSC’s Bus Stop By Ross Loneliness and love, two subtle but powerful constructs that rule the world and our senses, making us all act foolish and desperate at times, mostly bec…

Midori Francis and Rajesh Bose in Bus Stop. Bus Stop, William Inge’s slice-of-life drama set during a snowstorm, has no shortage of dialogue, …

By David Sheward June 10, 2025: Donald Margulies’ tender and moving new play Lunar Eclipse from Second Stage at the Signature Theater Center, is a simple, direct depiction of a long marriage, the elusivenes…

By Isa Goldberg May 27, 2025: A playful revival of William Inge’s 1955 play, Bus Stop, at Classic Stage Company makes for a cheerful confection. Watching the classic film starring Marilyn Monroe with a cas…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about the Chita Rivera Awards and Outer Critics Circle Award Winners. Reviews include Bus Stop @ CSC, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole @ New York Theatr…

Delicate performances, including a star turn from Midori Francis, elevate this obvious play. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Bus Stop at Classic Stage Company appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

A respectful revival brings this play about the agonies of love and sex vibrantly to life.

Intimacy is at the heart of this rare revival of William Inge’s 1955 play, about stranded passengers learning from one another and about themselves.

Midori Francis leads the Classic Stage Company, NAATCO, and Transport Group co-production.

Grace’s Diner, the setting for William Inge’s classic, slice of life drama, Bus Stop, serves homemade pies and cakes. But the customers and wait staff who find themselves stranded overnight at this Kansas e…

★★★★☆ Jack Cummings III directs the insightful comical, dramatic work about made and missed connections, with grade-A cast The post Bus Stop: William Inge’s Tony-Nominated Work on a Loving Return Tr…

A lot of time has passed since William Inge’s Bus Stop first pulled into New York theaters in 1955 with its snapshot of salt-of-the-earth folks waylaid by a bad weather for a few hours in a greasy spoon west …

Bus Stop – 17 May 2025 William Inge’s Bus Stop is a slice of life play set at a bus stop diner in the middle of a storm in Kansas City. The bus is stuck in the ice, and the passengers are stuck in the diner…

Midori Francis leads the co-production between Classic Stage Company, NAATCO, and Transport Group.

The William Inge play is making an NYC return in a co-production between Classic Stage Company, NAATCO, and Transport Group.

Actress Kim Stanley (1925–2001).February 11, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler The actress Kim Stanley (born Patricia Reid) was born 100 years ago today. On Broadway in 1950s, alongside Julie…

In addition to two previously announced works (Split, in September 2024, with tickets currently on sale; and William Inge’s Bus Stop in 2025), Transport Group’s 2024-2025 season also includes workshops of B…

Tony Award winner LaChanze will direct Alice Childress' Wine in the Wilderness in her New York directorial debut. The production is part of Classic Stage Company's 2024-25 season, which will also include Will…

The Off-Broadway company has unveiled its complete 2024-2025 season.

Sherman theatre, CardiffThere’s no shortage of smart ideas in Bethan Marlow’s drama of adolescent awakening in rural Wales, but they whiz by before they really develop There isn’t much that feels particul…

Don Murray, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance opposite Marilyn Monroe in the 1956 film adaptation of William Inge’s play “Bus Stop,” has died. He was 94. His son Christopher confirmed h…

An Oscar-nominated role opposite Marilyn Monroe in “Bus Stop” led to a long career in film and TV and onstage, in productions that grappled with race, drugs, homosexuality and more.

Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, LondonSet aboard a double-decker as it journeys through London and back and forth in time, this is a poignant but uplifting immersive theatre piece about race, the …

OK THIS goes on my FAVORITES list. When Edelman drops us off at the final bus stop you realize we have doubled back around to the beginning.  He leaves us where he found us, except we are the wiser for it.

Swansea Grand theatreRichard Mylan’s grim narratives are filled with sympathy and compassion, lifted by Sophie Melville’s all-consuming and fearless performance As noted in a programme glossary, Sorter take…

January 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Though the Tony Awards have been handed out since 1948, the citing of nominees didn’t enter the mix until 1956. Since then, as many as two, three…

"Roles and Rules of Comedy," six short comedic bits of fluff written and directed by Harold Dean James is a character-driven view of contemporary New York City.  Presented at the elegant Players Club on Gramer…

Today, we start a new series that is strictly to the letter. Our new series, Broadway From A to Z, will look at the people, shows and history of The Great Bright Way! Obviously, each month, we'll only be able …

CentrE17, LondonKilter’s touring production invites audiences of one or two to watch a quartet of short monologues performed inside a hut Last June, with England’s venues closed due to the pandemic, if you…

This Week in Broadway History: March 2 - 8 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭 Bus Stop March 2, 1955: The new William Inge play, Bus Stop, opens at the Music Box, and stars Kim Stanley and Elaine Stritch. March 2…

Review: The Bus Stop, Traverse Theatre3.0Overall ScoreThe Bus Stop centres around the story of Jack, a young wheelchair user who is the victim of a cruel disability hate crime. The fallout causes Jack immense s…

In MOVING PEOPLE: Daniel Gwirtzman on Maintaining a Company for 20+ Years, Optimism as a Choice, and His Love of the Polka, the Charleston, and The Hora Or, "I can’t say I have a favorite movement. Favorite…

The Genesian Theatre Company is thrilled to have found a new home only one bus stop over the Anzac bridge from their current Kent St location! Plans are underway for the fit out of a brand new theatre space in …

The Genesian Theatre Company is thrilled to have found a new home only one bus stop over the Anzac bridge

So there is Lin-Manuel Miranda, ten years before “Hamilton,” three years before even “In The Heights,” galloping across the street to join his fellow members of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop improv …

A few weeks ago I was at a bus stop staring at my phone at about 9pm. The odd thing about that

Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterThis collection of short plays by women features vivid characters and bears the bruises of the patriarchy Vignettes is an apt title for HER Productions’ collection of new short pl…

The Sound Inside, a new play by Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp, officially opens on October 17 at Studio 54. Tony-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker stars in the production, directed by Tony winner David Cromer, w…

Usually I turn around tributes to deceased artists as fast as I possibly can, but I got the news about Ric Ocasek on the way back from a performance last night, at a bus stop in Queens, in the throes of a split…

Tony-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker returns to the Great White Way on September 14, headlining Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp's new play The Sound Inside. Tony winner David Cromer directs the New York premie…

Like this month's Mr. Broadway, Ms. Broadway September 2019 has amassed an impressive, critically-acclaimed, award-winning resume of acting credits. She is remarkable in every media, of course, but how fortunat…

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Tickets are now on sale for the Broadway premiere of Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp's drama The Sound Inside at Studio 54. Tony winner David Cromer will direct the production, set to begin previews on September 1…

Mary-Louise Parker is returning to the Great White Way. The Tony- and Emmy-winning actress will headline The Sound Inside, a new play by Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp, who will make his Broadway debut with this…

Aldersgate Church Community Theater presents Bus Stop, by William Inge. Written in 1955, this production follows a group of strangers who find themselves stranded together overnight after being hit by a blizzar…

Well, Toto, we are in Kansas now—at least for the duration of this reverent revival of ‘Bus Stop’ by William Inge. The Aldersgate Church Community Theatre does a lovely job of bringing this story to life,…

Judith Ingber-Off-Broadway: The Seagull (New York Classical Theatre). Regional: Life Sucks world premiere (Theatre J), Yentl music and lyrics by Jill Sobule (Theatre J),&…

From opera to bus stop signs, Insiders/Outsiders will tell the stories of arts figures who fled NazisThey are far from household names but perhaps should be: Fritz Busch, Carl Ebert and Rudolf Bing in the field…

Paula Wayne, the golden-voiced leading lady of Broadway’s Golden Boy, died on November 9 at her South Florida home. She was 84 and had battled pancreatic cancer in recent years. Raised in Hobart, Oklahom…

Ron Canada (Director/Executive Producer) was born and raised in NYC. His directing credits include "The Invested" (4th Street Theater, NY), "Lights Up on the Fade Out" (Lillian Theatre, CA), "The Maids" (CAP Th…

The Studio, EdinburghStewart Laing sensitively takes Édouard Louis’s groundbreaking coming-of-age story from page to stageWhen Édouard Louis was growing up in a poor working-class village in the north of Fr…

Eclipse Theatre Company’s William Inge season continues with this 1955 play about getting lost in order to get found.

“This is the Plains, a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the blues” says Barbara, the eldest daughter of the Oklahoma Weston clan in Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County.” William In…

Bus Stop - Eclipse Theatre Company at The Athenaeum (2936 N. Southport Ave. Chicago). $10 industry tickets for all previews on July 12th, 13th and 14th at 7:30pm and $15 industry tickets for Thursday July 19th …

Stephen Payne has joined the cast of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men as Ed, replacing Tony nominee Denis Arndt, who has left the production due to "creative differences." This news comes …

Soho theatre, London Open Clasp’s hard-hitting and sophisticated production shines a light on all-too invisible domestic abuseYou might meet James anywhere. In a bar, like Suzy (Christina Berriman Dawson) did…

Two worlds collide at a bus stop. Martin Robert Hayes is a young professional whose life clashes with Leila Helena Westerman, a bubbly and energetic 23-year-old woman who works in a coffee shop and hates it. He…

His plays aren’t produced with much regularity these days, but novelist and playwright William Inge left behind a tremendous body of work, including Come Back, Little Sheba, Bus Stop (my personal fave from In…

When we first catch sight of her, waiting at a Greyhound Bus stop in the mountain hamlet of Spruce Pine, North Carolina (which actually exists, by the way), the eponymous 25-year-old heroine of Violet looks lik…

Billy Crudup has landed a new stage role! The Tony winner will star in Harry Clarke, a new solo play by David Cale, set to play off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre. The previously announced production…

An Act of Kindness by new London theatre company Rascal Theatre takes place at a London bus stop. This is where Leila and Martin meet. Leila, a waitress, takes the bus to work here every day. Martin is only her…

  Stop, the Oxford University Drama Society’s national touring show, was created by students with help from French musical theatre composer and producer Claude-Michel Schönberg, known for such internati…

BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature SPRING AWAKENING in…

The absence of Alec Baldwin's Trump did nothing to slow the hilarity in Saturday Night Live's cold open this week.

JEFF WISE (Director) is an actor, director and producer in NYC.  He most recently collaborated with Slant Theatre Project as a producer on the World Premiere of Lawrence Dial’s In the Room. Directing: Ro…

An Act of Kindness, written by Helena Westerman, is a two-hander with Westerman herself playing 22-year-old bohemian free-spirit Leila, and Robert Hayes as businessman and alpha male Martin. The entirety of the…

Only Victoria Wood could write a line like: ‘And where has it got you, having a pelvic floor like a bulldog clip?’ Her comic creations – from scallop-faced punks to menopausal dinnerladies – will live f…

Opens at 59E59 Theaters for a limited run through April 16. Happily After Ever, a hilarious new play by Brooklyn native Laura Zlatos, opened at 59E59 Theaters for a limited run through April 16th.  The se…

Marin Ireland & Morgan Spector. Photo by Sandra CoudertMartyna Majok's new play Ironbound slyly lures you in with a well-set snare.  She gets you comfortable watching a couple fight.  The dialogue…

Baggage Bound to Repeat Itself in Relationships By: Lauren Yarger Three time frames intersect at one location – a bus stop in Elizabeth, NJ in Martyna Majok’s study of relationships and their baggage in a …

The actress Marin Ireland can do no wrong in my book and she shows why that's so in Ironbound, a drama about a Polish immigrant that's playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater through April 24. The probl…

Marin Ireland and Moragn Spector. Photo Sandra CoudertBaggage Bound to Repeat Itself in RelationshipsBy Lauren YargerThree time frames intersect at one location – a bus stop in Elizabeth, NJ in Martyna Majok�…

Shiloh Fernandez and Marin Ireland in Ironbound (©Sandra Coudert) Playwright Martyna Majok distills a Polish woman's tumultuous and difficult life in America to absorbing effect in the new play Ironbound…

    by Samuel L. Leiter   One thing Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok’s terrifically acted, verbally charged, but dramatically slack Ironbound—a coproduction of the Rattlestick Playwrights…

Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok’s rich play about a poor immigrant feels always on the move, deter…

Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok’s rich play about a poor immigrant feels always on the move, deter…