Raise a glass to Rebecca Naomi Jones who is now in her final week in Hadestown on Broadway. Watch more of her performance of “Our Lady of the Underground now! Grammy Award winner Allison Russell will be taki…

HADESTOWN returns to San Francisco for a strictly limited one-week engagement from April 21–26, 2026 at the Orpheum Theatre. COME SEE HOW THE WORLD COULD BE. Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change yo…

Old Fire Station, OxfordThings get tense when a newcomer seems to know too much in Karim Khan’s absorbing play Karim Khan’s absorbing Christmas play offers warmth, doubt, uncanny strangers and a generous ha…

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Star-Crossed and West End-Bound Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe will make their West End debuts next spring in Romeo & Juliet. Performances begin March 16…

The Phantom of the Opera is here, there and everywhere. He’s moved on from the Majestic and is taking the longest-running Broadway musical on the road, beginning with performances at the Hippodrome Theatre in…

Soho theatre, LondonThe comedian considers his Brummie and Middle East identities in a polished set about belonging British-Iraqi comedian Hasan Al-Habib’s eye-catching show is about coming from a part of the…

When Soda wails, all our doubt disappears.

Stand Comedy Club, GlasgowAn emergency in the audience halts the gravel-voiced comic’s set but he brings it to an uproarious close in the foyer ‘Why weren’t you like this through there?!” We’re in th…

Alec Baldwin will join Academy Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Doubt) for the world premiere of Outcasts, a special benefit reading in support of The Lee Strasberg…

Ari’el Stachel’s new solo show Other begins on the night he won a Tony Award for The Band’s Visit in 2018. The moment looked like triumph, but beneath the surface he was unraveling. The autobiographical p…

Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonAchilles is a slob and Ajax is a meathead in Owen Horsley’s streamlined production, which is bursting with invention and comic inversions Shakespeare’s take on the Iliad is har…

Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Maxim Didenko delivers Wilde’s version of the biblical tale with a blingy design, topless men in hoods and yodelling Is it morally acceptable to host an Israeli theatre company…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Symbio is regarded as one of the most prominent new bands from the Nordic folk and world music scene. With a magical int…

As for the acting, there’s little doubt that Winter is the most natural (and more experienced) stage actor of the two, more versatile and, when necessary, capable to drawing real pathos from this grim, gorgeo…

As summer winds down with the beach chairs stored away, the last of the ripe tomatoes devoured, and the tans finally faded, we now turn to the fall and those extra special shows to get us excited — and to div…

A new AMC Theaters listing has revealed the runtime for Wicked: For Good. The conclusion of the big-screen movie musical will clock in at 2 hours and 18 minutes, which is a little over 20 minutes less than its …

Robert Redford (1936–2025).September 16, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. Robert Redford died early this morning at age eighty-nine. A major film actor, his star never dimmed once he burst …

Broadway's Chicago will welcome Angela Grovey to the cast in the role of Matron "Mama" Morton. Grovey replaces Jacqueline B. Arnold in the role, beginning performances at the Ambassador Theatre on September …

Chicago will welcome Angela Grovey as “Matron Mama Morton” next week. Grovey will begin performances on Monday, September 15 at the Ambassador Theatre. Angela Grovey has captivated audiences on stage and sc…

Following its award-winning, sold-out debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return has revealed first-look production images of its London premiere The post First Look: Produ…

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nude life-drawing class to a Colombian kidnapping, with help from his Ghosts co-star Lolly Adefope, Smith-Bynoe uses audience members’ stories to comic effect The involvem…

Soho theatre, LondonThe nonconformist TV writer, film-maker, children’s author and standup is hired to find a new colour in this charismatically surreal hour Fans of the former Saturday Night Live writer Juli…

Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh The performers of Emergency Chorus play comic scenes, do a long syncopated dance and throw shapes in an odd two-hander Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit give every impression o…

By Isa Goldberg August 11, 2025: Oddly, Bubba Weiler’s new play at the Irondale Brooklyn, Well, I’ll Let You Go, begins where the story ends …after Marv’s death. Being iconoclastic of structure render…

Traverse theatre, EdinburghIn Hannah Moscovitch’s powerful play, a journalist’s triggered memories of abuse are voiced by a man This two-hander about consent, abuse and the doubt cast over women’s testimo…

The current cast of Hadestown and special Hadestown alumni surprise guests celebrated the 2000th performance of the musical on Broadway last night, August 7. Following curtain call, the cast gave a speech, as w…

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Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles There are spotty moments in the much-discussed Andrew Lloyd Webber revival but by the time the final song kicks in, you’ll be a believer Much like its namesake, Jesus Christ Super…

Broadway's Beanie Feldstein has joined the cast of Focker-In-Law, the upcoming fourth installment in the Meet the Parents comedy series. Feldstein will star in the movie alongside Wicked star Ariana Grande as w…

Last week, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi of Thailand visited Hadestown on Broadway. She attended the show to visit Hadestown cast member Myra Molloy, who plays Eurydice and is originally f…

Donald Trump wants to end the opera component at the Kennedy Center. He’s trying to push through a plan rename the opera house after First Lady Melania Trump. If Congress votes for this, there is no doubt man…

Celebrations for A CHORUS LINE will reverberate and be recognized across the world, where hundreds, if not thousands, of productions have been performed in 22 countries, in multiple languages, and as far-reachi…

The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back? ‘In retrospect, I should hav…

Broadway wilted a bit in last week’s summer heat, with 23 of 30 shows taking a hit at the box office, some significantly. No doubt playing a part in Broadway’s overall decline last week was the July 4th hol…

Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed an abundance of knif…

Leeds PlayhouseChris O’Connor’s comedy-drama unites a paean to former Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa with the story of a married couple living with dementia during the club’s promotion season Leeds United …

Momma Rose is a difficult character to say no to. The Gypsy matriarch tramples on her loving enabler Herbie and pushes shy daughter Louise onto the burlesque stage. Only younger daughter June, who spends years …

The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln When Billy Porter talks, peop…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb During the spring and summer of 2020, The Lowest Pair (Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee) found themselves camping and sharing songs around the fire with two …

Hadestown recently welcomed new stars! Check out a first look at Ali Louis Bourzgui as he sings Orpheus’s “Epic III." Hadestown is playing in its 6th year on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre starring Al…

It's been a few hours. The dust has almost settled, and I've gotten my thoughts together. The good, the bad...the baffling. Some Thoughts on the 2025 Tony Awards The Show The Tony Awards: Act One Preview (P…

Bush theatre, LondonArtistic director Taio Lawson’s Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of a 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory In Danny James King’s Miss Myrtle’s Gar…

Tribute today to burlesque legend Kitty West (Abbie Jewel Slawson, 1930-2019), whose ingenious stage name plants the idea in your head that you’ve heard of her before, no doubt because it sounds like a combin…

Review of the Saturday, May 31, 2025 matinee performance at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Starring Tatianna Cordoba, Justina Machado, Florencia Cuenca, Mauricio Mendoza, Mason Reeves, Ariana Burks, Carla Jimene…

Review of the Friday, May 30, 2025 performance at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City. Starring Natalie Venetia Belcon, Julio Monge, Mel Seme, Jainardo Batista Sterling, Isa Antonetti, Da'von T. Mood…

The Huntington in Boston is presenting a glorious production of Adam Guettel’s masterpiece The Light in the Piazza. Director Loretta Greco has been quoted as saying that this score is the most beautiful in th…

I usually am somewhat wary of “new takes” or “twists” on classic plays, with cause. Changing the time period of a story or modernizing the text is no guarantee that the play will be any fresher or succe…

Carla R. Stewart and Keenan Barrett. All production photos are by Greg Mooney The show: “Millions,” a new musical receiving its world premie…

Review of the Sunday, May 18, 2025 preview performance at Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. Starring Ben Ahlers, Jordan Boatman, Sam Huntsman, Ked Merwin, Adrienne C. Moore and Robbie Tann. A new play by Mat…

Following a sold-out, multi-award-winning debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return is set to embark on a major UK tour

Although we have not previously shown great acuity in Tony prediction, here we are again. Hope springs eternal! This year’s list of Tony nominees reveals a healthy, exciting season. Looking at who wasn’t no…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable is a brilliant indictment of organized religion and the negativity attached to innuendo and gossip. While …

The administration’s 2026 budget comes at a time when the future of NEA staff and grant programs remains in doubt.

“Buena Vista Social Club” has reason to celebrate with its ten Tony nominations announced today.May 1, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler It’s always a thrill for me to read the Tony nomin…

Review of the Saturday, April 26, 2025 matinee performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. Starring Jeremy Jordan, with Jason Gotay, Sean Allan Krill, Kevin Bernard, Lizzie Mc…

The actor, 49, talks about his royal heritage, earliest memory, hard times in a hostel, four gifted kids and what happened when he met Sidney Poitier David, you are going to walk among kings.” This was my mum…

“Splish Splash.” “Mack the Knife.” “Dream Lover.” No doubt Bobby Darin’s songs have been part of our cultural fabric for almost 70 years. But beyond the hits, Darin was a charismatic and versatile…

If producers ever had any doubt of a celebrity’s effect on the box office, they need only look at this current theater season to see ticket prices. Popular movie star George Clooney is packing the Winter Gard…

Two-time Tony winner, six-time Emmy winner and Olivier winner Bryan Cranston will reunite with director Ivo van Hove in a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in London’s West End in late 2025. The sho…

Tatianna Córdoba and Justina Machado (Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) There’s plenty of drama in the new musical Real Women Have Curves, which centers on Latina seamstresses in a struggling East L…

Ramin Karimloo, Jinkx Monsoon, and David Hyde Pierce lead the crew in Pirates! The Penzance Musical, this must-see Roundabout reimagining of The Pirates of Penzance. Scott Ellis (Doubt; Kiss Me, Kate) directs a…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré has removed any doubt about whether it could creatively pull off  the first local production of Jersey Boys.  In …

No doubt about: The big guns of Broadway’s spring season are arriving fast and furious, and boosting box office figures from receipts to ticket prices. Another newcomer – Good Night, And Good Luck, starring…

She’s just a girl who liked something she saw on arch-conservative Tucker Carlson’s streaming show. Gwen Stefani, onetime frontwoman of the pop-punk band No Doubt, is taking fire from fans after she “gush…

As Ashland’s theater season kicks in, an actor does double duty without a doubt Jim FlintDaniel Molina, who will be in "Shane" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this summer, gets an early start in Rogue Thea…

There’s no doubt we’re at the starting line of an exciting spring season, with 18 plays and musicals set to open before the April 27 Tony Awards eligibility cutoff. With five of those shows welcoming audien…

Tron theatre, GlasgowJemima Levick’s superb production sets Arthur Miller’s tale of family, immigration, poverty and passion in the modern-day Brooklyn docks Is it an innocent domestic moment or a portent o…

FAILURELAND by Dani Stoller March 3 & 10 For tickets visit https://www.sigtheatre.org Right as she is about to submit her college applications, Tori falters and questions her ability and worth. Suddenly, she�…

There's no doubt about what moment in Hadestown is Jessie Shelton's favorite! Listen as she answers this and other fan submitted questions.

Oldham Coliseum at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldhamafshan d’souza-lodhi’s play, commissioned to celebrate the saved-from-closure Coliseum, fails to rise to the occasion Seven months after the Oldham Coliseu…

Hal Holbrook on the left and his alter ego, Mark Twain, on the right.February 18, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Yesterday marked 100 years since the birth of Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr., the …

Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker and Grammy Award nominee Merle Dandridge join the cast of Hadestown at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on February 18. Known for originating roles on Broadway in Shrek: …

Review of the Saturday, February 8, 2025 matinee at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. Starring Audra McDonald, Danny Burstein, Joy Woods, Jordan Tyson, Kevin Csolak, Lesli Margherita, Lili Thomas and Mylin…

Ustinov, BathIn an emphatic production that prowls around the mess of human motive, Peake’s Sister Aloysius doggedly pursues a suspicion of abuse John Patrick Shanley’s play first appeared in 2004, the era …

Rainn Wilson is an amateur sociologist of geek culture, and he has a working theory: “The theater geek is the king of the geek food chain.” He would know, as someone who’s identified as most every link�…

Few could doubt this satire's relevance, given the alarming results of November’s election: a convicted felon, whose minions lean into racist and sexist tropes, is back in the White House.

  5 Favorite Classic Musicals of the 1960s  Last month, one of our Friday 5 lists was our Favorite Classic Musicals of the 1950s, and now we move into the decade of love and the end of Broadway's Golden Era…

George S. Kaufman, as photographed by Edward Steichen (1930).January 23, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler It’s a pity that today, for the most part, George S. Kaufman is largely forgotten. …

Cary Grant, actor ((1904–1986).Born 121 years ago today, Cary Grant is far from a forgotten figure. His excellent work as an actor could easily have faded from popular culture like many film stars of Hollywoo…