Michelle Williams portrays a former prostitute in a play that was so bold when Eugene O’Neill wrote it that critics objected on moral grounds when it won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, but it is now so da…

André De Shields is Tartuffe, a boldly reimagined production of Moliere’s classic starring Tony Award winner André De Shields, will celebrate opening night tonight, October 9. See photos and video here! The…

After decades of scandalous neglect, the late American choreographer Gerald Arpino (1923-2008) is at last receiving his due, in a two-week festival devoted to his works, September 30 to October 12, at the Joyce…

All new photos have been released from the opening night of André De Shields is Tartuffe. The production runs through November 23 at New York's House of the Redeemer. Check out the photos below! Joining Mr. De…

Hulu has dropped a new trailer for All's Fair, the new legal drama series from TV guru Ryan Murphy. The trailer for the highly anticipated series showcases the all-star cast led by Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watt…

André De Shields is Tartuffe, a boldly reimagined production of Moliere’s classic starring Tony Award winner André De Shields, will celebrate opening night tonight, October 9. See photos and video here! The…

“The Importance of Being Earnest,” a comedy written in 1895, would seem to have little chance of remaining relevant or funny after so many years, but Oscar Wilde’s brilliant play does just that. Although …

I am so excited to catch up with legendary Actress Jennifer Bassey who is known for her over 30-year run as Marian Colby on ABC's Soap Opera, All My Children. Jennifer’s illustrious career has taken her to t…

Original Broadway Cast, 2013 (Shout! Broadway) Carolee Carmello was tasked with carrying this show in the role of charismatic evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, playing the character from age 15 to 50. One of B…

When the late New Yorker movie writer, Lillian Ross, revealed the story of her affair with the magazine’s fabled editor, it blew the minds of the literati. Now the late William Shawn’s son, actor and writer…

All theater-going society is acquainted with “The Importance of Being Earnest” by British wit and aesthete Oscar Wilde, perhaps the finest and funniest comedy of manners ever written. But fewer people know …

This October, Tony Award winner and Broadway Deity André de Shields will transform House of the Redeemer when he leads a new production of Molière’s Tartuffe. In this strictly limited engagement, exclusivel…

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Footballers’ Wives: The Musical at Assembly Rooms "a sassy, scandalous triumph that scores big on drama and laughs" The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Footballers’ Wives: The Musical…

The Crow’s Theatre and The Musical Stage Company’s co-production of Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy has been one of the highlights of the 2023/24 Toronto theatre season. After pla…

It’s a common assumption people take things slower in the South. They’re more relaxed, they spend more time chit-chatting, sipping sweet tea and manners are crucial — everyone says, “sir” and “ma’…

Hulu has dropped the first teaser trailer for All's Fair, a new legal drama series from TV guru Ryan Murphy. Soundtracked to a rendition of Chicago's "Cell Block Tango," the teaser also showcases the all-star c…

Stephen Ward opened in London at the Aldwych Theatre in 2013. The musical delves into the infamous 1960s society figure Stephen Ward and his scandalous affair and trial.

Colman Domingo will be making his directorial debut with Scandalous, a new Miramax film about old Hollywood starring Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson. The film, which takes place in 1957, centers on the love af…

Royal Court Theatre, LondonSophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the life of the author As debut plays go, Giant has some very old and experienced hands behin…

Three-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello will play Kimberly in the national tour of Kimberly Akimbo. As previously announced, the national tour will kick off in Denver, Colorado on September 22, playing more th…

By: Isa Goldberg April 17, 2024: The scandalous, and dangerous life of art deco artist, Lempicka fuels this exciting new Broadway musical. And a smashing Broadway debut for the writers Carson Kreitzer and Ma…

Today is the birthday of the great showman Flo Ziegfeld — seemed like the proper time to let you know about The Ziegfeld Girls Revue, playing at the The Green Room 42 (and livestreaming) on April 13. Presente…

The Crow’s Theatre and The Musical Stage Company’s co-production of Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy has been one of the highlights of the 2023/24 Toronto theatre season. After pla…

Ambassadors theatre, LondonA timid midwesterner adopts a geezerish British persona in David Cale’s often shrewdly observed yet meandering monologue Harry Clark is the former lance corporal from Slough who lie…

Hello, show tune lovers! Today's game is all about songs from Broadway musicals that opened in the 2010s - not that long ago! You've probably at least heard of most of the shows included here, but how familiar …

Charlie Barnett's new musical comedy explores a scandalous affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton after the filming of Cleopatra.

Perisphere Theatre’s production of “Hazardous Material” by Beth Kander paints a post-World War II, Lavender Scare-era portrait of two women whose “scandalous” behavior sets the tone for their friendsh…

WHILE THE REAL ONE RUNS…. With the Covid Inquiry surging along in a froth of accusations and curses and scandalous Whatsappery, it was hard to resist a hasty day-return to Harry Davies’ debut play at Chiche…

IATSE is the latest joins the effort to pass the Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA).

A SCANDALOUS WOMAN IN A STORMY WORLD       A distant thunder of naval artillery: against elegant panelled walls in Naples a bundled matron   in a bonnet watches her flighty daughter toss her ringlets, finis…

Taylor Mac’s Absurdist Tragedy Faces Despair with Jokes by K. Marguerite Caronna Murder, mayhem, dismemberment, cruelty toward women, all drive Taylor Mac’s answer to Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy. At Oakl…

Emily King (she/her/her) is a Lyricist/Director who has worked for many years as a writer and editor in the recording industry for RCA Victor and Sony Classics, assisting in the recording of more than 25 Broad…

The show: “White Girl in Danger” at the Tony Kiser Theater (305 West 43rd St.) in New York What makes it special?: The follow-up musical by Michael R. Jackson who won a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize for …

The complete cast is set for the Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bad Cinderella. The musical, which is set to begin performances at the Imperial Theatre on February 17, 2023 and open on March 23,…

Julia May Jonas makes a thrilling Lincoln Center debut.

Hey All! It's another beautiful fall Prop Table Tuesday. First up, I correct a glaring mistake from last week's video. D'oh! Then I share a super fun, very sparkly prop from a mega Broadway flop. My kinda item …

As his new version of Alfred Jarry’s scandalous Ubu Roi is staged in Spain, the innovative director considers the collision of the terrifying and the comic Somewhere between revisiting his first encounter wit…

‘Boris’ favoured pixie dust rather than trust, and barefaced lies rather than resignation with honour More panto than Pericles. As the curtain comes down early on yet another prime ministerial performance, …

Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThis semi-autobiographical tale about the impact of a damaging relationship is empathic and impassioned At first, you think this piece of gig theatre is more gig than theatre. …

Works that once horrified European audiences are now centerpieces of the drama offerings at the tony Austrian festival.

They’ve supercharged Shakespeare, staged impossible novels and stunned with scandalous cinema adaptations. Internationaal Theater Amsterdam reveal their radical secrets Ivo van Hove, director: I’m from a sm…

Dictating to the Estate uses documentary evidence to tell a story of everyday heroism and scandalous political neglect While the nation commences its parties for the Queen’s Jubilee this weekend, there is ano…

During the height of my teenage theatergoing years, which occurred between 1969 and 1973, I was never happier than when I would pore over the New York Times’ ABC’s Directory in order to plan out my schedule…

Ebony and Pamela have Joe McDonnell join their podcast this week to gossip about the very early stages of Urinetown: The Musical, as well as some scandalous happenings later on in it's run! Learn more

Eccentric, scandalous, provocative, exuberant, and funny as ever, Jean Paul Gaultier is set to shake up London this summer when his stunning creation, Fashion Freak Show – 50 years of pop culture through the …

  The Washington Stage Guild has produced a thoughtful and handsome meditation on women’s choices and society’s limits and judgments. Playwright George Bernard Shaw also cleverly focuses on the judgments w…

Vintage Tony Award, prior to its eventual pedestal.Okay, there was never any such thing as a 1944 Tonys. But the awards junkie in me had this thought and decided, for the fun of it, to attempt a peer into the c…

A combative NYC mayoral election in 1929, with allegations of voter fraud, money laundering, and pay-offs, scandalous affairs and mob connections, provides the inspiration for the all-new fully immersive partic…

The intimacy of Southwark Playhouse and some judicious rewriting by director Ricky Dukes creates a more focused, stylised production of Wilde’s scandalous take on the story of Salomé.

Rachel Crothers is widely recognized as what editor Keith Newlin called "the most successful and prolific woman dramatist writing in the first part of the twentieth century." Hannah Rittner and director Megan W…

Rich Little as Richard Nixon. Photo: Steve Bergman Trial on the Potomac By George Bugatti Directed by Josh Iacovelli Theater at St. Clement's Through Sept. 4, 2021 By Lauren Yarger We all remember the scan…

This Week in Broadway History: June 15 - 21 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭  June 15, 1995: One of the 90s most interesting and underrated musicals, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, opened at the Plymouth Theatre, …

(Larry Getlen’s article appeared in the New York Post, 5/21; via the Drudge Report;  Photo: the New York Post.) Before she became America’s sweetheart, Lucille Ball’s path to stardom was filled with gang…

By Douglas Mayo Dead Lies Tour - The world premiere of a scandalous thriller penned by acclaimed crime novelist Hilary Bonner announced from September 2021. This post Dead Lies Tour – Tour schedule announced …

1+2+2+1 (+2+1+1) Audition Monologues for Clue Written by Amanda Grace October 21, 2020 Take the guesswork out of auditioning for Sandy Rustin’s staging of Jonathan Lynn’s murder mystery! These monolo…

Ingenious BBC1 series follows a fictional MP with many a skeleton in his closet

The Bridge, LondonIn this warm monologue, Inua Ellams recalls his journey from Nigeria to London to shed light on Britain’s asylum system There is a wonderful sense of release as Inua Ellams runs freely aroun…

Fresh off earning his first Emmy nomination for his performance as screenwriter Archie Coleman in Netflix's Hollywood, two-time Tony nominee Jeremy Pope is teaming up with Hollywood and Pose director and exe…

The Hollywood Emmy nominee will star as Sammy Davis Jr. in the upcoming film.

Jeremy Pope and Janet Mock have teamed up for the upcoming film Scandalous! 

With the good comes the bad. And there were some really bad shows over the past ten seasons. (Turns out 2015 was lousy with lousy shows!) What is interesting in looking back at these shows is the sheer talent …

Emma Palzere-Rae performs an excerpt of her one-woman play, The Woodhull Project, about 1872 Presidential candidate, Victoria Woodhull. Toast the Vote! Join the CT Chapter of the League of Professional T…

Review: Scenes For Survival - Larchview, National Theatre of Scotland4.0StarsReader Rating 0 VotesNow who in this country could ever forget the scandalous misdemeanours of Dominic Cummings and his trip to Durha…

Three decades after co-founding Virginia's Signature Theatre, Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will retire from his position and depart the company. Signature Theatre released a statement from Schaeffer on Jun…

This Storyville documentary charts the history, glory years and notoriety of the muck-raking paper

The Victorian artist was both a scandalous self-promoter and influential modernist, a new documentary reveals

SEVEN SINS is a delightful descent into our shadow selves and the mischievous curiosity that erupts from self exploration. This bawdy Baroque Burlesque entices us to contemplate our “fall from grace” at the…

A crumbling society, an unstable political milieu, and the uncontrollability of desire are all starkly reflected in Victorian Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’ Salome at St Kilda’s Palais Theatre…

John Collins Makes Stage Magic with The Great Gatsby by Barry David Horwitz “Gatz” has everything—love, passion, party, class conflict, car culture, and self-involvement. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s scandalou…

If you thought David O’Russell’s biographical-drama Joy, a film which followed the trials and tribulations of miracle-mop entrepreneur Joy Mangano, had the most obscure origin story, then think again. Told …

Off-Broadway’s Lady G: Plays and Whisperings of Lady Gregory unearths the fascinating story of the turn-of-the-20th century ”rockstar” and leader of Irish theatre.

Porgy and Bess is headed back to the big screen. A new movie musical adaptation of the 1935 American folk opera is in the works from MGM, according to Deadline. Oscar nominee Dee Rees will adapt the screenplay …

Porgy and Bess is headed back to the big screen. A new movie musical adaptation of the 1935 American folk opera is in the works from MGM, according to Deadline. Oscar nominee Dee Rees will adapt the screenplay …

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Lydia Locke (1884-1966) “rose to prominence in the early 1900s, when mass celebrity was still a relatively new concept. But the American soprano embraced the label, making news both for her performances at th…

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Alison Luff to Lead Wrestling Drama Series on Starz Alison Luff, the Broadway star most recently seen as Jenna in Waitress, has been cast in the …

Three-time Tony Nominee Carolee Carmello is one of my favorite Broadway stars! Every time I see her perform, I am transported to another world where her heavenly voice lifts me high up above the clouds. When I …

I was at a distinct disadvantage when I saw A Christmas Story: The Musical. I had never seen A Christmas Story: The Movie! The good news is, the musical was wonderful, and though I may not have been able to ant…