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…

New Haven Theater Company has had some success with ensemble-based shows about American small-town communities, including "Our Town" and "Almost, Maine." William Inge's "Bus Stop," about a bunch of regular folk…

After an acclaimed run off-Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club last summer, Heisenberg will transfer to the Great White Way. Directed by Mark Brokaw, the two-hander is set to once again star Tony winner Mary-Lou…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: when Broadway stars fill the streets of New York singing Christmas carols and raid the Steinway & Sons on Sixth Ave. Tony nominee Laura Bell Bundy joined forc…

From ice skating to Christmas shopping to festive spices wafting from restaurants, New York City is in full holiday swing.Below, stroll through the decoration-lined streets of New York with stage vetsLaura Bell…

This is some off-Broadway lineup to look forward to! Larry Pine, Rich Sommer, Paul Sparks and Nat Wolff will join the previously reported Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Taissa Farmiga in Buried Child. Directed…

There’s no word for “no” in Japanese, which is probably why I am sitting by the bus stop at Tokyo airport about to head to Shinjuku to see Studio Life’s new production of Phantom the untold story design…

Below, BWW brings you anexclusive episode premiere of the seriesfeaturing Cheyenne Jackson titled 'Broadway Bus Stop'. In the episode, Laura runs into fellow Broadway stars and they break into song.

George Morfogen (Oz) and more have been enlisted for the previously reported production of Ingmar Bergman’s Nora at Cherry Lane Theatre this fall. Directed by Austin Pendleton, the adaptation of Henrik Ib…

More details for the previously reported production of Ingmar Bergman’s Nora at Cherry Lane Theatre this fall. Directed by Austin Pendleton, the adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama A Doll&rsq…

Part Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, part Agatha Christie mystery (your pick), and part ‘Strangers at a Bus Stop’ actor’s warmup, Hootenanny by Monique LaForce is a nice little ride int…

Oh, the weather outside is frightful. It’s the middle of the night on an isolated Kansas highway, somewhere between Kansas City and Topeka, and a massive winter snowstorm has stranded a group of bus passenger…

Broadway veteran Mark Jacoby stars in Bristol Riverside Theatre's staging of William Inge's celebrated romantic comedy, Bus Stop, which begins previews Sept. 29 at the Philadelphia venue.

Broadway veteran Mark Jacoby is among the cast of Bristol Riverside Theatre's staging of William Inge's celebrated romantic comedy, Bus Stop, playing this fall in Philadelphia.

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Tony and Emmy winner Mary-Louise Parker will star opposite Kenneth Welsh in the world premiere of Heisenberg off-Broadway this spring. The play, penned by The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time scrib…

Broadway will ‘rise’ once more for Elaine Stritch. Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and more will take part in a tribute to the late stage icon as part of Everybody, Rise! A Celebration of Elaine Str…

If two shows can constitute a trend, then the latter half of 2014 is turning into the Year of the Desperate Woman Waiting for a Bus. In Martyna Majok's "Ironbound," produced in August with Steppenwolf's First L…

The work of William Inge doesn't get much of a look-in on British stages, but the American dramatist's depictions of frustrated aspirations and desires at work in small-town Midwestern lives - most famously rea…

Great White Way theaters will dim their lights to pay tribute to Elaine Stritch, the legendary Tony-winning Broadway performer who died on July 17 at the age of 89. Marquees will go dark on Friday, July 18 at 7…

One of Broadway’s bawdiest broads, Elaine Stritch, passed away today at the age of 89. Her early career included the 1952 revival of Pal Joey and Bus Stop in 1955, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award…