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Monday, December 16, 2024

The week in theatre: Ballet Shoes; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Devil Wears Prada; The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary – review

Olivier; Lyttelton; Dominion; Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAt the National, Noel Streatfeild’s classic flies while Oscar Wilde’s wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly faithful take on Th…

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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE | at The Joyce January 14-19, 2025

by Joycetheater

"Richly expressive and irresistibly kinetic” (New York Times), Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE celebrates 40 years of groundbreaking dance works melding the traditions and rhythms of the African diaspora with contem…

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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Today on Broadway: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024 - BroadwayRadio

https://playbill.com/article/kara-young-will-star-in-purpose-on-broadway. 2) Terrence Mann to Join 'The Great Gatsby' in January https://playbill ...

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Kara Young Will Star in Purpose on Broadway - Threads

Candice Frederick (@candice.frederick.37). https://playbill.com/article/kara-young-will-star-in-purpose-on-broadway Kara Young Will Star in ...

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Kara Young, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and more will lead Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Purpose’ on Broadway

by Michael Abourizk

An opening-night date has also been announced for the Phylicia Rashad-directed drama.

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LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Kara Young and More to Star in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Purpose on Broadway

by Hayley Levitt

The complete cast is set for the Broadway premiere of Purpose, a new play by Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate). Previews begin at the Hayes Theater on February 25, 2025 ahead of a March 1…

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LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, Kara Young & More Will Star in PURPOSE on Broadway

Complete casting has been announced for the highly-anticipated Broadway transfer of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new play, PURPOSE. Check out who has…

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Broadway Casting For Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Purpose’ To Include LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Tony-Winner Kara Young, More

by Greg Evans

LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young are among the complete cast announced today for the Broadway transfer of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Purpose, directed …

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LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Kara Young to Star in ‘Purpose’ on Broadway

by Caitlin Huston

The new play is written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and centers on a Black family that has cultivated a powerful political dynasty.

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Kara Young, Harry Lennix, and More to Star in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose on Broadway

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Judith Jamison obituary

by Lyndsey Winship

Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey’s company in New York and became its artistic director It was a failed audition that set in motion the superlative career of the American dancer and …

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

My Variety Review of the New Broadway Musical "Tammy Faye"

by Frank Rizzo

It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make “Tammy Faye” divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy hoot, a stinging in…

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

The Whitby Rebels review – true-life tale of madcap mission to the Arctic

by Mark Fisher

Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAn unlikely crew, including a vicar and two pensioners, sail a dodgy ship on a voyage to honour an explorer. But the sitcom setup fails to deliver much comedy or sense of ques…

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Nicole Scherzinger Revels in the Role She Was 'Meant to Play' at Sunset Boulevard's Opening Night

by Broadway.com

Nicole Scherzinger is finally a bona fide Broadway star, opening Jamie Lloyd's reimagined revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard at the St. James Theatre on October 20. "I believe we all have a pla…

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

McNeal

by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

As in Ayad Akhtar’s plays "Disgraced," "JUNK" and "The Who and the What," all of which have been produced by the Lincoln Center Theater, "McNeal" is always interesting, always arresting. Unfortunately, in McN…

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

National Dance Company Wales: Frontiers review – a pair of puzzlers

by Lyndsey Winship

The Place, LondonMoody masses of bodies, a gang of club kids like shamans at a stick-up … this company is always trying something new Matthew William Robinson, artistic director of National Dance Company Wale…

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Monday, October 7, 2024

The Story Behind Our Town: Building the First Grover's Corners

by Hayley Levitt

"Act I: No curtain. No scenery. The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half-light." Thornton Wilder (Photo: New York Public Library) Audiences accustomed to the realism of Clifford Odetts or the sp…

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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Solotech Chooses Brompton Technology LED Processing to Power Adele’s GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® LED Screen

by Michael Eddy

Adele’s electrifying 10-show residency at the purpose-built outdoor arena at Messe München in August set a new standard in live entertainment, earning a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title for the Largest Continu…

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

When the Bleeding Stops / Because I Can review – unexpectedly joyful reflection on menopause

by Lyndsey Winship

The Place, London Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir warmly narrates her own story of renewal after feeling her personal and professional life was over Contemporary dance about the menopause? A dancer’s career derai…

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Saturday, September 21, 2024

I Interview Playwrights Part 1121: Kristen Doherty

by Adam Szymkowicz

Kristen Doherty Hometown:I was born near the beach in Glenelg, South Australia. I still live in South Australia, but now in the Adelaide Hills with my husband, three daughters, two oodle dogs and two cats. W…

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Trailblazing ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince dies at 29

by Adria R Walker

Sierra Leone-born DePrince, who moved to US as a child, danced with Boston Ballet and performed with Beyoncé Michaela Mabinty DePrince, a trailblazer and inspiration to many in the ballet world, has died at 29…

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Last supper

by Kerry Reid

The tense family dinner has long been a trope for American realism. Just off the top of my head, plays that have such a device as a central dramatic event include Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County; Branden J…

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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Play It Again: Sweeney Todd's "My Friends"

by JK

Play It Again: Sweeney Todd's "My Friends" For this new series, Jeff has invited me to choose some classic Broadway show tunes and compare versions of these songs from several different cast recordings. Wherev…

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

California State University: Dominguez Hills - Millennium Stage (September 13, 2024)

by The Kennedy Center

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Founded in 2009, the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA) is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation …

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Broadway Update

by Barry Gordin

John Mulaney in All In; Purpose; Othello By: David Sheward September 9, 2024: Comedian-actor John Mulaney will return to Broadway in All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich beginning performances at the Hud…

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Hurricane Season Review. Trippy and transgressive, to a fault.

by New York Theater

It would be silly to dismiss “Hurricane Season” just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic conga line ceaseles…

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The Normal Heart is timely again

by Albert Williams

On July 27, 1982, as editor of Chicago GayLife newspaper, I attended a meeting in Washington, D.C., between government health officials and a group of LGBTQ+ activists and leaders of organizations representing …

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Friday, August 23, 2024

REVIEW: Once Upon a Mattress

by JK

Review of the Wednesday, August 21, 2024 matinee performance at the Hudson Theatre in New York City. Starring Sutton Foster and Michael Urie with Brooks Ashmanskas, Will Chase, Nikki Renee Daniels, Ana Gasteyer…

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

'Purpose' Heading to Broadway in 2025 - TicketNews

In an interview with Playbill, Jacobs-Jenkins shed light on the inspiration behind the play, noting that the Jasper family is “wrestling with the ...

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

Largest Ever Rig of SGM Light P-10s Illuminates Adele Arena in Germany

by Michael Eddy

On August 2, 2024, fans of Adele witnessed a first of its kind experience when performer kicked off a limited run of 10 performances at a purpose built temporary arena. The 80,000-seat outdoor arena constructed…

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My Broadway Review of 'Once Upon a Mattress' Starring Sutton Foster

by Frank Rizzo

The show: “Once Upon a Mattress” at the Hudson Theatre. What makes it special:? Another transfer from the New York City Center’s Encores! series to Broadway. Sutton Foster and Michael Urie return but Ana…

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Today on Broadway: Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024

by Matt Tamanini

‘Purpose’ Set for Broadway Run This Spring, ‘JOB’ Extends, “Mamma Mia 3′ in the Works Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top theatre headline…

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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' PURPOSE Is Headed To Broadway This Spring

Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play, Purpose, is coming to Broadway this season. Directed by Two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad in her directing debut, the production will begin previe…

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new drama ‘Purpose’ will bow on Broadway

by Michael Abourizk

Phylicia Rashad will direct the play, set to open in spring 2025.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Purpose’ Heading To Broadway In 2025 With Phylicia Rashad Directing

by Denise Petski

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Purpose, written by Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, The Comeuppance), and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad (Skeleton Cr…

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