In Mamet’s usual acerbic style, we learn that in a world of high-stakes competition there are no friendships. Each act is like a Socratic dialogue, brutal refutations of the virtues of kindness and humility.

Like television journalist Edward R. Murrow’s historic broadcasts, the stage adaptation of the 2005 film “Good Night, and Good Luck” has a seriousness of purpose that is again dramatically stark, soli…

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Harry Davis Lifts Heavy Weight of Young Male Experience by Lynne Stevens Picture a gym in your garage. A bench press and a barrage of rock music to fuel the heavy lifting. Two young men, old friends from junior…

Well, it’s National Poultry Day, and I’m getting mighty sick of talk of the price of eggs, so I thought I’d skip the hens and give a shout-out to the place of roosters in pop culture. Chickens were origin…

My ticket stub from 56 years ago (note the tape marks). It used to hang on my bedroom wall.Fifty-six years ago yesterday afternoon, I took my seat as a just-turned twelve-year old in seat E 102 in the last row…

The theme of Arthur Miller’s The Price is the power of money over our lives—how it frees us when it flows and holds us down when it doesn’t, our dependence on it and love for it. The belief is that life i…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb In celebration of the International Astronomical Union’s historic christening of the Price Crater on February 7, 2025, Legendary Musicians cordially invi…

I am not a fan of Arthur Miller's. But I like to revisit works to see if I've missed something. Having recently reread Death of a Salesman and seen the The Village Theater Group production of The Price, I ha…

Arthur Miller has always been our major playwright of moral ambiguity, never more so than in his 1968 drama "The Price," now receiving its first Off Broadway revival. The metaphoric title refers both to the val…

Review by Samuel L. Leiter... Arthur Miller's 1968 drama of clashing brothers selling their family furniture could use some elbow grease. The post “The Price:” When Brothers Clash appeared first on Theater …

Review by Carole did Tosti... This 1977 classic still resonates, featuring a stellar cast witha four-legged star worth the price of admission. The post “Curse of the Starving Class:” Shepard Wreaks Havoc an…

Tickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 29 Off-Broadway productions (18 of them newly offered), for performances from February 17 through March 9. . Cli…

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. …

Royal Court, LondonA grubby shack that appears in a prosperous neighbourhood is the catalyst for a culture clash in South African playwright Amy Jephta’s sharp drama A Black couple have moved into a gated sub…

   (via Paul Siebold, Off Off PR) The Village Theater Group Presents  The Price  Written by Arthur Miller Directed by Noelle McGrath*  February 19-March 30, 2025 (40 performances) Monday, Wednesday, Thur…

It's been over 30 years since Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn made gruesome and glamorous frenemies of Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp. The Death Becomes Her divas are badly behaved and beloved for it, unapolog…

Adam Driver in a scene from Kenneth Lonergan’s “Hold on to Me Darling” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Film and stage star Adam Driver has stepped into the role of Strings …

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2025 Gala will honor Danny DeVito. Mr. DeVito, who most recently starred in Roundabout’s I Need That by Theresa Rebeck, made his Broadway debut in Roundabout’s The Price by Arth…

Hedda Gabler Playbill - Opening Night, Hedda Gabler Opened October 04, 2001. as Judge Brack (Original) ; Price Playbill - Opening Night, The Price

Reading the statistics on femicides in the adjacent exhibit set up for Water People Theater’s The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon triggered my emotions and an alarming memory of my visit to a memorial site …

The live touring show of "The Price is Right" will bring its games to Bridgeport's Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater and New London's Garde Arts Center.

Crowdfunding and finding patrons are among less painful options as cost of performing at the fringe soars In the run-up to the Edinburgh festival fringe last year, comedian John Tothill was having “horrific h…

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From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company presents Mark Ruffalo, Tony Shalhoub, Jessica Hecht and Danny DeVito in a new Broadway production of Arthur Miller's The Price, directed by Step…

The 2024/25 season marks the return of six shows: Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins, The Last Five Years, Waitress, Parade, Bye Bye Birdie, and After Midnight! We’re taking you on a journey through…

Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing conceits that explore behaviour on the fringes of criminality. What constitutes right? How far does context dete…

The ‘Succession’ star is taking on ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ in the West End, but he still frets about the price of taking his family to the theatre. Childhood poverty has left its mark, finds C…

The autobiographical play explores the price of assimilation through a Puerto Rican family of three following Hurricane Donna's devastation in 1960.

Tickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 31 different Off-Broadway productions, for performances from February 12 to March 3. Click here and use code OBW…

Sitting in near silence in an apartment, curtains drawn, television above a whisper, and fans oscillating to feign static sound. That is how we meet Taroon (Owais Ahmed). Alone in a Kabul residence, he is fight…

Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 16 through February 4, 2024 of 23 Broadway shows, from “& Juliet” to ‘Wicked…

The comedian, whose new show draws on his experience of surviving a brain tumour, on finding humour in adversity, working with Ridley Scott, and why his scar won’t be hidden for long London-born Miles Jupp, 4…

For the price, and £13,795 a year towards the venue’s upkeep, the owners will be able to attend events for the next 843 years If you’re looking for a last-minute Christmas present and have about £3m to sp…

ReDISCoveries: The Beautiful Game (Original Cast Recording) Jeff has kindly invited me to revisit and review some of the older cast recordings in my collection. Every other week or so, I’ll write about a new …

Multiple benchmarks go toward justifying today’s spotlight on the late Bob Barker (1923-2023). He was born 100 years ago ago today; he passed away back in August, just a couple of months shy of that big bench…

New York Magazine's annual "Reasons to Love New York" issue came out at just the right time for this review. After three successive evenings experiencing amazing talent and creativity in New York theatres, I wa…

Review of the Saturday, November 4, 2023 evening preview performance at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. Starring Enrique Acevedo, Andrea Burns, Eden Espinosa, Priscilla Lopez, Tally Sessions, M…

The Closing of Here Lies Love: A Few Thoughts It is always sad when a show closes. Years of work and hundreds of jobs gone with a producers' notice and a notice taped to the door. Sad but true, it happens mor…

The three plays in the “Meet Miss Baker” Project, "The Price of Thomas Scott" in 2019, "Chains" in 2022 and now "Partnership" in 2023 are quite different. While Partnership is the only one you could call a …

The fabulous Mint Theater Company is presenting Partnership, the third in their "Meet Miss [Elizabeth] Baker" series. The first, The Price of Thomas Scott (review here), from 1913, movingly explores the clash …

As he returns to the stage to play JS Bach, the actor sounds off about the mess Britain’s in, explains why he turned down Game of Thrones – and reveals the price he has paid for Succession Brian Cox has nev…

  The cast of Goodspeed's THE 12. Photo: Diane Sobolewski The 12 Music and Lyrics by Neil BergBook and Lyrics by Robert SchenkkanDirected by John DoyleGoodspeed Musicals Through Oct. 29, 2023 By Lauren …

Lauren Pelaia is a NJ singer, songwriter, and composer. Lauren has released several tracks on all streaming platforms. Writing for musical theatre, Lauren orchestrated an original score for the play, Our Town. …

“Blues for an Alabama Sky” is about supporting a women’s right to the same freedom of choice as the other half of humanity, with all the joy, hardships and pitfalls that come with it. 

Investing in Cabaret  at the August Wilson Theatre this spring might seem like a safe bet, after the success of the Kander & Ebb classic in London and earlier productions in New York. That’s until you se…

Swing State is unique in that it is a political play that is not overtly political.  Focusing on the human, the play sets out the emotional terrain on which ideologies and preconceptions can wreak havoc.  Tol…

Roundabout Theatre Company presents the world premiere of I Need That by Theresa Rebeck, starring Danny DeVito, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. The cast features Danny DeVito as “Sam,” Lucy DeVi…

Happy Fourth of July Weekend!  Time has been so slippery over these past three pandemic years and global warming is now playing such havoc with the weather that on some days just breathing the air is risky. Bu…

June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation and scheduled to reope…

The 2023 JKTS Awards It's that time of year once again! Here are the things that stood out to us - some serious, some just for fun. Why not "award" them? Maverick Award Justin David Sullivan - & Julie…

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE FOR THE 2023 JKTS AWARDS! https://poll-maker.com/QB3CP01KY Review of the matinee performance on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at the Eisenhower Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Perfo…

★★★★ THE CIRCLE, ORANGE TREE THEATRE Acerbic reflections on the price paid for love Jane Asher leads an ensemble cast in Somerset Maugham's comedy of manners Tom Littler opens his account as artistic d…

Reasons Not To Be Afraid... C. Jefferson Thom May 7, 2023 - 20:38 Topics Theater Review Tags Musical …

By: Isa Goldberg April 24, 2023: In the news: mass murder, BLM, the price of gas, and food, not to mention the war in Ukraine. And Lerner & Loewe's "Camelot" is at Lincoln Center. Speaking about the pow…

Aleshea Harris’s What to Send Up When It Goes Down, produced by Congo Square Theatre last year, provided a trenchant and sometimes anguished portrayal of how racialized violence affects Black Americans over g…

Tony Award-nominated and Emmy-winning actor Danny DeVito will return to Broadway as part of Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2023-2024 season. Danny DeVito will appear alongside his real-life daughter, Lucy DeVit…

A heart-wrenching and uplifting journey of a family struggling to stay together in a rapidly changing world. David Mirvish and The Company Theatre, one of Toronto’s most acclaimed independent theatre compani…

Hampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas’s play, based on a true story about a married couple in 18th-century Prussia who were tried for sodomy, is tender, musical and funny From Gentleman Jack to Orlando, the qu…

One of kind, no category ✨ We’re back with our royally fabulous creators, Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss giving you #SIXBroadway realness lyric by lyric and “two bits for the price of one.” 😉 👑

Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from February 13 through March 5 to 23 Off-Broadway shows, including such fan favorites as Anthony …

Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 17 through February 12 of 22 Broadway shows, from “& Juliet” to ‘Wicked.” …

by Devin Wallace. @thedevinwallace. NEW YORK, NY - Broadway Week is back in full force, with countless two-for-one ticket deals on dozens...

Glee actor Kevin McHale has condemned Discovery+'s new The Price of Glee docu-series, which goes behind the controversies of the hit musical comedy series. McHale tweeted that no cast members were involved and …

Troubadour Wembley Park theatre, LondonThis show about young New York paper-sellers has stirring anthems and screwball energy, even if it lacks emotional and political depth Newspaper hawkers, or “newsies”,…

David Mirvish and The Company Theatre, one of Toronto’s most acclaimed independent theatre companies, present the Canadian premiere of Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to be True. A poignant family drama with…

Jessica Hecht will star in the upcoming world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn's Summer, 1976. She will star opposite the previously announced Laura Linney.  The production, direct…

A new, off-Broadway play titled “Evanston Salt Costs Climbing” by The New Group is making winters in the Chicago suburb topical elsewhere.

The 20-watt Stingray Mini is now joined by a higher-powered version and Fresnel model elektraLite’s lighting fixtures have long been reliably making tours, studios, installations, and other professional envir…

Ralph Fiennes’ towering performance as a megalomaniac who changes the face of New York as we know it is worth the price of admission. With his puffed out chest and nose in the air remaking himself physically,…

Batter up! The return engagement of the Tony-winning revival of Take Me Out begins performances at the Schoenfeld Theatre on October 27. This production of Richard Greenberg's 2002 play, directed by Scott E…

Tom Stoppard's latest play makes landfall on Broadway.

The production showcases Nancy Robinette, Kimberly Gilbert, and Emily Kester in performances worth way more than the price of the ticket.

NY Times ad for the CBS televised opening night concert at Philharmonic Hall, the inauguration of Lincoln Center, 9.23.62.Is there anyone that doesn’t get a thrill from standing in front of Lincoln Center fo…

A new spirit has gripped our nation! Together is where tomorrow’s promise lies A new musical that tells the story of Mandela the man and Mandela the movement. Infused with the rhythms and spirit of South Afr…

The Online Musical Presents: 'Pokemon: The Musical' — the unauthorized, true story of the life and times of Ash Ketchum and friends. Plus singing. Plus puberty confusion. Music by Matt Sav Lyrics by Jeff Lup…