Frontmezzjunkies reports: TALK IS FREE THEATRE Announces Venues for their 25/26 Season’s Site-Specific Productions SEASON’S SITE-SPECIFIC PRODUCTION SINGLE TICKETS NOW ON SALE Productions include three worl…

Bush theatre, LondonA woman comes adrift from reality in babirye bukilwa’s chilling character study We are at sea at the start of babirye bukilwa’s visceral play about one Black queer woman’s experience o…

New play about mental breakdown is a mix of acute distress and poetic writing In a world tainted with racism and homophobia, the Bush theatre is something of a refuge from prejudice. As one of the most queer fr…

Review: ...blackbird hour at Bush Theatre "a demonstration of grief and pain as well as love and care"

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Members of the National Symphony Orchestra play an assortment of chamber music. Nathan Daughtrey: Burn³ Marc Mellits: Escape Kate Moore: Blackbird Song Andy Akiho: intuiti…

Talks on cryptid sightings, guided tours of graveyards, a Witch of Blackbird Pond Ball and more are among the Halloween events based on actual Connecticut history.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: It's undeniable that Jeff Daniels' career has been a varied one. From his Emmy-winning role on Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM to one half of the comedy duo behind DUMB AND DUMBER, the…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Michelle Williams is back on Broadway, and this time she is taking on a character whose story would make Sally Bowles' life seem like a picnic. She currently stars opposite Jeff Da…

The album is executive produced by hitmaker Justin Tranter and is comprised of songs that tell Porter’s story authentically, with depth and nuance. To herald the arrival of the record, Porter dropped a bran…

Broadway couple Ali Stroker and David Perlow have welcomed a baby boy. Jesse Kenneth Perlow was born on November 8, according to Tony winner Stroker's social media post. Stoker and Perlow were married on July …

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”.– Aristotle “Why you wanna fly, Blackbird? You ain’t never gonna fly”.– Nina Simone A world premiere choreopoem, written and d…

By Andrew Poretz . . . When a young singer named Lindsay Lavin sang a stunning rendition of The Beatles’ “Blackbird” at “The Lineup with Susie Mosher” at Birdland the other week and announced an entir…

Alyosha Zim Unfolds Exciting Jewish-Buddhist Enigma by Jordan Freed & Barry David Horwitz “Red Winged Blackbird” transcends a debate between Old World Judaism and New Age Buddhism. We meet two brothers,…

Julian Work's union stamp for 1948. We in The New York Public Library's Music & Recorded Sound Division are doing what we can to uncover and bring attention to composers from underrepresented population…

In his thankless role as Ray, Grossman’s performance is perpetually defensive, harried and out of breath. As unlikable a character as Ray is expected to be, Grossman doesn’t quite manage to bring enough var…

Performing solo, Madeline Sayet personifies her people’s heritage of women as powerful carriers of their culture.

Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger will reprise their roles of Atticus Finch and Scout Finch, respectively, in Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. The production will resume …

BML-Blackbird is pleased to announce that Brad Kaplan has been promoted to General Manager. Kaplan joined BML in July of 2019 as a Project Manager bringing over 25 years of entertainment industry experience to …

Former Beetlejuice headliner Sophia Anne Caruso has a new gig! She is set to star alongside High School Musical: The Musical – The Series' Sofia Wylie in The School For Good And Evil, the film adaptation …

This article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series. In a moment of freedom from time and gravity. Noticing information entering my body As if there is nothing else in my ear, a bla…

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Showtime is currently developing limited series based on the life of stage and screen star Lena Horne. Horne's granddaughter, Jenny Lumet, is set to write and executive pr…

Celebrated actress Michelle Williams and Tony-winning Hamilton director Thomas Kail welcomed their first child together on June 17, according to Us Weekly. The couple, who worked together on Fosse/Verdon, rep…

Michelle Williams, Sam Rockwell and Renée Zellweger brought performances to the screen this year that resurrected three of musical theater's greatest stars. Williams and Rockwell played Gwen Verdon and Bo…

The 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, honoring film and television works, was held on January 12 at the Barker Hanger in Los Angeles, CA. It was hosted by screen actor, and original Rent cast member, Taye Dig…

A slew of stage stars were honored for their work on-screen at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 2020 Golden Globe Awards on January 5. Ricky Gervais hosted the event from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly …

There’s a new Broadway baby on the way! Oscar and Tony nominee Michelle Williams is engaged to Thomas Kail, who is perhaps best known as the Tony-winning director of Hamilton, according to People. The couple…

Nominations are here for the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best acting work in television and on film. A slew of stage stars fill out the list of nominees for the awards, scheduled to be …

Jeff Daniels, the stage-and-screen star about to conclude his Tony-nominated run in To Kill a Mockingbird, will next appear as former FBI Director James Comey in CBS Studios' new limited series based on his bes…

Billy Porter, the Broadway veteran most known for his Tony-winning turn in Kinky Boots, took home the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series on September 22; he is the first openly gay bla…

Nominations for the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards were revealed on July 16. The list includes a slew of series and stars of interest to Broadway fans, including Tony-winning actor Billy Porter of Pose and the mini…

The recently announced return run of the celebrated concert Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles has been canceled. The show had initially been scheduled to play the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from July 16-21 as part of …

“Blackbird,” David Harrower’s 2005, Olivier Award-winning play, currently staged at 18th and Union by White Rabbits Inc., is a small, powerful, two-character nail bomb.

Jeff Daniels won Emmy Awards for Aaron Sorkin'sThe Newsroom as well as Godless and garnered Tony nominations for his performances in God of Carnage, Blackbird and now Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's cele…

Who is Tim Munro? I’m a Aussie musician based in Chicago. How DO I describe myself? I’m a flute player by training, but I’m also a broadcaster, writer, curator, and occasional musical director… For nine…

Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles, the celebrated concert which played a 300-performance run on the Great White Way back in 2010, has joined the lineup of shows in the upcoming In Residence on Broadway series at…

In adapting Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage, award-winning scribe Aaron Sorkin looked at the iconic characters of the recently named "best-loved" American novel with fresh eyes. In this exc…

(Photo by Loretta Richert)Anna Stromberg has performed in many Off-Broadway theatres living in NYC for ten years before moving to Los Angeles a few years ago. She was a longtime member of The Amoralists Th…

Entertainment daily First Post has reported that Susan Sarandon will now star in Roger Michell’s next after Diane Keaton left the film. Insiders claim that Keaton was emotionally attached to the project, whic…

Patrick Daly has been hired to oversee the theater production arm of EON Productions, the British production company which makes the James Bond films. Daly has been a producer of stage to screen adaptations suc…

Thought to be one of the top 10 most covered songs, it has lent itself to jazz piano, funky soul and reggae

Judith Owen’s latest album “redisCOVERed” is a superb collection that reinterprets songs by Drake, Ed Sheeran, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney and more. Owen radically reworks them as you have never heard b…

Initial casting has been announced for the pre-Broadway run of Beetlejuice, a new musical based on the fan-favorite 1988 film. Tony nominee Alex Brightman will lead the company in the title role (crea…

On the heels of its 20th anniversary, Aerial Dance Chicago presents “Blackbird,” an ambitious full-length work highlighting the company’s signature blend of contemporary dance and aerial arts. For Chloe J…

Deptford, LondonThis tour of the capital’s streets at nightfall catches some beautiful unorchestrated moments from other people’s livesTethered together with a rope, we are taking a night-time guided tour o…

Dancers take to the air in a show about freedom, potential and flight.

Tunbridge Wells’ Assembly Hall Theatre recently announced the appointment of Carole Winter as first ever in-house producer through an official release. She joins the team in August 2018 and brings over 30 yea…

This September, New York’s Beacon Theater will be hosting maverick musician Hozier. Born in 1990, Andrew Hozier-Byrne is an Irish musician, singer and songwriter from County Wicklow. In 2013, he released his …

A hundred years since the birth of novelist Muriel Spark, her 1961 tale The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has been adapted for the Donmar Warehouse by Blackbird playwright David Harrower and directed by Polly Findl…

The entire star-studded cast of Broadway's The Boys in the Band has signed on to host the upcoming special midnight Actors Fund benefit performance of Three Tall Women at the Golden Theatre. The previously …

London's Donmar Warehouse has announced a new stage version of Muriel Spark's 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Adapted by Olivier winner David Harrower (Blackbird) and directed by Olivier winne…

By Ed Rampell Star Trek’s Sulu From the Screen to the Stage George Takei may be best known for playing helmsman Lt. Sulu in the original Star Trek sci-fi series and six of the franchise’s subsequent mov…

To director Annamaria Pileggi, who kept the balance taut up to the very last moments of “BlackBird” at the St. Louis Actors’ Studio. A disturbing drama about the sexual abuse of a child, “BlackBird” d…

The air in a dreary office lunchroom is thick when Ray finds himself there with Una. They haven’t seen each other since their relationship ended fifteen years ago -- when he was 40 and she was 12.It seems eer…

Tony nominees Jeff Daniels (Blackbird), Celia Keenan-Bolger (The Glass Menagerie), Stark Sands (Kinky Boots) and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun) are among the star-packed company of To Kill a M…

'BlackBird' offers fine performances and no easy answers

When it comes to helping artists make a living, social media turns out to be a mixed blessing.

The acclaimed Australian theater director makes his film-directing debut with an adaptation of David Harrower's Blackbird.

Ben Mendelsohn and Rooney Mara star in the screen adaptation of David Harrower’s drama about sexual abuse.

Jessika Malone is a maker of theatre and many forms of well-meaning mischief hailing from her hometown of Nashville, TN.She is the Associate Artistic Director of the Actors Bridge Ensemble and the Co-Founder an…

Harrower made his Broadway debut in 2016 with his dramatic two-hander Blackbird.

Tony nominee Alison Pill completes the trio of actors at the center of the Broadway premiere of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women, which will play the Golden Theatre beginning on…

David Harrower’s stage play ‘Blackbird’ feels text-bound on the big screen

He was living with his mum and working as a dish-washer. But he threw all he had into a brutal play that became a Scottish classic. The dramatist talks about the return of Knives in Hens – and writing an angr…

Blackbird Reviewed by Lovell Estell III GTC Burbank Through Sept. 17  RECOMMENDED David Harrower’s edgy psychodrama has had many successful iterations over the years (most recently at this year’s Hollywood…

Five performances remain! Edgy and incendiary — David Harrower’s award-winning and intense drama Blackbird is being staged at the Los Angeles LGBT Center

BlackbirdReviewed by Neal Weaver  Davidson/Valentini Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center Through June 25 RECOMMENDED Ambiguities proliferate in Scottish playwright David Harrower’s fascinating, sometimes …

Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” is many things: an idiosyncratic mix of music, memory and theater magic; a female take on an infamous male intellectual; a Holocaust parable that manages to surprise; …

Sophie Melville-Sherman Theatre: Iphigenia In Splott (National Theatre & UK/International tour), Romeo and Juliet.  Other theater includes Low Level Panic (Orange Tree Theatre), Blackbird (The Other Ro…

Haley RiceHometown: Nashville, TNCurrent Town: NYC Q:  Tell me about LOU. A: Lou is the story of Lou Salome who lived from 1861-1937. She was one of the first female philosophers and psychoanalysts, was …

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie returns to the Broadway stage on February 7 at the Belasco Theatre. Tony-winning director and performer Joe Mantello returns to the Great White Way along with Emmy an…

When Una, the 27 year-old British woman at the center of David Harrower’s startling and complex play Blackbird, tells a man named Ray, 15 years her senior, that he made her into a ghost, there is no question …

Looking back on a year that offered an extraordinary range of shows, from intimate (Heisenberg, Blackbird) to spectacular (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812), it’s the performances by some of …

The year began downbeat and ended oddly, with Dear Evan Hansen and Heisenberg among the highlights as Cirque du Soleil fell flat with ParamourWhen history books come to discuss the Broadway year of 2016, expect…

EXCLUSIVE: The first investor non-disparagement clause we found was for the  Scott Rudin-produced revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. (Click on the text for easier reading.) Operating agreements fo…

VIVIANA VALERIA is making her T. Schreiber Theatre debut in The Motherf**ker With The Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Born in Miami, to Cuban/Honduran parents, she moved to NYC at age 18. Viviana began studying at…

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced its winter programming for the multi-genre "LookOut" series Tuesday, including two different shows from performance artist Karen Finley in February.  Opening the season is…

According to Variety, Michelle Williams is in discussions to take on the role of iconic rock star Janis Jopin in Sean Durkin's upcoming biopic JANIS.