By Isa Goldberg August 11, 2025: Oddly, Bubba Weiler’s new play at the Irondale Brooklyn, Well, I’ll Let You Go, begins where the story ends …after Marv’s death. Being iconoclastic of structure render…

Traverse theatre, EdinburghIn Hannah Moscovitch’s powerful play, a journalist’s triggered memories of abuse are voiced by a man This two-hander about consent, abuse and the doubt cast over women’s testimo…

The current cast of Hadestown and special Hadestown alumni surprise guests celebrated the 2000th performance of the musical on Broadway last night, August 7. Following curtain call, the cast gave a speech, as w…

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Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles There are spotty moments in the much-discussed Andrew Lloyd Webber revival but by the time the final song kicks in, you’ll be a believer Much like its namesake, Jesus Christ Super…

Broadway's Beanie Feldstein has joined the cast of Focker-In-Law, the upcoming fourth installment in the Meet the Parents comedy series. Feldstein will star in the movie alongside Wicked star Ariana Grande as w…

Last week, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi of Thailand visited Hadestown on Broadway. She attended the show to visit Hadestown cast member Myra Molloy, who plays Eurydice and is originally f…

Donald Trump wants to end the opera component at the Kennedy Center. He’s trying to push through a plan rename the opera house after First Lady Melania Trump. If Congress votes for this, there is no doubt man…

Celebrations for A CHORUS LINE will reverberate and be recognized across the world, where hundreds, if not thousands, of productions have been performed in 22 countries, in multiple languages, and as far-reachi…

The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back? ‘In retrospect, I should hav…

Broadway wilted a bit in last week’s summer heat, with 23 of 30 shows taking a hit at the box office, some significantly. No doubt playing a part in Broadway’s overall decline last week was the July 4th hol…

Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed an abundance of knif…

Leeds PlayhouseChris O’Connor’s comedy-drama unites a paean to former Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa with the story of a married couple living with dementia during the club’s promotion season Leeds United …

Momma Rose is a difficult character to say no to. The Gypsy matriarch tramples on her loving enabler Herbie and pushes shy daughter Louise onto the burlesque stage. Only younger daughter June, who spends years …

The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln When Billy Porter talks, peop…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb During the spring and summer of 2020, The Lowest Pair (Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee) found themselves camping and sharing songs around the fire with two …

Hadestown recently welcomed new stars! Check out a first look at Ali Louis Bourzgui as he sings Orpheus’s “Epic III." Hadestown is playing in its 6th year on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre starring Al…

It's been a few hours. The dust has almost settled, and I've gotten my thoughts together. The good, the bad...the baffling. Some Thoughts on the 2025 Tony Awards The Show The Tony Awards: Act One Preview (P…

Bush theatre, LondonArtistic director Taio Lawson’s Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of a 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory In Danny James King’s Miss Myrtle’s Gar…

Tribute today to burlesque legend Kitty West (Abbie Jewel Slawson, 1930-2019), whose ingenious stage name plants the idea in your head that you’ve heard of her before, no doubt because it sounds like a combin…

Review of the Saturday, May 31, 2025 matinee performance at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Starring Tatianna Cordoba, Justina Machado, Florencia Cuenca, Mauricio Mendoza, Mason Reeves, Ariana Burks, Carla Jimene…

Review of the Friday, May 30, 2025 performance at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City. Starring Natalie Venetia Belcon, Julio Monge, Mel Seme, Jainardo Batista Sterling, Isa Antonetti, Da'von T. Mood…

The Huntington in Boston is presenting a glorious production of Adam Guettel’s masterpiece The Light in the Piazza. Director Loretta Greco has been quoted as saying that this score is the most beautiful in th…

I usually am somewhat wary of “new takes” or “twists” on classic plays, with cause. Changing the time period of a story or modernizing the text is no guarantee that the play will be any fresher or succe…

Carla R. Stewart and Keenan Barrett. All production photos are by Greg Mooney The show: “Millions,” a new musical receiving its world premie…

Review of the Sunday, May 18, 2025 preview performance at Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. Starring Ben Ahlers, Jordan Boatman, Sam Huntsman, Ked Merwin, Adrienne C. Moore and Robbie Tann. A new play by Mat…

Following a sold-out, multi-award-winning debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return is set to embark on a major UK tour

Although we have not previously shown great acuity in Tony prediction, here we are again. Hope springs eternal! This year’s list of Tony nominees reveals a healthy, exciting season. Looking at who wasn’t no…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable is a brilliant indictment of organized religion and the negativity attached to innuendo and gossip. While …

The administration’s 2026 budget comes at a time when the future of NEA staff and grant programs remains in doubt.

“Buena Vista Social Club” has reason to celebrate with its ten Tony nominations announced today.May 1, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler It’s always a thrill for me to read the Tony nomin…

Review of the Saturday, April 26, 2025 matinee performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. Starring Jeremy Jordan, with Jason Gotay, Sean Allan Krill, Kevin Bernard, Lizzie Mc…

The actor, 49, talks about his royal heritage, earliest memory, hard times in a hostel, four gifted kids and what happened when he met Sidney Poitier David, you are going to walk among kings.” This was my mum…

“Splish Splash.” “Mack the Knife.” “Dream Lover.” No doubt Bobby Darin’s songs have been part of our cultural fabric for almost 70 years. But beyond the hits, Darin was a charismatic and versatile…

If producers ever had any doubt of a celebrity’s effect on the box office, they need only look at this current theater season to see ticket prices. Popular movie star George Clooney is packing the Winter Gard…

Two-time Tony winner, six-time Emmy winner and Olivier winner Bryan Cranston will reunite with director Ivo van Hove in a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in London’s West End in late 2025. The sho…

Tatianna Córdoba and Justina Machado (Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) There’s plenty of drama in the new musical Real Women Have Curves, which centers on Latina seamstresses in a struggling East L…

Ramin Karimloo, Jinkx Monsoon, and David Hyde Pierce lead the crew in Pirates! The Penzance Musical, this must-see Roundabout reimagining of The Pirates of Penzance. Scott Ellis (Doubt; Kiss Me, Kate) directs a…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré has removed any doubt about whether it could creatively pull off  the first local production of Jersey Boys.  In …

No doubt about: The big guns of Broadway’s spring season are arriving fast and furious, and boosting box office figures from receipts to ticket prices. Another newcomer – Good Night, And Good Luck, starring…

She’s just a girl who liked something she saw on arch-conservative Tucker Carlson’s streaming show. Gwen Stefani, onetime frontwoman of the pop-punk band No Doubt, is taking fire from fans after she “gush…

As Ashland’s theater season kicks in, an actor does double duty without a doubt Jim FlintDaniel Molina, who will be in "Shane" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this summer, gets an early start in Rogue Thea…

There’s no doubt we’re at the starting line of an exciting spring season, with 18 plays and musicals set to open before the April 27 Tony Awards eligibility cutoff. With five of those shows welcoming audien…

Tron theatre, GlasgowJemima Levick’s superb production sets Arthur Miller’s tale of family, immigration, poverty and passion in the modern-day Brooklyn docks Is it an innocent domestic moment or a portent o…

FAILURELAND by Dani Stoller March 3 & 10 For tickets visit https://www.sigtheatre.org Right as she is about to submit her college applications, Tori falters and questions her ability and worth. Suddenly, she�…

There's no doubt about what moment in Hadestown is Jessie Shelton's favorite! Listen as she answers this and other fan submitted questions.

Oldham Coliseum at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldhamafshan d’souza-lodhi’s play, commissioned to celebrate the saved-from-closure Coliseum, fails to rise to the occasion Seven months after the Oldham Coliseu…

Hal Holbrook on the left and his alter ego, Mark Twain, on the right.February 18, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Yesterday marked 100 years since the birth of Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr., the …

Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker and Grammy Award nominee Merle Dandridge join the cast of Hadestown at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on February 18. Known for originating roles on Broadway in Shrek: …

Review of the Saturday, February 8, 2025 matinee at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. Starring Audra McDonald, Danny Burstein, Joy Woods, Jordan Tyson, Kevin Csolak, Lesli Margherita, Lili Thomas and Mylin…

Ustinov, BathIn an emphatic production that prowls around the mess of human motive, Peake’s Sister Aloysius doggedly pursues a suspicion of abuse John Patrick Shanley’s play first appeared in 2004, the era …

Rainn Wilson is an amateur sociologist of geek culture, and he has a working theory: “The theater geek is the king of the geek food chain.” He would know, as someone who’s identified as most every link�…

Few could doubt this satire's relevance, given the alarming results of November’s election: a convicted felon, whose minions lean into racist and sexist tropes, is back in the White House.

  5 Favorite Classic Musicals of the 1960s  Last month, one of our Friday 5 lists was our Favorite Classic Musicals of the 1950s, and now we move into the decade of love and the end of Broadway's Golden Era…

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. …

Cary Grant, actor ((1904–1986).Born 121 years ago today, Cary Grant is far from a forgotten figure. His excellent work as an actor could easily have faded from popular culture like many film stars of Hollywoo…

As Norma Desmond says, "It's a return." So far in 2025, here are five Broadway folk who are not making a comeback that we can't wait to see again! Friday 5: 5 2025 Broadway Returns Nicholas Barasch - Frede…

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Theatre Co. — which raised the bar off-Broadway by devoting entire seasons to the work of major dramatists while offering $25 tickets across the board — is struggling to stay afloat. Lu…

Keith Andes and Lucille Ball in a playful moment in “Wildcat” (1960). Photo by Friedman-Abeles.January 4, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler When an actor is involved in something they want …

Yngvild Aspeli, whose staging of the Melville novel forms the centrepiece of this year’s MimeLondon festival, explains the eerie magic of her craft It is unnerving to be taken backstage after a show only to f…

Measure a year in Broadway shows. Take a look back on the Broadway shows of 2024, including: Prayer for the French Republic, Days of Wine and Roses, Doubt, The Notebook, An Enemy of the People, Water for Elepha…

Theatre Royal Bath Productions confirms full casting for John Patrick Shanley’s award-winning drama DOUBT a parable at Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio

People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Just ask the characters in Once – A Musical who would no doubt agree. At the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Once tells the story of two young people w…

Don't expect a Hamilton movie anytime soon. Despite the enormous success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical, the creator explains why he is hesitant to bring it to the big screen. 

Craig Lucas Deconstructs Dickens with Spectacle & Spirits  by Jenyth Jo & Barry David Horwitz We know the story: Dickens contrasts Scrooge, a miserly, old, rich man with Tiny Tim, a poor, doomed child.…

A FREE limited engagement from Monica Bill Barnes and Company, presented by Playwrights Horizons. Runs January 09 - January 18, 2025. It’s a dance version of a memory play. With movement and language, Monica…

The Dukes, LancasterWith a cumbersome script and no sense of danger or atmosphere, this production loses its way If you are in any doubt that this adaptation of the 1952 Mary Norton novel has lost its way long …

The comedian, actor and Matilda songwriter on the benefits of quitting social media and why happiness is like an orgasm Tim Minchin does not arrive at lunch with the highest hopes. He has only had a couple of h…

"'Doubt Comes In' is this mirky limbo that is creepy and lost. I think you really feel the fear." Director Rachel Chavkin reflects on staging THAT moment of Hadestown.

Rumors of the death of off-off-Broadway have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (the organizing entity, such that there is one, of off-off-Broadway companies) will tel…

Tom Block has been a leading figure in Jewish-Muslim peace-building and forensic history for over 30 years. His book, Shalom/Salaam: The Story of a Mystical Fraternity, explores Jewish-Muslim spiritual ties an…

The Arthur Miller Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing theater education to New York City public schools, celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Theater Education Programs at its annual ga…

Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers sure are getting a work out these days, what with Tom Holland’s recent stab in London, the enduringly popular girl power take of & Juliet and no doubt one or two others…

How do you define 'trauma?'  Is it Pain?  Fear?  Desperation?  Doubt?  For the characters In Ashes & Ink it's all of that and more.  They wrestle with undercurrent of their individual traumas, under c…

  Mike Roche credits include In Uniform (dir. Joan Kane w/ Nylon Fusion Theatre Company), Arthur Miller's The Hook (Brave New World Rep dir. Claire Beckman adapted by Ron Hutchinson), Night Over Taos (INTAR…

5 Broadway Debuts We Are Looking Forward To This Fall Every season, we are enchanted by the thrilling Broadway debuts of a variety of actors, singers and dancers. Some are debuts by talented individuals who are…

The Hippodrome is no doubt thrilled to host the North American Tour launch of “& Juliet” as their season opener, but it is a woefully short run. This jukebox musical poses the question, “what would ha…

Kiln theatre, LondonThis Q&A-based delve into the politics of vaccination is a fascinating, thorny and sometimes wilfully opaque take on a divisive topic for our times Rob Drummond tells us to trust him. Ex…

Tony Award winner Lindsay Mendez, recently seen on Broadway as Mary Flynn in the acclaimed revival of Merrily We Roll Along, gave birth to her second daughter, Ruby Beck Brinson, on September 19. It is her fi…