Roundabout brings English, by Sanaz Toossi, home to Broadway, after we co-produced its world premiere with Atlantic Theater Company. Knud Adams (Primary Trust) once again directs this Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…

The next play to hit Broadway is the Roundabout Theatre Company production of English, which will begin previews at the Todd Haimes Theatre on Friday, January 3, 2025. Watch as we hang with the whole cast and …

Coliseum; Linbury theatre; Royal Opera House, LondonENB’s new Nutcracker recaptures the joy, while Royal Ballet finesse shines through the bling in a Frederick Ashton classic. Plus, a searing festive antidote…

Roundabout Theatre Company is getting ready to bring Sanaz Toossi's English, directed by Knud Adams, to Broadway! Check out photos of the new marquee here.

Go inside rehearsal for Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of English by Sanaz Toossi, directed by Knud Adams in new photos!

After watching the glitziest pantomime in London, I had a night out at a hilarious ‘adult’ show. It was a good reminder that you don’t need big money to deliver big laughs They call the Palladium Christma…

London Coliseum Artistic director Aaron S Watkin oversees a faintly surreal Edwardian setting of dancing chimney sweeps, suffragettes and Liquorice Allsorts in a sweet but not sickly production English National…

English, Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play set inside a TOEFL classroom (Test of English as a Foreign Language), begins its Broadway run on January 3, 2025 at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Directed by Knud…

Meet the company of Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ENGLISH. Get tickets to ENGLISH: https://www.broadway.com/shows/english/

This week, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal gets acquainted with Broadway's newest arrivals and looks back at some old favorites. See what's on tap in the latest episode.  Catch up with Tony Award winner…

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

Mierda bonita, or beautiful shit in English, is the term used in La luz de un lago/The light of a lake, the new play by El Conde de Torrefiel whose Spanish premier was in Temporada Alta Festival last month. Thi…

Time’s implacability and theater’s ephemerality seem inherently antithetical. Yet time is imbued several ways in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ upcoming production this month of the decades-old English backstage …

Performances begin next month for Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play English. The cast of English recently met the press and BroadwayWorld was there. Check out p…

Roundabout brings English, by Sanaz Toossi, home to Broadway, after we co-produced its world premiere with Atlantic Theater Company. Knud Adams (Primary Trust) once again directs this Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…

‘English’ on Broadway Casting, Helen Gallagher Dies, Video of Gavin Creel Memorial Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top theatre headlines every Mon…

Shakespeare's comedy of identity confusion benefits from a 1940s setting It's all too easy to underplay the melancholy of Shakespeare's comedy of divided twins, misplaced – sometimes narcissistic – love, dr…

Following sold-out performances in Paris, Sydney, Dubai, and a season on Broadway, The Little Prince, one of the best-selling and most translated books ever written, comes to London for its UK premiere. Perfor…

The creative team has also been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Sanaz Toosi’s play.

The cast of the off-Broadway world premiere of the Pulitzer-winning play English by Sanaz Toossi will reprise their roles on Broadway. The play begins preview performances at the Todd Haimes Theatre on January …

Roundabout Theatre Company has revealed the complete cast for the upcoming Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play English by Sanaz Toossi and directed by Knud Adams. See who is starring and lear…

English, the upcoming Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sanaz Toossi, will feature the original Off Broadway world premiere cast, including Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Ma…

Ahead of Grand Theft Hamlet, in which Shakespeare’s play is staged entirely inside a video game, check out cinema’s avenging princes, from Laurence Olivier to Ethan Hawke When I was 16, for a high school En…

Mother Goose will be The Gaiety’s first in-house production to feature actors performing in BSL, Sign Supported English and spoken English throughout, and Scotland’s first hearing-led pantomime to invo…

Review of the Saturday, November 9, 2024 matinee performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City. Starring Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas, …

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespear…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespear…

It did not surprise me that Lynne Kirwin became the doyenne of theatre publicists. At Kingsbury county grammar school in London, we auditioned for the same role in the school play, Anouilh’s Antigone, which s…

We know all about Broadway and the West End, but what about the third largest English-speaking theatre district in the world...Toronto! Let's find out more about this flourishing city of theatre.

The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre (Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski) is a Shakespearean theatre in the middle of the thriving industrial port city of Gdansk in Poland. Designed by Italian architect Renato Rizzi, it o…

Dr. Samir Talib is an Iraqi scholar specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. He earned his M.A. in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature from Baghdad University in 2005, followed by a Ph.D. in the …

Estelle Parsons as Violet Weston in “August: Osage Country” (2008).November 8, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler In New York City this week, an unseasonably warm November gave off somethin…

Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThe 2008 Canadian film about zombie-like hordes spreading a verbal virus is given a Welsh update, with a radio host refusing to rein in his divisive rhetoric Amid a glut of plays…

Swashbuckling pirates and razor-sharp satire, English National Opera (ENO) presents Mike Leigh’s production of The Pirates of Penzance between December 2024 to February 2025

The decade-spanning story of a man aging in reverse comes to the West End, transformed into a thoughtful fable opening on the English coast.

If a family member were accused of a crime, how far would you go to clear their name? The Colonial Players, an Annapolis-based company celebrating its 76th season, is asking. The question is at the heart of “…

What would happen if our arts critics and sports writers swapped roles for a day? How does the English National Opera compare to the Premier League … or the NFL to a West End musical? Our experts found out la…

The actor explains how he likes to spend the day of rest in bed, watching nonsense on YouTube and playing Mario Kart Sunday blessings? As someone who earns a living from theatre, Sunday is normally my one day …

This week, Brain Jordan Alvarez, the creator and star of English Teacher, plays our game with Brian Babylon, Luke Burbank, and Emmy BlotnickLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

The Smile is an English rock band featuring Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, along with Tom Skinnery. Following the release of their second album, 'Wall of Eyes', earlier this year, the band delig…

Gate theatre, LondonSanaz Toossi’s intimate play follows a group of friends during the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and beyond as they get married, have children and experience loss Two dramas by Sanaz Toossi p…

This October, Black History Month celebrates its theme Reclaiming Narratives. Throughout the month we’ve been talking to to Black performers and creatives in the theatre industry, asking them to share their i…

Advertising used throughout “Man of La Mancha’s” six-year run (1965–1971).October 29, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler As a teenager and developing theatre nerd of the 1960s, it was al…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/fidelio/ NEW PRODUCTION Only her love can set him free. Florestan suffers in a secret underground cell, unjustly incarcerated for his political beliefs. But a …

North American Premiere DEEP HISTORY Written and Performed by David Finnigan At the end of 2019, in the English countryside, Australian playwright David Finnigan began writing a play about the six turning …

★★★★ THE FORSYTE SAGA PARTS 1 AND 2, PARK THEATRE Epic adaptation falls away a little, but still packs a punch Joseph Millson leads a super cast in a classy production from Troupe Theatre Company The …

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/fidelio/ NEW PRODUCTION Only her love can set him free. Florestan suffers in a secret underground cell, unjustly incarcerated for his political beliefs. But a …

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/fidelio/ NEW PRODUCTION Only her love can set him free. Florestan suffers in a secret underground cell, unjustly incarcerated for his political beliefs. But a …

Tattooer is a playful yet critical adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s (1886-1965) debut short story of 1910 by the same name. Adapted by Takuya Kaneshima and directed by Hogara Kawai in a production by Umeda…

English Teacher won the Mercury prize, Amy Gledhill won the Edinburgh comedy award – and now even Beyoncé wants a piece of the action. Why has ‘God’s own county’ become such an artistic force? ‘Some …

Sadie Sink, best known for her role as Max Mayfield in Stranger Things on Netflix, will star in John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway this spring. The play, by Kimberly Belflower, will begin previews at the…

In a theatrical era when "full-length" works often fail to exceed 90 minutes, the English playwright Jez Butterworth dares to dubiously dramatize for approximately twice that span. His previous Broadway epic, "…

This groundbreaking, new production, directed by Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Snehal Desai, and produced in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre, features an ensemble of both Deaf and hearing actors, …

Performed simultaneously in sign language and sung English, a Los Angeles revival of the Green Day musical finds new ways to communicate rage and angst.

Gielgud theatre; Lyttelton theatre, LondonMark Rylance goes to fabulous extremes in an enjoyable if unbalanced revival of O’Casey’s Irish civil war drama. And a grieving family confronts its past in Alexand…

Slinging razor-sharp guitars, thundering drums, and raw emotion, Deaf West Theatre and Center Theatre Group present a groundbreaking reimagining of Green Day's American Idiot. This electrifying production, perf…

★★★ FRENCH TOAST The English and the French, the men and the women, the young and the old, lock horns in 70s farce   Comedy gains momentum when characters are rounded out It’s always fun jabbing at t…

DEEP HISTORY Written and Performed by David Finnigan At the end of 2019, in the English countryside, Australian playwright David Finnigan began writing a play about the six turning points that have brought …

In Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California,” the four Webb sisters gather in the summer of 1976 at Seaview the guesthouse on the outskirts of Blackpool, an English seaside resort on the Irish Sea, wher…

All production photos by Joan Marcus Jez Butterworth’s ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama “The Hills of California” …

Drácula, the 1931 Spanish-language film, is a notable adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel. It was produced by Universal Pictures and released concurrently with the more famous English-language version …

Theatre Royal Haymarket; Olivier; Young Vic, LondonBen Whishaw and Lucian Msamati add star power to James Macdonald’s thoughtful Beckett; David Oyelowo’s Coriolanus is dwarfed by epic staging; and an Elvis …

Dame Maggie Smith, the Tony-, Emmy- and Academy Award-winning actress who was among the most recognizable British talents of stage and screen, has died in London at the age of 89. She was known for such wide-ra…

Regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music, Eric Clapton will perform with Jimmie Vaughan at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM. Eric Clapton is…

It somehow slipped my mind that Tuesday night was the opening night for CSC’s presentation of Our Class, the searing saga of a group of Poles and Jews who grew up together in a rural Polish town only to have …

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was first mounted in the fall of 1879, so there is little debate that the work could use a bit of timely updating.…

★★★ THE TRUTH ABOUT HARRY BECK Nostalgic comedy about the man who originated an everyday design classic An English eccentric quietly re-invents our view of the capital Iconic is a word the meaning of whi…

DePrince, who has died aged 29, was a ‘beacon of hope’ for dancers, says English National Ballet first soloist Michaela Mabinty DePrince, whose death aged 29 was announced on Friday, has been recognised for…

Chair of Literatures in English, Chris Holmes, has written the playbill essay for the first ever adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go to ...

The Spanish word ¡Pasaje! translates as ‘passage’ or ‘crossing.’  It can also mean “fare”, “ticket”, “airfare”, and even “scripture”, “extract”, “text”, or “paragraph” in…

My friend and former colleague the theatre manager Ruth Eastwood, who has died aged 62 shortly after a diagnosis of breast cancer, reinvigorated a number of regional theatres through her ability to manage chang…

The former artistic director of English National Ballet recalls the joy of working with a ballerina who reached an audience far beyond dance Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who has died aged 29, was beloved in the d…

COUNTING AND CRACKING weaves English, Sinhala, and Tamil into an unforgettable theatrical experience - proving that great storytelling transcends language! We asked the company to share some of their favorite l…

The hills are alive with all kinds of music this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal—from homegrown harmonies on the English seaside, to Louis Armstrong's blaring trumpet, to the jazzy underground ru…

The Hills of California, a new play by Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth (The Ferryman, Jerusalem), begins its Broadway run on September 11 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Directed by Sam Mendes, who also directed …

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/fidelio/ NEW PRODUCTION Only her love can set him free. Florestan suffers in a secret underground cell, unjustly incarcerated for his political beliefs. But a …

James Joyce's Ulysses is the novel that everyone (or English majors at least) has to read, but few finish. In this year's Fringe, Elevator Repair Service tackles the elusive text. An Nichols reviews.

Tere Martínez’s world premiere about the mainland United States’ exploitation of Puerto Rico constantly switches among English, Spanish and Spanglish, frequently pivoting mid-sentence.