Classic Stage Company has added a second benefit concert performance of The Rink, featuring a book by Terrence McNally, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. In addition to the previous performance anno…

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Kelli O'Hara and More Join Tom Hanks in This World of Tomorrow Casting is complete for the off-Broadway world premiere of This World of Tomorrow, the n…

Tony Award winners Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, The Prom) and Jessie Mueller (Beautiful, Waitress) will star in Classic Stage Company's one-night-only benefit concert performance of THE RINK, the 1984 mus…

The 2000 year-old rivalry of two fatally seductive, bloodsucking actresses in a cult classic by the inimitable Charles Busch By Alix Cohen Onto the 54 Below stage file very old friends, but for one, original ca…

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This fall, Broadway audiences will get to see theater history made when Chess returns to the Imperial Theatre, 37 years after its original debut there in 1988. Set during the Cold War, the sweeping musical foll…

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June 1, 2025 would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 99th birthday. I find that remarkable. I never met Marilyn Monroe, but I publicized the 1984 New York City revival of Arthur Miller’s After The Fall starring …

A tip of the hat today to singer, dancer, actor, and all-around performer Avon Long (1910-1984). A Baltimore native, Long got his start in Harlem in the late 1920s, at such venues as the Lafayette Theatre and t…

Box Tale Soup returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the world premiere of 1984, a bold new adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian classic. Running from 30 July to 25 August (excluding 13 August) at P…

Kara Young has made Broadway history with her second consecutive Tony Award win. She earned Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Purpose, becoming the first Black performer to win Tony Awards …

Chess, the ABBA-scored musical set set around a Cold War-era chess tournament, will return to Broadway in a revival directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer and choreographed by Lorin Latarro. The production…

May 28 was the birthday of Edith Massey (1918-1984) the dentally challenged oddball at the heart of most of John Waters’ early movies, best known for her egg-sucking scene in Pink Flamingos (1972). Waters as …

The term “penny dreadful” describes cheap publications, popular in Victorian England, that were often sold for a penny and featured lurid stories about crime, adventure, or the supernatural. (Think the Nati…

Everybody’s cutting “Footloose” at NextStop Theatre Company’s production of the 1998 musical based on the beloved 1984 film of the same name. With music by Tom Snow, lyrics by Dean Pitchford (with addit…

A pair of sold-out reunion concerts of Broadway's Avett Brothers musical, Swept Away, was held April 28 at Bowery Ballroom. The concerts featured the full original Broadway cast, led by Tony winner John Gallagh…

On Sunday, the Footloose star took the Stagecoach Festival stage to perform Kenny Loggins' title number from the 1984 musical classic, alongside his brother Michael Bacon. Watch a clip of the performance!

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Actor and script editor who oversaw programmes at ATV and introduced foreign drama to Channel 4 Renee Goddard, who has died aged 102, came to Britain from Germany in 1934, with little education and no English. …

"Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, I like it, Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, We like it, Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, This two for one!" So sings the giddy Emcee in Cabaret. We all know what that song suggests. But there is…

OVO Arena, Wembley, LondonThis highlight reel of totemic routines interspersed with some dazzling cast numbers showcases the couple’s former greatness and timeless elegance A painfully mirthless Dancing on Ic…

Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli has been hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” He’s expanded his repertoire by including the music of P…

Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk I lost track of the number of times I thought, “It was a different time,” while watching Glengarry Glen Ross. …

By David Sheward April 5, 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s savagely funny takedown of cutthroat Chicago real-estate salesmen, has been a magnet for male actors to prove their theatrical chops since i…

By Samuel L. Leiter April 5, 2025. First seen on Broadway 41 years ago (March 25, 1984), and revived three times since then (2005, 2012, and now, at the Palace), David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross is a showca…

As everyone knows, big name movie and TV stars have been invading Broadway this spring (click here for a rundown of who is doing what) and theatergoers are paying big bucks for the bragging rights to say that t…

“The Luckiest Man in America” is an ironic title for the story of Michael Larson, the Ohio man who managed to win over $110,000 on a 1984 episode of the game show “Press Your Luck.” The truth is, luck h…

Palace Theatre, New YorkKieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr lead an impressive new staging of the bleak yet darkly funny drama The new revival of David Mamet’s seminal play Glengarry Glen Ross opens on …

Michael McKean also stars in Patrick Marber’s Broadway production of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner about Chicago real estate hucksters driven to desperate measures.

Currently enjoying an all-star revival, the David Mamet play won the Pulitzer and the Tony when it debuted.

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A little over four decades ago, theater audiences first met Richard Roma, the strutting, soliloquizing top-dog salesman of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. In the hands of the actor Joe Mantegna, Roma was …

Born 100 years ago today, Hollywood’s original poet of violence, Sam Peckinpah (1922-1984). I reckon it was always forgone that Peckinpah would not live to see this day. The man consumed vast quantities of al…

Orange Tree theatre, LondonThere are laugh-aloud gags and spiky dialogue as Roger Allam and Peter Forbes star in Howard Brenton’s play about the 1942 encounter In the 1970s, Howard Brenton wrote The Churchill…

Actress Kim Stanley (1925–2001).February 11, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler The actress Kim Stanley (born Patricia Reid) was born 100 years ago today. On Broadway in 1950s, alongside Julie…

The company, founded in 1984, has struggled with finances since the pandemic.

The Royal Ballet principal on her late career debut, taking her daughters to work, and playing goodies and baddies Born in Devon in 1984, Lauren Cuthbertson joined the Royal Ballet School aged 11 and the Royal …

★★★★ THE LONELY LONDONERS, KILN THEATRE A beautifully realised stage adaptation Memories, frustrations and hopes in a city emerging from post-war austerity As something of an immigrant to the capital …

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Broadway’s Swing and Titanic who also left an indelible mark on Hollywood by guiding Kevin Bacon through his famed solo dance in the 1984 hit fi…

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-Corbett. She was 78. …

Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett, who worked on Broadway's "Swing!" and the 1984 "Footloose" film, has also passed away. @playbill ...

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-Corbett. She was 78. …

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-Corbett. She was 68. …

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-Corbett. She was 68. …

The author of more than two dozen books is best known for his trio set in a fictionalised version of the University of Birmingham, where he worked from 1960 to 1987 British author and critic David Lodge, best k…

Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera in “The Rink” (1984). Photo by Martha Swope.November 20, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. In 1984, Liza Minnelli co-starred with Chita Rivera through a roc…

Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman’s 1984 Frances Farmer biopic gives the actress, who struggled with mental health and involuntary institutionalization, room to breathe. Sheila McLaughlin as Frances Farmer…

Swept Away is currently running at Broadway's Longacre Theatre. Leading the cast are Tony winner John Gallagher, Jr. (Spring Awakening) as Mate, Stark Sands (Kinky Boots) as Big Brother, Adrian Blake Enscoe (Di…

Call Me Madam with June Bronhill (1984)

It is the age of total surveillance. Everything you say or do is scrutinised. Even your innermost thoughts are probed. You cannot be too careful. In an age when we are tracked and monitored, Orwell’s vision …

The German rock band KMFDM, formed in 1984 as a multi-media project, is celebrating its 40th anniversary on a new tour coming to Connecticut.

Sherman theatre, CardiffTim Price’s play links a 1980s coal miner with Odysseus in an affecting if heavy-handed mythological drama Forty years after the 1984 miners’ strike, Tim Price’s play maps Homer�…

Academy Award winner Gary Oldman will return to the U.K. stage to perform Samuel Beckett’s one-act monologue Krapp’s Last Tape. The production begins previews at York Theatre Royal on April 14, 2025, and ru…

. . . and love stops, and sustains, and continues in fits and starts, in John Cassavetes’s 1984 comedy-drama starring the director-actor and Gena Rowlands. John Cassavetes as Robert Harmon and Gena Rowlands…

Born 100 years today, Truman Streckfus Persons (1924-1984), better known to most as Truman Capote. Mid 20th century fiction is far from my main jam, but writers of that era did leave footprints in show business…

MINNEAPOLIS — The list-loving Rolling Stone cultural arbiters love them some “Purple Rain,” declaring that the 1984 Prince project is the greatest movie soundtrack album ever. In a list of the 101 Greates…

Theatre Royal BathAllen gives a capable performance in an arresting production that gives a chilling sense of state control – but the central romance fails to fizz Seventy-five years after George Orwell wrote…

Counterintuitive but true: if you were to cross Shug Fisher (George Clinton Fisher, 1907-1984) with Fuzzy Knight, the result would not be Suge Knight. Fisher was a rustic character actor, comedian, and musician…

The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) celebrated its 40th anniversary on September 11, 2024, at the UBS Arena in New York. First held in 1984, the VMAs have left a profound cultural legacy that extends beyond …

EXCLUSIVE: Michael McKean will join the previously announced Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin and Bill Burr in the upcoming Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. McKean will play George Aaronow, t…

Summer is saying its goodbyes, and with that comes the seasonal promise of exciting theater for the fall. That’s nowhere more true than in London, which offers a dizzying array of shows in the month ahead. Fr…

On September 16, Alyssa Milano makes her Broadway debut as Chicago’s unrepentant murderess Roxie Hart. It’s a career milestone for the actress who is still one of the most recognizable faces of ‘90s telev…

Swept Away, the new seafaring musical scored by the Avett Brothers, has completed casting for its upcoming Broadway production. Performances will begin at the Longacre Theatre on October 29 ahead of an official…

The highly anticipated new adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 is set to hit the stage next month, with

Born of an August 14, the great Jazz Age figure known as Bricktop (Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, 1894-1984). Bricktop was a queer woman of color. Two colors, not just black but also red. He…

EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg will play Miss Hannigan in New York over the holidays as part of the national tour of Annie. The tour of the musical about the big-hearted, red-headed orphan will play the Chicago Th…

Where does the National send up-and-coming playwrights to have their ideas honed, pulled apart, rebuilt – and turned into dramatic dynamite? Our writer is granted rare access to the hallowed confines of ‘th…

Russ Abbot in the 1984 London revival of Little Me with Lynda Baron , Sheila White , Valerie Walsh , Ken Caswell , Michelle Todd

A scene from “13” at the Norma Terris Theatre. Tucked away in the cozy Connecticut town of Chester, sits the Terris Theatre, the little theate…

I’m in major need of a laugh today (if you follow the news and have a half a brain I imagine you are too) so I am grateful that today is the birthday of Stephen Stucker (1947-1984). Stucker literally hopped i…

Troubadour Wembley Park theatre, LondonUpdated with references to net zero, the 1984 musical is back on track in all its outlandish glory What bald-faced audacity led Andrew Lloyd Webber to conceive a show feat…

Is it a musical? Is it a roller derby? Is it a game-show? When the roller-skating phenomenon that is “Starlight Express” opened in London in 1984 it was all of those and more, as evidenced by its 18-year ru…

From watching his father star in Lloyd Webber’s mega-hit in futuristic 1980s Japan, to taking his own family to its reboot in London this year, writer Johny Pitts recounts how Starlight Express has been a thr…

‘Purple Rain,’ the highly anticipated Broadway-bound musical inspired by Prince’s iconic 1984 film, has announced its Minneapolis world premiere dates

The hottest show in town is… “Cats”? Nobody's said that since around 1984.

Purple Rain, the Broadway-bound musical based on Prince's 1984 film, has announced additional creative team members as well as dates for its Minneapolis world premiere. Performances are now set to run from Apr…

Play It Again: West Side Story's "Somewhere" 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. Wher…

GRAMMY Award-winning rap icon Nas announced that he has joined the creative team adapting the groundbreaking 1984 hip-hop film classic into a Broadway musical. Additional creative team members will be announced…

Tonight, at a 40th anniversary screening of Beat Street at the Tribeca Film Festival, Grammy Award-winning rapper Nas announced that he has joined the creative team adapting the 1984 hip-hop film into a Broadwa…