Getting others to see the world in a certain way and then convincing them to do almost anything to preserve that point of view requires a toolbox of skills that include charisma and a fervent belief that one's …

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The Secret Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of prod…

The piece’s enculturation rests on a certainty in its own semiotics—a stalwart belief that no matter the audience, grieving should be collective, not singular.

Inspired by the scary film franchise, playwright Levi Holloway and Punchdrunk maestro Felix Barrett are bringing the ‘bizarrely joyous’ world of terror to the stage Malevolent spirits be damned – theatres…

As part of Disney's Holiday Magic Tour, Stitch brought an extra dose of surprise to audiences by making his debut during the curtain call of Aladdin on Broadway on Wednesday, December 10th. Following the final …

The Broadway League released its latest research analysis, “The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2024-2025," published on December 10. The report is a profile of the audience at Broadway shows from June …

Blake Montgomery wins the audience over as Charles Dickens in this one-person play, where the celebrated author diverts from his 172nd annual reading of "A Christmas Carol" to throw a holiday party instead.

As part of Disney's Holiday Magic Tour, Stitch brought an extra dose of surprise to audiences by making his debut during the curtain call of Aladdin on Broadway on Wednesday, December 10th. Following the final …

As humans are periodically replaced by eager and curious Primes, the audience tumbles headlong into the uncanny valley.

Marjorie Prime, Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison's family drama directed by Tony nominee Anne Kauffman, is officially open on Broadway. Starring June Squibb, two-time Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, Tony winn…

The Queen of Versailles, which previously announced its closing date as January 4, 2026, will now close at Broadway's St. James Theatre two weeks earlier, on Sunday, December 21. Deadline shared a statement fro…

Join my channel to gain access to exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQi6IkbVa2SJok8fUZOpKw/join • OHMYGOD HEY! The Tony Award winning Broadway revival of the Musical Merrily we Roll Alo…

Until she reached her 50s, the actor was a constant presence on stage and screen. Then the offers disappeared. Now, as her renaissance continues, she is taking on Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals After six decades as…

A Christmas Carol – 04 December 2025 A Christmas Carol at PAC NYC deliciously lives between the worlds of a musical and a play with music. While characters don’t sing their stories to the audience, many tra…

EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! Celebrating rock ’n’ roll to the rhythm of 25 Queen songs, including the classic “Somebody to Love, ” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “We Are the Champions,” “Un…

A CHRISTMAS CAROL opened on Thursday night at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan. See photos from the red carpet here! A CHRISTMAS CAROL fills the auditorium to the brim with holiday treats,…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Grace Theatre Guild's production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version). Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interact…

On the surface, ‘Clue: Live on Stage’ appears to be a story about solving a murder mystery and sounds like it will be a whodunit dramatic mystery with the audience being on edge until the mystery is solved.…

About ten years ago I had a lamentable opportunity to sing a few bars of the song “I Wonder What Became of Sally?” in Dick Zigun’s play Dead End Dummy out at Coney Island USA. (It was only lamentable beca…

Liverpool PlayhouseThe story becomes less and less relevant as this slapstick monster pastiche leads to an irresistible sense of chaos When a film as perfect as Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein exists, you mig…

Review of the Wednesday, December 3, 2025 matinee performance at the St. James Theatre in New York City. Starring Sherie Rene Scott, F. Murray Abraham, Melody Butiu, Stephen DeRosa, Greg Hildreth, Tatum Grace H…

National Theatre Live has revealed three major titles joining its 2026 cinema slate, promising audiences a year of theatrical highlights on the big screen The post National Theatre Live Announces The Audience, …

Is “Dirty Books” itself obscene? Not at all,  if we go by the Supreme Court’s three-pronged test. The theater company Bated Breath does enlist the audience to write erotica, but 1. The show begins with…

Hedgerow Theatre Company stages a highly questionable adaptation of Little Women that gives the audience whiplash at its conclusion. Mina Reinckens reviews.

Unicorn theatre, LondonThis exuberant adaptation of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s picture book moves with the rhythm of a child’s racing imagination Never mind what’s hidden inside the wrapping paper, her…

Paddington the Musical arrives at the Savoy Theatre with a heart full of hope and a suitcase packed with marmalade flavoured charm, delivering a joyous celebration of inclusion, diversity and equality in every …

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The River Run Centre's production of School of Rock. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of produ…

The Lucky Chance, FromeJoy radiates from the stage as an ensemble cast from the Emma Rice Company bring Thomas’s twinkling poem to life Dylan Thomas’s beautiful Christmas poem has that amazing ability to sl…

Riverside Studios, London The madcap sci-fi tale is retold on a lavish scale, complete with in-show merch, but it never really blasts off Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy about Earth’s destruction and Arthur D…

New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme A fresh telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s story deploys circus skills and inventive design to create a memorable merworld The Little Mermaid is big business this Chris…

The Toronto Theatre Review: Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show By Ross The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show returned to Toronto like a glitter-dusted snowstorm of chaos, sequins, and unexpected sincerity for the eighth…

LOS ANGELES — Ryan Coogler was deep into writing "Sinners" when he realized the movie was missing something: He needed a moment that would jolt the audience and plunge them into a different space. "Instead of…

With its big, if economical, imagination, "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" also seemingly contains a metropolis of non-digital humanity, thanks, in particular, to Tony Gayle's robust and amusingly…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The Coterie Theatre's production of ELF - the Musical T.Y.A. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types …

For the past year, Grammy winner Michelle Williams has been casting a spell on Broadway as the Swarovski-clad sorceress Viola Van Horn in Death Becomes Her. The Destiny’s Child singer sat down with The Broad…

Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth is back on Broadway in The Queen of Versailles, a new musical in which she reunites with Wicked songwriter Stephen Schwartz. She stars as real-life socialite Jacqueline “Ja…

By Paulanne Simmons November 19, 2025: Laurie Krauz began Sets at Don’t Tell Mama on November 13 with the same humor that pervaded the entire show. “Why are we here… Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth…

🎟️ Get tickets now: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/marriage-of-figaro/ Step into the Opera House lobby to hear real reactions from audience members fresh out of The Marriage of Figaro! …

From Chicago to Stan & Ollie, the Oscar-nominated actor has sung on screen for years. Now he arrives on stage – inside a trunk – to serenade the audience In one of Hollywood’s nicer ironies, character…

Daniel Radcliffe, who was most recently seen in his Tony Award-winning role in Merrily We Roll Along, is making his return to Broadway next year in the solo show Every Brilliant Thing. On Tuesday, the Harry Pot…

Find out how to be in the room when Broadway comes to nationwide TV November 18.

Review of the Sunday, November 9, 2025 matinee performance at New York City Center in New York City. Starring Taylor Trensch, Kerry Butler, Gabi Carrubba, Andrew Durand, Mary Faber, Alan H. Green, Evan Harringt…

(from France 24, 11/15/25.) At first, its soft cushions, luxurious rugs and fine china evoke the warm hospitality of an Afghan home. Yet as the immersive theatrical experience progresses, the audience feels the…

Following its debut on November 6, 3.6 million viewers tuned into NBC's Wicked: One Wonderful Night special over a three day period. This makes it the second-best special of the year for the network, coming in …

The Queen of Versailles is officially open on Broadway at the St. James Theatre, and Broadway.com was on the red carpet to celebrate the big night. "To get to dream in this and think about scale and where we w…

Who better to warm up the audience at & Juliet than famed voice teacher Cheryl Porter? Before their recent sing-along performance, Porter – who currently plays Angélique in the hit musical – led the au…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Poudre High School Theatre's production of Hadestown: Teen Edition. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all…

There’s more than a bit of sleight of hand behind the awkwardly titled new show Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests the Muppets. Lake, an America’s Got Talent finalist, has made the appearance of the Muppets…

Sting will star in a newly adapted version of his musical The Last Ship, which comes to the Metropolitan Opera House for nine performances, June 9–14, 2026. Check out video from inside The Met as Sting sings …

On November 11, Operation Mincemeat commemorated Veteran’s Day with a silence at curtain call, honoring Veteran’s in the audience and around the world. Check out the video here! Poppies were also distribut…

After a storied career on the stage, an actor can be expected to have their fair share of onstage mishaps. Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick, now in rehearsals for the play Tartuffe, looked back on some of th…

By Isa Goldberg November 13, 2025: Illusionist Rob Lake does magic on Broadway. Not any ordinary Svengali, Lake is charismatic, and confidently narcissistic. Pretty hot, in a tee shirt and black leather pants…

The reviews are in for the long-awaited adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, presented in a purpose-built theatre in Canary Wharf The Super Bowl optics are all there from the off: a wardrobe of gre…

‘If I had to choose between being known while alive or being known while dead, I gotta go with dead,” says Gavrilo, the teenager who will soon assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and start World War I. �…

On November 11, Operation Mincemeat commemorated Veteran’s Day with a silence at curtain call, honoring Veteran’s in the audience and around the world. Check out the video here! Poppies were also distribute…

On Halloween night, a perfectly spooky occasion for a family of delightful misfits, South Florida Theater caught the opening performance of The Addams Family at the Kravis Center. It was a truncated run, but th…

If you weren't able to attend the LIVE talkback I moderated after Crystal Skillman's play OPEN at WP Theater in NYC on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, you can watch to the replay here! Hosted by Call Me Adam's Ada…

Nichelle Lewis heard her grandmother’s voice on opening night. Standing onstage at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, playing Sarah in Ragtime, looking out at the audience during the opening number, she couldn’t …

Ryan McCartan took his final bow in The Great Gatsby on Broadway on Sunday, November 9. After his final show, director Marc Bruni spoke to the audience about McCartan's final show. "You came into this process w…

Mateo d’Amato is an actor, producer, and co-founder of Suite 524, which is currently producing Pop Up Dinner Theater. He has starred in many of Off and Off-Off Broadway productions, including Not About Me …

Zoetic Stage’s season has opened with a tantalizing, psychological, playful dark comedy that has the audience second-guessing, laughing, and gasping in surprise. The Mother is described by the playwright as a…

The only thing small about Kyoto, the latest import from Britain that opened this week at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse theater, is its one-word title. Everything else is outsized: the show runs nearly t…

In episode two of Don't Svet It, Hannah Cruz navigates a busy, rainsoaked day of glam and Halloween hijinks. She even blesses viewers with footage from the kitten cam featuring baby Svetlana! Cruz then attends …

Hannah Cruz plays Svetlana in Chess on Broadway. For six weeks, she's checking in with fans from backstage at the Imperial Theatre. It's going to be game-changing. In episode two, Cruz navigates a busy, rainso…

Romy & Michele is stupid in all the right ways. The audience absolutely eats this up. The audience was a complete raucous—literally! Endless laughter, clapping, and an audience member who was so rowdy tha…

Sadler’s Wells East, LondonAkeim Toussaint Buck’s bass-heavy production invites the audience to get up and lose themselves in the music A must for reggae lovers, and anyone in the market for an hour of low…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Grant Fine Arts Center's production of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs fo…

Mike Nichols and Neil Simon in an empty theatre in the 1960s, eyes forward towards the stage.November 7, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. Mike Nichols, born ninety-four years ago on November…

Before the audience of the play 3sisters, with their eyes wide open, a music box, the girls on film, the Yugo-wave, the empty space, and the Chekhov of the future are embodied. The direction of the play complet…

Illusionist Rob Lake and Kermit the Frog himself joined TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Carson Daly to discuss the new show, Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets, which is now in previews…

Stand Comedy Club, GlasgowAn emergency in the audience halts the gravel-voiced comic’s set but he brings it to an uproarious close in the foyer ‘Why weren’t you like this through there?!” We’re in th…

'The Wasp" is not for the faint of heart. It confronts the audience with themes of mental illness, domestic violence, and sexual trauma, yet resists the easy descent into nihilism. For all its darkness, there i…

Justin Collette stars as the titular demon in Beetlejuice on Broadway. Someone must have said his name three times, because he's here to take fans behind the scenes of the spooky ooky show haunting the Palace T…

Justin Collette swaps backstage at the Palace with backstage at ABC Studios as he and the cast rehearse for a special live performance on Good Morning America. Then, it's costume night at BEETLEJUICE in honor o…

The cast of MJ the Musical celebrated Halloween with its annual post-curtain-call performance of "Thriller." Following the show Friday night, they surprised the audience with a special, one-night-only renditio…

New York City is about to get a little bit merrier with the arrival of A Christmas Carol- Matthew Warchus’ production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne. It will pl…

STEREOPHONIC is coming to the Curran Theatre in San Francisco from October 28–November 23, 2025. The most Tony Award-winning Show of the year. The most Tony Award-nominated Play of all time. STEREOPHONIC m…

Originally published on Vogue.comView this story online It took 15 years for Liberation to open on Broadway, but playwright Bess Wohl knows it’s finally the right time. Wohl had workshopped her play—an e…

Everyone who appears on stage in NextStop Theatre’s production of Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last 5 Years” does a phenomenal job. Ben Clark as Jamie and Caelyn D. Williams as Cathy are excellent. Clark …

Fresh from his Tony award for Merrily We Roll Along, the Harry Potter star will bring Duncan Macmillan’s one-person hit show to New York audiences Daniel Radcliffe is set to star in the Broadway premiere of E…