Your Travalanche Daily Digest for February 28, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche post for February 28, 2026 are about gangster Bugsy Siegel, Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs, and silent comedian Sid Smith. Also Meet the Sword Swallowers of Travalan…

AJ Chronicles: The Battles for Who gets to say what Culture Is by Douglas McLennan

Evidence abounds this week that the battles for culture are intensifying. Taken together, these tests of authority over cultural institutions are probes of where the line is, of how much se…

Bugsy Siegel and Show Business by Trav S.D.

This post is cooked up in the spirit of my earlier one on Al Capone. Gangsters and organized crime and the lore that goes with them aren’t what get me up in the morning, though I do enjoy …

Songs for Slutty Girls has 3 night concert in NYC by bwaySHO

San Francisco Ballet Pulls Out of Kennedy Center Performances by Julia Jacobs

The ballet company, one of the country’s most prestigious, had been under pressure to cancel its shows amid President Trump’s takeover of the performing arts center.

Some Men are Meant to be Us by Mason Pilevsky

Mother Russia – 25 February 2026 The engaging theatrical experience that is Mother Russia leans into the contradictions of the serious playfulness of Russian culture. Steeped in physical c…

Jodi Benson 2026 Pen Pals Interview Excerpt - Life Long Friends with Marcia Mitzman Gaven by Call Me Adam

I am thrilled to be catching up with My Entertainment Idol, Jodi Benson, who you know as the voice of Ariel in Disney's Oscar winning movie, The Little Mermaid. Jodi is getting ready to ret…

Corn’t stop, won’t stop. by Shucked Broadway

Real Families Really Matter in “The Reservoir” and “You Got Older” by Jan Simpson

Ever since Sophocles put the fall of the House of Oedipus onstage, the theatrical canon has been chock-a-block with unhappy families. And that makes sense because they make for good drama. B…

CHARLIE by Ron Fassler

Charles Durning (1923–2012).February 28, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler An update of a column written and published in 2018. Born on this date more than a hundred year…

FringeArts presents Lee Minora’s Baby Everything by Cameron Kelsall

Lee Minora’s entertaining and thought-provoking Baby Everything returns for an encore engagement at FringeArts. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Jackalope Theatre Company’s “The Dress-Up Play,” March 7-22 at Broadway Armory Park

The Barrow Group Solo Show Festival

The Bomb

Mi Madre Mi Novia y yo

The Marsh Berkeley presents “Looking For Justice (In All the Wrong Places)”

MALICE: Stories of Injustice

A Monument to Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs by Trav S.D.

Today we celebrate that unlikely rock and roll giant, Domingo Samudio (b. 1937), better known as Sam the Sham, of Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs. It’s likely that a majority of our readers …

Review: Silver Manhattan at Bowery Palace by Loren Noveck

Jesse Malin and a killer band bring Malin's life story to the stage. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Silver Manhattan at Bowery Palace appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

We'll Never Forget Bernadette's Performance OR Her Fits 👗 by Rodgers & Hammerstein

We'll never forget her performance OR her fits. 👗 Happy birthday to our favorite stepmother—the legendary Bernadette Peters! 💜 Watch Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella on Disney+.

Go Inside Shenandoah University's CATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Our Instagram Story

Go inside Shenandoah University's production of Catch Me If You Can on our Instagram Story! Second-year BFA Musical Theatre student Emerson Riley, who leads the production, will be taking ov…

we did a three show day in London?! | theatre vlog ft Dracula, Hadestown, Deep Azure, and more! by MickeyJoTheatre

Join my channel to gain access to exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQi6IkbVa2SJok8fUZOpKw/join • OHMYGOD HEY! Check out another week in our life of seeing theatre al…

Florida poet ID’d among dead in Cuba shootout fantasized about counter-revolution by Tribune News Service

Before his homeland of Cuba accused him of being a terrorist hellbent on toppling the island’s government, Pavel Alling Peña was a writer. For years, the 45-year-old man shared the poems …

The Other Sidney Smith by Trav S.D.

February 28 was the birthday of silent screen comedian Sidney “Sid” Smith (1892-1928). The title of this post is to differentiate its subject from the cartoonist, creator of the comic st…

Mom of a preemie crochets colorful yarn octopi for tiny tots at Detroit hospital NICU by The Associated Press

By COREY WILLIAMS DETROIT (AP) — Joelle Haley went into labor on Christmas Day, giving birth to a son two days later — premature at 24 weeks. In the soothing darkness of a Detroit hospit…

What to Stream: Harry Styles, ‘War Machine,’ Steve Carell, ‘Young Sherlock’ and Pokémon Pokopia by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press Harry Styles’ fourth solo album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” and Guy Ritchie’s detective series “Young Sherlock” are some of the new televis…

Women’s History Month kicks off with a Russian drama, World War II swashbuckling and classical pop by Christopher Arnott

The Courant's arts picks for March 1-7 also include Boy George at Mohegan Sun, Saxsquatch at Space Ballroom and renown music photographer Henry Diltz at The Kate and Sacred Heart.

The Art of The Elegant Unraveling – The Interview by Ross

A Frontmezzjunkies Interview: Becky London and the world of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife Conducted by Michael Raver Certain actors drift toward the kind of comedy that requires a wink…

We tackle the SOTU and Olympian Lilly King talks trash by NPR

This week, we're live in Bloomington, Indiana with Olympic champion Lilly King and panelists Alonzo Bodden, Josh Gondelman, and Faith SalieTo manage podcast ad preferences, review the links …

Connor Storrie SNL standby line NYC by bwaySHO

RTB Kids Summer Musical Theater Performance Workshops

Spring Stargazing

Orbital

Laser K-Pop Demon Hunters

Laser Zeppelin

The Best Of The 70s

The Governor’s Inn

Rochester, New Hampshire

Spring Egg Hunt at the Dolly Hand

American Sing-Song: Homo Erectus at Ars Nova by bwaySHO

London's MJ the Musical Closes February 28 by Andrew Gans

Jamaal Fields-Green heads the cast at the Prince Edward.