In the current theatre climate there is an incredible necessity and desire for new musicals. The UK is being left behind as Broadway streaks ahead in its musical creations, with Hamilton and Fun Home in recent …

Win a pair of tickets to see Shopping and F***ing at the Lyric Hammersmith Shopping and F***ing | 7 Oct – 5 Nov 2016 | Lyric Hammersmith Twenty years since its explosive premiere, Olivier Award-…

The cast of NBC's WILL AND GRACE, including Megan Mullally, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Eric McCormack, reunited on Saturday, September 24, at Mullally and husband Nick Offerman's comedy show.

The second of Richard Nelson's trilogy about the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York set within the context of the endless and surreal presidential campaign.

"The purpose of the film is to take the audience on what I hope will be a riveting, challenging, and ultimately uplifting journey into the world of human trafficking."

Having done quite well in my native Ireland for the past two years, I decided to bite the bullet and move to

The British soprano opens this week in ENO's new production of Don Giovanni

The charity event took place last week in the West End

The singer will co-host the awards with the newspaper's owner Evgeny Lebedev

Things are going from great to even greater for actress and singer Idina Menzel this week. Not only does she have a top 10 album on the iTunes charts but she got engaged to fellow theater star, Aaron Lohr. ET's…

Thursday, September, 22, 2016, marked the beginning of the 22nd Season for Howard Community College’s Arts Collective. Thursday night’s performance of the Underground Rooftop Coffee House presented by A…

Actor best remembered as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee’s Do the Right ThingThe actor Bill Nunn, who has died aged 63 of leukaemia, was a gentle giant who appeared frequently as a supporting player in mainstream A…

We spoke with the author, comedian and TV personality about the stage adaptation of his children's novel

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

Last week, theatre company Tonic Theatre published its latest research into gender equality in the theatre industry, revealing “profound imbalances”. This week

The remains of the theatre where Shakespeare’s Hamlet was first performed has been granted legal protection by the government. Archeological remains of

Wife-and-husband team nail Benjamin's 'Viola,Viola.'

Dominic Cooper makes his West End debut and Ian Hislop adapts his wartime comedy for the stage in this week's top openings

The 30th anniversary production of The Phantom of the Opera could be in jeopardy after a fire hit the Paris theatre where

The Mobile Unit's production staring award-winning Brit Chukwudi Iwuji at the Public's downtown home

The Brangelina break-up got me to thinking of a theatrical bust-up that I once witnessed. Where no love was lost and divorce was inevitable! I was part of a show where the leading lady fired three leading men i…

David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny will come to the West End next year, playing at the Garrick Theatre. The Birmingham Stage Company production,

The Ontario repertory theatre company will not officially announce its casting for the 2017 season until next month – but information about who is starring in the big shows has already started to leak out

Listen: Disney Settles on a “Frozen” Director and Lewis Black to Film Show for TV! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the…

The comedian's bestselling children's book has been adapted by Neal Foster

Matthew Dunster updates Shakespeare's Cymbeline at the Globe

          by JK Clarke   I’ve seen a lot of Hamlets. Just this year I count at least four. The productions have ranged from big budget and professional to small, communal affairs…

With Swiss Army Man, Daniel Radcliffe shakes off the last of his tween era with a funny and moving role as a cheese-cutting cadaverYou have to hand it to the stars of the Harry Potter franchise for making it to…

So, retitled Imogen and set in modern London is the play really “reclaimed” as the publicity suggests? Well… no, not really. Cymbeline may be the title character but it’s always been Imogen’s story

Not all rookie set designers struggle to earn a living. After he’d graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1982

Meet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Albert

The metaphor of mountain climbing resonates with the crisis of masculinity in new sex-war drama.

First performed in 1775, The Rivals is still standing the test of time, it seems, and never more evident than with this production at the glorious Bristol Old Vic. The eloquent dialogue (written by Richard Brin…

Heraclitus may have said it first, but 20th century modern dance pioneer Martha Graham followed his dictum: “Change is the only constant.” The company the iconic dancer and choreographer founded in 1926 re…

Western Sydney street acrobatics troupe Dauntless Movement Crew delivers an earnest but underwhelming productionJump first, ask later. That’s the motto of the Fairfield-based Dauntless Movement Crew (DMC) and…

The Dale Wasserman was my friend and mentor. Although he died in 2008 at age 94, he still influences my writing. He gladly read everything I wrote, and gave me concise constructive critiques, never more than a …

Harriet Walter stars as Prospero at the Donmar’s new site, Mark Gatiss joins The Boys in the Band at the Park, London, and, in Edinburgh, a 2,500-year-old story of women seeking asylumDublin theatre festival,…

“Hooray and up she rises, Hooray and up she rises” chant the working women of Rome to celebrate Caesar’s victory and her return to the capital. Soon, though, Caesar is warned to “Beware the Ides of Marc…

Taking over from Wesley Enoch as Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company late last year, Sam Strong delivered Wesley’s last season throughout 2016. There is anticipation crackling in the air as we al…

Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Joanna Murray-Smith’s acclaimed two-hander, Switzerland comes to the Southbank Theatre, under the direction of newly appointed MTC Associate Director Sarah Good…

The price of celebrity Last week, I went to the Wyndham’s Theatre to meet and interview Ian McKellen. It was the day

REVIEW BY CARY GINELL You’ve seen them. Gaudy costumes worn by Hollywood and Broadway stars, preserved and on display in museums and galleries. It’s a great way to witness first-hand the trappings o…

Danger and darkness lurk around every corner of Opera Philadelphia’s stunning new production of Turandot, a co-production with Minnesota Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Utah Opera, and Seattle Oper…

In the largest schism in Australia’s Catholic history, Father Peter Kennedy was ousted from his post at St Mary’s by the Church for his unorthodox practices. The beloved priest was progressive, inclusive (a…

Choreographer and dancer fired by a sense of social injusticeEleo Pomare, who has died in Manhattan aged 70, was widely regarded as the angriest, but also the most underrated, of the leading African-American co…

Nathan Alan Davis’ play imagines Nat Turner during the final night in his jail cell.

The evening is held at the June Havoc Theatre Off-Broadway.

The musical by Joe Iconis was recently seen at Barrington Stage Company.

Irene Bunis passed away earlier this summer.

The evening is held at the New York Marriott Marquis.

The gala evening, featuring performances by Tony-winning artists, is held at The Plaza.

The Newsies star names his dream role, the show he’d most like to see revived and the last thing he binge-watched.

The stars (or comets) aligned, and Josh Groban finally feels right where he belongs—on Broadway.

A year after Women in Theatre and Screen (WITS) formed in response to Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s (DTC) record low percentages of female directors and playwrights in its 2016 programming, the theatre com…

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Who is the best James Bond? It’s a question that has plagued us since the time someone-other-than-Sean Connery played the role. Shaken is pitched as Baritones Belting Bond and the songs are the highlight of t…

Geelong’s Back to Back Theatre will leap from stage to screen and an Australian-made video game and graphic novel will become an animated feature as part of Film Victoria’s latest round of production fundin…

Of all the hashtags and memes that Hamilton has inspired, one of the most enduring and certainly the cutest has been Hamilkids. Today, in celebration of the one year anniversary of the Broadway cast album's rel…

By Kaila M. StokesChokehold written by Anthony P. Pennino was a profound outlook on the prevalent racial issues in our country today. It opened with a director type figure named Jason, played by Roland Lane, mo…

Having enjoyed the first weekend of Rabble Crew Productions’ How To… Sex Education, I went back for seconds—another set of four short plays on the ever popular theme of sex…and the never popular topic o…

Be Awesome: A Theatrical Mixtape of the 90s is less a stroll down memory lane and more of a flying leap into an exploding memory bomb. Just a few steps into the Writer’s Center, where Flying V makes its nest,…

BroadwayWorld.com was on hand for our favoriteday and captured the many booths featuring Broadway shows, stars and industry organizations.

Not Another Indie Cabaret is another indie cabaret, but Jessamae St James knows that and plays with your expectations. Jessamae describes herself as low-level clusterfuck, who has trouble with #adulting. She fi…

‘’Night, Mother’ explores depths of depression, family secrets The Highwood Theatre’s Night, Mother, expertly directed by Madison Middleton and wonderfully acted by Melissa B. Robinson and Jennifer Berr…

Queer Art Prize Australia (QAPA) is a new non-acquisitive art prize to celebrate LGBTIQ artistic achievements in Australia. To be held at Chapel Off Chapel during the 2017 Midsumma Festival as part of their 30t…

Raucous and hysterical fun, playwright Robert O’Hara’s satirical play Barbecue — now playing at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood — is a true original, featuring a

Mary Zimmerman deftly directs a lavish revival of Leonard Bernstein’s classic musical, featuring a company of more than 40 actors and musicians. If you’re looking for larger-than-life staging and rich music…

Kaldor Public Art Project’s most ambitious project to date and the first to be created by an Australian Aboriginal artist is currently on display in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden in its free-to-the-public…

You’re outside a bar in North Melbourne. It’s cold, you’re wearing a scarf and a stranger gives you a pair of headphones to put on. There’s a woman at a tram stop and you’re told to follow her. You en…

National voter registration for voters from all 50 states will be conducted by members of the cast of the Broadway musical HAMILTON onWednesday, September 28and again onSaturday, October 1at the Richard Rodgers…

Together with Metrobank Card Corporation, Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group's ATEG production of Broadway and West End smash musical JERSEY BOYS 'opened to a thunderous standing ovation on Friday at the M…

Following her Tony-winning performance in the 2014 Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch as Yitzhak, Lena Hall is pulling a different wig out of the box and hitting the road as the title character fo…

This is a 60 minute, one woman tour-de-force and every single minute is enthralling and unnerving.

Can I make a confession to you, theatregoer? “Man of La Mancha” is one of my all-time favorite plays, and this production by the Arlington Players reminded me of all of the reasons why! Directed by Clare Sh…

The six finalists for the 2016 Rob Guest Endowment have been announced! Now in its eighth year, the Rob Guest Endowment is a highlight of the Australian musical theatre scene, providing a platform for young pe…

“You breathe in joy, you blow out joy” are the words that truly represent the breath of fresh air that Azuka Theatre’s How We Got On brought to their audience during their opening night this past Sunday. …

Loyal followers of the hit Ham4Ham show will recall that Weird Al Yankovic was featured on a digital episode of the popular pre-show performances that Lin-Manuel unwittingly began on the afternoon of Hamilton's…

Tragedy struck the Mogador Theater in Paris when the building caught fire last night, resulting in the injury of a fireman battling the blaze. The theater is currently home to the upcoming 30th Anniversary Prod…

The comedian opens up about forsaking alcohol for laughs, his PowerPoint double act … and his catDave, how has the tour been going so far?It’s been very jolly, thank you. Amazingly, I’m still able to spea…