On Your Feet, the Gloria Estefan bio-musical closes today, August 20, after a nearly two year run at the Marquis Theatre. The show will launch a national tour this fall, with plans to also run abroad.

Updated this week Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, August 20, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including whatwhenwhere and how to audition

Drag has always been prominent within the performing arts. In recent years, with drag culture becoming more and more celebrated and mainstream, thanks to RuPaul’s Drag Race and Drag Idol, numerous shows …

At ten years old, GG (Naomi Sheldon) is of the impression that in order to be liked, she has to be a Good Girl. She’s at the county swimming championships and her coach is telling her to keep going, like …

Don’t Blame The Bankers… $t00pid has one final performance at Canal Café Theatre, tonight! Book your tickets here: Canal Cafe Theatre Box Office Star rating: ***** 45 minutes of sheer innovativ…

An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Because we like to swim in dangerous waters, we thought we’d ruin your Sunday by dashing off a quick listicle ranking the top ten male classic movie comedy teams of the sound era. By “classic”…

FREAK is undeniably provocative. Juxtaposing lap dancing club orgies with first time sexual experiences, Anna Jordan’s sex-focused play seeks entry to the growing canon of flawed female characters playing up …

Anyone who was around in 2012 (or indeed most of 2011) will remember the HYPE that surrounded the London Olympic games. Stepping through the doors at Theatre N16 and seeing copious amounts of Union Jack bunting…

Festival theatre, EdinburghThis new production from Teatro Regio Torino has a solid cast and striking imagery backed by a richly nuanced account of Verdi’s score Verdi’s take on the Scottish play was the fi…

Celebrating a selection of music written by three generations of the Sherman family, A Spoonful of Sherman has plenty to make you smile about.

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

The Cambridge Footlights might be Britain’s most famous sketch comedy troupe. The university society claim such alumni as Stephen Fry and Sue Perkins and are a regular presence at the Fringe. They return this…

Sleepwalkers takes place simultaneously in Berlin before the outbreak of World War II and in a sinister post-Brexit Britain which has reached warzone conditions. At the heart of this play, which marks Think Twi…

Beginning their show with the habits and rules of a British society, the cast sing ‘Don’t start an argument or mention religion’. Immediately going against their own decree they leap into a debate about M…

With his new play Against just opened, we thought we'd test your theatre knowledge with our quiz

If you find yourself anywhere in the vicinity of Reuben Kaye when he is performing, run. Run fast and don’t look back. If you make eye contact and the divine devil that is Kaye himself engages you with a sini…

Also on the Top Ticket Aug. 20 to 26, Jay and Silent Bob Get Old and SZA (although that last one is sold out).

Gregory used his humour to break racial barriers in the 1960s and even ran for president in 1968Dick Gregory, the black comedian who broke down racial barriers in the 1960s and used humour to spread messages of…

Whishaw is quietly charismatic in this play with lofty philosophical ambitions but which ignores the social and political history behind today’s violenceBen Whishaw is a highly sympathetic actor. That is just…

In Wishing on a Stopgap, a retired teacher, spending his days giving away his paperback collection to ‘anyone without a kindle’, begins to examine his many past relationships and wonder why he never found l…

The Marriage of Kim K (the title is a play – pun intended – on The Marriage of Figaro) marries reality TV with classic opera and explores how people overcome differences in relationships, the conflict betwe…

How to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of “hype”. Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square – this year, it’s playing to hund…

Hotter, a two-hander devised and performed by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter, is a kaleidoscope of song, dance, verbatim theatre, sketch comedy and heartfelt monologues. It explores women’s obsession with the…

Eyes Closed, Ears Covered director Derek Anderson recalls the initial impression the script had on him and how sensitively he and author Alex Gwyther tackled the play's themes around domestic abuse and mental h…

Starry-eyed: Rosemary Waugh reviews Manual Cinema's intergalactic coming of age story. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lula del Ray at Underbelly appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

The former Downton Abbey star declares her love for Indian food, Andrew Scott’s Hamlet and RuPaul’s inspiring podcastTwo years after graduating from the Bristol Old Vic theatre school in 2008, Southampton-b…

BFFs: Rosemary Waugh reviews Elinor Cook's new play about female friendship. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Out of Love at Summerhall Roundabout appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

We're loving chatting to our StageFaves about their summer plans and this week is no exception! Our #SummerMusicalMoment interview series continues with the wonderful Olivier Award-winning Rebecca Trehearne who…

Mowgli, a ferocious boy-child raised by wolves in the jungle, has been kicked out of the pack. He’s trying to figure out what to do next when he meets a mysterious creature from another world – or rather, a…

Next summer, the Muny will stage its 100th season of musical entertainment in Forest Park. Few theaters reach such a milestone, and none in the United States has reached it in its original venue.

When the Muny celebrates its 100th season next year, president and CEO Dennis Reagan will mark his 50th season there

St. Louis has a world-class art museum, and writers often draw inspiration from the collections there. Why not take along one of these poetry collections to read in the galleries during your next visit to the S…

King’s theatre; Church Hill theatre; Traverse, EdinburghA six-hour Alan Ayckbourn epic is outdone by some tiny model figures, a true-life transgender tale and two marooned women with a secretThe Divide is one…

Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathHenry Goodman’s powerful performance fills out a sometimes superficial portrait of Lucian Freud as an older manWe are looking at the older Lucian Freud (1922-2011) in his Lon…

Whether or not you agreed with his routines on race and gender politics, Patrice O’Neal was an incredibly funny and fearless standupPatrice O’Neal presents a challenge to the liberal comedy fan. Many of his…

Douglas Eck in assistance with a team of Google engineers has developed "NSynth" - a machine, which creates its own music and sketches for itself. Eck always wanted to mix Artificial Intelligence (AI) and …

The Pantone Color Institute, in collaboration with the musician’s estate, has created a new shade of purple honoring the late rock legend Prince.Pantone is considered worldwide as the authority on color, nami…

Amelia Farrugia’s show “Diva” will pay homage to two late Australian divas, Dame Joan Sutherland and June Bronhill, at City Recital Hall, Sydney. Farrugia had a personal connection to both divas whil…

The British-Malaysian comic on why conversations about race in the UK have become absurd, his favourite standups and how to outdo a rival’s nipple tassels You talk a lot in your show about having one foot in …

The Key and Peele funny man talks about his career pivot to New York City theater, on and off-Broadway.

The singer-actor is also heading off to Germany, France, and the U.K.

Concert will benefit the spouse of a cast member paralyzed in a car accident.

The Gloria Estefan bio-musical musical opened on Broadway in November 2015.

The Broadway leading lady shows us how she enjoys summer in New York City.

Zachary Noah Piser talks food, fuel, and family.

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 8192017.

This morning, The Wizard of Oz producers John Frost and Suzanne Jones announced the full cast for their upcoming production as well as additional tour stops. The cast members revealed today will join the prev…

Stuart J. Thompson, a Tony Award-winning producer and manager of Broadway shows who brought a contemplative, low-key style to an industry known for its razzmatazz, and helped mount hits like “The Book of Morm…

After premiering at Sydney Theatre Company in 1996, Nick Enright and Max Lambert’s acclaimed musical Miracle City hadn’t been seen on Sydney’s stages for nearly 20 years. From 12 – 29 Oc…

    By Marilyn Lester     The family business has been good to the Sinatra clan. Pater familias, Frank, of course needs no introduction. Children Nancy and the late Frank, Jr. also cut a wid…

If you are considering auditioning for Evita the Musical, you’d better get in quick. Last week, Opera Australia and John Frost announced that Evita would return to Australia, opening at the Sydney Opera…

Today is Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup This week PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is all…

Hamlet is hands down the world's most famous play. People who have never been inside a theater quote its lines "To be, or not to be" and "To thine own self be true." And parodies and homages have been done by e…

The songs never come up to the title song made famous by Marlene Dietrich who’s mentioned several times during the play. Antin’s attempt at playful seduction, “Take Me Home Tonight,” sung by the half-dr…

    By Marilyn Lester     Board the speeding train that’s Michael Moore’s bang-up Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre and you’ll find yourself debarking sometime later quite dazed �…

Aaron and Wes have broken up, but Aaron can’t seem to let go, in “Last Ditch Playlist,” Brad Baron’s semi-autobiographical play about his first love and his first breakup, which is running through Sunda…

HOWARD RUBENSTEIN (Book & Lyrics) is a physician, writer, and photographer. In 1953 he received a B.A. from Carleton College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and won the Noyes Prize…

Meridith Jones is a Manhattan-based Actor and the Artistic Director of Crashbox Theater Company which focuses on the development of new works by emerging playwrights.  A graduate of Atlantic Acting School …

Three of the five honorees had already spoken out against the president and said they either planned to boycott a White House event or were considering it.

Ticketmaster has issued a warning in regards to those wishing to purchase tickets to Bruce Springsteen's upcoming concert run at Broadway's Walter Kerr theatre. The ticketing website urges perspective audiences…

Authentic humour: Indie As F*ck, Pinched! Theatre’s comic play with songs about teenage aspirations and disappointments, remains an engaging night out.

Mr. Thompson, whose productions were nominated for 20 Tony Awards and won six, helped mount hits like “The Book of Mormon.” “He elevated me,” said Patti LuPone.

“Where should Othello go?” This is one of the final questions that the titular character asks in Shakespeare’s “Othello,” and points to the work’s seminal exploration of “otherness” and the natu…

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — In a break with tradition, President Donald Trump and the first lady have decided not to participate in events honoring recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors arts awards to “…

Sound premise: Combining wordplay, humour and philosophical musings, A Joke at the Space on Niddry Street is a beautifully presented piece of theatre.

Israel Horovitz's latest play delivers some fine moments of comedy as well as some dark revelations about female neediness.

Preserving performance is a challenge. How do you document multi-faceted work that involves sound, light, text, bodies, and music? Video may take images of it but rarely captures it. For Annie Dorsen’s algori…

After five days away, we are back for another week of theatregoing, along with 20 panels, workshops, surgeries and meets. May I recommend living in Portobello during the Festival? Swimming pool, walks along th…

The On Your Feet! star joined the famed wall of Sardi’s August 19.

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA Tinder date with the grandson of 70s TV scientist Jacob Bronowski prompts a thrilling mystery that asks almost too many big questionsThe mathematician and scientist Jacob Bronows…

  I often go to the theater to escape my life. Not that my life is horrible, but who doesn’t need a break now and then from their everyday problems, jobs, or relationships? Plays and musicals offer a gli…

In anticipation of the big night, we're bringing you a Princely playlist that covers all of his greatest hits and even some flops Tune in below

Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the company of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece WAITING FOR GODOT, as the play returns home to the stage where it had its English-language premiere 62 years ago, on Wedne…

The wife of renowned Polish-U.S. playwright and screenwriter Janusz Glowacki says he has died at 78.

The mood was set by the dark scenery of black brick, interspersed with flashes of light. Hywel John has written a tightly scripted tale, set in 1950s Edinburgh, it is as brutal and harsh as the humour.

One woman interrogates her personal assistant in Siri, The Believers Are But Brothers brings the war on terror to your mobile, and Frogman conducts an underwater murder investigation via VR headsetAt the Edinbu…

The Edinburgh festival 2017 is still going strong with unlikely film stars, black-history monologues and toddler comedy sidekicks – here’s a selection of the latest shows photographed by Murdo MacLeod Cont…

The major cancer breakthroughs of the 20th century took place in the decades of the ‘30s and ‘40s. Prior to that, most people who got cancer had a very poor chance of surviving much more than about 1 year. …

I’ve covered so many career goals on this job, from working with National Theatre of Scotland, performing at the National Theatre, touring internationally and now working in the West End. Plus originating a r…