Lyric Hammersmith, London A sinister giant computer and a meat-eating headmaster have a sinister plan for shy Jack and his schoolfriends. Meanwhile, the Fairy Godfather has the hots for the dame This is not yo…

Vive la France! Possibly one of the most romantic and beloved operas of all time, Giacomo Puccini’s grand Parisian romance La Bohème is once again given the classic treatment in LA Opera’s revival producti…

The long-running Max Martin jukebox musical continues at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

Classic Stage Company delivers a gently heart-wrenching, beautifully sung revival of The Baker’s Wife, Stephen Schwartz’s long-revered cult musical with a score as warm and aching as fresh bread from the ov…

From a twenty-minute London showcase to Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, this big-hearted, funny musical with a New York soul demanded attention.

By David Sheward November 23, 2025: The big question is does the first Broadway revival of Chess solve the cult musical’s previously impossible problem of the messy book dragging down the magnificent, memora…

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“Chess” is not a serious musical.  That’s the key to appreciating this show, which is supposed to be about an American and a Russian grandmaster battling over both the game of chess and a woman. Not kno…

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These highlights stood out not because they were big, but because they were grounded. Nothing felt inflated or overworked. Reineke kept the orchestra responsive, and Gonzalez moved through Miranda’s catalog w…

The dynamic creative team of Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland hit another one out of the park in their presentation of What If They Ate the Baby? now performing until December 22 at Soho Playhouse. The post What I…

Strong’s book belies his name, its overlong (two hours, 40 minute) narrative, with all its scheming realpolitik, being more formulaic than authentic. Its points about the individual vs. the state, personal am…

A stellar cast delivers an exquisite version of the celebrated musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel. The post Review: The Huntington’s ‘Fun Home’ is both hilarious and heartbreaking appeared fi…

Possessing a spellbinding theatrical imagination is certainly one way to describe the mind and work of iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel. Her plays test the boundaries of “reality” to sh…

A well-written play, as are all of Rajiv Joseph's plays, makes it hard to create a bad show. The post Gruesome Playground Injuries appeared first on The Front Row Center.

Kara Young and Nicholas Braun star in the Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander about best friends on parallel paths to self-destruction.

MasterVoices has given New York a gift with this "Sweet Smell of Success"—a production that argues forcefully for the work's inclusion in the canon of great American musicals. For those seeking intelligent, a…

★★★★☆ Nicholas Braun and Kara Young play childhood friends reckoning with a lifetime of hurt The post Gruesome Playground Injuries: Not All Wounds Are On the Outside appeared first on New York Stage R…

Kara Young and Nicholas Braun make an engaging odd couple as emotionally (and physically) damaged young people in a decades-long situationship in Gruesome Playground Injuries, which opened Sunday at the Lucille…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson talk about Chess, Little Bear Ridge Road, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee @ New World Stages, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New…

In October 2025, Battersea Arts Centre hosted Aşınma (Corrosion) – a multi-award-winning theatre work in Turkish by the innovative Turkish writer-director Şahika Tekand and the esteemed actor Yiğit Özşe…

Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that the dark side of the human psyche, which this notorious Shakespeare villain embodies, is foremost in our collec…

This concludes our multi-part series on my 60th birthday road trip to visit dead relatives. As you see from this photo, only one of them rose up to greet us. Below is an organized re-cap of the posts, with some…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 23, 2025 are David Rappaport (Time Bandits), the final installment of my Southern travel series, and a recap of the entire series. Earlier Travalanche posts for Nove…

Lea Michele spoke with CBS Sunday Morning in a new interview, which you can watch here! Currently starring in Chess on Broadway, Michele is known for playing Rachel Berry in GLEE, along with performances in mul…

With bright lights, bouncy tunes and an abundance of Yuletide cheer, “Elf The Musical” will get you into the holiday spirit! When was the last time you hummed along to a show tune like “Sparklejollytwinkl…

The few stalwarts still reading this series on my sexagenarian southern sojourn will be relieved to know that we’re sewing the whole thing up today. Just a few straggling memories of our last hours in the reg…

By the time the play reaches its understated yet piercing climax, the question is no longer whether ChiChi and Theodore are “right” for one another—though that question lingers—but rather what it means …

James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli will be bringing an Othello movie based on Sam Gold's 2016 production to the screen; The film will star David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan, Cynthia Erivo, Variety reports. Also…

★★★☆☆ Concert version suggests a potential future for the all-but-forgotten Hamlisch-Carnelia-Guare musical The post Sweet Smell of Success: Hamlisch Musical Returns, with Improvements appeared first…

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, hear sensational show tunes and movie songs from musicals includin…

Tron theatre, Glasgow There are jokes aplenty in Johnny McKnight’s panto update of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland story, played with delirious daftness by an ebullient cast More than the odd playwright has disc…

'Batman LIVE!' is a rowdy, joke-packed parody that dives deep into the Dark Knight’s canon with improv, puns and fan-service fun.

Bruno Giraldi’s "Love or Death?" at Don’t Tell Mama blends cabaret performance, philosophy, and intimate storytelling. Each idea leads to a personal revelation; each revelation breaks into song. This cabare…

From Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo to Ethan Slater, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Colman Domingo, and more, The Hollywood Reporter highlights the cast members whose theater roots led them to Oz.

Daniel Craig will finally get to do his favorite project. In 2016, he played Iago to David Oyelowo’s “Othello” off Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop. I was lucky enough to see the Sam Gold directe…

Tara theatre, London A young, gay Indian man learns steps to Britishness from a phantom vision of the Tory politician, but the result is less sinister a satire than it should be Remember Theresa May and her 20…

Like most Americans, I’ll wager, I first encountered little person/ actor David Rappaport (1951-1990) in his role as Randall in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits (1981). As leader of the group of dwarfs in the f…

Camp Christmas transforms The Stanley Marketplace into a whimsical wonderland, complete with immersive bars, a scavenger hunt and a refreshed walk-through experience.

The Toronto Theatre Review: debbie tucker green’s a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) at Tarragon’s Mainspace By Ross With no apologies, debbie tucker green’s a profoundly af…

The exhibit covers the British/Guyanan artist's career from his painted photographs to detailed model houses to brightly adorned boats and melted plastic sculptures.

The annual holiday show gets another facelift: Two scenes have been removed, two others have been rewritten and restored plus there's a brand new actor in the cast.

I adored the concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center. In the past I went to early press events and talked with the cast and covered a press rehearsal. This concert was magnificent especially in that gorgeous room. I …

Henrik Ibsen's classic will be director's swan song as he prepares to step down as artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and dean of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

The holiday production comes to Perelman Performing Arts Center after earlier stagings in London and on Broadway.

Notions of ownership of creative work, ideas, and artistic identity are muddied when the technology rapidly outpaces attempts to define issues and even what's at stake.

The New York premiere of The Art Tour, a new musical by Kyle Fackrell and directed by Lindsey Hope Pearlman, quietly landed at Theatre Row this fall—and now, with little fanfare, it closes today. But for thos…

Adirondack Theatre Festival announced Mamma Mia Monday, a spectacular one-night-only benefit event bringing Broadway to Glens Falls on Monday, January 12, 2026, at the Charles R. Wood Theater, 207 Glen Street i…

By Abbe Sparks... Supporters of The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church gathered Monday night for a star-studded, staged LIVE reading of “All About Eve”. The post NYC STARS TURN…

Review by Carol Rocamora... Wilder gets wilder in this update of his classic at the Public Theater The post From “The Skin of Our Teeth” to “The Seat of Our Pants” appeared first on Theater Pizzazz.

Chess – 20 November 2025 The music from Chess has been a large part of this theatre-lover’s life for a long time, and, since moving to New York, I have been openly hoping for a Broadway revival. The excitem…

It seems the Wicked film franchise may not be over just yet. As Wicked: For Good hits cinemas this week, composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz has revealed that he and longtime collaborator Winnie Holzman are deve…

The Toronto Theatre Review: Dandelion Theatre’s An Orchid and Other Such Lilies and Lies By Ross Truth be told, I love going to the Red Sandcastle Theatre on Queen Street East in Toronto because you truly nev…

Art and Ocean Conservation intersect! Two timely projects, both led by female artists, have been created to invite the public to engage directly with Southern California’s ocean heritage, while sparking dialo…

An unsettling interrogation of theater's power dynamics that teeters on the line between exposé and exploitation. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Practice at Playwrights Horizons appeared first on Exeun…

As "Wicked: For Good" is about to hit theaters, what many forget is that “Wicked” the musical didn’t start off as a surefire juggernaut that was destined to gross $6 billion.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 22, 2025 are a review of Ken Burns’ The American Revolution and (in a related post) a visit to the site of The Battle of Kings Mountain. Earlier Travalanche posts …

Star turns are boosting ticket sales this season, including Islington show featuring MP’s Wizard of Oz and Olivier winner’s Toto We’re a third of the way through the fabulously camp production of Wicked W…

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…

As promised in my earlier post, a few thoughts on The American Revolution docu-series by Ken Burns and his collaborators Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. On the whole I would say the untrammeled praise the ser…

Two strangers meet cute but their story is no rom-com--and all the more enchanting for it. Carol Rocamora reviews. The post Review: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) at the Longacre Theatre appeared …

By LOU HARRY Based on a documentary, The Queen of Versailles, the new Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino musical on Broadway at the St. James Theatre concerns an amoral, in-it-for-herself character with no…

Candlelight production is a lively holiday jam session led by strong vocals and spirited musicianship.