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Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 11pm (Broadway Time)
The framework is a fictional fiftieth anniversary party given in a New York art gallery by collaborating media/visual/performing artists Malik “Mk Ultra” (Christopher Livingston) and Jimmy “Primo” (Will…
Keep yourself warm in these chilly December evenings by seeing “Picnic” at Catholic University. This steamy American classic by William Inge is set one Labor Day weekend in a small town preparing for the an…
“Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you’re riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out …
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Billy Lewis Jr. of Glee stars in an unusual multimedia event at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 10pm (Broadway Time)
The actor famous for Broadway and Off-Broadway roles in the ’60s and ’70s has passed away.
For those unfamiliar with “Times Square Weirdness,” my series of photos of the odder denizens of Times Square, shared frequently on my Facebook page, you may be surprised to learn of my familiarity with the…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 9pm (Broadway Time)
Helpmann Award nominee Prinnie Stevens will be joining the cast of The Bodyguard. Producers John Frost, Michael Harrison and David Ian today announced that Stevens will join the company as Nicki Marron, siste…
Forgive the onslaught of superlatives about to be unleashed, but the Cavalia equestrian presentation of Odysseo, now playing beneath their massive big top tent in Irvine, is deserving
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 8pm (Broadway Time)
It's 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 Today's edition features the King and I t…
Today is the birthday of James Michener (1907-1997). I am astounded to discover today that I hadn’t blogged about Centennial before. I feel like I must have posted something about it somewhere…but c…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 7pm (Broadway Time)
The only thing better than Hamilton or Moana is both of them together, and former standby for the title character in Hamilton Jon Rua is serving us mashup realness in a sneak peek of his latest dance video,set …
In the opening moments of Seuls, Wajdi Mouawad takes to the stage wearing only black briefs and eyeglasses. The purpose of the show we’re about to see, he informs the audience, is to examine “our ability to…
Director Dan Hodge strikes a fine balance between comedy and drama in the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s presentation of All’s Well That Ends Well. In keeping with the sardonic tone of Shakespeare’s…
Over 10 highly successful years, the Observer’s theatre critic helped transform the ailing British theatre and reinvent the role of the reviewer• Click here for more on the Observer at 225Rarely have we nee…
Most people know George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion through its musical adaptation My Fair Lady. Fortunately, thanks to Shawn Douglass’ elegant direction and two phenomenal leads in Nick Sandys and Kelsey Bernna…
The playwright Nicky Silver sat in a seat in the back of the audience the night my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Silver's new play This Day Forward, which is running at the Vineyard Theatre through Dec. 18.…
The centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth is not until the summer after next, but the West Coast has already gotten a jump-start over Broadway with the musicals. Michael Tilson Thomas last summer conducted …
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 6pm (Broadway Time)
Morgan James, Richard Amelius and Torya Beard present Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in concert, featuring Broadway veterans and powerhouse vocalists, Morgan James Motown The Musical,…
The York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director Evans Haile, Interim Executive Director David McCoy, Chairman of the Board, dedicated to the development of new musicals and preserving musical…
Audience members at Friday's performance of Something Rotten received quite the treat when Adam Pascal, currently appearing as Rotten's very own pretty boy front man, William Shakespeare, performed One Song Glo…
The pursuit of uncovering every mystery life presents is a universal one; one that drives our basic human curiosity, the arts, and, of course, science. And within every answer, unravel one question, a thousan…
Hey Brooklyn! Tomorrow (Sunday, December 4) at 4pm, Flicker Alley is presenting three classic Chaplin shorts from the Essanay period at the Alamo Drafthouse, with Ben Model at the keys! On the menu: A Woman (20…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 5pm (Broadway Time)
Joined by percussionist John Ferrari and conductor Jeffrey Means, the five members of the Da Capo Chamber Players – Curtis Macomber/violin, Chris Gross/cello, Patricia Spencer/flute, Meighan Stoops/clarinet a…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 4pm (Broadway Time)
Florrie Bagel is starring in a special cabaret Warm and Toasty at Signature Theatre, Monday, December 5. For her many DC area fans, that means a big welcome home party and the start of the holiday cheer. “War…
In cases of most wildly popular media, there is the inevitable expectation of a popularity crescendo. A moment in time when the bubble finally bursts, the hoards cease their obsession and the next big thing com…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 3pm (Broadway Time)
Every year, Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade attracts thousands of viewers both in person and on-air to view the colorful procession of decorated floats, gargantuan balloons, and carefully-curated pe…
A Christmas Carol at Little Theatre of Alexandria is a great way to get in the holiday spirit and reflect on Charles Dickens’ timeless themes of repentance and generosity. There is good reason that A Christma…
THE BEAST DOESN’T CHANGE WHEN KISSED: A HAPPY ENDING Fairy tales may seem ready for ditching into the dustbin of abandoned narrative, taking all their happily ever afters, glittering princesses, and talking a…
Some shows make you want to shout. Others very much want to make you shout, whether you had it in mind or not. “A Snow White Christmas” is unabashedly one of the latter: Audiences for this loose-limbed, c…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 2pm (Broadway Time)
This new series of posts came out of the stunning realization that I have family in all 50 U.S. states. My ancestors lived in 14 of them, all on the eastern seaboard or adjacent, and I have written about many o…
It’s hard to believe that Terrence Orr’s sparkling version of “The Nutcracker” for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has been around for 15 years and is once again filling the stage at the Benedum Center. That …
Ibsen wanted his plays to be continually updated after his death. As his new version of The Master Builder opens, Hare reflects on the pain and pleasure of adaptation – and what he learned piecing Chekhov tog…
They were the It girls of their day: fabulous, famous, well-educated and wealthy. No wonder the Schuyler sisters turn heads in “Hamilton” — they’re as revolutionary as their male counterparts, only bett…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 1pm (Broadway Time)
TO “MAKE CHRISTMAS GREAT AGAIN” You can’t keep a good elf down. Very loosely based on the 2003 film starring Will Ferrell as a love-seeking non-elf named Buddy, Barney the Elf repurposes the flick—and …
Chicago Dance Crash excels at having fun, at playing. Which isn't as easy as it might sound: To let go and yet venture beyond the silly requires a bit of bite here, a bit of pathos there. It's an approach that …
There will be a public celebration of Margaret Weigel's life on December 9 at Medford's Chevalier Theater.
Good genre parody is harder to get right than it looks. It has to have an intimate familiarity with (and more often than not, palpable affection for) its source conventions, it has to know exactly what it is tr…
ARNULFO MALDONADO—SET DESIGN Kingdom Come to me is very much a rollercoaster of emotions — one minute you're laughing, the next you are struck by the severity of both Sam and Layne's loneliness and need to …
Leonard Bernstein and a landmark album by The Beatles? There are so many facets to Edo de Waart’s globe-hopping career as one of the most respected orchestral and operatic conductors of the past 50 years that…
The holiday season is not complete without the perfect music to accompany it. 'Broadway's Carols for a Cure' is the latest compilation album that embodies the spirit of the season like nothing else can. A proje…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at noon (Broadway Time)
Sally Cookson brilliantly reinvents a Christmas favourite to hook in all agesThe cry "Let's pretend" must have been heard often when J M Barrie played with the Llewelyn Davies boys in Kensington Gardens or at B…
MARIN, Calif. (AP) -- The secretive "Star Wars" spinoff movie "Rogue One" just got a little more tangible....
Back in London for the first time since 2013, Nofit State Circus present Bianco, a two hour spectacular that puts the audience at the centre of the show.
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 11am (Broadway Time)
According to the New York Times, actress Alice Drummond passed away earlier this week due to complications from a recent fall. Remembered most for her compelling character-heavy roles, at turns comic You Can't …
Following the curtain speech made by the Broadway cast of Hamilton to Vice President-elect Mike Pence that took over the Internet, the resultant aftermath included an article from Hot Air writer Larry O'Connor …
By Michael BlockLove. Who says it’s easy? In Jordan Seavey’s fluid drama Homos, or Everyone in America, the unbridled romance between a young gay couple. Bouncing around in time, Homos lives in a period, ye…
By Abbey Fenbert. Playwright Abbey Fenbert on the new mandate for theatre artists.
A specific plan finally has been unveiled by county officials and consultants for a new 300-seat theater on the site of the legendary Coconut Grove Playhouse – a plan which preserves some of the 1926 structur…
As they prepare to stage Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre, Ruth Wilson and director Ivo van Hove discuss a character who is at once tragic heroine and conniving monsterIn the summer of 1889, the playwright …
A Prince obsessed with his looks cursed by an evil Fairy, transformed into a Beast, will need to learn to love another and earn her love in return to break the spell. With not a dancing candlestick in sight, I …
BroadwayWorld has exclusive characters cards for HAIRSPRAY LIVE and we're bringing you a new one every day leading up to the special television event Today we feature Jennifer Hudson
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 10am (Broadway Time)
The play "Peter Pan" has been performed at the Playhouse on the Square in Memphis for decades. One theater-lover finds new meaning in the old play by watching it through the eyes of school children.
By Robert Ruffin. Robert Ruffin considers how Aristotelian construction can be viewed through the lens of the laws of thermodynamic exchange, or the marriage of physics and dramaturgy.
“Moana” continues to work its charm for Disney during a slow post-Thanksgiving hangover weekend. The film, now in its second frame, earned $6.5 million at 3,875 locations, raising its domestic total…
Today is the birthday of Maria Mosquini (1899-1983). Lucky Los Angeles native Mosquini stepped right out of high school directly into roles in Hal Roach comedies. She started out in bit parts in Harold Lloyd…
PULLING THE FAIRY STRINGS IN AN URBAN NEVERLAND Wendy is grown up now, earthbound , with her own child to tell about the wonder and danger of Neverland and Pan. She can’t leave the ground again, even w…
Just last week, Tony nomineeCharles BuschDecember 31 Tony nomineeNorm LewisDecember 19-24 Broadway's hottest couple, Tony nominee Orfeh and Tony nominee Andy Karl December 8-14 Tony nomineeRory O'MalleyDecember…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 9am (Broadway Time)
As promised, here’s a little photo record of Thursday’s talk at the NYPL main branch on “W.C. Fields in Vaudeville”. As they say on social media, “Pictures — or it didn’…
We’ll be blogging about comedian W.C. Fields all through November and December as part of our tribute to the comedian called Fields Fest. For a full list upcoming live Fields Fest events go here. The…
Madeleine George asks a lot of questions in her award-winning 2011 play, The Zero Hour at The Baltimore’s Theatre Project through the weekend. How do you tell the truth about yourself when that truth might de…
Anais Lone, 16, from London, has won The Stage Scholarship at Wac Arts. The award, worth £7,500, is equivalent to one full scholarship, covering
By HowlRound TV. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presents The Italian Playwrights Project: Something About the Lehmans livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound …
By HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks livestreams Watch Me Work from the Public Theater in New York City on Monday, December 5 at 2pm PST (Vancouver) / 4pm CST (Austin) / 5pm EST (Toronto) / 22:00 GMT/UTC (London) …
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 8am (Broadway Time)
"A Christmas Carol" returns to Hartford Stage and marks the end of Bill Raymand's long-run as Scrooge.
Saariaho isn't the first woman composer to stage an opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera — just the first in more than a century. Her opera, L'Amour de Loin, has its New York premiere this week.
We know, we know. We wish we had John Legend and Chrissy Teigen at our dinner party playing silly games, too. But until that happens — which it never will, sigh — the two took a break from hanging with baby…
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 7am (Broadway Time)
Buenos Aires’ Magma Cine, a pioneering company on the pan-Latin American co-production scene, has boarded Jorge Navas’ musical action movie “Buenaventura Mon Amour,” adding further muscle to one…
She’s sometimes called Clara, other times Marie. But by any name, she’s still the sweetheart of that great holiday classic “The Nutcracker.” No matter what form it’s taken over time — ballet, ja…
Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 3 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 6am (Broadway Time)
To be, or not to be good. That’s the question facing Pinocchio when he finds it’s harder being a boy than a
NEW YORK • Making your New York stage debut in a role made famous by Robin Williams isn’t for the faint of heart. Making it in an adaptation of one of Williams’ most beloved movies — “Dead Poets Socie…
Six new compact discs offer a variety of sounds and styles
'Buyer and Cellar' and 'Dixie's Tupperware Party' deliver vivid characters
Play argues for clemency for a Missouri woman
Elizabeth “Bunny" Herring "is an inspiration," says her coach.
After a lumbering first half, Peter and the Starcatcher rears into brilliant life. It’s great when it gets going – a beautiful
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