Griffin Theatre Company is pleased to announce its 30th Anniversary Season, featuring four productions exploring the theme “the [...]

The October 24 performance of Latin History for Morons has been canceled due to an illness of the show's author and star, John Leguizamo. A representative for the production stated that performances are sch…

Some prisoners go out of their minds when confined to the 23-hour isolation wing of Rikers Island prison. In the Signature Theater revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “Jesus Hopped the A Train,” …

Lizzie: The Musical, is making its highly entertaining South Florida debut at Thinking Cap Theatre at The Vanguard. Part of that is due to the snappy lyrics. But mostly it’s because of the first-rate cast, an…

"Everyone in the town’s intimate theater scene should be delighted with this prospect of a small local theater’s well-deserved rise to mid-size, though the economics of all that will need to be massaged, an…

What makes a person good or bad, and what's the dividing line between the two? Is religious devotion helpful or harmful in the search for redemption, and can it be both at the same time? How much bad can a good…

Zoe Kazan's new play follows one woman's sad life in a nuclear fallout shelter.

A semi-autobiographical fantasy that delves into the vivid imagination and often hilarious personal life of award-winning playwright Lally Katz, Belvoir presents the world premiere of her new play, Atlantis at…

It was confirmed today that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will open at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne in early 2019 for an exclusive Australian season. An exclusive season is somewhat of a theatrical cou…

In Jonathan Silverstein’s production, Arnie Burton and Matt McGrath as two friends who handle their fears of an unnamed epidemic in opposite ways do not seem to connect as real friends would. Ironically, whil…

The Tuesday evening performance is canceled as Leguizamo recovers from illness.

When Eugene O’Neill finished Strange Interlude in 1923, he was 35 years old, the same age as his heroine Nina Leeds in the seventh act out of nine in his paradigm-shifting, Pulitzer Prize-winning, six-hour do…

Everyman Theatre brings Lynn Nottage’s play “Intimate Apparel” home to Baltimore. First performed and co-commissioned at Baltimore’s Center Stage 14 years ago, audiences again have the opportuni…

It has been announced that tomorrow evening's performance of Latin History for Morons has been canceled due to illness of the show's star, John Leguizamo.

This futurist play, starring Cristin Milioti, imagines a world in which reality (or the nonvirtual kind) is in retreat

A riveting revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s prison drama may be more timely today than at its premiere in 2000.

“Rancid perfume. Stinky babies. Sweaty clothes. Garlic hair. Human bodies putrefying and I think my own is beginning to smell,” declares artist and researcher Dawn-joy Leong in her installation, An Olfactor…

In the future, we still won't know how to deal with depression, or so believes playwright Zoe Kazan, who creates one of the most insightful portraits of the disorder in After the Blast which opened October 23, …

Girl meets bot in a story of personal and global drama.

Signature Theatre mounts a revival of the 2000 play by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

Melbourne season announced for stage-based final instalment of Harry Potter series after record-breaking London runHarry Potter and the Cursed Child, the award-winning play and final instalment of JK Rowling’…

Heavy on the theatre greats, the festival will feature an outdoor spectacular from Lost & Found Orchestra, live goats and a man who balances rocksFrom an outdoor extravaganza by the creators of Stomp to Ivo…

The play still warrants all of the praise heaped on the original production. It stands tall next to all of Stephen Adly Guirgis's work that has followed

Reinhardt Jung’s internationally lauded novel will be brought to life in the inventive and enchanting production Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories in the Fairfax Studio – Arts Centre Melbourne on 27 and …

    By Brian Scott Lipton     As might be expected, life after a nuclear winter will be very different as we quickly discover in Zoe Kazan’s remarkably accomplished “After the Blast,” …

  Bow Wow, Meow Meow . . . we animal lovers love our pets and anyone or anything that can help them. Best in Shows a BIG hit for The Humane Society of New York at 54 Below!     By Sandi Durell Ph…

Gin Dance Company’s Dance, Champagne and Chocolate with Gin program felt a little bit like flicking between emoticons: determined, eyebrows scrunched emoji? Hmm, aloof? What about giggling emoji? Mischiev…

Film director Michael Moore’s politically liberal-minded show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” which closed this past weekend, failed to wow at the box office.

Friday “Marisol”: Promethean Theatre Ensemble presents Jose Rivera’s absurdist tale about a New Yorker who finds herself in the middle of a battle to save the universe. Through Nov. 26 at Raven Theatre, 6…

Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have announced the record-breaking production will open exclusively at Melbourne’s Prin…

In a time in American history where gun control, collusion, corporate taxes, labor issues, immigration, war, and threats of violence dominate the daily news, Assassins feels chillingly relevant, and fresh. With…

As I promised in my last post, I took a deeper look at the Culture Track reporting over the weekend.  More specifically, I took at a look at both the Top Line deck and Supporting Data documents which are avail…

The new off-Broadway production of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song has been extended again at Second Stage Theater. The production, which had received an initial extension to December 3, will now play throu…

Kristolyn Lloyd stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Dear Evan Hansen and more with Paul Wontorek.

THE SCIENTIST AND THE SEX SYMBOL, IN A PARANOID WORLD     The uneasy 1950s: Albert Einstein is exiled in America and called to appear before the unAmerican Activities committee for the “are you …

  Born on this day, character actress Billie Bennett (Emily B. Haynie, 1874-1951). Bennett began her career as a stage actress in the mid 1890s, breaking into comedy films in 1913, with a short stint at Un…

Brighton CentreEddie Izzard is on the UK leg of what's been billed as the biggest ever world standup tour, and the man himself is telling interviewers: "The key thing is making your stuff international, ma…

Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed recent dramas as the Pu…

Lucy Bailey directs Agatha Christie's play with the audience as a jury

Painting of artist’s lover and muse expected to fetch at least $35m at Sotheby’s

The Drama League has announced the roster of special guest performers for the 34th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway and the launch of the Benefit Gala Auction.

The New Group will present Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's Downtown Race Riot. Directed by Scott Elliott, this world premiere production begins previews November 14 in advance of an Official Opening Night on Sunday, Decem…

Can we just talk about Beth Johnson Nicely for a second Thanks to the miracle of algorithms, this master tapper has made her way into my Discover feed recently, brightening my days with her killer routines, hot…

Due to overwhelmingly strong ticket sales, the critically acclaimed production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song has added one final week of performances, announced Second Stage Theater Carole Rothman, Artistic …

This site-specific revival of 1953 courtroom drama works like a treatSome site-specific theatre feels like a really good fit. You could say, in this case, that it seems like poetic justice. Agatha Christie’s …

Veteran bassist Gary Peacock doesn't differentiate between experimental and straight-ahead jazz.

Poet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.

Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed recent dramas as the Pu…

Back in August, I compared Second Stage’s production of Bruce Norris’s A Parallelogram to Black Mirror. As I left the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center in the wake of Zoe Kazan’s sharp, stirring After …

County Hall, LondonLucy Bailey’s production of Agatha Christie’s ingenious courtroom drama fits perfectly in this debating chamberWe seem to be going back in time. Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance, …

After Tony Goldwyn read Lupita Nyong’o’s New York Times op-ed detailing her interactions with Harvey Weinstein, the Scandal actor felt compelled to share his experience with a Hollywood casting couch. “It…

There’s a moment in North Coast Rep’s arresting “Of Mice and Men” where George Milton details to his pal Lennie Small the dream of someday tending a ranch of their own. As George speaks, he illustrates …

The gala event at La MaMa will feature special guests, including honorary chair Harvey Fierstein.

The off-Broadway production also stars Mercedes Ruehl.

Lila Neugebauer directs the new drama for LCT3.

The event will take place November 6.

The New York premiere of Rajiv Joseph's play also stars Tina Benko, Nadia Bowers, Max Gordon Moore, and Stephen Stocking.

The event will take place this December.

The Off-Broadway revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Tony-winning play extends for a second time.

“Scandal” actor Tony Goldwyn shared his own Hollywood casting couch story in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal and the ensuing #MeToo movement. On Friday, Goldwyn tweeted hi…

Last week, producers Howard Panter, John Frost and Torben Brookman announced the full cast for the upcoming tour of The Rocky Horror Show. Joining Craig McLachlan, who was previously announced to be reprising t…

Broadway veteran John Stamos was engaged to his girlfriend, actress Caitlin McHugh, on October 22! Stamos popped the question in Disneyland in what might be the most romantic engagement of the year. According t…

The November 6 celebration will feature performances from myriad stage and screen favorites.

Somehow, the Child’s Play franchise has persisted for 30 years. Its star, a maniacal doll named Chucky, is not always counted among his 1980s horror-villain brethren — Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Leather…

The newly renamed Dramatists Guild Foundation will honor patrons of the arts November 6.

Steppenwolf’s LookOut Series is pleased to announce their exciting Winter 2017-18 Lineup, which will feature two-time [...]

Gateway for Cancer Research (Gateway) founder Richard J Stephenson and Dr. Stacie J. Stephenson announce world-renowned [...]

Fresh off the smash Broadway run of Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” opposite Kevin Kline, MATT [...]

About Face Theatre is seeking play submissions for its OUT FRONT Series, an annual line-up of workshops and [...]

On Saturday, October 21, 2017, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago officially activated its new multi-purpose learning [...]

In partnership with the 34th Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Instituto Cervantes of Chicago presents ¡Anímate with Animayo!, a stop-motion [...]

Other Theatre is pleased to announce casting for the third revival of its holiday hit BARNEY THE [...]

On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 1200 pm, The League of Professional Theatre Women LPTW, dedicated to championing women in theatre since its inception and an authority at the forefront of the conversation abou…

Eboni Booth, Will Connolly, William Jackson Harper, Ben Horner, Cristin Milioti, David Pegram, and Teresa Yenque comprise the cast of the LCT3Lincoln Center Theaterproduction of After the Blast, a new play by Z…

Atlantic Theater Company Neil Pepe, Artistic Director Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director will present the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and Lortel and Obie Award winner Rajiv Joseph's Guards at th…

Atlantic Theater Company Neil Pepe, Artistic Director Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director will present the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and Lortel and Obie Award winner Rajiv Joseph's Guards at th…

CBC host takes fresh and empowering look at lives of Black women from the civil rights movement in 1970s to pre-Black Lives Matter Toronto.

    by Maya Werner   On Monday, October 23, The New Group’s new show Downtown Race Riot opened its doors to the press. This new show was created by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, and directed by Scott Ell…

Dear Evan Hansen also celebrated impressive box office figures as its Tony-winning star Ben Platt nears his departure from the hit musical.