BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 1202018.

My latest piece is up at Art Times. It's about how we can help women in the arts get more power.Almost as far back as I can remember, people have been labeling various time periods as “The Year of the Woman.�…

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, the cast of Wicked support…

Maggie Lohmeyer is a Missouri native who was transplanted to the Bay in 2016. She currently manages the Waller Center in the Haight as a retreat and community center. Maggie loves cats, a lot. In her spare time…

For an English major who only took one course on Shakespeare, I have very strong ideas about Hamlet. Usually these keep me from enjoying any production because the director's choices will inevitably fail to lin…

CBC has reported that two school boards in London, Ontario, Canada have cut funding to their school's production of a musical about a gay student fighting to take his boyfriend to prom. The show is called Prom …

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 1182018 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

By Douglas Mayo Lizan Mitchell and Kim Tatum aka Mzz Kimberley will star in Dead and Breathing, the acclaimed US social satire by Chisa Hutchinson which will play at Unity (Liverpool) and then The Albany (Londo…

Thelma learns that she can’t escape who she is -- but she can control what she does.

Four-time Tony Award nominee and six-time Emmy Award nominee Victor Garber will return to Broadway in the role of Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly tonight, January 20. Garber joins Bernadette Peters who will…

One thing I’ve noticed over the years in reviewing the children’s shows at Aldersgate Church Community Theater is their ability to consistently improve upon their production values.  Their latest o…

FREE to the public, for the first time since its inception 9 years ago, is Classic Photographs Los Angeles 2018. This year it’s being held in

KENDRA LYNN LUCAS (Simone) is thrilled to be joining the SISTAS family! Some of her most recent regional credits include The Drowsy Chaperone (Trix), Disney’s Alice in …

Bears, a production from Edmonton currently visiting Toronto’s Theatre Centre, pulls off the improbable task of translating a thrilling chase story to the theatre, while leaving the audience with some thing t…

ROBERT GALINSKY - BackStage Magazine has called his acting “extraordinary & effortless” while High Times Magazine says Galinsky is “manic, deadpan & takes aim with psychotic precision.” His favo…

In their new musical ‘The Princess & The Pauper­ – A Bollywood Tale,’ Imagination Stage tackles a re-telling of the classic Mark Twain story. Described by playwright Anu Yadav as “a feminis…

The New York Premiere of Party Face, a new comedy by Isobel Mahon'Glenroe,' 'Fair City' and directed by Amanda Bearse 'Married...With Children', is currently in previews at City Center Stage 2 131 West 55th Str…

They are unlike any trials you have ever seen on Law & Order. Zoetic Stage’s world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown’s Wrongful Death And Other Circus Acts is a hilarious but merciless satire on the …

By Douglas Mayo Ruthie Ann Miles will reprise her Tony Award-winning, critically acclaimed performance as Lady Thiang in the West End Production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I when it opens a…

As with many other Ryan Murphy creations executive producerpilot director, the series is already littered with appearances from some of Broadway's finest players, including some Tony winners Have you spotted th…

This lively revival of Steven Berkoff's 1975 modern classic is energetically sweaty, if a bit messy as well.

The final performance of Rigoletto for the current season thrilled opera lovers around the nation and the world via cinema relay. Viewed live at the Royal Opera House, the performance had a sterling musicality …

The beloved Broadway musical “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” is delighting new audiences at the Children’s Theatre of Annapolis. Brilliantly capturing the ‘tale as old as time,’ this splendid produc…

With its episode of a game of blind man’s bluff being both very funny and rather horrible, this is a Birthday Party for a generation brought up on The League of Gentlemen.

The singer and songwriter tells us the musical numbers he couldn't live without

The original musical comedy centers on a New Brunswick basement band as the end of the world approaches.

Tickets are now on sale for the first Broadway production of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band. The show is set to begin previews at the Booth Theatre on April 30 with an official opening scheduled for …

By Douglas Mayo Emmy Award-winning writer Danny Strong has been commissioned to write the book for a highly anticipated new musical based on the life of legendary actor and singer Frank Sinatra. This post Emmy …

Murky, glacial and hypnotic, "Sheila" is a dreamy reunion drama among two 28-year-old women who haven’t seen each other in 10 years. It recalls the sort of off-beat female-centric play director Robert Altman …

Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their exchange in writing…

Westfield News Group review of Feeding The Dragon at Hartford Stage. Sharon Washington's tale about growing up in a New York City library. The production moves to Primary Stages in New York after its Hartford r…

Starting Saturday evening, January 20, two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters, capping a 60-years-long career of triumph after triumph as 'the most accomplished musical comedy star of her generation' The …

Vivian Reed celebrates the legendary Lena Horne’s centennial with a series of shows at Feinstein’s/54 Below. We spoke to her about Horne’s legacy, her favorite recordings, and how she influenc…

Today, the first anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump, is Art Action Day. The day is organized by The Federation, founded last year to spread the message: Art is essential to democracy There are even…

The story is set in 1930’s America, where Blueberry the clown has just been left by his wife. He takes us on a journey of redemption, knitting his memories with an honest reflection of his present.

When the musical I co-wrote was produced I was asked to submit my bio for the program. The trouble is, if I list that I am primarily a TV writer it’s like putting a big target on my chest for New York t…

Ultimately, this production of Lost Girls might have gone deeper if it had been slowed down a bit.

Despite the shutdown of the federal government, Jefferson’s Garden will continue its full run (January 19 to February 8) at Ford’s Theatre. The concern arose when Congress was unable to reach an agr…

Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Cassie McFarlane and Adrian Hope’s new play Mad as Hell, about star of the film Network, Peter Finch.

It may have closed its run this month with a BANG (get it..?) but STOMP will forever hold a special place in our hearts. This week, in our second #PalladiumPicks segment, we decided to remember the jawdropping …

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

By Paul T Davies the Birthday Party is funny and fascinating. This excellent production of a true twentieth century classic will haunt you for days, maybe forever. This post REVIEW: The Birthday Party, Trafalga…

When theater lovers want to express their deep devotion to an actor as formidably talented as John Lithgow, they often say they would be content to listen to him if he were just reading the phone book (not that…

Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, considered the main architect of a decade of bloody wars in the Balkans, is not the first person who comes to mind when thinking about subjects for a possible musica…

In recent months, we've confronted the self-entitlement of so many men. Yet we continue to hum “La donna e mobile."

George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House, stylistically inspired by Anton Chekhov, was first performed in 1920. Set on the brink of the First World War, its message about the very real danger of political indif…

Just a quick shout out to honor the natal day of actor Henry James Montague (Henry John Mann, 1843-1878). Montagu came to our attention through that eerie, ghostly portrait above, which hangs in the Lambs. Mont…

Glitter balls, sequins and lame jokes. Strictly Come Dancing is now in its 11th year, it has a formula that works and

Everyone’s favourite tap dance musical is back on the West End, and, really, shouldn’t 42nd Street always be playing somewhere in the world at any given time?

The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Guest: Kyle Jarrow KYLE JARROW (Book) is…

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

Award-winning director and two-time Tony Award nominee Alex Timbers is on board as director for The Bobby Darin Story, the opening show of 92Y's American Songbook series Lyrics amp Lyricists.

On Today, January 20, 2018 at 800 pm at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, Grammy Award-winning conductor Lucas Richman and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will premiere Kathryn Bostic's August Wilson Sympho…

What is a signature gesture? It’s a nonverbal, repeated movement your character is known for, that you perform in a particular way that is unique and identifiable. Common, well-known gestures include the thum…

Peter Mendoza, Sean Carvajal, and Peter Pasco explore the fallout of war in three plays running concurrently in Los Angeles.

Hello, Bernadette! Two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters returns to Broadway in the hit revival of Hello, Dolly! on January 20. The stage legend takes on the title role of Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, replacing …

The history behind the superstition’s origin and the theatrical archives prove it.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee closed 10 years ago on Broadway January 20, 2008.

Performances begin in Somerville, New Jersey.

Victor Garber, Charlie Stemp, and Molly Griggs also step into the Tony-winning revival at the Shubert Theatre.

Ms. Orlandersmith skillfully organizes the material into short monologues that are revelatory, insightful and often tinged with humor.  Visually striking with her animated facial features and flowing dreadlock…

Learning the fundamentals of improv comedy helps improve communication skills.

Hershey Felder Plays Tchaikovsky, Masterfully by Barry David Horwitz Hershey Felder has come to Theatreworks to embody Tchaikovsky. When Felder, as Tchaikovsky, plays for the Opening Night of Carnegie Hall in 1…

Stew and Heidi Rodewald's coming-of-age story 'Passing Strange' has evolved, cut its creators out of the script, and landed at the Wilma Theater. Mark Cofta and Cameron Kelsall discuss.

RARELY PRODUCED BERLIN SCORE COMES TO LIFE No doubt when folks hear “Louisiana Purchase,” they think of Thomas Jefferson’s gargantuan land acquisition from France in 1803, a purchase which res…

Amy and the Orphans will begin preview performances Off-Broadway on February 1, 2018, and open officially on March 1, 2018 at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre 111 Wes…

R.I.P. Dorothy Malone, who passed away today at age 92. I was surprised to note just how how many of her performances I had seen. In truth,  Malone’s best known work was in the sort of melodramas my moth…

Disney is in talks with director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to helm its live-action reimagining of the 1963 animated movie “The Sword in the Stone.” Fresnadillo, a native of Spain, directed 2002’…

"Beautiful – The Carole King Musical" ✭✭✭ 1/2 Chicago actress Sarah Bockel plays the lead in the current national tour of "Beautiful," the jukebox musical that celebrates the life and music of the grea…

This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: Rising playwright Anna Ziegler's "A Delicate Ship" at the Road on Magnolia, Aaron Posner's "The Chosen" at the Fountain, "The Last Wife" at Theatre 40 and an exploration…

Plenty of fish: Alice Saville on a same-sex, internet-age romance that loses its way. The post Review: Lobster at Theatre503 appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

It’s environmental agit-prop, for sure: The flora and fauna are the good guys; Kinder Morgan and the RCMP are the bad guys. It implores the audience to “fight” in its penultimate line.

The new play by Scott Organ will officially open January 22 in a production from The Barrow Group Theater Company.

The revival of Peter Gill’s drama will begin performances February 8 in London.

With vehicles belching fumes at 7mph, car chase franchise fails to translate to stageOutside of Jaws, it would be tough to think of a movie idea less suited to the theatrical treatment than the rubber-burning, …

Critic Marsha Lederman can’t figure out why she wasn’t more moved by this production about the horrific mass shooting in Norway that left 77 dead -- a choral play which she notes should have left her in a p…

IT’S SO NICE TO HAVE HER BACK WHERE SHE BELONGS FIRST IMAGE OF BERNADETTE PETERS IN “HELLO, DOLLY!” RELEASED TWO-TIME TONY AWARD®-WINNING ICON BEGINS PERFORMANCES TOMORROW NIGHT IN BROADWAY’S MOST BELO…

Who is Lena Cruz? Lena is grateful to be alive. She is sometimes challenged by some of the things currently happening in our world, but at the same time, feels positive as she is blown away by the sheer number …

  Tomorrow evening, January 20, two-time Tony Award® winner Bernadette Peters, capping a 60-years-long career of triumph after triumph as “the most accomplished musical comedy star of her generation” …

Wow, wow, wow, FELLAS! As you know, Tony winner Bernadette Peters begins performance in the Tony-winning revival of Hello, Dolly! on January 20. If that wasn't enough of a treat, there is a photo of the cri…