American Lyric Theater's twentieth-anniversary gala showcased extraordinary artistry and visionary mentorship, featuring sublime performances that affirmed opera's vital contemporary relevance—Experience ALT'…

Jena Tesse Fox, Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Ragtime @ LCT’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, Not Ready for Primetime @ Newman Mills Theater at MCC, Kiss of the Spider Woman (movie…

The Queen’s Gambit is set to be adapted for the stage, it’s been announced. The book by Walter Tevis – which was turned into a hit Netflix series – will become a musical and has its sights set on Broadw…

Arches London Bridge New show I Love It Here is billed as a departure from the comedian’s familiar neurotic self-analysis, but it proves frustratingly unchallenging “An exciting departure from [his] previou…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 26, 2025 are about the 100th anniversary of the world premiere of the Marx’ Brothers The Cocoanuts; and the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal completion (and the …

The best thing to say about Bedlam’s irreverent, sister-centered  riff on “Pride and Prejudice” is that it demonstrates once again the enduring appeal of Jane Austen’s centuries-old characters, even w…

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. Things get spooky this week as Paige celebrates Halloween with an hour of son…

Perth theatre This show aims to represent composer Irving Berlin’s much-loved song in human form. But while that idea lacks coherence, the sketches and medleys are buoyantly performed The piano is full of fea…

It is very rare that a revival of a musical is imagined better than the original production and exceptional that its message is more relevant now than when it first opened on Broadway nearly thirty years ago in…

Broadway is being subjected to a steady parade of Hollywood names parachuting into familiar titles, propped up by prestige directors and stratospheric ticket prices.

 Death, race and dreams intersect in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ stirring, powerful The Mountaintop. This profound drama leavened with a bit of humor imagines the night Martin Luther King Jr. spent in the Lorrain…

Podcast host Dmae Lo Roberts talks with playwright Sue Mach and director Gemma Whelan about Mach's play that creatively fills in the gaps in Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale."

Arcola theatre, London In 1980s Northern Ireland, an abusive father and the soldiers patrolling the streets morph into a common enemy to rage against, in Meghan Tyler’s blackly comic tale The rosary is whippe…

The Erie Canal was completed on October 26, 1825 — 200 years ago today. In light of the Halloween season, and the fact that my first impulse is always to spell it Eerie, but it isn’t. It might be a clear si…

100 years ago today, October 26, 1925 marked the first out of town tryout for The Cocoanuts, starring the Marx Brothers: Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo. The show opened in Boston on that date, before travelli…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and KIMBERLEE KRUESI BOSTON (AP) — When David Arsenault takes down a worn, leather-bound 19th-century book from the winding shelves of the Boston Athenaeum, he feels a sense of awe — like…

Brad will be hosting a screening of the cult classic on Oct. 30 at the Warner Theatre in Torrington in celebration of the film's 50th anniversary.

Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play makes a shimmeringly powerful London debut I came late to the Old Vic's shimmering production of Mary Page Marlowe, Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play from 2018 which has arrived i…

The choreographer Mandy Moore feels at home everywhere. She even sees herself as a kind of dance therapist. “Teach them the love first and the steps later.”

"Self-Help," the latest movie for Newington natives Erik and Carson Bloomquist, uses a horror film framework to delve into deeper social issues.

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Almost three decades after Harewood made history as the National Theatre’s first Black Othello, he is stepping back into the role. Annabel Nugent meets him and his co-stars over steak and salad to talk drama …

In "Heaux Church," writer-performer Brandon Kyle Goodman does not so much deliver a sermon as they detonate one—turning the pious pulpit upside down and shaking loose its centuries of shame, repression, and w…

The Frontmezzjunkies Interview with George Reinblatt & Suzy Wilde, the creatives behind Predictable Holiday Rom-Com: The Musical By Ross Just in time for twinkling lights and peppermint lattes, a new Toront…

Under the masterful baton of Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke, The New York Pops opened their October concert at Carnegie Hall with a spirited and richly textured performance of Bernstein’s overtur…

When I first heard that Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were stepping into Waiting for Godot, I blinked. Not because I doubted their talent—far from it—but because I suddenly saw the stark black-and-white land…

The full concept album for Beautiful Little Fool released today, ahead of the show's world premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse Borough in early 2026. Recorded in New York and featuring Jessie Mueller (Wait…

Sketches are performed, in this case approximations of the originals, which is understandable (the authors Erik J. Rodriguez and Charles A. Sothers didn't have the rights to use the actual SNL material) but als…

Call it intuition, good vibes, or a hunch, but the guess here is that The Washington Ballet’s (TWB) 2025-26 Season (its 49th in DC), is going to be special. Youthful, fresh faces and a new director may be two…

Beloved and iconic actress June Lockhart died of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica, California with her daughter June Elizabeth and granddaughter Christianna by her side. Born in New York on June 25,19…

Although William Spatz’s "Truman vs. Israel" depicts a fictional encounter between former President Truman and lawyer and later first Jewish woman congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1953, the play brings to life th…

Just in time for Halloween, Riverside Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors in Vero Beach is a treat. The post Just In Time: Little Shop of Horrors at Riverside Theatre first appeared on Florida Thea…

Brief acknowledgment of the career of silent screen comedian Eddie Barry (Edward Burns, 1887-1966). Not to be confused with Eddie Lyons, and no relation to Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry, Eddie Barry was in fact the …

Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 25, 2025 are about The Wiz (just turned 50); Johann Strauss II (for his 200th birthday) along with some other Strausses; and silent screen comedian Eddie Barry. Today…

Election Day in New York is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, for mayor of New York and other city-wide and local offices, as well as six ballot proposals. Below is what you need to know in order to vote in the Genera…

Today marks the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) — and not coincidentally it’s also World Opera Day. Folks of Strauss’s day would be distressed to learn that Strauss would come to be consid…

Not every character always takes the moral highground. While not all Broadway antagonists are truly evil, many choose to act on deceit, corruption, and plain old bad judgement. This spooky season, we're explori…

An indescribably strange and beautiful musical meditation on time. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Oratorio for Living Things at Pershing Square Signature Center appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

While the script is razor-sharp, shaky performances and cramped staging by Flamboyán Theatre and The Three Leaches blunt its impact.

Steven Reineke and The New York Pops opened their Carnegie Hall season with a luminous concert tracing the path of great songs from Broadway to Hollywood. Hugh Panaro and Elizabeth Stanley lent the evening its…

In a musical split between town and country, star Miki Abraham declares: "Getting to play a strong Southern woman pays homage to all the matriarchy in my life."

The New York Cabaret Convention Third NightHost K.T. Sullivan, Artistic Director -The Mabel Mercer Foundation By Alix Cohen Opening tonight’s show, Mardie Millit and Michael Garin ebulliently perform its titl…

The Honey Trap's Annabelle Zasowski is taking over our Instagram today! Follow along here as Zasowski takes our Instagram followers backstage at the Irish Repertory Theatre's production. Tune in to see the day …

October 23 was the birthday of Charlie Smalls (1943-1987), best remembered as the composer of the songs in The Wiz. Smalls was a child piano prodigy (or “whiz”, if you prefer) who was already playing for au…

A nuclear missile is headed toward America — toward the Midwest, specifically — and there's only 19 minutes to impact. That's the insanely urgent doomsday scenario set up in director Kathryn Bigelow's elect…

By ANNIE RISEMBERG CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — It was the middle of the day when Omar Diaw, known by his artist name “Chimere” — French for chimera — approached a blank wall off the main thoroughfare in Gu…

By The Associated Press “Jurassic World Rebirth” roaring and snarling on Peacock and Florence + the Machine’s latest Halloween-ready album, “Everybody Scream,” are some of the new television, films, m…

The Courant's arts picks for Oct. 26 through Nov. 1 include "Misery" and comedy, Broadway stars, legendary singers and scary storytelling.

It is “the actual reason all of us crazy folks go back to the theater,” said the actor, who has joined the Season 2 cast of “Nobody Wants This.”

The new Lorenz Hart biopic “Blue Moon” gets a lot right about the creation of musicals that a spate of 1940s films got wildly wrong.

It was a first for the Connecticut City Hall.

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A French novel, several silent horror films, a Broadway musical, a site-specific work of immersive theater: It all has led to….Joshua William Gelb’s closet. “Many people have asked why we are doing anothe…

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By Isa Goldberg October 24, 2025: On the “language of love,” Zoe Kim’s Did You Eat? at The Public Theater is a poetic solo piece about growing up as a woman, and while Kim’s Korean upbringing sets up a…

The New York Pops held an Open Working Rehearsal this afternoon at Carnegie Hall for tonight’s concert, From Stage to Screen, led by Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke. The rehearsal offered a behind…

This year’s Royal Variety Performance promises to be an unmissable celebration for musical theatre fans. A dazzling line-up of stage favourites will come together for an evening of show-stopping moments at Lo…