There has been a lot of press about the NYC Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, but so much remains unclear. I continue to get regular questions about it, months after any major news hit. I can report…

‘Wicked: For Good’ to set box office records, Kramer and Fauci play to hit New York, country version of ‘For Good’ from former ‘Wicked’ witches Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first…

Ivo van Hove returns to form with his blistering revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 play, here starring a pitch-perfect Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu as father and son

Grace Galloway and Damon Gould are amongst the terrific cast in the European premiere of this quirky, sweet Off Broadway hit, seen originally in Canada; Lizzie Gee directs and choreographs.

Today, we have the next in our series of seating articles based on many of your emails requests and questions, namely "how were your seats?" Sure, I'm aware of another website that provides a similar service th…

James Bundy leads the theater program at Yale while directing his own revival of “Hedda Gabler.” He told us about a week in his cultural life.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Henry, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown and New York Times writers and editors pick 13 songs to seal the deal.

Maija García’s “Jazz Island” is a full-company narrative of a kind that Ailey hasn’t done in a while. And it features an Afro-Caribbean score by Etienne Charles.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 24, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click Her…

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…

Review: Jack and the Beanstalk at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre "It is in the second half where this production really comes to life" The post Review: Jack and the Beanstalk at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre appeared fi…

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.

In Neil Pepe’s stark revival of Rajiv Joseph’s "Gruesome Playground Injuries," Nicholas Braun and Kara Young trace three decades of bruised connection. Childhood scars, teenage volatility, and a late-night …

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.