Today’s new Travalanche post for December 26, 2025 is about actor Richard Widmark, who got his start in radio! Other earlier Travalanche posts for December 26 (in no particular order) include ones on: A Histo…

Looking to extend some holiday cheer? You can’t do better than take the whole family to see Slow Burn Theatre Company’s magical, brrr…shivery, snowy (bring sweaters – if anything, the suggestive power o…

Read the reviews for The Testament of Ann Lee, the musical drama film about the Shaker Movement, led by Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables star Amanda Seyfried as Mother Ann Lee. The Testament of Ann Lee is directed…

"Night Stories" is, first and foremost, about Jewish life. The show’s characters are mainly Holocaust survivors, yet they are never reduced to simply being symbols of suffering. They go on tangents, they make…

Watch the stars of Brazil's non-replica production of Wicked perform Defying Gravity in new production footage from the show's final performance, where the cast performed the song a second time, inviting audien…

Laying Historical Ground, Wide-angle Towards the end of Faustin Linyekula’s theatrical dance piece My body, my archive—devised in 2023 and witnessed by me as performed during the Aichi Triennale 2025 in Nag…

El día del Watusi (The Day of the Watusi) gets a second outing at the Teatre Lliure. First seen in the 2023/4 season at the Lliure’s Gràcia venue, it now plays in the larger Montjuïc Sala Fabià Puigserver…

Roberts, who won the inaugural season of ITV's The Masked Singer, also puts her spin on "Livin' It Up on Top."

How do we learn to forgive, especially in the aftermath of a massacre that has no rational explanation? This is the subject of Diego Garrido Sanz’s Violencia (Violence), his adaptation of Fran Kranz’s 2021 …

There is no shortage of plays on the subject of mid-life crisis, from Alan Charles’ Midlife Crisis to Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista. Writer-director Pablo Remón has added to the mix with his tale of forty-somet…

Les Misérables just celebrated its landmark 40th anniversary with a star-studded performance that was truly larger than life. This year’s Royal Variety Performance saw more than 400 performers join forces fo…

Michael Griffo's play continues at the DR2.

Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater go shirtless as the quintet skip class at Shiz University to play games in the woods.

Duron is accompanied by the musical's Tony-winning co-creator, Will Aronson.

How do you measure a year? In overtures? In dance breaks? Standing ovations? Today, we measure 2025 in Broadway shows. Before we get wrapped up in the spring season ahead, BroadwayWorld wants to stop and salute…

Richard Widmark (1914-2008) was born of a Boxing Day. I wonder how many newborns are accidentally tossed away with the packages and wrapping paper every year on that day? Well, if it was done to Widmark, based …

Hunter Foster will direct the Florida production of the Tony-winning musical.

After a year of Wicked fans hoping for its release, the cut scene from the film featuring a shirtless Jonathan Bailey as 'Fiyero' and Ethan Slater as 'Boq' has been released. It will be included in the upcoming…

The multitalented artist now plays Anna of Cleves in the hit musical at the Lena Horne Theatre.

In a new exclusive behind-the-scenes clip, viewers can watch rehearsal footage from Happiness, the musical series from PBS. Check out the cast rehearsing the choreography for the musical number "On the Long Way…

Looking for a job in the theater? BroadwayWorld is here to help! Check out new job listings from the past week, ending 12/25/2025. To catch up on anything that you might have missed, visit our full Classifieds …

The At This Performance… concert series is an ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys, understudies, and alternates.

When you make a Playbill with PLAYBILLDER, you can also design your own covers.

Audible Theater will soon present the world premiere of The Disappear, a new comedy written and directed by BAFTA Award nominee Erica Schmidt – featuring Dylan Baker, Madeline Brewer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ham…

See where Tony Award-winning productions Buena Vista Social Club, Operation Mincemeat, and The Picture of Dorian Gray landed.

Mediaite reported that The Kennedy Center's annual Christmas Eve jazz concert was canceled due to the venue being renamed after Trump. Chuck Redd, the musician who has hosted the Jazz Jams concert at The Kenned…

Singer Diane Lynn sings 20 plus songs from the career of Barbra Streisand in her 90 minute two act Boca Black Box Center for the Arts show on Sunday, Dec. 28 at 2 p.m.in Boca Raton titled “Hello Gorgeous: A T…

Episodes five and six premiere on PBS December 28.

Just in time for the New Year, fans can rejoycify and return to the Emerald City for the epic conclusion to the untold story of the witches of Oz, now from the comfort of their own home. After debuting at #1 at…

Though The Testament of Ann Lee is technically a musical, writer/director Mona Fastvold didn't look to past examples of the medium for inspiration. Rather than a figurative wink at the camera or the use of prov…

Overall, 2025 was a busy year on the stage. For some actors, it was really a busy year. Several actors appeared in two different productions this year nearly over. Broadway Games: Double Trouble in 2025 DIR…

By The Associated Press It’s the end of the year and there are fewer new streaming options headed to a device near you. But it’s a great time to catch up on some of best movies,television,music and video ga…

The nonprofit organization New 42, which earned a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater this year, continues to pave the way for a revitalized Times Square.

The Broadway Theatre Review: The Queen of Versailles By Ross The Queen of Versailles closed on Broadway last Sunday, months earlier than planned and years earlier than anyone involved likely hoped, given the st…

As someone who spends a good portion of each week wishing transatlantic teleportation were a standard perk of theatre journalism, I felt a familiar pang of longing when Pasadena Playhouse released its first pro…

Quietly charming and deeply nostalgic, This World of Tomorrow, a new play written by and starring Tom Hanks alongside writer James Glossman, is premiering in high gloss at The Shed. It delivers a warm slice of …

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Season’s Greetings! And Be Cool This Yule! Today’s new Travalanche post for December 25, 2025 is about Bing Crosby’s long association with the Christmas holiday. See yeste…

Before joining the cast of Hell’s Kitchen as Davis, Ne-Yo didn’t have Broadway aspirations. The three-time Grammy winner played the Tin Man in NBC’s The Wiz Live! in 2015 and was involved in conversations…

Several movies are opening today, a traditional day of moviegoing, including “Marty Supreme,” “Song Sung Blue,” “The Testament of Ann Lee,”  The Choral” and ‘No Other Choice.” I’m rolling …

Every Sunday episode of the sports podcast will air live on Netflix.

Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings, and Happy Holidays — whatever doesn’t put your nose out of joint on this day of days. I got the idea for this post only yesterday, though it’s a natural enough topic…

In her transdisciplinary Media Art Xploration series, science provides the data that art transforms into sensory and emotional experiences.

Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.

DALLAS — Bill Abbott is something of an expert on Christmas movies. Abbott founded and serves as CEO of Arlington-based Great American Media, a growing North Texas media company that makes family-friendly ent…

ATLANTA — Atlanta actress Charity Jordan was hankering for bigger roles, tired of auditioning for minor characters like the supportive best friend. “I wanted to make a path to play the roles I wanted,” sh…

In Stamford and West Hartford, members of the diaspora collect and display stitched artwork and teach classes to keep the tradition alive

It wasn’t bad enough that Tuesday night’s Kennedy Center Honors garnered the lowest TV ratings in the history of the show. Now it turns out that there was no Christmas Eve jazz show, as planned. The evening…

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A transcendent new take on King Lear, a thrilling Evita and a show at Glasgow’s revamped Citizens that reduced one viewer to a ‘blubbering wreck’ are among your highlights• More on the best culture of 2…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: My Favourite Christmas Films By Ross Every December, I find myself returning to A Christmas Carol, not so much as a ritual to be checked off my list that I check twice, but as a story …

Imani Smith, a former child actor who starred in “The Lion King” on Broadway, was found dead on Dec. 21, according to a press release from Middlesex County, N.J., Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Thomas…

The 35-year-old actor, comedian, musician and podcaster says he’s finally starting to learn his professional bandwidth after years of dabbling in several sectors of the industry: “I think we all lie to ours…

Michael Ball, the musical's original Marius, made a special appearance.

Imani Smith, who played Young Nala in Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway from 2011-2012, died after being stabbed on December 21, according to the Middlesex, NJ County Prosecutor’s Office. She was 26. Polic…

By near-universal consensus, Stephen Sondheim was the greatest musical theater composer of his generation—celebrated, among other things, for the wit, sophistication, and intricacy of shows from West Side Sto…

The "meaning" of Samuel Beckett's 1953 absurdist masterwork Waiting for Godot will be parsed forever and will never be fully discerned. Some theatregoers will be enthralled by the experience. Others will be utt…

The press rep at Irish Repertory Theatre, always helpful and cheery, seemed even more effusive than usual, as if she were about to hand out tickets to a winner. She wasn't wrong. The Honey Trap, Irish Rep's New…

Full disclosure: It's a Wonderful Life is probably my favorite movie. As a movie-addled teenager I wrote Frank Capra a fan letter about it, and he responded, in part: "In thanking me so sincerely, so artlessly,…

Many prize the state of Idaho as a go-to destination for outdoor recreational opportunities, white water rapids, hot springs, and majestic mountains. But playwright Samuel D. Hunter has a way of conjuring up hi…

Praised by the Houston Chronicle as “one of the most original voices in American theater today,” Mickle Maher opens up about the challenges and discoveries of adapting Berlin from graphic novel to stage, of…

Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2025, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption. Most of these were taken from Stageworth…

Playbill's Margaret Hall breaks down the many connections between the 26 stars of the hit video series.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage play prequel set in 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, first opened at Broadway's Marquis Theatre in April. Now, with season five of the Netflix series wrapping up the mystery w…

Today’s new Travalanche post for December 24, 2025 is about Eugène Scribe and the Well Made Play. In honor of the season, here are some highlights of the Christmas section of Travalanche: The History of Sant…

The series features Broadway artists performing their favorite songs outside of the showtune genre.

The Phantom of the Opera star is joined by guests Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aled Jones, and the Gregorian choir.

By Tulis McCall This is a play that you should see because it has affected you.  Whether you know it or not. Meg Crane invented the first at-home-pregnancy test in 1968.  Called “Predictor.” On the day I …

Review by Ron Fassler . . . It’s that time of year and Broadway stalwart Norm Lewis is back at 54 Below with “Christmas Lives Here.”

Imani Dia Smith, who previously starred as Young Nala on Broadway in Disney’s Lion King, has died at the age of 25. Smith was killed by her boyfriend, Jordan Jackson-Small, who has been charged with murder, w…

Ms. Smith played Young Nala in the long-running production.