Check out videos giving a sneak peek into the first rehearsals for Chez Joey at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., running January 30 through March 15. The production stars Myles Frost (Broadway: MJ the Musica…

The 69th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes lifetime achievement awards to Carmelita Tropicana and Kate Valk. …

Retraction – 31 January 2026 Retraction tells an interesting and timely story about the importance of due diligence when publishing writing through the lens of a reporter examining sexual assault on college c…

The American Theatre Wing presents the 68th annual Off- and Off-Off-Broadway honors.

The American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President & CEO), along with Spectrum News NY1, announced the recipients of the 69th Annual Obie Awards, Off and Off-Off-Broadway’s Highest Honor, today, Satur…

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Get a first look at Tony Award nominee Will Swenson Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. The production has musical direction by Darryl Archibald, choreography by Lee Martin…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for January 31, 2026 are about KC and the Sunshine Band, and Alexandre Patty, the Upside Down Man. We also continue to mourn the loss of the great comic actress Catherine O’Har…

Today we will likely blow the minds of our regular readers (and I’m blowing my own mind even as I do it) by expressing deep love and respect for KC and the Sunshine Band. KC (Henry Wayne Casey, b. 1951) turns…

Plus, we preview the spring season on Broadway including Death of a Salesman, CATS: The Jellicle Ball and The Rocky Horror Show.

Woodie King Jr., the theater actor, director and producer, who advocated for Black onstage representation, has died. He was 88. The New Federal Theatre (NFT), his company dedicated to amplifying the voices of B…

If you’re looking for subtle storytelling and emotional restraint, “Rock of Ages” at Toby’s Dinner Theatre politely suggests you exit the theater. This is musical theater with the volume up, the hair bi…

Regional – Wilton Manors, FL: Island City Stage: 2304 North Dixie Highway. Ended Feb. 8, 2026. Drama. Author: Lillian Hellman. Director: Michael Leeds. Critic: Aaron Krause (Jan. 2026). **** In Island City St…

An admitted horror buff, I was quite excited for the opening of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “Paranormal Activity.” I was still skeptical that theatre could truly deliver the jump scares, the chillin…

All of this was the set (back of the bookstore included) as well as the subject for the play Edward by Ed Schmidt, the delightfully human tale of a normal man (Edward O'Connell) who lived a normal life, the mar…

MY FAIR LADY, the iconic Lerner & Lowe musical of the 1950s, was the soundtrack of my childhood. Famous and beloved as the longest running Broadway musical in 1956 (with book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner…

A new book emphasizes the life, rather than the death, of Elizabeth Short, whose 1947 murder reflected a nation on edge.

Musical version of popular children’s book series is a full-circle moment for the Colorado actor/director.

Producer, director, and New Federal Theatre founder Woodie King Jr. passed away at age 88 at Weill Cornell Medical Center on January 29, following complications from emergency heart surgery. Known for his mo…

Philly journalist Dan McQuade died this week from neuroendocrine cancer. He has been honored by publications and sports teams alike. Jill Ivey shares reflections on their friendship, and Dan’s legacy.

Johnstown production embraces classic comedy and brassy Broadway style in an energetic, cartoon-like romp.

By David Sheward January 31, 2026: The innovative theater collective Elevator Repair Service has tackled such literary giants as Fitzgerald (Gatz, its day-long version of The Great Gatsby), Faulkner (The Sound…

Mathew Libby’s riveting "DATA" is drawn from tomorrow’s headlines – or is this frightening story depicting events that are already happening? As directed by Tyne Rafaeli, this techno-thriller become more …

January 31 is celebrated in some quarters as National Backwards Day (or as some perversely put it, Backward Day). It seems to me that every day for the past ten years answers both of those descriptions, but in …

As the Broadway tour eases down the road to Portland, veteran Alan Mingo, Jr. talks about relishing his role as The Wiz, and newcomer Dana Cimone plays Dorothy.

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Bedlam’s Music City Finds a New Stage by Ross When Music City first roared to life Off-Broadway, it did so with the kind of confidence that doesn’t ask for permission. BEDLAM’s g…

MINNEAPOLIS — After photos and video of federal agents violently detaining him in Minneapolis went viral, Twin Cities rapper Matt “Nur-D” Allen has retained the law firm that represented the victim in one…

If there is power in being invited, for the space of 80 minutes, to suspend our fear of where things are going, this show is a place where we can feel safe to do just that.

By COREY WILLIAMS DETROIT (AP) — “I was strung out on Bach, and Beethoven was my thing. I dug jazz, I dug rock, anything with a swing” — or so goes Funkadelic’s 1978 groove “Cholly (Funk Getting Rea…

The Place, LondonCharlotte Mooney and Alex Harvey deliver a mesmerising and intimate ode to their performing lives together Charlotte Mooney and Alex Harvey fell in love 24 years ago when they were training for…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. LOS ANGELES (AP) — At a pre-Grammy event celebrating Black music’s cultural power, Pharrell Williams used the Recording Academy stage to deliver a prayer — not for himself, but for…

By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Can a few lines of verse, make commuting less worse? That, in essence, is the question asked four decades ago by Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London who wondered whethe…

By The Associated Press The goofy and wry relationship comedy “Splitsville” landing on Hulu and fresh albums by J. Cole and Nick Jonas are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a devi…

The Courant's arts picks for Feb. 1-7 include"Frozen" at ACT of CT, a symphony-backed "Fantasia," Rock guitar hero Steve Conte and country crooner Brett Young.

Personal history emerges by painful degrees in “Oedipus,” whose language and story, the actress Lesley Manville says, “wreck me every time.”

"Wicked" director Jon M. Chu talks Elphaba-branded Swiffers and panelists Negin Farsad, Peter Grosz, and Annie Rauwerda preview "Melania: A Documentary"Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.c…

The new musical, based on the famed F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, also continues at the Broadway Theatre.

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Production photos have been released for La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s revival of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, now running through February 22, 2…

Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles (PAC LA), with the support of Eastman Museum Los Angeles, presents Women Curators, the final event in its Year of the Woman series, on Monday, March 2, 2026, at 7:00pm, tak…

(Sami Quadri’s article appeared in the Standard, 1/28.) Feminist historian identifies Tudor poet Emilia Bassano as true author whose identity was hidden by literary establishment William Shakespeare was a �…

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Portland Center Stage's co-production with Seattle Rep hits all the wrong notes to perfection in this comedy romp in which anything that can go wrong hilariously does.

Also joining the company, Oluchi Nwaokorie will make her Broadway debut as the new Elphaba standby.

The Minnesota Orchestra has announced a program update for its concerts this weekend, dedicating the performances to the memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. In light of recent events in the community, the …

Betsy Wolfe plays the mortality-defying diva Madeline Ashton in Death Becomes Her on Broadway. For six weeks, she’s taking us behind the velvet curtain at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where the fountain of you…

Benjamin Rauhala will be the musical director for the evening.

Antonia Gianino has spent 20 years as the production stage manager for Broadway’s crowd-pleasing mainstay The Lion King. In her estimate, she’s called around 2,000 performances. For Gianino, a life in theat…

In Watch Me Walk, the Obie winner gets honest about her disability, with plenty of theatrical pizzazz.

I've been passionate about theater for over 60 years. I love the performing arts, and want them to prosper. But everywhere I look, I see developments that are worrisome. Let me tell you about a few.... The pos…

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival announced its awards winners Friday, with Beth de Araújo's searing drama "Josephine" and Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman's environmental-themed documentary "Nuisance Bear"…

The maker of the original film reflects on how his gory fable about vagina dentata became a savagely witty stage musical by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson.

When Samantha Pauly isn't onstage in Broadway's The Great Gatsby, her party's roaring on backstage at the Broadway Theatre! In this video, watch as she welcomes us to her Broadway crib for inside look at her mo…

A Disney fan who once “flew” off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a co-writer of the Broadway musical, both of them megahits.

By Alix Cohen “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald They meet in a church basement outside an AA Meeting. “She” is clearly an old hand at …

“We have something in common,” says Whitney Leavitt of Roxie Hart, the merry murderess at the center of Broadway’s Chicago. “Although I may not agree morally with how she goes about getting what she wa…

Originally scheduled to step back into the role of Daisy Buchanan on February 5, Noblezada will now return on March 4, 2026. 

Princeton University Art Museum closed down at the start of the pandemic, and it’s finally reopened with beautiful updates that are free for all to visit. K.A. McFadden reviews.

After 17 years, the nightclub Bowery Electric will be closing its doors on On January 31. The venue shared, "We want to thank all the great bands, DJ's, staff, and patrons that have been part of this incredi…

The classic S.E. Hinton novel mostly translates well as a stage musical.

Nominations will be announced during the afternoon of April 21.

Josh Gad is set to star in Gerron's Last Film, a forthcoming movie based on the true story of Jewish actor and director Kurt Gerron, Deadline reports. Simon Curtis (Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale) is directing…

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that the award-winning actress and comedian Catherine O'Hara has passed away at the age of 71. Her death was confirmed by her manager, though no further details were given. …

David Guiterrez’ Masterful RETRACTION Looks at Real Life Events that Nearly Damaged a Movement for Change “If your mother tells you she loves you… check it out,” is the first statement we hear from jour…

The World Snow Sculpting Championship work by Team USA included messages spelled out in American Sign Language.

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Pump House Theatre Watford's production of Grease! Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of product…

A life in show business comes with its ups and downs, as evidenced in this scene from Merrily We Roll Along, now available on digital from Sony Pictures Classics. This exclusive clip from the filmed version…