At a ceremony at The London Palladium hosted by Gina and Mazz Murray, the winners of the 26th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards in association with AudienceView were announced — the only major UK theatre awards deci…

Unlike "Glengarry Glen Ross" which also begins at luncheon meetings in a Chinese restaurant but then took us to the office in its second act, "Chinese Republicans" is mostly set at the monthly luncheons with on…

Watford Palace theatrePaying tribute to his grandfather whose 1983 show at the same venue lasted only one night the actor and comedian skilfully unveils a big reveal worthy of Inside No 9 There is enchantment t…

After being shuttered for far too long, Boca Stage returns with a bang, literally and figuratively, with the outrageously dark and raunchy comedy Damaged Furniture, returning to the Willow Theatre where it got…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Winners of the WhatsOnStage Awards 2026 By Ross If you’re a theatre fan like myself, watching from across the Atlantic, nights like the WhatsOnStage Awards ceremony at The London…

Corey Parker, known for roles in Will and Grace, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning and Love Boat: The Next Wave, and a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, died from Cancer at age 60. According to The Holly…

Last season, New York's Mint Theater Company hit pay dirt with Garside's Career, a lesser-known work by Harold Brighouse, whose 1915 classic play Hobson's Choice is frequently staged and adapted. Currently, the…

By Samuel L. Leiter March 8, 2026: The Mint Theatre has once again reached into the candy jar of forgotten or neglected plays, often from the UK. This time it’s plucked a British play written in 1916 by Haro…

Watch Jeremy Jordan take his final bow as Jay Gatsby in Broadway's The Great Gatsby, with the actor having had his last performance in the role on March 8. This was the end of Jordan's second stint leading t…

New Diorama theatre, LondonA man bearing the same name as the actor wants to apologise to a woman for something he has ‘accidentally’ done in this patience-testing undisciplined drama ‘The following scene…

By Melissa Griegel Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography An evening spent listening to the velvety voice of Paulo Szot, looking debonair in a black tuxedo, is an enchanting one. Paulo Szot, made his Broadway de…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Mother Russia @ Signature Theatre, Milwaukee Rep’s three productions: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, McNeal, Ain’t Misbehavin, Marcelle …

By Tulis McCall If you play your cards right you can still get to the final performance of this run of Finding Dorothy Parker tonight at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. The production features Veanne Cox, Ann Hara…

Nothing could deter Christina Applegate from fulfilling her Broadway dream. The actress, who was Tony-nominated for her star turn as Charity Hope Valentine in the 2005 Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, rev…

Two new live works show what happens when innovative artists expand the conventions of performance

Regional – Brookfield, WI: Bombshell Theatre: 19700 West Bluemound Road.  February 26-March 15, 2026. Musical. Music and lyrics: Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx; Book: Jeff Whitney, based on original concept by R…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for March 8, 2026 are about my recent appearance on the Flash Back internet radio show (topic: the Marx Brothers), and a couple of new record releases by old friends. Note well: …

When not posting TikToks to his more than 1 million followers, Jared B Goldsmith tends to play two types of characters: nerds and birds. This is a fact he recognizes about himself and his career, with the actor…

Geordie Austen released this new album Moments That Shine with his band The Sad Dogs about a week ago, and I’m just now catching up with it. Geordie was a key member of my vaudeville show back in the day (lat…

The Toronto Theatre Review: Little Willy at Canadian Stage By Ross There’s a little ditty of the most adorable kind that ushers us into Canadian Stage’s production of Little Willy, a pseudo-one-man wonder-a…

★★★★☆ Audience participation is welcomed in a comical endurance contest The post Burnout Paradise: Madhouse Multitasking appeared first on New York Stage Review.

Ro Reddick’s play with original music promises a light, knowing comedy about a Black girl and her family in Syracuse, New York in 1987, but swerves into a dark cloak-and-dagger tale of the Cold War, ending up…

Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of What We Did Before Our Moth Days? downtown at the Greenwich House Theater in New York City by Wallace Shawn.

The prolific Hillsboro novelist finds new success in original plays at HART Theatre.

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, she's treating us to a sensational sequence of female-led show tun…

He got stuck in the bath and met the queen. But despite a few wobbles and procedures, the author still can’t believe his age Windsor. The royal dolls’ house at Windsor Castle is being revamped to include co…

By Alix Cohen Lillias White is an amalgam of Etta James, Mae West and Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream.) She sizzles her way onstage with a defiant “I’m Getting’ Along Alright” (Bobby Sharp/Charles Sin…

Last week, I was delighted to chat for an hour about the Marx Brothers with Dr. Wesley Britton on his internet radio show Flash Back, in connection with my recent book The Marx Brothers Miscellany. Britton’s …

Cast, DoncasterLaurie Sansom’s bold decision to stage the literary classic with a cast of three pays off in parts thanks to compelling performances and an atmosphere of shadowy dread You might say it were a b…

Hartford Stage is holding a concert fundraiser for the 10th anniversary of the musical "Anastasia," which had a pre-Broadway run at the theater in 2016.

It seems that for every show at one of Connecticut’s major regional theaters, there’s a unique story about how the cast came together. This is remarkable because in many ways the casting process is formaliz…

The Times’s new chief theater critic is taking up the mantle as the industry moves over rocky ground.

It seems like every Irish-themed act on tour this month has a place to play in Connecticut, from the big dance and music spectacles to small Irish folk or rock ensembles.

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  Those of us who couldn’t get tickets to see the production, and instead bought Wallace Shawn’s published play (What We Did Before Our Moth Days, Faber and Faber, 96 pages) are treated to the same alterna…

Liz Truss has kept herself busy since Oxia Theatre's spring 2025 run of the one-woman show chronicling her Westminster rise and fall. A year on, I reunited with the team for this political fighter's latest rein…

Pixar is developing its official first musical-movie, accordng to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The currently untitled musical film will be directed by Turning Red's Domee Shi, and is one of three n…

Lainie Miller (Sheila Elaine Halpern, 1941-2025) passed away back in May; today would be her 85th birthday. Miller battled polio as a young kid in Toronto, then took dance lessons for years, initially just to s…

Yes, I know they say it’s 1884 on the signs, but 1876 was the year that year that Civil War hero and homeopath Dr. Augustin Thompson (1835-1903) first concocted his patent medicine and “genuine nerve food�…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for March 7, 2026 are about Moxie, National Cereal Day, Barbara Heller (The Jackie Gleason Show), Virginia Pearson (Larry Semon’s Wizard of Oz), Beatrice Roberts (Flash Gordon�…

"The Mall The Mall The Mall" is a magical realist comedy about three teenagers traversing a suburban mall in search of stolen fandom merchandise. Along the way, they encounter a coterie of increasingly strange …

Alcoholism and Alzheimer’s wouldn’t seem to have much in common. However, Jake Brasch cleverly links the two in his comedy drama "The Reservoir," the story of a recovering drunk on leave from college who go…

Regional – Miami Lakes, FL: 6812 Main Street. Feb. 28-March 15, 2026. Tragedy. Author & Director: Sara Jarrell adapting Euripides. 75 min. Critic: Aaron Krause (March 2026). **** Expect emotional whiplash…

Beatrice Roberts (1905-1970) had over 70 screen credits, all between the years 1932 and 1949, and yet her screen career manages not to be the most interesting thing about her somehow; it’s the life around it.…

While Timothée Chalamet has been met with tomatoes over his dismissive comments about live performance, several troupes are extending an olive branch. After the 4x Oscar nominee quipped that “no one cares”…

A few fragments on silent screen star Virginia Pearson (1886-1958). Travalanche readers may consider her especially notable for a trio important supporting parts she played in 1925: as the cruel lady Vishus in …

Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU theater student named Josh who is a chronically relapsing drunk. Josh wakes up after a blackout near his home in De…

The Boston Symphony's board didn't fire Andris Nelsons as its music director. Not exactly. They declined to renew his contract because he and the BSO weren't "aligned on future vision" — the board's own words…

The newly published book Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges by Magda Romanska (Bristol University Press, 2026) has been selected by the Knowledge Unlat…

1st Stage has built up a reputation for presenting insightful, timely, and highly evocative shows that profoundly cut to the core. With their current production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning…

March 7 has been designated by somebody as National Cereal Day — but isn’t EVERY day National Cereal Day for most of us? After all, the King of the Quotidian, Jerry Seinfeld is surely the most prominent cel…

Singer, impressionist, comedienne, and “pantomimist” Barbara Heller (Barbara Jean Thompson, 1926-1995) Vintage show biz fans may know her as a regular on Jackie Gleason’s variety show American Scene Magaz…

The Toronto Theatre Review: The Surrogate at Crow’s Theatre By Ross The first voices we hear in Mohsin Zaidi’s The Surrogate don’t come from the hospital room at all, but from the other end of a phone lin…

By The Associated Press Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western family drama series “The Madison” debuting on Paramount+ and the animated smash “Zootopia 2” landing on Disney+ are some of the new television, fi…

By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Sparkling dust drifted across the runway inside the Carrousel du Louvre on Friday as Issey Miyake asked a question few fashion houses dare voice: When should a designer stop des…

By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Romantasy favorite Sarah J. Maas has given her millions of fans a plot twist they had long been waiting for — two more books over the next 11 months in her blockbuster “A …

The Courant's arts picks for March 8-14 also include a Simon & Garfunkel show at the Warner Theatre and the Stamford Palace, Rod Stewart at Mohegan Sun and Jonathan Richman at Space Ballroom.

This week, Luke Burbank, Negin Farsad, and Hari Kondabolu offer Kristi Noem some parting words and we quiz the new voice of Sunday Night Baseball, Jason Benetti, on his knowledge of confettiTo manage podcast a…

The actor and comedian, known for ‘Brass Eye’, ‘Toast of London’ and ‘Two Doors Down’, speaks to Louis Chilton about sexism in TV, turning down the chance to ‘break America’, and her latest proj…

Crucible theatre, SheffieldA dynamic team of actors capture the spirit of female footballers during the first world war – though the storytelling is sometimes fumbled The rise of interest in women’s footbal…