A MODERN TRAGEDY IN PLAIN SIGHT Albee's shocking premise unfolds with the inevitability of Greek drama Playwright Edward Albee remains one of the most incisive chroniclers of American family life, exposing its …

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All photos bye Evan Zimmerman By FRANK RIZZO Oh, Mary, what has Broadway become? You might think playful outrageousness is now the norm with this …

Today, exactly 114 years after RMS Titanic sank to to the bottom of the North Atlantic, Titanique arrives in New York City at last. The splash-hit musical comedy inspired by the 1997 film Titanic and powered by…

The campy Céline Dion jukebox musical stars Marla Mindelle, Deborah Cox, Jim Parsons, and more at the St. James.

This "Titanic" parody fueled by Dion's hits, silly ad-libs and pop culture references had the humblest of beginnings. Now the show has docked on Broadway.

★★★☆☆ Marla Mindelle, Jim Parsons and a merry crew sail off on a little spoof about a big disaster The post Titanique: What Did I Miss? appeared first on New York Stage Review.

St James Theatre, New YorkThe hilariously deranged riff on Titanic loses some scrappy charm in its Broadway transfer According to its creators, the idea for Titaníque, the extremely campy Céline Dion jukebo…

Full disclosure, I loved Titanique off-Broadway. Saw it twice and reveled in the  unabashed zaniness, the super gay sensibility and the show's refusal to concern itself with hyper-sensitivities. Was I afraid…

Titaníque, a sendup of the 1997 Oscar winner Titanic by way of the jukebox musical, shouldn't work. On paper, there's no reason to revisit James Cameron's bombastic big-screen blockbuster, let alone to refra…

Titanique " 08 April 2026 Titanique is an interesting conglomerate of things people like: the movie Titanic, Celine Dion, musical comedies, colorful lighting, and actors in drag. It's a fun vibe that sets sail …

Oh, Mary, what has Broadway become? You might think playful outrageousness is now the norm with this month's wave of musical openings that take audiences into the extreme realms of parody, play and interactivit…

Theatrely's Broadway review of Titaníque by Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli and Tye Blue at the St. James Theatre in New York City. The musical stars Jim Parsons, Deborah Cox, Frankie Grande, Melissa Ba…

The strange and scrappy voyage of "Titanique," the feel-great musical-comedy sendup of the movie "Titanic" and singer Celine Dion, has been a wonder to behold. And pretty hard to believe.

Ah, another Broadway musical that positions Tina Turner as a lethal iceberg, a leading man who quotes 20 year old YouTube memes and a time-traveling Céline Dion whose surreal version of a historical tragedy is…

★★☆☆☆ Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli, Tye Blue share the credit for the Broadway transfer The post Titanique: Movie Spoof Unfortunately Hits Musical Iceberg appeared first on…

This silly, campy show, a mashup of Céline Dion songs with a jokey replay of the movie "Titanic," has moved to Broadway, virtually unchanged from the anything-for-a-laugh entertainment it was downtown, albeit …

The company of PAC NYC production of "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" at the Broadhurst Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) In recent years we have been offered reinventions of cla…

By Samuel L. Leiter April 12, 2026: Four years ago, when I saw Titanique in an intimate, subterranean, club-like theatre in Chelsea, it reminded me of an earlier show, 2013's magnificently cheesy musical Di…

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Our local production and the takeaway message of five Tony Award-winning KIMBERLY AKIMBO (including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score) " whose National Touring Company opened Tuesday…

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★★★☆☆ Luke Murphy directs and choreographs a modern Irish saga of murder, property and obsession The post Scorched Earth: A Dance-Theater Police Procedural appeared first on New Yo…

Pulling off a one-person show is certainly a complex endeavor. When that one-person show proves a rollercoaster ride of emotionally triumphant highs and rock-bottom lows, it can be an especially heavy lift. Act…

These very fine actors are precise in every way and lead us all on a merry chase through time and location.  The connection between these women brought me back to the rich friendships with my women chums tha…

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Dog Day Afternoon " 11 April 2026 Translating a well-known work into a new medium over 50 years after both the event and the film chronicling the event is a challenge because, when revisiting material, people q…

Rachel Zegler won a Olivier for Evita, while Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! took home a play award.

The winners of the Olivier Awards 2026 with Cunard were announced on Sunday evening at a ceremony held at London's Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Nick Mohammed The post Paddington The Musical tops Olivier Awar…

Naughty Bits: Ten Short Plays About Sex " 12 April 2026 William Andrew Jones's ten short plays about sex, entitled Naughty Bits explores dirty jokes/language in several contexts where people feel sex might not …

Di Zou as Pearl and Rebecca De Mornay as Evelyn in a scene from John Patrick Shanley's "The Pushover" at the Chain Theater (Photo credit: Dan Wright Photography) Encountering a John Patrick Shanley premiere is …

Nicole Travolta, a member of the famous Hollywood family, has turned her life into a one-woman show that is introducing her to the New York stage. "Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright" is an entertaining and humor…

Elaine Paige has starred in a number of musicals including Cats and Evita

Paddington The Musical emerged as the undisputed champion at the 2026 Olivier Awards, sweeping multiple categories, while Rosamund Pike made a triumphant return to the stage after nearly 14 years to claim the c…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Carey Purcell talk about Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Becky Shaw, Titanique, 1776 @ Papermill, Death of a Salesman, Giant, and Dog Day Afternoon. "This Week on…

By Alix Cohen April 12, 2026: Donna McKechnie explodes onto the stage, arms shooting out like fireworks. "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim), usually a finale, is here a wake-up song. …

Rachel Zegler, Paapa Essiedu, and Rosamund Pike were among the big winners at the 2026 Olivier Awards, which took place this evening at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Scroll down for the full list of winners.…

The hit musical about the beloved bear won seven awards at Britain's equivalent of the Tonys. "Evita," starring Rachel Zegler, took home two prizes.

JESSE TYLER FERGUSON STARS IN A MISGUIDED REVIVAL OF TRU, JAY PRESSON ALLEN'S CHARACTER STUDY OF TRUMAN CAPOTE AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN HIS LIFE. By Patrick Christiano      April 5, 2026: …

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Oliviers are happening right now, as I write By Ross Theatre has a strange way of making time feel suspended, and tonight, that feeling is impossible to ignore. As the 2026 Olivier…

The Broadway Theatre Review: A sharp, unsettling dark comedy about love, truth, and self-preservation by Second Stage By Ross The first thing we hear is a description of a crime scene. A television narrator, se…

The darkly hedonistic roman-à-cef 'The Plunge' loosely draws from the white-hot screenwriter and playwright's experience following her split with the disgraced Amazon exec. 

In D.C. and Atlanta, a new musical about the late Congressman's formative years seeks to honor his spirit of 'good trouble' not only with mainstage productions but with engagement events and tours as well.

Nancy Keystone's restless, busy staging has plenty to admire, but fans of the Pulitzer winner may find it gets in its own way.

By Alix Cohen Donna McKechnie explodes onto the stage, arms shooting out like fireworks. "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim), usually a finale, is here a wake-up song. She beams. McKeck…

In Luke Murphy's astonishing "Scorched Earth," a vitality is rendered with a ferocity that feels at once ancient and bracingly new. Murphy, working under the banner of his multidisciplinary company Attic Projec…

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 has the regular slate of show tunes old and new, movie songs and sta…

Get a first look at production photos of Titanique on Broadway as it celebrates its opening night! The cast includes Marla Mindelle as Celine Dion; Jim Parsons as Ruth Dewitt Bukater; Melissa Barrera as Rose De…

Today's new Travalanche post for April 12, 2026 is about actress and tap dancer Eleanore Whitney. Earlier Travalanche posts for April 12 (in no particular order) include ones on: The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) Vir…

Alright, now you've got different perspectives on Becky Shaw, a very well executed play. You'll have to decide what side of the fence you think you'll fall on. The post Becky Shaw appeared first on The Front Ro…

Brief but nonetheless real was the career of tap dancer/ actress Eleanore Whitney (1917-1983). Like that other Eleanor (Powell), Whitney was a tapper from kidhood. The story goes that she met Bill Robinson back…

EVERYTHING'S COMING UP JULE Broadway's golden-age hits return in a world premiere revue that treats them as living drama Jule Styne's name tends to arrive attached to titles that feel immovable. Gypsy. Funny Gi…

DESIRE, DANGER, AND A SONG TO SURVIVE Palm Canyon Theatre dives into one of Kander and Ebb's most intoxicating musical Palm Canyon Theatre brings bold heat to the desert with Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Tony …

DELIBES TAKES THE LEAD In ABT's return of Ashton's Sylvia, the best performance at Segerstrom wasn't onstage Frederic Ashton's Sylvia arrives at Segerstrom Center for the Arts after nine years away from America…

THE SONGBOOK LIVES ON Feinstein's Carnegie Hall "On the Town" concert celebrates classic songs and those who wrote and performed them with style, wit, and swing Like a party that keeps going and on, the grandda…

Old systems of certification are failing from every direction: technological, legal, institutional and political. So what's left when you can't just say "trust us"? You have to show your work and construct a co…

All aboard! Titanique has docked on Broadway at at the St. James Theatre, reworking James Cameron's beloved film into a song-and-dance campfest. Marla Mindelle leads the cast as none other than Céline Dion,…

The hit musical, based on the film of the same name, opened at London's Adelphi in 2021.

Before each performance, the actor sprints around the Hudson Theater enlisting audience members to take part in the interactive show.

There are performers"and then there are architects of atmosphere. Joel Grey has always been the latter. Born April 11, 1932, Gray turns 94 yesterday, and the word "legend" still feels insufficient. What he crea…

While not often produced, Shakespeare's tragedy, "Coriolanus," explores ever timely themes: the common people vs. the aristocracy, family loyalty, revenge, and personal duty. Director Jae K. Gee's adaptation of…

While not the first stage adaptation from L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel, John Kane's "The Wizard of Oz" is one of the most accurate to the beloved film, inspiring many revivals and national tours since its first p…

Ahead of hosting the 2026 Tony Awards, P!NK shared a video of herself setting foot on The Broadway Theatre's stage during the curtain call of The Great Gatsby, meaning she has technically been on Broadway befor…

An engaging and moving story about identity, courage and acceptance, Latino Theater Company's technically innovative new play Level Up! is a wonderfully entertaining experience for all ages. Desi López (M…

Louis Tyrrell, one of the core visionaries transforming South Florida theater from safe predictable fare to a birthplace for new plays challenging intellect as well as emotion, died Friday afternoon.As a direct…

The reimagined version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's '80s musical is leaving critics and audiences cheering.

By Andrew Poretz . . . Mult-hyphenate performer, producer, speaker and TV host Quinn Lemley finished her latest run of The Heat is On! A Life in Concert at The Triad Theater in March. The one-woman show brings …

One of the things we theater obsessives love to do is argue about which is the greatest American play. I'm a Tennessee Williams stan and so I always try to get A Streetcar Named Desire into the mix. But I'm als…

A lacerating comedy with a misanthropic soul. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Becky Shaw at the Hayes Theater appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

The bestselling investigative reporter behind 'Say Nothing' and 'Empire of Pain' turns true crime into best-sellers that become prestige TV.

Before Suffs or Liberation looking at women's rights movement, Bull in a China Shop gives another historical view of the fight of more than a century ago, now being staged by Bridge Across the Pond at Empire St…

By Alix Cohen Adam Gopnik, master of the caffeinated essay (forty years at The New Yorker) and iconoclastic books, navigates culture with fluid elegance and restless curiosity. At the same time, he's almost cla…

The author of The Whale credits his Tony-contending star Laurie Metcalf with being "the greatest stage actor living in America."