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At 88, former PBT artistic director Patricia Wilde is still making history by Sara Bauknecht / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In the heyday of her dance career, Patricia Wilde was living history.

Les Misérables Plays 1,000th Broadway Performance Today by Robert Viagas

The revival is scheduled to end its run September 4.

Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: August 14 by David Gewirtzman

Who Speaks for a Show When the Creator is Gone? by Aaron Grunfeld

Creative estates are a tricky business: Executors have to make creative decisions for works of art they did not create. Who are these executors, and how do they make the tough calls about pr…

From Apes to Fairy Dust, Spend a Two-Show Day Outside at the Tuacahn Theatre by Hannah Vine

Em Grosland shows us what it’s like balancing multiple shows in 115 degree weather.

How Diane Paulus Put Two Actors on the Path to Marriage by Whitney Spaner

When American Idol alumni Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young became Broadway stars in Hair, they had to get really comfortable really quickly.

Fringe Review: Flight by Jonathan Mandell

“Flight” turns out to be a sort of sequel to “The Little Prince” told through three acrobatic performers, who use their bodies to create characters and creatures and contrivances in …

2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘The Theatre Made in Paradise’ by Deb Miller

What better reason to leave Elizabethan England than to stage a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in the New World and to found an indie theater there? That’s the witty premise of …

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 8/13/2016

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 8132016.

Lost Girls First Full Production Features Fantastical Imaginings Transported Into The Real World by Bill Hirschman

Juliet Among the Changelings, the inaugural full-length production from Lost Girls Theatre, succeeds most if not all of the time in establishing and staying in that difficult groove of fanta…

Mary Zimmerman Helmed WONDERFUL TOWN Runs Sept. 10-Oct 16 at Goodman’s Albert Theatre by Michael J. Roberts

The cast and creative team is set for Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman’s revival of [...]

Showbiz Nation Live! Interview with Broadway icon André De Shields by Michael J. Roberts

André De Shields opens up about his amazing career on Broadway and on the boards [...]

Review: ‘Max Major’s THINK AGAIN’ at Baltimore Theatre Project by Patricia Mitchell

I’ll let you in on a secret. I’ve always wanted to see a mentalist performance. Until now, though, I’d been too scared to ever actually attend one. I’m not the sort of person who yea…

What sorcery is this? A £140 ticket for new Harry Potter play now costs £8,327 by Rob Davies and Laurie Chen

Producers of West End box office hit condemn secondary ticketing websites as a ‘plague’ on desperate fansTickets for the hit West End Harry Potter play are on sale for more than £8,300 …

Monumental review – everything’s turned up by Sarah Crompton

Playhouse, EdinburghDance company Holy Body Tattoo and cult band Godspeed You! Black Emperor combine to exhausting but euphoric effect“Warning. This performance contains loud music”, rea…

REVIEW: Bubble Schmeisis, Summerhall – Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭ by Paul T Davies

By Paul T Davies This is a warm, informative, lovely show, and you would do well to spend an hour at the baths! This post REVIEW: Bubble Schmeisis, Summerhall – Edinburgh Festival ✭�…

Review: ‘Radio Golf’ at Hard Bargain Players by William Powell

Radio Golf, expertly directed by Terry Spann, and written by the late, esteemed playwright August Wilson, is a powerful study of Black men with two different approaches to progressing in a c…

David Henry Hwang: racial casting has evolved – and so have my opinions by David Henry Hwang

The American playwright explains why favouring white actors on stage is a bad business model – and publicly admits a secret about the Miss Saigon yellow-face controversy for the first time…

Spotlight On...Zoe Kamil by Michael Block

Name: Zoe KamilHometown: San Francisco born and raised, NYC nowEducation: Marymount Manhattan CollegeFavorite Credits: Most recently, We Go Together at The Kraine Theatre (Semicolon Theatre …

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS Character Card #3 Simon Helberg as Cosme McMoon by BroadwayWorld

The third character in the unique trio at the heart of Florence Foster Jenkins is Cosme McMoon, Florence's high-anxiety accompanist. Simon Helberg was cast in the role in part because he is …

15 Years Later Break Down Reminds Us of Consumerism by Rino16

It’s hard to forget the 2001 live art performance of Michael Landy. He famously destroyed everything he owned in his work entitled Break Down. Today, he is looking at his career in ret…

BWW TV: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Brings Broadway Classics to Bryant Park! by BroadwayWorld TV

This week's final installment included a performance by the Broadway cast of The Phantom of the Opera, includingLaird Mackintosh,Ali Ewoldt, andJordan Donica. Watch highlights below, as they…

Mourning the Living indeed! by Sandi Durell

  By Myra Chanin   One thing about New York. Important art exists everywhere, more often in relatively unheralded and unknown but quite comfortable venues like the intimate Hudson…

Edinburgh Fringe: Briefs by Johnny Fox

For the avoidance of doubt, this is the late night show ‘Briefs Factory’ present at the Assembly Hall. For the avoidance of further doubt, this is the same show Briefs have brought to t…

'New' Shakespeare play makes an emotional journey through the Pulitzer by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Shakespeare Festival's Bruce Longworth combines classic selections into a contemporary story.

Edinburgh Fringe: Colin Cloud, Exposé by Johnny Fox

You have to be careful calling any richly tattooed Glaswegian a ‘mentalist’, but it’s how Colin Cloud described himself at his bum-flashing 2012 audition for Britain’s Got Talent.

"Men On Boats" is a Rip-Roaring Ride by Broadway & Me

"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?" asks the final line of the musical Hamilton. It, of course, famously answers its own question by having black and brown actors play the Foun…

Spotlight On...Adam Roberts by Michael Block

Name: Adam RobertsHometown: Myrtle Beach, SCEducation: BFA in Musical Theatre from Coastal Carolina UniversitySelect Credits: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Pippin on Broadway, Dirty Dancing…

Review: Launch The Comedy Rocket! by Michael Block

By Michael BlockRemember the Sony hack a few years ago? You know the one. When “The Interview,” the satirical stoner comedy about Kim Jong-un, was set to be released and the e-mails of S…

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Infinity Pool, Bedlam by Dominique-Eloise Alexander

The only way I can describe this show when I’m telling every person I meet to go and see it, is that despite the fact that no one says a word; I still ended up with tears in my eyes and my…

Edinburgh Fringe: A Tale of Two Cities, Blood for Blood by Laura Kressly

A Tale of Two Cities: Blood for Blood is a rather different beast from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. This choppy, convoluted adaptation lacks the detail and finesse of the novel, …

Theater Review: A tender and emotional 'Breadcrumbs' at Urbanite by Jay Handelman

Urbanite presents area premiere of a play by Jennifer Haley about a writer dealing with dementia.... Read more »

Young Chekhov (trans. David Hare; dir. Jonathan Kent) National Theatre, London; Aug. 2016 (and also some The Plough and the the Stars) by Holger Syme

It was the worst of theatre, it was the best of theatre. This cycle of Chekhov’s first three plays (Platonov — heavily edited and adapted; Ivanov; and The Seagull), in new “…

Edinburgh Fringe: Spotlight On… 2 Become 1’s Kerrie Thomason & Natasha Granger by Helen McWilliams

2 Become 1 was a sell-out show at the Fringe last year and is coming back bigger and better at Underbelly this year. The ladies have been developing this 90s musical exploring pre-Tinder dat…

ALLEGRO – Southwark Playhouse by Caroline Hanks-Farmer

So why haven’t many Rodgers and Hammerstein aficionados heard about it and why has this never been performed in the UK? Is this forgotten musical best placed as just that or have we been …

Review: Direct from Death Row–The Scottsboro Boys (Raven Theatre, 2016) by Scotty Zacher

With Playwright Mark Stein’s Direct From Death Row: The Scottsboro Boys, presented by Raven Theatre, the audience is brought a piece of history not found in many text books, but done in su…

Drama school training sets you up for life too by Susan Elkin

They’re on the home straight. Thousands of school leavers, post-gappers and post-grads are heading for drama school or drama course in universities. All that tense worry about auditions, r…

BWW TV: What's Neil LaBute's Latest Play All About? Judith Light & Company of ALL THE WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU Explain! by BroadwayWorld TV

This September, MCC Theater will kick off their 2016-17 season with the world premiere of Neil LaBute's ALL THE WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU, directed by Leigh Silverman and featuring Judith Light…

Confirmed: Julie Taymor Aiming for Broadway Return with Revival of M. BUTTERFLY by Rialto Chatter

While there is no official announcement, Michael Riedel writes that she is in talks to bring David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning play back to Broadway.

Julie Taymor Broadway M. Butterfly Revival Posts Audition Notice by Robert Viagas

The Tony-winning director will return to Broadway next year.

Trolling Time with...Michael Bradley by Michael Block

Name: Michael BradleyHometown: Mahwah, NJEducation: BFA from Boston UniversityWho do you play in The Illusory Adventures of a Dreamer: #playwrightDescribe your character(s) in three words: W…

STAGE TUBE: Barbra Streisand Sings 'Pure Imagination' with Seth MacFarlane by Stage Tube

Barbara Streisand, one of the most beloved stars of stage and screen in history, teams up with comedic actor Seth MacFarlane in this unlikely duo for a beautiful rendition of 'Pure Imaginati…

Bard lot: how the fringe is celebrating Shakespeare 400 by Lyn Gardner

From a Dream that draws on Star Wars to a starring role for the weird sisters, there’s a bevy of Shakespeare-related shows at Edinburgh in the playwright’s quadricentenary yearThe lure m…

People You Should Know . . . Charlotte Cohn by Zack Calhoon

Charlotte Cohn-Performing highlights include Broadway’s La Boheme and Coram Boy, Happy End at A.C.T. (BATCC Best Actress nominee), La Boheme at The Ahman…

15 Minutes with Aaron Michael Krueger by Matthew Wexler

For the first time, The Broadway Blog breaks form with our “15 Minutes with…” column, taking this opportunity to introduce you to up and coming musical theater writer/composer Aaron Mi…

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 8/13/16- Euan Morton by Stage Tube

Happy Birthday, Euan Morton Morton was nominated for an Olivier Award and a Tony Award, and won a Theatre World Award win for Outstanding Broadway Debut asBoy Georgein the musical 'Taboo.' H…

Jeanna de Waal Says Goodbye to KINKY BOOTS by BroadwayWorld

Today, Saturday 13th August 2016, is my last day at Kinky Boots on Broadway, and I couldn't let the moment pass without publicly yelling out my gratitude for the whole experience.

STAGE TUBE 360 Video: Good News, Dear Friend: Maraczek's is Open Again! by Stage Tube

You may not be able to watch Tony winner and mom-to-be Laura Benanti sing live about delicious vanilla ice cream 8 performances a week any longer, but you can revisit the world of Maraczek's…

Review: Edinburgh review: Cock and Bull (Forest Fringe)

Nic Green's new show ridicules and rails at the political establishment

Dancing noir detective and a dame in Jump Rhythm's 'Jimmie Blues' by Laura Molzahn

A hardboiled detective, lounging in his office after dark, savors his solitude with a bottle and a shot glass. There's a knock at the door, and when the dame enters, she's wearing a long ove…

CIRCUS DIARIES at #edfringe: Image, by Natalie Reckert by Katharine Kavanagh

It is a 50 minute solo show about handstands. Throughout the show, Natalie Reckert will explain and demonstrate in various ways how handstands work: scientifically, physically and in her per…

Growing Pains: Dallas, Texas by HowlRound

By Shelby-Allison Hibbs. Shelby-Allison Hibbs collects thoughts from Dallas theatremakers about the sustainability of the city’s theatre scene.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Innovative Theatre Foundation

By Rebecca Feldman and Jay ReissMusic and Lyrics William FinnDirected by Artistic DirectorProduced by Astoria Performing Arts CenterNominated for: Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role,  Becca…

BWW TV Exclusive: Get Thee to the Berkshires for the 2016 Season of Shakespeare & Company! by BroadwayWorld TV

BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge recently stopped by the theatre company in the beautiful Berkshires to chat with some Shakespeare amp Company insiders for a scoop on the summer season. Below, …

Playwright Residency: Why Lauren Gunderson? Why Marin Theatre Company? by HowlRound

By Lauren Gunderson. Jasson Minadakis , Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, California and playwright-in-residence Lauren Gunderson discuss their participation in the …

The Stage/Redroofs Theatre School Scholarship winners 2016 by Catherine Gerbrands

Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead, Berkshire, has awarded one full and two half scholarships through The Stage Scholarships scheme this year. Tallulah

Broadway's 'The Color Purple’ star finds humanity in ‘bad guy’ by Anita Samuels

Isaiah Johnson couldn’t have known that decades later he would be portraying one of film’s most despised black male characters.

Dance Company Will Pay Homage to Fallen Artist

Adel Euro, a hip-hop-obsessed dancer in Iraq, died in the July suicide-bomb attack on Baghdad. Battery Dance Festival in Tribeca will pay tribute on Sunday to a dance career that might have …

Edinburgh Fringe: Impromptu Shakespeare by Laura Kressly

Though there was likely to have been a level of improvisation in Shakespeare, Impromptu Shakespeare creates a whole new, short play every performance inspired by Shakespeare’s style and la…

Zach and Viggo review – new clown contenders bring silliness and charm by Brian Logan

Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThe wily Zucker and lanky Venn flounce their way through an hour of whimsical routines, infusing everything with an irresistible pleasure and spirit of innocence…

Prose and Verse in the 1608 King Lear Quarto: An Alternative Explanation by Holger Syme

I’ve spent a good deal of time and energy writing about why Brian Vickers’s The One King Lear is such a terribly misguided book — both in an almost endless string of tweets…

Edinburgh Fringe: A Dream of Dying by Laura Kressly

On 16th June 2009, the body of a man was found dead on a beach near Sligo, Ireland. He had given his name as Peter Bergmann at his hotel, but postmortem investigations determined that was an…

ALLEGRO – Southwark Playhouse by Emma Clarendon

This least known Rodgers and Hammerstein musical is finally given an opportunity to shine in Thom Southerland’s production which proves that it is one that deserves to be seen.

Kieran Hodgson review – tribute to Mahler is a comedic magnum opus by Brian Logan

Voodoo Rooms, EdinburghHodgson leads us through the missteps of his early love life accompanied by his musical spirit-guide in another warm and playful solo storytelling showNo comic act has…

Wonderman review – meaty, macabre tour of Roald Dahl's imagination by Lyn Gardner

Underbelly Topside, EdinburghUsing storytelling and a live score, Gabblebabble weave Dahl’s works with an account of his hospital stay after the concussion that kickstarted his creative li…

2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘Algorithmism’ by Deb Miller

Traditionally, one of the defining factors of human civilization is a society that creates art. But are the hand, mind, and emotions of the artist integral parts of the creative process, or …

BWW's On This Day - August 13, 2016

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 13 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

Fringe Review: Let the Devil Take The Hindmost by Jonathan Mandell

A program note by Maya Contreras, the playwright of “Let the Devil Take The Hindmost,” explains that two specific days were significant in motivating her to write this play – the day t…

Robin’s Nest and HelpUsAdopt.org Set for Another Benefit Evening by Sandi Durell

    Robin Westle and HelpUsAdopt.org are set to present another benefit evening of song and story on September 19 at 7pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre . Robin, once again hostin…

'Bit daunting, really': the Edinburgh standups reading Chilcot in full – video by Amir Amirani and Jess Gormley

At 2.6m words it’s something of a mouthful, but John Chilcot’s Iraq war report is being tackled by comics at the 2016 fringe in a performance expected to take two weeks. Here, they expla…

Features: My Top 5 Showtunes: Christina Bianco

The actress tells us the musical numbers she couldn't live without

REVIEW: Milk, Traverse – Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭ by Paul T Davies

By Paul T Davies Orla O’Loughlin’s sensitive direction and Paul Meller’s uncluttered design guides us through the need for love. Yes, some strands are left loose, but a ter…

Datebook: NCPA Mumbai to Host 'Gandhi - The Musical' Through August 21 by Blouin Artinfo

The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai, in association with Silly Point Productions, is presenting India’s first musical on Mahatma Gandhi.Entitled “Gandhi — The …

MR Anderson’s Amazing Stupendous 2016 NYMF Review (Part II) by Jk Clarke

      MR Anderson’s Amazing Stupendous 2016 NYMF Review (Part II)       PART 2 A Scythe of Time Ultimate Man! and Single     by MR Anderson   T…

Review: Edinburgh review: Weird Seance (Forest Fringe)

Axes, woodland and people back from the dead, Daniel Oliver's piece is a self-satirising critique of art's obscurity

Edinburgh Fringe 2016: Alix in Wundergarten/4D Cinema/Bucket List by David Kettle

Alix in Wundergarten ★★★★Think Alan Ayckbourn on acid: a commonplace (well, almost) set-up, exaggerated further and further beyond what we’d ever anticipate. In François Pandolfo�…

Interviews: Adura Onashile: 'I wanted to shine a light on the women around Fela Kuti'

Award winning playwright and performer Adura Onashile talks about her new play Expensive Shit and how to survive the Fringe

Video: An Interview and Performance with Kristin Rebecca by Mark Beachy

VIDEO: An Interview and Performance with Kristin Rebecca.  Video Produced, Shot, and Edited by Mark Beachy.  Rachel Jacobs, Assistant Producer. Copyright 2016 by MD Theatre Guide.

3 Tips to Learn Students’ Names Quickly by Lindsay Price

As a teacher and director, one of my first priorities at the beginning of a new class or rehearsal process is to learn everyone’s names as quickly as possible. It makes students feel impor…

Interviews: After The Wedding Singer and Elf, Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar Head to The Prom

The longtime collaborators prepare their latest musical for its premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Georgia.

In the Moment: ‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ at Signature Theatre by David Siegel

What a way to blast open the new theater season. So take your seat at Signature’s bold, daring, muscular production of a tale about race and music, Jelly’s Last Jam. The 1992 musical is …

Film Review: ‘Anthropoid’ by Erin Teachman

Operation Anthropoid was the code name for a mission planned by Czech government-in-exile with the British SOE to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, who was the head of the SS and a primary logi…

Betsy Wolfe Offers Concert Tonight, Including Frozen Song by Andrew Gans

The Broadway actress performs a benefit concert in her hometown of Visalia, CA.

What’s Hot in London: August 6-12 by Mark Shenton

Harry Potter does boffo business at the bookshops as well as theatre, Lloyd Webber wears a triple crown on Broadway and 42nd Street returns to Drury Lane.

Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: August 13 by David Gewirtzman

Video Week in Review: Ragtime on Ellis Island, Musical Theatre Songwriting Challenge, New Something Rotten! Cast Members Feel the Heat by Mark Ezovski

Take a look back at the week in videos.