Review: ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ at The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC by Patrick (pj) McMahon

Last night, I had the pleasure to see the the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as performed by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washing…

Review: ‘Mom Baby God’ at Single Carrot Theatre by David Gerson

Sinister things are lurking just below the surface at the “2018 Students for Life Conference” in Washington, DC, which is where Madeline Burrows’ disturbing solo show Mom Baby God, abo…

Deaf West sets out to tame 'Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo' by Charles McNulty

Deaf West Theatre is back at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts after the company’s heralded revival of “Spring Awakening,” which catapulted itself to Broadway after i…

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 3/11/2017

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 3112017.

Vital signs strong at Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy Days by Boulder Daily Camera

For Coloradans, Halloween is not the year's only opportunity to dress up — or down — and celebrate the dead. Coffin races, a hearse parade, painted faces, skulls, masks and more is what …

Review: A Disappearing Number (TimeLine Theatre) by Catey Sullivan

Devised by the London-based Theatre de Complicite and conceived by Simon McBurney, A Disappearing Number is at once a mathematical mystery thriller, a romance, and a tragedy rooted in histor…

CD: Mary Ocher - The West Against the People by Joe.muggs

Berlin based avant-pop songwriter has enough pop to balance the avantOK, the title could be offputting, suggesting as it does the crassest of adversarial politics. But this record is somethi…

'Backstabbing, betrayal and love': Ryan Craig on Filthy Business by Ryan Craig

The birth of a very personal new work at Hampstead Theatre about a small family business The monster has come alive and there’s nothing I can do to stop it. Thirteen actors playing three g…

Emma Watson Discusses Rumors Surrounding Her Almost Casting in LA LA LAND by Julie Musbach

Emma Watson has been a headliner in news cycles recently with her upcoming appearance in the highly anticipated Disney live-action remake of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, but her name has also float…

11 Year Old Boy Finds Inspiration in DEAR EVAN HANSEN by Julie Musbach

CBS New York has uncovered the story ofDaniel Pellegrini, a touching tale of finding confidence in and connecting to theatre.

Photo Flash: The Heat is on in Saigon (and Across the rest of NYC), AVENUE Q Reminds Us Trump is Just for Now, and More Saturday Intermission Pics! by BroadwayWorld

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup This week MISS SAIGON…

Review: ‘The Lyons’ at Isis Productions by Deb Miller

Expletives, insults, and accusations fly, when an unhappy wife, alcoholic daughter, and gay son gather in the hospital room of their dying husband and father for a farewell verbal slug-fest.…

Call Answered: Miss Richfield 1981: 20/20 Vision at The Laurie Beechman Theatre by Call Me Adam

Call Answered: With her unique brand of humor, fun songs, & entertaining videos, I know my cheeks will hurt from the amount of laughter ensued after attending a Miss Richfield show. Now …

Brian Stokes Mitchell Posts Video Thanking and Supporting Cherry Hill High School's Students' Production of RAGTIME by BroadwayWorld

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Broadway superstar and class act extraordinaire, recently paid a visit to Cherry Hill High School as they contemplated a conundrum in regards to producing RAGTIME.

Island Moving Company’s ‘Mother Goose’ and ‘A Collection of Attitudes’: A cohesive celebration

Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island. March 4, 2017. Successfully creating and presenting art involves striking several important balances. One of them is cohesiveness, yet variety that …

Broadway moment has arrived for La Jolla Playhouse's 'Come From Away' by James Hebert

Not quite two years ago, the musical “Come From Away” had its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. Now, after stops in three other cities and lots of fine-tuning, the show is poised for…

Review: ‘Lucky Stiff’ at Silhouette Stages at Slayton House by Susan Brall

The musical Lucky Stiff with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty opened March 10, 2017, at Silhouette Stages and performed at Slayton House in Columbia, MD, under th…

Idina Menzel Announces a Way for YOU to be Part of Her Tour Concerts by BroadwayWorld

Idina Menzel has just announced an interactive element of her upcoming tour concert series where fans have the chance to feature in her performance.

British Actor Tony Haygarth Passes Away Age 72 by Julie Musbach

According to WhatsOnStage, British actor Tony Haygarth has passed away he was 72. His death was announced by his ex-wife via Twitter. The actor had been suffering from Alzheimer's, and the d…

REVIEW: Southern Baptist Sissies, Above The Stag ✭✭✭ by Julian Eaves

By Julian Eaves There’s lots of gentle humour, gentle pathos, gentle social critique, and a gently uplifting ‘message’ to go away with at the end. This post REVIEW: Souther…

Review: ‘From the Mouths of Monsters’ at The Kennedy Center by Andra Abramson

From the Mouths of Monsters, a world premiere Kennedy Center commission by award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin, directed by Dougie Irvine, is a gripping, intense glimpse into the mind of …

Review: Bunny, White Bear Theatre by India-Inés Levy

Kebab shops, Luton, tampons up clarinets, and gritty sexual misadventures: the four images that fairly sum up Jack Thorne’s (Skins, Shameless) Bunny. Winner of 2010 First Fringe Award, Fab…

Review: Homecomings: The Monkey, Theatre503 by Jessica Handscomb

Synergy theatre project, along with Theatre503, bring us Homecomings, a festival of new plays by prisoners and ex-prisoners about getting out and going home. The Monkey, John Stanley’s fir…

Review: ‘Our Town’ at Temple Theaters by Celeste Mann

Temple University Department of Theater’s production of the Pulitzer Prize winner Our Town would have pleased its author, Thornton Wilder. This American classic was written in the early 2…

On My Way to a B.F.A.: Episode 2- Surviving Your First Semester featuring Sarah Milnamow and Matthew Carp by Matt Tamanini

In the second episode of “On My Way to a B.F.A.” Natalie talks about her first semester at the Hartt School pursuing her B.F.A. in Musical Theatre. She is also joined by two of…

Theatre News: Actor Tony Haygarth dies aged 72

The actor and writer's career spanned film, TV and theatre

Review: ‘Side Show’ at The Media Theatre by Neal Newman

Come look at the freaks Come gape at the geeks Come examine their aberrations Is this any way to begin a Broadway musical? Well, if the subject matter is any individual who has been the vict…

Jeff Talbott’s New Play “i” Will Get World Premiere by Pioneer Theatre Company

Jeff Talbott’s latest play, i, will get its world premiere in the 2017-18 season of Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT. The resident Equity company first developed the drama —…

Hairy truth: King Kong sports '70s sideburns on 'Skull Island' by Usa Today, Usa Today

Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts explains why he felt the monkey needed mutton chops.        

Meditations on Death: "Everybody," Wakey, Wakey" and "Evening at the Talk House" by Broadway & Me

Grief is strange. We deal with the loss of someone we love as best we can but sometimes, even months later, the lingering sorrow continues to inform the choices we make. I don't know if…

Phyllis Diller's File Of 53,000 Jokes

The female comedian would write a joke and have it typed on an index card and put in a file. Now at the Smithsonian, volunteers are digitizing the cards one at a time.

Burned by fallen princesses, Disney is training stars to avoid scandal by Dana Schuster

In the last few months, Bella Thorne has tweeted a photo of herself wearing nothing but high heels, and also Snapchatted a pic of her newly pierced nipple (seen through a sheer pink top) and…

Review: The Power of Human Connection by Michael Block

By Michael Block We long for human connection. How we find it is the catch. Sometimes all it takes is proximity. In Jean Ann Douglass' delightfully beautiful The Providence of Neighbori…

VIDEO: Laura Michelle Kelly & Company Discuss the Strength of Women in THE KING AND I by Stage Tube

Next up for the National Tour of The King and I, which won a Tony Award for Best Revival in 2015, is Houston's Hobby Center, where it will play March 14-19.Laura Michelle KellyAnna Leonowens…

A Playwright for the Ages- A History of the Life and Works of Tennessee Williams by Stage Tube

The Glass Menagerie is the play that brought a brilliant young writer namedTennessee Williamsto national attention, and, in his own words, 'changed my life irrevocably' when it first premier…

Theater Review: “Precious Little” — Prospecting Inner Treasures by Arts Fuse Editor

Nora Theatre Company's thoughtful production of Precious Little will encourage you to dig a little deeper into yourself.

You Can Blame ‘Frustrating’ Scheduling Issues for Emma Watson Not Starring in La La Land by Devon Ivie

As the old cinematic folklore goes, numerous actors were once attached to Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-confusing La La Land through the years before Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling ultimately starr…

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? – West End by Ian Foster

It's a sensational piece of writing that barely seems to have aged since its 1962 debut, such is the sharpness of its caustic wit as Martha spouts forth her bitterness at life-plans gone awr…

Review: ‘It’s So Learning’ at FringeArts by Walter Bilderback

It’s So Learning, written and performed by comedic mavericks The Berserker Residents, is a wild, immersive ride through the Berserkers’ vision of the K-12 system. Even people who avoid a…

Review: ‘Booty Candy’ at Montgomery College by Joel Markowitz

In a particularly lapel-grabbing scene in Montgomery College’s Booty Candy, a preacher tells his congregation that he’s tired of hiding from the “what they heard” crowd and shows the…

Romeo & Juliet review – Rachel O’Riordan’s star cross’d soap opera by Clare Brennan

Sherman Cymru, CardiffDespite fresh and lively performances, period language and modern behaviour clash to mixed effect“Fair Verona”, Shakespeare’s setting for the play is, in Kenny Mi…

'John & Jen' at Eagle Theatre: Forty years of music, love by John Timpane

ONE WAS NUDE AND ONE WORE TAILS – Hen and Chickens Theatre by Caroline Hanks-Farmer

The London premiere of an overlooked gem from the back pages of the playbook of a genius; a Nobel winning, genre defining, mould breaking titan of 20th century drama. One was Nude & One…

Broadway in L.A.: Dates for 10 shows, including 'American in Paris,' 'Mormon' and, yes, 'Hamilton' by Matt Cooper

Did someone say “Hamilton”? You’ll have to wait till summer’s end for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical to arrive. But in the meantime, several other nationally touring productions come…

The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Julie Andrews and Henson Puppets by Leah Rozen

Ms. Andrews, her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton and the Jim Henson Company are collaborating on a new Netflix series for kids, “Julie’s Greenroom.”

Table for Three: Glenn Close and Patrick Kennedy on the Weight of Mental Illness by Philip Galanes

The actress, currently in “Sunset Boulevard,” and the former congressman discuss psychiatric disorders, addiction, challenging families and more.

Composer Portraits Series: Misato Mochizuki by Jean Ballard Terepka

Neither a “Western composer” nor a “Japanese composer,” Mochizuki hasn’t sought to manufacture some sort of mix-and-match blend. She doesn’t borrow or build add-ons. Instead, see…

Review: Discovery Artist in The Kennedy Center Jazz Club: Elena and Samora Pinderhughes by Ana Morgenstern

Siblings Elena and Samora Pinderhughes are young, both in their early 20s. Samora is a composer and pianist and sister Elena is a vocalist and flutist. Despite their youth, the pair has been…

In London, a Ferocious ‘Virginia Woolf’ by Matt Wolf

A cast led by Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill, under the direction of James Macdonald, gives Edward Albee’s 1962 masterwork an unforgettable production.

Arden Theatre Company presents ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Mark Cofta

The Arden Theatre Company's production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' might not seem new, but it's still great. Mark Cofta reviews.

Broadway theater-goer jumps on stage to charge phone – in fake outlet by Mahita Gajanan In New York

Audience member recounts how man jumped on stage before performance of Hand to God in New York hoping to charge his phoneTheater etiquette rules are fairly straightforward: don’t be late, …

PEREFECTLY IMPERFECT WOMAN – Ovalhouse by Shanine Salmon

The story at the heart of the show, at first seems quite simple but as she unpacks (sometimes quite literally), the varying aspects of it, the intricate and complex nature of the subject mat…

BWW Exclusive: A History of Tony Award Winning Plays Becoming Oscar Award Winning Movies by Katherine Blauvelt

Late last month, Viola Davis took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rose Maxson in FENCES. Based on the August Wilson play of the same name, FENCES is the st…

Theater: In Linda, She Has It All, But How Can She Keep It? by Carey

Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online  The play opens with 55-year-old Linda declaring to an unseen group of other middle-aged women, “We know you’re out there…

On The Road Again: Todrick Hall Re-Launches Straight Outta Oz Tour by Jerrica White

After putting up his heels and ending his run as “Lola” in the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots, YouTube star Todrick Hall heads back to Oz. Only this time, the yellow brick road s…

Fascinating, moving 'Hamlet' at LOndon's Almeida Theatre by Toby Zinman

‘Beauty and the Beast’ star Emma Watson addresses ‘frustrating’ rumors about ‘La La Land’ by Paul Sheehan

“Beauty and the Beast” leading lady Emma Watson laid to rest the rumor that she dropped out of “La La Land” at the last minute, leaving director Damien Chazelle scram…

REVIEW ROUND-UP: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Old Vic by Emma Clarendon

Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire star in this revival of Tom Stoppard’s play at the Old Vic Theatre. But what have critics been saying about it?

From Brecht to Lorca, the playwrights who became theatre's freedom fighters by Michael Billington

It’s wrong to characterise 1930s theatre as escapist or frivolous. In Europe and America, many plays were alerting audiences to the dangers of fascism – led by the German fugitive Bertol…

Nathan Lane: ‘I have played a lot of morally questionable people by Ursula Kenny

The actor, 61, on standing up to Trump, losing friends to Aids and falling apart at his weddingAngels in America is a timely play to be putting on. My character Roy Cohn was a lawyer and men…

Photo Coverage: James Barbour Celebrates Sardi's Portrait Unveiling by Walter McBride

James Barbourwas the latest in the line of celebrities to receive an immortalizing caricature that will grace the walls of the iconic Broadway restaurant Sardi's. Also in attendance were Bar…

Photo Coverage: The New York Pops First Concert Of 2017 Celebrates Kander & Ebb by Stephen Sorokoff

Maestro Steven Reineke lifted his baton, pointed to a first tier box and started the New York Pops playing probably the most well known song ever written as he led the audience in Happy Birt…

Get out of the house: Spring brings fun for all ages by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Though it’s been a mild winter, you’ve probably done enough Netflix’ing. It’s time to get your family off the couch and out of the house. Institutions and gathering spaces around the…

Something old turns into something fresh at New Line by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lusty 'Zorbá' affirms the life in song and dance

Tonight: “Long Day’s Journey” on BroadwayHD by Trav S.D.

Filed under: Broadway, PLUGS, Television Tagged: Alfred Molina, Broadway HD, BroadwayHD, Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey, streaming

Livestreaming a panel From the Other Side Of The Table by the National Black Theatre in New York City—Mon, March 13 by [email protected] (thea)

By HowlRound TV. The National Black Theatre presents the panel From the Other Side Of The Table livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv …

The Stage Scholarships 2017: Pauline Quirke Academy by Lisa Martland

This year, the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts makes history as a partner in The Stage Scholarships scheme when it offer

MADE IN INDIA – Soho Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Satinder Chohan’s punningly titled Made in India, has been touring the country since January and now arrives at the Soho Theatre in London.

The Business of War Dancing: Exit12 Dance Company’s Aggressed and This is War by [email protected] (adewunmi)

By Roman Baca. Artistic Director Roman Baca discusses Aggressed and This is War, two dance theatre pieces by Exit12 Dance Company inspired by indigenous war dances.

ONE WAS NUDE AND ONE WORE TAILS – Hen and Chickens Theatre by Emma Clarendon

The Italian playwright’s one act farce is undoubtedly a difficult one to put into one category. Filled with plenty of slapstick, philosophy and class wars it never can seem to make up its …

Opinion: A celebrity dream cast to star in the film adaptation of Wicked

With a release date set for 2019, who will be cast in Wicked, one of the most iconic musicals of this century? Musical Theatre Appreciation Society's Dries Janssens picks his dream cast...

Reba McEntire's Song 'Fancy' Inspires New Musical - Rolling Stone by Rolling Stone

Off-Broadway production based on the song about a daughter escaping poverty by any means necessary will get a trial run on March 16th and 17th

There’s No People Like Show People by Rhapsody Editors

In March and April, 20 productions will open on Broadway—six new plays, seven new musicals, and seven revivals—making it one of the most exciting spring seasons in recent history. Who do…

BWW's On This Day - March 11, 2017

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

Review: Speech & Debate, Trafalgar Studios by Jessica Handscomb

After a couple of successful off-broadway runs, Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate has been brought to the West End. Directed by Tom Attenborough, Karam’s play follows three mi…

Review: Two Short Stories, Bread and Roses Theatre by Calum McIntosh

Bag of Beard Theatre Company present Two Short Stories at the Bread and Roses Theatre. The company comprises of six graduates from Italia Conti drama school, who aim to create innovative and…

Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Southwark Playhouse by Samuel Sims

Central to this twice adapted story of The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a phenomenal performance from Rona Morison, who manages to perfectly capture the irritating whininess of a 15-year-old w…

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?': Theater Review

Olivier winners Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill star as the hosts from hell in this West End production of Edward Albee's best known play, 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,' arguably Americ…

Seth Sikes Joins The Cast Of Richard Skipper Celebrates…Liza Minnelli (on her Birthday!) This Sunday March 12th by Nitelifeexchange

Seth Sikes, of whom NY Arts Review said, “may well be one of the saviors of the Great American Songbook” and who has previously saluted the music of Liza Minnelli in his sold out show �…

Tonight: Nelson Lugo will be “Cheating Death” by Trav S.D.

Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Magicians/ Mind Readers/ Quick Change Tagged: Cheating Death, magic, Nelson Lugo, The Tank

A PROFOUNDLY AFFECTIONATE, PASSIONATE DEVOTION TO SOMEONE (-NOUN) – Royal Court by Carole Woddis

First we’re ushered into what at first sight appears to be a variation on a classroom. We sit, like pupils, upright, on white stools.

London bound? Gary Barlow's Take That musical The Band is now on #StageFaves

While Gary Barlow and Tim Firth have been celebrating their Olivier nominations for THE GIRLS this week, preparations are already under way for their new Take That inspired musical THE BAND …

REVIEW: My Country – A Work In Progress, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭ by Paul T Davies

By Paul T Davies One of the best elements of the evening was us, the audience, the British, still laughing at ourselves and appreciating the irony of the lies politicians speak and the truth…

Review: Tosca, Hackney Empire by Alice Devoy

The visceral austerity of the English Touring Opera’s (ETO) set, with its sharp lines, captures the murky undertones of a Rome in 1800 at the centre of a European power struggle in this pr…

My Country; A Work in Progress review at National Theatre, London – ‘puzzling and patronising’ by Natasha Tripney

The National Theatre’s response to Brexit, My Country; A Work in Progress, feels like something commissioned in a panic in the dazed

BUNNY – White Bear Theatre by Shanine Salmon

The production’s prologue of shuffling music is a glimpse into the format of this play. We rarely stay in one place long, whether it is Katie telling us about her parents’ erratic relati…

‘Groundhog Day’'s Andy Karl on deja vu, auditions and underwear by Joe Dziemianowicz

Andy Karl snagged a Tony nod for "Rocky." Now, in Broadway's "Groundhog Day," takes on a movie role played by Bill Murray.

Opera ‘Madama Butterfly’ at Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin by Blouin Artinfo

Staatsoper im Schiller Theater in Berlin presents Giacomo Puccini’s opera ‘Madama Butterfly’ through March 25, 2017.One of the most popular and most touching stories in the operatic wo…

‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at Royal Opera House, London by Blouin Artinfo

Royal Opera House, London stages one of the great ballet companies of the world, The Royal Ballet’s production ‘The sleeping Beauty’ through March 14, 2017 on select dates.The show cel…

Sir Tim Rice: ‘What would I change? The way one or two relationships ended’ by Rosanna Greenstreet

The lyricist on his worst job, relationship regrets and the wise words his father said to himBorn in Buckinghamshire, Tim Rice, 72, is a lyricist. In the 60s, he teamed up with Andrew Lloyd …

Romeo and Juliet review – hot, hormonal inner-city tragedy by Alfred Hickling

West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsKids film brawls on their mobile phones and flower memorials litter the set in an astonishing production that captures the play’s sense of futilityWest Yorks…

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 11 by Doug Briscoe

An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Pros and Cons of Cold Readings by Kerry Hishon

Theatrical “cold reading” (also known as “sight reading”) is where actors read aloud from a script, scene, or text with little to no advance preparation. Actors are handed a script a…

Theater News: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Jane Eyre Begins Performances Tonight

The drama is adapted for the stage by Polly Teale.

Odds & Ends: Emma Watson on Her 'Modern' Belle, London’s Olivier Awards Find Host & More by Andy Lefkowitz

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today. Emma Watson Dishes on Her Belle in Beauty and the Beast Just in case we couldn’t be more excited for the live-act…

Spend a Two Show Day at The Great Comet by Hannah Vine

Brittain Ashford shows us what it’s like to do a double-duty day at Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 at the Imperial Theatre.

Look Back at Past Productions of The Price on Broadway by Hannah Vine

A revival of Arthur Miller’s 1968 drama opens on Broadway March 16.

What’s Hot in London: March 11–17 by Mark Shenton

How did critics review two stage classics, and who topped the Olivier nominations?

How 2017 Gave If I Forget “Scary Relevance” by Olivia Clement

The newest work from Dear Evan Hansen writer Steven Levenson has suddenly taken on more meaning in today’s political climate.