Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 8/26/2017

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 8262017.

Artist Douwe Blumberg unveils centerpiece memorial for the victims of the Aurora theater shooting by Joella Baumann

Five years after uniting in sorrow, the city of Aurora gathered Saturday to see a vision of the future.

The "Prince of Broadway" is Too Stately by Jan Simpson

Whether you walk out of Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre feeling as though you got you money's worth after seeing Prince of Broadway is going to depend on what you go into…

Sacramento officials lend hand to help underground music venue reopen

A Sacramento arts and music space reopened for a fundraiser Saturday with the help of city officials, weeks after the city shut it down for building and code violations. Artists … Clic…

Review: Prince of Broadway, a highlights reel of a show by Jonathan Mandell

In his new memoir Sense of Occasion, Hal Prince explains that Prince of Broadway, the new Broadway revue celebrating and sampling Prince’s extraordinary 70-year career in the theater, “w…

Fall theater and dance: This season, try a show by a new-to-you troupe by Judith Newmark • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis theater takes off for fall

Fall classical music: Orchestra, choral, opera seasons open around the city by Sarah Bryan Miller • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From chamber music to choral masterworks, it's all here

Fall family events: Circuses, superheroes, spooks and more by Valerie Schremp Hahn • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In addition to fairs and festivals, the fall promises several family-friendly events for you and the kids to enjoy. From superheroes to mummies to circus performers, there’s somebody to in…

Fall visual arts: Explore the world via photos, textiles, Japanese drawings by Calvin Wilson • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

With another autumn comes a fresh supply of art exhibitions. Regardless of your taste, the odds are good that you’ll encounter something intriguing. Some highlights:

Opera review: Union Avenue Opera closes 2017 season with a well-sung 'Hänsel und Gretel' by Sarah Bryan Miller St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Director's concept takes it to the Great Depression.

Woolf announces he will leave the Rep in 2019 by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Steven Woolf, who has headed the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis since 1986, will retire at the end of the 2018-2019 season.

Doctor Foster creator now takes the nation’s pulse on stage by Sarah Hughes

Mike Bartlett tells of his new stage play, Albion, exploring British identity – and the return of the BBC series with Suranne JonesHe has made waves in television with the smash hit Doctor…

RSC combats elite bias with acting masterclasses for disadvantaged teenagers by Dalya Alberge

Next Generation will encourage 20 talented children from black, Asian, minority ethnic and low-income backgrounds to tread the boardsDame Judi Dench is among those leading actors who have wa…

Brexit the Musical: in Edinburgh, I understood how farce can be more persuasive than argument by Will Hutton

If this satire were to tour the whole country, who knows what effect it might have?The Edinburgh festival fringe at its peak mounts more than 1,800 shows a day, but this year from my sample …

“Radio Golf” Hits Home, at Multi-Ethnic Theater, S.F. by Irene Nelson

August Wilson Asks, “What Price Assimilation?”  by Irene Nelson The lights come up on a room with two pictures on the wall: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Tiger Woods. We are in the office…

Memphis Theater to Stop Annual Summer Screenings of Gone With the Wind Due to the Film’s ‘Insensitive’ Content by David Canfield

Breaking from a 34-year-old tradition, the historic Orpheum Theatre in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, announced Friday that it will not show Gone With the Wind in its future summer movie serie…

Eggs Collective Get a Round review – pink heels, cheap plonk and a wild audience by Lyn Gardner

Buzzcut festival, GlasgowIt’s hardly sophisticated but this shambolic show about a night on the tiles makes us recognise its tales of shame and triumphThere’s a new wave of female-led co…

Prince on Broadway: Review, Pics, Video by New York Theater

In his new memoir Sense of Occasion, Hal Prince explains that Prince of Broadway, the new Broadway revue celebrating and sampling Prince’s extraordinary 70-year career in the theater, “w…

Jerry Lewis starred in Damn Yankees on Broadway: Mitchell Maxwell remembers working with the icon by Oscar E Moore

Jerry Lewis passed away last week. If you are of a certain age, that is a notable item for throughout his long and public life he was a man of consequence. He was indeed worthy of a “f…

Steven Sater-Burt Bacharach Musical Some Lovers Gets New Life in London by Adam Hetrick

Ben Richards, Gemma Wardle, Jenna Innes, and Aaron Kanavagh star in a new incarnation of the romantic pop musical inspired by The Gift of the Magi.

Bill Nye is suing The Walt Disney Co. by Newslook, Newslook

Bill Nye brought a $37 million lawsuit against The Walt Disney Co. and some of its subsidiaries over profits from his '90s show. Video provided by Newsy    …

Adam's Call: Michael Feinstein's "Showstoppers" at Feinstein's/54 Below: Hits all the right notes and then some by Call Me Adam

Adam's Call: Two weeks ago I got to attend Michael Feinstein's "Showstoppers" at Feinstein's/54 Below. Michael hit all the right notes & then some! From the minute the orchestra started, I k…

Adam's Call: Michael Feinstein's "Showstoppers" at Feinstein's/54 Below: Hits all the right notes and then some by Adam Rothenberg

Adam's Call: Two weeks ago I got to attend Michael Feinstein's "Showstoppers" at Feinstein's/54 Below. Michael hit all the right notes & then some! From the minute the orchestra started, I…

Progress in Performance: A Review of “Set Free” by Michael Workman

Pippi musical’s maiden voyage sets a course for success: review by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Placing the intimate audience on an actual boat on Toronto’s lakeshore, Pippi: The Strongest Girl in the World ask the viewers to enter uncharted territory.

Review: ‘Alcina’ at Santa Fe Opera by Steve Cohen

Editor’s Note: Our Steve Cohen is in Santa Fe, New Mexico this week, where he’s enjoying the local arts scene and seeing the work of Santa Fe Opera, a company with a close connection to …

Edinburgh’s double comedy winners mix humour with darker takes on life by Brian Logan

Relationship breakdown and homophobia in Australia pick up a prize – or two – for John Robins and Hannah GadsbyThe longest ever shortlist. The first ever joint winners. And clearly, the …

“I Am Not Your Negro” A powerful documentary by Pauline Adamek

    Filmmaker Raoul Peck’s film, I Am Not Your Negro, is an astonishingly powerful and profoundly affecting documentary that traces the political and social struggles

Jerry Lewis starred in Damn Yankees on B'way: Mitchell Maxwell remembers - Part 1 by Oscar E. Moore

Jerry Lewis starred on Broadway in the hit musical Damn Yankees in 1995. He played the Devil himself, a fellow named Applegate. Producer Mitchell Maxwell remembers meeting and working with…

What's New, Pussycat? Backstage at Cats with Tyler Hanes, Episode 11: Farewell to Some Felines by Broadway.com

Cats' Tyler Hanes bids farewell to some co-stars and gets into a vlogging crossover moment with Waitress star Betsy Wolfe.

Oresteia: This Restless House – Edinburgh International Festival by Thom Dibdin

Drips grandeur: Huge and elemental forces drive This Restless House, the version of the Oresteia by Zinnie Harris originally produced by the Citizens’ Glasgow and the National Theatre …

Review: ‘Prince of Broadway’ at the Manhattan Theatre Club by Richard Seff

Hal Prince, producer/director extraordinaire is far too modest. His new offering at the Manhattan Theatre Club is so vastly entertaining that I hereby elevate him from PRINCE to KING OF BROA…

HEATHER – #EdFringe by Laura Kressly

Harry receives a children’s book manuscript from an unknown writer, Heather Eames. Impressed, he wants to discuss an advance, rights and making her book the Next Big Thing, but Heather’s…

I Interview Playwrights Part 973: Deb Margolin by Adam Szymkowicz

Deb MargolinHometown: Mamaroneck, New YorkCurrent Town: Montvale, New Jersey, don't tell anyone Q:  What are you working on now? A:  I'm working with a jazz band; this cool comp…

New York City Hosts Break Dancing Competition

NPR's Scott Simon talk with legendary break dancer Richard "Crazy Legs" Colón about New York City's biggest break dancing competition and the early days of the dance form.

Ricardo Tosto – More Than Legal by Rino16

Ricardo Tosto Law, sciences, math, religion and more – Ricardo Tosto experienced in all of the above. He has also written much, but not for “the brazilian outdoors” –…

In the Moment: ‘A Little Night Music’ at Signature Theatre by David Siegel

Opening in 1973, A Little Night Music was part of the muscular turbulence of those well-remembered primal days of rage. Rage that bred inhaled cynicism like a needed eye-opening drug into th…

Follow Brandon Uranowitz Through Opening Night of Prince of Broadway by Hannah Vine

Get an inside view of a Broadway opening from backstage to party.

LUCY DIXON – Live at Zedel by Jonathan Baz

As a performer Dixon is blessed with exceptional technical skills – her voice is pitch perfect and she liberally dilutes her vocal turns with perfectly syncopated tap routines throughout t…

Jack And Jill Plays - Part 10 - Cupcakes by Adam Szymkowicz

About Jack and Jill Plays: This is a new thing I'm doing.  Posting a short play every day as long as I can.  This does not mean that I wrote this play today but I might have.  …

From Fable to Stage to Film - A Magic Carpet Ride Through the History of ALADDIN by Caryn Robbins

Come along with us on a magic carpet ride and re-visit the various incarnations of the shining, shimmering, splendid world of Aladdin

Submission & Sarah, Sky & Seven Other Guys – #EdFringe by Laura Kressly

A British Pakistani Muslim tries to reconcile his faith and family with his love of men and clubbing. A gay guy and his straight female BFF share a flat, a mutual adoration for classic films…

Edinburgh festival fringe comedy award shared for first time by Vanessa Thorpe Observer Arts and Media Correspondent

Judges could not choose between shows by Hannah Gadsby and John Robins – so have given both the £10,000 first prizeFor the first time in the history of Edinburgh’s festival fringe, the …

THE HOST – Yard Theatre by Ian Foster

Picking at the scab of the Brexit vote and the ongoing refugee crisis, Muthy reveals the kind of festering wound that is shocking to see, even as it has infected so many levels of our societ…

Sasha Velour Headlines Benefit for Homeless LGBT Youth by Matthew Wexler

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 winner Sasha Velour and 30 iconic drag queens and kings will perform at a show benefiting the Ali Forney Center on September 7.

Hannah Gadsby and John Robins named joint winners of Edinburgh Comedy Awards by Tim Bano

Hannah Gadsby and John Robins have jointly been awarded the 2017 Edinburgh Comedy Award for best comedy show. This is the first

A SUPER HAPPY STORY (About Feeling Super Sad) – #EdFringe by Laura Kressly

Rotterdam's Jon Brittain has another success on his hands. This time, he teams up with composer and pianist Matthew Floyd Jones and they endow a story of depression with care and hope.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — August 26 by Doug Briscoe

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

BWW's On This Day - August 26, 2017

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

Review: Testosterone, Pleasance Courtyard by Beatrix Swanson Scott

Wiry, tattooed and dressed like a boxer, a short, slim man appears onstage and begins to sing the Jungle Book’s ‘I Wanna Be Like You’ into a warped mirror: ‘You see it’s true/ an a…

Review: Shakespeare for Breakfast, C Venues by Beatrix Swanson Scott

Shakespeare for Breakfast is a long-standing Fringe tradition. If you manage to drag yourself out of bed in time to get to this 10am show, you are rewarded with complimentary coffee (or oran…

Review: About A Goth, theSpace at Surgeons Hall by Rosie Hilton

About a Goth is a wonderfully unconventional coming of age story, full of tongue in cheek drama that fits perfectly into a Saturday night at the fringe. Nick is a teenage goth who is struggl…

Review: Borders, Gilded Balloon Teviot by Rosie Hilton

Borders by Henry Naylor offers us a perspective on the Syrian refugee crisis that often goes untold. In the midst of a media which rarely shows us anything other than a one dimentional narra…

LATE COMPANY – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★ by Jonathan Baz

This is a dinner that, much like Titus Andronicus' endgame, is a meal that not one person around the table wishes to attend.

The musical minds behind 'Serial,' 'S-Town' and 'Radiolab' push a new art form: the podcast score by Tim Greiving

If you were among the 175 million people who downloaded “Serial,” the true-crime podcast phenomenon that went on to win a Peabody Award, the plinking piano chords in its theme song are p…

EIF Review: Real Magic at The Studio by Duska Radosavljevic

32 years coming: Duška Radosavljević reviews Forced Entertainment's Edinburgh Festival debut. The post EIF Review: Real Magic at The Studio appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

Moon dances, chaotic comedy and a hymn to envy: Edinburgh festival 2017 – in pictures by Murdo Macleod

Rachel Mars asks us to look into our hearts, Jordan Brookes eyeballs the audience, Elf Lyons clowns around with Swan Lake and Jon Snow considers the social divide. As the Edinburgh festival …

EVER NEVER – #EdFringe by Laura Kressly

You can travel through time on a plane if your trip is long enough to cross time zones. But how far back or forward can you go? What if you could, dream-like, revisit the people you’ve los…

Features: My Top 5 Showtunes: David Hunter

The actor tells us the musical numbers he can't live without

Thelma Holt: 'I'll be honest, I thought: I'm never going to be as good as Vanessa Redgrave' by Andrew Dickson

The legendary stage producer talks to Andrew Dickson about marriage, Shakespeare and bloody-minded determination"My life and times?" says Thelma Holt. "I love talking, but" – her voic…

14 years, 100,000 words, National Theatre…Angels in America & me by Emily Garside

Almost a week ago now, Prior Walter bid the Lyttleton theatre ‘More Life’ one last time. Twenty-four years earlier it had opened next door in the Cottesloe. And some 14 or so years earli…

Review: Hot Brown Honey, Assembly Roxy by Rosie Hilton

‘MOISTURISE AND DECOLONISE’. The mantra of Hot Brown Honey summarises the overarching feeling of this epic show. It is powerful, provocative and exceptionally fun. Hot Brown Honey combin…

Review: Quarter Life Crisis, Underbelly by Rosie Hilton

Yolanda Mercy’s Quarter Life Crisis is a part stand up, part spoken word show about the universal feeling of being inadequate at adulthood. It explores the meaning in both the trivialities…

The Suitcase Under the Bed by Wendy Caster

Playwright Teresa Deevy lived from 1894 to 1963. The youngest of 13 children, she lost her hearing in her late teens, roughly at the same time that her family's financial situation became mu…

THE CLASS PROJECT – #EdFringe by Laura Kressly

Rebecca Atkinson-Lord speaks with an accent that she stole. Her family all have Wolverhampton accents, but her parents’ decision to send to private school meant that she adopted a voice th…

DANGLING – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★ by Caroline Hanks-Farmer

Two parallel narratives, one in Oldham and one in London. Two very different families, both torn apart by loss, suspicion and betrayal.

LOOT Park Theatre, N4 by Libby Purves and Friends

  THE BAD BOY WE NEEDED ONCE , AND STILL DO     The corpse is the talking point and to some extent the star. Certainly Anah Ruddin, hopping out of the coffin spry as a fox for…

New South Loop mural a gift of Cirque du Soleil and ‘Luzia’ by Hedy Weiss

It is the latest addition to the more than 40 murals in the South Loop neighborhood, and kicks off this year’s public art exhibition, Street Level.

All About Transitions: 5 Tips for Success by Kerry Hishon

In theatre, a transition refers to the process of moving from one scene or set to the next. It seems simple enough–grab “all the stuff” at the end of one scene and take it offstage, wh…

Audio Share: Summer Saturday Playlist: The Women of Hello, Dolly!

Check out our favorite songs from Bette Midler, Kate Baldwin, and Jennifer Simard.

How Well Do You Know the Elphabas of Broadway? by Hannah Vine

Test your knowledge of Broadway’s green leading ladies.

Spend a Two Show Day on Broadway With Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Violet Beauregard by Hannah Vine

Trista Dollison shows us what it’s like to do a double-duty day at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

‘Claire’s Knee’ at Les 3 Luxembourg, Paris by Blouin Artinfo

Éric Rohmer’s 1970 French drama “Claire’s Knee” will be screened at Les 3 Luxembourg in Paris.Jerome is about to get married and he decides to enjoy one last vacation by himself bef…

It's Women's Equality Day! Celebrate Fierce Females with These Six Broadway Shows by Robin Rothstein

Happy Women’s Equality Day! Every year, August 26 is the day when we commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment (yeah, when women finally got the right to vote!) and the ongoing eff…

Broadway Theaters Will Dim Lights to Honor Memory of Thomas Meehan by Andy Lefkowitz

Broadway marquees will dim their lights at approximately 7:45pm on August 30 to honor the memory of Tony-winning book writer Thomas Meehan, who died on August 22. "Thomas Meehan was a …

9 Tips for Buying Cheap Theatre Tickets in NYC by Ruthie Fierberg

Your guide to affordable Broadway, Off-Broadway, and more.