Seeing Bette Midler for $229 a Pop As She Finishes Her Run in “Hello, Bette”–er, “Hello, Dolly!” by Roger Friedman

Bette Midler is winding up her run on Broadway as Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly!– or Dolly Levi as Bette Midler in Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 12/30/2017

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 12302017.

Matthew Broderick to read ‘A Christmas Memory’ at NJ Church by John Aidan Byrne

Matthew Broderick, a high-priced talent with an estimated net worth of $45 million, is in the Christmas spirit. His next performance will be far off-off-Broadway, but it is sold out, since t…

H.M.S. Pinafore (NYGASP) by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Along with some contemporary updating which always gets a laugh, Albert Bergeret’s direction is sharp and shrewd and his conducting of Sullivan’s sprightly and animated score is equally …

Court Theatre executive director Stephen J. Albert dies at 66 by Hedy Weiss

Albert, who in November announced he would be leaving his position at Court as of Fall 2018, had been quietly fighting cancer for several years.

Photo Flash: Inside Gleb's Dressing Room, and More Saturday Intermission Pics! by BroadwayWorld

Today is 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, Anasta…

Daliso Chaponda: from Malawi to a major UK tour with gags about slavery by Rob Walker

Daliso Chaponda gets laughs from topics other comedians shun. After a whirlwind year of success on Britain’s Got Talent, he explains why he does itJokes about famine and slavery are not th…

The True Story Of A Spanish Royal And The Very High Voice That Healed Him by Jeff Lunden

The new Broadway musical drama Farinelli And The King tells the tale of the bipolar King Philippe V and the famous 18th-century operatic castrato whose singing nurses him back to health.

Offbeat mime aims for a hip audience by Judith Newmark St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'Oddville' comes to the Playhouse@Westport Plaza

Changes at SLSO, Gypsy Caravan hits brakes, top performances and more from year in classical music by [email protected] (sarah Bryan Miller)

St. Louis says goodbye to some important people

Spiral's Caroline Proust: cast me as anyone but a cop by Chris Wiegand

The star of France’s premier crime drama talks about appearing in Ivo van Hove’s bold take on A View from the Bridge and her determination to avoid typecastingIn a bar around the corner …

The True Story Of A Spanish Royal And The Very High Voice That Healed Him by Jeff Lunden

The new Broadway musical drama Farinelli And The King tells the tale of the bipolar King Philippe V and the famous 18th-century operatic castrato whose singing nurses him back to health.

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND by Laura

This ONCE ON THIS ISLAND is an overly busy, Disneyfied version misdirected by Michael Arden.

Get snappy: Tristram Kenton's stage photos of 2017 – in pictures by Tristram Kenton

From Follies at the National to Ink at the Almeida and Marnie at the Coliseum, revisit some of the year’s theatre, dance and opera productions as photographed by the Guardian’s Tristram …

Stephen Albert of Court Theatre has died at 66 by Chris Jones

Stephen J. Albert, the executive director of Court Theatre in Hyde Park, a nationally respected nonprofit theater executive and a man of creative passion and evangelical energy, died Friday …

Newcity’s Top 5 of Everything 2017: Stage by Kevin Greene

New York Theater Quiz December 2017 Special Year End Edition by New York Theater

Who wants to remember 2017, much less answer questions about it? To make this quiz slightly easier to take, references to Donald Trump have been (largely) avoided (and put into a separate qu…

Broadway’s Best: Our 5 Favorite Interviews of 2017 by Matthew Wexler

The Broadway Blog looks back at some of our favorite conversations with Broadway's best.

Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch at Birdland by #cota

By Stephen Sorokoff Billy Stritch expressed it best with his Face Book post after the show….. “I can’t explain the complete joy I derive from singing and playing with this unbelievably…

Favorite Dance Performances of 2017 by Arts Fuse Editor

A quartet of critics serve up the highlights in dance for 2017.

Review: Comedy at The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage with Gary Vider and Sara Armour by Ravelle Brickman

Now in its 21st year, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage is the Center’s gift to everyone in the Washington area, offering live entertainment at no cost every single day. It’s also …

BWW TV: The Year that Was- Relive the Musicals of 2017! by BroadwayWorld TV

It has been an epic year for Broadway, with a whopping fifteen musicals having opened in 2017. Before we get wrapped up in the theatre season ahead, BroadwayWorld wants to stop and salute th…

Looking back: The best of Australian opera this year > #theatre2017 #YearInReview by Simon Parris

Visiting superstars, theatre renovations, a maestro exposed and the untimely death of a beloved international baritone dominate the 2017 year of opera.

Photo Coverage: Take a Look Back on 2017's Top Curtain Call Moments! by Walter McBride

As 2017 comes to a close, BroadwayWorld takes you back through this year's top curtain call moments. From the opening nights of every new show this year, to the anniversary performance of Th…

Book Interview: Why Does Bob Dylan Matter? by Blake Maddux

"I see him as the greatest artist of the English language, it happens to be in song, of the second half of the 20th century.

Theatre Review: ‘An American in Paris’ at the Kennedy Center by Kristin Franco

It’s got rhythm, it’s got music, it’s got dancing; who could ask for anything more! Post World War II Paris and some serious dance moves are on display in the highly enjoya…

REVIEW: Dick Whittington, London Palladium ✭✭✭✭✭ by Douglas Mayo

By Douglas Mayo Douglas Mayo reviews Dick Whittington starring Charlie Stemp, Julian Clary and Elaine Paige at the London Palladium. Book Now! This post REVIEW: Dick Whittington, London Pall…

Ring In The New Year With The BWW NYE Playlist! by Julie Musbach

BroadwayWorld is getting ready to ring in the New Year right We've put together a New Year's Eve-inspired playlist featuring all our favorites Check out music from Cabaret, Come From Away, H…

Feature: 2017 Best Of/Worst Of — And a Look Ahead by Arts Fuse Editor

By Timothy Francis Barry Another year of paging through new books, staring slack-jawed at the television with its now 400 channels (hoping for something to flicker into view that will engage…

The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 30 by Doug Briscoe

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

Looking back: The best of Australian musicals this year > #theatre2017 #YearInReview by Simon Parris

The boutique musical boom went off the boil in 2017, while on the professional scene, Melbourne’s East End was dominated by one man: Casey Nicholaw.

The Illusionists dazzles magic lovers at The Kennedy Center by Ben Demers

What better way to ring in the New Year than with a little magic? The Illusionists unites five unique magicians in a spectacle that, while cheesy at times, still has the power to truly dazzl…

Happy Tails: CATS Takes Final Jellicle Pounce on Broadway Tonight! by BroadwayWorld

The heavyside lair will welcome a few more Cats than usual today. As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the first-ever Broadway revival of Cats will play its final performance at 8 PM ton…

Some of My Favorite Theater Things in 2017 by Jan Simpson

As usual, I'm late to the party of 10 Bests Lists. All the others began going up the moment Christmas trees started sprouting on New York City street corners. But my tardiness matters even l…

The All Time Travalanche Top Ten by Trav S.D.

Year’s end is a perfect time for stock taking, and as I often like to do, I made a little tally of the readers’ top ten favorite subjects on Travalanche. I pulled out some anomal…

Kris Hallet’s Year In Review by Kris Hallett

This was a year where the work touring into Bristol and the work I saw in Latitude, London, the cinema and New York dazzled.

‘Molly’s Game’ interviews: Jessica Chastain, Aaron Sorkin, Charlotte Bruus Christensen exclusive chats [WATCH] by Zach Laws

Aaron Sorkin (“The Social Network”) recently made his directorial debut with “Molly’s Game,” and the results might bring him back to the Oscars again. The biog…

Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (with Craig Revel Horwood) – Southampton by Caroline Hanks-Farmer

The Chuckle Brothers were the perfect foil for Craig Revel-Horwood’s evil Queen Lucretia who was sexy, sultry, evil and really rather beautiful with a powerful singing voice.

BWW's On This Day - December 30, 2017

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 30 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

WATCH: Remember Musicals Week on @BBCStrictly? #WestEnd #StageFaves were out in force

It was Musicals week on Strictly Come Dancing and glorious gaggle of dynamic duos treated us to a host of brilliant dances to classic Showtunes! From CATS to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, we were sw…

The Worst Disaster in Theatre History by Trav S.D.

On December 30, 1903 there occurred the worst disaster in theatre history, and the largest single building fire in American history, Chicago’s Iroquois Theatre Fire. The Iroquois had o…

Peter Pan review at SSE Arena, Wembley, London – ‘an empty spectacle’ by Paul Vale

Over the years, the story of Peter Pan has morphed from magical Christmas show into full-on riotous pantomime with varying degrees of

Love London Love Culture’s top picks of 2017 by Emma Clarendon

Love London Love Culture has been to see lots of high quality productions this year – here’s the top 20 picks.

She didn’t want to come to Sacramento. Now she’s helping build its new economy

In an alternate universe, Shira Lane is still a Sacramento artist who hasn’t connected with the city creatively. Until the city launched the “Creative Economy” grant program over the s…

Mary Alice Rice: A Soprano in Society by Trav S.D.

Mary Alice Rice (1910-1989) came into the world on December 30. Originally from Temple, Texas, Rice was a trained soprano, and once called “one of the ten most beautiful women on the A…

Features: My Top 5 Showtunes: Matthew McKenna

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

CIRCUS DIARIES: There’s circus for everyone by Katharine Kavanagh

To draw a circus map of Britain today, we can no longer just look to the fields and hard-standings where tenting companies pitch, but must also peek behind the walls of theatre buildings and…

'Skanks' Podcast Hosts At Mohegan, Funny Bone by Christopher Arnott

Two of the hosts of the podcast “Legion of Skanks,” a show that claims to “consistently raise the bar on filth and depravity,” are in Connecticut Jan. 4 to 6, although at different c…

Best of 2017: Theatre by Matt.wolf

Sondheim and Alexander Hamilton sang out, as did a bracing array of new plays Year-end wrap-ups function as both remembrances of things past and time capsules, attempts to preserve an experi…

2017: Awards of the year by The Stage

Our chronological rundown of which theatremakers received the top awards during 2017 The Stage Awards (January) The Stage Awards 2017: the winners

Jack Lowden: Method acting? I'd rather fanny around by Ryan Gilbey

The Electra star on sharing the stage with Kristin Scott Thomas, never taking the job home with him and his small-screen appearance with Mark Rylance in Wolf HallAudiences at the exhilaratin…

David Hare: my ideal theatre by David Hare

During David Hare’s 50 years in theatre its fortunes have changed beyond recognition. In the face of cultural cuts and crises, he sets out his vision for a Playhouse for todayIn 1946, Geor…

Looking back – “Root Beer Bandits” at the Falcon in 2007 by Pauline Adamek

This review dates back to January 22, 2007. Root Beer Bandits is an utterly delightful play for kids that was staged at the Falcon Theater in 2007,

What’s on TV Saturday: ‘High Maintenance’ and ‘Mean Girls’ by Sara Aridi

Meet eccentric New York personalities through the HBO series “High Maintenance.” And catch the teenage comedy “Mean Girls” before it leaves Netflix.

Special Reports: Broadway Shockers 2017: Indecent Gets a Midsummer Miracle

A closing notice wasn't the end for Paula Vogel's acclaimed play.

Special Reports: 5 Golden Age Broadway Stars in This New Year's Eve's Twilight Zone Marathon

There is a fifth dimension...and it involves some legends.

Mischief Theatre Company’s A Christmas Carol Gone Wrong Hits the Small Screen December 30 by Andrew Gans

The BBC One production features the original cast of the West End and Broadway hit The Play That Goes Wrong.

The Winter 2018 London Theatre Preview by Ruthie Fierberg

From the world premiere of Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance to a new play by Pulitzer winner Annie Baker—plus star turns by Carey Mulligan, Samantha Spiro, and more—hereR…

From Hercules Dream Casting to Broadway Legos: The 10 Most Viewed Galleries of the Year by Hannah Vine

Which photo reels had you flipping?

Second Life of Broadway’s Cats Ends Run by Andrew Gans

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical plays its final performances December 30 at the Neil Simon Theatre.

Theatre’s Most Unforgettable Quotes of 2017 by Hannah Vine

The quotes you didn’t hear from Playbill’s interviews with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dear Evan Hansen’s Michael Greif, Indecent’s Paula Vogel, Groundhog Day’s Tim Min…