Irene Cara, Singer of "Flashdance...What a Feeling" and "Fame," Dies at 63

Cara won an Oscar, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe for "Flashdance."

HAMILTON to leave Australia after Brisbane 2023 season by Gabi Bergman

The producers of HAMILTON today announced that the Australian production of the Tony®, Grammy®, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical must leave Australia following

A Christmas Carol (Jefferson Mays) by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Visually the show pulls out all of the stops continually making stage magic. Every scene offers new scenic effects and things that appear impossible but are right there on stage before you, …

Meet Broadway’s Penny Lane In The New Musical ‘Almost Famous’ by Jeryl Brunner

Solea Pfeiffer plays the iconic role that Kate Hudson made famous in the Cameron Crowe film.

‘A Quick 5’ with Sheldon Epps, Acclaimed Director, Artistic Director, and Senior Artistic Advisor at Ford’s Theatre, Publishes Memoir by Lynne Menefee

“Sheldon Epps has directed major productions on and off Broadway, in London, and at many theatres across America. In addition, he has had an active television career helming some of the cl…

Baghdaddy, Royal Court review – Middle-Eastern magic realism by Aleks.sierz

New play about an Iraqi exile and his daughter is strong if a bit messy What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim approach, all the b…

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with The Doo Wop Project’s Russell Fischer by Deb Miller

A native “Jersey Boy” from Port Reading, in nearby Woodbridge Township, NYC-based singer and actor Russell Fischer made his professional stage debut at eight years old in The Sound of Mu…

Review: KPOP at Circle in the Square by Loren Noveck

In coming to Broadway, a musical trades behind-the-scenes grit for onstage glam. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: KPOP at Circle in the Square appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

Matilda Jr. at Red Phoenix Theatre Company - Songs, page: 3 - PLAYBILLder

Build Your Audience! CREATE YOUR OWN PLAYBILL®. Matilda Jr. - November 10 - November 12, 2022. Red Phoenix Theatre Company.

Review: New musical ‘KPOP’ doesn’t fully pop on Broadway by Chris Jones

The pandemic was not kind to “KPOP,” the new Broadway show that aims to do for South Korean popular music much of what “Dreamgirls” did for Motown.

News: Anacostia Playhouse Announces 2022-23 Season 10: We are Family! by News Desk (organization-Submitted Press Release)

The season features DC premiere musical and Pulitzer Prize-winning play WASHINGTON, DC –  Anacostia Playhouse (Playhouse), under the leadership of Executive Artistic Director Stephawn Ste…

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "KPOP" 11/27/22 by James Wilson

It's part backstage musical, part jukebox-bio show, part multimedia extravaganza, and a large part arena-concert spectacle. The components do not cohere nearly as effortlessly as they do in …

Reviews: What Are Critics Saying About Broadway's Multimedia-Infused KPOP? by Leah Putnam

The musical follows a fictional K-pop music label and its stars making their American debuts—but will personal struggles and professional pressures get in the way?

News: Cumberland Theatre Announces 35th Anniversary Season by News Desk (organization-Submitted Press Release)

Passes & Subscriptions Now on Sale FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The Cumberland Theatre has announced their 2023 Main Stage Season and season passes are now available for purchase. The theat…

News: GALA Film Festival: Latin American Innovation by News Desk (organization-Submitted Press Release)

Washington, D.C. – GALA continues its 47th season with its 11th annual Film Festival celebrating innovation by Latin American filmmakers. The festival gives voice to emerging filmmakers wh…

Review: In ‘KPOP,’ Korean Pop and Broadway Meet (Too) Cute by Jesse Green

The worldwide sensation and American-style musical theater form an awkward alliance onstage.

Broadway’s underdeveloped ‘KPOP’ is saved by the music by Brittani Samuel

The musical style K-pop is enjoying incomparable success on the global stage, but “KPOP” on Broadway is just getting started. The original musical from creator Jason Kim and the troupe W…

‘KPOP’ Review: South Korea’s Explosive Pop Export Hits Broadway With Authenticity and Flash by Gordon Cox

As defined by boy bands like BTS and girl groups like Blackpink, K-pop – gayo – is a Korean musical genre (‘brand’ is better) where Instiz all-kills (chart domination) is essenti…

KPOP The Musical Shines on Broadway — Review

Theatrely's Broadway Review of KPOP the Musical now in performance at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City. Starring Luna, the musical features a book by Jason Kim, and Music and Ly…

Review Roundup: KPOP Opens on Broadway!

Critics have weighed in on KPOP, starring K-pop superstar Luna as MwE, directed by Teddy Bergman, with a book by Jason Kim, and music and lyrics by Max Vernon. KPOP officially opened on…

KPOP on Broadway Review by New York Theater

“We sing together, we dance together, we look sexy together,” says Timmy X. This may be a succinct description of the Korean popular music phenomenon known as K-pop in general, but in an…

KPOP: The Musical About the Korean Pop Music Phenomenon Doesn’t Translate Well to Broadway. by Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ The acclaimed Off-Broadway production feels glossier but slighter in its new incarnation. The post KPOP: The Musical About the Korean Pop Music Phenomenon Doesn’t Translat…

Big Apple Circus: It’s Back and Buoyant, with a Message by Sandy MacDonald

★★★★☆ The inventive, nonexploitative circus flies high in this, its 45th embodiment. The post Big Apple Circus: It’s Back and Buoyant, with a Message appeared first on New York S…

Remembering Robert Clary: From the Concentration Camps to Broadway and Hollywood by Chip Deffaa, Editor-At-Large

Clary scored a great success on Broadway in "Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of 1952."  My father, who enjoyed that show, recalled Eartha Kitt and Robert Clary as the standouts in the cast of…

Watch Wild Ovation for Nicole Kidman When She Donates $100K to Broadway AIDS Charity Last Night at Hugh Jackman’s “Music Man” by Roger Friedman

You’ve got to watch this video. Last night at “The Music Man” Nicole Kidman donated $100,000 to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. She

Nicole Kidman Steps Up At Charity Auction With Whopping Bid For Hugh Jackman’s ‘The Music Man’ Hat by Bruce Haring

They were passing the hat on Broadway, but Nicole Kidman wasn’t passing on the opportunity to do some good. At a charity fundraiser held on Saturday for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AI…

Nicole Kidman Donates $100,000 to Broadway Cares at The Music Man by Logan Culwell-Block

The sum from the film star and Broadway alum is the largest single donation from any auction in Broadway Cares history.

This Week on Broadway for November 27, 2022: Sandra @ Vineyard Theatre by James Marino

Jena Tesse Fox, Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about & Juliet, Sandra @ Vineyard Theatre, Mrs. Loman @ The Tank, Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool, B…

Harry Connick Jr. Begins 2-Night Stint at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall by Margaret Hall

The celebrated crooner launched a new holiday tour earlier this November in Pennsylvania.

Elena Shaddow Makes History in The Light in the Piazza London Concert by Margaret Hall

The concert format of the Tony-winning musical is presented for one-night-only at the Alexandra Palace Theatre.

Broadway’s ‘& Juliet’ pops with a cheeky supply of snap and crackle by Peter Marks

"& Juliet" is a new Broadway musical, with Max Martin's songs and a cheeky rewrite of "Romeo and Juliet."

‘It was devastating’: theatremakers on the fallout from their worst reviews by Gary Nunn

Many directors crave critique as much as they fear it. But what happens behind the scenes after a public panning? When an unfavourable review recently came out about her new play, Australia…

Liz Kingsman: ‘Who is this woman who feels she can go on stage and make people laugh?’ by Claire Armitstead

The comedian-writer’s One Woman Show takes hilarious issue with the Fleabag-style ‘messy woman’ trope. As it transfers to London’s West End, she says she feels ‘at odds’ with its…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz review – a joyful bad-taste romp by Mark Fisher

Tron theatre, GlasgowJohnny McKnight’s irreverent and very funny panto is full of local colour and packed with put-downs – though never at the expense of the original film Hollywood re…

Candles take the brunt in gore-free production of Titus Andronicus by Mark Brown

Shakespeare’s most violent play to be staged with actors’ candles being pummelled in scenes with bloodshed Eight years after a stomach-churning, splatter-fest production of Titus Androni…

Kwi'ah: The Girl Who Heals (Official Trailer) | STRATFEST@HOME by Stratford Festival

Journey to a time long ago on the Kwantlen lands and meet Kwi’ah, a young woman who ventures across a river and into a great cedar forest to seek understanding on how to heal her people fr…

REVIEW: The Wizard Of Oz, Curve Leicester ✭✭✭✭✭ by Gary Stringer

By Gary Stringer Gary Stringer reviews The Wizard Of Oz, now playing as this year's family Christmas offering from Leicester's Curve Theatre. This post REVIEW: The Wizard Of Oz, Curve Leices…

On the Inexplicable Urkel Phenomenon by Trav S.D.

Jaleel White was born this day in 1976. The name may not ring an immediate bell in and of itself, but perhaps a light will dawn if I mention that he was the child actor who played the part o…

Buddy Big Mountain: The Native American Ventriloquist by Trav S.D.

Born this day in 1955, entertainer Buddy Big Mountain. Impossible to determine whether he is America’s first Native American ventriloquist (I’m guessing there must have been somebody bef…

IRENE CARA OBITUARY by Robert Shuman

(Adam Sweeting’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/27;  Photo: Irene Cara as Coco Hernandez in Fame, 1980, directed by Alan Parker. She also sang the title song, which topped the Briti…

Be Here Now at NC Stage Co. by Brian Postelle

The pursuit of happiness is at the heart of the theater’s latest winner.

REVIEW ROUND-UP: A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic Theatre by Emma Clarendon

What have critics said about the Old Vic Theatre production of A Christmas Carol directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Owen Teale as Scrooge. Love London Love Culture’s Emma Clarendon f…

VIDEO: Nicole Kidman Bids $100k For Hugh Jackman's Hat at THE MUSIC MAN

Watch Nicole Kidman bid $100k for Hugh Jackman's hat at The Music Man. Proceeds from the auction go to Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.

KPOP on Broadway: "Amerika (Checkmate)" by NewYorkTheater

In "KPOP" on Broadway, cast members portraying the boyband F8 perform the musical number "Amerika (Checkmate.)" (The k in Amerika stands for Korea)

Israel Galván: La Consagración de la Primavera review – Stravinsky with a flamenco stamp by Sanjoy Roy

Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe maverick choreographer makes his mark on The Rite of Spring in this elementally austere exercise in anxiety and loose-cannon footwork In 1913, The Rite of Spring …

A SHERLOCK CAROL Marylebone Theatre NW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

CELEBRATORY, MY DEAR WATSON  I had come from the magnificent Old Vic Christmas Carol, where once again with mince pies,  bells and lanterns and Dickensian cheer and a message about how poo…

‘Cleverly done & beautifully portrayed’: A SHERLOCK CAROL – Marylebone Theatre ★★★★ by Louise Penn

What happens when you cross A Christmas Carol with Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and add a murder mystery and a love interest (Rosie Armstrong) from the past? It’s…

The week in theatre: Henry V; Vardy v Rooney; ¡Showmanism! – review by Susannah Clapp

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Wyndham’s, London; Ustinov Studio, BathOliver Johnstone mesmerises as Henry V, Vardy and Rooney go head to head, and Dickie Beau lipsyncs a swarm of voices, from H…

Jack and the Beanstalk – the climate crisis reaches panto season by Mark Fisher

Perth theatreThe beanstalk in Barrie Hunter’s jolly, tightly choreographed and on-message show is actually a fossil fuel mountain, and the giant is a massive polluter The temperature is ri…

Review: 'The Piano Lesson' still teaches, confounds a divided America by Christopher Rawson

‘Christmas on the Rocks’ celebrates its 10th anniversary at TheaterWorks with new scenes and the return of an original cast member by Christopher Arnott

It's the 10th year of TheaterWorks Hartford's twisted holiday show "Christmas on the Rocks," and this year's changes include the return of Harry Bouvy plus two new scenes.

Ten fun facts about Goodspeed’s new, musical version of classic holiday movie ‘Christmas in Connecticut’ by Christopher Arnott

The Goodspeed Opera House is premiering a new musical version of the 1945 Hollywood rom-com "Christmas in Connecticut." The show, currently in previews, runs through Dec. 30.

Legendary Borscht Belt Comic Freddie Roman, 85, Dies, The Last of a Great Generation of Jewish Humor by Roger Friedman

Alan King, Don Rickles, Jackie Mason, Shecky Greene. They were among the legendary giants of Borscht belt Jewish humor. What was the

How I Reunited the Most Important Documents in English Theater History for the First Time in 200 Years by Grace J. Ioppolo

Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theater as a financial enterprise and artistic endeavor comes from thousands of manuscript pages in the archive of Philip He…

Blasting Off November 27, KPOP Opens Broadway Run by Leah Putnam

The multimedia musical delivers a K-pop style concert while giving a look behind the costumes and lights at the lives of its fictional music superstars.

Two Jews, Talking Closes Off-Broadway November 27 by Andrew Gans

Ed. Weinberger's comedy opened in August at the Theatre at St. Clement’s.

Mark Rylance Is Frank Charlton in His I Am Shakespeare at London's The Old Vic November 27 by Leah Putnam

The one-day-only rehearsed reading celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust.

Christmas In Hell at Mostly Musicals LLC - Performances November 26, 2022 to January 1, 2023

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James and the Giant Peach JR - December 11, 2022 - PLAYBILLder

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