Legendary comic Jeff Ross returns home for his long-awaited Broadway debut in TAKE A BANANA FOR THE RIDE — a hilarious, heartfelt one-man show about laughing through the pain, the importan…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:56PM“Take a Banana” is, however, a willfully upbeat show; whenever it gets too dark, Ross detonates another joke. In his banana-yellow suit (by Toni-Leslie James), he takes us on a tour of h…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:56PMThis deeply personal, moving, and undeniably funny show is first and foremost a love letter to the chaotic people (and pets) that made Ross who he is. The experience of losing them is what h…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:54PMHere, though, laughs are not the final goal. Vicious comedy may be Ross’s superpower, but this show aims to reveal his secret identity as the nicest of guys: an über-mensch.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:54PMDeath does not become him. Frankly, it’s a bore, as is his fixation on his own health, which went bad from the get-go.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:54PMIt doesn’t take long before the evening begins to feel like an interminable evening with an elderly relative who insists on making you look through their photo albums. Ross can be a very f…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:54PMFor all of its appeal, the 90-minute attraction somehow seems a smidge overlong; perhaps Ross’ dog stories might be curtailed. Fans familiar with Ross’ skill at insult humor likely will …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:54PMHere and throughout, Mr. Ross is, for the most part, careful to balance his gushing with the gleefully impolite humor that is his bread and butter.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:54PMBut he threads, or at least punctuates, each of these downer stories with one-liners, some of them funny, some of them just in bad taste. (About his baldness, he says: “I know I look like …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:54PMThus, it is pleasantly surprising that Ross’s new solo show Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride is very silly, disarmingly sweet, and engagingly straightforward. To have built a reputati…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:54PMIn the new solo show, Ross offers audiences insight into his life as America’s Roastmaster General.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42PMAfter the loss of their Pierson Playhouse in this January’s firestorm, Theatre Palisades is pleased to announce its second production of 2025, “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr, the time…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:36PMThe new theatrical one-man show, Jeff Ross: TAKE A BANANA FOR THE RIDE opens tonight at the Nederlander Theatre. Named for his beloved grandfather’s practical and loving travel advice, thi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24PMOver the course of the evening, Jeff Ross gave us a comedy show that wasn't. It was funny. It was also the story of his life. It was him.
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SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 10:15PM"That's now messing with my safety," the "Gypsy" star said. "And it's not right."
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:08PM★★★☆☆ A comedian delivers nice family dish instead of a steaming roast
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMJeff Ross has earned the moniker “Roastmaster General” for a brand of insult comedy he’s honed on stage and in multiple Comedy Central specials over the years. But he proves himself to…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMJeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride – 15 August 2025 With a title lovingly embraced from the grandfather who always wanted Jeff Ross have a snack for the road, Jeff Ross deftly navigates…
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★★★☆☆ The comedian known as "The Roastmaster General" tells his life story in his confessional Broadway show.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59PMAfter his mother died when he was just 14 years old, as Jeff Ross tells us from the stage of Broadway’s Nederlander Theater, “I remember sitting in my room thinking, ‘Is this what life…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMIn the Shadow of Her Father – 17 August 2025 The premise of In the Shadow of her Father asked dynamic and interesting questions about the rewards and consequences of military service. The …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:37PMReview by Ron Fassler . . . Comedian Jeff Ross is often referred to as “The Roastmaster General” for his X-rated celebrity roasts which have been a fixture on cable TV for thirty years…
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August 18, 2025: In our currently niche-dominated entertainment world, including the infinitesimal number of choices on cable, streaming, and broadcast TV, it’s easy…
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The veteran comedian’s hilarious and moving show deals with death, grief, and personal illness; his dog makes an appearance and the audience gets bananas.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:48PMEdinburgh Fringe Review: The Queen Is Mad at ZOO Southside
“It is powerful theatre and there is not a moment of non-anticipation”
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:34PMEdinburgh Fringe Review: Elon Musk: Lost in Space at theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
"feels like an idea still in draft form”
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:33PMPleasance Dome, EdinburghIn an eyebrow-raising debut, Galvo shares not very fond memories of her education in Ireland
Rachel Galvo ditched a career in business a few years back, fleeing Dubl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMEdinburgh Fringe Review: Eelmageddon at Bedlam Theatre
“Their commitment is absolute, which is essential for a show so absurd”
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:31PMEdinburgh Fringe Review: House Party at Pleasance Courtyard
“A topical and thought-provoking show"
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:30PMEdinburgh Fringe Review: The City for Incurable Women at Pleasance Courtyard
"The City for Incurable Women is a spellbinding show”
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:29PMEdinburgh Fringe Review: My Name is Rachel Corrie at ZOO Southside
"Sascha Shinder gives an immaculate performance"
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:28PMEdinburgh Fringe Review: SOIL at Assembly @ Dance Base
"artistically ambitious but regrettably monotonous"
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:26PMDancehall Blues at Assembly @ DanceBase Review
"an engaging, thought-provoking watch that's bold yet also modest – quite a feat"
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:25PMBreaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity is being presented by the Japanese American National Museum’s Democracy Center, opening August 21, 2025 for four performances only.…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:18PMLA Opera will launch its 40th Anniversary Season with the company premiere of West Side Story, one of the greatest masterpieces of musical theater, with performances from September 20 throug…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:18PMTony Award winner Glenn Close is set to lead Maud, a new British crime series following a canterkerous and ruthless old killer with a tortured past. Close will play the title character in th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMThe Tony winner, recently on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, will be celebrated at a ceremony in Chicago in the fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMThe Oh, Mary! star weighed in on a number of hypothetical scenarios that could face her on a recent appearance on Good Morning America.
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The new theatrical one-man show, Jeff Ross: TAKE A BANANA FOR THE RIDE, began previews Tuesday, August 5 at the Nederlander Theatre and will celebrate Opening Night tonight, Monday, August 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMThis one is just for New Yorkers and Long Islanders. Tomorrow (August 19, 2025) the Cinema Arts Center in Huntington, L.I. will be showing the first feature film directed by Frank Capra, sta…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:48PMThe PMA has acquired an interdisciplinary installation by the Swiss/German creator duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Moving Backwards was first commissioned in 2019 and feels even more r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:35PMZoo Playground, EdinburghBelgian actors Verona Verbakel and Anemone Valcke share anecdotes about their industry in a knotty show about ambition and failure
When we arrive, the screen behind …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMA new production facility in a nearby suburb was devastated by water damage, even as the theatre's main downtown complex is on track to unveil a new renovation.
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Former & Juliet co-stars, Lorna Courtney and Betsy Wolfe, reunited at Betsy's current show, Joy, Off-Broadway! See photos of Courtney and Wolfe here!
Based on the life of trailblazing bu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMIn Road Kills, playwright Sophie McIntosh has devised that most elusive of creations -- a truly original story. From the unique premise to unexpected plot twists, Road Kills looks at wha…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 01:44PMThe shows you should visit off-Broadway before summer ends.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:42PMJoe Caroff, perhaps best known for designing the James Bond gun logo in 1962, passed away Sunday, August 17, at the age of 103. Throughout his career, Caroff designed hundreds of film poster…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMKaty Perry recently paid a visit to Oh, Mary! on Broadway! Check out photos of the star with the company backstage here!
Jinkx Monsoon recently took over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln. The p…
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SOURCE: kendavenport.com at 01:41PM“Founded By Broadway,” a free live concert, will celebrate the 400th anniversary of New York City and spotlight Broadway’s vital role in the city’s history. The concert — which wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMVirtual Stage Lab (VSL), a new company at the intersection of film and theatre, is officially launching this summer after two years of building new theatrical media content behind the scenes…
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In the new solo show, Ross offers audiences insight into his life as America’s Roastmaster General.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe blockbuster show has returned to Broadway to further cement its place as the most popular jukebox musical of all time
The siren call comes from inside the house at 1634 Broadway: two pli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMPlaywright Charles Busch will also be part of the reading at Connecticut's Sharon Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMDrew Droege’s satirical play Messy White Gays is making its way Off-Broadway this fall. Droege himself will star alongside Tony Award nominee James Cusati-Moyer, Aaron Jackson, Zane Philli…
SOURCE: Theatrely at 12:30PMJasmine Amy Rogers and more have joined the upcoming off-Broadway production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The show will play a limited 14-week engagement at New World St…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMJoyah Dominique (Melissa) is going places. Any Broadway casting director should have her on speed dial. Her instrument is utterly fluid embodying Melissa's heart, through surprise humor,…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:14PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghEmily Woof draws a connection between the female adulation around the Fab Four and radical artist Valerie Solanas’s 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol
A revolver is…
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There are shows that may, on the surface, feel wafer thin, shows where nothing much seems to happen, only as the conversations unravel, they reveal characters whose experiences give the prod…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:51AMMINNEAPOLIS — They didn’t bite the heads off any bats, but the Flaming Lips and the singer of Modest Mouse did take flight in Minneapolis on Friday night with a monstrous Black Sabbath c…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:46AMSet in a decaying home on the edge of industrial sprawl, the work explores the quiet devastation of environmental collapse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMZane Phillips, Pete Zias, Aaron Jackson, and James Cusati-Moyer will co-star in the farce about the murder of a throuple-mate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMPlaywright Charles Busch will also be part of the reading at Connecticut's Sharon Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMHonorees will include Camille A. Brown, Mathew Knowles, Gena Avery Knowles, Tonya Lewis Lee, and Lester Cooney with Tom Viola receiving a special award.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM“Gypsy” closed last night, “Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride” is opening tonight. Two more shows will close on Broadway by the end of the month, and no more will open until Sept…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AMJust yesterday, Broadway said goodbye to Gypsy, which played at the Majestic Theatre for 28 previews and 269 regular performances. Gypsy began performances Thursday, November 1, 2024, and op…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMBlack Theatre United has revealed its lineup of performers and honorary co-chairs for its third annual Gala on Monday, September 29, 2025 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. This year’s theme is “…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMJinkx Monsoon is officially in her Mary Todd Lincoln era. Earlier this month, the Drag Race winner kicked off her run as the iconic first lady in Cole Escola's hit play, Oh Mary! This weeken…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMIn the University of Oregon’s riveting production of Salmah Sabawi’s play at Portland Center Stage, characters still laugh and love in the midst of war.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:25AMMessy White Gays, a brutal new satire from the mind of Drew Droege, will begin performances off-Broadway this fall. Joining Droege in the all-star cast will be Tony Award nominee James Cusat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMSummerhall, EdinburghHannah Maxwell’s delightfully meta hour, namechecking Richard Gadd and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s breakthroughs, is a blueprint for three potential shows – with the au…
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Audra McDonald, who just wrapped up leading the Broadway revival of Gypsy, posted a video on Instagram recently to share an unsettling experience she had with a fan.
McDonald shared that she…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMAs the executive producer of theatre, he oversaw shows such as Spamalot and Schmigadoon!
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SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMFind out what it's like starring in one of Broadway's funniest—and undeadliest—new musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThe international hit, which features the songs of ABBA, again plays the Winter Garden Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThe Off-Broadway return of the William Finn-Rachel Sheinkin musical begins in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMTony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers will star as Olive Ostrovsky in the first New York revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, alongside Autumn Best as Logainne Schwartzandg…
SOURCE: Theatrely at 10:30AMThe traditionally proper citizens of 1880s Manhattan had a bit of fun during a filming break.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMTaylor Swift fans know that the music superstar is nothing if not intentional about easter eggs. As BroadwayWorld reported last year, while she was touring the world with her record-breaking…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMThree cast members have joined the first New York revival of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee! Tony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers (BOOP!) w…
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By Laura Grothaus. “If your body is a portal, where does it lead?” This question led the creation of Paradise Portals, an immersive performance and dance party featuring Baltimore-area t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:46AMTwenty-four years later, this show still has the emotional depth of a sugared-up fourteen-year-old.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:46AMHow to stand out in a festival of 3,000 shows.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMFind out what’s happening in the opera, concert, and dance scene this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMTheatre Royal Bath Productions celebrates the 250th anniversary of Bath’s most beloved author with a sparkling new stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 09:27AMA major new initiative titled State of the Nation will bring together Scotland’s arts organisations for a one-day strategic gathering at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 09:27AMToday’s new Travalanche post for August 18, 2025 is on The Great Waldo Pepper. Previous August 18 posts have included ones on: Criswell Shelley Winters Jack Pickford Alan Mowbray Walter O�…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AMThe Minneapolis-based playwright discusses the importance of intentional audience engagement in diverse and unconventional theatre spaces.
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Soho Theatre has revealed the cast and creative team for Little Brother, the 2024 Verity Bargate Award-winning play by Eoin McAndrew
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SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:59AMHere we go again! MAMMA MIA! has returned home to Broadway and officially celebrated its opening night last week at the Winter Garden Theatre. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36AMRise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 18, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours:
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AMThese are boom times for Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, work and life partners who make dances of slippery intensity. Their latest, “Seven Scenes,” comes to Little Island.
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SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:31AMTheater like this is especially crucial at a time of destructive national division: it is explicitly aimed at intergenerational audiences, it takes on issues that confront family and communi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AM"Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" succeeds as a fun variation on the "buddy" story. The show sometimes ladles on the sugary frosting, but it’s a pretty tasty dessert.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AMOnce again, Tony voters proved that quality and integrity still matter.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AMOverall, this is a satisfying production of a turn-of-the-century play that still underlines enduring economic inequity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AMA trio of companies — Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and, to a lesser extent, Berkshire Theater Festival — draw on the stage’s power to address our current …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AMIt is entertaining, but Lindsay Joelle’s script supplies only a tiny, sometimes contrived glimpse at a profession that deserves to be treated with more nuance and understanding.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AMThe strongest element in this Arlekin production is the indelible stage images of loss and love, death and despair, memory and resilience, dreamed up by director Igor Golyak and his talented…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AMThe Off Broadway revival demonstrates how 10 years of dedicated work can make a mediocre musical even worse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AMThe high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director's claim that this comedy is about expats striving for "a more balanced, egalitarian society."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AM"The Heron’s Flight" is, in many ways, a hopeful antidote for the fear generated by these difficult times.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18AMSummerhall, EdinburghThe theatre-maker’s childlike passion for stories and illustrations makes facts a hoot in this faux seminar
You can’t argue with the title: here is a weird, wonderfu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThey lit up the 80s and 90s with abrasive tracks that were like kitchen-sink dramas. But can the Wedding Present’s acerbic songs work on stage? We meet the team making it happen – and th…
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