Cast of Jersey Boys Entertains Cats With “Caturday Night Fever” by Robert Viagas

It's the latest installment in the Saturday Night Scream

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 8/27/2016

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 8272016.

Inside FDR’s wartime mission to protect American treasures by Michael Riedel

Early in the evening of Dec. 26, 1941, a train bound for Fort Knox pulled out of Union Station in Washington, DC. Four Secret Service agents stood guard over an assortment of discreet-lookin…

The Beast by Keith Gow

After surviving a near-fatal fishing trip, three blokes are desperate to change their ways of life. But not too much. The Beast premiered in 2013, a commission by the Melbourne Theatre Compa…

Rosa del Duca by Rosa Del Duca

Rosa del Duca is a writer, journalist, teacher and musician. Her work has appeared in literary magazines like Cutbank, CALYX, River Teeth, and Mission at 10th. When she isn’t writing or cr…

‘Take A Bow’ Part 4: The Staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Favorite Spring/Summer 2016 Performances by Dcmetrotheaterarts Staff

Kestrel Coffee as Jessie in Rain Follows the Plow at The 2016 Capital Fringe Festival. This beautifully moving “dust opera” by Stephen R. Coffee featured a cast of wonderful ensemble…

Photo Flash: 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 In this week's editio…

Touch by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Toni Press-Coffman’s "Touch" is a rather challenging play both in that a great deal of it is narrated in recollection and also that it deals with much naked emotion. The cast led by Peter …

Check Out a Sneak Peek of the 20th Anniversary Rent Tour

A national tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of Jonathan Larson\u2019s groundbreaking Rent kicks off in Dallas on September 20. Performance dates are scheduled through June, 2017. Evan E…

Preview the National Tour of Rent, Celebrating 20 Years of the Jonathan Larson Classic by Mark Ezovski

Original creatives return to restage the show based on Michael Greif’s direction.

Review: That's the Ticket! by Michael Block

By Michael BlockWith comedy like "Veep", drama like "Scandal" and Sorkin-esque wisdom and sensibility, Dream Ticket by Ryan Bernsten is an aptly timed political play. Republican Senators Les…

Review: Blinded By the Light by Michael Block

By Michael BlockA troupe of strolling of players take over the 14th Street Y to share a history you likely had no clue about. Ed Malin's The Troubadour Struck By Lightning explored the gay h…

Fall arts preview: Performances and programs promise to educate, entertain kids by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This fall, kids can enjoy performances by their favorite characters onstage or on ice, family days and nights at museums, and symphony performances tailored especially for them.

Fall arts preview: Classical music offers high quality and variety by Sarah Bryan Miller St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From chamber music to choirs to orchestral classics: It's all here

Fall arts preview: Rise of Japan, shroud symbolism and more on view by Sarah Bryan Miller and Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

With the change in seasons come new and notable exhibitions for St. Louis museums and galleries.

Fall arts preview: Dance and jazz fall into place by Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

With another fall comes a fresh slate of dance and jazz performances, showcasing some of the top talent on today’s scene. Some highlights:

Sacramento Mural Festival paints the city beautiful

Between August 20 and August 27th, 2016 artists from near and far created about a dozen murals on empty walls in midtown and downtown Sacramento during Sacramento Mural Festival. This video …

Idina Menzel Shares Wonder Woman Playlist by BroadwayWorld

Known to Broadway audiences as the brave Elphaba from Wicked and Rent's spirited, no-holds-barred Maureen, and now, thanks to the Frozen anthem 'Let It Go,' to millions of children and their…

Linda Reiter Is Extraordinary as Kennedy Matriarch “Rose” by Russell Goeltenbodt

Highly Recommended Reviewed by: Russell Goeltenbodt Most everyone knows the history of America’s 20th Century [...]

Stage Left Theatre presents the world premiere of THE BOTTLE TREE by Beth Kander by Michael J. Roberts

Stage Left Theatre announces the upcoming world premiere of The Bottle Tree, written by Beth [...]

Julie Andrews Reacts to MARY POPPINS RETURNS Casting by BroadwayWorld

Emily Blunt can officiallyadd the approval of the original Mary Poppins herself to a growing list of accolades. According to Entertainment Weekly, when Rob Marshall, the director of the upco…

Review: Bakersfield Mist (TimeLine Theatre) by Scotty Zacher

TimeLine Theatre's *Bakersfield Mist* is equal parts comedic and heartbreaking, acknowledging absurdity and cliché without ever descending into either. Thanks to playwright Stephen Sachs an…

Antony Sher as Lear by John Morrison

Lear's cavalier division of his kingdom into three ranks with David Cameron's ill-thought referendum on EU membership as an example of catastrophic decision-making. Both moves are followed b…

Context Is (Not) Everything by Kevin Greene

2016 Celebrity Autobiography by Barry

Guild Hall in association with Angelo Faboni, Peter Martin, EP Productions, Dayle Reyfel, and Rick Newman presented the 2016 New Edition of Celebrity Autobiography at Guild Hall's John …

Peggy Sarlin’s Birthday Bash by Sandi Durell

    by Susan Hasho     Peggy Sarlin threw herself a birthday party at The Metropolitan Room which she called a “swanky” place. She brought along her new CD Family and…

Off-Broadway Review: A Day By the Sea by Lauren Yarger

Katie Firth, Jill Tanner, Kylie McVey, Polly McKie, Athan Sporek, Philip Goodwin, Julian Elfer, Curzon Dobell, and George Morfogen. Photo: Richard Termine.A Slow, Very Slow, Long Day by…

Lamb’s Players sets its 2017 slate of plays by James Hebert

Lamb’s Players Theatre is rolling out a lineup of new plays and returning favorites for the company’s 2017 season at its home theater in Coronado.

Chicago Theater Review: OH, COWARD! (Dead Writers Theatre Collective at the Athenaeum Theatre) by Lawrence Bommer

THE FIRST—AND BEST—NOËL A bravely Noël Coward musical retrospective set in an intimate Art Deco cabaret—what could be more intrinsically suave and sophisticated, equally knowing and …

The paws that refresh: “CATS” back on Broadway by Philip

Has any long-run Broadway show counted as many detractors as has Cats? (Besides Oh, Calcutta! I mean.) Upon hearing that I was attending the Broadway revival, comments from friends and colle…

Theatre News: Winners of the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Awards announced

The awards recognise Best Comedy Show and Best Newcomer

Literally Patti Murin: The Podcast | The #LiterallyAskPatti Episode by Matt Tamanini

Listen: @PattiMurin Answers Your Questions in a #LiterallyAskPatti Episode of @BroadwayRadio’s #LiterallyPattiMurinThePodcast! In this long awaited follow-up episode, star of stage, s…

CIRCUS DIARIES at #edfringe: Water On Mars by Plastic Boom by Katharine Kavanagh

The seminal juggling extravaganza Water on Mars has been around in a variety of live and videoed incarnations since 2012, but the ‘waterboy’ dream-team of Patrik Elmnert, Tony Pezzo and …

Review: They Drink it in the Congo, Almeida Theatre by Fergus Morgan

What do you know about the Democratic Republic of the Congo? That it is the seventh poorest country in the world, when its vast mineral reserves should make it one of the richest? That betwe…

Review, The Dark Tower, The Bussey Building by Rebecca Latham

Set over three levels of Peckham’s popular cultural hub The Bussey Building, the Youth Music Theatre company deliver an energetic but chaotic musical hinged on a quest. At the heart of the…

Backstage with Richard Ridge: The Bechdel's Bid Farewell to Maple Avenue as the Cast of FUN HOME Recalls Favorite Broadway Memories by Richard Ridge

On September 10, the Bechdelfamily will move out of the Fun Home or the Circle in the Square Theatre, when the the groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning Best Musical, plays its final performanc…

Interview with Andréa Burns by [email protected] (adewunmi)

By Gregory Ramos, Andréa Burns. Gregory Ramos interviews On Your Feet actor Andréa Burns about her career playing Latina women in Broadway musicals.

Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’: Producer Releases Cogsworth and Lumiere First Look by Seth Kelley

Photos from the upcoming “Beauty and the Beast” live-action remake? Be our guest. Jack Morrissey, who is credited as a co-producer, posted several images on his Facebook page o…

CIRCUS DIARIES at #edfringe: Perhaps Hope by Company Here And Now by Katharine Kavanagh

In their native Australia, the effects of climate change are currently felt more keenly than here in Europe, and the politics surrounding the issue are more prominent.

Edinburgh Fringe: William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) by Laura Kressly

When I was a teenager, I discovered the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). My love for Shakespeare had already started to grow, and I thoug…

Review: Thlides, Lion and Unicorn Theatre by Franciska Éry

Spawny John (Lydia Lakemoore) and his friend, Duck (Rosie Grundy-Orchison), an inflatable duck, are sitting halfway down a Butlins water slide, eating and chatting away. They are frequently …

Review: The Staff Room, Theatre N16 by Naomi Kerrigan Asress

Michelle Payne’s new comedy springs into life as part of Actors Awareness week at Theatre N16. Once seated in the intimate theatre, the audience notice a table in disarray with cheap packe…

STAGE TUBE: Watch New Highlights of HUNCHBACK at Music Circus - Starring Deaf Actor John McGinty, Lesli Margherita, Mark Jacoby and More! by Stage Tube

The 2016 Music Circus season concludes with the Northern California premiere of a new musical from the mind ofVictor Hugo, inspired by one of the most epic stories ever told The Hunchback of…

Review: T.J. Miller's long road to funny at the Vic by Zach Freeman

T.J. Miller clearly loves being onstage. He loves it so much that on Friday night, about two hours and 15 minutes into the Chicago leg of his Meticulously Ridiculous Tour, someone backstage …

Fringe Review: Mother Emanuel by New York Theater

  “Mother Emanuel” is an earnest, lively play filled with rousing music that celebrates the lives of the nine people who were shot dead at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episc…

"The Layover" Fails to Get Off the Ground by Broadway & Me

People write plays for all kinds of reasons and after we saw the new show that opened at Second Stage Theatre this week, my theatergoing buddy Bill speculated that playwright Leslye Headland…

Review: Broadway Bounty Hunter at curtainup.com/ http://www.curtainup.com/broadwaybountyhunterberk16.html by Gloria Miller

world premiere musical with Annie Golden as Annie Golden, zany but lots of fun

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Dublin Oldschool, Pleasance Courtyard by Liam McCarthy

If you’re driven mad looking for “the session” at Edinburgh, then look no further than Dublin Oldschool at the Pleasance Courtyard. This is a whopper – a verbally explosive, express-…

Fuse Music Commentary: The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute by Roberta Silman

If any of you are harboring a budding young musician either at home or school or in the extended family, investigate the possibility of he or she attending BUTI.

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 8/27/16- CHICAGO by Stage Tube

Today in 1977, Chicago closed at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 936 performances. Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago, with music i…

Richard Gadd's show about sexual assault wins Edinburgh comedy award by Brian Logan

Scottish standup picks up prize for fringe’s top comedy show, while Scott Gibson is named best newcomer and marathon reading of Chilcot Report also recognisedRichard Gadd has won this year…

Richard Gadd wins Edinburgh Comedy Award 2016 by David Hutchison

Richard Gadd’s Life After Death has been crowned best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe. He beat six other comedians to the

Bonus Weekend Podcast: Political Debate and Political Theater by WNYC

This week, one of our most engaging segments was about presidential debates. We heard from many listeners, who told us that they find presidential debates so dull and boring. So for this wee…

Interview: ‘Bachelorette’ Director Hannah T. Wolff on Dark Comedy and How Weddings Bring out the Worst and Best in People by Jose Solis

Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette returns to New York for a limited engagement from September 8-17, the immersive theatrical experience will play at Walker Space where audience members will b…

#StageFaves: 9 wish-you-were-here holiday moments on Twitter

Our #StageFaves get around. They're not just in London, there's a whole world out there and with summer holiday season upon us, Twitter's been playing host to some terrific shots of some of …

The easiest way to make money EVER by Ken Levine

On the surface that's what you'd think.  Be a voice over artist.  Go into a recording studio.  Read one tag line, collect a big paycheck, and you're back in your car in five m…

Pokémon Go Movie Attracts Top Movie Writers by Rino16

Pokémon Go is without any reasonable doubt, the game of the year. The game has been well received, something that has boosted the value of the Pokémon franchise. The popularity of this app…

BWW's On This Day - August 27, 2016

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 27 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

Edinburgh Fringe: Soddin’ Flodden by Thom Dibdin

Convivial history: Cheery and cheeky, Ideoms' Soddin' Flodden at Spotlites presents a fun and accessible take on Scottish history.

Features: My Top 5 Showtunes: Stephanie Clift

The actress tells us the musical numbers she couldn't live without

British Theatre Academy: Free training for under 23s by Susan Elkin

The British Theatre Academy is trying to do things differently by offering many hours of free part-time training. It achieves this by mounting fine shows which more or less cover their costs…

Bruce Springsteen breaks his own record for longest US concert by Associated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It was another record-breaking night for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band with a few surprises thrown in at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. The Springste…

Henry Ong: The Shyest Man in the Theater by Steven Morris

“I have no idea how this came about,” Ong explains about his penchant to promote anybody but himself. “I’m a very, very shy person. I’m socially award, and very private. I always f…

Travel story showers STL with copious compliments by Joe Holleman St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thrillist "apologizes" for tardiness in touting our town to travelers

5 Ways to Quiet Down a Noisy Drama Class (Without Yelling!) by Kerry Hishon

Drama classes are naturally noisy, chaotic places. Take a whole bunch of energetic, creative, enthusiastic students who have been sitting down in other classes for hours, fill them to the br…

Interviews: Peter Reckell Revisits His Theater Days in The Fantasticks

The soap opera star brings 35 years of perspective to his second turn with the iconic musical.

A Practically Perfect Two-Show Day with Kara Lindsay at Mary Poppins by Monica Simoes

Take a behind the scenes look at North Carolina Theatre’s production of Mary Poppins.

13 Broadway Debuts to Look Out For This Fall by Michael Gioia

Newcomers to Oscar winners make their Main Stem debuts this fall season. Here are 13 of them to watch!

Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: August 27 by David Gewirtzman

What’s Hot in London: August 20-26 by Mark Shenton

London booms with musicals—many old, some new—plus a returning fringe hit.