Melbourne Fringe: Disenchanted – A Cabaret of Twisted Fairy Tales

It’s Paris in the year 1699. There’s a plague on the streets, so Madame d’Aulnoy (Eliane Morel) can’t find an audience for her musical salon. Given the conditions, it’s time (for a…

Hayes Theatre Co returns to the stage with Young Frankenstein

Hayes Theatre Co is thrilled to be returning to the stage in 2021 with a spectacular new production of Young Frankenstein, the musical by comedy genius Mel Brooks adapted from his own classi…

Theatre Review: ‘Conversations Through A Bathroom Door’ presented by Dark Horse Theatre Company by Mary Ann Johnson

Dark Horse Theatre Company has come up with an ingenious new play that uses Zoom’s strengths and still gives us an insightful, funny, and wrenching work. And they accomplish it all within …

Theatre News: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS at Toby’s A musical celebration of the season! by News Desk (organization-Submitted Press Release)

We are so excited to welcome you back “home” to Toby’s for an uplifting and joyous celebration of the holidays featuring many of your favorite Toby’s performers. The theatre will be …

Port Fairy Folk Festival celebrates its Scottish connections with Postcards From Scotland

Port Fairy Folk Festival will celebrate its Scottish connections with Postcards From Scotland – as 18 of Scotland’s best known folk groups and musicians present a special virtual concert…

BIPOC Music Theatre graduates band together for Future Oz 3.0 by Sean McLoughlin

Future Oz returns to Facebook for a LIVESTREAM concert on Saturday the 21st of November, 8.30pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT).

NEWS: ATG announces free NHS tickets & casting for pantomimes across the UK by Press Releases

Ambassador Theatre Group has announced that all tickets for the first performance of their pantomimes, produced by Qdos Entertainment in Manchester, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Stoke-on-Trent a…

Grant Stevens: Fawn in the Forest

Buxton Contemporary has announced the launch of its third Light Source commission Fawn in the Forest by Sydney-based artist Grant Stevens. In Fawn in the Forest, an animated juvenile deer wa…

What you can and can’t do under Washington’s newest November coronavirus stay-home restrictions by Yasmeen Wafai

Gov. Jay Inslee released a set of new coronavirus restrictions on Nov. 15. Here's a detailed look at what's allowed and what's not between now and at least Dec. 14.

DISNEY’S SCHUMACHER SEES SLOW RETURN OF AUDIENCES & TICKET PRICES by Philip Boroff

Speaking at an industry video conference Saturday, Broadway League Chairman Thomas Schumacher said that restarting Broadway after the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic will be gradual and depen…

A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER: CHESS THE MUSICAL set to debut at the Regent Theatre in April 2021 by Gabi Bergman

Featuring the iconic music of ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson, lyrics by Tim Rice & Bjorn Ulvaeus and book

Chess The Musical set to debut at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre in April 2021

Featuring the iconic music of ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson, lyrics by Tim Rice & Bjorn Ulvaeus and book by Tim Rice, the worldwide stage hit Chess The Musical will debut…

ANCIENT STATUE OF HERMES DUG UP IN ATHENS by Robert Shuman

(via AFP. Photo:  © Provided by AFP This handout picture released by the Greek Culture Ministry on November 15, 2020, shows the head of an ancient statue of the Greek god Hermes, in Athe…

VIDEO: Jeremy Schonfeld Releases New Music Video For 'Proof of Rain'!

Jeremy Schonfeld has released the music video for his new song 'Proof of Rain'! Schonfeld's upcoming album, Brooklyn to Beacon, is available on November 27.

Musical Mondays #19 by Gabi Bergman

Welcome back to Musical Mondays! In case you’re new here, this column is a peek into the depths of the

You can’t stop the music – QSO tickets on sale NOW by Peter J Snee

Three world premieres and a Concert Hall program to celebrate joy next year. Piers Lane, William Barton, Jayson Gillham, Grace Clifford

When the Holidays go on holiday – Queensland Theatre’s world premiere of THE HOLIDAYS this week by Peter J Snee

Queensland Theatre’s world premiere of the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award (QPDA) 2018–19 winner The Holidays by David Megarrity will take

This Week on Broadway for November 15, 2020: Robin De Jesús by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Robin De Jesús. This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest running Broadway and th…

Review: ‘What is Left, Burns’ from Steppenwolf is a short, gripping video play about a professor and his former lover by Chris Jones

Set during the pandemic, when some people have been tempted to look up old flames, James Ijames' play stars K. Todd Freeman and Jon Michael Hill and clocks in at just 20 minutes.

A superstar reading of Shaw’s ‘Man & Superman’ to benefit The Actors Fund by Deb Miller

As part of their Stars in the House online series of “Plays in the House,” featuring live readings of classic and award-winning plays until Broadway re-opens, co-hosts Seth Rudetsky and …

When the Critic Is Also the Star. And the Audience. by Laura Collins-Hughes and Alexis Soloski

Connection or isolation? Intensity or escape? This spate of shows that put the watcher to work are rewarding, but often in contrasting ways.

NSO @ Home LIVE • November 15 • Eguchi, Hughes, A. Bernal & J. Bernal by The Kennedy Center

Episode 7! What happens when Disney people go to Universal? The Broadway Bradshaws find out! by Framily Travel

Final Day To Catch Virtual Encore Reading Of Joe DiPietro's CONSCIENCE Starring Harriet Harris by BroadwayWorld

The virtual reading of two-time Tony winner Joe DiPietro's CONSCIENCE returned by popular demand this week ending today (Sunday). Due to the shutdown of theaters throughout the state in Marc…

Yaphet Kotto: Of Harlem and Homicide by Trav S.D.

I grew up on the performances of Yaphet Kotto (b. 1939) and at the moment, I can’t think of anyone I ever thought was cooler. Kotto mixed machismo with intelligence (always catnip to me), …

Hear the New London Cast Recording of Mary Poppins on This Week's Elaine Paige on Sunday by Broadway.com

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige is giving her listeners a taste of the r…

Roustabout Theatre’s founders reflect on a challenging but creative year by The Family Stage

The founders of Roustabout Theatre privilege have turned the challenges of 2020 into creative ideas and continue to find joy in sharing their stories and laughter with people of all ages.

Illusionist Scott Silven Can Turn A Video Call Into A Magical 'Journey' by Jeff Lunden

The Journey is an ingenious use of a virtual performance space. Silven invites 30 audience members to travel to his childhood home in Scotland where they interact in amazing feats of magic.

Royal Ballet Live: Within the Golden Hour review – sheer, ravishing class from top to pointed toe by Lyndsey Winship

Available onlineFrancesca Hayward, Natalia Osipova and Marianela Nuñez are among the many stars in this exquisite mixed bill of classics and more recent work Planned for a live audience the…

Petrichor review – woozy, hallucinogenic hi-tech dystopia by Mark Fisher

Online via Gaiety, AyrThickSkin’s intense, flickering two-hander about automatons in a totalitarian regime makes gripping, immersive VR viewing As if 2020 were not dystopian enough, ThickS…

Des O’Connor obituary by Stuart Jeffries

All-round entertainer whose readiness to take a joke against himself was key to his successOne day in 1964, over a cup of coffee, Des O’Connor told the comedian Eric Morecambe that he hope…

Mary Maurice: The Grand Old Lady of Vitagraph by Trav S.D.

Mary Maurice (1844-1918) had originally been a schoolteacher, before beginning an actress with a Pittsburgh stock company in 1868 at the age of 24. She barnstormed throughout the country for…

Thomas Schumacher Q & A. Broadway will have to rebuild again by Jonathan Mandell

“Out of all this madness, and out of all this pain, will grow some opportunity for new voices, new creators.” So says Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions and cu…

Washington Stage Guild to serve up an intellectual feast over Thanksgiving by News Desk

Washington Stage Guild will present a “heavenly” online performance of George Bernard Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell, the famous dream sequence from his play Man and Superman.   Audiences a…

‘Brings actions into sharp relief’: RIGHT LEFT WITH HEELS – STIGMAcollective (Online review) by Louise Penn

This 50-minute film of STIGMAcollective’s right left with heels, returning for a second year to the Voilà Europe Festival at The Cockpit, remains a piece of power and intellect on the scr…

15 Heroines review – a triumphant revoicing of Ovid by Susannah Clapp

Jermyn Street theatre onlineThe aggrieved women of the poet’s Heroides speak loud and clear in 15 bristling new monologues by top playwrights, scorchingly delivered by 15 leading actors He…

Culture to cheer you up during the second lockdown: part one by Alexis Petridis, Keza Macdonald, Alison Flood, Lucy Mangan, Lyndsey Winship, Jonathan Jones

As parts of the UK enter another month – at least – of being stuck indoors, our critics pick out top music, games, books, TV, dance and art fixes to lift your spirits Part two: film, com…

You Will Be Found performed by West End stars & Charlie Kristensen for National Anti-Bullying Week by Official London Theatre

On Screen And On Stage, Disability Continues To Be Depicted In Outdated, Cliched Ways by Magda Romanska

The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers to rethink their subject matter and casting practices. However, despite an increased sensi…

“Keely and Du” at The Seeing Place by Rhiannon Ling

Keely and Du, Jane Martin’s seminal work from 1993, is a piece often touted for its emotional impact and educational effect. Its story—that of a pregnant rape victim kidnapped by an extr…

Hayes Theatre announce Young Frankenstein by Peter J Snee

Hayes Theatre Co is thrilled to be returning to the stage in 2021 with a spectacular new production of Young

Overcoming adversity Down Under in podcast Days Like These

An escape from last year’s bush fires is among the stories told in an uplifting series from Australian network ABC

Celebrate The Prom With A Look Back At Its Journey to Broadway by Marc J. Franklin

The musical, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, opened at the Longacre Theatre November 15, 2018.