AGSA 500 – A Story of excellence, generosity and beauty

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“How I Learned What I Learned” Reveals Black Writer’s Struggle—at TheatreWorks by Phyllis Chrisman

August Wilson Slaps Us in the Face Till We Laugh! by Phyllis Chrisman Steven Anthony Jones single-handedly wrings our hearts and makes our sides ache from laughing. In August Wilson’s memo…

Jackie Burns final bows in Titaníque by bwaySHO

Jackie Burns sets sail at Titanique Jan 28th. Jackie Burns final bows & My Heart Will Go On Celine Dion in Titaníque Filmed by ​​⁠@bwaySHO #celinedion #celine #titanic

The Greatest Hits Down Route 66 by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

The title of Michael Aguirre’s "The Greatest Hits Down Route 66," the story of the Franco family’s road trip during the summer of 1999, refers to Carl Sandburg’s 1927 "The American Son…

2023 OnStage Colorado Theatre Awards by Alex Miller

On Jan. 28 we announced all of the winners for the first-ever OnStage Colorado Awards for Theatrical Excellence — The OSCA’s The post 2023 OnStage Colorado Theatre Awards appeared first …

Review: In ‘Days of Wine and Roses’ on Broadway, locked in a booze-soaked marriage by Chris Jones

Brian D’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara play the on-the-rocks couple in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s potent musical.

Days of Wine and Roses – Love, Danger, Abandon by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In its iconic exploration of alcohol’s seductive toxicity, Days of Wine and Roses (the Musical), directed by Michael Greif, is even more searing a…

Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Marry Me A Little’ Set to Debut at New Theatre in Central London by Belaid S

The stage is set for a captivating rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Marry Me A Little,’ as it gears up for

Maximising Your Broadway Experience: Insider Tips for an Unforgettable New York City Theatre Weekend by Belaid S

Broadway, the heart of New York City’s theatre district, is experiencing a thrilling resurgence, drawing theater enthusiasts to its vibrant

‘Days of Wine and Roses’ Review: Romance on the Rocks by Laura Collins-Hughes

Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are superb as a midcentury-modern couple free-falling into addiction in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s musical.

‘Days Of Wine And Roses’ Broadway Review: Trying Times For Good Folk In Exemplary Production; Also, A Bouncy ‘Once Upon A Mattress’ by Greg Evans

It’s easy to feel a bit smug early on in Days of Wine and Roses, as we know so much more – or at least have so much greater vocabularies – when it comes to things like toxic relationsh…

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES; Two People (Sumptuously) Stranded at Sea — Review

Theatrely's Broadway review of Days of Wine and Roses from Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, starring Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James.

Queensland’s Arts Sector Set to Deliver Economic and Cultural Bonanza in 2024 by Sean McLoughlin

In an unprecedented surge of cultural activity, Queensland’s arts and cultural scene is poised to inject an estimated $100 million

Days of Wine and Roses: Demon Rum Is a Suave Seducer by Bob Verini

★★★★☆ A familiar tale of alcoholism is revitalized by authors Guettel and Lucas, focusing on the addiction rather than the cure The post Days of Wine and Roses: Demon Rum Is a Suav…

Days of Wine and Roses: Musical on Alcoholic Sorrows Shakes and Stirs by David Finkle

★★★★☆ Kelli O'Hara, Brian d'Arcy James fine performances highlight Adam Guettel-Craig Lucas tuner. The post Days of Wine and Roses: Musical on Alcoholic Sorrows Shakes and Stirs ap…

Review Roundup: DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES Opens on Broadway - Updating Live!

Reviews are coming in for Days of Wine and Roses starring Kelli O'Hara and Brian D'Arcy James, which opened on Broadway tonight, Sunday, January 28th at Studio 54. The production, directed b…

‘Urinetown’ lands in Littleton by Alex Miller

Town Hall’s production of the satiric musical is a big jolt of fun The post ‘Urinetown’ lands in Littleton appeared first on OnStage Colorado.

Review: Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James Tear Our Hearts Out in Days of Wine and Roses

Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) announces 2024 program

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Reviews: What Do Critics Think of Days of Wine and Roses on Broadway? by Molly Higgins, Logan Culwell-Block

Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas' new musical officially opened at Studio 54 January 28.

Plaza Suite review – Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are spectacles at the celebrity circus by Arifa Akbar

Savoy theatre, LondonDespite a thrilling premise – New York’s power couple staging unhappy marriages – this dated production coasts on its stars’ fame rather than testing their seaso…

Days of Wine and Roses Broadway Review: Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James together again by New York Theater

Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara return to Broadway for the first time together since 2002 to portray a couple who fall in love with alcohol as much as with one another in this musi…

REVIEW ‘ONCE UPON A MATTRESS’. by Corine Cohen

Review: PLAZA SUITE, Savoy Theatre

Following a long-anticipated Broadway run, John Benjamin Hickey's production of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite has now made it over to the West End, where it takes over from New York-bound Sunset …

THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, ON STAGE VOICES: 1/21/2024 – 1/28/2024 by Robert Shuman

The past week’s international stage highlights, brought to you via the world’s foremost journalism.  Bard, the large language model from Google AI, provided information, insights, and m…

This Week on Broadway for January 28, 2024: Once Upon A Mattress @ City Center Encores! by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Once Upon A Mattress @ City Center Encores!, Our Class @ BAM, Sweeney Todd, and White Rose: The Musical “This Week on Broadw…

Meet the Cast and Creatives of Broadway's Days of Wine and Roses - YouTube

Meet the Cast and Creatives of Broadway's Days of Wine and Roses. 47 views · 54 minutes ago ...more. Playbill. 195K. Subscribe.

Review: Our Class at BAM Fisher by Loren Noveck

Through the lives of ten Polish primary school classmates, we see the horrors a community can perpetrate upon itself, and the long tail of violence's aftermath. Loren Noveck reviews. The po…

“Kate” at Pasadena Playhouse by Brian Sonia-Wallace

Now playing at the Pasadena Playhouse is the new production Kate, a one-person show performed by Kate Berlant. The name KATE looms omnipresent over the whole theatre. The sign over the …

Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James together on Broadway by NewYorkTheater

Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy perform together on Broadway for the first time in two decades, singing from "Days of Wine and Roses," a new Broadway musical based on the story of a couple who…

Dolly Parton Wants to Find Actors to Play 'Dolly' in Upcoming Broadway Musical 'Through Different Means'

According to an interview with People Magazine, Dolly Parton says she wants to find actors to play herself in the musical based on her life through 'different means.'

Review: ‘Champion’ at Lyric Opera delivers the full force of a boxer’s painful story by Chris Jones

Three different singers play the welterweight boxer Emile Griffith in Lyric Opera’s visceral production of Terence Blanchard’s 2013 jazz opera.

Meet the Cast and Creatives of Broadway's Days of Wine and Roses by Playbill

Watch Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James discuss the new Adam Guettel-Craig Lucas musical, Days of Wine and Roses, at Studio 54.

Theatre Review: ‘A Chorus Line’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre by Herb Merrick

“A Chorus Line” is an iconic musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante. The Broadway production ran for approximately …

Theatre News: Folger Shakespeare Reading Room Festival – Reframing the ‘Shrew’ by Anne Valentino

This is the second year the Folger has produced The Reading Room Festival, “with new work and conversations inspired by or in response to the plays of William Shakespeare.” The four-day …

"Champion" by Lyric Opera of Chicago

"Champion" at Lyric Opera of Chicago by composer Terence Blanchard.

Obie Awards, Sans Ceremony, Honor ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ by Michael Paulson

There was no formal celebration for the newest honorees. Instead, the American Theater Wing presented cash grants to sustain their work.

Can never get enough of this iconic trombone. by Hadestown

Can never get enough of this iconic trombone. ♥️ 🎥 :@uuillmann 🎶 : @emilyfmusic #hadestown #trombone #musical #broadwaytok

Exclusive: Oh My Pod U Guys- Q & Slay

I share all the latest Bway updates in this week's BroadwayWorld Recap. Then I answer all the best questions U guys sent in! We're talking Broadway secrets, Legally Blonde, and playing musi…

Theater and More Upcoming by Sandi Durell

Five: The Parody Musical with book and lyrics by Shimmy Braun & Moshiel Newman Dapha, music and lyrics by Billy Recce, choreography by Jen Wineman, will play February 15 thru March 10 at…

Corbin Bleu, Constance Wu & Audrey II by bwaySHO

Happy trails to Corbin Bleu and Constance Wu at their time in Skid Row. I loved chatting with them at the Little Shop of Horrors 1K performances celebration. Filmed by Avery Ingvarson Edit…

New Frank Wildhorn Rock Musical About Albert Einstein Will Premiere in Switzerland in 2025

According to an SWR interview with Walter Feucht, an entrepreneur and cultural organizer from Ulm, Switzerland, Frank Wildhorn's new rock musical about the life of Albert Einstein is schedu…

Listen to the Music of the Wild West on 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, it's Wild West Hour with show tunes and film s…

Hear the Real Groucho! And Much More by Trav S.D.

If I were any kind of a guy, I’d plug every single episode of the Marx Brothers Council Podcast as they drop, but the naked truth is, I can’t keep up. It’s the only podcast I listen to…

The Frogs review – Spymonkey’s fun Arisophanes update by Clare Brennan

Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonThe physical comedy ensemble revives the ancient Greek play in an audacious staging with a tragicomic present-day backstory The keynotes of the time are chao…

The week in theatre: Northanger Abbey; The Most Precious of Goods – review by Susannah Clapp

Orange Tree, Richmond; Marylebone theatre, LondonZoe Cooper’s vivaciously queer take on Jane Austen will make readers and audiences think twice. And Nicolas Kent distils a Holocaust fable …

How a West Bank Palestinian theater went from symbol of hope to casualty of war by Lauren Frayer

Jenin's Freedom Theatre was ransacked by Israeli soldiers, its staff thrown in jail. Once celebrated as a peace initiative, it's the latest casualty of near-daily military raids on the West …

Uplifting and funny, ‘The Garbologists’ is ready to talk trash at TheaterWorks Hartford by Christopher Arnott

"The Garbologists," a two-character comedy about New York sanitation workers, is at TheaterWorks Hartford Feb. 1-25.

From Mama Rose in ‘Gypsy’ to Joanne in ‘Company,’ Judy McLane puts her spin on musical theater roles by Christopher Arnott

Broadway star Judy McLane is on tour playing Joanne in "Company," coming to the Shubert Theatre in New Haven from Jan. 31 through Feb. 4.

Resolution 2024 review – naked emotion, mermaids and hermit crabs by Sarah Crompton

The Place, LondonNicola Adilman’s breathtaking exploration of what it is to be seen was the standout in a strong triple bill at the annual festival of new choreography The annual Resolutio…

Angst over LGBTQ+ stories led to another canceled show. But in a Wyoming town, a play was salvaged by Mead Gruver / Associated Press

Book Review: ‘Errand Into the Maze,’ by Deborah Jowitt by Alexandra Jacobs

Deborah Jowitt’s “Errand Into the Maze” revels in the artistry of the dance legend, while downplaying the messy choices in her marathon career.

The RSC’s new power duo: ‘It’s a mammoth job. That’s why we want to do it shoulder to shoulder’ by Sarah Crompton

Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans, the company’s new co-artistic directors, on work-life balance, their first season in charge – and what they’ll do when they disagree. Plus, below, six t…

67th Obie Awards: Zuleyma Guevara Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

From the very first moment of SANCOCHO, a hush falls over the audience as if we are afraid we'll be discovered spying on Caridad in her kitchen as she waits for her sister. Caridad prepares …

67th Obie Awards: Ensemble of The Comeuppance Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

A playwright is lucky to have actors embody their words, freeing them from the page to the stage and, in the process, adding new meaning to the work. When it’s not just one actor but a gro…

67th Obie Awards: Dickie Hearts Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

The way we gauge excellence in acting is often tied up with how a single language is spoken on stage. But in reality, the ways an actor communicates with their audience are far more expansiv…

67th Obie Awards: Mikaal Sulaiman Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

Plato describes music as “the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” To sit in space and feel, not only hear chords, but feel notes and an arrangement of m…

67th Obie Awards: Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

These two performance artists’ radical vision of what theater can be has shaped generations of artists since their debut in the 1980s at the WOW Café Theater. For decades, in plays such a…

67th Obie Awards: Barbara Samuels Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

The minimalism of a perfectly placed slash of light piercing the dark can be as memorable and dramatic as the best writing and acting. From the nightmarishly epic boxing ring of the mind in …

67th Obie Awards: Marla Mindelle Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

Her Celine Dion impersonation—the physicality, the mannerisms, and the octave-spanning voice—was simply unparalleled. Her ability to be improvisational and impromptu was extraordinary. H…

67th Obie Awards: K. Todd Freeman Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

Even after a career of many excellent turns in many excellent roles, this chameleonic actor took it up a notch with a pugnacious performance as a sex offender in DOWNSTATE. Part den mother a…

67th Obie Awards: dots Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

From the playfully bold pink box of DARK DISABLED STORIES to the minimalist Californian limbo of INFINITE LIFE, and the exacting naturalism of a home in India in PUBLIC OBSCENITIES, this col…

67th Obie Awards: Dustin Wills Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

From a dark basement in Germany to a boxing ring set among the ruins of one family’s journey to adopt a child, to a home in the suburbs of Arizona that explodes into an alien spaceship, on…

67th Obie Awards: William Jackson Harper Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

Perhaps the role was not written for him, but it sure feels like it was. The part of Kenneth in Eboni Booth’s PRIMARY TRUST demands subtlety, patience, charm, as well as an ability to brea…

67th Obie Awards: Ariana Venturi and Nadine Malouf Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

In this two-hander, there was no hiding or make-believe. Portraying two women trapped in the basement of their own paranoia and ever-growing spiritual and existential psychosis, these two ac…

67th Obie Awards: Shannon Tyo Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

You cannot stop watching her: whether in Lloyd Suh’s poignant Chinese immigrant drama THE FAR COUNTRY, where she plays a bride-to-be and is described as “always dynamic”; when she play…

67th Obie Awards: Liza Birkenmeier and Tara Ahmadinejad Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

Once in a while a collaboration emerges that is so artistically in sync that when you experience the production, you viscerally feel that the story and the direction buoy each other and enco…

67th Obie Awards: Alejandra Ospina Acceptance Speech by American Theatre Wing

The way we gauge excellence in acting is often tied up with how a single language is spoken on stage. But in reality, the ways an actor communicates with their audience are far more expansiv…

Karl Jurman Conduct "Circle of Life" from The Lion King! - YouTube

Karl Jurman Conduct "Circle of Life" from The Lion King! 346 views · 6 hours ago ...more. Playbill. 195K. Subscribe. 195K subscribers. 39. Share.

Watch a Performance from My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)! - YouTube

Watch a Performance from My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)! 268 views · 6 hours ago ...more. Playbill. 195K. Subscribe.

Gutenberg! The Musical Completes Broadway Run January 28 by Talaura Harms

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad star in the (very) fictional comedy about the inventor of the printing press.

Sufjan Stevens, Justin Peck, and Jackie Sibblies Drury Musical Illinoise Begins in Chicago January 28 by Andrew Gans

Directed and choreographed by Peck, the production plays Chicago Shakespeare Theater before arriving at the Park Avenue Armory in March.

Days of Wine and Roses Opens on Broadway January 28 by Logan Culwell-Block

Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James star in the new musical from Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas.