National Endowment for the Arts reports on the state of nonprofit theaters nationwide by Michael Abourizk

The results identify current challenges and possible solutions.

‘Wicked’ first show ever to gross over $5 million in a single week by Michael Abourizk

Broadway box office surpasses pre-pandemic holiday-week gross; for the week ending Dec. 29, the 33 currently running productions grossed $55,822,374.

PST ART: Art & Science Collide by Pauline Adamek

Southern California’s landmark arts event Pacific Standard Time—now PST ART—returned in September 2024 with more than 70 exhibitions from museums and other institutions across the regi…

Dance Into 2025 With Advice From Your Favorite Broadway Shows

Dance into 2025 with advice from your favorite Broadway shows including Oh, Mary!, Death Becomes Her, Sunset Boulevard, Left on Tenth, ...

10 Questions About Theater in 2025 - New York Theater

... Broadway? how celebrity-packing will affect Broadway? -- provoked by issues, trends and events from 2024. I've done such a post every New Year's ...

Women Directed Just 16% of 2024’s Top 250 Grossing Movies, New Report Faults Hollywood For Lack of Progress by Brent Lang

From thrillers like “Babygirl” and “Love Lies Bleeding” to genre-bending horror flicks like “The Substance” to inspirational sports dramas like “The Fire Inside,” women direc…

‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu Explains Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth’s Cameo by Glenn Garner

With two of the most anticipated movie cameos of the year, Jon M. Chu had his work cut out for him. The Wicked director recently recounted how he conceived an appearance for the original Bro…

The Unforgettable Broadway Events of 2024

Though the Broadway life of this musical from Americana mainstays, The Avett Brothers, was short-lived, it made a lasting impact on audiences. Based ...

Travel "Back to the Future" as Broadway musical arrives in Denver this month - YouTube

... Arts. Travel "Back to the Future" as Broadway musical arrives in Denver this month. No views · 3 minutes ago ...more. CBS Colorado. 140K.

Travel "Back to the Future" as Broadway musical arrives in Denver this month - CBS News

Travel "Back to the Future" as Broadway musical arrives in Denver this month. colorado. By Dillon Thomas. January 1, 2025 / 12:38 PM MST / CBS ...

Recap the Broadway Debuts of 2024

2024's featured Broadway debuts include Victoria Pedretti in An Enemy of the People, Tommy Dorfman & more in Romeo + Juliet, plus many others!

George Clooney feels thrilled after bagging Broadway debut: Report - Geo.tv

George Clooney is reportedly moving to NYC for his Broadway debut.As per the latest findings of Life & Style, the acting sensation is super ...

Jennifer Lopez on ‘Unstoppable,’ ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ and Playing Empowered Characters: ‘From the Minute Women Are Born, We’re Alwa by Brent Lang

Jennifer Lopez keeps having to remind Judy Robles that she deserves all the attention she’s been getting as the pair promote “Unstoppable.” The inspirational sports drama has been earn…

December 2024: Found Family and Haunted Exes by Nicole Serratore

Closing out a weak year of dramas...with dramas that started out promising or offer some good performances in less than stellar material.   Praying 2025 breaks the drama drought!*********…

Eureka Day by Elyse Trevers

The Board of Directors of Eureka Day school, a private school in upscale Berkeley, California, prizes inclusivity above all else. So no issues will be resolved without complete agreement. �…

Elmer McCurdy: The Backstory on “Dead Outlaw” by Trav S.D.

Just as the pathway nowadays to Alexander Hamilton by the masses has got to be Lin-Manuel Miranda, the way to Elmer McCurdy (1880-1911) will forever be David Yazbek, thanks to his musical De…

JENNY LYN BADER: ‘MRS. STERN WANDERS THE PRUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY’–MUST CLOSE JANUARY 19 by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs/DARR Publicity) Berlin, 1933. With martial law in effect, political activism has become a capital crime. A young Gestapo officer arrests a graduate student suspected of ille…

Video: Max Chernin & Talia Suskauer Are Getting Ready to Hit the Road in PARADE

Meet the Franks! Max Chernin and Talia Suskauer are getting ready to hit the road in the national tour of Parade. Watch in this video as the pair chats more about how they manifested shari…

10 Questions About Theater in 2025 by New York Theater

The year 2025 begins with some short-term questions about theater – the fate of “Warriors,” the effect of “Wicked”?– and more long-term ones – what new leadership will mean to …

With The Reservoir, Jake Brasch Examines His Own Addiction and Recovery Journey by Barbara O'Neil

The Denver playwright’s latest production premieres at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts on January 17. The post With <em>The Reservoir</em>, Jake Brasch Examines His …

Key Administrative Tasks for January by Eric Joseph Rubio

Happy New Year! With the busy holiday concert period closed, it’s time to take care of some important start-of-year administrative tasks. Here are four such tasks to consider tackling with…

About B. Kliban by Trav S.D.

Also born of a New Year’s Day, one of my favorite cartoonists, B. Kliban (1935-1990). Fun fact: Kliban despised his given name Bernard so much that he had it changed legally to B. To frien…

Dick Capri, Catskills Comic Who Took His Shtick to Broadway, Dies at 93 by Richard Sandomir

He was a regular at the mountain resorts where many comedians honed their acts, then had a star turn in the long-running revue “Catskills on Broadway.”

Samuel Barnett: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) by Samuel Barnett

The English actor shares what tickles his funny bone, from a bracing bagpipes outtake to a foolproof moment of awkward familial physical interaction More summer essentials Get our breaking …

Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025 by Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship

Gary Oldman’s tackling Beckett, Strictly winner Chris McCausland is on a huge standup tour – and mods can rev their scooters to a dance Quadrophenia Continue reading...

Five Things I Am Trying to Better My Work/Life Balance in 2025 by Victoria Cairl

As an entrepreneur, I have been obsessed with building my business for nearly six years. The obsession has consumed my life and driven me to work constantly. I have lost my balance between w…

Reviews: What Did Critics Think of Michael Mayer’s Aida at the Metropolitan Opera? by Natan Zamansky

New Year’s Eve inaugurated the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s opera in nearly 40 years.

Recap the Broadway Debuts of 2024

BroadwayWorld is rounding up all of our 2024 Debut of the Month features in one place, celebrating the artists who brought energy, artistry, and passion to the stage this year.

The Best Reviewed Broadway Shows of 2024

44 Broadway shows opened in 2024, and while not all of them were loved by the critics, there were plenty of standouts all year long.

'& Juliet' lead actress views this Shakespeare as anything but tragic

... Broadway in Atlanta. “I feel a sense of responsibility with the role of ... She had gone on in the lead role 145 times, she said, and asked if she could ...

'Wicked' Broadway Tickets: Musical Breaks Record for Highest-Grossing Week of All Time ...

Wicked has been a huge success at the movie theater box office this past month and the Broadway musical is breaking records as well!

As pop-u-lar as ever, Wicked musical breaks Broadway record - AV Club

Once again, defying gravity and expectations the Wicked continues to be pop-u-lar, enjoying the most lucrative week in Broadway history.

One hundred million fans cannot make you famous

Mass, cross-generational audiences have disappeared and even MrBeast can’t find them

Sir James Frazer and “The Golden Bough” by Trav S.D.

Cambridge scholar Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) was born of a New Year’s Day: how perfect for him to have been born at this season of ritual renewal and rebirth, and (as it happens, here in…

Broadway Boomed Last Week Even with “Gypsy” Shut Down Because of Cast Illness by Roger Friedman

Except for “Gypsy,” every other show on Broadway boomed during Christmas week. Total receipts were up by $11 million over the previous week to $55 million. That’s a high for the year. …

Playbill - In a year of great triumph and great loss, the... - Facebook

In a year of great triumph and great loss, the theatre community has mourned the passing of numerous icons and influences. As the year comes to an ...

The Wizard of Oz (RSC 1987) at From Stage to Screen Acting Studio - PLAYBILLder

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Broadway Grosses w/e 12/29/2024 by Ken Davenport

The top 10 grossing shows from the week ending on... The post Broadway Grosses w/e 12/29/2024 first appeared on Ken Davenport.

Dance Into 2025 With Advice From Your Favorite Broadway Shows

Dance into 2025 with advice from your favorite Broadway shows including Oh, Mary!, Death Becomes Her, Sunset Boulevard, Left on Tenth, and Elf the Musical!

Brian Friel’s plays to be brought home to cross-border Irish terroir that inspired them by Caroline Davies

Five-year project will show acclaimed dramatist’s plays in location, season or even month in which they were set, to mark centenary of his birth in 1929 Plays by the acclaimed Irish dramat…

Theatrical Resolutions: 2025 Edition by JK

Happy New Year! With 2024 behind us, it seems only appropriate to take stock of the year that was, and to look ahead at those things we hope to accomplish in 2025. Theatrical Resolutions: …

Timothy West remembered by Samuel West by Guardian Staff

20 October 1934 – 12 November 2024The star of stage and screen, one half of a reluctant showbiz couple, is recalled by his son as an actor who excelled at playing famous people while remai…

From spiked cider to postmodern jazz: 9 local musts to seek out before winter ends by Samuel Long / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Circle the date: What to look forward to in Pittsburgh in 2025 by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rose Matafeo: ‘When you walk into a pub quiz and see a table of old geezers, you’re screwed’ by Tim Lewis

The Kiwi comedian on Junior Taskmaster, her love of games, and her bizarre childhood Christmases featuring… the lollyman Some of Rose Matafeo’s Christmas traditions might sound slightly …

The best theatre to stream this month: Mathew Baynton’s Dream, Hadestown and more by Chris Wiegand

Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical gets a West End spin and the Horrible Histories star’s Bottom are among this month’s highlights He played the Bard on Horrible Histories (“they c…

TV, Movies, Music and Art to Look Forward to in 2025 by James Poniewozik, Zachary Woolfe, Jon Pareles, Jason Farago, Gia Kourlas, Jesse Green, Salamishah Tillet, Mike Hale, Alissa Wilkinson, Amanda Hess, Jason Zinoman and Maya Phillips

“Severance” is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.

HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg by NPR

Ringing in 2025: Mike and Ian knock out a New Year's resolution with the help of filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg, and a listener calls in to settle a high-stakes bet on the sturdiness of honeybees…

Playbill Celebrates Broadway's January Birthdays by Dylan Parent

Happy birthday to Broadway's brightest born in the first month of the year—from a triplet of Emcees to the original Phantom of the opera.