Lucille Lortel Awards 2025: Our Class by Jonathan Mandell

“Our Class,” Arlekin Players Theater’s play inspired by true events surrounding a 1941 pogrom by former classmates in a small Polish village, won outstanding revival, director, scenic …

Our Class Leads 2025 Lucille Lortel Award Wins; Read the Complete List Here by Logan Culwell-Block

The Arlekin Players production took four Off-Broadway honors May 4, including Outstanding Revival.

George Clooney Spotted Playing Softball in Central Park — Which Can Only Mean One Thing

... Broadway Show League. The League is made up of individuals from Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including celebrities currently on stage ...

February-March 2025: Comic Book Violence, Inner Children, and Bad Princes by Nicole Serratore

All these princes need therapy.  Life got away from me with concerts, surgery, and a busy work project. Saw J-Hope's solo show, Hwasa's world tour, and got very buried in my job.  But the…

On Purpose by Mason Pilevsky

Purpose – 04 May 2025 If I had to characterize Purpose in a single word, I think I might say, “hypocritical”—but I’d mean it in a good way. Purpose focuses on family values, but ex…

2025 Lucille Lortel Awards Winners- Updating Live

The 40th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards – the only New York theatre award to exclusively honor Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway – are being presented tonight, Sunday, May 4, 2025, at N…

Review: A Modern Classic Goes on Trial in The United States vs Ulysses - TheaterMania

Colin Murphy's comical take on a landmark case runs at the Irish Arts Center. Pete Hempstead. | Off-Broadway |. May 4, 2025.

ACTRESS – Tony Predictions by Mason Pilevsky

Pages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Featured Actress in a Play Tara Ashe, English Elham was a challenging character because she struggled the most with the language barrier, and Tara Ashe had t…

The United States vs. Ulysses Review by Jonathan Mandell

The 1933 trial that ended the US ban against James Joyce’s “Ulysses” for obscenity is viewed as a significant victory for free expression,  almost as much of a landmark in legal circ…

The wild tale of 'Dead Outlaw' - NY1

George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in 'Good Night, and Good Luck'. “On Stage” host Frank DiLella sat down with Clooney to chat about taking on ...

Gallery Players close out 76th season with 'Amadeus' | 10tv.com

Making its Broadway debut in 1980, "Amadeus" won the Tony Award for Best Play before it was made into an Academy Award winning film four years later.

Shakespeare's star-crossed heroine gets to 'Roar' in OKC run of hit pop musical '& Juliet'

What is the hit Broadway musical '& Juliet' about? Featuring familiar hits by Katy Perry, Pink and NSYNC, the musical "& Juliet" flips the script on ...

Gallery Players close out 76th season with 'Amadeus' - YouTube

Making its Broadway debut in 1980, "Amadeus" won the Tony Award for Best Play before it was made into an Academy Award winning film four years ...

Bonnie Wright Confirms There Is a 'Harry Potter' Cast Group Chat (Exclusive) - People.com

... Broadway play. “That's all I can say,” Wright adds coyly. “There is one ...

Community, hard work, and self-esteem bring empowerment to Latina immigrants in 'Real ...

A new Broadway musical adapted from Josefina López's 1990 play, which also inspired the 2002 HBO film of the same name, Real Women Have Curves, ...

Review: A Modern Classic Goes on Trial in The United States vs Ulysses

NYC puts forward bill to ban pedicabs near Broadway theaters - NBC New York

The New York City Council is considering banning pedicabs right around Broadway theater exits and entrances.

Snubbed! These 13 Broadway shows left out of the Tony Award nominations | amNewYork

Given that 42 Broadway shows were eligible to receive Tony Award nominations, it is not shocking that no less than 13 shows received no ...

Redwood review [Broadway 2025] - Man in Chair

Redwood review [Broadway 2025] ... Idina Menzel defies gravity all over again, flying high in original new musical Redwood. An inspiring tale of self ...

Extended interview: "Oh, Mary!" Tony nominee Cole Escola - YouTube

In this web exclusive, actor and playwright Cole Escola talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about the genesis of the Broadway farce "Oh, Mary!," the ...

'Our Roots Will Connect Us for Miles and Miles'; Idina Menzel Responds to Redwood's Early Closing

The musical will play its final performance on Broadway May 18. By Molly Higgins, Logan Culwell-Block. May 03, 2025.

Cole Escola on the hit Broadway farce "Oh, Mary!" - YouTube

Actor and playwright Cole Escola is the force behind the Broadway hit "Oh, Mary!" It's an over-the-top comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln and her ...

Cole Escola on the hit Broadway farce "Oh, Mary!" - CBS News

may be Broadway's most unlikely offering this season, a wildly over-the-top, not-at-all historically accurate look at first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, ...

With 'Hamilton' back in town, we picked Broadway's top 10 men's songs - San Diego Union-Tribune

In August, Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about American founding father Alexander Hamilton will mark its 10th anniversary on Broadway, where ...

Cazzu Publishes Her First Book & More Uplifting Moments in Latin Music - Billboard

Produced by Live Nation, the Broadway-inspired set — a nod to Rauw's new musical era that symbolizes elegance, maturity and glamour —includes a live ...

Star-studded 'Glengarry Glen Ross' hits Broadway - NY1

Three comedy powerhouses make their Broadway debuts in a gripping revival of David Mamet's classic. Bill Burr, Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean ...

Nick Wyman will lead 'Broadway Scores' to mark Palace Theater's 20th year after reopening

The event will celebrate 20 years since the renovated Palace Theater reopened in Waterbury. Courtesy of the Palace Theater. WATERBURY — Broadway's ...

Here Comes the Sun: “Smash” on Broadway - CBS News

The creatives behind Broadway's “Smash” sit down with Tracy Smith to discuss turning the hit television show into a Broadway musical.

The Bronx Wanderers: Broadway Theatre of Pitman, South Broadway - PhillyBurbs

With superlative vocals and musicianship, dynamic enthusiasm and a genuine love of the music they perform, The Bronx Wanderers create an energetic ...

Postcard from Broadway No. 6: 'Real Women' is an upbeat paean to empowerment

Postcard from Broadway No. 6: 'Real Women' is an upbeat paean to empowerment ... On my last full day in New York, I ended my theatergoing splurge with ...

'Redwood' Starring Idina Menzel Announces Broadway Closing After Tony Nominations Shut Out

Redwood, the Broadway musical starring Idina Menzel, will close on Sunday, May 18, producers announced one day after the production failed to ...

A Musical Tribute to Broadway Legend – Sondheim | The Jewish Voice & Opinion

By Two Sues on the Aisle, Susie Rosenbluth and Sue Weston. Sondheim's Old Friends: A Great Big Broadway Show is a musical tribute to Stephen ...

Broadway Review: “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical” at the James Earl Jones Theatre (Currently On) by David Roberts

The somewhat recognizable journey from play, to film, and finally to musical delivers the new “Real Women have Curves” to the James Earl Jones Theatre on Broadway. It has morphed into a …

This Week on Broadway for May 4, 2025: Real Women Have Curves by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Real Women Have Curves, Dead Outlaw, Broadway Dream Roles (BroadwayCares), Seth Rudetsky’s The Broadway Sitzprobe Experienc…

Broadway Review: “John Proctor is the Villain” at the Booth Theatre (Extended through Sunday, July 6, 2025) by David Roberts

The “Match” in Kimberly Belflower’s thoughtful new play “John Proctor is the Villain,” currently playing at the Booth Theatre, is between the heavyweight team “Toxic Masculinity�…

Video: Tony-Nominee Cole Escola Talks OH, MARY! And More On CBS Sunday Morning

Tony-nominee Cole Escola, creator and star of Oh, Mary!, sat down with CBS Sunday Morning for a chat about their smash Broadway comedy, artistic origins, and why the riotous new work comes f…

#hamiltonsimpact - Search / X

Playbill · @playbill. ·. Mar 17, 2016. Will A. Ham stay on the $10 bill because of. @HamiltonMusical ? #hamiltonsimpact http://playbill.com/article/ ...

Video: 3 Songs From Broadway's Real Women Have Curves | Playbill

See clips of the numbers “Daydream,” "Flying Away" and "Jugglin'" from the new musical.

Video: Disney's HERCULES Lights Up BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT

Check out title star Luke Brady and the company of Hercules bringing their gospel truth to the Britain's Got Talent stage. Watch the video of the cast performing some classic tunes from the …

Rialto Chatter: Could Saoirse Ronan and Andrew Scott Be Next for the Abbey Theatre Stage?

With Paul Mescal officially set to star in a 2027 production of A Whistle in the Dark,a co-production between London’s National Theatre and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre,industry chatter sugges…

Historic Canadian Theatres See New Life as Communities Rally for Restoration

A new report from The Albertan is spotlighting community leaders who are pushing to restore historic theatres that have long sat vacant or fallen into disrepair, aiming to preserve their cul…

Helena Bell obituary by Atiha Sen Gupta

Artistic director of Kali Theatre, the company founded to encourage writing by south Asian women From 2016 until her death, at the age of 64 after being diagnosed with cancer, Helena Bell wa…

Mystic Conversations by Scotty Bennett

The play is a nicely developing mystery fantasy story about the paranormal, but when the teenage boy is revealed as the Spirit Child, the show goes off track. The idea presented is that the …

Video: Aisha Jackson Sings 'A Little Bit in Love' In Encores! WONDERFUL TOWN

Check out new video from Wonderful Town at City Center Encores! as Aisha Jackson croons the sweet solo, 'A Little Bit in Love.' This musical love letter to New York City runs through May 11…

Best of the Week: New Lovers in Hadestown, Strindberg's Creditors Downtown and a Memoir of a Theater Kid by Paul Wontorek

This week’s lineup is all about fresh faces and new angles. Jeffrey Seller tells his own story for a change, Hadestown welcomes two rising stars to the underworld and Creditors crackles do…

Listen to Highlights of Radio 2 Loves Musicals 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, Paige looks back at the highlights of Radio 2 …

Sophie McCartney: One Foot in the Rave review – the ‘comedimum’ riffs on wild youth and motherhood by Guardian Staff

Bloomsbury theatre, LondonProfundity is in short supply in this celebration of received thinking about wrinkles and randy husbands – but McCartney makes the familiar shine ‘Give me a sho…

Broadway’s “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” Wows Visually and Dark Magically in the Upside Down by Ross

The Broadway Theatre Review: Stranger Things: The First Shadow By Ross “We are dead in the water,” they cry, as sweeping visual effects envelop the Broadway stage, making the air feel th…

John Proctor Is The Villain by Elyse Trevers

John Proctor is the Villain At the end of Arthur Miller’s classic play, “The Crucible,” protagonist John Proctor refuses to lie, even to save his own life. Overwhelmed by what he is be…

For International Firefighters Day: The Story of Mose the Fireman by Trav S.D.

I don’t even know if children are introduced to the traditional American legendary folk heroes any more, so perhaps I can’t assume that some readers know the stories of Paul Bunyan, Mike…

Arts agency terminates dozens of grants after Trump proposes eliminating NEA by Edward Helmore

National Endowment for the Arts notifies organizations that offers of government grants were terminated Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants ha…

Bailey Gallagher is the Hero by Mason Pilevsky

John Proctor is the Villain – 03 May 2025 John Proctor is the Villain examines the shifting perceptions of the status quo and radical redefinitions of feminism in a small town in Georgia …

Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers transported to the wild west by Arifa Akbar

Globe theatre, LondonDirector Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious Verona The warring Houses of Montague and C…

Here’s why May the 4th is celebrated as Star Wars Day across the galaxy by The Associated Press

It didn’t begin a long time ago or in a galaxy far far away, but every May 4 it feels like images, memes and promotional deals involving “Star Wars” have an inescapable gravity. May 4 …

Chairography by Mason Pilevsky

Buena Vista Social Club – 03 May 2025  The strongest element of Buena Vista Social Club was also the uniting force within the world of the show – the music. Though it didn’t used to…

Yale’s annual Carlotta Festival offers features productions of new works by graduating playwrights by Christopher Arnott

The annual festival offers full-scale productions by graduating playwrights from the David Geffen School of Drama directed and designed by fellow students.

CT book clubs offer everything from the classics to cookbooks and Shakespeare to Stephen King by Christopher Arnott

There's a Connecticut book club for every taste. Whether you read Shakespeare or Stephen King, there are groups where you can discuss your favorite authors or subjects.

Book Review: ‘The Butcher’s Daughter,’ by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark by Jennifer Harlan

A new novel, “The Butcher’s Daughter,” imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.

‘Sinners’ and Shows like ‘Severance’ Give an Old Form New Life by Alissa Wilkinson

Online, onstage and onscreen, performers are playing multiple parts. The effect of watching someone shape-shift can be both thrilling and unnerving.

Theater review: ‘Jaws’ fans will eat up ‘The Shark is Broken’ in Beverly by Peter Chianca

If Steven Spielberg’s classic film is part of your cinematic vocabulary, this behind-the-scenes comedy at North Shore Music Theatre is a must-see. The post Theater review: ‘Jaws’ fans…

Read Idina Menzel's response to Redwood Musical's closing announcement. - Facebook

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The Limited Legacy of Harold B. Franklin by Trav S.D.

This one goes out to my Texas friend Jennifer B. Hargis! Harold B. Franklin (1889-1941) was a New York kid who started out as a vaudeville booking agent, then worked his way up to managing t…

Lin-Manuel Miranda's next project is already on the horizon. - Facebook

Donna Arroyo If you don't mind can you please send me a friend request on Facebook. 1 hr. Recent Posts. Playbill profile picture. Playbill 󱢏. 1h󰞋󱟠.

'Our Roots Will Connect Us for Miles and Miles'; Idina Menzel Responds to Redwood's Early Closing

In his episode of Playbill's My Life in the Theatre, available now, the Tony-winning director looked back on just a fraction of his creative ouvre.

James Ellison: Another Invisible Man by Trav S.D.

This is not to slight black author Ralph Ellison, it’s just that I wouldn’t know JAMES Ellison (1910-1993) if I tripped over him — in spite of having seen him in at least a couple of d…

My mum was begging to die in her last days – I wish I had been strong enough to help her by Neil Labute

Award-winning playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute draws from his own well of experience for his new play about assisted dying, ‘How to Fight Loneliness’

Ken Fallin’s Broadway: Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends by Ken Fallin

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends is a musical cornucopia and divine celebration of the Stephen Sondheim songbook. Tony Award-winning icons Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead an extraordi…

Theatre News: Redwood, Othello, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, Sunset Blvd, StageStruck! VI: Women and the American Musical and National Asian Ar by Suzanna Bowling

Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, will play its final performance at the Nederlander Theatre on May 18th. Written and directed by Tony Award-nominee Tina Landau, with music by Kate Diaz, and l…