The Great Renegotiation: Five Ideas about where Culture is going in 2026 by Douglas McLennan

If 2025 is the year that 20th Century culture models stopped working, 2026 is the year we turn to building something new.

Robert Heide, Angsty Playwright and Warhol Collaborator, Dies at 91 by Alex Traub

He helped create the Off Off Broadway theater scene, wrote and acted in Andy Warhol’s films, and made his apartment into a singular exhibit of Americana.

This Week on Broadway for January 4, 2026: The 2026 Spring Preview by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about what is coming up in the Spring of 2026 (and beyond!) “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 200…

Francis Patrelle, Founder of a Ballet Company, Dies at 78 by Marina Harss

A champion of the story ballet, he built a tightly knit community in New York around his classes at Ballet Academy East and his company, Dances Patrelle.

Bret Hanna-Shuford, Broadway Veteran and Popular Influencer, Dies at 46 by Paul Wontorek

Bret Hanna-Shuford, a veteran of six Broadway shows and popular social media influencer, died after a brief battle with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma and HLH died in Orlando, Florid…

Simon Stone on luring film stars on stage, family tragedy and staging Chekhov in Korean: ‘It’s one of the proudest moments in my career’ by Steve Dow

Directing the likes of Alicia Vikander, Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman on stage, the Australian director is returning to Adelaide festival with a bold new take on The Cherry Orchard Get our …

Exclusive: Oh My Pod U Guys- Those Pipes, These Legs with Keely Beirne

The latest episode of Oh My Pod U Guys (hosted by Jayke Workman) is here! Oh My Pod U Guys is a weekly musical theater and pop culture chat show, in which Jayke discusses current events in t…

Bret Hanna-Shuford Dies: ‘Wicked’ Broadway Actor Was 46 by Glenn Garner

Bret Hanna-Shuford, a Broadway actor known his performances in Wicked and The Little Mermaid, has died. He was 46. The actor’s husband Stephen Hanna-Shuford announced Bret’s death on Sat…

Kick Off the New Year By Playing ‘Kiss, Marry, Avoid’ With 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. To kick off the New Year, Paige is offering the first of …

From ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ to ‘Wuthering Heights’: Upcoming Book Adaptations in 2026 by Lexy Perez

A myriad of both new and older books will be reimagined for the big and small screens, from viral books on BookTok to old favorites.

ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART ONE by Bill Hirschman

On the Wheels of a Dream: Part One of an in-depth three-part series about the future of Florida theater. As the curtain cautiously rises again this year in South Florida, profound questions …

He builds tables for Dungeons & Dragons players. They sell for over $10,000 a pop by Colin Warren Hicks

Michael Jimenez sells his custom D&D tables for thousands of dollars.

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Broadway Poll: Spring 2026 Show You Most Want To See? by Jonathan Mandell

Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 16 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and the end of April, 2026. Please consider answering two oth…

Where Oregon Shakespeare Festival costumes go to work again by Jim Flint

Inside the Talent warehouse in Southern Oregon, thousands of festival costumes are preserved and reused, then sent to stages across the country, including "Saturday Night Live."

The Rivals review – heady, flapper-ish revival is stylishly silly Christmas fun by Arifa Akbar

Orange Tree theatre, London Comedy’s upper-class antics are transposed to 1920s Bath and bring a crowd-pleasing mix of anarchic spirit and silliness, though it slackens occasionally Richar…

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for January 4, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for January 4, 2026 are about Hypnotism in Show Business; and The Story of the Brothers Grimm. Other earlier Travalanche posts for January 4 (in no particular…

Echoes of a Crumbling Republic: Review of “Berlin” at Chicago’s Court Theatre (2025) by Susanna Sun

Berlin at Chicago’s Court Theatre (April–May 2025) was nothing short of a theatrical triumph. Directed by the seasoned Charles Newell, who has helmed the Court Theatre for three decades,…

The Story of the Brothers Grimm by Trav S.D.

Ever since the advent of the World Wide Web I have sought to track down the edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales I owned as a small child, all in vain. My own copy eventually fell apart and had …

CT rings in 2026 with a months-long list of events to honor the United States Semiquincentennial by Christopher Arnott

A slew of events marking the 250th anniversary of the U.S., from historic exhibits to musical concerts, are taking place in Connecticut starting in January.

Happy World Hypnotism Day by Trav S.D.

January 4 is observed by those in the field as World Hypnotism Day. By “the field”, I mean of course practitioners, mostly therapists and those working within the psychology and psychiat…

Storied alt-rock act headlines annual Blizzard B-Day Bash that celebrates band’s new drummer by Christopher Arnott

The rock act Tantric, founded in the 1990s, may seem an unlikely headliner for Opus' Blizzard B-Day Bash at Toad’s Place until you realize the birthday boy is a new member.

Fragments on the Flint Family of Hypnotists by Trav S.D.

We first heard of Canadian born hypnotist Herbert L. (Longley) Flint (b. 1862) as a mentor to the later Pauline, but have since gathered some additional fragments. Dr. Flint worked the vaude…

Menier’s “Fallen Angels”: Champagne, Jealousy, and Noël Coward at Full Fizz by Ross

The London UK Theatre Review: Fallen Angels at the Menier Chocolate Factory By Ross It’s all delicious art deco inside Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, revived most brilliantly at the Menie…

Broadway Bids Adieu to Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter-Led Waiting for Godot January 4 by Logan Culwell-Block

Jamie Lloyd directed the Samuel Beckett classic, a reunion for the Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure stars.

Broadway Bids Adieu to Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter-Led Waiting for Godot December 4 by Logan Culwell-Block

Jamie Lloyd directed the Samuel Beckett classic, a reunion for the Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure stars.

Ken Fallin’s Broadway: Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher Capturing the Power Players of Chess by Ken Fallin

Broadway may be a living art form, but few artists capture its pulse quite like Ken Fallin. Known for his instantly recognizable pen-and-ink caricatures of legends from stage and screen, Fal…

Guilt Takes Root and Falls Hard in All My Sons by Ivo van Hove by Ross

Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, and Paapa Essiedu in the West End production of All My Sons. Photo by Jan Versweyveld. The play opens in thematic chaos, as wind roars…