Friday, June 27, 2025

Hot Show Alert: Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit & Nicholas Christopher to Star in Epic Chess Revival—Tickets On Sale! by Paul Wontorek

This fall, Broadway audiences will get to see theater history made when Chess returns to the Imperial Theatre, 37 years after its original debut there in 1988. Set during the Cold War, the s…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

1984 returns to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre this July

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Monday, June 23, 2025

Marilyn Monroe Would Now Be 99 by Joshua Ellis

June 1, 2025 would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 99th birthday. I find that remarkable. I never met Marilyn Monroe, but I publicized the 1984 New York City revival of Arthur Miller’s After…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:03AM
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The Life of Avon Long by Trav S.D.

A tip of the hat today to singer, dancer, actor, and all-around performer Avon Long (1910-1984). A Baltimore native, Long got his start in Harlem in the late 1920s, at such venues as the Laf…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:48PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Edinburgh Fringe Preview: 1984 at Pleasance Courtyard (Above) by Staff Writer

Box Tale Soup returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the world premiere of 1984, a bold new adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian classic. Running from 30 July to 25 August (exclu…

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 12:06PM
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Purpose’s Kara Young Makes Tony Awards History with Back-to-Back Wins by Beth Stevens

Kara Young has made Broadway history with her second consecutive Tony Award win. She earned Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Purpose, becoming the first Black performer…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54PM
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher to Lead a Broadway Revival of Chess by Hayley Levitt

Chess, the ABBA-scored musical set set around a Cold War-era chess tournament, will return to Broadway in a revival directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer and choreographed by Lorin Lat…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AM

Edith Massey: Back to the Egg by Trav S.D.

May 28 was the birthday of Edith Massey (1918-1984) the dentally challenged oddball at the heart of most of John Waters’ early movies, best known for her egg-sucking scene in Pink Flamingo…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AM
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Theatre Review: ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful’ at Everyman Theatre by Lynne Menefee

The term “penny dreadful” describes cheap publications, popular in Victorian England, that were often sold for a penny and featured lurid stories about crime, adventure, or the supernatu…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:39PM
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Theatre Review: ‘Footloose’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Danielle Comer

Everybody’s cutting “Footloose” at NextStop Theatre Company’s production of the 1998 musical based on the beloved 1984 film of the same name. With music by Tom Snow, lyrics by Dean P…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:12PM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Inside the Swept Away Reunion Concert at the Bowery by Playbill

A pair of sold-out reunion concerts of Broadway's Avett Brothers musical, Swept Away, was held April 28 at Bowery Ballroom. The concerts featured the full original Broadway cast, led by Tony…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:06PM

Video: Kevin Bacon Revives Iconic 'Footloose' Performance at Stagecoach

On Sunday, the Footloose star took the Stagecoach Festival stage to perform Kenny Loggins' title number from the 1984 musical classic, alongside his brother Michael Bacon. Watch a clip of th…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Shake & Stir Theatre Co announces cast for epic nationwide tour for Orwell’s 1984

The post Shake & Stir Theatre Co announces cast for epic nationwide tour for Orwell’s 1984 appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:39AM

Renee Goddard obituary by Julia Pascal

Actor and script editor who oversaw programmes at ATV and introduced foreign drama to Channel 4 Renee Goddard, who has died aged 102, came to Britain from Germany in 1934, with little educat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM
Friday, April 18, 2025

Friday 5: Two Ladies: Shows With 2 Female Leads by JK

"Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, I like it, Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, We like it, Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, This two for one!" So sings the giddy Emcee in Cabaret. We all know what that song su…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 01:42PM
Monday, April 14, 2025

Torvill & Dean: Our Last Dance review – Olympic champs’ classy glide down memory lane by David Jays

OVO Arena, Wembley, LondonThis highlight reel of totemic routines interspersed with some dazzling cast numbers showcases the couple’s former greatness and timeless elegance A painfully mir…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM
Thursday, April 10, 2025

John Pizzarelli Trio - "Tea for Two" | Live at The Kennedy Center by The Kennedy Center

Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli has been hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” He’s expanded his repertoire by incl…

SOURCE: YouTube at 05:24PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Glengarry Glen Ross by Carey Purcell

Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk I lost track of the number of times I thought, “It was a different time,” while watching G…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:24PM
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Glengarry Glen Ross ***, Deep Blue Sound **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward April 5, 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s savagely funny takedown of cutthroat Chicago real-estate salesmen, has been a magnet for male actors to prove their thea…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:41PM

Glengarry Glen Ross ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter April 5, 2025. First seen on Broadway 41 years ago (March 25, 1984), and revived three times since then (2005, 2012, and now, at the Palace), David Mamet’s Glengarry G…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:33PM

Star-Struck on Broadway: "Glengarry Glen Ross," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Othello" and "The Picture of Dorian G by Jan Simpson

As everyone knows, big name movie and TV stars have been invading Broadway this spring (click here for a rundown of who is doing what) and theatergoers are paying big bucks for the bragging …

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PM
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Movie review: ‘The Luckiest Man in America’ goes behind scenes of game show scandal by Tribune News Service

“The Luckiest Man in America” is an ironic title for the story of Michael Larson, the Ohio man who managed to win over $110,000 on a 1984 episode of the game show “Press Your Luck.” …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AM
Monday, March 31, 2025

Glengarry Glen Ross review – David Mamet’s masterpiece still dazzles on Broadway by Jesse Hassenger

Palace Theatre, New YorkKieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr lead an impressive new staging of the bleak yet darkly funny drama The new revival of David Mamet’s seminal play Glengarry…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30PM

‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Theater Review: Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr Bristle With Cutthroat Rivalry in Punchy David Mamet Revival by David Rooney

Michael McKean also stars in Patrick Marber’s Broadway production of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner about Chicago real estate hucksters driven to desperate measures.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:30PM
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

On March 25, 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross Premieres on Broadway by Logan Culwell-Block

Currently enjoying an all-star revival, the David Mamet play won the Pulitzer and the Tony when it debuted.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM
Thursday, March 20, 2025

1984 – The REAL Big Brother is back!

The post 1984 – The REAL Big Brother is back! appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:12AM
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Becoming Ricky Roma: Joe Mantegna on Originating the Cutthroat Charmer of Glengarry Glen Ross by Darryn King

A little over four decades ago, theater audiences first met Richard Roma, the strutting, soliloquizing top-dog salesman of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. In the hands of the actor Joe…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AM
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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Friday, February 21, 2025

The Sam Peckinpah Centennial by Trav S.D.

Born 100 years ago today, Hollywood’s original poet of violence, Sam Peckinpah (1922-1984). I reckon it was always forgone that Peckinpah would not live to see this day. The man consumed v…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:06PM
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Churchill in Moscow review – the British bulldog’s gripping meeting with Stalin by Mark Lawson

Orange Tree theatre, LondonThere are laugh-aloud gags and spiky dialogue as Roger Allam and Peter Forbes star in Howard Brenton’s play about the 1942 encounter In the 1970s, Howard Brenton…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

ON KIM STANLEY’S 100 BIRTHDAY by Ron Fassler

Actress Kim Stanley (1925–2001).February 11, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler The actress Kim Stanley (born Patricia Reid) was born 100 years ago today. On Broadway in 19…

SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:07PM