Monday, October 20, 2025
There was a flourish of purple at the State Theater for the debut of a new musical adaptation of the performer’s 1984 movie in his hometown in Minnesota.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
It's game on for the Broadway revival of Chess, starring Tony winner Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher. The musical begins performances at the Imperial Theatre on Octo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36AMSunday, October 5, 2025
Little Shop Of Horrors Off Broadway 1984
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:21PMFriday, September 19, 2025
On the dance scene for more than four decades, choreographer Stephen Petronio founded his singular, heart-thumping Stephen Petronio Company in 1984. Nearly every year since, the group presen…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMSunday, September 14, 2025
Charles Ludlam was a pioneering figure in queer theater in the 1980s with campy send-ups of classic works (Satyricon in Turds in Hell, Hamlet in Stage Blood) as well as Old Hollywood (like h…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
September 14, 2025: Revivals of Henrik Ibsen are common enough, though A Doll’s House tends to dominate. Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People appear regul…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:00PMThursday, September 11, 2025
Next summer, the star will appear in Stratford-upon-Avon first as Prospero and then alongside Helen Hunt in Chekhov’s classic
More than 40 years after his star-making performance as Henry …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMWednesday, September 3, 2025
The life and career of Merritt Butrick (1959-1989) were both short, but I’m just the right age to have witnessed his time of peak fame, which occurred (most unusually) at the start of his …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:12AMSunday, August 31, 2025
An Interview with Ana Ristoska Trpenoska, a playwright, dramaturg, Vienna/Skopje, Austria/R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar. Ana Ristoska Trpenoska (1984, Skopje) stud…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:47PMTuesday, August 26, 2025
St. Ann’s Warehouse has just announced that Tony nominees Tom Sturridge and Brian d’Arcy James have joined the cast of St. Ann’s new production of Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMFriday, August 22, 2025
Edinburgh Fringe Review: 1984 at Pleasance Courtyard (Above)
“Despite strong performances, this 1984 lacks the thematic depth of Orwell’s original”
The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: 19…
SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 11:35AMThursday, August 21, 2025
Casting is complete for the world premiere of Purple Rain, the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of Prince’s 1984 musical film. With a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Branden Ja…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMSee who's joining previously announced stars Kris Kollins and Rachel Webb in the stage version of the 1984 film.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMOn Wednesday, BroadwayWorld reported that the beloved Muppets would be joining magician Rob Lake for a new magic show opening at the Broadhurst Theatre this fall. The production will mark th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMWednesday, August 13, 2025
John Wood, Marian Seldes and Victor Garber in “Deathtrap” (1978).August 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
On this date forty-four years ago, Ira Levin’s Deathtrap…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:57AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
The world premiere of Purple Rain, the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of Prince’s 1984 musical film, has found its stars. Kris Kollins will star as The Kid, and Rachel Webb will play Ap…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMThis fall’s world premiere in Minneapolis of the stage musical Purple Rain will star an up-and-coming musician-songwriter named Kris Kollins in the main role of The Kid, made famous in the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMMonday, August 4, 2025
Now playing at the Glimmerglass Festival is Sunday In The Park With George, led by Broadway veteran John Riddle. The cast also includes Marina Pires as Dot/Marie, John Riddle as George, Lure…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMFriday, August 1, 2025
Classic Stage Company has added a second benefit concert performance of The Rink, featuring a book by Terrence McNally, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. In addition to the previ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMThursday, July 31, 2025
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed.
Kelli O'Hara and More Join Tom Hanks in This World of Tomorrow
Casting is complete for the off-Broadway world premiere of This Worl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMWednesday, July 30, 2025
Tony Award winners Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, The Prom) and Jessie Mueller (Beautiful, Waitress) will star in Classic Stage Company's one-night-only benefit concert performance of TH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMSaturday, July 26, 2025
The 2000 year-old rivalry of two fatally seductive, bloodsucking actresses in a cult classic by the inimitable Charles Busch By Alix Cohen Onto the 54 Below stage file very old friends, but …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:33AMThursday, July 3, 2025
The post 1984 appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:10AMFriday, June 27, 2025
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 02:24PMWednesday, June 25, 2025
The post 1984 returns to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre this July appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:26AMMonday, June 23, 2025
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 12:03AMWednesday, June 18, 2025
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 12:48PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
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 12:06PMSunday, June 8, 2025
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 10:54PMWednesday, May 28, 2025
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 09:48AMMay 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