Friday, November 14, 2025

Photos: THE BAKER'S WIFE Celebrates Opening Night at Classic Stage Company

Classic Stage Company celebrated the opening night of The Baker’s Wife, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Joseph Stein, music & lyrics by Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Steph…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PM

The Marriage of Figaro | Nov. 14 - 22, 2025 | Opera House by The Kennedy Center

🎟️ Buy tickets: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/marriage-of-figaro/ If love’s a game, anyone can play in Mozart’s sparkling The Marriage of Figaro. In this sneak…

SOURCE: YouTube at 03:42PM
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Get your tix for COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE at MCC Theater by MCC Theater

Get your tix today for COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE! The Artistic Directors of MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Page 73 invite you to experience the critically acclaimed play with music by RO REDD…

SOURCE: YouTube at 02:42PM

COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE is Now on Sale! by MCC Theater

Tix now on sale for COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE! Performances begin Feb 21 Tix: https://mcctheater.org/tix/cold-war-choir-practice/ RO REDDICK’S (THROWBACK ISLAND) COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE was…

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

‘I really enjoyed it’: new RSC curriculum brings Shakespeare’s works to life in UK classrooms by Sally Weale Education Correspondent

Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard Act 1. Scene 1. A classroom in a secondary school in Peterborough. It is a d…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Review Roundup: Ariana DeBose and More Star in THE BAKER'S WIFE at Classic Stage Company

See what the critics are saying about Classic Stage Company’s production of The Baker’s Wife, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Joseph Stein, music and lyrics by Oscar, Grammy, and T…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33PM
Monday, November 10, 2025

7 Spellbinding Facts About Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Star Tom Felton by Jamie Kravitz

In a move so ingenious one might think Hermione Granger was behind it, Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child cast actor Tom Felton in none other than the role of Draco Malfoy. Felton …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:48PM
Friday, November 7, 2025

‘Why don’t you believe Palestinians?’: the Israeli comedian putting the conflict on stage by Adrian Horton

In documentary Coexistence, My Ass!, Noam Shuster Eliassi uses humor and honesty to turn a one-woman show into something politically radical In the late 2010s, Noam Shuster Eliassi was worki…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Art by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in a scene from Yasmina Reza’s “Art” at the Music Box Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Yasmina Reza’s Art which is turning…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:07PM

Truth Is a Mother: Here's What You Actually Need to Know About Oedipus on Broadway by Mara Reinstein

There’s a solid chance that the last time you had to think deeply about Oedipus Rex, you were sitting in 11th grade English class and trying to understand the symbolism behind the titular …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Crooked Cross by Wendy Caster

In the early 1930s, Sally Carson, an English writer and dancing teacher, spent time in Germany. She then wrote Crooked Cross, which focuses on the insidious growth of Nazism, first as a nove…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:12PM

Going Solo: "The Least Problematic Woman in the World," "Other" and "Did You Eat? by Jan Simpson

One-person shows are popping up everywhere. And it makes sense that they should.  They’re comparatively cheap to put on since by definitiion there’s only one performer to pay and the co…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:24PM
Friday, October 31, 2025

'Ex-Wives' performed by the Japanese cast of Six The Musical | Music Video by Official London Theatre

Following sold out seasons in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya earlier this year, members of the critically acclaimed Japanese cast of Six The Musical will take the stage at the Vaudeville Theatre, f…

SOURCE: YouTube at 02:06PM

English National Ballet’s Nutcracker | 2025 West End Trailer by Official London Theatre

This festive season, join Clara on a fantastical adventure where anything is possible. Embark on a journey full of delight and wonder as English National Ballet brings Nutcracker to life wit…

SOURCE: YouTube at 07:45AM

‘We stick two fingers up at Henry VIII’: can the riotous all-Japanese Six out-Tudor-queen the original? by Arifa Akbar

The Japanese version of the pop-rock phenomenon about the six ill-fated wives caused a sensation in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. As that production now hits the UK, we go behind the scenes (and …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM
Thursday, October 30, 2025

‘Hedda’ review: Tessa Thompson sears in Prime’s adaptation of Ibsen play by Tribune News Service

In Nia DaCosta’s elegantly searing drama “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson makes a classic role entirely her own. As in Henrik Ibsen’s play “Hedda Gabler,” this Hedda is an unhappy, compli…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AM

Word to Your Mother: Oedipus, Starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Begins on Broadway Tonight by Broadway.com

An edge-of-your-seat modern adaptation of the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, starring Olivier winner Mark Strong and two-time Olivier winner Lesley Manville, begins performances at Studio 54 o…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48AM
Friday, October 24, 2025

Aida | Oct. 24 - Nov. 2, 2025 @ The Kennedy Center by The Kennedy Center

Get your tickets now! https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida …

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:48PM

Sneak Peek: Aida at the Kennedy Center | Oct. 24 - Nov. 2, 2025 by The Kennedy Center

Get your tickets now! https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida …

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:48PM
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Barrier(s) review – tender yet tough account of a queer couple’s connection by Anya Ryan

Birmingham RepStaged by Deafinitely Theatre, Eloise Pennycott’s play sets romance against a broken, unjust system Barrier(s) is a queer love story about a couple with vastly different expe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Punch by Wendy Caster

Punch completely blew me away, as it did the people I saw it with. A wild, disaffected young man, Jacob, punches another young man, James, for no particular reason. That one punch kills Jam…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:36PM

HELL’S KITCHEN To Collaborate With 92Y for Broadway Spotlight Educational Program

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) will launch Broadway Spotlight, a ten-week arts residency for New York City public high school students, developed by 92NY’s School Engagement team in co…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PM
Monday, October 20, 2025

Aida | Oct. 24 - Nov. 2, 2025 @ The Kennedy Center by The Kennedy Center

Buy tickets today: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida is…

SOURCE: YouTube at 06:48PM
Thursday, October 16, 2025

New Musical Elephant Shoes Sets Industry Presentation by Margaret Hall

Performed in ASL and spoken English, the work will get a world premiere via Two River Theater and Deaf West Theater in 2026.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PM

Video: Willemijn Verkaik & Sabrina Weckerlin Perform 'That's The Way It Is' From & JULIET

To celebrate her run in the show and the passing of the torch from one Anne Hathaway to the next, Willemijn Verkaik got together with Sabrina Weckerlin to record a special duet version of 'T…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PM

No, No, No, Noah Webster! by Trav S.D.

200 years ago Noah Webster (1758-1843) finished the first edition of what we now call, many editions later, the Meriam-Webster Dictionary. The 70,000 word original, known as the American Dic…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AM

Deaf West Theatre Will Host Industry Preview Event for ELEPHANT SHOES, A New Musical

Deaf West Theatre will host an industry preview event at NYC’s Museum of Broadway on Monday, October 20, for Elephant Shoes, a new original musical with a book by Ivan Menchell, music and …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AM
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Uncovered Herbert Kretzmer Letter Reveals He Felt His Work on LES MISERABLES Was Undervalued

Letters from the late Herbert Kretzmer, recently donated to Cambridge University Library, reveal that the writer, who famously wrote the English-language lyrics for Les Miserables, felt he d…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AM

Video: Justin Peck and Patricia Delgado Talk BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB on CBS

In a recent video segment, CBS Mornings Plus co-anchor Adriana Diaz sat down with Buena Vista Social Club co-choreographers Justin Peck and Patricia Delgado, a husband-and-wife duo whose per…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AM

Theater review: Iranian drama/comedy ‘English’ speaks to the many ways people communicate by Christopher Arnott

Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, one that makes you feel OK about your own struggles to fit in, is a good start to TheaterWorks Hartford’s 2025-26 season.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Monday, October 13, 2025

John Woodvine obituary by Michael Coveney

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company John Woodvine, who has died aged 96, was a proud Tynesider and stalw…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM

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