A New Take on Mahler’s Ninth: David Bernard and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony by Edward Kliszus

In the vast catalog of orchestral recordings, certain interpretations emerge as definitive statements that reshape our understanding of familiar masterworks. The new recording of Mahler's Sy…

“Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink” by Margaret Rose

At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di memoria disordinata a inchiostro policromo) runs from 20 March to 13 April. This new play by Gi…

My Variety Review: George Clooney in 'Good Night and Good Luck' on Broadway by Frank Rizzo

Like television journalist Edward R. Murrow’s historic broadcasts, the stage adaptation of the 2005 film “Good Night, and Good Luck” has a seriousness of purpose that is again dram…

Frank Caruso, Longtime Betty Boop Artist, Is Excited for Betty's Broadway Moment by Darryn King

Thirty-eight years ago, an ambitious young cartoonist named Frank Caruso turned up to the Manhattan offices of King Features for what was meant to be a single day’s freelance work. The com…

Blue Ink Award, Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship, New Harmony Project, and More by American Theatre Editors

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

Inside the Rehearsal Room with BOOP!, the Big Broadway Musical That's Gonna Be the Bee's Knees by Hayley Levitt

Vintage Betty Boop of the 1930s was a hip-swishing, boop-oop-a-doop-ing flapper chick whose colorful personality cut through the greyscale. She even had a coquettish theme song that put wo…

RSC and iNK Stories announce new video game – Lili by Staff Writer

The Royal Shakespeare Company has today announced a new collaboration with iNK Stories, a New York based independent game studio and publisher, to create a new game, Lili

Camille A. Brown & Dancers | at The Joyce February 5-9 by Joycetheater

Award-winning director and choreographer Camille A. Brown deepens her explorations of Black joy in the New York premiere of I AM. While Brown has often disrupted our understanding of the pas…

INK - Audio Description Performance Clip by Lincoln Center

When Ink made its US premiere in the Rose Theater last month, one of its performances featured live audio description, which provides our guests who are blind or have low vision an opportuni…

Tammy Faye by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Katie Brayben in a scene from Elton John’s new musical “Tammy Faye” at the Palace Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Tammy Faye, the new Broadway musical arriving at the recently r…

2024 - 2025 Broadway Musical Logos: Swept Away by JK

The fall Broadway season has been a pretty busy one for musicals this year. The newest of them, Swept Away, has one of my favorite logos. Everything about it intrigues me. I can say for sure…

My Variety Review of the New Broadway Musical "Tammy Faye" by Frank Rizzo

It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make “Tammy Faye” divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy…

Polite Ink Sketch & Improv Presents: 7th Annual “Oh Watta Night”

Concord Theatricals acquires licensing rights to ‘Ink’ and other works by James Graham by Michael Abourizk

Six additional plays by the Tony Award-nominated playwright have been acquired.

Concord Theatricals Acquires Licensing Rights For James Graham Titles

Concord Theatricals announced the acquisition of licensing rights for several plays by James Graham, including INK, THIS HOUSE, LABOUR OF LOVE, A HISTORY OF FALLING THINGS, and QUIZ.

Davina and the Vagabonds - Millennium Stage (October 23, 2024) by The Kennedy Center

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “Davina Sowers creates her own Americana mishmash—a little Amy Winehouse-worthy neo-soul here, a little Great American Songbook-influenced songcraft t…

Ashes and Ink by Sarah Downs

How do you define 'trauma?'  Is it Pain?  Fear?  Desperation?  Doubt?  For the characters In Ashes & Ink it's all of that and more.  They wrestle with undercurrent of their individ…

Ashes & Ink by Brett Singer

"Ashes & Ink," a new play by first time playwright Martha Pichey, is getting an excellent production at the AMT Theater in Manhattan. Tony-nominated actress Kathryn Erbe leads a strong c…

Ashes and Ink

Fall Preview: Director Rupert Goold Thinks Tammy Faye Could Give the Broadway Canon Its Next Great Diva by Hayley Levitt

A director’s job is to coax humanity from a character, but Rupert Goold’s special knack is making characters of humans—rich ones who touch something universal with their biographical s…

Disney and DirecTV Ink New Carriage Deal in Principle, Ending Blackout of ABC and ESPN by Caitlin Huston

After a two week channel blackout, Disney and DirecTV have a deal in principle. The deal comes in time for college football games set to run on ESPN Saturday, as well as Sunday night’s Emm…

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Playbill.com catches up with award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard about the Off-Broadway production of Indian Ink. Article | By Playbill ...

Tracking the Changes of My Life Via a Survey of Constantly Changing Communicating Tools by Elyse Sommer

Tracking the Changes of My Life Via a Survey of Constantly Changing Communicating Tools By Elyse Sommer My first writing tool was a fountain pen and the "platform" on which my scribblings la…

Tonys Talk: Bertie Carvel Opens Up About Making A Splash in INK! by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The last time that Bertie Carvel tread the Broadway boards, it was as tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull in the 2013 hit, Matilda. This season, he brings a…

Double Tony Winner Michael Cerveris Joins Broadway’s ‘Tammy Faye’ As Jerry Falwell by Greg Evans

Two-time Tony winner Michael Cerveris will play Rev. Jerry Falwell in this fall’s Broadway production of the musical Tammy Faye, which features music by Elton John, lyrics by Scissor Siste…

Red Ink

See Who's Bringing Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink Off-Broadway by Margaret Hall

Ms. Gentili was a trans icon, artist, and activist whose solo shows encouraged fierce honesty in the face of bigoted pressure to stay silent.

Peppermint, Angelica Ross, and Jes Tom to Star in Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink Off-Broadway

Jack Holden Talks CRUISE Ahead of Opening Night! by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Tonight marks the official opening of the world premiere of Cruise at the Duchess Theatre in the West End (where it is running through to 13 June, prior to th…

Inside Opening Night of INK on Broadway with Bertie Carvel, Jonny Lee Miller & More! by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The final play of the 2018-19 Broadway season took its opening night bow last night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Ink, written by Olivier Award winner Jame…

Highlights from Roundabout's INDIAN INK by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company's Indian Ink officially opens on Tuesday, September 30, at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theat…