Monday, October 13, 2025
What is Broadway was more like a Renaissance Faire? Audiences are finding out at San Diego's Old Globe, where the new musical Huzzah! is now running. The masterminds behind the merriment are…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMFriday, October 10, 2025
Axis Ballymun, DublinMixing childhood memories, songs and Shakespeare, Michael Patrick delivers a one-man show about the reality of being given four years to live
Michael Patrick may not liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMThursday, October 2, 2025
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
As summer winds down with the beach chairs stored away, the last of the ripe tomatoes devoured, and the tans finally faded, we now turn to the fall and those extra special shows to get us ex…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:41PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
RSC touring troupe stage King Lear in a school hall on St Mary’s before continuing to the Isle of Wight
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!” King Lear, Act III, Scene 2
A …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMMonday, September 15, 2025
King Lear Rises Again to Mark the Golden Anniversary of The American Theatre of Actors As the curtain opens on its 50th year, the ATA has turned to a signature piece to mark the very special…
SOURCE: Arts Independent at 04:26PMFriday, August 29, 2025
King Lear begins as the Earl of Gloucester introduces his illegitimate son, Edmund, to the Earl of Kent. Lear, King of Britain, enters with his court. Now that he is an old man, Lear has de…
SOURCE: Arts Independent at 02:09PMWednesday, August 20, 2025
Friday, August 8, 2025
Traverse, EdinburghIn Dan Colley’s evocative play, a retired actor with dementia loops through scenes from the classic tragedy
A play remains a classic for as long as it continues to yield…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMTuesday, August 5, 2025
Twists in the tail bring revelations in two fine shows at the Traverse Theatre
Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★★
A rehearsal room; a tense preparation session for a production of Kin…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:48AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
Amid rehearsals for Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park, Peter Dinklage visited Late Night with Seth Meyers to discuss the new production, along with his role in the new series Dexter: …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMSaturday, July 12, 2025
All aboard the MS Americana, as the Shaw Festival‘s effervescent production of Anything Goes sets sail for a spirited crossing filled to overflowing with flavorfully festive music and lyri…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:02AMWednesday, July 9, 2025
According to reporting by The Guardian, a Shakespeare festival in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk opened with a demonstration, not a play. Hundreds gathered on the theater steps to dem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMTuesday, July 8, 2025
The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems
I have long had mixed feelings a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMWednesday, July 2, 2025
Sarah Snook, star of the Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray, recently received her portrait at Sardi's. Snook took home the 2025 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Love You More By Acton This has to be a mistake. Entering Love You More (writer Nikhil Mahapatra, director N // Nicky Maggio) at The Tank, we’re handed a …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 02:40PMFriday, June 20, 2025
Director Peter Francis James joins The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well.
Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:40AMShakespeare's witty comedy opens the 2025 Shakespeare Festival, directed by Peter Francis James, and running June 8 through July 6, 2025.
Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:31AMTuesday, June 10, 2025
With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast
Director and former stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Read Kim Jackson's Beltline to Broadway review of the South Stream Productions' presentation of KING LEAR.
The post South Stream’s KING LEAR: Bold Take on Classic Story appeared first on B…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 12:22PMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/17. Photo: From left: Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), Mark Strong (Oedipus), and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) in Oedipus. Photograph: Manuel Har…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:44PMOther winners include Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for Romeo & Juliet, Danny Sapani as King Lear and Giant playwright Mark Rosenblatt
A modern-day version of Oedipus, which turned Sophocles…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, January 28, 2025
By: David Sheward
January, 28 2025: The sixth Broadway production of Gypsy, the classic musical based on the memoirs of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, is a theatrical miracle. Not onl…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:24PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe’s production of “Gypsy” at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:01PMThursday, December 19, 2024
... directed by George C. Wolfe. Audra McDonald on Why Gypsy Is the "King Lear" of Musical Theatre Roles. 707 views · 12 hours ago ...more. Playbill. 222K.
SOURCE: Google at 10:24PMWednesday, December 18, 2024
The revival of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim's musical Gypsy is currently running at the Majestic Theatre. It stars six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald as Rose, Joy Woods as …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:48PMFriday, December 13, 2024
“Dubbed “The villain of Broadway” by Playbill, Tony Award-nominee, and Grammy Award-winner Patrick Page (King Lear, Hadestown) has never shied away ...
SOURCE: Google at 05:54AMTuesday, December 10, 2024
The Shed isn’t a Broadway theater, but in the relatively short time the venue has been in operation, it’s hosted some of New York City’s starriest stage endeavors—from Stephen Sondhe…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PMThursday, November 21, 2024
A production starring and codirected by Kenneth Branagh is thick with Neolithic-fur costumes, but thin on poetic feeling.
Kenneth Branagh as King Lear and cast in King Lear. Courtesy the Sh…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM 
