Monday, December 8, 2025

‘A producer grabbed me, and I thought, Oh, for God’s sake’: Patricia Hodge on sexual harassment, drugs – and being in her prime at 79 by Emine Saner

Until she reached her 50s, the actor was a constant presence on stage and screen. Then the offers disappeared. Now, as her renaissance continues, she is taking on Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM
Saturday, December 6, 2025

God Bless Us, It Was Fun by Mason Pilevsky

A Christmas Carol – 04 December 2025 A Christmas Carol at PAC NYC deliciously lives between the worlds of a musical and a play with music. While characters don’t sing their stories to th…

SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 03:04PM
Friday, December 5, 2025

WWRY b roll by Mirvish Productions

EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! Celebrating rock ’n’ roll to the rhythm of 25 Queen songs, including the classic “Somebody to Love, ” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “We Are the…

SOURCE: YouTube at 10:06PM

Photos: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Opening Night at PAC NYC

A CHRISTMAS CAROL opened on Thursday night at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan. See photos from the red carpet here! A CHRISTMAS CAROL fills the auditorium to the brim …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PM

Stage Mag Spotlight: Grace Theatre Guild's CINDERELLA

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Grace Theatre Guild's production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version). Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating mo…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PM

CLUE: LIVE ON STAGE’ IS A DELIGHTFUL FARCE THAT IS MORE ABOUT LAUGHS AND NOSTAGIA THAN MURDER, RUNNING THROUGH SUNDAY, DEC. 7 AT ARSHT CENTER IN MIA by Marvin Glassman

On the surface, ‘Clue: Live on Stage’ appears to be a story about solving a murder mystery and sounds like it will be a whodunit dramatic mystery with the audience being on edge until th…

SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 04:18PM

The Short Career of Sally Long by Trav S.D.

About ten years ago I had a lamentable opportunity to sing a few bars of the song “I Wonder What Became of Sally?” in Dick Zigun’s play Dead End Dummy out at Coney Island USA. (It was …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:54PM

Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks’s Transylvanian tomfoolery will have you in stitches by Nick Ahad

Liverpool PlayhouseThe story becomes less and less relevant as this slapstick monster pastiche leads to an irresistible sense of chaos When a film as perfect as Mel Brooks’s Young Frankens…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM

REVIEW: The Queen of Versailles by JK

Review of the Wednesday, December 3, 2025 matinee performance at the St. James Theatre in New York City. Starring Sherie Rene Scott, F. Murray Abraham, Melody Butiu, Stephen DeRosa, Greg Hil…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:24AM
Thursday, December 4, 2025

National Theatre Live Announces The Audience, The Playboy of the Western World and Les Liaisons Dangereuses for 2026 Cinema Season by Staff Writer

National Theatre Live has revealed three major titles joining its 2026 cinema slate, promising audiences a year of theatrical highlights on the big screen The post National Theatre Live Anno…

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 11:19AM
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Dirty Books Review by Jonathan Mandell

Is “Dirty Books” itself obscene? Not at all,  if we go by the Supreme Court’s three-pronged test. The theater company Bated Breath does enlist the audience to write erotica, but 1. …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PM
Monday, December 1, 2025

Hedgerow Theatre Company presents Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, adapted by Kate Hamill by Mina Reinckens

Hedgerow Theatre Company stages a highly questionable adaptation of Little Women that gives the audience whiplash at its conclusion. Mina Reinckens reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:16PM

How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? review – have yourself a merry little rumpus by Chris Wiegand

Unicorn theatre, LondonThis exuberant adaptation of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s picture book moves with the rhythm of a child’s racing imagination Never mind what’s hidden inside the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM

Review: PADDINGTON THE MUSICAL, Savoy Theatre

Paddington the Musical arrives at the Savoy Theatre with a heart full of hope and a suitcase packed with marmalade flavoured charm, delivering a joyous celebration of inclusion, diversity an…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26AM
Friday, November 28, 2025

Stage Mag Spotlight: River Run Centre's SCHOOL OF ROCK

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The River Run Centre's production of School of Rock. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs fo…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:01PM

A Child’s Christmas in Wales review – exquisite Dylan Thomas adaptation has magic in every scene by Miriam Gillinson

The Lucky Chance, FromeJoy radiates from the stage as an ensemble cast from the Emma Rice Company bring Thomas’s twinkling poem to life Dylan Thomas’s beautiful Christmas poem has that a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM
Thursday, November 27, 2025

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy review – flimsy extravaganza needs deeper thought by Arifa Akbar

Riverside Studios, London The madcap sci-fi tale is retold on a lavish scale, complete with in-show merch, but it never really blasts off Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy about Earth’s dest…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM

The Little Mermaid review – underwater wonders cast a spell in mid-air by Chris Wiegand

New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme A fresh telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s story deploys circus skills and inventive design to create a memorable merworld The Little Mermaid is big…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM

“Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show”: Candy Canes and Chaos Reign Supreme by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show By Ross The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show returned to Toronto like a glitter-dusted snowstorm of chaos, sequins, and unexpected sinc…

SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:29AM
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

An oral history of the ‘Sinners’ musical sequence: Inside the year’s best scene by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — Ryan Coogler was deep into writing "Sinners" when he realized the movie was missing something: He needed a moment that would jolt the audience and plunge them into a differen…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AM
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) by Joseph Pisano

With its big, if economical, imagination, "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" also seemingly contains a metropolis of non-digital humanity, thanks, in particular, to Tony Gayle's …

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57AM
Friday, November 21, 2025

Stage Mag Spotlight: The Coterie Theatre's ELF THE MUSICAL T.Y.A.

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The Coterie Theatre's production of ELF - the Musical T.Y.A. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show pro…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AM
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Death Becomes Her Diva Michelle Williams Talks Grammy Nomination, Mental Health and Girl Group Legacies by Jonah De Forest

For the past year, Grammy winner Michelle Williams has been casting a spell on Broadway as the Swarovski-clad sorceress Viola Van Horn in Death Becomes Her. The Destiny’s Child singer sat …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PM

Video: Kristin Chenoweth Reflects on Playing Jackie Siegel in THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES

Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth is back on Broadway in The Queen of Versailles, a new musical in which she reunites with Wicked songwriter Stephen Schwartz. She stars as real-life social…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AM
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Sets **** 1/4 by Barry Gordin

By Paulanne Simmons November 19, 2025: Laurie Krauz began Sets at Don’t Tell Mama on November 13 with the same humor that pervaded the entire show. “Why are we here… Back when dinosa…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:29AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

What Did the Audience Think? | The Marriage of Figaro (Nov. 14-22) by The Kennedy Center

🎟️ Get tickets now: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/marriage-of-figaro/ Step into the Opera House lobby to hear real reactions from audience members fresh out of The …

SOURCE: YouTube at 05:02PM

John C Reilly wants to win hearts in Mister Romantic, a show that’s truly lovable by Chris Wiegand

From Chicago to Stan & Ollie, the Oscar-nominated actor has sung on screen for years. Now he arrives on stage – inside a trunk – to serenade the audience In one of Hollywood’s nice…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM

Video: Daniel Radcliffe Previews Broadway Return in EVERY BRILLIANT THING

Daniel Radcliffe, who was most recently seen in his Tony Award-winning role in Merrily We Roll Along, is making his return to Broadway next year in the solo show Every Brilliant Thing. On Tu…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AM
Monday, November 17, 2025

You Can Be in the Audience When Broadway's Ragtime Films for Good Morning America by Logan Culwell-Block

Find out how to be in the room when Broadway comes to nationwide TV November 18.

SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM

Review: Bat Boy: The Musical by JK

Review of the Sunday, November 9, 2025 matinee performance at New York City Center in New York City. Starring Taylor Trensch, Kerry Butler, Gabi Carrubba, Andrew Durand, Mary Faber, Alan H. …

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:48AM
Saturday, November 15, 2025

‘ONE’S OWN ROOM’: AFGHAN WOMEN’S CURRENT REALITY (THEATRE) by Robert Shuman

(from France 24, 11/15/25.) At first, its soft cushions, luxurious rugs and fine china evoke the warm hospitality of an Afghan home. Yet as the immersive theatrical experience progresses, th…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:34PM

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