Monday, April 14, 2025
Everything’s Coming Up Moses - by Rachel Shukert
A Biblical Fable based on Based on t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:22AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
Polka theatre, London Incorporating BSL and creative captions, this musical adaptation features a gloriously long-tailed puppet
With a cluster of country music songs and a delicate aesthetic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
There’s a spring in the step of the London theater in April, as seems appropriate, with new musicals based on classic titles jostling alongside the return of a major film star to the Londo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMWednesday, March 26, 2025
An emergency at Butlin’s gave the children’s TV presenter an early break. He recalls his shaky start as a standup and what he learned from Bob Monkhouse and Les Dawson
After spending the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
The Kennedy Center national tour of the children's musical was abruptly canceled last month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMMonday, March 17, 2025
The Kennedy Center national tour of the children's musical was abruptly canceled last month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
The Kennedy Center national tour of the children's musical was abruptly canceled last month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Finn, the children’s musical that opened to great reviews at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. last year only to have its national tour canceled by the venue’s new Trump-l…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, February 11, 2025
The post The Children’s Hour appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:19AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in Italy, with productions of The Children and The Welkin currently showing in major theatres. The …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:38AMMonday, January 13, 2025
A built-in weakness in some comedies of ideas is that one side of an argument may simply be right. As someone who believes strongly in vaccines, I thought Eureka Day might have to wrestle w…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:18PMSunday, December 15, 2024
Some years ago, Adventure Theatre’s then-Artistic Director Michael Bobbitt approached playwright Ken Ludwig and asked him to write a show for the children’s theatre at Glen Echo. Ludwig …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:16PMTuesday, December 10, 2024
As winter’s first snow falls, there’s little Christmas cheer in Sherwood. Cupboards are bare, the nights are cold, and the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham squeezes his citizens for every pen…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:53AMSunday, December 1, 2024
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Love in the Big City
Love in the Big City really changes the landscape for gay repr…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:45PMThursday, November 28, 2024
Chickenshed, LondonWith a huge cast, a somersaulting Peter and pirates crawling menacingly into the audience, Chickenshed’s reworking of JM Barrie’s Christmas staple is sheer magic
JM Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, November 19, 2024
A chat with the cast and creatives of Robin Hood And The Christmas Heist, playing at the Rose Theatre.
As winter’s first snow falls, there’s little Christmas cheer in Sherwood. Cupboard…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:40AMWednesday, November 13, 2024
As long as you come to John Yearley’s "Triptych" with the understanding that grief is a deeply personal and complex emotion and that just because two people are married doesn’t mean they…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38PMFriday, September 27, 2024
Royal Court Theatre, LondonSophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the life of the author
As debut plays go, Giant has some very old and exp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
Adelaide Festival Centre’s DreamBIG Children’s Festival launched its school program today inspiring the children of South Australia to reflect on
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 01:34AMWednesday, September 11, 2024
Awatif Naeem is an award-winning TV and theatre actress, director, playwright, and critic. She previously served as the vice president of the Iraqi Artists Syndicate. She was born in Baghdad…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:05AMFriday, August 30, 2024
The post The Children’s Bach appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:33AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Break out the glass slippers! The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati's RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA: YOUTH EDITION opens at the Taft Theatre February 17…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:04AMSunday, August 4, 2024
Williamson Park, LancasterAndrew Pollard turns Lewis Carroll’s classic into a delightful quest, tirelessly acted and cleverly designed
We are sitting in a wooded dell, ranged on felled tre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMThursday, August 1, 2024
Set on the banks of Merri Creek in 1990s suburban Melbourne, is a chamber opera very close to home. Based
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 02:49AMMonday, July 29, 2024
Black Swan State Theatre Company’s record-breaking season is an atomic reckoning of love and legacy. The Children, written by Lucy
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 03:30AMSunday, July 28, 2024
While I do occasionally post about authors and illustrators per se on this blog, there actually is a show biz angle (my more usual beat) to the story of Beatrix Potter (1866-1943). As I post…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:32PMWednesday, July 17, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company will soon present a new Broadway production of Sam Shepard's Tony & Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama True West, directed by James Macdo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:24AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Direct from an acclaimed run in London, the powerful Royal Court Theatreproduction of Lucy Kirkwood's astonishing new play, The Children, will make its American…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:32PMSouthwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonSoulful anthems with hard-knock lyrics cover 150 years of British care system history in a sophisticated show from Lung theatre company
We’re a long way…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, July 1, 2024
Punchdrunk Enrichment Stores, LondonTouching on migration stories, memory, grief and community, the story of a grandfather’s life told through a series of cryptic riddles is a charming exp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMFriday, June 28, 2024
There’s more to New York theater than Broadway—particularly right now, in the collective exhalation of the post-Tonys period. In our new column, Broadway.com will highlight the extraordi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AM