Monday, January 12, 2026

Bug on Broadway — Conspiracy or Crack-Up? Either Way, It Get Under Your Skin by Suzanna Bowling

Tracy Letts’s Bug may have first crawled onto the Off-Broadway stage in 1996, but its long-awaited Broadway premiere arrives feeling disturbingly attuned to the present moment. Directed wi…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AM
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Video: Tracy Letts Shares Why BUG No Longer Feels Like Science Fiction

Though Tracy Letts first wrote Bug more than 30 years ago, he believes that, in a country riddled with conspiracy theories, it has found a new relevance in the present moment. The play is no…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:20PM
Monday, January 5, 2026

Back to the Future | July 7-19, 2026 by The Kennedy Center

Great Scott! Back to the Future, the acclaimed Broadway musical based on the classic movie of the same name, comes speeding back to the Kennedy Center. When Marty McFly finds himself transp…

SOURCE: YouTube at 10:36PM
Friday, January 2, 2026

Tim Rice in Playbill's 'My Life in the Theatre' by Playbill

As Chess gets a new life on Broadway, famed lyricist Tim Rice (of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita fame) discusses how he’s been able to work with some “brilliant divas.” Walk through …

SOURCE: YouTube at 11:54AM
Monday, December 29, 2025

Two National Scofflaws Who Got Bio-Pics by Trav S.D.

Born December 29, two (unrelated) American leaders who broke rules, were publicly disgraced, and yet became the subjects of Hollywood bio-pics, Andrew Johnson and Billy Mitchell. The stories…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:32AM
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Amahl and the Night Visitors by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Albert Rhodes, Jr. and Joyce DiDonato in a scene from the Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Mit…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:15PM
Saturday, December 13, 2025

‘A master of complications’: Felicity Kendal returns to Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink after three decades by David Jays

The writer’s former partner and her co-star Ruby Ashbourne Serkis describe the bittersweet nature of remounting his 90s play so soon after his death • ‘We were swimming in the mind poo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AM
Friday, December 12, 2025

FX’s “A Christmas Carol”, The Past That Shapes Us, the Present That Breaks Us, the Future That Saves Us by Ross

The Television Series Review: FX’s A Christmas Carol By Ross FX’s A Christmas Carol, , the brooding and unsettling 2019 adaptation starring Guy Pearce, remains one of the most daring rei…

SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 03:28AM
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Ebony Scrooge review – effervescent hip-hop Dickens with a Caribbean twist by Lyndsey Winship

Sadler’s Wells East, LondonScrooge is a glam ice queen fashion maven until her heart is melted in ZooNation’s delicious festive show – danced to a blisteringly high standard Who knew B…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Evil Can Appear Beautiful by Margaret Rose

Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that the dark side of the human psyche, which this notorious Shakespeare villain embodies, is fo…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:56PM
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

the present moment where temporalities converge by Theo Armstrong

Leaving the bardo calls for transformation. The body becomes a page, a site for inscription, a blank slate. The silence echoes.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:06PM
Monday, November 17, 2025

‘Two Strangers’ Arrives On Broadway In A Perfect Storm by Marc Hershberg

It could be the surprise treat of the Broadway season. In the present topsy-turvy season, "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" might have a path to success.

SOURCE: Forbes at 09:01PM
Friday, November 14, 2025

Here’s how to do ‘Oedipus’ in a way that feels totally of the moment by Jacob Malizio

The taut spin on “Oedipus” now on Broadway after a West End run last fall is a rare and magnificent feat of adaptation: Writer and director Robert Icke draws Sophocles’ ancient play in…

SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:53AM
Monday, November 3, 2025

Bess Wohl and Whitney White on the Radical Relevance of Liberation by Carey Purcell

Originally published on Vogue.comView this story online It took 15 years for Liberation to open on Broadway, but playwright Bess Wohl knows it’s finally the right time. Wohl had worksho…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:01PM
Thursday, October 30, 2025

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
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

‘Liberation’ Broadway Review: An Impressive Memory Play That Delivers a Fresh and Frank Take on the Women’s Rights Movement  by Aramide Tinubu

It can be challenging to deliver something fresh and unique to the memory play genre. However, in writer Bess Wohl’s new Broadway show, “Liberation,” she manages to do just that. Direc…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Safe Space review – lively campus comedy wrestles with the culture wars by Arifa Akbar

Minerva theatre, ChichesterJamie Bogyo’s debut play recounts the renaming of a Yale University college with broadstroke humour and some exquisitely sung a cappella interludes What happens …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN Now Streaming on BroadwayHD

50 years ago this summer, the world witnessed the theatrical release of Jaws, a cinematic tour de force that forever changed how we, the audience, engaged with movies. The film is often cred…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AM
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Bitterness for the Honey by Mason Pilevsky

The Honey Trap – 10 October 2025 Incredibly bold and cleverly told, The Honey Trap by Leo McGann simultaneously took place in 1979 and the present day. The story examined British soldiers …

SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:11PM
Saturday, September 27, 2025

"Mexodus": a Hip Mix of Hip-Hop and History by Jan Simpson

Theater lovers have been celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hamilton this year, and well we should. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about the Founding Fathers made seeing musicals cool again…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:36AM
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Oedipus on Broadway, Starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Completes Casting by Broadway.com

The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus, created and directed by Robert Icke after Sophocles, has found its Broadway cast. The production will begin performances at Studio 54 on October 30 and of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PM
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

The play that changed my life: ‘Pinter’s Betrayal made me think: this is how I want to write’ by Hannah Patterson

In his reverse-chronology play about a married couple dealing with an affair, Harold Pinter asked the audience to find meaning in unspoken words I didn’t see Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM
Thursday, August 28, 2025

‘Why do I know more about Rosa Parks than our history?”: the musical bringing Britain’s Black history to the stage by JN Benjamin

The story of the state’s targeting of 70s activists has been turned into a musical exploring a fascinating and relatively unknown period. It is a love letter to our elders, says its writer…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Juniper Blood at the Donmar Warehouse | Cast Interview by Official London Theatre

Lip and Ruth have left the city behind for a new life on a farm; trying to live differently, live better. But when Ruth’s stepdaughter and her provocative best friend arrive, this quiet ru…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:20PM
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

A Proper Post on Ogden Nash by Trav S.D.

The title of the present post is because my previous one on Ogden Nash (1902-1971) focused on but a single poem. Was Ogden Nash the greatest writer of light verse who ever lived? That’s a …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PM
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

“Athens Of The North” at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Margaret Rose

The expression ‘Athens of the North’, the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:59AM
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

A Parade for Parley Baer by Trav S.D.

Those who think Travalanche is a blog about obscure character actors have not been paying very close attention to what’s written here. There are scores of content areas here, and if there …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:12PM
Friday, August 1, 2025

Maia Chao and Lena Engelstein in conversation with Nora Raine Thompson by Nora Thompson

Presenting the surreal is a way to get closer to the absurdity of reality. We are rehearsing the present, we are rewriting fictions as we go. And it makes me wonder about how we can rehearse…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:36PM
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Bess Wohl’s ‘Liberation’ Is Heading to Broadway This Fall by Alexis Soloski

The play, which explores the women’s movement of the 1970s and its reverberations in the present, was first staged last winter by Roundabout Theater Company.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AM
Friday, July 25, 2025

Lee Lash: Vaudeville Scenic Painter by Trav S.D.

We have Kevin Fitzpatrick, Shepherd of The Lambs to thank for the present post, for he pointed me in the direction of painter Lee Lash (1864-1935). Lash had studied in Paris to be a proper f…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AM
Friday, July 4, 2025

What I Saw at the Bicentennial by Trav S.D.

This is taken from a book project I’ve been working on for a number of years. I’ve tailored this section for the present moment and the 50th anniversary of the events described. Be warne…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:06PM

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater