Broadway Musical Logos: 2025-2026 Season:  The Rocky Horror Show It's a shame when a beloved title like The Rocky Horror Show gets such uninspired treatment. It's even more of a shame when that title has …

Laurie Metcalf as Sarah and Micah Stock as Ethan in “Little Bear Ridge Road” (photo by Julia Cervantes).November 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. In 1984, I attended a performance of …

Tickets are now on sale for Little Bear Ridge Road, the gripping family drama starring two-time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock. The limited 18-week run begins at Broadway's Booth Theatre on Octo…

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Miriam Buether and 59 Studio (Benjamin Pearcy) took home a Tony Award for 'Best Scenic Design of a Play' for their outstanding work on Stranger Things: The First …

Three Tall Women (2018)

In January 2018 – less than eight months after she won her first Tony Award for “A Doll’s House, Part 2” – Laurie Metcalf was given her first shot at an Oscar thanks to her work in “Lady Bird.” By…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Three Tall Women starring two-time Academy Award-winner Glenda Jackson, Tony Award winner, three-time Emmy Award winner, and 2018 Academy Award…

Steve Carell as Uncle Vanya; Enemy News By: David Sheward November 15, 2023: Oscar nominee Steve Carell (The Office, Foxcatcher, Little Miss Sunshine) will make his Broadway debut in the title role of Chekho…

A starry cast is set to get extremely miserable together for Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Uncle Vanya. The cast will feature Steve Carell as the depressive Vanya in his Broadway debut, William Jack…

40 Years of Broadway: Creative Influencers: The Designers I've been so fortunate to see some of the greatest stage designs of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Many of the master influencers of their t…

 Broadway Jeopardy! Game 7 OK, Broadway trivia fans! Time for another round of America's favorite game show a la JK's TheatreScene, and as you'll see we are going for the gold this week. Good luck! There a…

The Theater Hall of Fame Inc. has announced its 2023 inductees: actors Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago, Sweet Charity), Judd Hirsch (Conversations With My Father, I’m Not Rappaport), and Laurie Metcalf (Three Tall Wom…

The actor and former MP, who has died aged 87, displayed courage and a sharp mind, on stage and in politics Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, had a career unmatched by any of her contemporaries. From 1957 t…

June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation and scheduled to reope…

By turns acerbic, anguished and sarcastically funny, an old woman known to us only as “A” lays bare her inner life in sometimes shocking detail to two others: a middle-aged caregiver identified only as “B…

Peace Mountain Theatre Company Bids Farewell We hope you are well and continuing to take precautions against COVID. We were very saddened to have had to cancel our recent production of Edward Albee’s play, Th…

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I love the theaters on 45th Street. I've seen some of my favorite shows on that block. The Golden Theatre is probably the one of those that I have been in the fewest times, but those times have yielded some of…

Henry had just finished performing in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women at the Stratford Festival.

While telling a story about playwright Edward Albee, actor Martha Henry holds a photo up to the screen: A photo of Albee, looking intensely at the camera and stroking a white cat.

Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Martha Henry, Lucy Peacock and Mamie Zwettler, hosted by Lois Adamson. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss this year's production of…

Director Diana Leblanc, actor Martha Henry and designer Francesca Callow share their insights into Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, a deeply personal meditation on the human journey. Whethe…

This Week in Broadway History: June 15 - 21 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭  June 15, 1995: One of the 90s most interesting and underrated musicals, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, opened at the Plymouth Theatre, …

 This Week in Broadway History: May 4 - 10 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭  May 4, 2008: Boeing Boeing landed at the Longacre Theatre for 279 performances with an all-star cast including Mark Rylance, Christine Ba…

Join us for the 2021 season! ✨ The Stratford Festival is transforming, for this summer, into an outdoor festival offering a season of six plays and five cabarets reflecting on the theme of Metamorphosis, wit…

Our Best of the Decade series continues this week with a look ten theater professionals who made their mark and established a full Broadway career during the 2010's. These are actors, designers, writers, direct…

As we said yesterday, over the past ten seasons, we have been witnesses to some truly amazing performances. These are thirty of the greatest star turns, each one iconic for a different reason. The first 10 per…

Yesterday, we began our series about the "Best" of the last decade, from the 2010-2011 season, through the just ended 2019-2020 season. Today, Mike and I name what we considered to be the 10 best Broadway play …

The Tony-winning actor celebrates her birthday May 9.

How did she connect her role in the Tony-nominated Best Revival to her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore?

Stray Dog Theatre presents late masterpiece by Edward Albee.

Productions include "Three Tall Women" and "Two Trains Running."

Veteran director-actor Joe Mantello will be honored by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation with the 2019 Mr. Abbott Award. Presented for a lifetime of outstanding contributions, the award, which …

Spamalot, Wolf Hall, and Three Tall Women will also be staged.

As I said last week when discussing the greatest performances by an actor (HERE), when you are fortunate enough to have seen 300 different Broadway productions, you are even more fortunate to have seen great, e…

(Photo by Tess Meyer) Colette Robert is a Los Angeles native currently based in New York. Recent directing credits include: Behind the Sheet (EST), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Barnard College), Ma Rai…

Hillary and Clinton is about exactly what you think it’s about: Hillary and Bill. But it’s also about Hillary and that last name, and what it means to be attached to a reputation that is not yours alone, to…

Last year, Laurie Metcalf won her second Tony Award in a row for “Three Tall Women.” OK, it was for a supporting

We’re going to be heading over to George and Martha’s next year. Laurie Metcalf and Eddie Izzard will play the battling couple in a new revival of Edward Albee’s searing play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wo…

By: David Sheward April 10, 2019: Some actors are larger than life, but not life-like. We admire their craft rather than identify with the characters they are portraying and the emotions they are conveying.…

Ruth Wilson and Glenda Jackson  (photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe) It is to be expected that a seasoned critic would have seen William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” more than once, perhaps in my case quite a …

With the arrival of her mighty Lear, Glenda Jackson has, in the span of a year, provided Broadway with twin portraits of once towering figures humbled by age – last year a matriarch in Three Tall Women, now t…

I know I spend a great deal of time writing about Sondheim and Kander and Ebb on this blog. That's not to say I don't enjoy others. Having recently enjoyed a re-visit to The Phantom of the Opera, I've been thin…

2019 is in full swing, and now we are approaching the crunch of spring openings, with shows trying to get in under the wire for all of the awards. Exciting times for sure! This spring, we are excited about a nu…

Artistic directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern use this theatre to create groundbreaking work by veterans and newcomers alike.

With last week's announcement that the Michael Jackson bio-musical Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough is Broadway-bound, (not to mention the forthcoming Tina Turner show Tina) I've been giving this sub-ge…

Ring out the old, ring in the new: Here’s my countdown to the 10 personalities, shows and backstage dramas I’m looking forward to in 2019. 10. Glenda Jackson delivered an unforgettable performance last year…

This tends to be the place where I've kept track of my yearly theater stats. And this year felt like a lot of work so I counted out what I did.203 shows seen (not counting duplicate visits)25% of work seen by a…

THE 2018 JKTS AWARDS(Slightly) Naughty Fun(17 Awards)After taking a couple of seasons off, we are super excited to re-start our annual tradition! Up first, our awards for the media and technical aspects of the …

“The Ferryman” was the most popular play or musical among critics whose top 10 lists for 2018 are featured below, followed by “Angels in America” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed C…

Today's Friday 5 continues our celebration of the Best of 2018 with a look at 5 male performers and 5 female performers whose work this season we feel has been underappreciated. They, or the show they are …

THE 2018 JKTS AWARDSGood Clean Fun(9 Awards)After taking a couple of seasons off, we are super excited to re-start our annual tradition! Up first, our awards for the media and technical aspects of the Broadway …

Mortality was on the Broadway menu this year — most all of the best works of the calendar year shed light on the pain of the human condition, especially once we’re past the first blush of youth. Whether the…

Two-time Tony Award winner Laurie Metcalf (A Doll’s House, Part 2, Three Tall Women) and Two-Time Tony Award winner John Lithgow (The Changing Room, The Sweet Smell of Success) will join forces playing a comp…

Over the past weeks, I began to celebrate the start of my 36th year of going to Broadway shows, by looking at the theaters where I've seen multiple distinct productions. Miss the first part? Click HERE. Or…

Earlier this week news broke that Glenda Jackson, fresh from her triumphant, Tony-winning run in Three Tall Women, will next don the crown as Shakespeare's tragic monarch King Lear. Broadway is making much ado …

The role follows Ms. Jackson’s Tony-winning performance in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.”

Fresh off her Tony win for Best Actress in a Play for her unforgettable turn in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, Glenda Jackson will next tackle one of Shakespeare’s most-challenging roles: King Lear. Jacks…

If you missed her as a woman, you can catch her as a man: Glenda Jackson, hot off a Tony Award for “Three Tall Women,” will return to Broadway next spring as the title character of a gender-blind “King Le…

Just a few weeks following her 2018 Tony Award win for Three Tall Women, Glenda Jackson has lined up her next appearance on the Great White Way, and it's a biggie. The two-time Oscar winner and two-time Emm…

Glenda Jackson, fresh off her Tony-winning run in Three Tall Women, will return to Broadway next year in a new production of William Shakespeare's King Lear. And yes, she’ll play Lear. Jackson has alread…

Glenda Jackson, just coming off her run in Three Tall Women on Broadway, has already set the date of her return. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jackson will appear as the title character in King Lear in t…

The award-winning actor just finished her critically acclaimed run in the Broadway bow of Three Tall Women.

Joe Mantello’s staging of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women broke the 787-seat Golden Theatre house record for the fifth and final time last week, closing out its limited engagement with a whopping $…

New York says goodbye to one of the most garlanded Broadway shows this week. The Tony-winning “Three Tall Women” comes to an end. Meanwhile, Manhattan welcomes U2 for a run of shows at Madison Square Garden…

The week following the 72nd annual Tony Awards saw a slew of increases in box office receipts for shows that triumphed at Radio City Music Hall on June 10. Production and acting winners alike posted strong upti…

The days after the Tony Awards always see a rush of tickets for the prize-winning shows. Those at the forefront of the acclaimed Broadway ceremony this year were “The Band’s Visit,” “Harry Potter and th…

“The Band’s Visit” took a lead in the Tony awards 2018 joined by “Harry Potter” for the best play last Sunday night in New York. Ten wins for “The Band’s Visit” gave the musical a leading score,…

Well, we didn't do too badly this year, although we're not going to win any prizes for theatrical prescience. It was very nice to be wrong about Ari’el Stachel and Lindsay Mendez! They both truly deserve…

The revival of Three Tall Women broke the Golden Theatre box office before seeing two of its star win big June 10.

The week preceding the 72nd Annual Tony Awards was a strong one at the Broadway box office, as theatergoers caught up with the nominated productions in advance of Broadway's biggest night. Among the strong …

The acclaimed new musical The Band's Visit swept the 72nd annual Tony Awards in a night led by perfectly matched emcees Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles. CBS' telecast saw a slight ratings bump, with a 2.…

Angels in America has won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play! It beat out fellow nominees Lobby Hero, Three Tall Women, The Iceman Cometh and Travesties. The producers and the cast took the stage t…

Winners have been announced for the 2018 Tony Awards. Tony nominees Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban hosted the annual celebration of Broadway live from New York's Radio City Music Hall. Check out the f…

Glenda Jackson has won her first Tony Award. The iconic star triumphed in the Leading Actress in a Play category for her turn in the Broadway-premiere production of Edward Albee's Pulitzer-winning Three Tal…

Stage and screen star Laurie Metcalf has been nominated for a Tony in each of the last three seasons, winning in back-to-back seasons for A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 and again tonight for THREE TALL WOMEN.Check out …

Glenda Jackson has won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for THREE TALL WOMEN.

Laurie Metcalf has won her second Tony Award! The stage-and-screen star triumphed in the Featured Actress in a Play category for her turn in the Broadway-premiere production of Edward Albee's Three Tal…

Laurie Metcalf has won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for EDWARD ALBEE'S THREE TALL WOMEN.

A note from Jan: Two people can see the same show and walk away with different feelings about it. My theatergoing buddy Bill and I just saw the new production of The Boys in the Band that marks the show's much-…