Reviewed by Judd Hollander - Jack Holden is magnificent as he takes on the roles of over 30 characters in the one-man show Kenrex at the Lucelle Lortel Theatre. Written by Holden and Ed Stambolluian, this tran…

Role marks a major return for the actor after falling off the stage in 2024 and is a coup for the forward-thinking theatreIan McKellen is to play King Lear in his first major theatrical role since falling from …

Sherman theatre, Cardiff Connor Allen’s autobiographical show is a twister that winds in everything from gothic mystery to therapy sessions in an ambitious, rather incoherent mix…

Watch as Joey Fatone, *NSYNC star and former & Juliet cast member is surprised on stage by his boy-bandmate Lance Bass! Joey Fatone hosted a special sing-along performance of the musical (which features…

Abracadabra! Jamie Allan’s Amaze will extend off-Broadway for a fourth time, through January 31, 2027. Amaze recently received two Drama Desk nominations for Unique Theatrical Experience and Outstanding Pupp…

Casey Likes, Michael Park, Anastacia McCleskey, Bryce Williams, Kayla Pecchioni, Nolan Almeida and Jaron Bentley will star in the Muny production of Disney’s Newsies when the audience favorite returns this su…

Canciones is one of the best interactive shows I have ever experienced. Truthfully bringing the audience together in a shared collective, taking part in, and observing the family interactions between grandparen…

Ben Cameron's long-running, award-winning, musical theatre variety series, Broadway Sessions, returned last month with an all open-mic extravaganza. Performers included: Anthony Fett ("Broadway Baby"), Audrey …

Just In Time's new principal cast members are cozying up at the Copa inside the Circle in the Square Theatre. Jeremy Jordan, Isa Briones, Carrie St. Louis and Debbie Gravitte speak to their respective experien…

Little Bitches is a lively, authentic play about maturing teens that starts at 60mph, opening with a call-and-response chant of “Little Red Wagon” led by Gabriel Ryan-Kern and Sarah Brown that gets the audi…

Ben Cameron's long-running, award-winning, musical theatre variety series, Broadway Sessions, returned last month with an all open-mic extravaganza. Performers included: Anthony Fett ("Broadway Baby"), Audre…

The moment Sydney James Harcourt steps into the spotlight as Rum Tum Tugger in CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL, the temperature inside the Broadhurst Theatre rises. The audience screams and fans clack. Harcourt’s Tug…

 Shows get revived for all kinds of reasons. Maybe they were under appreciated in the past. Or they may have something particularly relevant to say about current events. A director may have come up with an inn…

It’s the most compelling question of the evening, when someone asks whether you would love a family member differently after discovering an unbearable truth about them. The idea unwinds our senses, and the ro…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Kecoughtan High School's production of MAMMA MIA! Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of producti…

Somebody sure is on Lea Michele's side this season. Not only did the stage and screen star make her triumphant return to Broadway in Chess (now running at the Imperial Theatre), but she just celebrated one of B…

The new Broadway musical Titanique has extended its limited Broadway engagement. The comedy, powered by the songs of pop icon Céline Dion, will now continue performances at the historic St. James Theatre throu…

BroadwayWorld is thrilled to announce that voting is now open for the 2026 Theater Fans' Choice Awards. The Theater Fans' Choice Awards honor and celebrate the best of New York Theater - as decided by the most …

The Lost Boys celebrated their 12 Tony Award nominations at the top of Tuesday night's performance, with the lead producers making a speech before the show kicked off. Watch videos from inside the show, featuri…

Audiences at Chess celebrated the production's five Tony Award nominations at Tuesday night's performance. Watch videos of the audience celebrating its Tony-nominated actors, Nicholas Christopher, Bryce Pinkham…

Ferdinand von Schirach was born in 1964, studied law and became a noted criminal defense lawyer. He turned his extensive experience into fiction with a collection of novels, screenplays and stage plays. Gott wa…

Head over Studio 54 and learn how the designers of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW use found materials, hidden details and theatrical flair to immerse the audience in the cult favorite. Get tickets to THE ROCKY HORROR …

Kim Kardashian visited The Fear of 13 on Broadway Sunday, speaking on stage with the company after the performance. The reality TV star and business mogul recently joined the producing team of Lindsey Ferrentin…

One of the smartest decisions the creative team of The Fear of 13 made was casting Tessa Thompson in her Broadway debut opposite two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody. This true story of Nick Yarris, stuck on de…

Whitney Leavitt announced that she will no longer appear on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives during her final performance of Chicago. The Dancing With the Stars alum shocked the audience when she dropped the ne…

Jeremy Jordan was recently joined by his real-life wife, Ashley Spencer, in a sweet moment during a performance of Just In Time. During a now-famous moment at each performance, the actor playing Bobby Darin pic…

A Perfume of Life! Jay Reisberg May 2, 2026 - 17:44 Topics Theater Review Tags off broadway …

Kenrex- 30 April 2026 Fearlessly bold and absolutely striking, Kenrex is an utterly unique, genre defying production about how much space a single individual can occupy in the world. With one man (Jack Holden) …

Where past and present commingle—as they so insistently do in a play like "Love Story"—the burden falls squarely on the director to furnish the audience with a legible temporal grammar. Without such guidanc…

Juliette Lewis is making her Broadway debut as Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show, now running at Studio 54. During a visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers, the actress recalled her first experience with the mater…

Following a successful San Antonio run, Memoirs of a Drag Queen, a new one-person musical by internationally produced composer and playwright Bernard J. Taylor, directed by Robby Vance, makes its New York debut…

There are more kooky crazy nights to be had! Everyone’s favorite trip of a retelling, Titanique, directed by Tye Blue, will stay docked in the St. James Theatre until September 20. The campy musical comedy wa…

Schmigadoon! recently paid tribute to RENT in honor of the iconic musical's 30th anniversary. April 29th marked the 30th anniversary of RENT's premiere. The musical went on to famously play at Broadway's Nederl…

Globe theatre, LondonA spunky Helena and an inspired Puck elicit cheers and laughter in Emily Lim’s generous, creative and clever showI can’t remember the last time I got the giggles in the theatre but dire…

"It is a queer confetti bath of joy," said Stephanie Hsu at Studio 54 just last week. The confetti bath she was referring to, of course, is The Rocky Horror Show, which just celebrated its opening night on Broa…

Wicked star’s one-woman West End show was stopped in response to an increasingly common problem for theatresA performance of Dracula in the West End on Monday night was halted after its star, Cynthia Erivo, s…

Review of the Sunday, April 26, 2026 matinee performance at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City. Starring Alex Brightman, Sara Chase, Ana Gasteyer, Ann Harada, Brad Oscar, Isabelle McCalla, Ayaan Diop, Iva…

Published April 28, 2026 How do you spell wholesome?The excellent revival of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical, is both nostalgic and inspiring, providing …

The musical adaptation of The Lost Boys, directed by Tony winner Michael Arden and with music by The Rescues, marked its opening night at the Palace Theatre on April 26. Broadway.com was on the red carpet to ch…

In a quiet corner of San Severo, a small city in Italy's Puglia region, a long-abandoned newsstand has been reborn as what may be the most radically intimate playhouse on earth. It's called Teatro Edicola - …

By Alix Cohen “He wants me to go in a date?!” Clara Schumann (1819-1896) anxiously and excitedly tells us.* Having not had a man in her life for 17 years, like any widowed or divorced woman, Clara wonders a…

David Lindsay-Abaire’s HOA satire The Balusters has opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre—not to be confused with your local landmark district. Broadway.com hit the red carpet to chat with t…

All photos by Matthew Murphy “Turning a movie into a musical reeks of desperation,” says a character in the new Broadway musical adaptation of…

“Turning a movie into a musical reeks of desperation,” says a character in the new Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 film “The Lost Boys.” That insider wink to the audience gets a big laugh — an…

Review: Cock at COLAB “This version of Cock pulls the audience in all the same directions as John’s mindset.” The post Review: Cock at COLAB appeared first on Theatre Weekly.

Now running at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre is What Happened Was… , starring Corey Stoll and Cecily Strong. The production marks the first major revival of Obie Award-winning playwright Tom Noonan’s wor…

Mark Ballas has made his return to Chicago on Broadway after facing an illness that kept him out of performances. The Dancing With the Stars pro took to his Instagram Story to thank audiences for their support …

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Smithtown Performing Arts Center's production of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill: The Musical. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, ful…

Photo by Joan Marcus “Enjoy the show. Don’t be an asshole,”While it’s not your typical musical theater greeting, “The Rocky Horror Show�…

Review of the Saturday, March 28, 2006 preview performance at Studio 54 in New York City. A Roundabout Theatre Company production. Starring Luke Evans, Rachel Dratch, Andrew Durand, Amber Gray, Harvey Guillén,…

[Luke Evans’] magnetism is off the charts: Pinkleton can, more or less, point him at the audience and fire him like a cannon. Evans towers over the rest of the cast in skyscraper boots, his long hair slicked …

With immensely appealing performances from Luke Evans (yes, he most certainly can sing) as the sinister Frank-N-Furter, Rachel Dratch as the droll narrator quick with the audience repartee, the always excellent…

Churchill theatre, Bromley James M Cain’s hard-bitten novella gained bleak power on screen but this version, giving Mischa Barton her UK stage debut, loses its flinty edgeThe West End’s woeful High Noon sho…

We all already know the plot of How My Grandparents Fell In Love from the title. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl isn't interested. Boy plies charm to win over girl. Girl starts to fall in love with boy, but…

At the end of “Beaches,” when Vosk belts the famous song from the movie so sublimely, the audience momentarily forgets the sandy slog that came before it. And then, woken up from that trance at the end of t…

Nygel D. Robinson stuns the audience at Mexodus every night by ending the show with "A Dios." Mexodus has shared a first look at the musical's co-creator belting out the song at the Daryl Roth Theatre, where it…

The best of Broadway was at the Booth Theatre last week, where the first Broadway revival of Proof, David Auburn’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof officially opened. In Proof, Catherine (Ayo Edeb…

Acclaimed actor Don Cheadle is making his Broadway debut in Proof, the new revival of David Auburn's play. With the actor now treading the Booth Theatre eight shows a week, there are plenty of opportunities for…

The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino’s play based on the documentary of the same name, opened on Broadway on April 15. Directed by Tony winner David Cromer, the production transferred to Broadway after its sold…

Following its first sold-out “dance along performance,” the Tony and Grammy-winning Broadway musical BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB will host an encore “dance along” performance on Thursday, May 14th, hosted b…

"You really ought to learn that dance"...and you really ought to see August Wilson's MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM before it closes on May 3! This ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (OUT OF 4) production "left the audience spellbound" (D…

Photo by Joan Marcus Originally published on Vogue.comView this story onlineBeing pulled across the stage by a phone cord while dressed in a floo…

Schmigadoon! was released on streaming more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when we all needed an escape from reality. The musical comedy television show, which featured a who's who of Broadwa…

For Paul Alexander Nolan, originating a role on Broadway is nothing new. But THE LOST BOYS, A NEW MUSICAL presents a uniquely high-wire challenge. It blends a beloved cult property, a massive physical productio…

Tomorrow, April 20, Atlantic Records will release the live recording of Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS (25th Anniversary Live at the London Palladium), featuring Tony, Grammy, and Em…

The Stand Comedy Club, GlasgowThe northerner finds the funny in banalities with this raucous compendium of all-in-it-together bants Phil Ellis has been watching Netflix specials, and has noticed that all the al…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Osbourn Theatre's production of MAMMA MIA! Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of productions, fr…

The audience of Just In Time on Broadway was treated to twice the Bobby Darin at the Thursday night performance when original star Jonathan Groff joined current star Matthew Morrison for a dance during the show…

Reviewed by Judd Hollander One of the bloodiest works in the Shakespeare canon, Titus Andronicus offers a stark judgment about what happens when one follows custom too closely and where, but for a little mercy,…

If you can't make it to the Daryl Roth Theatre for Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson's critically acclaimed musical Mexodus, well you're in luck! Audible releases the complete audio recording of the …

Photo by Little Fang Originally published on Vogue.comView this story online Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney have gone through hell and b…

Ben Cameron's long-running, award-winning, musical theatre variety series, Broadway Sessions, returned last month with the cast of Blood/Love, which is now running off-Broadway at Theater 555. Performers inclu…

Originally published on Vogue.comView this story online Playing a real-life person is nothing new for Adrien Brody. The acclaimed actor earned his first Oscar for his performance as WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Szpilman i…

It's time to do the Time Warp again! The 2025 documentary Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror is returning to cinemas across the country this spring. The movie explores Rocky Horror's origins as a London…

Earlier this week, Broadway officially added Becky Shaw to the 2025/26 season line-up. Gina Gionfriddo's play is directed by Trip Cullman, and now running at Second Stage's Hayes Theater. A blind date spirals …

Arcola theatre, London Writer Ken Ludwig's heartfelt and funny romcom draws the audience into every step of Jack and Louise's developing affection, their longing deepened by physical separation This epistolary …

On productions ranging from Les Liaisons Dangereuses to John Proctor Is the Villain, an army of technical wizards help ensure London's stage productions are believable and spectacular What does it take to creat…

Brixton House, London Five writers contribute fizzing ideas aplenty to this play exploring questions of Latinx identity in Britain, while also attempting to deliver an undercover drama There's no shortage of cr…

The company of PAC NYC production of "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" at the Broadhurst Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) In recent years we have been offered reinventions of cla…

One of the things we theater obsessives love to do is argue about which is the greatest American play. I'm a Tennessee Williams stan and so I always try to get A Streetcar Named Desire into the mix. But I'm als…