A new London production of the playwright’s masterpiece has extra poignancy just months after his death.

Old Vic, LondonStuffed with knowledge and often regarded as the playwright’s finest work, this drama’s sheer cleverness gleams in an exuberant production When Tom Stoppard was asked what this play was about…

The London theater season is in full swing during the month ahead, mixing keenly awaited revivals with new plays and U.K. premieres, along with a gala concert honoring one of Broadway’s finest. For more detai…

The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and elegance By the time I was cast in Rock’n’Roll in 2006 I had been fol…

With Tom Stoppard’s passing, we look back on a career that transformed theatrical language and feeling. Our tribute revisits Arcadia, Leopoldstadt, Travesties, and The Real Thing through TheaterScene’s crit…

The playwright Tom Stoppard, who penned shows including Arcadia and Travesties and the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, died last week.

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Broadway Dims its Lights for Tom Stoppard The Broadway in Memoriam Committee has announced that Broadway’s lights will dim for Tom Stoppard on Decemb…

The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked together…

Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giant I worked with Tom when I was quite young, on Arcadia in 1993, and again…

Stoppard's prolific playwriting career earned him the most Tony Awards for Best Play in theatrical history.

In works like “Travesties” and “Arcadia,” the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, exhilarating shape.

The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter Tom Stoppard: a life in pictures A brilliant dramatist w…

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia returns for a limited run at The Old Vic in 2026 The post Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia to be Revived at The Old Vic in 2026 appeared first on Theatre Weekly.

In a first for 1812 and an exciting move for the Curated Fringe, Tanaquil Márquez and Eliana Fabiyi’s ambitious, funny, and magical new play La Otra, a bilingual production, comes to the Arden’s Arcadia St…

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Broadway Games: Musicals in 3 Clues II DIRECTIONS: Can you name the Broadway musical we are looking for based on the three clues we provide? We'll give you a character's name, a song and a setting clue for ea…

Visitors to Scott Kip’s Perpetual Inventory can decide if they want to look at an inventory or gallery notes before entering—but it might be worthwhile to wait, for an impressionistic, mysterious encounter.…

Slender new play about political and gender prejudice in 1950s American science British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993) and Michael Fra…

Summer is saying its goodbyes, and with that comes the seasonal promise of exciting theater for the fall. That’s nowhere more true than in London, which offers a dizzying array of shows in the month ahead. Fr…

The power and flexibility of Avolites’ D9 lighting console and an Avolites AI Qgen media server (with another for hot backup) running Avo’s proprietary Synergy protocol – which works with all third-party …

Flames, lasers, and lights fired up the night sky at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in the UK as Arcadia launched its amazing new “Dragonfly” spectacular concept. Lighting in…

SCENE PARTNERS (Vineyard) WAITING FOR GODOT (Polonsky) ARCADIA (Bedlam) Reviewed by David Spencer Here’s a quick overview of some shows that are nearing their run—in some cases extended run—completions S…

Bedlam's production of Stoppard's play initially extended its run last month before performances began.

Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard in a new production from Bedlam in New York City.

This being Bedlam famous for its experimental revivals, the second act is handled differently. The audience is asked to leave their seats in the amphitheater and when they return are given other seats now arran…

Bedlam’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s time-traveling mind-bender of a play is a meditation on uncertainty.

A gleeful production of Tom Stoppard's complex classic. Lorin Wertheimer reviews. The post Review: Arcadia at the West End Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

I had one of those tingly New York theater experiences last Friday night.  You know the kind -- you walk into an unprepossessing theater space, not sure what to expect, and witness some astonishing theater. …

Eric Tucker directs the Bedlam Theater Company production.

Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . . Considering the dearth of intellectually challenging plays on New York City’s vaunted stages in recent years, the staging of one of the most intelligent, complex and highly…

★★☆☆☆ Eric Tucker puts Bedlam players, including outstanding Caroline Grogan, through unrewarding paces The post Arcadia: Tom Stoppard’s Heart-Felt Play in Weakened-Heart Revival appeared first on N…

By: Samuel L. Leiter November 13, 2023: Since 2012, the Off-Broadway troupe known as Bedlam has sometimes made it to the top of adventurous theatre making’s slippery slope; just as often it has slid back do…

Eric Tucker directs the Bedlam Theater Company production.

Eric Tucker directs the Bedlam Theater Company production.

Bedlam's production of Stoppard's play begins performances at the end of this month.

Broadway Forever – Roundabout Theatre/The Refugee Plays – Arcadia/Bedlam – Exorcistic/The Box – Days of Wine & Roses Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, will be presented by Bedlam, directed by Eric Tucker, O…

Proof   Reviewed by Steven Leigh Morris Dig Deep Theatre/Olive Branch Theatricals at The Main Through August 20 RECOMMENDED David Auburn’s 2000 drama, Proof, (originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Cl…

Eric Tucker will direct the five-week engagement this fall.

Robe moving lights were in action across multiple stages at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, including in three key ‘creative’ areas of the massive site at Worthy Farm, Pilton,…

Bedlam Theater Company has also announced that it will present Angels in America in Massachusetts.

Old and new come together in the hit musical comedy “Head Over Heels.” With a plot adapted from Sir Phillip Sidney’s 16th-century “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia” and music and lyrics from the c…

The dialogue is sharp, witty, and rich, and the actors did their best, with varied results.

It takes smart, talented actors to make Tom Stoppard's comedy about chaos theory intelligible, and the cast here is up to the challenge.

Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterThis improbable mashup of Philip Sidney’s Arcadia and the pioneering LA rock band has plenty of rhythm but little dramatic jeopardy Sir Philip Sidney’s 1590 work Arcadia, having…

A Go-Go’s jukebox musical has to start with “We’ve Got the Beat” as an introduction to the sequined and bejeweled kingdom of Arcadia. “The Beat” is tradition. It keeps Arcadia happy, grooving, and …

A new exhibition of mid-20th-century woman printmakers at Arcadia University traces a burgeoning feminist movement at New York print studio Atelier 17. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Actor Arty Froushan and director Patrick Marber on the personal nature of Leopoldstadt A hand-drawn family tree is a potent recurring image in Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard's elegiac new play tracing four generati…

In June 2020, Alyssa May Gold – NYC-based actress of the stage and screen and founder of the theater and film production company Pocket Universe – shared her insights and excitement about her return to Broa…

As part of their commitment to the next generation of theater and live performance professionals, Clear-Com® will be exhibiting on Booth #217 at the USITT Conference & Stage Expo from March 3 – 5 in …

Jenny Koons and Sam Pinkleton's immersive new staging returns the fanciful show to its original conception.

As Broadway continues to re-open, more and more I'm seeing some of my favorite things on social media: Playbills in front show curtains! Well, we do a lot of games involving Playbills, so this one's all about t…

With the return of Diana to the boards (and to televisions across the country), here's game all about the royalty - real and fictional - that has trod the stages of The Great Bright Way. Broadway Games:Broa…

From Anne Enright’s novel about an actor’s daughter to the diaries of former National Theatre director Peter Hall, the theatre critic chooses his favourite titles about the stage Theatre is the most evanesc…

BroadwayCon Co-Founder Anthony Rapp game masters a one-shot adventure based on the popular TTRPG, Dungeons & Dragons. This one-shot, "The Workshop Watches," was written by game designer Leon Barillaro for the M…

A former Philly railroad plant becomes the perfect home for Lithuanian opera Sun & Sea, which shines at this year’s Fringe Festival. Merilyn Jackson reviews.

They got the beat! Casting is set for the previously announced reimagined Head Over Heels production at California's Pasadena Playhouse. The musical comedy, featuring the hits of The Go-Go's, will run from Nove…

The Pleasure Garden, inspired by the history of south London's Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, premieres this month at Above the Stag Theatre, set on the edge of the modern-day park.

The groundbreaking director’s new project, Arcadia, fills tents with poetry and music in Manchester. She talks about Covid and Brexit, becoming a mother and taking over Bath’s Ustinov A flicker on the scree…

AussieTheatre has FIVE double passes to giveaway to Magic Mike Live at The Arcadia, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne on Wednesday 14th

Head Over Heels, the Broadway musical that features the songs of the Go-Go's, will play the Hayes Theatre in Sydney, Australia beginning August 7. This marks the musical's first international production. A new…

AussieTheatre has TWO double passes to giveaway to Magic Mike Live at The Arcadia, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne on Sunday 13th

Channing Tatum’s Magic Mike Live will have its Australian Premiere in Sydney on Sunday 20 December in the world’s largest Spiegeltent, The Arcadia, that has been specifically designed and built for Australi…

AussieTheatre has ONE double pass to giveaway for MAGIC MIKE LIVE at the The Arcadia – Entertainment Quarter on Tuesday

10 Monologues for a “Good Vibes Only” Audition Written by Amanda Grace August 12, 2020 You can be high-vibing without going low-stakes! Whether you’ve hit your angst quota for the month or the centur…

Last seen on the New York stage in her critically-acclaimed performance in the award-nominated supernatural coming-of-age comedy Our Dear Dead Drug Lord at Off-Broadway’s WP Theater, Alyssa May Gold, who made…

Following advice received from the Federal Government to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Melbourne season of Magic Mike Live at The Arcadia at Birrarung Marr has been postponed. The Producers of Magic M…

The latest offering from New Line Theatre, the show is set in the kingdom of Arcadia and features faux-Shakespearean dialogue.

This is one of the most exuberant, silly, funny and irreverent jukebox musicals I have ever seen. Just like “Mamma Mia” or “Xanadu” or any of a number of jukebox musicals, the book by Jeff Whitty (conce…

After receiving a foreboding prophecy of loss and destruction, the King of Arcadia is determined to outwit the gods and save his kingdom’s “beat.” To do so, he takes his queen, two daughters, and faithful…

Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical comedy featuring music by The Go-Go’s, will launch its first D.C. metro area production opening Monumental Theater Company’s 2020 season. With a book by James Magruder, ad…

The 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, honoring film and television works, was held on January 12 at the Barker Hanger in Los Angeles, CA. It was hosted by screen actor, and original Rent cast member, Taye Dig…

by Edward Precht. @pertoltprecht. NEW YORK, NY - New Year’s Day. For many, it’s a time to reflect on the triumphs and disappointments of the previous year, and to create goals for what they wish to accompli…

Millennial Notes Whitty & Magruder Challenge Love & Gender Norms by Jordan Freed Does it make a lick of sense to combine Sir Philip Sidney’s 400-year-old pastoral romance Arcadia with the 1980s new wa…

Dan Stevens is headed back to the Great White Way. The star of stage and screen will take on the lead role of the brooding Mooney in the Broadway premiere of Martin McDonagh's Olivier-winning comedy Hangmen. T…

Courtney Hope! Come on down! You’re the next interview on Call Me Adam! I’m beyond excited to interview actress and model Courtney Hope who is known for being one of the models on The Price Is Right as well…