In theaters this week and starring enduring and appealing English action star Jason Statham, “Shelter” proves to be a competent slice of action-driven drama, but it’s pretty far from dynamic. Hey, we had …

Confidence looks good in every language. 👜

Us Chess fans have something new to celebrate with a cast recording of the new Broadway revival officially confirmed. On January 26, the current cast will start work on a brand-new cast album of the Benny Ander…

English National Opera has announced a new concert staging of Così fan tutte, presented at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester The post English National Opera brings Così fan tutte to The Bridgewater Hall in c…

Get tix: https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/film/2025-2026/tonto-por-cristo/ Terrace Theater Mon. Feb. 9, 2026 @ 7p.m. Inspired by the ancient Eastern Orthodox tradition of the “Holy …

The 1979 IRA killing of an English soldier in Belfast is the core of this powerful and twisty present-day drama that is filled with flashbacks. The post The Honey Trap appeared first on Theaterscene.org.

English National Opera will present a bold new staging of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny The post André de Ridder and Danielle de Niese Lead ENO’s Rise and Fall of t…

The award honors female and non-binary playwrights who have written English language plays.

York Theatre Royal, English Touring Theatre (ETT) and An Tobar and Mull Theatre have announced the full cast and creative team for The Last Picture, a brand-new play by Catherine Dyson The post Full Cast and Cr…

Big names can attract audiences as venues struggle with fallout from pandemic, austerity and high costs, Rebecca Dawson says Casting big stars in stage productions is sometimes needed because theatre is in an �…

The 100-minute English adaptation is penned by Jacob Ashworth and Rory Pelsue.

Sainsbury theatre, London Academy of Music and Dramatic ArtBoutique staging with just 12 dancers makes up for its small scale with inventive choreography by Valentino Zucchetti and a spirited cast The Nutcracke…

Irish Repertory Theatre will present the American Premiere of Ulster American by David Ireland (Cyprus Avenue), directed by Ciarán O’Reilly (The Weir), and starring Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick (Irish…

🎟️ Buy tickets: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/the-little-prince/ “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.” —The Little Prince An aviator crash lands in the desert. C…

A few words on the mixed legacy of English playwright John Osborne (1929-1994). To begin on a positive note, and completely out of order, Osborne wrote the screenplay to one of my favorite films, Tony Richardso…

Take a peak into what a tech rehearsal looks like for Washington National Opera's "The Little Prince," at The Kennedy Center Dec. 12 - 14, 2025. 🎟️ Buy tickets: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/20…

Discover Go, Dog. Go! • Ve Perro ¡Ve! — a bilingual stage adaptation of P.D. Eastman’s classic children’s book, presented at the Kennedy Center Family Theater. Running November 22 through December 14, …

Christopher Hampton, veteran English-language translator, and Daniël Cohen, longtime Dutch-language translator, weigh in on the job that’s trickier than it seems, their specific works and plays versus musica…

The bilingual work of GALA Hispanic Theatre stands as a vibrant testament to the power of multilingual storytelling and the communities it uplifts. Rooted in decades of serving Washington, D.C.’s Latin commun…

The Lion King recently celebrated its 28th anniversary on Broadway. Throughout those 11,000 performances, productions of the show were simultaneously playing across the globe in nine different languages. South …

ART arrives at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway to brighten the autumn season. French writer Yasmina Reza’s hit comedy as translated to The King’s English by Christopher Hampton has been a hit in Lindon fo…

By Samuel L. Leiter December 4, 2025: In 1905, Jacob Adler, a giant of Manhattan’s Yiddish theater, spoke these (or similar) words from the stage of Teller’s Broadway Theatre in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg se…

Now in its final three weeks at Classic Stage Company is The Baker’s Wife, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof), music & lyrics by Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Step…

Iraisa Ann Reilly in her one-woman show “A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, 1998” at Ensemble Studio Theatre (Photo credit: Valerie Terranova) If you venture into the modest yet indus…

A frequent collaborator and friend reflects on the entwined life and work of an era-defining English dramatist, whose brilliance masked a secret sorrow.

By Ash Marinaccio, Baha Sadr, Chris Ackley, Ana Bess Moyer Bell, Eve Kerrigan, Noga Paulino. Ash Marinaccio speaks with the Creative Pathways team at the Genesis Center in Providence, RI, about how documentary …

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…

Tom Felton is turning heads as the groom-to-be in a new exclusive clip from Fackham Hall. The Harry Potter alum, currently reprising his role as Draco Malfoy in Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is …

Tom Stoppard, 88, an acclaimed author of some three dozen plays, had an extraordinary body of work, and lived an unusual life: Although he was viewed as one of the greatest English-language playwrights of his g…

Nobody advanced or cherished the English language more than Stoppard, Tim Curry noted. Colleagues and fans agreed.

One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue After the first night of his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the National Theat…

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the passing of prolific playwright Tom Stoppard, who dies at his home in Dorset, England. He was 88 years old. The news was shared earlier today by United Agents: pic.twitter…

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…

Drawing comparisons A Czech-born English dramatist, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades and awards on both sides of the Atlantic.

Innocent as a rose in English, French and Spanish! 🌹 #SoundofMusic

“Chess” is not a serious musical.  That’s the key to appreciating this show, which is supposed to be about an American and a Russian grandmaster battling over both the game of chess and a woman. Not kno…

Birmingham RepHumphrey Ker and David Reed’s witty thriller blends Victorian sleuthing, meta gags and new songs by the great musical-theatre duo A serial killer working through the alphabet (Agatha Christie’…

🎟️ Get tickets now: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/marriage-of-figaro/ Step into the Opera House lobby to hear real reactions from audience members fresh out of The Marriage of Figaro! …

🎟️ Get tickets now: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/marriage-of-figaro/ Step into the Opera House lobby to hear real reactions from audience members fresh out of The Marriage of Figaro! …

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS is a Bram-new comedy you can really sink your teeth into. Filled with clever wordplay and anything-goes pop culture references, it’s a 90-minute, gender-bending, quick-changing, l…

William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets — 884,647 words in all.He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language, including addictionassassin…

Classic Stage Company celebrated the opening night of The Baker’s Wife, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Joseph Stein, music & lyrics by Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Stephen Schwartz, based o…

🎟️ Buy tickets: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/marriage-of-figaro/ If love’s a game, anyone can play in Mozart’s sparkling The Marriage of Figaro. In this sneak peek, get a taste o…

Get your tix today for COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE! The Artistic Directors of MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Page 73 invite you to experience the critically acclaimed play with music by RO REDDICK (THROWBACK ISLAN…

Tix now on sale for COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE! Performances begin Feb 21 Tix: https://mcctheater.org/tix/cold-war-choir-practice/ RO REDDICK’S (THROWBACK ISLAND) COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE was a New York Times Cr…

Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard Act 1. Scene 1. A classroom in a secondary school in Peterborough. It is a dreary, wet afternoon…

See what the critics are saying about Classic Stage Company’s production of The Baker’s Wife, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Joseph Stein, music and lyrics by Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Ste…

In a move so ingenious one might think Hermione Granger was behind it, Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child cast actor Tom Felton in none other than the role of Draco Malfoy. Felton brings his onscreen …

In documentary Coexistence, My Ass!, Noam Shuster Eliassi uses humor and honesty to turn a one-woman show into something politically radical In the late 2010s, Noam Shuster Eliassi was working at the United Nat…

James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in a scene from Yasmina Reza’s “Art” at the Music Box Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Yasmina Reza’s Art which is turning 31 this year and wo…

There’s a solid chance that the last time you had to think deeply about Oedipus Rex, you were sitting in 11th grade English class and trying to understand the symbolism behind the titular character’s ankles…

In the early 1930s, Sally Carson, an English writer and dancing teacher, spent time in Germany. She then wrote Crooked Cross, which focuses on the insidious growth of Nazism, first as a novel and then as a play…

One-person shows are popping up everywhere. And it makes sense that they should.  They’re comparatively cheap to put on since by definitiion there’s only one performer to pay and the costume and set—when…

Following sold out seasons in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya earlier this year, members of the critically acclaimed Japanese cast of Six The Musical will take the stage at the Vaudeville Theatre, for one week only fro…

This festive season, join Clara on a fantastical adventure where anything is possible. Embark on a journey full of delight and wonder as English National Ballet brings Nutcracker to life with over 100 dancers a…

The Japanese version of the pop-rock phenomenon about the six ill-fated wives caused a sensation in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. As that production now hits the UK, we go behind the scenes (and thrones) A singer a…

In Nia DaCosta’s elegantly searing drama “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson makes a classic role entirely her own. As in Henrik Ibsen’s play “Hedda Gabler,” this Hedda is an unhappy, complicated woman who has …

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 on October 30 with op…

Get your tickets now! https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida is a drama of imposs…

Get your tickets now! https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida is a drama of imposs…

Birmingham RepStaged by Deafinitely Theatre, Eloise Pennycott’s play sets romance against a broken, unjust system Barrier(s) is a queer love story about a couple with vastly different experiences of the world…

Punch completely blew me away, as it did the people I saw it with. A wild, disaffected young man, Jacob, punches another young man, James, for no particular reason. That one punch kills James. James's parents,…

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) will launch Broadway Spotlight, a ten-week arts residency for New York City public high school students, developed by 92NY’s School Engagement team in collaboration with the…

Buy tickets today: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida is a drama of impossib…

Performed in ASL and spoken English, the work will get a world premiere via Two River Theater and Deaf West Theater in 2026.

To celebrate her run in the show and the passing of the torch from one Anne Hathaway to the next, Willemijn Verkaik got together with Sabrina Weckerlin to record a special duet version of 'That's The Way It Is.…

200 years ago Noah Webster (1758-1843) finished the first edition of what we now call, many editions later, the Meriam-Webster Dictionary. The 70,000 word original, known as the American Dictionary of the Engli…

Deaf West Theatre will host an industry preview event at NYC’s Museum of Broadway on Monday, October 20, for Elephant Shoes, a new original musical with a book by Ivan Menchell, music and lyrics by Caroline K…

Letters from the late Herbert Kretzmer, recently donated to Cambridge University Library, reveal that the writer, who famously wrote the English-language lyrics for Les Miserables, felt he didn't receive enough…

In a recent video segment, CBS Mornings Plus co-anchor Adriana Diaz sat down with Buena Vista Social Club co-choreographers Justin Peck and Patricia Delgado, a husband-and-wife duo whose personal story is deepl…

Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, one that makes you feel OK about your own struggles to fit in, is a good start to TheaterWorks Hartford’s 2025-26 season.

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company John Woodvine, who has died aged 96, was a proud Tynesider and stalwart of the Royal Sha…

The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon Today, Oscar Wilde is one of the most celebrated writers in English, both instantly recogni…

Born 150 years ago this day, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), prophet, poet, scholar, and all around English decadent. We’ve posted twice before on this influential figure, once merely as a sort of Halloween jok…

An additional theater category has also been introduced.

ETT (English Touring Theatre) has announced its Winter season with the London run of Museum of Austerity, a powerful mixed reality installation exploring the human cost of austerity The post Museum of Austerity…

Royal Albert Hall, London Riding high off Tony and Olivier wins, the Pussycat Doll turned theatre star showcases her astonishingly versatile singing chops and a standup’s gift for chaotic humour As an impatie…

Maria can teach the magic of music in any language. 🎵 Watch "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music in English, German and Italian!

Rehearsals are underway for The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company. The production will run from October 23 – December 21, 2025 at CSC’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater, with an opening night set for November…