The Tiff Film Review: Jan Komasa’s “Good Boy“ WORLD PREMIERE – Poland, United Kingdom | 2025 | 110m | English By Ross Surprisingly emotional and engaging, “Good Boy“, seen at the Toronto Internati…

As summer winds down with the beach chairs stored away, the last of the ripe tomatoes devoured, and the tans finally faded, we now turn to the fall and those extra special shows to get us excited — and to div…

Soho theatre, LondonNina Bowers and Philip Arditti claw passionately at Henry V’s colonialism and imperialism in their frequently funny and at times deliberately uncomfortable play When Englishness is being w…

English Touring Theatre (ETT), York Theatre Royal and An Tobar and Mull Theatre have announced the UK tour of The Last Picture, a brand-new play by acclaimed writer Catherine Dyson The post ETT Announces UK Tou…

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 officiallly open on No…

The TIFF Film Review: Adam Carter Rehmeier’s “Carolina Caroline“ By Ross World Premiere – United States of America | 2025 | 105m | English “How do you know if you are a good person pretending to be …

The background on the story indicates that "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain was an inspiration for the story, but the only connections to that book seem to be the idea of traveling on a river …

The Soraya launched its 2025–26 season this past weekend with the West Coast premiere of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, presented in a special concert staging with Eng…

The TIFF Film Review: Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet By Ross CANADIAN PREMIERE – United Kingdom | 2025 | 125m | English “Tell me a story.” “What kind of story would you like?” “One that moves you.” In W…

Orange Tree theatre, LondonDirector Tom Littler finds the comedy in the Swedish tragedian’s play about how people use each other up in love and art In an interview before his production of Noël Coward’s Bl…

Broadway’s Waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, best known as the duo from the Bill and Ted movies, begins performances at Broadway's Hudson Theatre on September 13. Opening night is se…

The TIFF Film Review: Gus Van Sant‘s “Dead Man’s Wire“ By Ross NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE – United States of America | 2025 | 104m | English The smooth radio tones of Roberta Flack and such drive us into…

Classic Stage Company has announced complete casting for The Baker’s Wife, the legendary Stephen Schwartz–Joseph Stein musical that has never before received a full-scale New York production. Directed by Go…

Casting is complete for the North American tour of The Phantom of the Opera. The touring production, starring Isaiah Bailey as the Phantom, Jordan Gilbert as Christine Daaé and Daniel Lopez as Raoul, launche…

More than 30 years ago, French actress turned playwright Yasmina Reza took one look at a piece of modern art purchased by a close friend and burst into laughter. Fortunately, her reaction didn’t offend her fr…

An all new video has been released giving fans a first look at "New Money" from The Great Gatsby in South Korea! The performance features Amber Ardolino as Jordan Baker. The cast of The Great Gatsby in South Ko…

English National Opera opens its 2025/26 Season with a bold new production of Cinderella (La Cenerentola), directed by International Opera Award-nominated Julia Burbach The post Julia Burbach and ENO Present a…

An element of the story is the behavior of the English noblemen. They switch allegiances depending on the behavior of either King John or King Philip II. It is not easy to follow these shifting loyalties in the…

In front of Shorakkopoch Rock in Inwood Park, the site of the Indian village where (according to legend and the plaque on the rock), Peter Minuit “bought” Manhattan, a member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape…

After 9,000 performances as Rafiki in The Lion King, Tshidi Manye is set to depart the Broadway production. Manye first performed with the show's Toronto company in 2000, and most of her 9,000 performances have…

Did you know that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts holds a treasure trove of watchable theatre in its Theatre on and Tape (TOFT) archive? Over 4,000 recordings of live theatrical performances…

David Cumming, who plays the British intelligence officer Charles Cholmondeley and a host of other characters in Broadway's farcical thriller Operation Mincemeat, offered The Broadway Show a tour around the …

Jerry Adler (1929–2025).August 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. A dozen years ago, I had the pleasure of sitting across the table from the recently departed Jerry Adler at the Empire Ho…

Church Hill theatre, EdinburghA furious and unsettling Shakespeare reboot exposes colonial violence and demands accountability for crimes against Indigenous people ‘Aren’t you sorry you forced me to learn E…

English-born Terence Stamp, who burned brightly as a young actor in the 1960s, with praise heaped upon him for roles in “Billy Budd,” “The Collector” and “Far From the Madding Crowd,” memorably play…

The song cycle about an English woman newly arrived in America will be presented at the Florida venue in September.

Bucking tradition once again, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his picks for Kennedy Center Honors and said he will host the ceremony himself — a first for any president. Actor and filmmaker Sylv…

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVictoria Melody’s passion for other people’s passions is in full bloom in a show that finds delight and inspiration in English civil war reenactments Victoria Melody jokes that…

Elizabeth McGovern triumphs as Ava Gardner in her self-written, smart, and theatrical adaptation of an English journalist’s memoir packed with gossip. The post Ava: The Secret Conversations appeared first o…

Barbican, London Will & Grace star reprises his Tony award-winning role as Oscar Levant in Doug Wright’s play about a ratings-crucial TV interview There is a small set of stage plays in which the younger,…

The first new production of Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London premiere in September 2024 opened in Barcelona on 5 July as part of this year’s Grec festival. Actor Josep Maria Po…

Amber Ardolino has shared a first look at the cast of The Great Gatsby in South Korea! The video shows her in costume as Jordan Baker for the first time, along with Matt Doyle as Jay Gatsby, Senzel Ahmady as Da…

VID: Montage of clips from "Big River" on Broadway, featuring performers in period costumes on stage performing songs in both ASL and spoken English. TAGS: #broadway #broadwaymusical #broadwayshow #musicalthea…

One Performance Wonders: The Moony Shapiro Songbook It was an article on Playbill.com about Brenda Pressley joining the cast of 2025's Tony-winning Best Play, Purpose that put this show back on my radar. I h…

A new block of tickets for the Broadway musical BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB is now on sale for performances through Sunday, May 24, 2026, at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB has made history…

The English singing icon made a Broadway appearance in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Dame Cleo Laine, the Tony-nominated performer and acclaimed jazz singer, has passed away at 97. Her death was confirmed by her children, Jacqui and Alec. She was predece…

Unpacking the president of Zimbabwe’s psyche felt urgent in 2001 when he remained in violent power. But the play has found fresh relevance today I am standing outside the hallowed walls of the Market theatre,…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: "He glides and sways over gentle rhythms that feel almost as Latin as West African (and as much smooth jazz as either)."…

DALLAS — The Texas Theatre has screened countless films, but for Swiss-Ecuadorian guitarists Hermanos Gutiérrez’s new single with Fort Worth singer Leon Bridges, they turned the camera on the Oak Cliff lan…

Watch Matt Doyle and Senzel Ahmady performing "My Green Light" ahead of starring in The Great Gatsby in Seoul, South Korea. Performances are set to run August 1 - November 9, 2025 at the GS Arts Center in Gangn…

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A new production of West Side Story has opened at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, as part of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s summer 2025 season. The staging, which runs through August 7, 2025 marks a rare p…

Nicholas Hoult will always be Tony from Skins for me. Being a teenager obsessed with English TV really paid off 🤣🤣🤣 See you at the SHO! #NicholasHoult #Skins #Superman #LexLuther #England #UK #Super…

Sadie Sink played her 104th and final performance on Broadway as ‘Shelby Holcomb’ in John Proctor is the Villain yesterday, Sunday, July 13. Check out photos of her final curtain call below! Performances fo…

The Shaw Festival Theatre Review: Shaw’s Major Barbara By Ross A song of salvation draws us into the Shaw Festival‘s solid and engaging production of Major Barbara, written by the festival’s namesake, Geo…

On Friday, July 11, singer-song writer Lorde visited with the cast of John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway! Her song, Greenlight, his featured predominantly in the show. See the photos here! The script is ge…

Bill English Spotlights Woman’s Liberation & Sexual Shenanigans  by Lynne Stevens In Director Bill English’s smart new “My Fair Lady,” a “street urchin,” a phonetics professor, and a military m…

Teacher Appreciation Day was two months ago, and I came this close to doing a long-planned piece on my Freshman English teacher, Judi Scott. For whatever reason I ducked it, not for the first time either. As al…

Shakespeare’s Globe, London Falstaff’s corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes’ summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo and xenophobia In one…

It’s 1980 in Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, and a war rages, while a high-stakes election could change this country forever. For 7-year-old Bobo (Lexi Venter), life continues on at her white English fa…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Born in Toronto, shaped by Lagos, and now based in the DMV, TolumiDE (pronounced toe-lu-mee-day) infuses her music with …

Richard Greenberg, the celebrated playwright best known for his 2003 Tony-winning play Take Me Out, has died. The cause of death has not been confirmed. He was 67.  Theater director Robert Falls, who has bee…

English National Opera has announced the internationally acclaimed cast and conductor for Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey, a one-night-only concert taking place on Friday 12 September 2025 at the London Co…

She feels safest in logic. But love isn’t logical. Get your first listen of “Safety in Numbers” from “Elephant Shoes,” a brand-new original musical co-produced by Deaf West Theatre and Two River Thea…

Deaf West Theatre has released a music video for “Safety in Numbers” from Elephant Shoes, a new original musical with a book by Ivan Menchell, music and lyrics by Caroline Kay, and directed and choreographe…

Publisher Berkley is releasing the translated novels this year.

OLIVIA COMES AGAIN — (Via Realscreen) Netflix will release a new feature documentary on late singer and actress Olivia Newton-John, which is currently in production with R.J. Cutler’s This Machine (part of …

Thank you for supporting the Segal Centre! You play a vital role in our mission to present world-class English-language theatre and celebrate the incredible talent of artists from Montreal and beyond. Your su…

The World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights is the largest playwriting contest in the Chinese-speaking world. Open to playwrights aged 18 to 36, it accepts plays written in either Mandarin or En…

The Olivier Award-winning West End production of Oedipus, created and directed by Robert Icke after Sophocles, has set Broadway dates. The previously announced production will begin performances at Studio 54 on…

Jules Chan brings his semi-autobiographical solo show English Ako to the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

  Pamela L Paek (Playwright and Performer) relishes self-expression and creativity in as many forms as she can juggle, including solo shows, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, physical comedy, and clown. P…

The Toronto Theatre Review: Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree By Ross With a “good luck, you’re going to be great,” the acclaimed English theatre creator Tim Crouch (My Arm; ENGLAND) ushers this unique piece of…

Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A Fable for Now and Mama/Popstar, won the Taiwan Literature Award and Taipei Literature Awards, respectively. The f…

The final concert of the 2024-2025 season brought audiences a complete concert version of Verdi’s “Aida” performed in Italian with English supertitles and featuring an all-star cast: Angel Blue (Aida), Ja…

Happy Father's Day! To celebrate, we asked West End dads to share advice they'd give other performing dads, plus advice they'd give their younger selves. Starring Joel Montague – The Great Gatsby Shaun Esco…

Buena Vista Social Club is a cultural milestone. With Spanish songs, English dialogue, and soul-deep storytelling, it’s reshaping what Broadway can be. Celebrate the show that’s making history.

Playhouse East, LondonLily Sinko rages, writhes, provokes and teases her way through the horrifying life story of her storyteller with cartoonish abandon Magdalena appears from the dark, perched on a bar stool,…

Ciao ciao 👋 Sing along to "So Long, Farewell" in English, Italian and German!

Photo taken from my seat in the Front Mezzanine at Radio City Music Hall last night.June 9, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. The Tony Awards have been broadcast on national television since …

Five outstanding new plays and four equally outstanding revivals have been singled out this Broadway season! Nominees for Best Play are: English (Sanaz Toossi), The Hills of California (Jez Butterworth), John …

2025 was a big year for Tala Ashe. In January she made her Broadway debut in the PUlitzer Prize-winning play English. Just a few months later, she is a Tony nominee for her performance! "I think English was th…

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London One of the “most English of ballets” will be performed …

This is one for the history books! Sam Pinkleton has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Pinkleton beat out fellow nominees Knud Adams for English, Sam Mendes for The Hills of California, Dany…

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Proctor is the Villain…

Kara Young has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Purpose. Young beat out fellow nominees Tala Ashe for English, Jessica Hecht for Eureka Day, Marjan Neshat for E…

Best Musical Buena Vista Social Club Dead Outlaw Death Becomes Her Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical Best Play English The Hills of California John Proctor Is the Villain Oh, Mary! Purpose B…