“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…

Sherman theatre, CardiffTheatr Cymru’s bilingual version of Shakespeare’s tragedy brings intriguing complexity to the warring families but also some confusion ‘Speakest thou from the heart?” Or rather: …

On Thursday, the Tony Award-winning cast of Broadway's Buena Vista Social Club joined The Kelly Clarkson Show for a special performance of "Qué Bueno Baila Usted." Check it out here. Earlier in the day, the ca…

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer, known for her work on stage and screen, has died at age 96. Born in Birkenhead, England, in 1929, Routledg…

Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn a stunning evening, fearless and faultless dancers deliver a trio of classics, ending with a gorgeous yet more subdued piece by David Dawson English National Ballet’s new season lau…

Check out boundary pushing ballet at Sadler's Wells this October. With audio described performances and touch tours available, there are more ways to experience the movement. Get tickets for R:Evolution's aud…

Late lyricist Herbert Kretzmer had written to producer Cameron Mackintosh to highlight that his contributions were ‘downgraded’

L M Feldman’s new queer love story, starting its rolling world premiere at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre, uses ASL and English for more than mere explication.

We meet Cillian Murphy’s titular character in “Steve” as he’s about to be interviewed on camera. He asks the crew to stop filming him for a moment as he tries to collect himself, but instead the camera …

Among her most haunting and meditative works is the slim yet searing "From Trinity to Trinity," an autobiographical pilgrimage undertaken in 1999 to the Trinity Site in New Mexico where the world’s first atom…

Jamie Lloyd is back on Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. The production officially opened on September 28. Check out photos from the o…

Rehearsals are underway for The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company. You can now get a first look at photos of the company in rehearsals here! The Baker’s Wife features a book by Tony Award winner Joseph …

Three-time Tony Award–winning director, producer, and writer JACK O’BRIEN joins host Nathan Winkelstein for a deep dive into the evolution of language and Shakespeare’s verse. From memory, O’Brien deliv…

Jamie Lloyd returns to Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Check out photos of the cast on the opening night red carpet below! The stric…

English National Opera (ENO) will present a new production of Dead Man Walking this November at the London Coliseum, marking the 25th anniversary of Jake Heggie’s acclaimed opera The post Dead Man Walking Com…

The TIFF Film Review: Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein“ By Ross NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE – United States of America | 2025 | 149m | English In deep, dark red, black, and white canvases, Oscar-winning…

Hudson Theatre, New York The Bill & Ted stars land on Broadway for Jamie Lloyd’s disorienting and intermittently engaging take on Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot is, as the saying goes, a pla…

Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting for Godot is now open on Broadway. Starring Keanu Reeves as ‘Estragon’ and Alex Winter as ‘Vladimir', the strictly limited engageme…

Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist From TS Eliot and Ted Hughes to Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, numerous poet…

Theater lovers have been celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hamilton this year, and well we should. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about the Founding Fathers made seeing musicals cool again, and judging by all…

Bilingual production by Theatr Cymru is expected to be first time Welsh will be heard at South Bank venue Grappling with the subtleties of Shakespeare’s poetry and prose has proved a challenge for many a the…

The English actor tells Ellie Harrison about the sliding-doors moment that led to his role in the Netflix teen drama, the long-awaited new season of ‘The Night Manager’, and why he’s finally returning to …

The TIFF Film Review: Ally Pankiw’s Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery By Ross WORLD PREMIERE – Canada | 2025 | 99m | English Diving into the phenomenally crafted documentary, “Lilith Fair: Building a Myst…

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…