40 years on, discover the story of Live Aid in a whole new way—in London’s West End at Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical. Must end 07 Feb! Get your tickets: https://officiallondontheatre.com/show/j…

This is not merely a delightful evening of theatre—it is a defiant, sequined middle finger to theatrical complacency. The cast, many of whom trained under the maverick George Ferencz at La MaMa, bring authent…

Andriy Bondarenko Ghost Land Translated by John Freedman with Vladyslav Hetmanenko   The Butterfly Iura, a Ukrainian soldier (male, 20s – 40s) Iuliia, Iura’s girlfriend/lover (female, 20s – 30s) Orestes,…

A FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS…         Let it be said first of all that Gina Beck is a glorious gamine Maria:  sings like a bird and is satisfyingly able to convey in her voice her growing-up … Continu…

 The 2023 Tony Awards:Our Predictions At last the Super Bowl of theater is upon us! As usual, Mike and I have given thought to all of the shows we've seen this season - in this case, every new musical that o…

Five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman is directing, with Joshua Bergasse returning to choreograph.

Five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman is directing, with Joshua Bergasse returning to choreograph.

It seems like every season these days someone decides that one show will be hated - cancelled, if you will - before the show even loads into a theater. Sometimes, it's because whoever these keepers of "good tas…

Morgan James joins The Skivvies (Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley) to perform a bee-themed medley. Songs include: Let It Be (The Beatles), Sugar Sugar (The Archies), Honey Honey (ABBA), Honey (Mariah Carey), and…

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Well…having already done an extensive post on The Beatles’ Let it Be, I didn’t know if Peter Jackson’s Get Back would supply me with sufficient fodder for an additional one, but, oh, man, did it! More t…

Director Daryl Cloran has stuffed 23 Beatles songs inside the comedic vessel known as “As You Like It.” At various points, Shakespeare's characters break into everything from “Let it Be” to “When I’…

Bell Square, Hounslow; available onlineDance Umbrella’s football-themed piece fails to score, but Dimitris Papaioannou’s 2009 work saves the day Never let it be said that dance doesn’t broaden your horizo…

By: Alix Cohen - Extreme Performance “The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure, wi…

Beatles fans know the name “Charles Hawtrey” from the Let it Be album. John Lennon intones it in his introduction to “I Dig a Pony”, which he characteristically renders as “I Dig a Pygmy” (which mig…

Scott Rudin has had a public reputation as an abusive boss for decades. But this week, for the first time, he began to experience some consequences for it. A24 let it be known that it was cutting ties with the…

Thanks to reader Michael KInter, who let it be known that baseball legend John McGraw (1873-1934) deserves a place in the vaudeville annals. Kinter is currently working on a musical about McGraw; stay tuned for…

How To Audition for Shakespeare Rose Helsinger June 30th, 2020 Auditioning for Shakespeare can be a daunting task. How do I choose the right monologue? Do I do an accent? Do I need to paraphrase? Performer…

50 years ago today, the Beatles’ sad swan song Let It Be was released. Then and now, there was much to confound and confuse the casual observer about this ill-fated project. For just a few examples, it was re…

Let it be known, that once the Broadway shutdown ends, we hope to catch Broadway treasure Rob McClure taking on the iconic title role in the stage adaptation of the beloved 1993 film, Mrs. Doubtfire.

I love avocado toast! It’s delicious. So when a series with that exact name slides into my inbox, I of course need to bite into it! In all seriousness what I love about Avocado Toast: the series, created by P…

Hans Conried (1917-82) specialized in playing funny martinets, pedantic schoolteachers, eccentric orchestra conductors, and cartoon villains. His Germanic name, mid-Atlantic speech, and stiff manner created a g…

“But, in typical Cannes style, the festival did not close the door entirely. Instead of canceling outright, organizers said they are exploring contingencies to make ‘Cannes 2020 real, in a way or another’…

A new writing programme for female playwrights, offering £1,000 seed commissions and support from writers including Winsome Pinnock and April De Angelis,

Geffen Playhouse presents Geffen Stayhouse! They will be be sharing exclusive, original content every Wednesday from some of their Geffen alums and favorite theater artists.

By Douglas Mayo Meet the Lopez Family Singers and listen to this amazing rendition of lennon and McCartney's Let It Be. Watch this video! This post Let it Be – Lopez Family Singers in quarantine – Watch thi…

Academy Award-winning songwriters, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, hit social media today with their children to show off some more impressive four-part harmony on The Beatles classic, 'Let It Be'

Lucy Barton is a woman of many lives. A writer reeling from a traumatic childhood, she emerged in Elizabeth Strout’s Booker Prize-nominated 2016 novel My Name Is Lucy Barton. In 2018, Rona Munro adapted the b…

Seven of the Best Show Stopping Steps to Making Your Own Work Written by Alex Muscaro 11/14/19 No matter if you are a director, producer, actor, playwright, or any other theatre profession, you are, withou…

Aleasha Harris, author of What to Send Up When It Goes Down wrote: “The idea was to hold people accountable, be confrontational, let it be messy, let it be angry, and let it tread as absurdly as the idea that…

If two Beatles sitting in a hotel room talking sounds boring to you, you re not wrong.

The recently announced return run of the celebrated concert Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles has been canceled. The show had initially been scheduled to play the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from July 16-21 as part of …

Everyone else will be writing about the 50th anniversary of Abby Road and the Let It Be sessions this year, but I’m only now catching up with Revolver (although I did manage to squeeze Rubber Soul, The White …

Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles, the celebrated concert which played a 300-performance run on the Great White Way back in 2010, has joined the lineup of shows in the upcoming In Residence on Broadway series at…

The super talented cast of singers and musicians appearing in the 2019 UK tour of Let It Be A Celebration Of The Music Of The Beatles has been announced.

Let It Be A Celebration Of The Music Of The Beatles is returning to the stage in 2019 with a series of new tour dates announced in a year that marks key anniversaries in Fab Four history.

DARK DOINGS AND DISSECTION     Oyez, Oyez.   Let it be known that this suspenseful yet dreary political season has become officially the Year Of Dark Panto.  Down at The Bridge we had Martin McDonagh’s �…

Let It Be is fab way to experience the Fab Four, and without a doubt the reunion concert of your dreams – it’s about time for it to ‘Get Back’ to the West End…

A comedy that mingles romance with politics and it’s not about porn stars and reality show moguls? Please let it be a breath of fresh air, I plea to the theatre gods, as I take my seat for Labour of Love at O…

Battersea Arts Centre; Kiln; Hampstead, LondonMissing reappears three years after fire interrupted its run at the Battersea Arts Centre, while the Kiln opens with some topical grievancesThese are whirligig week…

The cast of Let It Be took a break from rehearsals in London this morning Wednesday 8 August to become Day Trippers on a Magical Mystery Tour to recreate one of The Beatles' most iconic images.

By Ed MalinBarbara Kahn's new historical play Verzet Amsterdam is running through April 22nd at Theater for the New City.  Roberto Gonzales Jr. and Barbara Kahn direct this exciting tale of ordinary people…

“Let it Be,” which played the National Theatre for 2 performances only this weekend, imagines what it would have been like had the legendary quartet, The Beatles reunited 10 years after they stunned the wor…

By Julian Eaves As a tasty confection, what they have to offer is hard to beat. You get to the end of it longing for more and are secretly delighted to have discovered a new addiction. I can't wait for the next…

Let It Be A Celebration Of The Music Of The Beatles has firmly established itself as a successful West End and international touring show. And now the smash-hit stage show has been updated and is back on tour, …

Come together, Across the Universe fans, for some major news! Tony Award-winning stage and film director Julie Taymor is ready to bring her 2007 Beatles movie musical to the stage. “I’ve w…

Never let it be said that Cornish theatre company Kneehigh lack in ambition. Gunter Grass’ The Tin Drum has accrued significant cultural acclaim since its publication in 1959, gaining its author the Nobel Pri…

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration AFTD hosted the second annual Hope Rising benefit at The Pierre Hotel on Thursday, October 12. The evening's program concluded with a four-song set from Tony Awar…

C. BainHometown:  Worcester, MA which is surprisingly urban, surprisingly postindustrial, surprisingly claustrophobic and rusty around the gills, if i remember correctly. I haven't lived there for a long t…

The Beatles are celebrating “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” with 50th-anniversary releases that shed invaluable light on the creation of popular music’s most acclaimed album.A half century ago, …

Showcasing one of the most fruitful writing partnerships in history, Flourish Productions presents Let It Be: The Songs of Lennon & McCartney for three special performances at Chapel Off Chapel in April. B…

Never let it be said that Chickenshed lacks ambition. This fierce ode to civil rights movements, taking the Bob Dylan protest song

Performances begin Feb. 11 in Florida.

Carrie Manolakos has just unveiled a new music video featuring her rendition of the Beatles classic 'Let It Be,' featured on her upcoming album THE 44TH CHORD. Check it out below

by Rotimi Agbabiaka The bride, Abimbola Agbabiaka, waits with her family. Photo by Ken Tucker Photography.   A young woman sits before a mirror as the makeup artist applies the final touches to her c…

Performances begin in February in Florida.

What if the Beatles had reunited 10 years after their break-up This revamped production of 'Let It Be A Celebration of the Music of the Beatles' answers that question, and brings you the show that you never got…

Let it be known, Tabard has nothing against Elaine Paige. Indeed, Tabard likes to tune into her radio show. The break-a-leg segment

This year, if you see just one Dickens’ Yuletide story, let it be Chesapeake Shakespeare’s fine set-in-Baltimore A Christmas Carol. It has it all and then some: a nicely scary Jacob Marley’s…

          by Marilyn Lester     Let it be said first and foremost that in this production of The Producers, the Tony-winning Paper Mill Playhouse has a big fat hit on its hand…

The Beatles are putting down another musical milestone. Just over 50 years ago, the most successful pop group in history played its final public concert – now commemorated with a new film, which is a fitting …

According to the New York Daily News, Marcus Bellamy, a former Broadway ensemble member of Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark and Disney's Tarzan, admitted via twodisturbing Facebook posts that he had killed his boyf…

Because right now, we could all use a little Carol Woods singing "Let It Be".

Shaw subtitled his play 'A Tragedy' but in fact, writes Michael Holroyd, it's a brilliant satire on the pre-NHS medical professionBernard Shaw let it be known that he wrote The Doctor's Dilemma in 1906 to meet …

Pride month got a fabulous kickstart courtesy of the Bard at the ShakesQueer Shakespearean Pub Crawl – Pride Edition, a benefit for Shakespeare Exchange and Immigration Equality that took place on June 4,…

It has taken six years - and Michael Crawford - to bring Richard Taylor and David Wood’s poetic musicalisation of LP Hartley’s The Go-Between to the West End stage. And before the tired old debate begins as…

It has taken six years – and Michael Crawford – to bring Richard Taylor and David Wood’s poetic musicalisation of L P Hartley’s The Go-Between to the West End stage; and before the tired old debate begi…

When we see it coming, do we run or do we let it be? As Hamilton has taught us, all wonderful things eventually have to end; mastermind and star Lin-Manuel Miranda is poised to leave the tuner this summer. But …

Upstanding: If it’s an on-your-feet, singing all the words and leaving with joy in your heart kind of evening you expect from your Beatles jukebox musical, then Let It Be hits all the right notes.

The Beatles are celebrated as the most successful pop music group in history. They captured the sounds and changing attitudes to music throughout the 1960s, and had a career that’s inspired people all over th…

Never let it be said that Laura Benanti doesn't listen to her Twitter followers. The Tony winner is currently giving as sweet as "Vanilla Ice Cream" performance in She Loves Me, however in case st…

I’ve always liked the Internet memes that go around reminding people that they have the same number of hours in their day that Lin-Manuel Miranda (and others) do. They're a good reminder that we …

Emma Rosa Went is a New York-based theatre director. She is a co-founder of Easy Leap Theatre Company, for whom she has directed Love's Labour’s Lost (Access Theater, LPAC Lab,) Othel…

Churchill Theatre, Bromley****Music and lyrics by The BeatlesDirected by John MaherThe bandLet It Be, kicking off its tour in Bromley this week, serves as a remarkable reminder of The Beatles' story. Tracing th…

Michael MustoEntertainmentsame-sex marriageMichael MustoAs the world moves forward on the subject of gay marriage, it’s especially painful when some parents refuse to do so, citing their biblical beliefs as a…

By Doug Mayo Let It Be is touring the UK after yet another smash hit season in London. Jam-packed with over forty Beatles hits, Let It Be has been seen by over 700,000 people world-wide Relive The Beatles meteo…

The International hit show that celebrates the music of The Beatles is coming to their hometown to mark the official re-launch of

Let It Be played its 1000th UK performance in the West End as it entered the final part of its run. The show has just four weeks left to play at the Garrick Theatre and audiences have now just 38 more performan…

If you’ve ever taken time to listen to Andrew Keates talking about being diagnosed as HIV positive, if you’ve read his tweets or impassioned blog posts or in any way been influenced by his fantastic…