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Sunday, June 30, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: From adaptation, to scenic design, music and interpretation, the MISERY MANUSCRIPT SERIES takes audiences behind the scenes for an inside look at how the thriller was brought to l…
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: It's time for the newest episode of BWW's exclusive TV series - CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow! In this edition, Randy returns to the CTS Newsdesk to go over all of the lat…
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Cole Escola is the star and creator of Oh Mary!, an upcoming Broadway play about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln. But there's a twist: Mary is reimagined as a raging alcoholic with caba…
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Broadway's new suspense thriller Misery, starring two-time Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner Bruce Willis and three-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf and written …
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
★★★★☆ Liza Birkenmeier’s Obie Award–winning play paints a gorgeously impressionistic picture of a group of acquaintances in loneliness, contemplation, and despair The post Grief Hotel: Misery Love…
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
When they started making theater together fifty years ago – at the same time that they started making love together, and making a life together – they’d already been eating cheap food, drinking sour coffe…
Thursday, February 1, 2024
By Tjaša Ferme, Maud Acheampong. Maud discusses monsters, and the “humanization process”: the idea that humanity asks of us to leave some part of the world at the door and opt in for a very specific, very …
Ensemble has a darkly enjoyable time with Stephen King’s tale of fandom run amok.
Friday, January 26, 2024
Sadler’s Wells, LondonDancer Alina Cojocaru and choreographer Natalia Horečná bring the 1954 film to the stage but their show loses its way in the second act It’s no surprise that a strange film begets a …
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
This take on the Stephen King novel soars with strong direction and performances The post Taut, terrifying ‘Misery’ kicks off new season for Miners Alley appeared first on OnStage Colorado.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan’s journey into a world of darkness is performed with consummate craft by a superb company In the 1970s Kenneth MacMillan snatched ballet from the land of myths and f…
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Arcola, LondonTimely revival of Michael Hastings’ unsettling 1956 play that examines the legacy of war on immigrants in postwar London It’s just over a decade since the second world war ended but its legacy…
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Joe Gatto of "Impractical Jokers" and "The Misery Index" brings his comedy show to College Street Music Hall on Dec. 28 and The Bushnell on Dec. 30.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Tony-winning actor was known for screen roles in Misery, ER and Cheers, and for stage roles in On Golden Pond and The Heiress Frances Sternhagen, the Tony award-winning actor known for playing formidable women …
Monday, November 6, 2023
An International Theater Festival Ponders Consequences of Bullying and Marauding By Steven Leigh Morris “Negotiating Peace” at the Oda Theatre, Prishtina, Kosovo: Emma Andrea, Harald Thompson Rosentrom, …
Saturday, November 4, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter November 4, 2023: Pity the poor critic who sees a show after it opens and already has been reviewed by others, even if he or she hasn’t read their notices. This belated critic may disl…
Friday, November 3, 2023
When audiences file into the Broadway Theatre for Here Lies Love, the disco-pop musical with a score by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, there’s nothing that looks or feels like they’re in a Broadway theater. …
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
ReDISCoveries: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1994 Broadway Cast Recording): Part One Jeff has kindly invited me to revisit and review some of the older cast recordings in my collection. Every other week or so, I’…
Friday, October 27, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
A theatrical experience that shouldn’t be missed—no matter how many times you've seen the movie. By CAROLINE BOCK
Monday, October 16, 2023
In the Springs, FAC’s production of ‘Misery’ brings Stephen King’s classic to life The post When your nurse turns evil appeared first on OnStage Colorado.
Friday, September 1, 2023
Masha King takes on the role of Helena Weinrauch in this astonishing one-woman show. She is riveting in her portrayal of a woman reliving the dreadful years of World War II during which she went on a terrifyi…
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghMezzo soprano Christine Rice is compelling in the first half while dancers in the dreamlike second part are a revelation in Deborah Warner’s simply staged show A terrific cast of musici…
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Having built his reputation as a comic and podcaster on his candour about anxiety and addiction, Robins is facing a new comedy challenge – happiness ‘There is no greater sorrow,” as Dante had it, “than …
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
The Tony winning actress swings between ecstasy and misery in this two-person show.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The post Misery appeared first on STAGE RAW - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH.
Saturday, July 8, 2023
ABOVE: The ensemble performs “One Day More” from the touring production of Les Misérables running at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre through July 23 as part of the BroadwaySF season. BELOW: Christine Hee…
Thursday, July 6, 2023
★★★★★ Nothing could be better than an extra-intimate evening with Chekhov’s temperamental, depressive characters The post Uncle Vanya: Misery Loves Company appeared first on New York Stage Review.
Thursday, June 29, 2023
But does company love misery? A self-absorbed novelist attempts to finish his new book among vacationing friends in Christian Petzold’s latest film. Thomas Schubert as Leon, Paula Beer as Nadja, Langston Uib…
Monday, June 5, 2023
Decades of civil war and economic meltdowns left Lebanon’s people struggling for hope – and then three years ago came the devastating explosion in the capital’s port. But the country’s creatives are fig…
Thursday, June 1, 2023
I watched @LILUZIVERT’s dreams come true performing with @paramore at Madison Square Garden! Watch the full performance of “Misery Business” right here on @bwaySHO #Paramore #MiseryBu…
Paramore & Lil Uzi Vert: “Misery Business” Madison Square Garden Filmed & edited by @bwaySHO #Paramore #LilUziVert #miserybusiness
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Trauma play about domestic abuse raises questions about the role of theatre Men are bastards. Okay, not all of us, but enough to make the lives of millions of women a misery. This we know, but anyone who has a…
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Ivo van Hove’s stage version of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller is a real misery fest Wow! James Norton naked! Wow! New play by Ivo van Hove. Wow! It’s four hours long. Wow! Wow! Wow! The much anticipated p…
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonSome called it torture porn, others a masterpiece. Ivo van Hove brings Hanya Yanagihara’s novel to the West End, complete with spurting blood, relentless sadism and not a little n…
President Kennedy called for preserving our planet 60 years ago in his Address before the 18th General Assembly of the United Nations on September 20, 1963. Now from World Water Day to Earth Day, the Kennedy Ce…
Sunday, April 2, 2023
As Hanya Yanagihara’s novel about a self-harming victim of abuse is adapted for the West End, Eloise Hendy explores how trauma and misery became a literary trend
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
"Proximity"’s deeply emotionally affecting scores, a cast of universally fine vocal leads and kinetic, video-centric staging add up to jarring, hard-to-shake work that will stir audiences aesthetically, moral…
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The final production for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s 2022-23 season is Misery, the play written by the late scriptwriter William Goldm…
Saturday, March 11, 2023
One million copies sold, sobbing superfans on TikTok and a new stage adaptation starring James Norton – yet Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 book continues to divides readers On the cover of the American edition of …
Friday, March 10, 2023
Highlights include 'Misery,' 'Elf' and 'Rent
Monday, February 27, 2023
February 27, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler “The thing about Doug Henning was that he could make the audience disappear, too!” — Nathan Lane Merlin, the infamous 1983 Broadway mus…
Friday, December 30, 2022
Protec/Attac January 11, 14-15, 19-22 Created by Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey Presented in association with Chelsea Factory Learn more: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2223/utr-2023/protec…
Friday, December 9, 2022
The cast of A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET send their characters on blind dates... will they find a match or misery? A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET is onstage Dec 2 – 11 / 2022, get tickets n…
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
The cast of A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET send their characters on blind dates... will they find a match or misery? A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET is onstage Dec 2 – 11 / 2022, get tickets n…
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Based on Stephen King's Misery this is a song that truly gets under your skin and brings the subtext of King's novel to the forefront. A rumination on the cyclical nature of addiction and how it relates to the …
Friday, October 21, 2022
Crystal Pite’s “Light of Passage” at the Royal Ballet takes on big issues: refugees, life and death. At Ballet Black, Gregory Maqoma shines.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
With three new projects including her first on-stage role, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright talks candidly about "the love I work" --- Suzan-Lori Parks is indefatigable. Even with three productions of her …
Monday, October 10, 2022
An unintended resonance echoes in Empire Stage’s production of Misery that Stephen King likely did not quite foresee. In a world where some people steadfastly, even violently believe whatever they want to bel…
Sunday, October 9, 2022
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan’s bleak psychological period piece is a gift for the Royal Ballet’s dancers, who take turns in performances of gripping, in-the-moment power When Kenneth MacMillan…
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Catch two new musicals, a hypnotic comedy, new takes on Shakespeare and more August is the calm before the stormy fall season. But even though it's a quiet time for theatre, there are still a dozen worthy shows…
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Alexander Perez (Playwright) is a Cuban-American Playwright/Desk Jockey/Dad making it work in the Big Apple. Since 2015 his plays have seen productions in New York City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and beyond. Recent …
Thursday, July 7, 2022
(Carmel Dagan’s article appeared in Variety, 7/7; via Pam Green.) James Caan, whose indelible, Oscar-nominated performance as Sonny Corleone, the recklessly hotheaded son of Marlon Brando’s Mafia don in “…
Monday, June 13, 2022
Reviewed by Judd Hollander In the late 1840's the colonial government of Ireland, in the face of a severe famine and resulting economic crisis, came up with the Orphan Emigration Scheme. Capitalizing on the sev…
Monday, June 6, 2022
Two years into this pestilence, the misery of war, the disappointment of mankind day after day weighing down desperate minds, with a future certain of nothing but social and planetary destruction, do we not lon…
Thursday, June 2, 2022
By: David Sheward June 2, 2022: Late in …what the end will be, Mansa Ra’s combination sitcom and soap opera about three generations of gay black men, Keith Randolph Smith as the patriarch Bart Kennedy de…
Pitlochry Festival theatreMusical built around the Proclaimers’ music is tear-jerking and joyful and awash with life We’ve romped most of the way through Life With You, the title track from the Proclaimers�…
Thursday, May 12, 2022
When I was in my late teens, going through an extended patch of misery that lasted several years, a birthday gift from my sister made everything worse. It was kindly intended, of course, by definition, it being…
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Bobby is now Bobbie in this confusing, sour remake of the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth.
Saturday, November 6, 2021
The live version of Northern Comedy Theatre's lockdown Zoom hit sees Shakespeare diced, sliced and put through the mincer at the Bridewell Theatre.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThis play daringly switches tone as it follows three mothers and explores exhaustion, panic and feelings of inadequacy The title of Mum – a fertile-with-ideas play by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm,…
Monday, October 4, 2021
The arrival of a trio of splashy big new musicals in the West End at roughly the same time – the others being Frozen and the ALW Cinderella – feels both like a brave move by producers but also, most import…
Friday, July 9, 2021
This Argentian thriller recalls 'Misery' and 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane,' but with its own nasty twist.
Pitlochry Festival theatreBrian Ferguson performs with mesmerising verve in this poignant, desperately funny portrait of existential misery ‘I am alone,” says the narrator of Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story…
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Touring onlineRhiannon Faith’s piece about social deprivation in our seaside towns is gloomy but technically impressive A white space pockmarked with circles of dark dust, like black holes of misery. An empty…
Monday, February 22, 2021
Celie learns how to live from the strong, rebellious women she encounters This production of The Color Purple is an extraordinary testimony to the fact that many of the twentieth century’s most joyous forms o…
Sunday, February 7, 2021
“These aren’t Hoarder spinoffs for viewers to gawk at other people’s misery, nor are they aspirational home-organizing tutorials where influencers showcase impeccable walk-in closets. No, these are proces…
Friday, February 5, 2021
The idea that the world is corrupt and unfair was the subject of medieval morality plays and sermons. They taught a vast population to reconcile itself to misery and subjugation by promising rewards in the afte…
Monday, January 25, 2021
Sunday, January 3, 2021
While the pandemic is far from over and our lives are not going to magically change as the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2020, there is still something deeply satisfying with putting 2020 behind us. M…
Friday, December 11, 2020
“Did You Have Fun?” Audition Monologues for She Kills Monsters Written by Amanda Grace November 29th, 2020 Qui Nguyen’s 2011 play brings closure to a broken-hearted sister via a revealingly rea…
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Faustimir and Mephistragon The misery of the aging white man, who once diligently studied philosophy, law, and medicine, and yet still finds himself waiting for “gods eller guld eller ære eller al verdens he…
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Andre Cahoun is a rising actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and record producer who hails from Toronto, Canada. Andre recently released his debut EP, Short Term, and has just followed up that release with a …
Sunday, August 2, 2020
July was packed with personal self-care. I found a new therapist and said goodbye to my old elliptical machine. I hilariously tried to stop the elliptical from squeaking with a series of lubricating products, b…
Friday, July 17, 2020
The theatre alum can currently be seen on the new reimagining of the classic character, starring Matthew Rhys.
The theatre alum can currently be seen on the new reimagining of the classic character, starring Matthew Rhys.
Sunday, June 28, 2020
(From The New York Times, 6/24; photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) It took David Adjmi 10 years to write his new memoir, “Lot Six” (HarperCollins). The last four months were spent ensuring there wer…
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
His new memoir “Lot Six” traces the Syrian-Jewish enclave that spawned him, the instructor who unnerved him, and the biting comedy that made his name.
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
The Cree playwright, whose ‘The Cave’ is part of the online Luminato Festival, says ‘the greater the challenge the greater the fight,’ whether it’s anti-Black racism, climate change or the misery infl…
Friday, June 5, 2020
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is indiv…
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