Mary Magdalene was a complex woman yet revered in a time where women were discriminated against, and Sylvia Milo was impressive in bringing this powerful, historical figure to life in a commanding performance.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University is presenting the world premiere of the musical Finding Neverland, with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kenn…

In her solo piece Magdalene: I am the utterance of my name,  Sylvia Milo challenges received notions of the identity of Mary Magdalene, seeking to restore an unjustly silenced female voice to public consciousn…

Star received a scholarship to attend the Sylvia Young theatre school

Born 100 years ago today, the great Broadway actress and nightclub performer Dolores Gray (Sylvia Dolores Finkelstein, 1924-2002). Not to be confused with the similar looking Dolores Fuller, whose centennial wa…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: It was 20 years ago when Sarah Jessica Parker starred Off-Broadway in A.R. Gurney's off-beat comedy about a man and his dog, SYLVIA. Just last night her hubby Matthew Broderick had…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Northlight Theatre, continues its 2023–2024 season with the suspenseful 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury, directed by recent Northlight Artistic Fel…

"The sense that everything going right is a sure sign that everything's going wrong." THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA? June 26 - September 29 | Studio Theatre Opening Night Performance: August 9 Celebrated archite…

“Something Rotten! is a wonderful comedy, with a great book, songs and huge dance numbers. It’s full of laughter, passion and heart, and we want to deliver an experience that gives the audience all of that.…

Here's your first look at our #2024Season! We can't wait to share it with you 💫 Performances begin in April! Explore the season and plan your next theatre adventure now ⬇️ https://www.stratfordfestival.…

SMALL PEOPLE,  BIG PLAY          A hot summer wedding-day.  The bride Sylvia is a bag of nerves, big sister Hazel competently combing and marshalling her  teenage and smaller daughters while dismissive…

Party punch-ups, brides in disguise, simmering family rancour … playwrights have cordially invited audiences to some nightmarish nuptials There are myriad plays about marriage. Far fewer about the wedding cer…

Lookingglass Theatre Company, HMS Media, and PBS are broadcasting Lookingglass Alice nationwide for the first time this winter. Described as “Alice in Wonderland meets Cirque du Soleil” and adapted from the…

Few things in theatre are more transformative than a wig. But who makes them? Can they really be worth thousands? And what looks best on a beheaded tyrant? We meet the hairpiece heroes and their yeti-like creat…

Selling Kabul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist at InterAct Theatre Company, wrestles with the human cost of occupation and war. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Broadway’s Greatest Hits/54Below – Stephan Said/Pangea – Clyde Alves/ChelseaTable+Stage – Broadway Sings Taylor Swift – The Apollo Holiday Shows – The Triad Theater/Kip and Sylvia on D Deck KIP AND …

Compass Rose Theater’s production of “Sylvia”’ is a howl-out-loud, funny production of A.R. Gurney’s insightful 1995 play. As the play opens, you might question whether a script built around the relat…

The show about a dog played by a person is a fun way to open the season. By CHARLES GREEN

The concert featured sopranos Sherezade Panthaki and Corrine Byrne, mezzo-soprano Sylvia Leith, countertenor Daniel Moody, tenors Brian Giebler and Lawrence Jones, and bass-baritones Edmund Milly and Joseph Par…

Ahsan Ali is a writer, actor, and filmmaker who grew up in Pakistan, and then immigrated to NYC where he currently resides. Select theater credits: Amir in Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar (American Stage), Natarajan…

'Sylvia,' 'I and You,' 'The Gin Game,' and 'The Music Man' bring laughter, thought-provoking drama, and song to Annapolis.

 Broadway Jeopardy! Game 7 OK, Broadway trivia fans! Time for another round of America's favorite game show a la JK's TheatreScene, and as you'll see we are going for the gold this week. Good luck! There a…

The show: “The Cottage” at the Hayes Theatre (formerly the Helen Hayes Theatre) on Broadway What makes it special?: It’s a new comedy and that’s been a too-rare occurance on Broadway. Comedy is hard, a…

Alex Moffat Makes His Entrance with Broadway’s The Cottage By: Iris Wiener August 7, 2023: Alex Moffat has mastered making an unforgettable entrance. He proved to be superb at farcical comedy in his six…

Why is Frank Wood, not just a stalwart of New York theater but a Tony winner, lying on the floor and playing a dying dog? That’s the question I kept asking myself as I sat watching Toros, the new play that op…

The Cottage is a side-splitting farce by Sandy Rustin inspired by the works of Noël Coward -- with a feminist twist. Set in the English countryside in 1923, this tale of sex, betrayal and love unfolds when Syl…

June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation and scheduled to reope…

by J.R. Gudeon. @j.r.__gudeon. ROANOKE, VA – Westmoore High School drama teacher Sylvia Adler reported today that due to her department’s...

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/international/2022-2023/riverrun-literature-waters-we-seek-to-master/ "FLOW"-Literary Series: "The Waters We Seek to Master" is a panel and presentation…

Tim Minchin and Sindhu Vee presents the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical to Beverley Knight for Sylvia at the Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard Established in 1976, the Olivier Awards…

Oh My Pod U Guys, this week Jayke is joined by Broadway actor, writer, and producer, Alex Wyse, to talk about playing opposite Sean Hayes in the new play, Good Night, Oscar, on Broadway! Alex chats about his ex…

Despite losses caused by funding cuts, a diverse range of vibrant work is pulling in new audiences Hayao Miyazaki’s glorious animation My Neighbour Totoro reimagined for the stage; a Tennessee Williams classi…

Check out photos from the New York premiere of Alex Wyse & Wesley Taylor's Summoning Sylvia!

Last night, the Olivier Awards were held at the Royal Albert Hall. The ceremony also included performances from Sylvia, Newsies, Oklahoma!, Standing at Sky's Edge, Sister Act, The Book of Mormon, Grease, The Ba…

The Sylvia star, who won best supporting actress in a musical at the Olivier awards, said Old Vic show attracts ‘people of all kinds of everywhere’ Olivier awards: full list of winners Theatre audiences are…

Sylvia perform 'March, Women, March' at the Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard. Established in 1976, the Olivier Awards celebrate the world-class status of London theatre, and are Britain’s most prestigious…

Written and directed by Wesley Taylor (Smash, The Spongebob Musical, soon to recur on Hulu's 'Only Murders in the Building') and Alex Wyse (Marvel’s Iron Fist, soon to join Broadway's Good Night, Oscar), the …

Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse's LGBTQ horror comedy will arrive in movie theatres this month and on VOD in April.

Sylvia Khoury’s drama about life in the Afghan capital, at Signature Theatre through April 2, is more sluggish than scintillating.

In Sylvia Khoury’s “Selling Kabul,” lives swiftly unravel as the Taliban closes in on Afghan interpreter, Taroon (Mazin Akar) in retaliation for his collaboration with American military forces. As events …

Selling Kabul February 21 – April 2, 2023 For tickets visit SigTheatre.org A suspenseful drama about family and sacrifice from an exciting new voice. In 2013, a sister secretly shelters her translator broth…

When Mike and I paid a second visit to Kimberly Akimbo last month, our Playbills came with a little white piece of paper. "At this performance, the role of Martin will be played by Alex Vinh." We are always ex…

Lyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, LondonJanet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone’s electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince’s suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley’s paean to Sheffield f…

The singer and musical star on her role as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in a hip-hop stage show, her contempt for the home secretary and her ambition to play Aretha Franklin Beverley Knight came into the lime…

B'way Update: The Cottage, Jerry Mitchell Is Busy, Betty Boop, La La, etc. By: David Sheward February 17, 2023: A new comedy entitled The Cottage will play the Hayes Theater on Broadway this summer. Ins…

The cast of Summoning Sylvia includes Travis Coles (Superstore), Michael Urie (Shrinking), Frankie Grande (Henry Danger), Nicholas Logan (I Care a Lot), Troy Iwata (Dash & Lily), Noah Ricketts (Fellow Trave…

★★★★ SYLVIA, THE OLD VIC Beverley Knight is compelling and complex in suffragette musical Sylvia Pankhurst suffers for her commitment to votes for women and to socialism For many years, I would ask gro…

Jason Alexander will return to Broadway this summer — this time as a director. The Tony Award-winning actor best known for his turn as George on television’s Seinfeld will come back to his theater roots at …

The art form needs to make room for lesser-known names, to refresh and enlarge the talent pool, our critic writes.

This revolutionary story celebrates the life of Sylvia Pankhurst – feminist, activist, pacifist, socialist, rebel – the lesser-known Pankhurst at the heart of the Suffragette movement, who changed the lives…

SELLING KABUL February 21 – April 2, 2023 A suspenseful drama about family and sacrifice from an exciting new voice. In 2013, a sister secretly shelters her translator brother from an increasingly powerful …

The West End The Bodyguard and The Drifters Girl star leads the company as feminist activist and suffragette Emmaline Pankhurst.

Old Vic, LondonHistorical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare So many shows seem to want to be the new Hamilton…

West End The Bodyguard and The Drifters Girl star Beverley Knight leads the company as feminist activist Sylvia Pankhurst.

Ms. Syms appeared in notable British dramas such as “Victim” and “Ice Cold in Alex.”

West End The Bodyguard and The Drifters Girl star Beverley Knight leads the company as feminist activist Sylvia Pankhurst.

Australian screen legend Claudia Karvan, known for her roles in The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way and Bump,

Off-Broadway's The Tank will present the world premiere in 2023.

By Douglas Mayo Sylvia, a musical based on the life of the Pankhurst family is to have its World Premiere at London's Old Vic in early 2023. This post Beverley Knight to star in Sylvia musical world premiere at…

The entertaining and enlightening story of Sylvia Méndez, whose lawsuit helped desegregate California schools.

The soul singer plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia, a hip-hop musical returning to the Old Vic The story of the suffragettes is a “metaphor for so many things going on right now” including gender inequality…

Centered on Sylvia Pankhurst and the suffragist movement, the work is written by Kate Prince, Priya Parmar, Josh Cohen, and DJ Walde.

A look back at getting back in the saddle with our 2021-22 Season productions. As Ayanna Prescod so generously tweeted: All bops, no skips. What to Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris Selling Kabul by …

Tony nominee Josh Groban and Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford will return to Broadway next year in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Thomas Kail will d…

The Online Musical Presents: 'Pokemon: The Musical' — the unauthorized, true story of the life and times of Ash Ketchum and friends. Plus singing. Plus puberty confusion. Music by Matt Sav Lyrics by Jeff Lup…

The delightful and darling Virginia Seidel looks back on her career which includes sharing the stage with Dorothy Lamour, Ethel Merman, Ray Milland, Leland Palmer, Douglas Fairbanks, John Raitt, and Sylvia

While in-person theatre is back in NYC, there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Friday, July 8 to Sunday, July 10, for free or at low cost. S…

While in-person theatre is back in NYC, there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Friday, July 1 to Monday July 4, for free or at low cost. Sun…

James Ijames, Kristina Wong, and Sylvia Khoury talk about what inspired their award-worthy plays and how they shaped them.

While in-person theatre is back in NYC, there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Friday, June 24 to Sunday, June 26, for free or at low cost. …

After a two-year hiatus due to you-know-what, many of NYC's most exciting summer theatre festivals are set to return. Admittedly, we lost a few along the way: RIP New York Musical Festival and FringeNYC. Howeve…

Summer Minerva is a multilingual author, performer, and educator. They are most known for their work bringing awareness to the femminielli from southern Italy. Their upcoming book, Italian Trans Geographies, is…

http://cdn-gd.playbill.com/images/cache/. Alfie will have his picture built into the set, and the photo will be revealed at the end of every ...

Clyde's, Company and SIX win four awards each --- Talk about spreading the love! No one production dominated the 2022 Drama Desk Awards, which honor shows on Broadway and beyond in NYC. The Broadway productions…

Winners for the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best theater on off and off-off-Broadway in the 2021-2022 season, have been announced. Leading the pack is The Lehman Trilogy with six w…

SIX: Abby Mueller (Jane Seymour), Samantha Pauly (Katherine Howard), Adrianna Hicks (Catherine of Aragon), Andrea Macasaet (Anne Boleyn), Brittney Mack (Anna of Cleves) and Anna Uzele (Catherine Parr). Photo: J…

The nominees for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play Cullud Wattah, by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, The Public Theater English, by Sanaz Toossi, Atlantic Theater Company Prayer for the French Repub…

Theatre's return season has been triumphant and rocky. Because of COVID-19, schedules are constantly changing, not just for individual productions but for theatre awards, too. Traditionally, the Drama Desk nomi…

Catch a solo stage adaptation of Titanic, Puppetopia, The Forward Festival of the Arts and more --- Adventurous audiences know that some of the biggest theatrical thrills are found on NYC's smallest stages. The…