Dorothy Parker hated the theater, especially the “wretched downtown plays. The actors represent characters like ‘truth’ or ‘poverty’ while the audience is content to represent ‘sleeping’ or ‘lea…

Review by Jack Quinn, publisher Amelia Grace Beckham and Gavin Cole in a scene from Josée Klein’s “Falling Out” at UNDER St. Marks (Photo credit: Seana E. Rogovin) Falling Out is a rock musical built aro…

What "Dream Feed" does is evoke feelings, and images, and hopefully dreams. Most effective are the times when what I assume are actual dreams are recited, in one case through a voice changer, which is both funn…

Inua Ellams’ play takes you to different destinations for intimate conversations about sex, queerness, capitalism, football and much more I first saw Barber Shop Chronicles on National Theatre at Home. It was…

A first in the history of TSO this year, was the appearance of rock 'n' roll audience lights in the form of CHAUVET Professional Strike Array 2C blinders, which were supplied by PRG. Production and Lighting Des…

Review of the Saturday, January 10, 2026 matinee performance at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. Starring Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher, Hannah Cruz, Bryce Pinkham, Bradley Dean and Sean …

Chamber Dance Project’s performance at Arena Stage’s Finchandler Theatre was a charcuterie board for dance lovers. The nine brief works, including two world premiers, offered glimpses into larger worlds tha…

From its opening fight sequence and throughout the many that punctuate nearly every scene, Synetic Theater’s “Antony & Cleopatra” makes one thing unmistakably clear: power during the triumvirate perio…

Daytime gigs where parents can bring their infants without fear of judgment are proving a sellout success When Nick Page saw the exhaustion of the new mothers arriving at his comedy gig, he suggested turning th…

Kevin's amiable presence on his journey makes this a gentle voyage with a guide that enjoys the exploration as much as the audience. The post Benevolence appeared first on The Front Row Center.

On Wednesday, January 7, Song Sung Blue star and Actor Award Nominee Kate Hudson attended a special screening event at Soho House Los Angeles, hosted by Academy Award-nominated actress Demi Moore. After the scr…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The Chocolate Box Theatre Company's production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf at Planet Ant Theater. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's…

PITTSBURGH — It's common knowledge among fans of "The Pitt" that the show — with its documentary-style cinematography and esoteric language — sets realism as its No. 1 priority. Many of its situations are…

“Bug” is as intimate as it is intense. The set, designed by Takeshi Kata, drops the audience right into this specific place and time. The lightning, helmed by Heather Gilbert, and the sound, spearheaded by …

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York The White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts’ 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaks You can practically smell t…

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sonia De Los Santos has canceled her scheduled performances at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing concerns about the current climate at the venue, acco…

Review: Orphans at Jermyn Street Theatre “The play is part Theatre of the Absurd, part thriller, and part a mind game played on the audience.” The post Review: Orphans at Jermyn Street Theatre appeared firs…

Broadway.com went backstage at The Play That Goes Wrong to see (and photograph!) the prep work that goes into creating onstage calamity. Turns out, a lot has to go right before it can go wrong. Take a peek behi…

"The audience will walk away feeling something really thoughtful, amusing and relevant to their lives." Tony Award Winning Director Robert Falls explores the contemporary revival of "Holiday"—on stage startin…

Tony Award winner Jak Malone marked New Year’s Eve with their New York cabaret debut at Laurie Beechman Theatre, raising $5,000 for Broadway Cares through ticket sales and online donations. Check out photos o…

Jane Krakowski took her final bow as 'Mary Todd Lincoln' in Oh, Mary! on Broadway Sunday night. After her final bow, she was greeted onstage by Cole Escola, Sam Pinkleton, and Hannah Solow. Tituss Burgess, a fo…

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" so opens Charles Dickens' novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," and while this blog post has nothing to do with the French Revolution, we would like to celebrate t…

From the first moments of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK: THE MUSICAL, Greta Gertler Gold’s score makes it clear that this is not a mystery you simply watch. It’s a mystery you enter. In the intimate Off-Broadway s…

The standup on studying Ancient Greek comedy at university, his worst gig and having the test scores shouted at him during sets How did you get into comedy?Slightly by accident. I had tried standup in my last y…

On December 23, The Choir of Man arrived at the Kravis Center as part of its official U.S. tour, transforming the Dreyfoos Hall stage into a working pub, inviting the audience to order a pint. Nine men gather i…

Laying Historical Ground, Wide-angle Towards the end of Faustin Linyekula’s theatrical dance piece My body, my archive—devised in 2023 and witnessed by me as performed during the Aichi Triennale 2025 in Nag…

Ben Cameron's long-running, award-winning, musical theatre variety series, Broadway Sessions, returned earlier this month with the cast of Masquerade, which is now running off-Broadway on 57th Street. Perform…

Bryce Pinkham chats about guiding the audience through CHESS, marrying into Scarlett Strallen's dancing family and more with Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens. Get tickets to CHESS: https://www.broadw…

Bryce Pinkham has been living with Chess for nearly a decade. “I’ve been working on it with [writer] Danny Strong and [director] Michael Mayer since the Kennedy Center,” he says. “It’s almost 10 years…

Vikki Stone’s festive tomfoolery, staged after the Covid lockdowns, captured that strange time and achieved a special giddiness When I was a child, I did not go to pantos. I was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, whe…

The pottery wheel spins like an acrobat. The clay ebbs and flows, hypnotic and sensual, alive with a hint of danger. Will the pot collapse? The sculptor must move sure and strong, yet with deft fluidity. During…

When Hell’s Kitchen composer Alicia Keys stepped on stage at the curtain call of Yolanda Adams’ first performance as Miss Liza Jane, the audience realized something special was happening. “Have you ever h…

The Queen of Versailles played its final performance on Broadway yesterday. The Kristin Chenoweth-led musical took its final bows at the St. James Theatre, also starring F. Murray Abraham, Melody Butiu, Nina Wh…

We were fortunate to have seen 17 different productions in 2025: 14 on Broadway and 3 off-Broadway. These are the shows we considered in all categories this year: Bat Boy: The Musical. Buena Vista Social Club,…

The opening sequence established that tone. “Deck the Hall” and “We Need a Little Christmas” moved briskly and confidently, their energy functional rather than decorative. Reineke kept the wit light and…

Julie Benko as Sarah Brown and Jacob Dickey as Sky Masterson in “Guys and Dolls.”December 21, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. As musicals go, Guys and Dolls is a show I’ve seen produc…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on American Theater Group's production of It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Sieminski Theater. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully…

“The Nutcracker” has always been a staple of the holiday season. But “Cirque Nutcracker” is a dynamic, thrilling, sit-on-the-edge of your seat experience like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Troupe V…

St Martin’s theatre, London Little Bulb’s ingenious show for children features sword fights, crooning mice and some cheesy gags Think of this joyful show as a cheeky nod to The Nutcracker rather than anythi…

Two suspects were arrested after a false bomb threat was made on the evening of December 14 at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Patch reports. According to the NYPD, a man and a woman entered the theater…

Seth Godin made a post recently about what to consider if it appears your marketing efforts aren’t yielding desired results: Marketing isn’t hype. Marketing is making a product or service that matters. If y…

Two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole appeared at 92NY’s sold-out Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long on Sunday, December 14, warming up a crowd that included costumed nuns, l…

DanceEast, Ipswich This colourful quest story is stylishly simplified for a young audience and an energetic cast of just four, choreographed by Luca Silvestrini to a melodious Frank Moon score One of the things…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/vocal-choral-music/2025-2026/noel-jesus-born/ Noel: Jesus is Born! is a spectacular holiday concert presented by the Kennedy Center with Charles Billing…

Getting others to see the world in a certain way and then convincing them to do almost anything to preserve that point of view requires a toolbox of skills that include charisma and a fervent belief that one's …

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The Secret Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of prod…

The piece’s enculturation rests on a certainty in its own semiotics—a stalwart belief that no matter the audience, grieving should be collective, not singular.

Inspired by the scary film franchise, playwright Levi Holloway and Punchdrunk maestro Felix Barrett are bringing the ‘bizarrely joyous’ world of terror to the stage Malevolent spirits be damned – theatres…

As part of Disney's Holiday Magic Tour, Stitch brought an extra dose of surprise to audiences by making his debut during the curtain call of Aladdin on Broadway on Wednesday, December 10th. Following the final …

The Broadway League released its latest research analysis, “The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2024-2025," published on December 10. The report is a profile of the audience at Broadway shows from June …

Blake Montgomery wins the audience over as Charles Dickens in this one-person play, where the celebrated author diverts from his 172nd annual reading of "A Christmas Carol" to throw a holiday party instead.

As part of Disney's Holiday Magic Tour, Stitch brought an extra dose of surprise to audiences by making his debut during the curtain call of Aladdin on Broadway on Wednesday, December 10th. Following the final …

As humans are periodically replaced by eager and curious Primes, the audience tumbles headlong into the uncanny valley.

Marjorie Prime, Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison's family drama directed by Tony nominee Anne Kauffman, is officially open on Broadway. Starring June Squibb, two-time Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, Tony winn…

The Queen of Versailles, which previously announced its closing date as January 4, 2026, will now close at Broadway's St. James Theatre two weeks earlier, on Sunday, December 21. Deadline shared a statement fro…

Join my channel to gain access to exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQi6IkbVa2SJok8fUZOpKw/join • OHMYGOD HEY! The Tony Award winning Broadway revival of the Musical Merrily we Roll Alo…

Until she reached her 50s, the actor was a constant presence on stage and screen. Then the offers disappeared. Now, as her renaissance continues, she is taking on Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals After six decades as…

A Christmas Carol – 04 December 2025 A Christmas Carol at PAC NYC deliciously lives between the worlds of a musical and a play with music. While characters don’t sing their stories to the audience, many tra…

EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! Celebrating rock ’n’ roll to the rhythm of 25 Queen songs, including the classic “Somebody to Love, ” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “We Are the Champions,” “Un…

A CHRISTMAS CAROL opened on Thursday night at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan. See photos from the red carpet here! A CHRISTMAS CAROL fills the auditorium to the brim with holiday treats,…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Grace Theatre Guild's production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version). Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interact…

On the surface, ‘Clue: Live on Stage’ appears to be a story about solving a murder mystery and sounds like it will be a whodunit dramatic mystery with the audience being on edge until the mystery is solved.…

About ten years ago I had a lamentable opportunity to sing a few bars of the song “I Wonder What Became of Sally?” in Dick Zigun’s play Dead End Dummy out at Coney Island USA. (It was only lamentable beca…

Liverpool PlayhouseThe story becomes less and less relevant as this slapstick monster pastiche leads to an irresistible sense of chaos When a film as perfect as Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein exists, you mig…

Review of the Wednesday, December 3, 2025 matinee performance at the St. James Theatre in New York City. Starring Sherie Rene Scott, F. Murray Abraham, Melody Butiu, Stephen DeRosa, Greg Hildreth, Tatum Grace H…

National Theatre Live has revealed three major titles joining its 2026 cinema slate, promising audiences a year of theatrical highlights on the big screen The post National Theatre Live Announces The Audience, …

Is “Dirty Books” itself obscene? Not at all,  if we go by the Supreme Court’s three-pronged test. The theater company Bated Breath does enlist the audience to write erotica, but 1. The show begins with…

Hedgerow Theatre Company stages a highly questionable adaptation of Little Women that gives the audience whiplash at its conclusion. Mina Reinckens reviews.

Unicorn theatre, LondonThis exuberant adaptation of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s picture book moves with the rhythm of a child’s racing imagination Never mind what’s hidden inside the wrapping paper, her…

Paddington the Musical arrives at the Savoy Theatre with a heart full of hope and a suitcase packed with marmalade flavoured charm, delivering a joyous celebration of inclusion, diversity and equality in every …

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The River Run Centre's production of School of Rock. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of produ…

The Lucky Chance, FromeJoy radiates from the stage as an ensemble cast from the Emma Rice Company bring Thomas’s twinkling poem to life Dylan Thomas’s beautiful Christmas poem has that amazing ability to sl…

Riverside Studios, London The madcap sci-fi tale is retold on a lavish scale, complete with in-show merch, but it never really blasts off Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy about Earth’s destruction and Arthur D…

New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme A fresh telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s story deploys circus skills and inventive design to create a memorable merworld The Little Mermaid is big business this Chris…

The Toronto Theatre Review: Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show By Ross The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show returned to Toronto like a glitter-dusted snowstorm of chaos, sequins, and unexpected sincerity for the eighth…

LOS ANGELES — Ryan Coogler was deep into writing "Sinners" when he realized the movie was missing something: He needed a moment that would jolt the audience and plunge them into a different space. "Instead of…

With its big, if economical, imagination, "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" also seemingly contains a metropolis of non-digital humanity, thanks, in particular, to Tony Gayle's robust and amusingly…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The Coterie Theatre's production of ELF - the Musical T.Y.A. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types …

For the past year, Grammy winner Michelle Williams has been casting a spell on Broadway as the Swarovski-clad sorceress Viola Van Horn in Death Becomes Her. The Destiny’s Child singer sat down with The Broad…

Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth is back on Broadway in The Queen of Versailles, a new musical in which she reunites with Wicked songwriter Stephen Schwartz. She stars as real-life socialite Jacqueline “Ja…