The Lantern opens its 2025-2026 season with a smooth and engaging production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing. AJ Sabatini reviews.

Two-time Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, Oscar nominee June Squibb, Tony winner Danny Burstein and Christopher Lowell will lead the cast of Marjorie Prime, Jordan Harrison’s sci-fi-tinged family drama coming to…

At Broadway in Bryant Park Gracie Lawrence sings "Who's Sorry Now," the signature song of Connie Francis, who died yesterday at the age of 87. Lawrence is portraying Francis in the Broadway musical "Just in Tim…

Stara Rzeźnia, PoznańThis outdoor offering, part homage and part reimagining of Shakespeare’s text, has visual spectacle, a magnificent score and a cast undeterred by an actual storm Outdoor theatre is by n…

To celebrate Broadway.com’s 25th anniversary, we’ve gathered the Tony Awards moments from the past quarter century that stuck with us long after the credits rolled. From surprise victories and unforgettable…

Storyhouse, ChesterA disgruntled child enters a parallel universe where he can select new parents. It has a spirited cast, but the songs are simplistic, stompy and uninspired Who could blame the 10-year-old in …

Wyndham’s; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonSteve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith turn into their own live tribute act; plus, a bold attempt to make sense of Shakespeare’s wayward late tragicomedy Gleaming wit…

Although Kieran Culkin isn’t a proponent for method acting, sometimes there’s just no competing with the real thing. Following a 2012 interview in which Mark Ruffalo revealed a “naughty young actor” onc…

Preston as Harold Hill selling a bill of goods to Barbara Cook as Marian in “The Music Man” (1957).Same age as me, Meredith Willson’s The Music Man is sixty-seven. My birthday is in March but every Decem…

The Australian Music Vault has unveiled a refreshed display of The Real Thing celebrating the Australian sound with objects from

Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron's memoir-turned-stage play about life's second chances, opened on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre on October 23. Directed by Susan Stroman, Julianna Margulies and Peter Gal…

How to revive the lost art of the Broadway rom-com? A compelling true story by Delia Ephron is a great start, along with five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman as director. But the key, of course, is to cast stars…

Soho theatre, LondonThe Drag Race UK winner draws inspiration from a human cannonball in an unsubtle hour of daredevil feats and jokes about flatulence Some shows win new fans; some just please existing ones. U…

Royal Court Upstairs, London; Minerva, Chichester; Old Vic, LondonReality is up for debate in Tife Kusoro’s rapid-fire new drama, David Eldridge’s nuanced take on John le Carré, and Tom Stoppard’s most l…

Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the temptations of infidelity run like a red thread from John Osborrne’s Look Back in Anger, via Harold Pinter’s Betr…

Titanique, the hyper-satirized musical riff on the 1997 nautical romance Titanic, doesn’t stay afloat without Céline Dion. Well, it doesn’t stay afloat at all. But while the ship of dreams is above water, …

James McArdle is immense as Stoppard’s true romantic When it was first produced in 1982, The Real Thing was a turning point for Tom Stoppard, the play that added to the existing perception of him as an im…

Old Vic, LondonPassion and art are dissected in tricksy style in a production that manages to wrongfoot the audience There are several circularities drawn around what is real and what is part of a fiction in To…

James McArdle and Bel Powley star in the Old Vic’s revival of Stoppard’s tricksy, self-parodical play, but it feels dated to watch middle class couples being beastly to each other in beige living rooms

Summer is saying its goodbyes, and with that comes the seasonal promise of exciting theater for the fall. That’s nowhere more true than in London, which offers a dizzying array of shows in the month ahead. Fr…

From The Diary of a Teenage Girl to her latest stage role, the actor is drawn to projects about the tangle of sex and the messy parts of relationships Bel Powley is not a good liar. “I have a bad blush refle…

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “The real thing, people.” —Billboard Martin Sexton returns with what Rolling Stone calls his “soul-marinated voice,” acoustic guitar, and a suitcase full of heartf…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company presents Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning play, The Real Thing, starring Ewan McGregor as 'Henry' and Maggie Gyllenhaal as 'Annie' in their Broadway deb…

Not all is quiet on the American-art front. Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Pictured, left to right: Carm…

When I look over my lists of shows seen at each theater, the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre stands out as one of only a few where I have enjoyed every show I've seen there. And I've seen a wide variety of production…

The Doctor Who and Thick of It actor laments the lack of support for emerging talent from working-class backgrounds • Read the full interview with Peter Capaldi Britain’s cast of leading actors is needlessl…

Eric Millegan sings "The Real Thing" from the musical Harold and Maude written by Tom Jones and Joseph Thalken. With fun facts and anecdotes by Robert W. Schneider and Charles Kirsch. Performed at BROADWAY BOUN…

 40 Years of Broadway: Big Trends The Mega Musical Era I came upon the Broadway scene as the Mega Musical Era was just ramping up. While Evita was a harbinger for things to come a few years earlier, it was…

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: His voice has been compared to James Brown, but Lee Fields is no knock-off—he’s the real thing. Fields’ prolific, decades-spanning career continues to reign supreme on …

 ReDISCoveries: The Most Happy Fella (2000 Studio Recording, Disc 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’ll write …

Bush theatre, LondonSet against a backdrop of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, AJ Yi’s thought-provoking and zingy culture-clash comedy contrasts online bedroom activism with the real thing We begin with a chalk-…

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Bring back TV reviews! Listen to this astute criticism that the real thing is about real things. Wow! Plus, Jeremy Irons, Christine Baranski, Glenn Close.....Mamma Mia!

Robert Preston as Professor Harold Hill informing the denizens of River City they’ve got “Trouble” (1957).December 20, 2022: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler A day late, and a dollar short, I …

Casting has been revealed for The Lehman Trilogy's previously announced West End return. The Tony-winning play will beginat the Gillian Lynne Theatre on January 24, 2023 with opening night set for February 8. T…

By Andrew Poretz … While the New York theater world discusses who is the best Fanny Brice on Broadway, Naomi Miller might be as close to the real thing as you’ll find in 2022, though more of a Funny Bubbe t…

Actor Arty Froushan and director Patrick Marber on the personal nature of Leopoldstadt A hand-drawn family tree is a potent recurring image in Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard's elegiac new play tracing four generati…

Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning Leopoldstadt begins performances at the Longacre Theatre on September 14 ahead of opening on October 2. The production premiered in London's West End in January 2020 and r…

Cult LA theatre show Cages uses holographic avatars that blend seamlessly with real actors Avatars of human beings that are indistinguishable from the real thing have been created for a new “rock musical” w…

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show The Woman’s Hour, the viral comedy star offers caricatures of burbling backbenchers and a woke-bashing TV host In the darkness of our political moment, Rosie Holt’s…

Broadway Update: Stoppard, Sesame Street, Good Night Oscar, Lena Horne, etc. By: David Sheward June 11, 2022: Lots of theater news to report: Tom Stoppard's latest play Leopoldstadt has announced a theater …

Tony Walton, the prolific Oscar and Tony Award-winning set and costume designer of Broadway shows, off-Broadway productions, film, television, ballet and opera, has died at the age of 87. The cause was complica…

Every flick of the tail and padding of paws somehow carries the same weight as the real thing

Pinpoint parodies of ‘weird church ladies and soccer moms’ made the Ohio comic famous during the pandemic – even if progressives mistake her for the real thing Megan Stalter put a video online recently of…

Over the years, I've had the opportunity to a lot of really awe-inspiring set pieces. The 80s alone were a treasure trove - flying chandeliers, helicopters and a giant levitating tire, to name but three. But it…

Blockbuster New Show To Be The First To Open In Toronto This Spring Tickets to The Stay At Home Show Go On Sale May 4th, 2021 All Proceeds to Support The AFC (formerly The Actors’ Fund of Canada) Prime Mi…

Halston, the Ryan Murphy-produced series that stars Ewan McGregor as the famed fashion designer, will arrive on Netflix on May 14. As previously announced, Broadway's Krysta Rodriguez plays Liza Minnelli. Kr…

Two-time Tony winner Christine Baranski appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to talk about an auction of theater treasures for The Actors Fund. "I've been doing TV for all of these years. I miss the stage,…

Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (©Evgenia Eliseeva) Audra McDonald doesn’t look or sound anything like Billie Holiday. So it’s a credit to the five-time Tony Award winner that …

Available online Theodora van der Beek’s film about a lactose-fuelled religion is the highlight of an online compilation that finds British theatre-makers in morose mood What if online theatre weren’t a st…

 This Week in Broadway History: January 10 - 16 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭 January 10, 1947: Finian's Rainbow, the Lane/Harburg classic opened at the 46th Street Theatre, going on to win 3 Tony Awards, in…

Below, listen as Rebecca Luker sings a song from Barry Kleinbort and Joseph Thalken's musical Was, titled 'Time.' The song was featured on Jamie deRoy & Friends Vol. 7: The Real Thing.

A Zoomed scene from the staged reading of Lisa Loomer's docudrama Roe  It hit me unexpectedly. I’d been going along for the past seven months telling myself that I didn’t really miss theater because ther…

Living near the theater district during the Broadway shutdown, photographer and performer Matthew Stocke has been haunted walking past the empty palaces sitting in repose, waiting for the lights and stars to r…

Sink your teeth into Shark Week on TV, then get up close with the real thing at St. Louis Aquarium.

Name: Justin McDevitt   Hometown: Boston, MA   Education: New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, B.A. 2013   Favorite Credits: The extent of my performance career was being cast in the…

Audiobook, available onlinePenguin’s fine pandemic audio festival delivers hours of laughs from comics including Jordan Brookes, Glamrou, Mo Amar, Michelle de Swarte and Sheeps ‘I’m just imagining a world…

Convert your iPhone to a DSLR or buy the real thing if you Leica…

Many, if not most, of our favorite musical theater stars have also spent their fair share of time trodding the boards in straight plays, too. Take one of the greatest of all time, Angela Lansbury. Sure, she won…

Earlier this week, we continued our Best of the Decade series with the first twelve Up and Comers of Broadway who came to our attention over the past ten seasons. Today, we give you the other thirteen of thes…

I bristle at the idea that plays are ‘not the real thing’ unless they are live – I fell in love with Shakespeare and Beckett through televised performances Every theatregoer I know is desperate to see liv…

The release, sent from an email address that appeared to be the same as that used by the organization’s public-relations department, looked like the real thing — but it was fake.  – Seattle Times

George Balanchine rightly said that watching dance on TV was like reading about a murder in a newspaper—a poor approximation of the terror of the real event. And, for all its offerings, the new online dance w…

During a 90-minute livestream, viewers were treated to some iconic performances from around the world in isolation.

Although streaming theater-related content is no substitute for the real thing, it gives fans a taste of what they love while stuck at home.

Sure, watching theatre online is great, especially at the moment, but how can it ever compare to the real thing? After watching and thoroughly enjoying some, Violet Mackintosh ponders over the pros and cons and…

A lot of theater fans say they wish they had seen the original cast of The Glass Menagerie, including the legendary performance of Laurette Taylor. I could go for that myself. Truth is, I've had the great privi…

Get comfortable, turn off the lights, use headphones and give the screen the same attention you would 'the real thing.'

When theaters closed by the pandemic stream their shuttered plays online, watching sharpens the longing for the real thing.

The recorded performances that theaters in Germany have put online while they are closed don’t live up to the real thing, our critic says.

  By Ron Fassler   As a kid in the 1960s and 70s and totally infatuated with Broadway, listening to a cast album was as close as I could get to the real thing. There was no internet to go on, or YouTube and w…

On an individual level, innumerable artists and bands have rearranged tours or scrapped them altogether. With streaming still offering low royalty rates for artists, most musicians rely on essential revenue fro…

How do you solve a problem like a remake? Play it too faithfully and you’re just doing karaoke, or community theater; stray too far and you risk losing the thread of the original text — or worse, insulting …

Post-modern shows about Shakespeare are almost as common as the real thing these days. Cymbeline has been renamed and reclaimed as Imogen.

Producer Ryan Murphy has released the first look at his upcoming Halston series on Netflix, starring Ewan McGregor as the famed fashion designer who designed for Jackie Kennedy and who then died in 1990 at t…

The festival’s 2020 lineup also includes Assassins, The Real Thing, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and five world premieres.

Stage alum and Oscar-nominated screen star Maggie Gyllenhaal has been cast as Elvis Presley's mother, Gladys, in the upcoming film Elvis, according to Variety. The previously announced film, which will feat…

Stage alum and Oscar-nominated screen star Maggie Gyllenhaal has been cast as Elvis Presley's mother, Gladys, in the upcoming film Elvis, according to Variety. The previously announced biopic will be co-w…

The French mezzo-soprano gave an impressive, if overloud performance in London

The performance-competitions that were made famous by the documentary Paris Is Burning, introduced the world to voguing, and arguably inspired RuPaul’s Drag Race have generally judged their participants and w…