Donmar Warehouse, LondonAn infectious soundtrack and a bubbling script boost Dominique Morisseau’s drama as the spectre of closure looms over the lives of four assembly-line workers When in 2015 Lynn Nottage�…

Shakespeare, Lozano, & Ball Surf the Swell in Style by Robert M. Gardner Marin Shakespeare Company’s latest production, set at a surfing beach in Key West, Florida, catches a killer wave. Nina Ball’s su…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The score to Bright Star is a delicious blend of Americana, blue grass and gospel, and it's great. This last Thursday I started my day by whetting my appetite for things to come (I…

A living legend Gino Vannelli lights up the stage and touches the hearts and souls of the audience with his music.

Old Vic, London; Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Savoy theatre, LondonJames Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin struggle for urgency in Joe Penhall’s drama about a threatened female MP; climate crisis talks are turned …

After Jodie Comer’s star turn on Broadway, Forrest is taking on Miller’s electrifying one-person show. They talk about outdated consent laws and navigating the industry as a non-binary actor Get our weekend…

Tony Danza, the Emmy-nominated star of Taxi and Who’s the Boss, will open the Café Carlyle’s fall season with a new show. In Tony Danza: Sinatra & Stories, Danza pays tribute to the music of Frank Sina…

Jason McLin, a performer with Blue Man Group Boston, takes us through his perfect day in Downtown Boston. The post Here’s how to spend the perfect day in Downtown Boston appeared first on Boston.com.

This post represents a confluence of two compelling forces: some cool radio clips that John Tefteller played at Marxfest last month, and the advent of the new Advertising and Brands section of Travalanche. 2024…

Review of the Saturday, June 22, 2024 matinee performance at New York City Center in New York City. A presentation of the Encores! series. Starring Ashley Blanchet, Adam Chanler-Berat, Chuck Cooper, Eddie Coope…

Alexander Kilian (Moritz) and Lauren Drake (Ilse) perform "Don't Do Sadness / Blue Wind" from The 5th Avenue Theatre's production of Spring Awakening. Playing June 7-30, 2024 LEARN MORE: https://www.5thavenue.…

Disney's Art of Animation Resort is a unique offering within Walt Disney World in Florida, known for its immersive theming and family-friendly atmosphere. Situated in the heart of the Disney complex, this resor…

The 77th Annual Tony Awards were held on June 16 at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater and The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal was on site to capture the excitement with the stars of the season and the ne…

BroadwayWorld has your first listen to an all new track from the upcoming album, Parting Gift: The Songs of Gerald Ginsburg. 'Little Boy Blue' is performed by Colin Donnell, and based on a poem by Eugene Field…

"The work speaks in many registers, though its most effective vehicle remains the pulsating bodies and roaring spirits of its dancers." Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, New York

Blue Moon, Richard Linklater's film about lyricist Lorenz Hart, is a go at Sony Pictures Classics and features a starry cast that includes Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott. The f…

The BSO’s final concert of the 2023-2024 season reminded me of the four traditional requirements for the bridal attire at a wedding: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. The progr…

Andrew Rannells, walking the red (actually blue) carpet at the Tony Awards yesterday for his nominated Gutenberg! The Musical had some disappointing news for fans: Contrary to previous reports, Rannells will no…

Abe Jacob accepts his 2024 Special Tony Award. The remarkable career of Abe Jacob has spanned over six decades. He started in Rock and Roll at McCune Sound in San Francisco and went on to create concert sound …

Coronet theatre, LondonThis gnomic production of Churchill’s 1997 play, about a couple awaiting their daughter’s return, is packed with confusions and curveballs In Blue Heart, a pair of one-act plays first…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: BroadwayWorld was on hand to speak with Jake Gyllenhaal, Annaleigh Ashford and the rest of the company right after the curtain went down. Go inside the big night below! Learn mor…

★★★ACCOLADE, WINDSOR THEATRE ROYAL Pokey questions about public figures' private lives Vintage Emlyn Williams play asks pokey questions about private-public tolerance, despite casting hole Times change, p…

The choreographer’s “Navy Blue” is the rare work to express the emotions of life in pandemic lockdown.

Filmmaker Richard Linklater may be working on a new film called Blue Moon, about songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Trafalgar theatre, London Katie Mitchell directs and Ben Whishaw stars, while David Byrne’s new reign at the Royal Court gets off to a cool start. And Denise Gough is …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Viewers were treated with performances from Hollywood actors Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List, Harry Potter), Lea DeLaria(Orange is the New Black) and John Ventimigia (The Sopranos,…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Overflowing with Rock n' Roll, romance, and mistaken identities, the Elvis fueled Broadway Musical, ALL SHOOK UP, rides into Theatre at the Center, now through August 16th at 1040…

Royal Court, London Emma D’Arcy, Ben Whishaw and Kayla Meikle narrate and act out Nelson’s dark meditations from their own film-making booths in Katie Mitchell’s intriguing experiment Maggie Nelson’s bo…

Golden Globe-winning actress Brooke Shields has been elected president of Actors’ Equity Association, the actor-stage manager union. Shields replaces Kate Shindle, president of AEA since 2015, who opted not t…

Cult Show is a play about the human need to socialize and the cult of the Neo-Futurists. In it, ensemble members Alex Hovi, DeVaughn Loman, Joanna Jamerson, and Lara Johnson and writers/directors Jasmine Henri …

Similar to how loans are issued against film and television tax credits, Blue Fox Financing and Runyonland Productions will soon issue loans against theatre tax credits.

On May 13, the New York Drama Critics' Circle named David Adjmi’s Stereophonic best play of the 2023-24 season. The award for best musical went to Dead Outlaw, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik D…

Ustinov, BathAs a woman who has left her husband for a dissolute younger man in postwar London, Greig’s quiet despair compels The torch song Stormy Weather sobs between scenes in this revival of Terence Ratti…

"I found myself in a loft in Chinatown delightedly surrounded by a slew of familiar faces. A certain sector of the New York dance scene—young, determined, earnest— mingled about, doused in blue and green te…

Royal Opera House, LondonChristopher Wheeldon strips Shakespeare’s play of distractions in this boldly choreographed, nuanced masterpiece Ten years ago, when Christopher Wheeldon created The Winter’s Tale, …

The Tony-winning playwright is working on a follow-up to the queer rom-com for Amazon.

Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London Owen Horsley’s frolicking staging has jaunty music and mischief, but this production dances over sadness Tonight belongs to the lovers, but not the ones you might exp…

Blue, a poignant exploration of the complexities of growing up, written and performed by Logie and AACTA award winner Thomas

By: Alix Cohen May 8, 2024: Windows are so filthy, only shadows show beyond. Everything inside is concealed by dirty drop cloths. There’s an old shopping cart piled high with – what? Only a desk lamp, so…

It’s been said that until people sprout wings and fly, there will never be anything quite as thrilling as freestyle jumping. Anyone who attended the Big Air Show at the Blue Mountain Resort in Collingwood, On…

They are comedy sparring partners from Green Wing. Can the duo play stricken lovers in The Deep Blue Sea, the eviscerating play Rattigan poured his own heartbreak into? Warning: contains spoilers On 8 May 1956,…

The recipients of the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced on May 5 at a ceremony at NYU Skirball. Ars Nova and National Black Theatre's (pray) led with th…

21 openings of musicals this season - 6 revivals and 15 new - means so many logos to look at and love. Today, we bring you our thoughts on the last one: the beautiful and emotional dance piece, Illinoise. Based…

Colchester Arts CentreThe comedian’s rightwing alter egos have not yet evolved beyond the two-dimensional in this droll but conventional set It’s lovely to be here in Colchester, says Rosie Holt, “where p…

Barbican theatre, LondonThe company’s exploration of the act of dancing ebbs and flows loose-limbed precision – and some astonishing pyrotechnics It will soon be 50 years since hip-hop emerged from the Bron…

Barbican, LondonIn ragged rocksteps and snaredrum springs, choreographer Kenrick Sandy and composer Michael Asante catch the connections between sound and movement Founded in 2001, Boy Blue is a close and endur…

Tanya Barfield’s Professor Faces His Demons, Brings Us to Tears  by Lynne Stevens After a bout of terrible insomnia, math professor Lewis (the stellar Michael J. Asberry) is visited by the ghosts of his Afri…

A rising star in the field of contemporary choreography, Belfast-raised choreographer Oona Doherty makes her Joyce debut with "Navy Blue," a thrilling amalgamation of ensemble movement, spoken word poetry, and …

Feeling blue?  Down in the dumps?  Have your tickle bones not been tickled lately?  The extremely talented and wonderfully funny Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln and company might just be the tonic you need.…

Thirty years ago, Riverdance’s groundbreaking Eurovision interval performance ignited a new generation’s devotion to Irish dancing Every Irish dancer remembers the first time they watched Riverdance. For ma…

Old Vic; Battersea Arts Centre; Bush theatre, LondonRichard Jones’s supercharged staging of Sophie Treadwell’s 1920s masterpiece hits like a fist; Emma Rice subverts a dark fairytale with circus gaiety; and…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/young-audiences/2023-2024/jacqueline-woodson/ Music! Food! Fun! On April 13, 2024, the Kennedy Center threw a free Block Party on the REACH Plaza hosted…

The spectacular Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TPAC), which contains three world class performance spaces – The Grand Theatre, the Globe Playhouse, and the Blue Box, has recently invested in 40 Robe Spiider L…

Two of the last shows of the season are the subject of today's show art analysis. Though both started life off-Broadway at the Public Theater, on paper, they couldn't be any more different. One is a "from scrat…

Soho theatre, LondonSet entirely within the stained walls of a men’s public toilet, Sam Grabiner’s award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the gamut of male neurose…

The 84-year-old actor—currently off-Broadway in 'Tuesdays With Morrie'—looks for shows without a Wednesday matinee so as not interfere with the shooting schedule for 'Blue Bloods,' now in its 14th season.

Similar to how people express their personalities through hair and nails, performer Chris Wink realized he could do that with his head.

The Blue-i Theatre Technology Award Best Set Design goes to Miriam Buether for Set Design and Tom Wexler for Video Design for Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre. The Blue-i Theatre Techno…

As the architect of 25 albums and nearly 40 Billboard No. 1 Single, Brian Culbertson is no stranger to delivering gorgeous, well thought out spectacles. The American smooth jazz/R&B/funk musician and produc…

Brooklyn’s The Sultan Room will soon feature John Riddle in his newest solo show “Blue Lady' on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

Nick Laughlin will direct the evening at The Sultan Room.

https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/nso-media-label/william-shatner/ Boldly go! https://lnk.to/SoFragileSoBlue ‘So Fragile, So Blue’ was recorded live with William Shatner and the National Symphony Or…

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

On October 29, 1936, the Broadway musical “Red, Hot and Blue” made its highly anticipated debut at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre) in New York City. The production was the brainchild of legen…

The last original cast recording of a new Stephen Sondheim musical has a release date. The cast album for Here We Are, scored by Sondheim with a book by David Ives, will be released on CD and digital platfo…

The nominations for the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway have been announced. The ceremony will take place on May 5 at NYU Skirball. Leading the nominations is Wet Bra…

Playbill.com receives hundreds of job postings each month, here are the highlights.

Choreographer Kenrick Sandy and composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante’s acclaimed troupe are back with a pulsating new piece, inspired by grime, jungle and carnival Sunday afternoon in Tower Hamlets, east Lon…

PROLIGHTS Smart BatPlus, provided by Luminosity Lighting Services Ltd, illuminated the Blue Room and Music Room of Buckingham Palace for an exclusive TV broadcast shooting.

At the 2024 edition of Broadway Backwards, two of Broadway’s most iconic leading men, Tony winner Len Cariou (Broadway’s original Sweeney Todd and TV’s Blue Bloods) and Chip Zien (Harmony, Into the Woods)…

Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley is the quintessential writer—exhibiting all the arcane quirks you might attribute to an artist as prolific and wonderfully peculiar as he. “I cert…

Join Lindsay and Jared as they drop off Georgia at the kids club and spend an eleven at evening on the finest meal at sea they have ever had. On a break from their amazing jobs at Walt Disney World’s Anim…

In the land of anything can happen, which could be just about anywhere these days, we begin. Sunlight had started to disappear.  A dullness at first.  Then grayness.  Then little or no light that one was acc…

I have a long history with The Outsiders. It was one of the first young adult novels I read, though I was only in 3rd grade. The librarian actually called my mother to make sure it was okay for me to check it o…

In January, Amber Ardolino donned the blue jeans (and blonde wig) to play Marcia Murphey in A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical opposite Nick Fradiani’s Neil Diamond. Now, for the last time, she’s t…

By Ray Rackham Ray Rackham reviews Leslie Uggams in Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue at 54 Below, New York. This post REVIEW: Leslie Uggams, 54 Below ✭✭✭✭✭ first appear…

From the making of a rumble to the making of a legend, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is going behind the scenes of some of the most exciting productions on New York City stages. New arrivals, old favorite…

Since 1969, there’s been no shortage of ways to see, hear and feel The Who’s epic rock opera Tommy. Born as a groundbreaking double-LP, it served as a stunning vehicle for The Who’s pyrotechnic live perfo…