Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Alexia “Cypriote” In Cypriote, Alexia explores the island’s multilayered identity through a curated selection of songs and stories inspired by Cypriot antiquities, lang…

Citizens, GlasgowNewcomer Mandipa Kabanda plays the Maid of Orleans from obscure teenager to army-commanding conqueror, tearing through dialogue with rare pace When George Bernard Shaw’s play was about to ope…

Linbury theatre, LondonGlen Tetley’s landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg’s atonal score, is stark, strange and psychologically charged Sometimes the revival of an old work can make it, and us, feel revi…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Off-Broadway’s Mexodus Returns By Ross When Mexodus first landed at Audible Theater last fall, it didn’t arrive quietly. It arrived with urgency, sweat, and an insistence on being …

"Appearing in Under the Radar, Brokentalkers’ Bellow at the Irish Arts Center and Company Kinoshita Kabuki’s Kanjincho at Japan Society approach inherited traditions from different cultural lineages, yet bo…

Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go onstage for his last performance in August Strindberg’s Storm. As he waits, he reflects on his long career in t…

A season of impact. A season of joy. A season of celebration. 💙 In our 2024/25 year, we continued to strive for a sustainable future – one that honors our past, embraces the present, and boldly imagines wh…

Tracy Letts’s Bug may have first crawled onto the Off-Broadway stage in 1996, but its long-awaited Broadway premiere arrives feeling disturbingly attuned to the present moment. Directed with unnerving restrai…

Though Tracy Letts first wrote Bug more than 30 years ago, he believes that, in a country riddled with conspiracy theories, it has found a new relevance in the present moment. The play is now in previews on Bro…

Great Scott! Back to the Future, the acclaimed Broadway musical based on the classic movie of the same name, comes speeding back to the Kennedy Center. When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 i…

As Chess gets a new life on Broadway, famed lyricist Tim Rice (of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita fame) discusses how he’s been able to work with some “brilliant divas.” Walk through Rice’s theatrical …

Born December 29, two (unrelated) American leaders who broke rules, were publicly disgraced, and yet became the subjects of Hollywood bio-pics, Andrew Johnson and Billy Mitchell. The stories of both men raise p…

Albert Rhodes, Jr. and Joyce DiDonato in a scene from the Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theat…

The writer’s former partner and her co-star Ruby Ashbourne Serkis describe the bittersweet nature of remounting his 90s play so soon after his death • ‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!�…

The Television Series Review: FX’s A Christmas Carol By Ross FX’s A Christmas Carol, , the brooding and unsettling 2019 adaptation starring Guy Pearce, remains one of the most daring reinterpretations of Di…

Sadler’s Wells East, LondonScrooge is a glam ice queen fashion maven until her heart is melted in ZooNation’s delicious festive show – danced to a blisteringly high standard Who knew Bob Cratchit was such…

Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that the dark side of the human psyche, which this notorious Shakespeare villain embodies, is foremost in our collec…

Leaving the bardo calls for transformation. The body becomes a page, a site for inscription, a blank slate. The silence echoes.

It could be the surprise treat of the Broadway season. In the present topsy-turvy season, "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" might have a path to success.

The taut spin on “Oedipus” now on Broadway after a West End run last fall is a rare and magnificent feat of adaptation: Writer and director Robert Icke draws Sophocles’ ancient play into the present while…

Originally published on Vogue.comView this story online It took 15 years for Liberation to open on Broadway, but playwright Bess Wohl knows it’s finally the right time. Wohl had workshopped her play—an e…

An edge-of-your-seat modern adaptation of the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, starring Olivier winner Mark Strong and two-time Olivier winner Lesley Manville, begins performances at Studio 54 on October 30 with op…

It can be challenging to deliver something fresh and unique to the memory play genre. However, in writer Bess Wohl’s new Broadway show, “Liberation,” she manages to do just that. Directed by Whitney White…

Minerva theatre, ChichesterJamie Bogyo’s debut play recounts the renaming of a Yale University college with broadstroke humour and some exquisitely sung a cappella interludes What happens when public statues …

50 years ago this summer, the world witnessed the theatrical release of Jaws, a cinematic tour de force that forever changed how we, the audience, engaged with movies. The film is often credited as creating the…

The Honey Trap – 10 October 2025 Incredibly bold and cleverly told, The Honey Trap by Leo McGann simultaneously took place in 1979 and the present day. The story examined British soldiers stationed in Belfast…

Theater lovers have been celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hamilton this year, and well we should. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about the Founding Fathers made seeing musicals cool again, and judging by all…

The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus, created and directed by Robert Icke after Sophocles, has found its Broadway cast. The production will begin performances at Studio 54 on October 30 and officiallly open on No…

In his reverse-chronology play about a married couple dealing with an affair, Harold Pinter asked the audience to find meaning in unspoken words I didn’t see Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on stage until after I�…

The story of the state’s targeting of 70s activists has been turned into a musical exploring a fascinating and relatively unknown period. It is a love letter to our elders, says its writer “Black Power. The…

Lip and Ruth have left the city behind for a new life on a farm; trying to live differently, live better. But when Ruth’s stepdaughter and her provocative best friend arrive, this quiet rural project is throw…

The title of the present post is because my previous one on Ogden Nash (1902-1971) focused on but a single poem. Was Ogden Nash the greatest writer of light verse who ever lived? That’s a high bar, but he’s…

The expression ‘Athens of the North’, the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18th century classical…

Those who think Travalanche is a blog about obscure character actors have not been paying very close attention to what’s written here. There are scores of content areas here, and if there is a commonality tha…

Presenting the surreal is a way to get closer to the absurdity of reality. We are rehearsing the present, we are rewriting fictions as we go. And it makes me wonder about how we can rehearse more effectively fo…

The play, which explores the women’s movement of the 1970s and its reverberations in the present, was first staged last winter by Roundabout Theater Company.

We have Kevin Fitzpatrick, Shepherd of The Lambs to thank for the present post, for he pointed me in the direction of painter Lee Lash (1864-1935). Lash had studied in Paris to be a proper fine art painter. If …

This is taken from a book project I’ve been working on for a number of years. I’ve tailored this section for the present moment and the 50th anniversary of the events described. Be warned, the title of the …

We’ve already had our first heat waves of the season—the temperature hit 101° in Central Park this past week!—which is a sure sign that summer is here. But for almost 20 years now, the summer has truly b…

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Michelle Williams to Star in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie at St. Ann's Warehouse Tony and five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams will take on th…

Editors' Choice, Part One Last week, you had your say with The 2025 JKTS Readers' Choice Awards (HERE). Now it is our turn! Today, we offer up our more serious awards, honoring those theater people - new faces…

Bush theatre, LondonArtistic director Taio Lawson’s Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of a 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory In Danny James King’s Miss Myrtle’s Gar…

Jennifer Weiner’s latest novel follows two sisters from Philly who achieve pop-music stardom in the early 2000s that leads to an estrangement in the present day. It’s a relatable story of sisters, mothers, …

A new graphic novel from Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett tackles the vast, varied, and longstanding history of trans folks around the world, combatting the ongoing erasure of trans lives. Rachel Bellwoar review…

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, LondonThe cast of six women and one man give extraordinary physical performances – but most devastating is the stillness that reflects their paralysis and shock There a…

Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song There is never a time when Arthur Miller’s play a…

Great Scott! Back to the Future, the acclaimed Broadway musical based on the classic movie of the same name, comes speeding back to the Kennedy Center. When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 i…

Time, carrying the inevitability of mortality and exposing complex truths about our past, is the central vendor of the title in Zoetic Stage’s overwhelming drama The Comeuppance about a high school reunion c…

All these princes need therapy.  Life got away from me with concerts, surgery, and a busy work project. Saw J-Hope's solo show, Hwasa's world tour, and got very buried in my job.  But there were a few dramas…

Female characters and performers dominated the shows that opened  this past week on Broadway, which the previous week had been dominated by shows featuring male characters and performers. Marilyn Monroe and B…

TRADITION: it’s what survives into the next generation, what parents and teachers pass along to their children, and what we find ourselves replicating for better or worse. If the present is obligated to honor…

If you’ve seen the original David Mamet play or the movie version of “GlenGarry Glen Ross,” forget it and approach this revival with a fresh mind. Don’t compare the present cast to Al Pacino, Jonathan P…

There are skeletons in Helena Alving’s (a tortured yet stalwart Lily Rabe) closet whose secrets she would rather not be revealed. More devastating to Helena than these skeletons is the bevy of ghosts that wil…

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kate Baldwin in 2025’s “Love Life” (photo by Joan Marcus).March 28, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler You would think that the only musical ever conceived and w…

"Maybe Tomorrow," written by Max Mondi and directed by Chad Austin, is a play about such a place and the person who created it. Inspired by a true story, Austin directs a cast of two in an exploration of a pers…

... two women are connected to a graveyard in Philadelphia.  Their presence spans centuries, beginning with 1832 and ending with the present.  This is an intriguing premise that, if nothing else, will make yo…

Barbican theatre; Young Vic, LondonCate Blanchett is magnetic – and maddening – as faded actor Arkadina in Chekhov’s supreme play about writers. Plus, James Graham’s bracing real-life drama of actions a…

“It’s really hard to do anything when you don’t have much to look forward to. Because then you’re just stuck in the present. There’s nothing to do in the present. It’s here and then it’s gone. The…

Theatre Royal, Bury St EdmundsAn all-female cast deliver Tallulah Brown’s play about 17th-century East Anglians under threat of the self-styled Witchfinder General The past sings to the present in Tallulah Br…

HEART AND HUMOUR, REALPOLITIK AND GOD         This is a wonderful play, all you could want: philosophy, history prefiguring  the present moment,  humour and character ,  stunning central performances, an…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Ranky Tanky has achieved many firsts for South Carolina’s West African–rooted Gullah community since their formation, earning yet another milestone at …

Bess Wohl’s latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women’s Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contemporary point of view. C…

Donmar Warehouse, LondonGreig breathes compassion into her relation with self-absorbed parent Imrie but their exchanges swim across the decades incoherently A mother lies dying in a hospital bed. A middle-aged …

Donald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – which he told reporters he had never visited – on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, who was a frequent the…

Glass Mask theatre, DublinSimon Stephens’s update of Franz Kroetz’s stark 1972 play sees butcher Charlie and welder Victor amid knives and flanks of meat, the threat of violence palpable In the tiny Glass M…

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Jan 22 - Feb 9 | Buell Theatre https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/back-to-the-future-the-musical/ Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its des…

The Fabric Workshop and Museum marks 50 years of its artists-in-residence program with this survey of intriguing multi-media works from the 1970s to the present. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Sarah Blush directs a cast of five in the story of a father and daughter on a road trip from New York City to a storage unit in California. It is a trip that is both se in the present and past, and it is filled…

In NBC’s new medical series “Brilliant Minds,” Zachary Quinto plays an idiosyncratic neurologist inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, best known for his writings on neurological disorders in the books “The Man…

  Dances are rarely historicized. They exist instead as ephemeral events, never repeated exactly as they were once performed. When a piece of dance is staged again in a new context, it appears as a product of …

Wyndham’s; Donmar Warehouse; Trafalgar, LondonMark Strong and Lesley Manville transfix as Robert Icke wires Sophocles into the present; Adrien Brody excels in a sharp prison drama; and how not to update a Jac…

Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Denver in 2024. When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine b…

Great Scott! BACK TO THE FUTURE, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Toronto in 2025. Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, four WhatsOnStage …

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/discussion/2024-2025/breaking-bread/ In a special event by journalist and author Alex Prud’homme, explore the impact of food and its uses in cultural …

BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL is playing the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco from February 12–March 9, 2025. Great Scott! BACK TO THE FUTURE, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with …

Today marks the 100th birthday of former American President Jimmy Carter (b. 1924). Apart from Gerald Ford, who scarcely counts, Carter is the first President whose tenure I remember from soup to nuts, from his…

Olivier theatre, LondonThe drama is underpowered until the end but what Lyndsey Turner’s production lacks in feeling it makes up in style Placard-holding protesters bomb an elegant stage with museum-grade art…

Lately, I have heard pundits complain that movies and television producers are timid about doing political drama. Early Greek playwrights, Shakespeare, writers like Arthur Miller, and those to the present have …