Our Spiciest Year, or How We Accidentally Became Theatre Critics
By Ben Ferber, Todd Brian Backus. The development and origin of Hot Pepper Theatre, spicy hot and succinct theatre reviews.
By Ben Ferber, Todd Brian Backus. The development and origin of Hot Pepper Theatre, spicy hot and succinct theatre reviews.
For theatre lovers who are far from New York City, Broadway has gotten a lot more real in the past few months. Just last fall, Andrew Lloyd Webber released a fully immersive 360 music video …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJackie K's aunt and cousin are joyfully on song in a tale of Long Island squalor and co-dependency, while a fine new Pericles rules the wavesIt is the theatrical p…
The West End transfer of Guys and Dolls, first seen at Chichester Festival Theatre in summer 2014, officially opened Jan. 6 at the West End's Savoy Theatre, for a limited 13-week run…
Is it ever okay to troll a critic online over a negative review. The Stage critic Susan Elkin warns of the consequences after several run-ins with pantomime artists over the holidays.
Accepting his Best Director nod  for Carol from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday night, Todd Haynes recalled arriving as a boy in New York from Los Angeles in 1970. “This …
BroadwayWorld is sad to report that actor Jason Wingreen, 95, died at his home in Los Angeles, California, on Christmas Day, 2015.
Michael Kahn can quote the first review he ever got as a student director in the 1960s. It was cruel."You remember the bad ones," the Shakespeare Theatre Company's artistic director says, wa…
By Emily Hardy My pick of 2015 is neither a stroke of theatrical genius like the Almeida’s Oresteia nor a brilliant and original work of art like 1927’s Golum. It is in fact a po…
Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name about professional basketball’s first-ever, aged-60-and-older dance team, offici…
It's not hard to stumble across an excess of reviews for any given Broadway show these days, but there is a group of theatregoers that is wildly underrepresented when it comes to opinions on…
Bitter Lemons:Â As a site that aggregates reviews of Los Angeles theater, Bitter Lemons offers a unique perspective in what was the most compelling " or at least the most enthusiastically…
In 1972, the title role in Bob Fosse's production was hisThis time, he has the role of Charlemagne in the Broadway hitTony Award-winning actor travels with revival … Click to Continue…
By Danny Coleman-Cooke We asked each of our reviewers to nominate their favourite show of 2015. Danny Coleman-Cooke was quick with his reponse – Sweeney Todd by Tooting Arts Club with …
By Tim Hochstrasser My best revival recommendation would go to Antic Disposition's HENRY V played in the evocative setting of Temple Church. It is very hard to find something new to say abou…
The latest incarnation of Sheryl Crow's new musical Diner, starring Derek Klena and Matthew James Thomas, opened Dec. 12 at the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington, DE. Revi…
Cambridge's American Repertory Theater production of Dave Malloy's electropop opera Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 officially opened Dec. 16, following pr…
The Atlantic Theater Company staging of These Paper Bullets! officially opened Off-Broadway Dec. 15. The modish twist on Much Ado About Nothing is wri…
The Playwrights Horizons production of 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist Marjorie Prime, by Jordan Harrison, officially opened Dec. 14 with a cast led by two-time Tony nominee Lois Smith.
Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today and over the weekend. The Wiz Live! Picks Up Five Critics' Choice Nods The Wiz Live! eased on down the road to five Crit…
NBC's live broadcast of THE WIZ LIVE received five nominations including a nod for Shanice Williams in the category of BEST ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES.
The Transport Group revival of the Tony-nominated Once Upon a Mattress officially opened Dec. 13 following previews that began Nov. 23 at The Abrons Arts Center. The musical comedy stars…
Nominations for THE CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS were announced this morning. Leading the pack for films is MAD MAX FURY ROAD. FARGO tops the list for television.
Last week Cynthia Erivo officially arrived on Broadway to reprise the role of Celie in John Doyle’s production of The Color Purple