The Bucks County Playhouse production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which features the play's Tony Award-winning author Christopher Durang in the starring role alongside stage …
Following stellar reviews and sell-out business, the Tony-winning revival of the cult musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask has recouped its $5 million investment.read more
Connecticut Repertory Theatre's production of the Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne and Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy, with award-winning actress Leslie Uggams starring as Rose, officially op…
The Circle by banished? Productions might be one of your most unique experiences at the Fringe. The entire play takes place outside using Dupont Circle, Connecticut Avenue, and some surround…
Director Liesl Tommy has staged a new, modern-dress, immersive production of the hit international musical Les Misérables, which officially opened July 4 at the Dallas Theater Center …
With new leadership, extensive new financial support from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, and a curriculum retooled to reflect the new realities of arts journalism, the Eugene O'Neill Ce…
“Most critics are scared of this show…they should be,” reads one of Holler If Ya Hear Me’s newest promotional materials, which aims to get hip-hop fans into the seat…
Maureen Lipman, Oliver Cotton and Harry Shearer star in the transfer from the Park Theatre at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
Critics from the national press should be more supportive of new British musical theatre productions if the genre is to survive, Curve chief executive Fiona Allan has warned. The Leicester t…
A number of critics and some outspoken spectators have expressed their dissatisfaction with the perceivedly overzealous audiences being attracted to attend the current West End production of…
A sampling from the out-of-town critics whose work has been published so far:
Yael Farber's production of Arthur Miller's classic was well received, despite its three and a half hour running time
You don’t expect critics to necessarily agree, and we often don’t: I’ve often pointed out here how one critic’s one star pan is another’s five star rave. But a …
So this was the week that was; the Python comeback. The O2 was awash with amateur knights who said ‘yay’, toy parrots and Life of Brian leftover extras; it was comedy’s clo…
By HowlRound TV. A significant debate over how to approach new works has energized theatre-makers in the past year. Should critics publish their reviews of new plays with a different standar…
It's not just Shia LaBeouf. Why the worst performances are in the seats
It's not just Shia LaBeouf. Why the worst performances are in the seats
Manhattan Theatre Club presents The Lion, a new autobiographical solo musical written and performed by singer/songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, which officially opened June 26 Off-Broadway.
Jonathan Larson's tick, tick… BOOM!, the opening show of City Center's Encores! Off-Center series of landmark Off-Broadway musicals, plays the New York City venue June 25-28.
Brendan O'Carroll thinks critics are irrelevant. In case you don't know who he is, O'Carroll is the man who dresses up as Mrs Brown in the BBC comedy Mrs Brown's Boys " all in the…
Nicholas Hytner has shown the National can still be nimble
The pre-Broadway premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood — officiall…
Following a nation-wide search for the best emerging young critics, A Younger Theatre is proud to introduce the six winners of the Edinburgh Young Critics Scheme 2014. The winners will each …
The classic musical receives an updated, intimate revival at the Arcola
Critics cheer for Cherry Jones and the company of WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID Emmy® and two-time Tony® Winner Cherry Jones (Doubt, "24″) returns to MTC for Sarah Tree…