They figured the two of you weren't perverts.Barbara: Right, exactly. Because photographers had a really bad reputation, and these kids, they don't know. They'd walk around the city and go s…
Although even Stephen Sondheim harshly dismissed the need for a musical-theater version of the Gershwin opera, the production arrives at the Ahmanson in April.Controversy of one kind or anot…
It should be the most obvious thing in the world, but all too often it’s ignored: theatre is, above all, for the audience. Critics are, of course, part of that audience, but are we are…
Rocky, the new Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1976 Sylvester Stallone film of the same name, officially opened on Broadway March 13 at the Winter Gar…
This is pretty interesting. Was guided to this through George Hunka’s online journal Superfluities Redux. I couldn’t really locate the original post on Critical Stages, but this …
“Only hard-core Queen fans can save it from an early bath," wrote Robert Gore-Langton in the Daily Express when it first opened at the Dominion Theatre in May 2002, while I myself call…
While big musicals with big money behind them are closing in the West End, Phil Willmott has managed to keep his show Lost Boy flyingThere was a certain amount of unseemly glee from the medi…
(Ben Lauer, Carolyn Kashner and Ethan Sinnott rehearse RICHARD III at NextStop Theatre. This post is a part of the Diversity & Inclusion blog salon led by Online Curator Jacq…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's new political drama All The Way, which stars Emmy Award-winning "Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston as U.S. President Lyndo…
The 86th Academy Awards were presented March 2 in Los Angeles. The Disney animated musical "Frozen" won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, while songwriters Robert and Krist…
Circle Mirror Transformation, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, produced by Theatre Horizon, directed by Matthew Decker, written by Annie Baker, featuring Emilie Krause, Nancy Boykin, David Bard…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced that Nicole Parker, nominee for Lead Performance in Funny Girl, will host its 45th Annual Awards ceremony replacing the previously announce…
The six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award have been announced.
Christopher Demos-Brown is among six finalists for one of the most esteemed playwriting honors in the country, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Awa…
The latest offering from the Globe's Sam Wanamaker Playhouse opened last night (27 February 2014)
Critics left impressed by Bristol Old Vic's Jane Eyre
Daniel Evans' production transferred to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre where it opened last night
Daniel Evans' production transferred to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre where it opened last night
Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale star in the Broadway production of the new Jason Robert Brown-Marsha Norman musical The Bridges of Madison County, based on the best-selling roman…
Actress, singer, and former Miss America winner Vanessa Williams has been added to the list of special guest star vocalists in the Broadway musical After Midnight. The announcement came F…
Am I nervous about the fast-approaching opening night of Satchmo at the Waldorf? Knowing what I know about the utter...
What goes around, comes around, they always say, and it’s absolutely true in the theatre. Just tonight Marti Webb’s life comes full circle, as she returns to the West End for a s…
After years of experimentation, Brazilian singer Maria Rita has come to embrace the once-daunting legacy of her chanteuse mother, Elis Regina.When children of famous parents succeed, they're…
Critics Love "As You Like It"! Critics are loving "As You Like It" at Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Just one more week left to catch the show... must close February…