Disney’s landmark Broadway musical The Lion King is getting set to mark its 15-year anniversary on the Great White Way. Julie Taymor's groundbreaking production began performances …
 WHAT: A Private Party: Celebrate the sounds and sights of Bollywood at Circle Theatre's Annual Benefit  THE HOOK Relax and enjoy Circle Theatre's special invitation-only perf…
Meet the Critics! Introducing the 2012-2013 Broadway.com Word of Mouth Panelists A Jersey Shore girl, a writer from Mexico and a handful of New York natives! Get familiar with Broadway.com&…
Emmy Winner Richard Schiff rose to TV stardom as White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on Aaron Sorkin’s long-running drama The West Wing. At age 57, the actor, who has…
Jim Leonard fictionalizes the Abu Ghraib scandal to examine why soldiers in faraway combat zones might become abusers and torturers. A musical score by Rob Cairns and Beth Thornley facilitat…
A Jersey Shore girl, a writer from Mexico and a handful of New York natives! Get familiar with Broadway.com’s new Word of Mouth panelists as the 2012-2013 season begins.
The top English-language playwrights of all time are regular visitors on Broadway. Shakespeare, Shaw, Wilde, Coward, all fairly common sights. But you can count the classic French dramatists…
London’s critical darling at the moment is Howard Barker’s Scenes from an Execution, directed by Tom Cairns and featuring Fiona Shaw as Galactia, at the National Theatre. (A new …
SEMI-CIRCLE The drawing room comedy has fallen out of fashion over the years. These extremely well-made, light, sophisticated plays center around members of polite society whose lives unrave…
Jonathan Lewis's Our Boys, starring Arthur Darvill, Matthew Lewis and Laurence Fox, amongst others, opened to press last night (3 October 2012).The play gives a funny yet candid account o…
It's theater in the form of an mp3:…In the wacky universe of Banished? Productions that sounds like business as usual." " Washington Post banished? productions takes theatre to the streets…
Manhattan Theatre Club's new version of Henrik Ibsen's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes opened on Thursday and was hailed by critics. B…
KIDS KILL THE DARNEDEST THINGS Much has been made recently of the physical and psychological dangers of bullying and hazing. Less is said of their value as a teaching element that makes …
The Canadian Theatre Critics Association have named Judith Thompson, "one of Canada's darkest and most daring playwrights," as recipient of the 2012 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Awar…
Let It Be, the theatrical concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles, opened to press last night (24 September 2012).Let it Be is jam-packed with over twenty of their greatest …
The death and funeral of a family patriarch would seem to be a dark subject for comedy, but *Dearly Departed* manages to be both lighthearted and moving, as well as extremely funny. What a S…
Creditors owed thousands of pounds after London theatre shop Dress Circle went into liquidation have expressed anger that the store has begun operating again under a new name.
After six years Caryl Churchill is back with a new play. Love and Information is a ‘fast-moving kaleidoscope’ featuring fifty scenes and over a hundred characters. It explores ou…
David Hare's The Judas Kiss, starring Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox, opened to press this week (12 September 2012, previews from 6 September) at Hampstead Theatre.The revival of Hare’…
Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy opened to press last night (10 September 2012) at the Royal Court Theatre.Choir Boy, a new play set in an all boys, all black, American prep school scores …
TORONTO (Reuters) - Funnyman Bill Murray long ago mastered the ability to wring laughs by saying absurd things in a matter-of-fact tone, but even he was caught off guard when first approache…
Anticipating Sheridan Smith's Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic this week, Paul Taylor wrote an interesting survey of other Heddas in The Independent yesterday, though he was too late to include t…
Time Out's recent coverage of a show produced by its 'event-producing arm' prompts the question: can a publication offer independent critical opinion when it is also behind a production?Ther…
On March 1, 1984 director James Furlong moderated a panel of theater critics featuring Theater Editor for Village Voice Erika Munk, Theater Critic for WNEW-TV Stewart Klein, and Theater Crit…
Proposals to convert a former north London cinema into a live entertainment venue have been spurred on after the local council rejected a rival group's plans to change the building into a ch…