The strange appeal of Toto's Africa " and why it's cover-proof
Cropping up in South Park, Family Guy and Stranger Things, the song is popular with a generation too young to have known it first time round
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Cropping up in South Park, Family Guy and Stranger Things, the song is popular with a generation too young to have known it first time round
Apparently US comedy is so powerful and pervasive that people all over the world want to, and can, fit its template. I have some problems with thatIs the US a shining city upon a hill for co…
EXCLUSIVE: The Frozen fractals appear to be falling into place for Disney. Reviews aren’t out until the March 22 opening of Disney Theatrical Productions’ adaptation of the 20…
This week's offerings on SoCal's smaller stages: "Bingo Hall" from the Native American theater company at the Autry, "3 Plays by Pat Kinevane" at the Odyssey, "The Madres" at Skylight and th…
This Proof's weakness comes from the thinness of its lead performances.
Cast in Doncaster has announced that it will no longer demand audience members claiming free carer tickets for proof of disability. Free
Amy Schumer's about to make her Broadway debut in Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower," which has its first preview on Wednesday. She's already box-office gold " but can the 36-year-old comedia…
He considered himself impervious to stage horror, but after taking part in a research project monitoring audience's heart-rate activity while watching live
Harvey Fierstein's landmark 1982 comedy-drama about gay life in New York is revived with uproarious élan at off-Broadway's Second Stage Theater.
Tom Hiddleston has just begun performances as Hamlet at RADA’s tiny (160-seat) Vanbrugh Theatre " a show that, as Matt Trueman has
Stuart J. Thompson, a Tony Award-winning producer and manager of Broadway shows who brought a contemplative, low-key style to an industry known for its razzmatazz, and helped mount hits like…
Stuart Thompson, the prolific, multiple Tony-winning theatrical producer and manager behind such landmark stage productions as On Golden Pond, Proof and The Book of Mormon, died Thursday of …
Psychological disintegration, particularly the sort that centers around visitations from unseen persons and family members, is often a challenging theme to articulate and present on stage. E…
The wobbly foundations of fledgling New City Players' production of David Auburn's reliable Proof are unlikely to impress seasoned theatergoers, especially those who have seen the play befo…
Nevertheless, she persisted. Persisted, pushed back depression and doubt and the burden of care to accept her legacy of genius. The "she" in this case is not Senator Elizabeth Warren but Cat…
One would not initially think that advanced Mathematics involving mind-numbingly complex formulas would be a 'prime' subject for riveting theatre. And then we are usually surprised at our cl…
Dawn Ursula shines as Catherine in David Auburn's Pulitzer-winning play.
Who wants to go see a play about math? That could be a typical dialogue when people are perusing the paper wondering how to spend their Saturday night. In the case of David Auburn's Tony Awa…
What do future presidents dream about when they're young and thinking in terms of popular Broadway musicals? According to James Corden, mostly plans to gut Obamacare and tweet a lot. Corden …
Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's 1983 musical has been revived once more. The show struck an important, rarely acknowledged blow for equalityWhen it opened in New York in 1983, La Cage au…
Shakespeare expert Heather Wolfe revealed in a recent interview with The Guardian that she has uncovered new evidence that the William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon is indeed William Sh…
As the trailers for Disney's live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast made their debuts, there were a couple of distinct lines of concern. Did the movie look too much like the origin…
Scandal rocked the Bolshoi this year when its artistic director had acid thrown in his face. Nikolai Tsiskaridze, the troupe's recently sacked principal dancer, tells Judith Mackrell why he …
In August this year, Equity revealed that more than £1 million had been paid out in wages across 168 productions under its
Western colonizers thought Shakespeare proved their cultural superiority, but a new book explores what his plays have meant to the colonized.