"In a career stretching back to the 1950s and continuing into his 90s, Dr. Nketia wrote hundreds of articles and books in English and Twi, a Ghanaian language, on topics ranging from music t…
BroadwayWorld has a first look at Max von Essen singing Father to Son in Falsettos on Tour Check out the video below
Casting the audience into the role of congregants, this production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is more canny than most about what it let's us see.
The award-winning new musical, previously seen at NYMF, will play a limited run Off-Broadway beginning March 28.
Eric Peterson is best at capturing Andre's childlike helplessness, culminating in a moving final breakdown, writes Carly Maga.
As sleet and snow slashed the air outside on Tuesday night, a theatrical fire blazed onstage at the Den Theatre. In "The Total Bent," the polymath known as Stew, perhaps best known for his s…
Florian Zeller's award-winning 2012 play gets its moving local premiere at Remy Bumppo.
THE SOUND OF A BRAIN BREAKING Uncertainty is the default drive behind the 95 excruciating minutes of French playwright Florian Zeller's The Father. Seldom has a staged mystery shifted so …
Now in its Chicago premiere from the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Florian Zeller's "The Father" is a play about dementia, that late-in-life affliction that can take down a giant personality,…
“This was somebody who was writing for 50 years without publishing, so that’s a lot of material. So there’s not a reluctance or a protectiveness: when it’s ready, we&…
Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of U.S. $10 bills, is a counterfeit. Now they're escalating their fight against the musical.
Gecko rustle up wedding chaos while Belgium's Peeping Tom delight with quickfire care home capersThe Wedding, the latest production from Ipswich-based theatre troupe Gecko, grapples with the…
Father (Vader), which premiered in Europe in 2014, is the first instalment of Peeping Tom's surreal family-based trilogy. It's every bit as
Review: Father (Vader), The Barbican5.0starsFather (Vader) is a delightful twist of comedy, melancholic drama and unnerving horror. It is set in an old folks' home where nothing is quite as …
Barbican, LondonPeeping Tom tackle old age with originality, warmth and humour in the second part of their eerie family-themed trilogyLast year they tackled mums, now attention turns to dad.…
Just a quick shout-out for the great cartoonist George McManus (1884-1954). Best remembered today as the creator of Bringing Up Father a.k.a. Jiggs and Maggie (or Maggie and Jigg…
There’s a staggering amount of up-and-coming talent on display with the world premiere of “post-Weinstein, post-Spacey drama” Anomaly, now running at London’s Old …
As part of this year's London International Mime Festival, Peeping Tom: "Father (Vader)"comes to Off-West End and will be on stage at The Barbican Theatre from January 30-February 2, 2019.&n…
He attended Lehigh University. He enlisted in the Navy and served in and around China during World War Two. After the war, he married Alberta Saby of Allentown, Pennsylvania; they were marri…
“Throughout my childhood, my family had missed out on the joys of sharing music with one another. With three kids, two parents, two loud TVs, one bathroom and rarely anything approachi…
Synetic Theater produces another visually captivating and emotion-filled journey in their newest show, My Father's Dragon. The story, adapted by Ryan Sellers, is based on the children's book…
Clocking in at just an hour, “My Father’s Dragon” is another family friendly show that will not tax kids' abilities to sit in a seat and watch a live show. In fact, this sh…
And so you are a cat (Sharisse Taylor) on Wild Island, which is all full of banyan trees and red vines, and one day you see an egg as big as a Galapagos turtle. Because you are a cat, you sn…
Your favorite Broadway actors all wishing you happy birthday seems like the dream, right Well Mark Kotzin made this dream come true for his daughter on her 18th birthday.