Sunday, November 30, 2025
“Producing ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ this fall felt like an appropriate theatrical celebration for our 40th anniversary season of the musical theatre program at the Catholic University …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:40PMFriday, November 21, 2025
Review of the Sunday, November 9, 2025 evening preview performance at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. Starring Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts. Book, music and lyrics by Jim Barne and …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 12:48AMFriday, November 14, 2025
The revered BBC strand that gave us Abigail’s Party and The Black Stuff makes a return … on Channel 5. Will it be as successful as in its heyday?
In March 1977, BBC One screened Spend, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMSunday, October 19, 2025
By David Sheward
October 19, 2025: For an intimate and raucous evening with a slightly modern twist, you can’t do much better than the current revival of Tartuffe, Moliere’s classic com…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:59PMThursday, October 16, 2025
With the affordability crisis being such a part of life (and the mayor race) in New York City, and meanwhile a three-actor Broadway play like "Art" having grossed $1.7-million last week, it …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:40PMPerelman Performing Arts Center has revealed the complete cast for the New York return of Matthew Warchus’ production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, adapted for the stage by Jac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMMonday, October 13, 2025
Sam Robards, Victoria Clarke, Camila Canó-Flaviá, and Will Harrison in “Punch” (photo by Matthew Murphy).October 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
If you’ve nev…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:44AMThursday, October 9, 2025
Immersing myself in the programme’s seriously dark comedy loosened my grip on reality – and then a ventriloquist asked me for a selfie
I was on stage, alone, at a packed Alexandra theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMWednesday, October 1, 2025
More than 1,000 actors have signed a letter expressing solidarity with Actors’ Equity in its ongoing negotiations with the Broadway League as the union demands significant increases in hea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PMTuesday, September 23, 2025
Patricia Lockwood’s life and art are so closely linked that it’s appropriate for a cat meowing in the background during a phone interview from her Savannah, Georgia, home to make it into…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMThursday, September 11, 2025
LONDON REPORT: “THE PRODUCERS” IS BACK — JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT!
Andy Nyman and Marc Antolin as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom in “The Producers” (2025).September 11, 2025: Thea…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 03:14PMWednesday, September 3, 2025
Charles Kirsch is the 17-year-old host of the theater podcast Backstage Babble, where he has conducted over 250 in-depth interviews with some of Broadway’s best. In “Stage Direction,” …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMFriday, August 22, 2025
Shakespeare in the Park Returns, Joyfully & Inclusively, to New York by Andrea Libresco As the performance begins, multiple helicopters fly over the Delacorte Theater. While not a part o…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:08AMTuesday, August 19, 2025
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Last weekend I headed to Battersea Park in London to ex…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:09PMMonday, August 11, 2025
Director James Vásquez join The Old Globe's Becks Redman to discuss The Comedy of Errors.
Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity to closely conne…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:51PMFriday, August 8, 2025
The Great Gatsby's Jordan Baker dwells among the new money of West Egg, a world of blinding parties and dark secrets. But it's all "Champagne Problems" for Samantha Pauly, who's popping som…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMIn episode four, of Champagne Problems, Samantha Pauly sits down at her dressing-room mirror to take you through her entire process of getting show ready ("Cat eye is not really appropriate …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:42PMThursday, August 7, 2025
Merriment and mayhem come to life in the Bard’s hilarious and fun-filled play, The Comedy of Errors, running July 27 through Aug. 24, 2025.
Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:34PMTuesday, August 5, 2025
Traverse theatre, EdinburghPanto dame Dorothy Blawna-Gale is sharp-tongued and lovable but the hilarity is underpinned by creator Johnny McKnight’s personal story
She stands before us in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMThursday, July 31, 2025
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) It is perhaps most appropriate that for the third jewel in Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane’s studded crown is Carousel, the Rod…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:06PMWednesday, July 30, 2025
July 30 was the birthday of stage and screen actor Holmes Herbert (Horace Edward Jenner, 1882-1956), sometimes billed as Holmes E. Herbert, H.E. Herbert, H.J. Herbert, anything one hopes, ex…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:32AMFriday, July 11, 2025
In partnership with Americans for the Arts and its advocacy affiliate Arts Action Fund, arts industry leaders from across the nation are gathering on Capitol Hill this month to bring a messa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMWednesday, July 9, 2025
Jester Hairston (1901-2000) had two strong careers in two entirely different but overlapping cultural disciplines. Arguably his contributions to music were of greater significance, but we’…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:24AMFriday, July 4, 2025
The 1969 marquee for “1776” in its original production at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers).July 4, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
This is a re-worki…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 02:33PMSunday, June 29, 2025
Frank Loesser (1910–1969).June 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
One hundred fifteen years ago today, composer-lyricist Frank Loesser was born on the Upper West Side o…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:00PMThursday, June 12, 2025
Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice.
In playwright Jamie Wax’s one-hander “Call Me Izzy,” Jean …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:14PMElla Beatty has had an incredible year in New York theatre. After joining the Tony-winning Appropriate as River when the show transferred theaters, she next joined Jack O’Brien’s much bu…
SOURCE: Theatrely at 02:28PMJune 12 was the birthday of Anne Frank (1929-1945). Confronted with the bewildering descent of America into a place where schoolgirls need to hide out in attics and where Jews are being viol…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:36PMMonday, June 9, 2025
The 78th Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo at Radio City Music Hall, are a wrap, and Broadway.com is here to give you the full rundown of Broadway's biggest night. Maybe Happy Ending w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32AMSunday, June 8, 2025
Purpose has taken home the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play. The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Phylicia Rashad marks Jacobs-Jenkins’ second Tony wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32PMPlaywright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won a Tony back-to-back with his 2024 win for Appropriate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Paulson, who won a Tony Award in 2024 for her performance in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' earlier play, 'Appropriate,' writes: "There are few things of which I am certain in this life. We don’t…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:27AMThursday, May 29, 2025
Purpose, the epic family drama by Tony Award-winning Appropriate playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, adds eight weeks to its limited Broadway engagement at the Hayes Theater. Performances …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMMonday, May 26, 2025
Carla R. Stewart and Keenan Barrett. All production photos are by Greg Mooney
The show: “Millions,” a new musical receiv…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:36PMFriday, May 23, 2025
Two-time Tony Award nominee, Johanna Day has joined the upcoming Broadway production of Call Me Izzy, production as Standby for starring six-time Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMReview of the Sunday, May 18, 2025 preview performance at Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. Starring Ben Ahlers, Jordan Boatman, Sam Huntsman, Ked Merwin, Adrienne C. Moore and Robbie Tan…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:02AMFriday, May 16, 2025
Last chance!
Nominate your favorites for The 2025 JKTS Readers' Choice Awards!
Ballot closes Sunday! HERE
Yesterday brought the sad news that Broadway composer Charles Strouse passed a…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:33AMThursday, May 15, 2025
May 15 being the birthday of author L. Frank Baum, we thought today would be an appropriate time to create a finding aid for our dozens of posts related to my favorite childhood author and t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:02PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
2025 Tony nominee Megan Hilty tells us whether or not Death Becomes Her is...family appropriate.
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:36PMSunday, May 11, 2025
A top-notch production of “Hairspray” can currently be seen at Dundalk Community Theatre, and one of the show’s most famous songs declares that “You Can’t Stop the Beat.” That st…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:05PM 
