Friday, 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 07:05PMThursday, May 1, 2025
George Clooney, Bob Odenkirk, Mia Farrow, Audra McDonald, Tom Francis, Daniel Dae Kim, Jamie Lloyd, Louis McCartney are among those saying thank you following news of their nominations for t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:08AMSarah Paulson ('Appropriate') and Wendell Pierce ('Death of a Salesman') are announcing the nominees on a livestream Thursday morning.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:08AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Today is Yom HaShoah, Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day. It takes place on the 27th day of Nisan (sundown April 23 into April 24). This is distinct from International Holocaust R…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:06PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
2024 - 2025 Broadway Musical Logos:
Pirates! (The Penzance Musical)
In probably the best advertising move concerning a Broadway musical in years, Roundabout changed its show art for Pira…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:54AMSaturday, April 19, 2025
Movement In Space
Jay Reisberg
April 19, 2025 - 17:03
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SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 05:03PMFriday, April 18, 2025
Currently running at the Hayes Theatre, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” joins the important pantheon of plays about families, dysfunctional families in particular. These plays, incl…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:33PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Week of April 6, 2025 1. “Bad Books” at Round House Theatre “…a deeply riveting play…Without hesitation, this is one of my top three for the season.” – Anne Valentino READ r…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58AMSunday, April 13, 2025
Photos by Jeremy Daniels.
The show: The Manhattan Theatre Club production of “We Had a World” by Joshua Harmon and starri…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:37PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ "Purpose" follows on the heels of their magnificently staged "August: Osage County," but unlike that dysfunctional fam…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMEven before winning the Tony Award last year for his pointed dramedy Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had emerged as one of the brightest lights in the current American theater scene with…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:30PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
There’s a spring in the step of the London theater in April, as seems appropriate, with new musicals based on classic titles jostling alongside the return of a major film star to the Londo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMThe underpowered revival of the show at the cavernous Palace Theatre could certainly use some caffeine. And heat. That the workplace play, on Broadway for the fourth time, opened last night …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:42AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Is that Sarah Paulson in pajamas brushing her teeth? She is in her dressing room at the Belasco, during the run of the play “Appropriate” — one of some one hundred black-and-white phot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMThe Picture of Dorian Gray, the high-tech adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s haunting novel starring Sarah Snook, celebrated opening night at the Music Box Theatre on March 27. The occasion was t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMKara Young is blessed with the ability to jumpstart a scene the moment she steps on stage. This small but mighty actress manages to simultaneously disappear into a role while commanding the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMWednesday, March 26, 2025
In fact, the play Harmon has written is mainly about the conflict between the grandmother and the mother. While we are never really certain why Ellen and Susan refuse to be in the same room,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:22PMMonday, March 17, 2025
In “Purpose,” an extraordinary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Tony winner for last season’s “Appropriate”) opening tonight on Broadway in a terrifically acted, crowd-pleasing prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PMTony Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins understands the intricacies of family. In his award-winning “Appropriate,” starring Sarah Paulson, he wrote about siblings ravaged by…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMPurpose, the latest family drama from Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate), opens March 17 at the Hayes Theater. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Oh, the Duke ain’t Dead! Don’t ya fret on that score. It’s just that the 50th anniversary year of Saturday Night Live seemed the appropriate time to remember her peak years, when she w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
