Wednesday, November 5, 2025
By David Sheward
November 5, 2025: “I did the best I could,” cries the intense Marin Ireland as Renia, a Polish immigrant struggling to justify her questionable actions in abandoning …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40PM“TIRED, POOR, AND HUDDLED IN A QUEENS BASEMENT”
By Samuel L. Leiter
November 5, 2025: The topically seasoned plays of Martyna Majok reveal a deep connection to people struggling under …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30PMThursday, September 18, 2025
Arts institution seeks to make ‘urgent’ savings as it is thought to be facing a shortfall of between £5m and £6m
More than half of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s staff are being enc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMSaturday, September 13, 2025
In this week’s newsletter: Live performances offering authentic human connection are drawing crowds to the stage, as AI-driven drivel worms its way into other creative industries
Last year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, June 20, 2025
BroadwayWorld sends love and congratulations to the newly engaged couple, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok and Broadway leading man Bobby Conte, who announced their engagement…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
World Premiere Play
LOWCOUNTRY
by Abby Rosebrock
directed by Jo Bonney
June 5 – July 13, 2025
Linda Gross Theater | 336 West 20th St.
When Tally, a down-and-out actress and gig worker, re…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:11PMSunday, June 8, 2025
Kara Young has made Broadway history with her second consecutive Tony Award win. She earned Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Purpose, becoming the first Black performer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
The world premiere of The Balusters, written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon, will open on Broadway in spring 2026…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Last year, Broadway shining star Kara Young made Tony Awards history. Her nomination for the play Purlie Victorious was her third in as many years, as she previously received recognition for…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Wardrobe theatre, BristolDaisy Kennedy and Mia Macleod tussle with capitalism, class cliches and the cost of living in this smart two-hander
Meet Daisy and Mia. One is working class, the oth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Kara 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 11:03AMThursday, November 7, 2024
A stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is in development and aiming for Broadway. Adapted by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok, Bradbury’s boo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMThursday, August 29, 2024
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Cost of Living, a deeply moving play that looks at the ways we care for one another and ourselves and
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 01:41AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Though Cost of Living played its final Broadway performance over seven months ago, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play certainly was not forgotten by the nominating…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:12PMFriday, August 9, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The last two years have been something else for Kara Young. Not only did she make her Broadway debut (Clydes, 2021), but she returned to Broadway just months la…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:37PMFrom BroadwayWorld's Archive: In this video, watch as Tony nominee Katy Sullivan chats more about her long journey with Cost of Living, why being on Broadway was such a big deal to her, and …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:09PMMonday, July 29, 2024
The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal, the weekly nationally syndicated, Broadway-focused TV program, co-produced by Broadway.com’s parent company the John Gore Organization, received two …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMSaturday, July 20, 2024
In this new package, our arts team explores how much Seattle artists make, how they afford life in the city, what could help and more.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2024
Seattle's rapidly increasing cost of living affects everyone. Here's why we focused on artists.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 01:00PMMonday, July 1, 2024
The post Philip Quast AM to take final bow in Queensland Theatre’s Australian Premiere of Cost of Living at Bille Brown Theatre appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 06:47AMMonday, June 17, 2024
Octagon, BoltonBram Stoker’s novel gets redone in the style of The Play That Goes Wrong, in an energetically performed but ultimately feeble farce
We have a cost of living crisis and a bor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMThursday, June 13, 2024
It's Tony time again. Was this an exciting year on Broadway? Yes! Was it a disappointing year on Broadway? Yes! Same as it ever was.
And here we go:
(A complete list of nominees is provide…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:12AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Sydney Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre’s new co-production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony-nominated Broadway smash-hit, Cost of Living, will play
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 08:03AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Kara Young is once again Tony-nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play, for her hysterical and moving performance in the revival of “Purlie Victorious.” It’s her third nomination …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PMThursday, May 30, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cost of Living is now running at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Check out video …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:48AMMonday, May 27, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of Cost of Living, the new play by Martyna Majok (Ironbound, Mouse in a Jar), directed by Jo Bonney (Father Comes Hom…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:54PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
The world-premiere musical Gatsby, an adaptation of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald with music by international rock star Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine, has its design and music …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMThursday, March 28, 2024
What if your theater review were fractured? Broken apart and rearranged to get at something new about a staged work, to get at something different about the experience?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMSunday, March 24, 2024
Martyna Majok’s play is staged beautifully in a joint production by Curious and Phamaly theatre companies
The post In ‘Cost of Living,’ challenging connections define two couples appea…
SOURCE: OnStage Colorado at 03:11PMThe show: “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch” played Broadway’s Music Box Theatre this fall and early winter and will now be seen on PBS’s American…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:57PMCritical to the success of "Cost of Living" is playwright Martyna Majok’s refusal to resort to tropes about people with disabilities and those who care for them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMSaturday, March 16, 2024
Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play writes characters with disabilities who aren’t defined by their physical limitations.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:26PMSunday, March 10, 2024
Martyna Majok’s Profane, Poetic Play Explores Loss & Redemption by K. Marguerite Caronna Emilie Whelan skillfully conducts a quartet of talented actors in a play of consummate humanity…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:04PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Two-time Tony nominee Kara Young will join the cast of Kate Douglas' The Apiary for its final week of performances from February 28 through March 3 at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater. Yo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with busy director Jeffrey L. Page for a wide-ranging conversation about his recent work, including PTC's new production of Martyna Majok's Cost of Li…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:26PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
The Philly nonprofit Art-Reach, which
connects our disability community to our cultural scene, partners with Philadelphia
Theatre Company for Cost of Living, a show about the complexities of…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:19PMSunday, February 11, 2024
Diminished or not, it’s worth seeing for the understanding of people living with disabilities and the people who care for them.
The post COST OF LIVING (PTC): A compelling new play, dimini…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:00PMFriday, February 2, 2024
The Tony-nominated Cost of Living star becomes the first woman with a disability to take on the role in a major U.S. production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
British Equity has struck a three-year agreement with the Independent Theatre Council (ITC) that will give British theater workers better pay, as the UK’s cost of living crisis continues. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:24AM 
