Comedian John Tothill: ‘My second near-death experience? I blame the bedtime cheesy chips’ by Brian Logan

The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back? ‘In retr…

Broadway Box Office Stumbles During July 4th Holiday Week, With Star Absences Hitting ‘Gypsy’, ‘Call Me Izzy’ & ‘Death Becomes Her’ by Greg Evans

Broadway wilted a bit in last week’s summer heat, with 23 of 30 shows taking a hit at the box office, some significantly. No doubt playing a part in Broadway’s overall decline last week …

‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed …

Through It All Together review – Leeds United drama tackles big themes by Nick Ahad

Leeds PlayhouseChris O’Connor’s comedy-drama unites a paean to former Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa with the story of a married couple living with dementia during the club’s promotion s…

Jordan Tyson, Gypsy's Dainty June, Is a Rising Broadway Star with New Tricks Up Her Sleeve by Kathy Henderson

Momma Rose is a difficult character to say no to. The Gypsy matriarch tramples on her loving enabler Herbie and pushes shy daughter Louise onto the burlesque stage. Only younger daughter Jun…

‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth by Ryan Gilbey

The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln When Bill…

The Lowest Pair - Millennium Stage (June 18, 2025) by The Kennedy Center

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb During the spring and summer of 2020, The Lowest Pair (Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee) found themselves camping and sharing songs aroun…

Ali Louis Bourzgui Sings 'Epic III' in 'Hadestown' on Broadway by BroadwayWorld

Hadestown recently welcomed new stars! Check out a first look at Ali Louis Bourzgui as he sings Orpheus’s “Epic III." Hadestown is playing in its 6th year on Broadway at the Walter Kerr…

Some Thoughts on the 2025 Tony Awards by JK

It's been a few hours. The dust has almost settled, and I've gotten my thoughts together. The good, the bad...the baffling. Some Thoughts on the 2025 Tony Awards The Show The Tony Awards…

Miss Myrtle’s Garden review – immersion into a mindscape of sharp quips and memory slips by Anya Ryan

Bush theatre, LondonArtistic director Taio Lawson’s Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of a 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory In Danny James King’s…

Kitty West: The Axe Woman of Bourbon Street by Trav S.D.

Tribute today to burlesque legend Kitty West (Abbie Jewel Slawson, 1930-2019), whose ingenious stage name plants the idea in your head that you’ve heard of her before, no doubt because it …

Review: Real Women Have Curves by JK

Review of the Saturday, May 31, 2025 matinee performance at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Starring Tatianna Cordoba, Justina Machado, Florencia Cuenca, Mauricio Mendoza, Mason Reeves, Ariana…

Review: Buena Vista Social Club by JK

Review of the Friday, May 30, 2025 performance at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City. Starring Natalie Venetia Belcon, Julio Monge, Mel Seme, Jainardo Batista Sterling, Isa Anton…

The Light in the Piazza by Jacqueline Parker

The Huntington in Boston is presenting a glorious production of Adam Guettel’s masterpiece The Light in the Piazza. Director Loretta Greco has been quoted as saying that this score is the …

Lear Redux: A Quantum Fantasia by Terry Morgan

I usually am somewhat wary of “new takes” or “twists” on classic plays, with cause. Changing the time period of a story or modernizing the text is no guarantee that the play will be …

Review: New Adam Guettel Musical "Millions" Premieres in Atlanta by Frank Rizzo

Carla R. Stewart and Keenan Barrett. All production photos are by Greg Mooney The show: “Millions,” a new musical receiv…

Regional Review: John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only by JK

Review 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…

The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Embarks on UK Tour Following Award-Winning Edinburgh Run by Staff Writer

Following a sold-out, multi-award-winning debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return is set to embark on a major UK tour

2025 Tony Predictions by Wendy Caster

Although we have not previously shown great acuity in Tony prediction, here we are again. Hope springs eternal! This year’s list of Tony nominees reveals a healthy, exciting season. Lookin…

Superbly acted, flawlessly directed ‘Doubt’ at Le Petit Theatre is divine by Alan Smason

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable is a brilliant indictment of organized religion and the negativity attached to innuend…

Trump Proposes Elimination of NEA and NEH by Rob Weinert-Kendt

The administration’s 2026 budget comes at a time when the future of NEA staff and grant programs remains in doubt.

MAY DAY! THE TONY NOMINATIONS ARE HERE! by Ron Fassler

“Buena Vista Social Club” has reason to celebrate with its ten Tony nominations announced today.May 1, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler It’s always a thrill for me to…

Review: Floyd Collins by JK

Review of the Saturday, April 26, 2025 matinee performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. Starring Jeremy Jordan, with Jason Gotay, Sean Allan Krill, Kevi…

Doubt, A Parable

David Oyelowo: ‘My wife and I made the decision early on never to be apart for longer than two weeks’’ by Hayley Myers

The actor, 49, talks about his royal heritage, earliest memory, hard times in a hostel, four gifted kids and what happened when he met Sidney Poitier David, you are going to walk among kings…

10 Things You Need to Know About Bobby Darin Ahead of Broadway’s Just in Time by Mara Reinstein

“Splish Splash.” “Mack the Knife.” “Dream Lover.” No doubt Bobby Darin’s songs have been part of our cultural fabric for almost 70 years. But beyond the hits, Darin was a chari…

Good Night, And Good Luck by Elyse Trevers

If producers ever had any doubt of a celebrity’s effect on the box office, they need only look at this current theater season to see ticket prices. Popular movie star George Clooney is pac…

Two-Time Tony Winner Bryan Cranston to Star in All My Sons in London, Directed by Ivo van Hove by Darryn King

Two-time Tony winner, six-time Emmy winner and Olivier winner Bryan Cranston will reunite with director Ivo van Hove in a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in London’s West End i…

Justina Machado and Tatianna Córdoba on Their Vibrant Mother-Daughter Bond in the New Broadway Musical Real Women Have Curves by Kathy Henderson

Tatianna Córdoba and Justina Machado (Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) There’s plenty of drama in the new musical Real Women Have Curves, which centers on Latina seamstresses in…

PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL Theatre Talk by Roundabout Theatre Company

Ramin Karimloo, Jinkx Monsoon, and David Hyde Pierce lead the crew in Pirates! The Penzance Musical, this must-see Roundabout reimagining of The Pirates of Penzance. Scott Ellis (Doubt; Kiss…

Jersey ‘hitmen’: Allegra, Buisson helm first local production of ‘Jersey Boys’ by Alan Smason

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré has removed any doubt about whether it could creatively pull off  the first local production o…

Broadway Grosses Bounce With Big Names, Big Ticket Prices: Clooney, Kieran, Denzel, Gyllenhaal And Others Bring Box Office Flowers For Spring by Greg Evans

No doubt about: The big guns of Broadway’s spring season are arriving fast and furious, and boosting box office figures from receipts to ticket prices. Another newcomer – Good Night, And…

Fans shocked by 1990s pop-punk diva’s MAGA ‘makeover’ by Tribune News Service

She’s just a girl who liked something she saw on arch-conservative Tucker Carlson’s streaming show. Gwen Stefani, onetime frontwoman of the pop-punk band No Doubt, is taking fire from fa…

As Ashland’s theater season kicks in, an actor does double duty without a doubt by Jim Flint

As Ashland’s theater season kicks in, an actor does double duty without a doubt Jim FlintDaniel Molina, who will be in "Shane" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this summer, gets an early…

Best of the Week: Renthead Heaven, BOOP! Bursts Through, George Clooney Goes Live by Paul Wontorek

There’s no doubt we’re at the starting line of an exciting spring season, with 18 plays and musicals set to open before the April 27 Tony Awards eligibility cutoff. With five of those sh…

A View from the Bridge review – thrilling update pulls no punches by Mark Fisher

Tron theatre, GlasgowJemima Levick’s superb production sets Arthur Miller’s tale of family, immigration, poverty and passion in the modern-day Brooklyn docks Is it an innocent domestic m…

Signature in the Schools Presents FAILURELAND by Signature Theatre

FAILURELAND by Dani Stoller March 3 & 10 For tickets visit https://www.sigtheatre.org Right as she is about to submit her college applications, Tori falters and questions her ability and wo…

Audience questions with Jessie Shelton by Hadestown

There's no doubt about what moment in Hadestown is Jessie Shelton's favorite! Listen as she answers this and other fan submitted questions.

The Engagement Party review – a disappointing love letter to Oldham by Matt Barton

Oldham Coliseum at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldhamafshan d’souza-lodhi’s play, commissioned to celebrate the saved-from-closure Coliseum, fails to rise to the occasion Seven months afte…

ON HAL HOLBROOK’S 100TH BIRTHDAY by Ron Fassler

Hal Holbrook on the left and his alter ego, Mark Twain, on the right.February 18, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Yesterday marked 100 years since the birth of Harold Row…