Thursday, April 16, 2026
★★★★★ David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize winning play reemerges as a beautifully calibrated study of genius, love and doubt.
The post Proof: Calculated Brilliance appeared first on New …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59PMSunday, April 12, 2026
Di Zou as Pearl and Rebecca De Mornay as Evelyn in a scene from John Patrick Shanley’s “The Pushover” at the Chain Theater (Photo credit: Dan Wright Photography) Encountering a John Pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:28PMSaturday, April 11, 2026
One of the things we theater obsessives love to do is argue about which is the greatest American play. I’m a Tennessee Williams stan and so I always try to get A Streetcar Named Desire int…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:06PMThursday, April 9, 2026
Mantello has leaned into the play’s sense of abstraction — Willy often loses himself in his own mind — which has the effect of emphasizing both its timelessness and its timeliness. (Mi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:13PMWednesday, April 8, 2026
FRIENDSHIP, BRILLIANCE, DOUBT The universe as a bundle of unknowable of approximates: Relativity and Complementarity, Uncertainty theory, quantum mechanics, particles hanging ou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:49AMFriday, April 3, 2026
5 Female Performances
to Look Forward to This Spring
Just like last week's picks for male performances (HERE), the hardest part of today's Friday 5 was narrowing down to just 5 performance…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:36AMFriday, March 27, 2026
It doesn’t matter that this debate never took place because, aside from an overly contrived moment regarding Jessie’s copy of Dahl's review, it’s plausible enough to believe in, and it…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:03PMThursday, March 26, 2026
Stephen Sondheim’s Roxbury home was a welcome exurban retreat for the legendary composer, a place where he could escape the pressures of New York, create in a bucolic atmosphere and relax …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:02AMMonday, March 23, 2026
HADESTOWN returns to San Francisco for a strictly limited one-week engagement from April 21–26, 2026 at the Orpheum Theatre.
COME SEE HOW THE WORLD COULD BE.
Welcome to Hadestown, where …
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:08PMWednesday, March 18, 2026
In an industry obsessed with ‘perfect’ feet, fallen arches can be seen as a barrier to success. But that’s a damaging myth that has excluded many from the joy of ballet
Picking up my b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMFriday, March 13, 2026
A whole new cast has just entered Hadestown! Earlier this month, the show welcomed Joshua Colley as ‘Orpheus,’ Gary Dourdan as ‘Hades,’ J. Harrison Ghee as ‘Hermes,’ Gaby Moreno…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:12PMA whole new cast has just entered Hadestown! Earlier this month, the show welcomed Joshua Colley as ‘Orpheus,’ Gary Dourdan as ‘Hades,’ J. Harrison Ghee as ‘Hermes,’ Gaby Moreno…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMThursday, March 12, 2026
Higher Ground, the media company founded by former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, will serve as a co-producer of the Broadway revival of David Auburn’s Proof, the Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMFriday, March 6, 2026
Sing along to the official instrumental track for “Hold Fast Your Dreams” from Georgia Stitt’s album BELL TOWER.
Originally recorded by Nikki Renée Daniels
ABOUT THE ALBUM:
Release…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:28PMWednesday, March 4, 2026
Last evening, Tuesday, March 3, the five new principal cast members of Hadestown took their first bow. See photos here!
The new cast members aare: Disney Channel and Broadway favorite Jos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMThursday, February 26, 2026
Spurred on by a vision of the Shakers’ founding leader, Celia Rowlson-Hall masterminded the whirl of movement in Mona Fastvold’s feverish film
‘I’ll tell you something I’ve not tol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMWednesday, February 25, 2026
Dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet who championed contemporary choreographers
“I didn’t start dancing out of burning desire for it. I did it because I was a well-beh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMMonday, February 16, 2026
Reviewed by Judd Hollander
In Stockbridge, Massachusetts during the summer of 1984
I had my first and until now, only encounter with a production of the 1964
Broadway musical “High Spiri…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:36PMTuesday, February 10, 2026
Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on – as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed
When people praised Tony Jay and me for Yes Minister’s prescience, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMWednesday, February 4, 2026
In the last five years, African diaspora theatre has swept from the fringes on to the country’s main stages – fuelled by artists like Zindzi Okenyo
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMWednesday, January 21, 2026
Oscar Eagle (1861-1930) — a man whose name conjures no fewer than two different Muppets! Eagle was an actor and director of the stage and the silent screen. Readers of Travalanche will no …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:42PMEnter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to world-premiere play The Recipe. Before Julia Child became the beloved TV icon we know, she was a rambunctious rebel pushing back against the pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMSaturday, January 17, 2026
Most contemporary folks would be apt to know Sheree North (Dawn Shirley Crang, 1932-2005) from memorable recurring roles on sit-coms: she was Kramer’s mom on Seinfeld, Blanche’s sister o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:54PMMaybe it’s the current dystopic state of the world but I had a hard time with Bug, the revival of Tracy Letts’ 1996 play that opened this month at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. F…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:06PMThursday, January 8, 2026
Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Waters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot
There is a moment at the start of this do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMMonday, January 5, 2026
He’s written screen smashes like Dune and Killers of the Flower Moon. As Eric Roth plunges into theatre, he talks about classic westerns, being sacked by Robert Redford – and why writing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMWednesday, December 31, 2025
The first sentence of the tagline for the new film “We Bury the Dead” reads, “After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise — they hunt,” its official synopsis…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:20AMTuesday, December 16, 2025
Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow saw a jump in attendance and grosses last week, no doubt spurred by the hoopla generated by last month’s arrival of the TV series’ Season 5…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:17PMWednesday, December 10, 2025
Raise a glass to Rebecca Naomi Jones who is now in her final week in Hadestown on Broadway. Watch more of her performance of “Our Lady of the Underground now!
Grammy Award winner Allison …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:42PMMonday, December 8, 2025
HADESTOWN returns to San Francisco for a strictly limited one-week engagement from April 21–26, 2026 at the Orpheum Theatre.
COME SEE HOW THE WORLD COULD BE.
Welcome to Hadestown, where …
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:58PMFriday, December 5, 2025
Old Fire Station, OxfordThings get tense when a newcomer seems to know too much in Karim Khan’s absorbing play
Karim Khan’s absorbing Christmas play offers warmth, doubt, uncanny strange…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, November 18, 2025
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed.
Star-Crossed and West End-Bound
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe will make their West End debuts next spring in Romeo & Juliet. Perform…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMTuesday, November 11, 2025
The Phantom of the Opera is here, there and everywhere. He’s moved on from the Majestic and is taking the longest-running Broadway musical on the road, beginning with performances at the H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMSoho theatre, LondonThe comedian considers his Brummie and Middle East identities in a polished set about belonging
British-Iraqi comedian Hasan Al-Habib’s eye-catching show is about comin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMMonday, November 10, 2025
When Soda wails, all our doubt disappears.
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:46PMThursday, November 6, 2025
Stand Comedy Club, GlasgowAn emergency in the audience halts the gravel-voiced comic’s set but he brings it to an uproarious close in the foyer
‘Why weren’t you like this through ther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
Alec Baldwin will join Academy Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Doubt) for the world premiere of Outcasts, a special benefit reading in support …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02PMFriday, October 31, 2025
Ari’el Stachel’s new solo show Other begins on the night he won a Tony Award for The Band’s Visit in 2018. The moment looked like triumph, but beneath the surface he was unraveling. Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMSunday, October 5, 2025
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonAchilles is a slob and Ajax is a meathead in Owen Horsley’s streamlined production, which is bursting with invention and comic inversions
Shakespeare’s take…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMThursday, October 2, 2025
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Maxim Didenko delivers Wilde’s version of the biblical tale with a blingy design, topless men in hoods and yodelling
Is it morally acceptable to host an Isr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM 
