Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Northern Ireland Opera has announced the first wave of casting for its landmark revival of Follies, the legendary musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman
SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 06:38AMFriday, May 23, 2025
Dominic Cooke directs the George Bernard Shaw play, reuniting with Staunton after their work on Hello, Dolly! and Follies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMWednesday, May 21, 2025
Hello, Dolly!, featuring an all-star cast of Tony Award winners and nominees, will be the eleventh presentation in Transport Group's Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series—for one night only—o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMSaturday, May 10, 2025
Dominic Cooke is directing the George Bernard Shaw play, reuniting with Staunton after their work on Hello, Dolly! and Follies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Stephen Sondheim’s final musical reaches the National, a SIX queen flirts with the supernatural and the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye outdoors at Regent’s Park. These are just a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMSunday, April 27, 2025
Bernadette Peters has long been heralded as one of legendary composer Stephen Sondheim’s greatest interpreters. The actress originated roles in Sunday in the Park with George and Into the …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Donna McKechnie onstage at 54 Below in her new Sondheim show.April 22, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
In her current three-performance engagement at 54 Below, the amazin…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 04:50PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
Get a first look at a new trailer for Volksoper Wien's a new futuristic production of Follies, the celebrated musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman in Austria. The production is perf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMFriday, April 11, 2025
Get a first look at Volksoper Wien's a new futuristic production of Follies, the celebrated musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman in Austria. The production is performed in German wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
After three Broadway revues of Stephen Sondheim’s music you would think a fourth wouldn’t offer anything fresh, have any surprises, or be anything special.
Think again.
“Old Friends”…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:22PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Get a first look at the futuristic production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies at Volksoper Wien. The musical is performed in German with English subtitles. The production is …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMFriday, April 4, 2025
Bernadette Peters and Lea Solanga star in a jam-packed Stephen Sondheim celebration. The musical review covers Sondheim's work from West Side Story, Follies, Gypsy, Into The Woods, Company, …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:00PMThe legendary musical introduced such favorites as "Broadway Baby" and "Losing My Mind" and gave Michael Bennett his first directing credit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kate Baldwin in 2025’s “Love Life” (photo by Joan Marcus).March 28, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
You would think that the only musical …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 05:04PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
It all started with a one night only concert in London, which turned into a West End run. And now it is a Broadway musical. Of course, given its subject - the songs of the late, great Stephe…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 01:06PMTuesday, March 25, 2025
Watch a video of Liz Callaway and Paulo Szot performing 'Too Many Morning' from Stephen Sondheim's Follies while in concert at Crazy Coqs in London. Callaway played Young Sally in the legen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMMonday, March 24, 2025
Dominic Cooke is directing the George Bernard Shaw play, reuniting with Staunton after their work on Hello, Dolly! and Follies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMFriday, March 21, 2025
Ziegfeld Jr. was a powerful showman, with his eponymous Follies defining early 20th century Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMWednesday, March 19, 2025
Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance.
The Social Club was a real place for loca…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:11PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
Enjoy songs from musicals like The Bridges of Madison County, Hadestown, Wicked, Carousel, The Sound of Music, The Color Purple, Aida, West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera, South Pacifi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMFriday, February 14, 2025
Posting this at this time for both Bernadette Peters and Danny Burstein being back on Broadway in Sondheim shows -
This was a tribute to the glorious Danny Burstein going from playing o…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:55PMWednesday, February 5, 2025
Remembering David E. Byrd
Generations of theater fans are familiar with the work of artist David E. Byrd, who passed away yesterday. You may have some of his work hanging on your wall, o…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
David Edward Byrd, an artist whose swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore East its signature look and contributed at least two of the greatest…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:35PMThat lyric from FOLLIES – “Thank-you-for-the-present-but-what’s-wrong-with-it-stuff?” – will never be heard in the home of Cheryl Solimini and Martin Farawell. For Cheryl’s birth…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:14AMThursday, January 23, 2025
Musical theater choreographer Chaz Wolcott directed and choreographed a salute to the 16 national touring productions that joined in the 2024 Red Bucket Follies fall fundraising competition.…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:36AMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Bernadette Peters performs Losing My Mind at the 2014 Olivier Awards with Mastercard Ceremony hosted by Gemma Arterton and Stephen Mangan.
The Olivier Awards with Mastercard are not only wo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:50AMMonday, January 13, 2025
Pasadena Playhouse has canceled its concert events of Anything Goes and Follies due to the California wildfires.
“Pasadena Playhouse is heartbroken by the devastation that this week’s f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMSaturday, January 11, 2025
The ongoing fires in Los Angeles have forced Pasadena Playhouse to cancel their planned concert productions of Anything Goes and Follies. PLAYBILL ...
SOURCE: Google at 01:36PMThursday, January 9, 2025
Mother-daughter duo Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter will appear on stage together for the first time as Mrs. Kitty Warren and Vivie Warren in a West End revival of George Bernard Shaw’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMThe actors will share the stage for the first time in George Bernard’s Shaw’s drama about ‘the role of women in society’
Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, are to share…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
Stars to Lead LCT’s ‘Ghosts,’ Broadway Week Announces Participating Shows, Red Bucket Follies Highlights Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast r…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
Mildred Natwick (on the moon) with the cast of “70, Girls, 70” (1971). Photo by Martha Swope.January 7, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Between the years 1965 and 19…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:44PMTake a look inside BC/EFA's 2024 Red Bucket Follies, featuring performances from Back to the Future, The Lion King, and more Broadway stars. Watch videos of Casey Likes, Melody A. Betts, Ari…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMThe 2024 Opening Number for Red Bucket Follies emphasized the importance of honoring those who have fought for justice and equity, and inspiring us to rise up and fight for those marginalize…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:02AMThe best onstage presentation award at the 2024 edition of Red Bucket Follies, went to Back to the Future: The Musical.
After laughably lamenting that their show had been “Clooney’d”…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:02AMThe Lion King earned the runner-up presentation title at the 2024 edition of Red Bucket Follies for “Mental,” a powerful piece that delved into the overwhelming anxiety and pain that oft…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:02AMTuesday, December 24, 2024
This week, Seth Rudetsky recaps Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' Red Bucket Follies, where Betty Buckley made an appearance and sang “Memory.”.
SOURCE: Google at 02:53PM 
