Thursday, July 3, 2025
By David Sheward
July 3, 2025: In a program note for her play Trophy Boys (at MCC Theater), Emmanuelle Mattana observes, “Gender is a scam but it is also a gift. Drag is radical joy and l…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AMRoyal Exchange theatre, ManchesterNtombizodwa Nyoni’s deft and nuanced play balances ideologies and ambition, personality clashes and generational conflict at key 1945 Manchester conferenc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, July 2, 2025
More than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers clicked their heels and created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bar…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:02PMSunday, June 29, 2025
More than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers clicked their heels and created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bar…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:02PMFriday, June 27, 2025
Mx. Oh’s politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production “{my lingerie play},” asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMThursday, June 26, 2025
Earlier this week, more than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bares: C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
More than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers clicked their heels and created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bar…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:24PMMore than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMMonday, June 23, 2025
Pamela L Paek (Playwright and Performer) relishes
self-expression and creativity in as many forms as she can juggle,
including solo shows, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, physical co…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:54PMMore than 200 of New York City’s fiercest dancers created a larger-than-life, over-the-rainbow romp down the yellow brick road in the sexy, Oz-inspired Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
It was a turning point in the push for African independence – and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African Congress
On the f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, 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 11:14PMWednesday, June 4, 2025
A large-scale multimedia production commemorating the final year of World War II in Europe will be performed at the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans on Friday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m., marking bot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06PMIn a historic debut at the Studebaker Theater, “She Who Dared” tells a story of pivotal figures who fought segregation alongside Rosa Parks.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Tara theatre, LondonHunia Chawla’s intimate drama is played out across continents to tell a platonic love story that examines the challenges to freedom in Pakistan and England
What does l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMMonday, June 2, 2025
Outstanding Play Blood of the Lamb, by Arlene Hutton Deep Blue Sound, by Abe Koogler Grangeville, by Samuel D. Hunter John Proctor is the Villain, by Kimberly Belflower Liberation, by Bess W…
SOURCE: The Contending at 09:00AMSunday, June 1, 2025
Yesterday we told you about how the Outer Critics Circle celebrated the 2025 Award Winners and 75 Years of Theater Excellence. Today is part two of the inerviews first up Francis Joe present…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:04AMSaturday, May 24, 2025
Now premiering at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre in a co-production with the MART Foundation and En Garde Arts, "Seagull: True Story" is a barbed, meta-theatrical cri de coeur from creato…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:21PMMonday, May 12, 2025
The winners of the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards have been announced. The Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending is the biggest winner, receiving a total of four awards, including Outsta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AM “John Proctor is the Villain” was chosen as the outstanding Broadway play and “Maybe Happy Ending” was awarded outstanding Broadway musical and three other awards at the 75th annu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ family drama Purpose Best Play of the 2024-25 season. The announcement took place on May 5, the same day the play was …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMFrontmezzjunkies reports: The 2025 NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS’ CIRCLE names their recipients. PURPOSE – BEST PLAY 2024-25 MAYBE HAPPY ENDING – NAMED BEST MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AWARDS TO AN…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 08:03AMMonday, May 5, 2025
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose Best Play of the 2024-25 season. The award for Best Musical went to Maybe Happy Ending, book by Will Aronson a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18PMSunday, May 4, 2025
The 40th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards – the only New York theatre award to exclusively honor Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway – are being presented tonight, Sunday, May 4, 2025, at N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:48PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
The 2024-2025 theater season ends on Sunday with the dual openings of the musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves. And I’m exhausted. But it’s the kind of good exhaustion that c…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:24PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No! I wish I could, but I don’t know how to knit, I answered. You should join the knitting clu…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:25AMFriday, April 4, 2025
“Moving too fast,” Jamie sings in The Last Five Years—and it’s not a bad way to describe Whitney White’s current pace. A rising force in American theater, White is a director, writ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Nominations for the 40th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards were announced today by Francis Jue, star of Broadway’s Yellow Face, and Krysta Rodriguez, currently appearing in Smash on Broadway. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMThursday, March 27, 2025
Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Liberation is rebellious and not just because it features nudity! Mainly I was struck by its violation of writing’s most c…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:47PMFriday, March 21, 2025
With women’s liberation at a crossroads and masculinity under scrutiny, "Theater: All the Moving Parts" explores two plays that challenge the dynamics of power, gender, and identity.
Hos…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:30PMWednesday, 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 10:11PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
Pearl Ong Speeds to Lesbian Liberation as All-Night Cabby by Zack Rogow Pearl Ong has certainly lived a larger-than-life story. She went from Hong Kong princess to joining the lesbian libera…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:24PMFriday, March 14, 2025
Directed by Whitney White, the Roundabout Theatre Company production features Kristolyn Lloyd, Susannah Flood, Kayla Davion, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Go backstage with the cast of Bess Wohl's hit Off-Broadway play, where the conversations have been tough, but the impact profound.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PMThursday, March 6, 2025
There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center fo…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:57PMBess Wohl’s play about 1970’s feminist activism spotlights the struggles of what it takes to come into your own and claim your light. The Roundabout Theatre Company production is now pla…
SOURCE: Forbes at 01:10AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. L to R: Adina Verson,…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:00PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
The cast of Liberation. Photo by Joan Marcus.
“The personal is political” was one of the many rallying cries of the secon…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:42AMMonday, March 3, 2025
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An intricately layered memory play that's more complicated than it seems. Loren Noveck reviews.
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