Friday, November 14, 2025
The Seat of Our Pants – 08 November 2025 The Seat of Our Pants, a musical based on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, shines in its witty comedic writing, brilliantly precise stage…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:02PMThursday, November 13, 2025
The reviews are in for the long-awaited adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, presented in a purpose-built theatre in Canary Wharf
The Super Bowl optics are all there from the of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSaturday, November 1, 2025
At the center of it all stands Apple, whose performance is nothing short of revelatory. As Catherine, she is brittle yet unbowed; as Hannah, she radiates vitality and purpose. Her voice—bo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AMThursday, October 30, 2025
I recently caught up with My Entertainment Idol, Marissa Jaret Winokur, whom I have been a fan of since 2002 when I saw Marissa on Broadway in her Tony Award winning performance as Tracy Tur…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:15PMWednesday, October 29, 2025
On Monday night, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hosted the 23rd annual Sing Out for Freedom concert at NYU Skirball, uniting artists, ac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMTuesday, October 28, 2025
Also on the bill: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Purpose, Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters, and Mat Smart's A Black-billed Cuckoo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMLa Jolla Playhouse has unveiled its 2026/2027 season, featuring three world-premiere musicals: The Family Album, a Playhouse-commissioned work with a book by Sam Chanse, music and lyrics by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMThursday, October 23, 2025
On Thursday morning, Ragtime stars Caissie Levy, Joshua Henry, and Brandon Uranowitz joined Good Morning America to discuss the new revival of the beloved Broadway musical. The trio spoke ab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMWednesday, October 22, 2025
The inaugural Fetch Pet Gala hosted by Fetch Pet Insurance at the Carlyle in New York City raised over $530,000 in one night for lifesaving nonprofits, marking an extraordinary evening of pu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMMonday, October 20, 2025
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For some time now, one of London's most anticipated ne…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:46PMThursday, October 16, 2025
Whether “Ragtime” is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverb…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:17PMTuesday, September 30, 2025
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the team of Purpose accept the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play for Purpose at the 78th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 8, 2025.
About the 78th Annual Tony Awards
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:22PMSunday, September 28, 2025
Forget the tree.
That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterwork “Waiting for Godot” is offstage in Jamie Lloyd’s re-envisioned revival. The…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:49PMBy David Sheward
September 28, 2025: The biggest box-office hit of the new, startlingly sparse Broadway fall season is, surprisingly, a revival of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s clas…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMFriday, September 26, 2025
5 Little Things I'm Looking Forward To
On Our Next NYC Visit
After 40 plus years of visits to The Big Apple, I've pretty much done all of the touristy things, and they don't really interest…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:02AMThursday, September 25, 2025
Seaview, Sue Wagner and John Johnson by Special Arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Theatre announced today that Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries will re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMSuccession‘s Nicholas Braun and two-time Tony winner Kara Young (Purpose, Purlie Victorious) will star in an Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Gruesome Playg…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, September 23, 2025
Shearer spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about chronicling her journey with breast cancer in her debut memoir: “The second I decided to share everything publicly, all the ups and downs, f…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:06PMMonday, September 22, 2025
Spiritus, a reading series, will be presented at the DR2 Theatre. Each reading of Spiritus will feature a different celebrated actor taking on the role of Virgil — offering a fresh, unique…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
At This Theatre:
The Hayes
Home to the most recent Best Play Tony Award winner (Purpose), The Hayes Theatre, renamed to honor the first lady of the American Theater, Helen Hayes, started it…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:54AMTuesday, September 16, 2025
Dancer and later chief executive of Birmingham Royal Ballet who took leading roles at the Wallace Collection and then Strawberry Hill House in London
Derek Purnell, who has died aged 71 of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMWednesday, September 3, 2025
The Pulitzer and Tony winner finished its extended run in The $1 Million Club, setting a Hayes Theater box-office record.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMTuesday, September 2, 2025
For the week ending Aug. 31, the 28 currently running productions grossed $30,631,166.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:37PMBroadway box office was mostly in a holding pattern last week as the industry gears up for a busy fall season, but some shows broke from the pack to do very well indeed for the late-summer d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:50PMClick below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/31/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section.
Also, you will find information on each show's historical …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PM'Art,' starring James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale, also began performances last week.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:33PMOver the Labor Day weekend, “Purpose” ended its run, and so did Tshidi Manye, who is retiring as Rashiki. But the Fall season has already begun; today is the last day to see “Pericles�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMSunday, August 31, 2025
Jon Michael Hill, Brenda Pressley, Kara Young, and more star in the Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play at the Hayes Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AMFriday, August 29, 2025
It's Back to School time! So why not start with a little test? This one's all about plays on Broadway. Good luck!
Broadway Pop Quiz:
The Play's the Thing!
1. TRUE or FALSE: T…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:48AMTuesday, August 26, 2025
Monday, August 25, 2025
What is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy Riot’s Riot Days confronts this question with unflinching directness, transforming the concert h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:39AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghA woman pieces together her memories of a family tragedy in Ellie Keel’s atmospheric two-hander set on Skye
It starts with a shriek. A deliberate false alarm, this set…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8/10/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section.
Also, you will find information on each show's historical …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMMonday, August 11, 2025
The Georgian House, EdinburghDrawing on private letters and contemporary criticism, Cora Bissett’s imaginative production offers a rounded picture of a complicated man with a colourful lov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMSaturday, August 9, 2025
Today’s post is a bit of a bunt, as I am on the road today for reasons I will report back on later. As I frequently do, I will likely backdate some more content to make the day’s output …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AMSunday, August 3, 2025
Watch Amanda Reid and Benjamin H. Moore perform “If I Ain’t Got You” live at #BroadwayInBryantPark!
Get Tickets to Hell's Kitchen: https://www.hellskitchen.com/
Listen to The Deluxe C…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:30PMWednesday, July 30, 2025
One Performance Wonders:
The Moony Shapiro Songbook
It was an article on Playbill.com about Brenda Pressley joining the cast of 2025's Tony-winning Best Play, Purpose that put this show b…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:36AMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Mia Carragher is set to play the iconic role of Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming first-ever live stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins' book “The Hunger Games” and Lionsgate's motion pictu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08AMMonday, July 28, 2025
Here's a first look at Brenda Pressley as Claudine Jasper in Purpose on Broadway. She joined the ensemble of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Tony and Pulitzer-winning family drama on July 15, repl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMThe Best Play winner continues its run at the Hayes Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM 
