Monday, July 21, 2025
John Proctor is the Villain, the new hit play by Kimberly Belflower, will extend by popular demand for a third and final time on Broadway through Sunday, September 7 at the Booth Theatre.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMSunday, July 20, 2025
All photos by John Cournoyer
The show: ”Angry Alan” by Penelope Skinner at off-Broadway’s new Studio Seaview (formerly …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:39PMFriday, July 18, 2025
You can now get a first look at new production photos featuring Chiara Aurelia in John Proctor is the Villain. Aurelia made her Broadway debut as ‘Shelby Holcomb’ in the new play by Kimb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
The stage and screen star reveals how her Broadway debut in Romeo + Juliet and newly released memoir, Maybe This Will Save Me, are acts of resistance.
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This reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet featured a largely Asian cast as the feuding Montagues and Capulets in a supposedly “dystopian” setting shaped by “fate, class conflict, and a…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:00PMFriday, June 13, 2025
Editors' Choice, Part Two
Yesterday, we presented the first part of our 2025 JKTS Awards honoring those theater people - new faces and familiar faces - that made the 2024-2025 Broadway …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMThursday, June 12, 2025
Chiara Aurelia will join the company of John Proctor is the Villain, the new hit play by Kimberly Belflower. She will join the cast beginning Tuesday, July 15 at the Booth Theatre. As previo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMWednesday, June 11, 2025
Seven-time Tony Award nominated play John Proctor is the Villain, the new play by Kimberly Belflower, starring Sadie Sink, will be recorded by The New York Public Library for the Performing …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMEditors' Choice, Part One
Last week, you had your say with The 2025 JKTS Readers' Choice Awards (HERE). Now it is our turn! Today, we offer up our more serious awards, honoring those theate…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMMonday, June 9, 2025
It could have been worse. It could have been better. Sandra got a very respectable 18 correct. Liz and I tied with 13. It was a fun Tonys ceremony. Happy New Season!
(BTW, the √s are supp…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:32PMOn a recent edition of CBS Sunday Morning, the show devoted a segment to the most famous playwright of all time: William Shakespeare. In the segment, correspondent Mo Rocca explored why his …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMFive outstanding new plays and four equally outstanding revivals have been singled out this Broadway season!
Nominees for Best Play are: English (Sanaz Toossi), The Hills of California (Jez…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:02PMSunday, June 8, 2025
Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. It beat out fellow nominees Romeo + Juliet, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Yellow Face by David Hen…
SOURCE: Theatrely at 09:43PMFriday, June 6, 2025
The 2025 Tony Awards:
Our Predictions
At last the Super Bowl of theater is upon us! As usual, Mike and I have given thought to all of the shows we've seen this season - including 2 new pl…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:18AMThursday, June 5, 2025
A new video of Rachel Zegler singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" outside of the London Palladium has surfaced, just days before the upcoming production of Evita begins previews. The recent …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMThe Broadway production of John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower has extended its run at the Booth Theatre through Sunday, August 31. Sadie Sink will play her final performance o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMTuesday, May 27, 2025
The seven-time Tony Award-nominated production of John Proctor is the Villain has extended its run at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. The new play by Kimberly Belflower, directed by Tony Awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMSaturday, May 17, 2025
The Tony Award nomination marks the first ever for a production of “Romeo and Juliet” on Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:00AMThursday, May 15, 2025
Broadway.com has announced the winners of the 25th annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, the only major theatrical awards where the nominating jury and voting committee is made up enti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AMSaturday, May 10, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:36PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
The honorees of the 2025 Theatre World Awards, recognizing outstanding debut performances in Broadway or off-Broadway productions, were announced on May 5. The ceremony will take place at th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:32PMThe results are in! Broadway.com readers have selected the nominees for the 2025 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, the only major theatrical awards where the nominating jury and voting…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMFriday, May 2, 2025
With so many great musicals, plays and revivals this season, there is simply no way that every deserving person and production could make the cut. I am glad I'm not on the nominating committ…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:36AMWednesday, April 30, 2025
The 2025 Tony Awards:
If We Were Nominators
This year, Mike and I still have several Tony-eligible shows to see before the nominations are announced tomorrow. So, instead of our typical l…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:24AMSaturday, 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 21, 2025
It's been just weeks since Tommy Dorfman concluded her Broadway debut run in Romeo + Juliet, and in no time at all, she's back onstage, off-Broadway this time. Dorman is playing 'Chava' in E…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:24PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Romeo and Juliet Playbill. Playbill. Since premiering in 1597, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet has endured as one of the greatest and most ...
SOURCE: Google at 11:32PMSince premiering in 1597, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet has endured as one of the greatest and most tragic love stories ever written. It's been performed countless times all over the …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMIt's been just weeks since Tommy Dorfman concluded her Broadway debut run in Romeo + Juliet, and in no time at all, she's back onstage, off-Broadway this time. Dorman is playing 'Chava' in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMTommy Dorfman has been having a busy season. She started out the year playing the dual roles of the Nurse and Tybalt in the Broadway revival of "Romeo + Juliet. She's now leading the cast of…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:54AMYounger audiences are helping to reposition a typically older-skewed activity with hot ticket gen Z stars and impassioned online fanbases
For much of the past decade, probably longer, regula…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
In all of Tony Awards history, there has never once been a season in which three performers have been nominated for Best Actor in a Play for Shakespearean roles. That could very well change …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:27PMThe busy performer is leading the cast of a new play about Abby Chava Stein, a rabbi who came out as trans.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMMonday, April 14, 2025
There’s something refreshing about seeing a Broadway theater packed with Gen Alpha patrons. Many of them flocked to the recent Romeo + Juliet with barely-twentysomething stars Kit Connor a…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:00PM“Romeo and Juliet has featured in my life at these pivotal moments in a really funny way,” Gabby Beans smiles as she considers all the times she has crossed paths with one of Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
In an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Kit Connor recalled a performance during the recent production of Romeo and Juliet when one of his stunts almost went awry. Watch the intervie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMMonday, March 24, 2025
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York
The record-breaking take on the Shakespearean tragedy might already be a smash, but it’s disappointingly muddled
With the smell of doom and regression in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM 
