Listen to Mae Ann Jorolan, making her West End debut as Meg, and the Muses: Candace Furbert (as Thalia), Sharlene Hector (as Clio), Brianna Ogunbawo (as Melpomene), Malinda Parris (as Calliope), and Robyn Rose-Li (as Terpsich…
This is taken from a book project I’ve been working on for a number of years. I’ve tailored this section for the present moment and the 50th anniversary of the events described. Be warne…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:06PMWe’ve already had our first heat waves of the season—the temperature hit 101° in Central Park this past week!—which is a sure sign that summer is here. But for almost 20 years now, th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:54AMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Michelle Williams to Star in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie at St. Ann's Warehouse Tony and five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PMEditors' 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 07:06AMBush theatre, LondonArtistic director Taio Lawson’s Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of a 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory In Danny James King’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMJennifer Weiner’s latest novel follows two sisters from Philly who achieve pop-music stardom in the early 2000s that leads to an estrangement in the present day. It’s a relatable story o…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:10PMA new graphic novel from Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett tackles the vast, varied, and longstanding history of trans folks around the world, combatting the ongoing erasure of trans lives. Ra…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:52PMQueen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, LondonThe cast of six women and one man give extraordinary physical performances – but most devastating is the stillness that reflects their paralys…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song There is never a time when Arth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMGreat Scott! Back to the Future, the acclaimed Broadway musical based on the classic movie of the same name, comes speeding back to the Kennedy Center. When Marty McFly finds himself transp…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMTime, carrying the inevitability of mortality and exposing complex truths about our past, is the central vendor of the title in Zoetic Stage’s overwhelming drama The Comeuppance about a hi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PMAll these princes need therapy. Life got away from me with concerts, surgery, and a busy work project. Saw J-Hope's solo show, Hwasa's world tour, and got very buried in my job. But the…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 10:03PMFemale characters and performers dominated the shows that opened this past week on Broadway, which the previous week had been dominated by shows featuring male characters and performers. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMTRADITION: it’s what survives into the next generation, what parents and teachers pass along to their children, and what we find ourselves replicating for better or worse. If the present i…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:03AMIf you’ve seen the original David Mamet play or the movie version of “GlenGarry Glen Ross,” forget it and approach this revival with a fresh mind. Don’t compare the present cast to A…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:48PMThere are skeletons in Helena Alving’s (a tortured yet stalwart Lily Rabe) closet whose secrets she would rather not be revealed. More devastating to Helena than these skeletons is the bev…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:04PMBrian 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 05:04PM"Maybe Tomorrow," written by Max Mondi and directed by Chad Austin, is a play about such a place and the person who created it. Inspired by a true story, Austin directs a cast of two in an e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:39PM... two women are connected to a graveyard in Philadelphia. Their presence spans centuries, beginning with 1832 and ending with the present. This is an intriguing premise that, if nothin…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:12PMBarbican theatre; Young Vic, LondonCate Blanchett is magnetic – and maddening – as faded actor Arkadina in Chekhov’s supreme play about writers. Plus, James Graham’s bracing real-lif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM“It’s really hard to do anything when you don’t have much to look forward to. Because then you’re just stuck in the present. There’s nothing to do in the present. It’s here and t…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:09AMTheatre Royal, Bury St EdmundsAn all-female cast deliver Tallulah Brown’s play about 17th-century East Anglians under threat of the self-styled Witchfinder General The past sings to the pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMHEART AND HUMOUR, REALPOLITIK AND GOD This is a wonderful play, all you could want: philosophy, history prefiguring the present moment, humour and character , stunning cent…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PMSubscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Ranky Tanky has achieved many firsts for South Carolina’s West African–rooted Gullah community since their formation, earning yet a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:02PMBess Wohl’s latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women’s Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contempor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonGreig breathes compassion into her relation with self-absorbed parent Imrie but their exchanges swim across the decades incoherently A mother lies dying in a hospital…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMDonald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – which he told reporters he had never visited – on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PMGlass Mask theatre, DublinSimon Stephens’s update of Franz Kroetz’s stark 1972 play sees butcher Charlie and welder Victor amid knives and flanks of meat, the threat of violence palpable…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey '60s Sam Cooke style cover by Postmodern Jukebox ft. Nathan Chester. Get The Song: http://pmjlive.com/abarsong | Subscribe: subPMJ World Tour Tix: http:…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:00PMJan 22 - Feb 9 | Buell Theatre https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/back-to-the-future-the-musical/ Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:36PMThe Fabric Workshop and Museum marks 50 years of its artists-in-residence program with this survey of intriguing multi-media works from the 1970s to the present. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:25PMSarah Blush directs a cast of five in the story of a father and daughter on a road trip from New York City to a storage unit in California. It is a trip that is both se in the present and pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:52PMIn NBC’s new medical series “Brilliant Minds,” Zachary Quinto plays an idiosyncratic neurologist inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, best known for his writings on neurological disorders in …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:26AMDances are rarely historicized. They exist instead as ephemeral events, never repeated exactly as they were once performed. When a piece of dance is staged again in a new context, it appe…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:02PMWyndham’s; Donmar Warehouse; Trafalgar, LondonMark Strong and Lesley Manville transfix as Robert Icke wires Sophocles into the present; Adrien Brody excels in a sharp prison drama; and how…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMGreat Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Denver in 2024. When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:45AMGreat Scott! BACK TO THE FUTURE, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Toronto in 2025. Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Musical…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:54PMhttps://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/discussion/2024-2025/breaking-bread/ In a special event by journalist and author Alex Prud’homme, explore the impact of food and i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:48PMBACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL is playing the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco from February 12–March 9, 2025. Great Scott! BACK TO THE FUTURE, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Br…
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