Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Linbury theatre, LondonGlen Tetley’s landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg’s atonal score, is stark, strange and psychologically charged
Sometimes the revival of an old work can make i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PMSunday, February 8, 2026
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Off-Broadway’s Mexodus Returns By Ross When Mexodus first landed at Audible Theater last fall, it didn’t arrive quietly. It arrived with urgency, sweat, and an …
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 08:02AMMonday, February 2, 2026
"Appearing in Under the Radar, Brokentalkers’ Bellow at the Irish Arts Center and Company Kinoshita Kabuki’s Kanjincho at Japan Society approach inherited traditions from different cultu…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, January 27, 2026
Before the Storm is set in a rather dilapidated dressing room where an elderly actor waits to go onstage for his last performance in August Strindberg’s Storm. As he waits, he reflects on …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:38AMMonday, January 26, 2026
A season of impact. A season of joy. A season of celebration. 💙 In our 2024/25 year, we continued to strive for a sustainable future – one that honors our past, embraces the present, an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:01PMMonday, January 12, 2026
Tracy Letts’s Bug may have first crawled onto the Off-Broadway stage in 1996, but its long-awaited Broadway premiere arrives feeling disturbingly attuned to the present moment. Directed wi…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05AMWednesday, January 7, 2026
Though Tracy Letts first wrote Bug more than 30 years ago, he believes that, in a country riddled with conspiracy theories, it has found a new relevance in the present moment. The play is no…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:20PMMonday, January 5, 2026
Great 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 10:36PMFriday, January 2, 2026
As Chess gets a new life on Broadway, famed lyricist Tim Rice (of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita fame) discusses how he’s been able to work with some “brilliant divas.” Walk through …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:54AMMonday, December 29, 2025
Born December 29, two (unrelated) American leaders who broke rules, were publicly disgraced, and yet became the subjects of Hollywood bio-pics, Andrew Johnson and Billy Mitchell. The stories…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:32AMSunday, December 21, 2025
Albert Rhodes, Jr. and Joyce DiDonato in a scene from the Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Mit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:15PMSaturday, December 13, 2025
The writer’s former partner and her co-star Ruby Ashbourne Serkis describe the bittersweet nature of remounting his 90s play so soon after his death
• ‘We were swimming in the mind poo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMFriday, December 12, 2025
The Television Series Review: FX’s A Christmas Carol By Ross FX’s A Christmas Carol, , the brooding and unsettling 2019 adaptation starring Guy Pearce, remains one of the most daring rei…
SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 03:28AMThursday, December 4, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonScrooge is a glam ice queen fashion maven until her heart is melted in ZooNation’s delicious festive show – danced to a blisteringly high standard
Who knew B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, November 23, 2025
Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that the dark side of the human psyche, which this notorious Shakespeare villain embodies, is fo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:56PMTuesday, November 18, 2025
Leaving the bardo calls for transformation. The body becomes a page, a site for inscription, a blank slate. The silence echoes.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:06PMMonday, November 17, 2025
It could be the surprise treat of the Broadway season. In the present topsy-turvy season, "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" might have a path to success.
SOURCE: Forbes at 09:01PMFriday, November 14, 2025
The taut spin on “Oedipus” now on Broadway after a West End run last fall is a rare and magnificent feat of adaptation: Writer and director Robert Icke draws Sophocles’ ancient play in…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:53AMMonday, November 3, 2025
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It took 15 years for Liberation to open on Broadway, but playwright Bess Wohl knows it’s finally the right time.
Wohl had worksho…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:01PMThursday, October 30, 2025
An edge-of-your-seat modern adaptation of the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, starring Olivier winner Mark Strong and two-time Olivier winner Lesley Manville, begins performances at Studio 54 o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48AMTuesday, October 28, 2025
It can be challenging to deliver something fresh and unique to the memory play genre. However, in writer Bess Wohl’s new Broadway show, “Liberation,” she manages to do just that. Direc…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSunday, October 19, 2025
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJamie Bogyo’s debut play recounts the renaming of a Yale University college with broadstroke humour and some exquisitely sung a cappella interludes
What happens …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMThursday, October 16, 2025
50 years ago this summer, the world witnessed the theatrical release of Jaws, a cinematic tour de force that forever changed how we, the audience, engaged with movies. The film is often cred…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMSaturday, October 11, 2025
The Honey Trap – 10 October 2025 Incredibly bold and cleverly told, The Honey Trap by Leo McGann simultaneously took place in 1979 and the present day. The story examined British soldiers …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:11PMSaturday, September 27, 2025
Theater lovers have been celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hamilton this year, and well we should. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about the Founding Fathers made seeing musicals cool again…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:36AMWednesday, September 17, 2025
The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus, created and directed by Robert Icke after Sophocles, has found its Broadway cast. The production will begin performances at Studio 54 on October 30 and of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMTuesday, September 9, 2025
In his reverse-chronology play about a married couple dealing with an affair, Harold Pinter asked the audience to find meaning in unspoken words
I didn’t see Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, August 28, 2025
The story of the state’s targeting of 70s activists has been turned into a musical exploring a fascinating and relatively unknown period. It is a love letter to our elders, says its writer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMThursday, August 21, 2025
Lip and Ruth have left the city behind for a new life on a farm; trying to live differently, live better. But when Ruth’s stepdaughter and her provocative best friend arrive, this quiet ru…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:20PMTuesday, August 19, 2025
The title of the present post is because my previous one on Ogden Nash (1902-1971) focused on but a single poem. Was Ogden Nash the greatest writer of light verse who ever lived? That’s a …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PMWednesday, August 13, 2025
The expression ‘Athens of the North’, the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an Edinburgh in the Enlightenment period, a time when classical culture was much valued, 18…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:59AMWednesday, August 6, 2025
Those who think Travalanche is a blog about obscure character actors have not been paying very close attention to what’s written here. There are scores of content areas here, and if there …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:12PMFriday, August 1, 2025
Presenting the surreal is a way to get closer to the absurdity of reality. We are rehearsing the present, we are rewriting fictions as we go. And it makes me wonder about how we can rehearse…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:36PMThursday, July 31, 2025
The play, which explores the women’s movement of the 1970s and its reverberations in the present, was first staged last winter by Roundabout Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMFriday, July 25, 2025
We have Kevin Fitzpatrick, Shepherd of The Lambs to thank for the present post, for he pointed me in the direction of painter Lee Lash (1864-1935). Lash had studied in Paris to be a proper f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AMFriday, July 4, 2025
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 06:06PMSaturday, June 28, 2025
We’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 10:54AMWednesday, June 18, 2025
Here'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 03:36PMWednesday, June 11, 2025
Editors' 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 07:06AMSunday, June 8, 2025
Bush 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 10:48AM 
