Copenhagen review – atomic secrets and moral fog in a terrifyingly timely revival by Arifa Akbar

Hampstead theatre, LondonMichael Frayn’s cerebral drama of science and conscience returns with urgency – although this production struggles to ignite its emotional core Paapa Essiedu rec…

A Doll’s House review – sex, drugs and Romola Garai in a heroic Ibsen update by Arifa Akbar

Almeida theatre, LondonAnya Reiss packs the marriage scandal plot with inspired ideas, from convincing talk of Instagram to a look at sexual dynamics in the crosshairs of contemporary capita…

7 Reasons This Revival of Death of a Salesman Will Catch You Off Guard by Beth Stevens

There’s nothing distant about Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman now playing at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. This revival, directed by Joe Mantello and starring Nathan Lane and L…

Resistance movement: how a play about penicillin brought the arts, science and politics together by Deborah Linton

Championed by a former chief medical officer, Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming’s discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the …

Our OG Schuyler Sisters reflect on the women who shaped the past and inspire the present. by Hamilton

Slippery review – lust and longing are in the air, long after the party is over by Anya Ryan

Omnibus theatre, LondonA couple of former hedonists are reunited years later in Louis Emmitt-Stern’s quick-witted dissection of bereavement and the queer dating scene History is supposed t…

Empreintes review – Jess and Morgs go off-piste at Paris Opera and Marcos Morau sets the chandelier swinging by Chris Wiegand

Palais Garnier, ParisJessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple’s Arena spills off the stage while Morau’s equally audacious Étude has balletic body snatchers What a joy to find Jessica …

Where Gays Go To Retire (Safely, Supported and Well) by Frank Rizzo

Randy Wilcox and Rich Costabile Years ago I had a great idea for a television series. It would be called “Lavender Heights�…

The Plough and the Stars review – Seán O’Casey’s Dublin drama hits 100 with haunting staging by Helen Meany

Abbey theatre, DublinDirector Tom Creed brings this 1926 political classic into the present, with a tremendous cast navigating the tonal switch from comedy into tragedy Marking the centenary…

Alexia “Cypriote” - Millennium Stage (March 20th, 2026) by The Trump Kennedy Center

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Alexia “Cypriote” In Cypriote, Alexia explores the island’s multilayered identity through a curated selection of songs and stories inspired by Cypri…

Saint Joan review – urgency and drive in Stewart Laing’s modernist adaptation of George Bernard Shaw by Mark Fisher

Citizens, GlasgowNewcomer Mandipa Kabanda plays the Maid of Orleans from obscure teenager to army-commanding conqueror, tearing through dialogue with rare pace When George Bernard Shaw’s p…

Pierrot Lunaire review – Royal Ballet reaches for the moon with a creepy dance of desire by Sanjoy Roy

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…

“Mexodus” Returns Off-Broadway, Looping History Back Into the Present by Ross

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 …

IMPRESSIONS: Brokentalkers' "Bellow" at the Irish Arts Center and Kinoshita Kabuki's "Kanjincho" at Japan Society by The Dance Enthusiast

"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…

“Before The Storm” (“Prima Del Temporale”) At Milan’s Piccolo Teatro by Margaret Rose

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 …

DCPA 2024/25 Community Report - A Season Of Celebration by Denver Center For The Performing Arts

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…

Bug on Broadway — Conspiracy or Crack-Up? Either Way, It Get Under Your Skin by Suzanna Bowling

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…

Video: Tracy Letts Shares Why BUG No Longer Feels Like Science Fiction

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…

Back to the Future | July 7-19, 2026 by The Kennedy Center

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…

Tim Rice in Playbill's 'My Life in the Theatre' by Playbill

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 …

Two National Scofflaws Who Got Bio-Pics by Trav S.D.

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…

Amahl and the Night Visitors by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

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…

‘A master of complications’: Felicity Kendal returns to Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink after three decades by David Jays

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…

FX’s “A Christmas Carol”, The Past That Shapes Us, the Present That Breaks Us, the Future That Saves Us by Ross

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…

Ebony Scrooge review – effervescent hip-hop Dickens with a Caribbean twist by Lyndsey Winship

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…

Evil Can Appear Beautiful by Margaret Rose

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…

the present moment where temporalities converge by Theo Armstrong

Leaving the bardo calls for transformation. The body becomes a page, a site for inscription, a blank slate. The silence echoes.

‘Two Strangers’ Arrives On Broadway In A Perfect Storm by Marc Hershberg

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.

Here’s how to do ‘Oedipus’ in a way that feels totally of the moment by Jacob Malizio

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…

Bess Wohl and Whitney White on the Radical Relevance of Liberation by Carey Purcell

Originally published on Vogue.comView this story online It took 15 years for Liberation to open on Broadway, but playwright Bess Wohl knows it’s finally the right time. Wohl had worksho…

Word to Your Mother: Oedipus, Starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Begins on Broadway Tonight by Broadway.com

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…

‘Liberation’ Broadway Review: An Impressive Memory Play That Delivers a Fresh and Frank Take on the Women’s Rights Movement  by Aramide Tinubu

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…

Safe Space review – lively campus comedy wrestles with the culture wars by Arifa Akbar

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 …

Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN Now Streaming on BroadwayHD

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…

Bitterness for the Honey by Mason Pilevsky

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 …

"Mexodus": a Hip Mix of Hip-Hop and History by Jan Simpson

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…

Oedipus on Broadway, Starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Completes Casting by Broadway.com

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…

The play that changed my life: ‘Pinter’s Betrayal made me think: this is how I want to write’ by Hannah Patterson

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 …

‘Why do I know more about Rosa Parks than our history?”: the musical bringing Britain’s Black history to the stage by JN Benjamin

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…

Juniper Blood at the Donmar Warehouse | Cast Interview by Official London Theatre

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…