Sunday, 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 10:48AMFriday, May 30, 2025
Jennifer 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 02:52PMSunday, May 25, 2025
Queen 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 08:32AMThursday, May 22, 2025
Shakespeare’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 10:36AMMonday, May 19, 2025
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 01:06PMSunday, May 11, 2025
Time, 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 09:18PMSunday, May 4, 2025
All 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 10:03PMMonday, April 14, 2025
Female 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 09:31AMWednesday, April 9, 2025
TRADITION: 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 11:03AMMonday, April 7, 2025
If 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 01:48PMMonday, March 31, 2025
There 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 03:04PMFriday, March 28, 2025
Brian 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 05:04PMMonday, March 24, 2025
"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 02:39PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
... 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 03:12PMSunday, March 16, 2025
Barbican 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 07:32AMTuesday, March 11, 2025
“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 10:09AMMonday, March 10, 2025
Theatre 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 09:06AMThursday, February 27, 2025
HEART 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 07:04PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
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Ranky Tanky has achieved many firsts for South Carolina’s West African–rooted Gullah community since their formation, earning yet a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:02PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
Bess 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 11:10AM 
