Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Cabaret is back on Broadway in the fifth mounting of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff's classic musical since its 1966 premiere. This production—Rebecca Frecknall's Olivier Award-w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
“The youth are f**ked” is the catch phrase of Sam Gold’s upcoming Broadway revival of Romeo + Juliet, led by young stars Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler. Shakespeare’s classic tale of h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
On Tuesday, actress Anika Noni Rose joined the Today Show to discuss her role in Uncle Vanya and her upcoming children's book featuring fan-favorite character, Tiana. Rose is currently stari…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMMonday, April 1, 2024
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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “One of the most gifted songwriters of his generation...”
—ABC News
“Criminally underapprec…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:54PMSunday, March 31, 2024
Leeds Playhouse and touringThe company’s trademark fusion of live performance and digital wizardry doesn’t quite hang together in a radical take on Mary Shelley
The structure of Mary She…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, March 29, 2024
And with More Passion in Delray Beach than It Did on Broadway Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along (hereinafter MWRA), is the story of the friends…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:13AMThursday, March 28, 2024
Certainly one definition of great music might include an ability to meet the present – and the future – head-on and come out unbruised, even triumphant. By that standard and many more, T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMMonday, March 18, 2024
Circle in the Square Theater, New York
The Succession star delivers a bravura central turn in a rousing adaptation of a story that carries a discomforting contemporary relevance
For most peo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Musical theater can be a sucker for a romantic tale, whether it’s about obsessive devotion, idealized passion, or lost loves. “The Notebook,” based on Nicholas Sparks‘ bestselling, 1…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:20AMMonday, March 11, 2024
London PalladiumThe comic revives Avid Merrion, Keith Lemon and others in a scatological set of unimaginative jokes
Is he funny, or is his comedy the nadir of western civilisation? Not being…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSunday, March 3, 2024
I've had a bit too much time on my hands and have been watching too much TV. Some shows were not even worth finishing. I'm listing them for completeness. But 12 shows in one month is too m…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:06PMBush theatre; Donmar Warehouse; Young Vic, LondonBenedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMAbbey, DublinThe black humour gets grimmer as two parents grieve the sudden death of their baby and a disturbing family history emerges
There are three kinds of sorrow, one character explain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMWednesday, February 28, 2024
★★★ NACHTLAND, YOUNG VIC Patrick Marber directs flawed but fascinating disquisition on the past's relevance to the present in art, politics and morality
Something to laugh at and plent…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:02PMMonday, February 19, 2024
DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Gloria McLean on the 2024 American Dance Guild Festival and Her Dance History :"This piece has been an effort to teach through choreography." says McLean. It’…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMSunday, February 18, 2024
Royal Exchange, ManchesterPhoebe Eclair-Powell’s prize-winning play is about three related relationships which seem increasingly characterised by powerlessness, menace and dislocation
Phoe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
BACK 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…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:38PMGreat 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 08:36AMMonday, February 12, 2024
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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: On his second album, The Fatalist, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols does things with the blues that might …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:32PMSunday, February 11, 2024
Barn theatre, Cirencester; Watermill theatre, NewburyThe deductive powers of the famous sleuth are put to new uses in these inventive if patchy interpretations, one playful, the other musica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, February 6, 2024
There is more to the composer than plodding plot lines and marathon nights at the opera house.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:36AMMonday, February 5, 2024
“Abdication! A Cautionary Fairy Tale” is an unusual production—part variety show, part dystopian science fiction, and part multi-media experiment. Underlying it all is an invitation fo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:04PMSaturday, February 3, 2024
Sometimes you just don’t get a show. Maybe its subject triggers you or fails to grab you at all. Maybe the playwright was trying to do too much or the director didn’t do enough. Or maybe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:02PMFriday, February 2, 2024
The time “Jonah,” currently running at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, takes place is described in the program as “The past and the present. But everything is slippe…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:10PMBy: David Sheward
February 1, 2024: “The present and the past. But everything is slippery.” So reads the time of the play in the program from Jonah, Rachel Bonds’ somewhat confusing…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00AMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Colombia-based Sankofa Danzafro returns to The Joyce with a program that promotes the legacy and traditions of the Afro-Colombian community, using dance to retell their history. Led by Artis…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:56PMFriday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Irish playwright who championed change in religious, social and sexual attitudes while giving voice to fears and anxietiesThe plays of Thomas Kilroy, who has died aged 89, presented Ireland …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
Now playing at The Pantages in Hollywood, through January 2024, is dazzling stage show that features recreations of some of the most memorable songs of Michael Jackson’s storied career. Wi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:24PMFriday, December 29, 2023
The show: “Here We Are” at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York City
When it was announced nearly 10 years ago that Stephen Sondheim would be collaborating with playwright David Ives on …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 05:53PMSaturday, December 23, 2023
By: David Sheward
December 23, 2023: Two Off-Broadway productions meld the past and the present with mixed results. Michael-John LaChiusa’s musical The Gardens of Anuncia at Lincoln Ce…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:01PMMonday, December 11, 2023
The ensemble (Photo by Mandy Penn)
Reviewed by Socks Whitmore
Ahmanson Theatre
Through December 31
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It’s another snowless winter in sunny Los Angeles, and in spite of the rising…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:41PMSaturday, December 9, 2023
"The Inheritance of a Long-Term Fault," written by Mêlisa Annis and directed by Vanessa Morosco, is an extraordinary play that explores how the societal structures across many cultures have…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:56PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/theater/2023-2024/back-to-the-future-musical/
Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:18PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
Reviewed
by Judd Hollander
“The
past isn’t as frightening with one foot in the present.” So says a character in
Scene Partners, the new comedy-drama by John J. Caswell, Jr., now at th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:42PMSunday, November 19, 2023
It takes an artist of the stature and extraordinary talent of Wiest to keep Caswell’s fragmented play from flying off in all directions as it veers from reality to fantasy and from flashba…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33AMWednesday, November 15, 2023
Nancy Lantis, Sanya Arnold and Jorge Luis Aguila (Photo courtesy of Eclipse Theatre LA)
Reviewed by Steven Leigh Morris
Eclipse Theatre at The Main (Santa Clarita)
Through Nov. 26
There’…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:43AMTuesday, November 7, 2023
The time is the present. The place is Ancient Greece. The fabulous lyrics and music are by the one-and-only Sondheim. The hysterical book is based on Aristophanes' The Frogs, as loosely adap…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:02PMMonday, November 6, 2023
An International Theater Festival Ponders Consequences of Bullying and Marauding
By Steven Leigh Morris
“Negotiating Peace” at the Oda Theatre, Prishtina, Kosovo: Emma Andrea, Harald …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 07:24PMSaturday, November 4, 2023
The seats of the Elysian Theatre on Riverside Dr., which in my time in L.A. was the home of the Colony Studio Theatre (later Knightsbridge). It was also the theater closest to my home in Ech…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 06:06PM