Saturday, November 22, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonTim Foley’s conspiracy-fuelled comedy pits reason against delusion as a palaeontology lecturer faces a dean who believes Jurassic Park is real
Logic and reason are torn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, September 24, 2025
The Lantern opens its 2025-2026 season with a smooth and engaging production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing. AJ Sabatini reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:36AMThursday, August 21, 2025
Two-time Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, Oscar nominee June Squibb, Tony winner Danny Burstein and Christopher Lowell will lead the cast of Marjorie Prime, Jordan Harrison’s sci-fi-tinged fa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMThursday, July 17, 2025
At Broadway in Bryant Park Gracie Lawrence sings "Who's Sorry Now," the signature song of Connie Francis, who died yesterday at the age of 87. Lawrence is portraying Francis in the Broadway …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:00PMFriday, June 27, 2025
Stara Rzeźnia, PoznańThis outdoor offering, part homage and part reimagining of Shakespeare’s text, has visual spectacle, a magnificent score and a cast undeterred by an actual storm
Out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
To celebrate Broadway.com’s 25th anniversary, we’ve gathered the Tony Awards moments from the past quarter century that stuck with us long after the credits rolled. From surprise victori…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMThursday, February 20, 2025
Storyhouse, ChesterA disgruntled child enters a parallel universe where he can select new parents. It has a spirited cast, but the songs are simplistic, stompy and uninspired
Who could blame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, February 2, 2025
Wyndham’s; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonSteve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith turn into their own live tribute act; plus, a bold attempt to make sense of Shakespeare’s wayward late trag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMThursday, January 2, 2025
Although Kieran Culkin isn’t a proponent for method acting, sometimes there’s just no competing with the real thing. Following a 2012 interview in which Mark Ruffalo revealed a “naught…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:09PMThursday, December 19, 2024
Preston as Harold Hill selling a bill of goods to Barbara Cook as Marian in “The Music Man” (1957).Same age as me, Meredith Willson’s The Music Man is sixty-seven. My birthday is in M…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:31PMMonday, December 2, 2024
The Australian Music Vault has unveiled a refreshed display of The Real Thing celebrating the Australian sound with objects from
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 01:23AMThursday, October 24, 2024
Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron's memoir-turned-stage play about life's second chances, opened on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre on October 23. Directed by Susan Stroman, Julianna Mar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMMonday, October 21, 2024
How to revive the lost art of the Broadway rom-com? A compelling true story by Delia Ephron is a great start, along with five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman as director. But the key, of cour…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMMonday, September 30, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonThe Drag Race UK winner draws inspiration from a human cannonball in an unsubtle hour of daredevil feats and jokes about flatulence
Some shows win new fans; some just ple…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, September 8, 2024
Royal Court Upstairs, London; Minerva, Chichester; Old Vic, LondonReality is up for debate in Tife Kusoro’s rapid-fire new drama, David Eldridge’s nuanced take on John le Carré, and Tom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, September 6, 2024
Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the temptations of infidelity run like a red thread from John Osborrne’s Look Back in Anger, via Ha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:24AMThursday, September 5, 2024
Titanique, the hyper-satirized musical riff on the 1997 nautical romance Titanic, doesn’t stay afloat without Céline Dion. Well, it doesn’t stay afloat at all. But while the ship of dre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMWednesday, September 4, 2024
James McArdle is immense as Stoppard’s true romantic
When it was first produced in 1982, The Real Thing was a turning point for Tom Stoppard, the play that added to the existing percep…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:24PMOld Vic, LondonPassion and art are dissected in tricksy style in a production that manages to wrongfoot the audience
There are several circularities drawn around what is real and what is par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMJames McArdle and Bel Powley star in the Old Vic’s revival of Stoppard’s tricksy, self-parodical play, but it feels dated to watch middle class couples being beastly to each other in bei…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:36AMMonday, September 2, 2024
Summer is saying its goodbyes, and with that comes the seasonal promise of exciting theater for the fall. That’s nowhere more true than in London, which offers a dizzying array of shows in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMFriday, August 16, 2024
From The Diary of a Teenage Girl to her latest stage role, the actor is drawn to projects about the tangle of sex and the messy parts of relationships
Bel Powley is not a good liar. “I hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMMonday, August 12, 2024
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “The real thing, people.”
—Billboard
Martin Sexton returns with what Rolling Stone calls his “soul-marinated voice,” acoustic guitar, and a sui…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:04PMFriday, May 24, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company presents Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning play, The Real Thing, starring Ewan McGregor as 'Henry' and Maggie Gyllenhaal as 'Annie' i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:48PMThursday, April 4, 2024
Not all is quiet on the American-art front.
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Pictured,…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
When I look over my lists of shows seen at each theater, the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre stands out as one of only a few where I have enjoyed every show I've seen there. And I've seen a wide v…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AMMonday, January 15, 2024
The Doctor Who and Thick of It actor laments the lack of support for emerging talent from working-class backgrounds
• Read the full interview with Peter Capaldi
Britain’s cast of leading…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, October 15, 2023
Eric Millegan sings "The Real Thing" from the musical Harold and Maude written by Tom Jones and Joseph Thalken. With fun facts and anecdotes by Robert W. Schneider and Charles Kirsch. Perfor…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:51PMFriday, September 29, 2023
40 Years of Broadway: Big Trends
The Mega Musical Era
I came upon the Broadway scene as the Mega Musical Era was just ramping up. While Evita was a harbinger for things to come a few y…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:37AMTuesday, September 19, 2023
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: His voice has been compared to James Brown, but Lee Fields is no knock-off—he’s the real thing. Fields’ prolific, decades-spanning career continues …
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:33PMWednesday, August 9, 2023
ReDISCoveries: The Most Happy Fella
(2000 Studio Recording, Disc One)
Jeff has kindly invited me to revisit and review some of the older cast recordings in my collection. Every other week …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:33AMFriday, June 30, 2023
Bush theatre, LondonSet against a backdrop of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, AJ Yi’s thought-provoking and zingy culture-clash comedy contrasts online bedroom activism with the real thing
We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMThursday, May 25, 2023
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SOURCE: Google at 08:03PMSunday, March 19, 2023
Bring back TV reviews! Listen to this astute criticism that the real thing is about real things. Wow! Plus, Jeremy Irons, Christine Baranski, Glenn Close.....Mamma Mia!
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:38PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Robert Preston as Professor Harold Hill informing the denizens of River City they’ve got “Trouble” (1957).December 20, 2022: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
A day late, an…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:25PMMonday, November 14, 2022
Casting has been revealed for The Lehman Trilogy's previously announced West End return. The Tony-winning play will beginat the Gillian Lynne Theatre on January 24, 2023 with opening night s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMThursday, October 13, 2022
By Andrew Poretz … While the New York theater world discusses who is the best Fanny Brice on Broadway, Naomi Miller might be as close to the real thing as you’ll find in 2022, though mor…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:31AMFriday, September 23, 2022
Actor Arty Froushan and director Patrick Marber on the personal nature of Leopoldstadt
A hand-drawn family tree is a potent recurring image in Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard's elegiac new play t…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning Leopoldstadt begins performances at the Longacre Theatre on September 14 ahead of opening on October 2. The production premiered in London's West End i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:13AMMonday, August 29, 2022
Cult LA theatre show Cages uses holographic avatars that blend seamlessly with real actors
Avatars of human beings that are indistinguishable from the real thing have been created for a new …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM 
