Saturday, February 28, 2026
Charles Durning (1923–2012).February 28, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
An update of a column written and published in 2018.
Born on this date more than a hundred year…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:50AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
'The Wasp" is not for the faint of heart. It confronts the audience with themes of mental illness, domestic violence, and sexual trauma, yet resists the easy descent into nihilism. For all i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
Robert Redford, a classic Hollywood actor who dominated the screen through the 1970s and swept America off its feet with a knee-weakening smile and penchant for romantic leading roles, died…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMFriday, July 11, 2025
By David Sheward
July 11, 2025: Heathers the Musical (Off-Broadway at New World Stages) is one of many recent teen-angst tuners. Others of this new genre include Tony-winning Best Musicals …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:27AMMonday, July 7, 2025
Participants in the Matadero’s inaugural Senior Audience School discover that theatre ‘takes the sting out of the nonsense in life’
The 25 people who have gathered in a small Madrid th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Othello might have been shut out from today’s Tony Award nominations, but this news probably takes away a bit of the sting: The Broadway revival starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:08PMSunday, March 30, 2025
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Throughout his life, Tennessee Williams knew tragedy. Whether through his sister Rose’s struggle with mental health or the los…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:04AMMonday, March 17, 2025
PLAYBILL.COM. Stephanie Hsu, Jeanine Tesori, Larry Owens, More Set for World Water Day Concert. Presented by Britton & The Sting, the free event ...
SOURCE: Google at 07:02PMPresented by Britton & The Sting, the free event will bring together artists, activists, scientists, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMThursday, February 27, 2025
Audiences will laugh, gasp and feel the sting of this challenging material. Although the new year has barely begun, “One Party Consent” is already a must-see highlight of the season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Performances by Britton & The Sting and Justin Vivian Bond will begin tonight at Little Island. Learn how to purchase tickets.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMMonday, May 6, 2024
Running for four months, beginning in June, the small man-made island will host a roster of original work, all commissioned by and developed at Little Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMFriday, March 22, 2024
Saddle Up for Sunday Service and ride that magic carpet of music and healing into the band that is Britton & The Sting. Church will commence on April 14th, 2024 at Nublu (151 Ave C New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:55AMMonday, March 4, 2024
The name John Scarne (Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia, 1903-1985) was brought back to me recently when I was working on my article on NYC’s magic shops for Chelsea Community News. That’s thr…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AMThursday, February 15, 2024
Michael Phillips — producer of The Sting, Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind — learned in early January 2023 that a Buddha sculpture he owned was plundered. An anonymous …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AMMonday, December 25, 2023
The Sting was released this day in 1973 — 50 years ago. I had just turned 8 when the film came out. It was definitely one of the key films in that heavy period of Hollywood nostalgia of th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:24AMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghAlexa Davies’ performance as Charly, a rhyming drug dealer who is falling apart, is the gleaming heart of this production
‘I am a trailblazer,” declar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07AMTuesday, May 9, 2023
A Larger Awareness of Real Loss
Jay Reisberg
May 9, 2023 - 14:02
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SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 02:02PMMonday, August 1, 2022
Darius Barnes, a Broadway dancer and choreographer with six credits to his name who was set to serve as associate choreographer on Kimberly Akimbo, has died according to various social media…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
Though he was one of the top Hollywood movie stars of the late teens and most of the 1920s, multiple factors have served to obscure the memory of Charles Ray (1891-1943). Nowadays, there’s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:12PMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Plus: Netflix drops the Tiger King Season 2 trailer...with a Liza Minnelli soundtrack.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PMTuesday, October 19, 2021
Playwright Douglas Lyons and director Zhailon Levingston discuss their new comedy Chicken & Biscuits
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According to Chicken & Biscuits playwright Douglas Lyons, from the moment he …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMMonday, June 28, 2021
Harry Connick, Jr. in ‘The Sting’ at Paper Mill Playhouse. (Photo: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) NBC’s Annie Live! continues to get more interesting by the day. The…
The post Who�…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:36PMThursday, June 17, 2021
Smith, president of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, gets ready for his shows at the nightclub with his band, Britton and the Sting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMFriday, June 11, 2021
The funk liberation band releases "Holdin' On'" before their in-person return of two shows on June 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMWednesday, May 19, 2021
The Serbian classical guitarist, composer, and arranger performs new arrangements of themes from class films such as The Sting, Dr. Zhivago, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and The Third Man, amon…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:24AMFriday, February 19, 2021
The Broadway alum is finding peace and purpose with The Realness Project, a full-length album from his funk liberation band.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 4, 2021
Black History Month… let’s do it. Today I do not want to go on and on and saturate you with more sad news. Key word of the day is celebrate, so we shall do such. The rest of this epis…
SOURCE: broadwaypodcastnetwork.com at 05:51AMThursday, December 24, 2020
I loved the family Christmases of my youth and awaited them eagerly each year. In adulthood, alas, the holiday season became for me a time of increasingly fraught memories. The first of thes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMThursday, August 13, 2020
We are nearing the end of our Best of the Decade series, and we'd be remiss if we didn't look back on our favorite sub-genre of musicals: The Flop. We know that technically, every show that…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 05:32PMMonday, June 22, 2020
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Gwen Hollander is best known for her role as Sheryl on the hit Showtime series Kidding, starring Jim Carrey. I recently watched Gwen’s hilarious musical comedy short Marriage Material,…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 05:03AMFriday, February 14, 2020
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway’s Britton Smith and his band launch a weekly concert series at the downtown venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMThursday, October 31, 2019
Dorfman, National Theatre, LondonBaker probes the relevance of stories in her new play, seemingly set at a strategy meeting, but the concept runs out of steam
I was enthralled by Annie Bake…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
The Muny has announced an exciting group of Broadway stars set to appear in productions as part of its 2019 summer season. The previously announced slate of works will run from June 10 thro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:00AMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Veteran Kinky Boots star J. Harrison Ghee returns to the Tony-winning hit musical on March 19. Ghee replaces Callum Francis, who played his final performance at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Recently seen in the new musical The Sting, Kline is best known for his work on Three’s Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMMonday, December 3, 2018
While I appreciate it as a landmark in both film making and scoring, I've otherwise never much understood the appeal of King Kong. Sure, there's incredibly cool stop-motion animation an…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:54AMFriday, November 2, 2018
Funny thing about Ray Walston (Herman Raymond Walston, 1914-2001): the second half of his career was supposedly overshadowed by his stint as Martin the Martian on My Favorite Martian (1963-6…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:04PMFriday, June 1, 2018
When it’s from Greg Laswell one would expect another album about heartbreak or as Laswell euphemizes it ‘heartache.’ But Laswell asserts that the worry is when each of us stares down a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:26AM 
