By David Sheward October 19, 2025: For an intimate and raucous evening with a slightly modern twist, you can’t do much better than the current revival of Tartuffe, Moliere’s classic comedy satirizing relig…

With the affordability crisis being such a part of life (and the mayor race) in New York City, and meanwhile a three-actor Broadway play like "Art" having grossed $1.7-million last week, it felt like an appropr…

Perelman Performing Arts Center has revealed the complete cast for the New York return of Matthew Warchus’ production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne. The produc…

Sam Robards, Victoria Clarke, Camila Canó-Flaviá, and Will Harrison in “Punch” (photo by Matthew Murphy).October 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler If you’ve never heard the term �…

Immersing myself in the programme’s seriously dark comedy loosened my grip on reality – and then a ventriloquist asked me for a selfie I was on stage, alone, at a packed Alexandra theatre in Birmingham with…

More than 1,000 actors have signed a letter expressing solidarity with Actors’ Equity in its ongoing negotiations with the Broadway League as the union demands significant increases in healthcare contribution…

Patricia Lockwood’s life and art are so closely linked that it’s appropriate for a cat meowing in the background during a phone interview from her Savannah, Georgia, home to make it into this story. That ca…

LONDON REPORT: “THE PRODUCERS” IS BACK — JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT! Andy Nyman and Marc Antolin as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom in “The Producers” (2025).September 11, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and To…

Charles Kirsch is the 17-year-old host of the theater podcast Backstage Babble, where he has conducted over 250 in-depth interviews with some of Broadway’s best. In “Stage Direction,” he will be using mat…

Shakespeare in the Park Returns, Joyfully & Inclusively, to New York by Andrea Libresco As the performance begins, multiple helicopters fly over the Delacorte Theater. While not a part of the production, th…

Join my channel to gain access to exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQi6IkbVa2SJok8fUZOpKw/join • OHMYGOD HEY! Last weekend I headed to Battersea Park in London to experience Secret Cine…

Director James Vásquez join The Old Globe's Becks Redman to discuss The Comedy of Errors. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity to closely connect with productions …

The Great Gatsby's Jordan Baker dwells among the new money of West Egg, a world of blinding parties and dark secrets. But it's all "Champagne Problems" for Samantha Pauly, who's popping some bubbly for the fan…

In episode four, of Champagne Problems, Samantha Pauly sits down at her dressing-room mirror to take you through her entire process of getting show ready ("Cat eye is not really appropriate for the '20s," she a…

Merriment and mayhem come to life in the Bard’s hilarious and fun-filled play, The Comedy of Errors, running July 27 through Aug. 24, 2025. Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/the-comed…

Traverse theatre, EdinburghPanto dame Dorothy Blawna-Gale is sharp-tongued and lovable but the hilarity is underpinned by creator Johnny McKnight’s personal story She stands before us in a blue gingham frock,…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) It is perhaps most appropriate that for the third jewel in Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane’s studded crown is Carousel, the Rodgers and Hammerstein…

July 30 was the birthday of stage and screen actor Holmes Herbert (Horace Edward Jenner, 1882-1956), sometimes billed as Holmes E. Herbert, H.E. Herbert, H.J. Herbert, anything one hopes, except H.H. Holmes —…

In partnership with Americans for the Arts and its advocacy affiliate Arts Action Fund, arts industry leaders from across the nation are gathering on Capitol Hill this month to bring a message directly to Congr…

Jester Hairston (1901-2000) had two strong careers in two entirely different but overlapping cultural disciplines. Arguably his contributions to music were of greater significance, but we’ll lead with what he…

The 1969 marquee for “1776” in its original production at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers).July 4, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. This is a re-working of a column origi…

Frank Loesser (1910–1969).June 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler One hundred fifteen years ago today, composer-lyricist Frank Loesser was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New Y…

Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice. In playwright Jamie Wax’s one-hander “Call Me Izzy,” Jean Smart returns to Bro…

Ella Beatty has had an incredible year in New York theatre. After joining the Tony-winning Appropriate as River when the show transferred theaters, she next joined Jack O’Brien’s much buzzed about productio…

June 12 was the birthday of Anne Frank (1929-1945). Confronted with the bewildering descent of America into a place where schoolgirls need to hide out in attics and where Jews are being violently attacked in th…

The 78th Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo at Radio City Music Hall, are a wrap, and Broadway.com is here to give you the full rundown of Broadway's biggest night. Maybe Happy Ending walked away with the …

Purpose has taken home the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play. The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Phylicia Rashad marks Jacobs-Jenkins’ second Tony win in two years, foll…

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won a Tony back-to-back with his 2024 win for Appropriate.

Paulson, who won a Tony Award in 2024 for her performance in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' earlier play, 'Appropriate,' writes: "There are few things of which I am certain in this life. We don’t deserve dogs. Oreo …

Purpose, the epic family drama by Tony Award-winning Appropriate playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, adds eight weeks to its limited Broadway engagement at the Hayes Theater. Performances will now run through…

Carla R. Stewart and Keenan Barrett. All production photos are by Greg Mooney The show: “Millions,” a new musical receiving its world premie…

Two-time Tony Award nominee, Johanna Day has joined the upcoming Broadway production of Call Me Izzy, production as Standby for starring six-time Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress Jean Smart �…

Review of the Sunday, May 18, 2025 preview performance at Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. Starring Ben Ahlers, Jordan Boatman, Sam Huntsman, Ked Merwin, Adrienne C. Moore and Robbie Tann. A new play by Mat…

Last chance!  Nominate your favorites for The 2025 JKTS Readers' Choice Awards! Ballot closes Sunday! HERE   Yesterday brought the sad news that Broadway composer Charles Strouse passed away at age 96. Chanc…

May 15 being the birthday of author L. Frank Baum, we thought today would be an appropriate time to create a finding aid for our dozens of posts related to my favorite childhood author and the many adaptation o…

2025 Tony nominee Megan Hilty tells us whether or not Death Becomes Her is...family appropriate.

A top-notch production of “Hairspray” can currently be seen at Dundalk Community Theatre, and one of the show’s most famous songs declares that “You Can’t Stop the Beat.” That statement couldn’t b…

George Clooney, Bob Odenkirk, Mia Farrow, Audra McDonald, Tom Francis, Daniel Dae Kim, Jamie Lloyd, Louis McCartney are among those saying thank you following news of their nominations for the 78th annual Tony …

Sarah Paulson ('Appropriate') and Wendell Pierce ('Death of a Salesman') are announcing the nominees on a livestream Thursday morning.

Today is Yom HaShoah, Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day. It takes place on the 27th day of Nisan (sundown April 23 into April 24). This is distinct from International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Janu…

2024 - 2025 Broadway Musical Logos: Pirates! (The Penzance Musical) In probably the best advertising move concerning a Broadway musical in years, Roundabout changed its show art for Pirates! The Penzance Mu…

Movement In Space Jay Reisberg April 19, 2025 - 17:03 Topics Theater Review Tags dance …

Currently running at the Hayes Theatre, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” joins the important pantheon of plays about families, dysfunctional families in particular. These plays, including Branden Jacobs…

Week of April 6, 2025 1. “Bad Books” at Round House Theatre “…a deeply riveting play…Without hesitation, this is one of my top three for the season.” –  Anne Valentino READ review. Synopsis: Whe…

Photos by Jeremy Daniels. The show: The Manhattan Theatre Club production of “We Had a World” by Joshua Harmon and starring Joanna Gleason Wh…

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ "Purpose" follows on the heels of their magnificently staged "August: Osage County," but unlike that dysfunctional family drama, this play…

Even before winning the Tony Award last year for his pointed dramedy Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had emerged as one of the brightest lights in the current American theater scene with works like An Octor…

There’s a spring in the step of the London theater in April, as seems appropriate, with new musicals based on classic titles jostling alongside the return of a major film star to the London stage and a new pr…

The underpowered revival of the show at the cavernous Palace Theatre could certainly use some caffeine. And heat. That the workplace play, on Broadway for the fourth time, opened last night is appropriate. This…

Is that Sarah Paulson in pajamas brushing her teeth? She is in her dressing room at the Belasco, during the run of the play “Appropriate” — one of some one hundred black-and-white photographs that Jenny A…

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the high-tech adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s haunting novel starring Sarah Snook, celebrated opening night at the Music Box Theatre on March 27. The occasion was the perfect excuse fo…

Kara Young is blessed with the ability to jumpstart a scene the moment she steps on stage. This small but mighty actress manages to simultaneously disappear into a role while commanding the audience’s attenti…

In fact, the play Harmon has written is mainly about the conflict between the grandmother and the mother. While we are never really certain why Ellen and Susan refuse to be in the same room, we come to know all…

In “Purpose,” an extraordinary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Tony winner for last season’s “Appropriate”) opening tonight on Broadway in a terrifically acted, crowd-pleasing production that marks Ph…

Tony Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins understands the intricacies of family. In his award-winning “Appropriate,” starring Sarah Paulson, he wrote about siblings ravaged by the rage of grief. …

Purpose, the latest family drama from Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate), opens March 17 at the Hayes Theater. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad in her Broadway directo…

Oh, the Duke ain’t Dead! Don’t ya fret on that score. It’s just that the 50th anniversary year of Saturday Night Live seemed the appropriate time to remember her peak years, when she was a cast member on …

Idina Menzel returns to Broadway in a new musical. Originally published on TDF StagesView this story online Life-altering trauma, drug addiction…

Purpose, the epic family drama by Tony Award-winning Appropriate playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, begins performances at Broadway's Hayes Theater on February 25. Its official opening is set for March 17. …

Throughout the month of February, The Broadway Show is celebrating some of the theater industry’s most influential Black artists. This week, the spotlight is on Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Jacobs-Jenkins is a …

Kara Lindsay, the original Katherine Plumber in Broadway's Newsies, got a mid-show surprise during a performance at Walt Disney World. She's one of the Disney on Broadway Concert Series' featured artists at …

Family dynamics in the American South and a decaying once beautiful plantation set the stage for the two act drama “Appropriate”, running now through February 23 at GableStage in Coral Gables.     The t…

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonChekhov’s claustrophobic drama is perfectly suited to this intimate venue, with moments of humour leavening the heartbreak The flowers spelling out Irina’s name make this part…

In December 2023, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins made his Broadway debut with Appropriate—a family drama laced with dark comedy about the gruesome secrets rotting away on a neglected Arkansas plantation. A…

What is family? 🏚️ Come find out as the Lafayette family uncovers a shocking relic, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets and decades of resentment. Appropriate is now playing through Feb. 23.

Imagine a half-dozen out-of-control freight trains howling and careening toward each other – a rough metaphor for the emotional collision after collision of egos and anger in the epic family dysfunctional pla…

The New York Times called Appropriate, “subversively original… remarkable and devious.” The estranged siblings of the Lafayette family gather to settle their late father’s Arkansas estate. Amid the clut…

Tony Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) is back on Broadway with his latest family drama Purpose, beginning performances at the Hayes Theater February 25 and opening March 17. Explo…

Danielle Mages Amato welcomes special guest, director Steve H. Broadnax II for a discussion about Appropriate. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity to closely conne…

The mood as audience members were leaving Studio Theatre following the production of Bruce Norris’s “Downstate” was somber to say the least. Given the play’s themes and several of the events depicted, s…

Some theater-goers lust after seeing big-name stars and there will be plenty of them for those folks to see in the upcoming spring season, from theater-grown ones like Idina Menzel in Redwood, the original eco-…

Happy New Year! With 2024 behind us, it seems only appropriate to take stock of the year that was, and to look ahead at those things we hope to accomplish in 2025. Theatrical Resolutions: 2025 Edition First …

2024 in Review: Our Favorite Performances We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the shows we considered in all categories fo…

Artist Linda Fennimore’s poster design for “Tru,” starring Robert Morse (1989).December 25, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. It’s odd that I hold one Christmas memory that is like no…

The Broadway season doesn’t lend itself comfortably to Best of the Calendar Year Stories — my choices for the first six months of 2024 were made and announced last June in a Tony Award predictions column. S…

On this very special, Christmas Week episode of BroadwayRadio, Matt Tamanini is in conversation with the two stars of the current Paper Mill Playhouse production “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” running …

Every year, there are huge hits, big flops, news makers and fan favorites, scandals and groundbreaking ideas in the theater scene. And when we pause to review the year just ending, we always think of things tha…

2024 in Review: Our Favorite Design Elements (6 Categories + 2 Special Citations) We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the sh…

2024 in Review: Our Favorite Writing & Direction (6 Categories) We were fortunate enough to see 23 different productions in 2024: 20 Broadway, 2 off-Broadway, and 1 regional; these are the shows we consid…