Birmingham RepStaged by Deafinitely Theatre, Eloise Pennycott’s play sets romance against a broken, unjust system Barrier(s) is a queer love story about a couple with vastly different experiences of the world…

Punch completely blew me away, as it did the people I saw it with. A wild, disaffected young man, Jacob, punches another young man, James, for no particular reason. That one punch kills James. James's parents,…

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) will launch Broadway Spotlight, a ten-week arts residency for New York City public high school students, developed by 92NY’s School Engagement team in collaboration with the…

Buy tickets today: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida is a drama of impossib…

Performed in ASL and spoken English, the work will get a world premiere via Two River Theater and Deaf West Theater in 2026.

To celebrate her run in the show and the passing of the torch from one Anne Hathaway to the next, Willemijn Verkaik got together with Sabrina Weckerlin to record a special duet version of 'That's The Way It Is.…

200 years ago Noah Webster (1758-1843) finished the first edition of what we now call, many editions later, the Meriam-Webster Dictionary. The 70,000 word original, known as the American Dictionary of the Engli…

Deaf West Theatre will host an industry preview event at NYC’s Museum of Broadway on Monday, October 20, for Elephant Shoes, a new original musical with a book by Ivan Menchell, music and lyrics by Caroline K…

Letters from the late Herbert Kretzmer, recently donated to Cambridge University Library, reveal that the writer, who famously wrote the English-language lyrics for Les Miserables, felt he didn't receive enough…

In a recent video segment, CBS Mornings Plus co-anchor Adriana Diaz sat down with Buena Vista Social Club co-choreographers Justin Peck and Patricia Delgado, a husband-and-wife duo whose personal story is deepl…

Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, one that makes you feel OK about your own struggles to fit in, is a good start to TheaterWorks Hartford’s 2025-26 season.

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company John Woodvine, who has died aged 96, was a proud Tynesider and stalwart of the Royal Sha…

The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon Today, Oscar Wilde is one of the most celebrated writers in English, both instantly recogni…

Born 150 years ago this day, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), prophet, poet, scholar, and all around English decadent. We’ve posted twice before on this influential figure, once merely as a sort of Halloween jok…

An additional theater category has also been introduced.

ETT (English Touring Theatre) has announced its Winter season with the London run of Museum of Austerity, a powerful mixed reality installation exploring the human cost of austerity The post Museum of Austerity…

Royal Albert Hall, London Riding high off Tony and Olivier wins, the Pussycat Doll turned theatre star showcases her astonishingly versatile singing chops and a standup’s gift for chaotic humour As an impatie…

Maria can teach the magic of music in any language. 🎵 Watch "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music in English, German and Italian!

Rehearsals are underway for The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company. The production will run from October 23 – December 21, 2025 at CSC’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater, with an opening night set for November…

Sherman theatre, CardiffTheatr Cymru’s bilingual version of Shakespeare’s tragedy brings intriguing complexity to the warring families but also some confusion ‘Speakest thou from the heart?” Or rather: …

On Thursday, the Tony Award-winning cast of Broadway's Buena Vista Social Club joined The Kelly Clarkson Show for a special performance of "Qué Bueno Baila Usted." Check it out here. Earlier in the day, the ca…

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer, known for her work on stage and screen, has died at age 96. Born in Birkenhead, England, in 1929, Routledg…

Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn a stunning evening, fearless and faultless dancers deliver a trio of classics, ending with a gorgeous yet more subdued piece by David Dawson English National Ballet’s new season lau…

Check out boundary pushing ballet at Sadler's Wells this October. With audio described performances and touch tours available, there are more ways to experience the movement. Get tickets for R:Evolution's aud…

Late lyricist Herbert Kretzmer had written to producer Cameron Mackintosh to highlight that his contributions were ‘downgraded’

L M Feldman’s new queer love story, starting its rolling world premiere at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre, uses ASL and English for more than mere explication.

We meet Cillian Murphy’s titular character in “Steve” as he’s about to be interviewed on camera. He asks the crew to stop filming him for a moment as he tries to collect himself, but instead the camera …

Among her most haunting and meditative works is the slim yet searing "From Trinity to Trinity," an autobiographical pilgrimage undertaken in 1999 to the Trinity Site in New Mexico where the world’s first atom…

Jamie Lloyd is back on Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. The production officially opened on September 28. Check out photos from the o…

Rehearsals are underway for The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company. You can now get a first look at photos of the company in rehearsals here! The Baker’s Wife features a book by Tony Award winner Joseph …

Three-time Tony Award–winning director, producer, and writer JACK O’BRIEN joins host Nathan Winkelstein for a deep dive into the evolution of language and Shakespeare’s verse. From memory, O’Brien deliv…

Jamie Lloyd returns to Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Check out photos of the cast on the opening night red carpet below! The stric…

English National Opera (ENO) will present a new production of Dead Man Walking this November at the London Coliseum, marking the 25th anniversary of Jake Heggie’s acclaimed opera The post Dead Man Walking Com…

The TIFF Film Review: Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein“ By Ross NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE – United States of America | 2025 | 149m | English In deep, dark red, black, and white canvases, Oscar-winning…

Hudson Theatre, New York The Bill & Ted stars land on Broadway for Jamie Lloyd’s disorienting and intermittently engaging take on Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot is, as the saying goes, a pla…

Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting for Godot is now open on Broadway. Starring Keanu Reeves as ‘Estragon’ and Alex Winter as ‘Vladimir', the strictly limited engageme…

Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist From TS Eliot and Ted Hughes to Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, numerous poet…

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, and judging by all…

Bilingual production by Theatr Cymru is expected to be first time Welsh will be heard at South Bank venue Grappling with the subtleties of Shakespeare’s poetry and prose has proved a challenge for many a the…

The English actor tells Ellie Harrison about the sliding-doors moment that led to his role in the Netflix teen drama, the long-awaited new season of ‘The Night Manager’, and why he’s finally returning to …

The TIFF Film Review: Ally Pankiw’s Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery By Ross WORLD PREMIERE – Canada | 2025 | 99m | English Diving into the phenomenally crafted documentary, “Lilith Fair: Building a Myst…

The Tiff Film Review: Jan Komasa’s “Good Boy“ WORLD PREMIERE – Poland, United Kingdom | 2025 | 110m | English By Ross Surprisingly emotional and engaging, “Good Boy“, seen at the Toronto Internati…

As summer winds down with the beach chairs stored away, the last of the ripe tomatoes devoured, and the tans finally faded, we now turn to the fall and those extra special shows to get us excited — and to div…

Soho theatre, LondonNina Bowers and Philip Arditti claw passionately at Henry V’s colonialism and imperialism in their frequently funny and at times deliberately uncomfortable play When Englishness is being w…

English Touring Theatre (ETT), York Theatre Royal and An Tobar and Mull Theatre have announced the UK tour of The Last Picture, a brand-new play by acclaimed writer Catherine Dyson The post ETT Announces UK Tou…

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 officiallly open on No…

The TIFF Film Review: Adam Carter Rehmeier’s “Carolina Caroline“ By Ross World Premiere – United States of America | 2025 | 105m | English “How do you know if you are a good person pretending to be …

The background on the story indicates that "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain was an inspiration for the story, but the only connections to that book seem to be the idea of traveling on a river …

The Soraya launched its 2025–26 season this past weekend with the West Coast premiere of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, presented in a special concert staging with Eng…

The TIFF Film Review: Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet By Ross CANADIAN PREMIERE – United Kingdom | 2025 | 125m | English “Tell me a story.” “What kind of story would you like?” “One that moves you.” In W…

Orange Tree theatre, LondonDirector Tom Littler finds the comedy in the Swedish tragedian’s play about how people use each other up in love and art In an interview before his production of Noël Coward’s Bl…

Broadway’s Waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, best known as the duo from the Bill and Ted movies, begins performances at Broadway's Hudson Theatre on September 13. Opening night is se…

The TIFF Film Review: Gus Van Sant‘s “Dead Man’s Wire“ By Ross NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE – United States of America | 2025 | 104m | English The smooth radio tones of Roberta Flack and such drive us into…

Classic Stage Company has announced complete casting for The Baker’s Wife, the legendary Stephen Schwartz–Joseph Stein musical that has never before received a full-scale New York production. Directed by Go…

Casting is complete for the North American tour of The Phantom of the Opera. The touring production, starring Isaiah Bailey as the Phantom, Jordan Gilbert as Christine Daaé and Daniel Lopez as Raoul, launche…

More than 30 years ago, French actress turned playwright Yasmina Reza took one look at a piece of modern art purchased by a close friend and burst into laughter. Fortunately, her reaction didn’t offend her fr…

An all new video has been released giving fans a first look at "New Money" from The Great Gatsby in South Korea! The performance features Amber Ardolino as Jordan Baker. The cast of The Great Gatsby in South Ko…

English National Opera opens its 2025/26 Season with a bold new production of Cinderella (La Cenerentola), directed by International Opera Award-nominated Julia Burbach The post Julia Burbach and ENO Present a…

An element of the story is the behavior of the English noblemen. They switch allegiances depending on the behavior of either King John or King Philip II. It is not easy to follow these shifting loyalties in the…

In front of Shorakkopoch Rock in Inwood Park, the site of the Indian village where (according to legend and the plaque on the rock), Peter Minuit “bought” Manhattan, a member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape…

After 9,000 performances as Rafiki in The Lion King, Tshidi Manye is set to depart the Broadway production. Manye first performed with the show's Toronto company in 2000, and most of her 9,000 performances have…

Did you know that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts holds a treasure trove of watchable theatre in its Theatre on and Tape (TOFT) archive? Over 4,000 recordings of live theatrical performances…

David Cumming, who plays the British intelligence officer Charles Cholmondeley and a host of other characters in Broadway's farcical thriller Operation Mincemeat, offered The Broadway Show a tour around the …

Jerry Adler (1929–2025).August 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. A dozen years ago, I had the pleasure of sitting across the table from the recently departed Jerry Adler at the Empire Ho…

Church Hill theatre, EdinburghA furious and unsettling Shakespeare reboot exposes colonial violence and demands accountability for crimes against Indigenous people ‘Aren’t you sorry you forced me to learn E…

English-born Terence Stamp, who burned brightly as a young actor in the 1960s, with praise heaped upon him for roles in “Billy Budd,” “The Collector” and “Far From the Madding Crowd,” memorably play…

The song cycle about an English woman newly arrived in America will be presented at the Florida venue in September.

Bucking tradition once again, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his picks for Kennedy Center Honors and said he will host the ceremony himself — a first for any president. Actor and filmmaker Sylv…

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVictoria Melody’s passion for other people’s passions is in full bloom in a show that finds delight and inspiration in English civil war reenactments Victoria Melody jokes that…

Elizabeth McGovern triumphs as Ava Gardner in her self-written, smart, and theatrical adaptation of an English journalist’s memoir packed with gossip. The post Ava: The Secret Conversations appeared first o…

Barbican, London Will & Grace star reprises his Tony award-winning role as Oscar Levant in Doug Wright’s play about a ratings-crucial TV interview There is a small set of stage plays in which the younger,…

The first new production of Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London premiere in September 2024 opened in Barcelona on 5 July as part of this year’s Grec festival. Actor Josep Maria Po…

Amber Ardolino has shared a first look at the cast of The Great Gatsby in South Korea! The video shows her in costume as Jordan Baker for the first time, along with Matt Doyle as Jay Gatsby, Senzel Ahmady as Da…

VID: Montage of clips from "Big River" on Broadway, featuring performers in period costumes on stage performing songs in both ASL and spoken English. TAGS: #broadway #broadwaymusical #broadwayshow #musicalthea…

One Performance Wonders: The Moony Shapiro Songbook It was an article on Playbill.com about Brenda Pressley joining the cast of 2025's Tony-winning Best Play, Purpose that put this show back on my radar. I h…

A new block of tickets for the Broadway musical BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB is now on sale for performances through Sunday, May 24, 2026, at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB has made history…

The English singing icon made a Broadway appearance in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Dame Cleo Laine, the Tony-nominated performer and acclaimed jazz singer, has passed away at 97. Her death was confirmed by her children, Jacqui and Alec. She was predece…

Unpacking the president of Zimbabwe’s psyche felt urgent in 2001 when he remained in violent power. But the play has found fresh relevance today I am standing outside the hallowed walls of the Market theatre,…