At the start of every performance of Liberation, Susannah Flood walks on stage with the house lights still up and delivers a funny monologue about the audience’s phones (all locked in pouches!), their wardrob…

UNIQUELY CAPTIVATING By Alix Cohen October 20, 2025: If work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to rectify its notable absence. The genre-defying collaboration, “in the pl…

Sheffield PlayhouseSet against the backdrop of Tory rule and Section 28, this rousing musical is based on the real-life hub for feminist and queer protest set up by three pioneering women There’s something kn…

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…

For Levine, the crowd isn’t a backdrop—it’s a living collaborator. Her show is intimate, often exposing the kind of stories most people bury: intrusive thoughts, shame, and the messy intersections of sex …

York Theatre RoyalJeyasingh’s choreography is well wrought and precise but Caliban’s struggles with servitude and resistance feel adrift amid a sea of ideas Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh originally moved …

Wheel of Fortune LIVE! is coming to the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco on November 12, 2025. brings America’s Game® to your hometown! The all-new live stage show with a well-known host is the one-and-…

Adam Gopnik is hitting the stage this fall! The best-selling author and legendary New Yorker writer returns to New York with his autobiographical solo show, playing October 17-26 at The Clark Studio Theater at …

Whether “Ragtime” is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverberates with the dire…

50 years ago this summer, the world witnessed the theatrical release of Jaws, a cinematic tour de force that forever changed how we, the audience, engaged with movies. The film is often credited as creating the…

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS announced a record-breaking $18.3 million in grantmaking in 2025. Thanks to the support of those onstage, backstage and in the audience — as well as many more dedicated donor…

Exclusive: using immersive descriptive audio, performance explores how blindness can redefine experience of dance The Royal Ballet has long offered headphones with audio descriptions so that visually impaired m…

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, currently starring in the Broadway production of Waiting for Godot, recently visited The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about the famed Samuel Beckett play. For the uniniti…

The answer to the question posed by the title character of who is “Harry Clarke?” is to us, of course, who are we individuals in the audience.  With considerable humor, banked anger and penetrating insight…

During his recent appearance on the Drew Barrymore Show, original Hamilton cast member Anthony Ramos was surprised with a special guest of his own. Appearing in the audience of the show was Jimmy, the original …

For her performance piece “The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella,” which opens in New York later this month, the artist drugs herself as the audience looks on.

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 �…

Charing Cross theatre, LondonFeaturing 20 of the band’s disco-funk songs, this jukebox musical has sparkle but comes with an infuriating concept and little depth of characterisation Fifty years after the rele…

The Honey Trap – 10 October 2025 Incredibly bold and cleverly told, The Honey Trap by Leo McGann simultaneously took place in 1979 and the present day. The story examined British soldiers stationed in Belfast…

Though the recent Nicole Scherzinger-led revival of Sunset Boulevard has concluded its run on Broadway, Glenn Close remains eager to bring her version of the character back to life on the big screen. For a rece…

 5 Times We Took the Broadway Stage Like many of you reading this, we've dreamed of being on the Broadway stage. Well, it's more of a fantasy (I'm certainly not talented enough to make it!), but over the yea…

Two-time Tony nominee Gavin Lee is in his villain era. In July, he joined the company of Broadway's The Lion King as Scar—a part he's had his eye on for years. "I just started putting it out there into the wo…

Today, we begin a new feature based on many of your emails and questions, namely "how were your seats?" Sure, I'm aware of another website that provides a similar service that covers New York theaters, national…

The audience will get to decide the fate of the person onstage in Donnetta Lavinia Grays' "Where We Stand," produced by HartBeat Ensemble at Trinity College's Austin Arts Center.

Dylan Mulvaney’s one-woman musical extravaganza, The Least Problematic Woman in the World, is a pop-culture fever dream with a heart. Playing every role through a kaleidoscope of screen cameos, Mulvaney invit…

Despite its noble-hearted objective to discourage random acts of violence (well, at least among the working class), Punch suffers from "A Clockwork Orange" problem. Jacob (Will Harrison) is a thoroughly charism…

Review of the Saturday, September 27, 2025 evening performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City. Starring Morgan Dudley, Malcolm Armwood, Alex Lugo, Paulo Szot and Jack Wolfe, with KC Dela Cruz, Jess…

I recently got to catch up with My Entertainment Idol, Jennifer Bassey, to talk about her upcoming solo cabaret debut at 54 Below on October 14 & 15, 2025 & as well as other aspects of her illustrious career. …

This past week, Jimmy Kimmel brought his late-night show to Brooklyn for a series of New York-based shows. During Thursday night's monologue, the talk show host addressed the potential strike that could occur i…

Lyttelton theatre, LondonHiran Abeysekera brings humour to the tragedy and Francesca Mills steals the show as Ophelia but this staging pulls its emotional punches Last week, Indhu Rubasingham launched her inaug…

This hour-long adaptation of the Broadway musical was a hit with the kids in it and the audience.

At the start of This Is Government, written by Nina Kissinger and directed by Sarah Norris, three young adults sit in a drab congressional office (nicely realized by Daniel Allen). Against the back wall are a d…

James Graham's play transfixes the audience at every stage For the first part of Punch it feels as if you’re riding a roller coaster, watching the world speed and loop past as you see it from the perspective …

Forget the tree. That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterwork “Waiting for Godot” is offstage in Jamie Lloyd’s re-envisioned revival. The polarizing British …

“Back to back like in the good old days,” Keanu Reeves as Estragon says to Alex Winter as Vladimir; then they shout something together that makes the audience explode in cheers and laughter. Was this an ad-…

Hampstead theatre, London Will Lord’s exciting new play adds a neurodiverse inner voice to the Mamet-like rivalry between ambitious debt collectors chasing financial success The most dangerous moment of this …

"Teaching artists at the New Vic engaged the audience with interactive moments between each presentation, leading us in short, seated movement experiences related to what we had just witnessed." - Cecly Placen…

The Ontario Theatre Review: Disney’s Newsies at The Grand Theatre By Ross There’s something uniquely special about attending the Grand Theatre’s High School Project. The audience buzzes with thrilled ene…

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…

Like his former Cult of Love co-star Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto likes to know for whom he is performing. On a recent visit to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the Broadway alum reflected on his time in…

"[James and Bobby] are both just lovely humans and they're doing really great work. And even though I wildly disagree with their points of view during the show, as I'm watching them spit vitriol at me, I'm so i…

The standup on Taskmaster, her time in the Cambridge Footlights and the geniuses behind Colin the Caterpillar What made you get into comedy? In primary school I wasn’t very cool. I never got Hula Hoops in my…

Roughly a third of the way through The Essentialisn't (great title), writer-director-performer Elisa Davis quotes Wikipedia: “Essentialism is the view that every entity has a set of attributes that are neces…

Maybe Happy Ending star Dez Duron helped keep the audience entertained while Sunday's matinee was halted due to a technical hold. The 'Gil Brentley' actor took to the stage to sing to the audience while they wa…

When you walk into a Jocelyn Bioh play, you don’t just enter a theater, you enter a vibe. Before the lights dim, Afrobeats fill the space: Burna Boy, Wizkid, Asake, Fireboy, Tems, and Ayra Starr. The music in…

Yesterday, we shared those Leading Players we were looking forward to seeing once again this fall. This season's stacked casts are also a gold mine of both remarkable ensemble members and performers that we are…

New York City will soon get a taste of Louisiana flavor. Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo, a new musical conceived and written by Tony winner Jack Viertel, is planning a Broadway bow in the 2026–2…

A new Fringe experience from juggler Greg Kennedy is more collaborative workshop than performance, mixing art with engineering to take the audience inside a craft that dates back to Leonardo da Vinci. Walt Magu…

The Essentialis’nt – 12 September 2025 Told in an art form akin to choreopoem, The Essentialisn’t is a piece that fearlessly demands that the audience sit with their discomfort and explore it in real ti…

And at the end of the piece, the audience was asked to then exit through the gift shop.  I think McQueen (similarly to Banksy who so famously coined the phrase) would frown on this and task us to dig deeper, b…

An immersive theater experience from veteran Philly performer Nick Gillette and a large ensemble asks the audience pressing ethical questions about our American moment. Alaina Johns reviews.

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…

Lowry, Salford Reprise of Graham Duff’s cult comedy delights the series’ fans but there’s not much here for anyone else If you are a fan of the cult BBC Three sitcom Ideal, you should immediately book a t…

Fort Wayne Youtheatre, the fifth oldest youth theatre in the U.S., is kicking off its 2025–26 season with a chilling new production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, adapted by Don Fleming. The 70-minute version wi…

In his reverse-chronology play about a married couple dealing with an affair, Harold Pinter asked the audience to find meaning in unspoken words I didn’t see Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on stage until after I�…

This self-aware parody depicts a show within a show, where the cast breaks the fourth wall, comes out and greets the audience, and tells us they’re about to put this thing on. With tongues so firmly planted i…

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical opening night off-Broadway! Tony winner Darren Criss was the special guest diva. Also in the audience — Adam Lambert, Frankie Grande, Jak Malone, Constantine Maroulis & more. …

In celebration of World Literacy Day and the Back-to-School season, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and New York Cares will partner for “Back to Magic Family Nights” on Wednesday, September 10, 17 and 24 …

John Proctor is the Villain played its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, September 7. At the final curtain call, Danya Taymor led the audience in a special ritual – which included exhaling, inhaling, a…

Casting is complete for the national tour of Stereophonic, David Adjmi's Tony-winning play about a rock band self-destructing in the studio in the '70s. The tour will kick off at the Paramount Theatre in Seatt…

Before Darren Criss departed Maybe Happy Ending earlier this week, he "passed the charger" to Andrew Barth Feldman before he took over as 'Oliver' in the Tony-winning production. Watch Criss take his final bow …

The cast has been revealed for the U.S. National Tour of Stereophonic, the 2024 Tony Award-winning Best Play. The cast will include Jack Barrett as Grover, Claire DeJean as Diana, Steven Lee Johnson as Charlie,…

Royal Court theatre, LondonUkrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky’s book-length poem is a potent theatrical force of many moving parts – signing, speech, surtitles, even a drone hovering over the audience A town unde…

As Hamilton continues to celebrate its 10th anniversary, one of its song has gone viral social media. "Best of Wives and Best of Women" continues to pick up steam on TikTok as part of a trend where fans dress u…

The “Hamilton” 10th anniversary marketing campaign rolls on. Last night, Lin Manuel Miranda and a lot of his original Broadway cast came to Shakespeare in the Park’s Delacorte Theater for a huge screen sh…

This August, TDF presented an Autism Friendly Performance of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Maybe Happy Ending! Stars Dez Duron and Helen J Shen told us it was "electric" and "exhilarating" to share the m…

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…

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is now officially open, and with it, new photos and video footage are available of the immersive experience. Presented in collaboration with Warner Bros. Discovery, Google, and Magnop…

The Second City’s forty-ninth e.t.c. revue is difficult to predict, circuitous, self-referential and, at times, disorienting. It nevertheless provides reliable laughter even on nights when the audience isn’…

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Beats, rhymes and Bannockburn? The creators of Wallace explain why they used hip-hop to tell the story of Scotland’s national hero If you were to come up with a list of the Scottish playwrights least likely t…

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith one book of classic gags and another that brings him shame, Moore delivers a show that’s heavy on the laughs if light on the charm Glenn Moore has a device he’s deploying …

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…

When lighting The Prodigy at Glastonbury 2025, LD Tim Fawkes balanced the lighting for both the audience at The Other Stage, the 21 million who watched the show on BBC, as well as the many millions who watched …

The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I can no longer imagine how their work would seem to someone on first encounter anymore. Not that one can tell the d…

First Night With the Duke briefly embracing the silly novel aesthetic I was so fidgety and unhappy with dramas this summer that I hardly have notes on any of them. So bear with me this month even remembering w…

Slowly, very slowly, the audience begins to arrive. Taking their seats, shedding jackets, arranging bags and glancing at programmes. But already, there’s a stir: the imposing figure of actor Jonny Donahoe is …

Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe Mancunian manchild shows wild commitment in a show about dyspraxia, drug use and internalised homophobia We say we want men to talk about their mental health, Dan Tiernan has noticed…

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…

They say if you bring big stars to Broadway, the audience will show up. But so far the fall season is looking tenuous at best even with three big names about to hit the stage. Shows starring Tom Hanks and Kelli…