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Audition: Three Insights about Theater in Katie Kitamura’s novel by Jonathan Mandell

The unnamed central character in Katie Kitamura’s acclaimed novel “Audition” (Riverhead Books, 197 pages) is a middle-aged actress of some repute and of great perception, who offers so…

Riverside Combines Music And Comedy In A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder by Bill Hirschman

It may be January in Vero Beach, Florida, but for a few hours you can travel to a distant time and place and enjoy a romp in 1909 London. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a musica…

Canberra’s new lyric theatre takes a major step forward

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Australia’s first national survey into working conditions in the creative industries launches

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Review: The Bookstore, a Love Letter to Readers

and her Children by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Hailey McAfee in a scene from Rosie Glen-Lambert and McAfee’s “and her Children” at SoHo Playhouse (Photo credit: courtesy of the production) Plays tend not to offer unsympathetic prot…

My Own Take: 'Bug' Arrives on Broadway Starring 'Gilded Age''s Carrie Coon by Frank Rizzo

The show: “Bug” by Tracy Letts on Broadway What makes it special?: The show stars Carrie Coon (TV’s “The Gilded Age,” third season of “The White Lotus”) in a play by Pulitzer …

Washington National Opera Finds New Venue Following Kennedy Center Split by Meg Masseron, Diep Tran

Stephen Schwartz is also returning to host the company's annual gala.

Paul MacLeavy obituary by Julie Peoples

My father, Paul MacLeavy, who has died aged 78, was a drainage engineer and, later in life, a professional magician. Magic had been a hobby while Paul earned his living as a council employee…

This Week on Broadway for January 18, 2026: Bug by James Marino

Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Bug @ the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon @ Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, T…

R.I.P. Cafe Un Deux Trois by Trav S.D.

I sometimes come to regret my obituaries for famous businesses and restaurants that fold, because unlike people, some of them come roaring back to life (e.g. The Laurie Beechman, and Hallowe…

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for January 18, 2026 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for January 18, 2026 are about Daniel Webster, the closing of Cafe Un Deux Trois, and vaudevillian Andy Rice. Other earlier Travalanche posts for January 18 (…

An Ark: Ian McKellan In A ’Photonic‘ Tonic For Our Time by Roma Torre

★★★★☆ Playwright Simon Stephens and tech wizards concoct the world’s first mixed reality play The post An Ark: Ian McKellan In A ’Photonic‘ Tonic For Our Time appeared first …

An Ark: Mixed Reality Theater Provides Mixed Results by Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Ian McKellen is among the performers appearing virtually in this one-act play by Simon Stephens The post An Ark: Mixed Reality Theater Provides Mixed Results appeared first o…

Tina Packer, Powerhouse of Shakespeare Performance, Dies at 87 by Richard Sandomir

She was a founder and the longtime artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, a repertory theater in western Massachusetts, and directed all his plays.

Theater Time Review: Best Shows of the First Half of the 2025-2026 Season by Joseph Cervelli

I always prefer listing not the best of the year but those that have opened the first half of the new theater season. Here they are. The listing of those from the second half will be up in M…

The Devil and Daniel Webster by Trav S.D.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was born on January 18; the statue dedicated to him in Central Park turns 150 years old this year. (A terrific article on the 1876 monument is here). When I was a …

Theatre Review: ‘Shakespeare in Harlem’ presented by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in collaboration with UMBC by Ben Pierce

“Shakespeare in Harlem,” originally a collection of poems by Langston Hughes, first opened in New York City in 1960. Though it was widely loved, its run was cut short due to politics of …

Steppin' to the Bad Side on Elaine Paige on Sunday by Broadway.com

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week's episode marks the third and final installment…

The Elusive Andy Rice by Trav S.D.

The ephemeral reference above is the only image I came across that provides any sort of visual on vaudeville writer and performer Andy Rice (1881-1963). The path that led me to awareness of …

Being Alive: When Toronto’s Talk Is Free Theatre Trusts Sondheim, “Company” Soars by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: TIFT’s Company By Ross Two men enter quietly. One takes his place at the piano, the other at center stage. As a radio dial searches for a familiar frequency, sn…

What’s Wrong With Benny Hill? review – a vivid reminder of what millions once found hilarious by Brian Logan

White Bear theatre, LondonMark Carey’s play asks why the former best-loved man on TV has been so thoroughly expunged from our comedy pantheon – but doesn’t have a great deal to add TV …

‘I can’t waste this’: Michael Sheen on his riskiest role yet – saving Wales’s national theatre by Kate Wyver

When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring b…

Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s MLK tribute concert offers message of ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now’ by Christopher Arnott

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra's tribute to the late civil rights leader, Jan. 22 at Asylum Hill Church in Hartford, offers a concert of classical, gospel and modern music.

Yale Center for British Art probes the artistic influence of a ruthless global conglomerate by Christopher Arnott

“Painters, Ports, and Profit: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850," on view through June 21, highlights artists from India, Britain, and China that worked during that era.

Rap Roulette: A Comedy Show of Raptastical Proportions

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Lost to the Rock: Ambition, Mystery, and the Overcrowded Limits of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Ross

As a gentle piano ushers us in, the dreamer and the dream disappear into the night. There’s a quiet but decisive shift in the final moments of that first song, opening our eyes to a crowde…

How the original company of ‘Ragtime’ was cast by Ruthie Fierberg

Jan. 18 marks the 28th anniversary of the musical’s opening — here’s how the star-studded cast first got together.

Review: What to Wear at BAM Harvey by Loren Noveck

Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson restage a Richard Foreman opera with panache for Prototype. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: What to Wear at BAM Harvey appeared first on Exeunt Magazine …