Mystery and Wonder: A Legacy of Golden Age Magicians in New York City by Trav S.D.

Today is Houdini’s birthday. He’s the only magician who has his own section here on Travalanche. I’ve something big planned for later this year, since 2026 marks the 100th anniversary …

Pop anthems, glitter and Girl Power shine as The Empire’s smash hit season of & JULIET takes its final bow

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Wake Up With BroadwayWorld March 24, 2026- TITANIQUE Exclusive First Look

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is March 24, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalize…

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Giant" 3/23/26 by Howard Miller

Genuinely disturbing or tempest in a teapot? That's the prompt for post-performance discussion after seeing Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier Award-winning play Giant, which opened tonight at the Mu…

The Matilda Joslyn Gage Bicentennial by Trav S.D.

Here’s a thing of significance known well to most hard-core Oz fans, but not the general public: the mother-in-law of Oz creator L. Frank Baum, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was an impor…

Europe Reigns Supreme: The Europa! Europa Film Festival Calls for YOUR Attention!

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Symposium and Book Launch for Latin American Plays in Translation

By . Join us for a conversation about creating theatre across borders, its challenges and possibilities, and imagine with us a global community that crosses oceans and continents to produce …

Trainspotting Musical Sets London World Premiere by Logan Culwell-Block

Robbie Scott will make his West End debut starring as Renton.

Trainspotting The Musical to Make World Premiere at Theatre Royal Haymarket This Summer by Staff Writer

A world premiere stage musical adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting will storm into the West End this summer as Trainspotting The Musical opens at Theatre Royal Haymarket The post Tr…

Indian Ink Theatre Company to make their Sydney Opera House debut with the Australian premiere of Balloon Dog

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Tango Therapy: How the Dance of Passion Is Helping Parkinson’s Patients by Magalí Druscovich and Pam Belluck

Once a week, patients in an Argentine hospital with Parkinson’s disease use the movements of tango to help address issues of balance, stiffness and coordination.

Joy for Joel Barlow by Trav S.D.

Today, a tribute to a minor player in the American Revolutionary and Early Federal Periods, as well as an early figure in American Arts and Letters: Joel Barlow (1754-1812). I first learned …

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Briefs Factory: The Works

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Roads Less Traveled: Riding the Rails to Theatre West (“My Uterus: A Womb with a View”) and Boston Court Theatre (“Octopus’s Garden”) by Steven Morris

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Drew Anthony Creative to present Monty Python’s SPAMALOT in Perth this May

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Megan Thee Stallion and Kelsie Watts Join Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical Tonight by Jonah De Forest

Megan Thee Stallion and Kelsie Watts join the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge! on March 24. Megan makes her Broadway debut as Zidler, performing in the production through May 17. Watts st…

Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler Star in The Last Five Years in London Beginning March 24 by Andrew Gans

The limited run of the Jason Robert Brown musical plays the London Palladium.

Megan Thee Stallion Makes Broadway Debut in Moulin Rouge! The Musical Beginning March 24 by Andrew Gans

The Tony-winning musical also welcomes recording artist Kelsie Watts to the Hirschfeld.

Night Side Songs: A Luminous, Communal Meditation on Illness, Love, and Letting Go by Suzanna Bowling

When you enter Night Side Songs at Claire Tow Theater, something shifts immediately. This is not a traditional theatrical experience—it feels closer to a gathering, almost like stepping in…

An Invitation You Should Accept: ARC’s “A Mirror” Turns a Wedding Into an Act of Rebellion by Ross

We have been cordially invited to a wedding, and a soft hum of sweet expectation fills the room like Golden notes in the air. We file in, past a familiar sign welcoming us to the union of Le…

Giant by Jacob Malizio

A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of a scandal. And one chance to make amends. Following an acclaimed West End run and three Olivier Awards, GIAN…

As Roald Dahl, John Lithgow Is a Study in Monstrosity by Jacob Malizio

For the most part, though, Lithgow’s Dahl is the sole repository of Rosenblatt’s perception, which is shifting and multivalent and, even in moments of extremity, sympathetic. He weaves i…

Giant on Broadway, How Roald Dahl Accepted His Antisemitism by Jacob Malizio

Nicholas Hytner directs a riveting production that feels much shorter than its two-hour, 15-minute run time, with the supporting cast rising to the high bar Lithgow sets. The post Giant on B…

John Lithgow’s Uneasy Dahl by Jacob Malizio

Mark Rosenblatt’s play Giant is brilliantly structured, quite funny and, in Nicholas Hytner’s production, superbly acted by a cast led by John Lithgow. I wish it didn’t irk me the way …

John Lithgow as a Venomous Roald Dahl Animates a Staggering Production by Jacob Malizio

It’s a credit to the direction of Nicholas Hytner — of “War Horse,” “The History Boys” and other magisterial slices of Brittania — that Lithgow’s titanic performance doesn’…

John Lithgow is superb as Roald Dahl in show about his revolting anti-Semitism by Jacob Malizio

But it’s Lithgow’s ability to be quiet and sweet and seconds later booming and scary that makes us squirm in our seats over our own feelings toward the writer. At times, we really do lik…

Big, Tall, Terrible Roald Dahl Comes to Life in Giant by Jacob Malizio

Lithgow — so nimble and charismatic and then suddenly so imposing, with no aversion to the grotesque — knows how to bring out the insecurity that almost always festers at the center of a…

Mark Rosenblatt’s trenchant Broadway drama explores a beloved author’s antisemitism scandal in the 1980s. by Jacob Malizio

Lithgow’s portrayal of Dahl is ultimately fearsome, but the play’s moral complexity marks it as more than a portrait of the artist as a difficult man. It’s a provocative study in the o…

John Lithgow Delivers A Towering Performance As A Less-Than-Peachy Roald Dahl by Jacob Malizio

Lithgow’s remarkable Olivier Award-winning performance – at this point in the far-from-over Broadway season he and Every Brilliant Thing‘s Daniel Radcliffe seem headed for a showdown �…

John Lithgow Devours Roald Dahl for Breakfast by Jacob Malizio

Rosenblatt is too good at his job. He’s only about 20 minutes into his play and he already delivers a great ending. Unfortunately, there’s no place for the drama to go for the next two h…