Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 1pm (Broadway Time)
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Can You Unravel My Life in the Theatre's Web of Connections? by Margaret Hall

Playbill's Margaret Hall breaks down the many connections between the 26 stars of the hit video series.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at noon (Broadway Time)
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Explore the Origins of the Upside Down With These Exclusive Backstage Photos at Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway by Jamie Kravitz

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage play prequel set in 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, first opened at Broadway's Marquis Theatre in April. Now, with season five of the Netflix series wrapp…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PM

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for December 24, 2025 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche post for December 24, 2025 is about Eugène Scribe and the Well Made Play. In honor of the season, here are some highlights of the Christmas section of Travalanche:…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PM

Adrian Blake Enscoe, Gerianne Pérez, Amanda Jill Robinson, Sam Hartley, More Join Saloon Sessions by Margaret Hall

The series features Broadway artists performing their favorite songs outside of the showtune genre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM

Watch Entire Sarah Brightman Concert, A Christmas Symphony by Andrew Gans

The Phantom of the Opera star is joined by guests Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aled Jones, and the Gregorian choir.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM

OUR STORY by TotalTheater

The history of TotalTheater goes back more than two decades, and its vision began a decade before that. Throughout the 1990s, David Lefkowitz, a playwright, theater critic, and journalist fo…

SOURCE: TotalTheater at 12:06PM

Ratings Explained by TotalTheater

KEY TO TOTALTHEATER’S CRITICOPIA RATINGS (This rating system was created in the early 1990s for This Week ON STAGE magazine, the hardcopy precursor to TotalTheater.com. We reprint it here,…

SOURCE: TotalTheater at 12:06PM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11am (Broadway Time)
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NORM LEWIS PULLS HIS SLEIGH INTO TOWN IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS by Ron Fassler

Review by Ron Fassler . . . It’s that time of year and Broadway stalwart Norm Lewis is back at 54 Below with “Christmas Lives Here.”

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:44AM

Former THE LION KING Star Imani Dia Smith Has Died at 25

Imani Dia Smith, who previously starred as Young Nala on Broadway in Disney’s Lion King, has died at the age of 25. Smith was killed by her boyfriend, Jordan Jackson-Small, who has been ch…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AM

Former The Lion King Child Star Imani Dia Smith Has Died at 25 by Margaret Hall

Ms. Smith played Young Nala in the long-running production.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM

Watch Highlights From D.C. Guys and Dolls, Starring Julie Benko, Jacob Dickey, Kyle Taylor Parker by Andrew Gans

Francesca Zambello is directing the classic musical at the Shakespeare Theatre Company with choreography by Joshua Bergasse.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10am (Broadway Time)
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Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke to Star in Benefit Reading of ‘All the President’s Men’ (Exclusive) by Caitlin Huston

The reading is a benefit for the Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre and honors the legacy of Stella Adler.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:45AM

Interview: Debra Batton on Decades With Circus Oz and Bringing MERRY MAYHEM to New York

Melbourne, Australia’s Circus Oz is performing at New York's New Victory Theater this holiday season! Featuring jaw-dropping stunts, slapstick comedy, live music, and a multi-generational …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AM

Wake Up With BroadwayWorld December 24, 2025- MAMMA MIA! Posts Its Highest Grosses Yet and More

Merry Christmas Eve, BroadwayWorld! It is December 24, 2025 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, Persona…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AM

New Tour of Les Miz at Broward Center Reassures You That Goodness Still Exists by Bill Hirschman

The newly-reimagined national E quity tour of Les Misérables at the Broward Center is alternately spectacle and moving theater. Even after multiple viewings, this beloved mega-musical reas…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM

Go Backstage at Mamma Mia! With Dancing Queen Jalynn Steele by Jonah De Forest

Mamma Mia! has audiences dancing in their seats at the Winter Garden Theatre to ABBA's greatest hits. The fabulous Jalynn Steele plays Tanya, who raises the roof with her second act showsto…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AM

Why Community Connection Matters More Than Ever for Regional Theater

I love the theater. Wherever I travel around the country, I look to see what regional theater is playing there. I touch base with regional theater leaders in those areas. I want to see the q…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AM

Theatre in Review: NIGHT STORIES (The Wild Project) by David Barbour

What Sutzkever has to say is important, possibly priceless.

SOURCE: www.lightingandsoundamerica.com at 10:03AM

Eugène Scribe and the Well Made Play by Trav S.D.

Well, if you’re named “Scribe”, you had better be a writer. Eugène Scribe (1791-1861) was to be one of the most prolific and influential playwrights in theatrical history. He turned o…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:02AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 9am (Broadway Time)
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 8am (Broadway Time)
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Birth + Carnage by Holli Harms

By Holli Harms Birth + Carnage is the story of the life of celestial stars, from conception to growth to destruction and what happens after that cataclysm. It is truly one of the most gorgeo…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 08:08AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 7am (Broadway Time)
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“Does It Hurt?” Love and Injury in Off-Broadway’s “Gruesome Playground Injuries” by Ross

The Off-Broadway Review: Gruesome Playground Injuries By Ross “What happened to your face?” It’s a simple question, asked by an eight-year-old girl in a school nurse’s office, but it…

SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:36AM

‘Anaconda’ review: Snake-filled homage to 1997 original is silly fun by Tribune News Service

There are movies that you watch because they add to humanity’s great history of finding life’s meaning through art, and then there are movies that you watch because it’s fun to hear so…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AM

Broadway show forces audiences to lock away their phones - and watch nudity by Jocelyn Noveck

‘Liberation’ is prompting spontaneous applause, raw emotion and an unusual social rule that forces audiences to fully surrender to the moment

SOURCE: www.the-independent.com at 07:18AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 6am (Broadway Time)
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A daring scene on Broadway this season has audiences talking, in more ways than one by The Associated Press

By JOCELYN NOVECK NEW YORK (AP) — On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-rai…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AM

A Look Ahead At London’s West End In 2026: Cynthia Erivo, Josh O’Connor, Tilda Swinton & Gary Oldman Among Stars Returning To The Theater by Baz Bamigboye

More and more screen stars will return to their theatrical roots in 2026 to give their stage muscles a workout. Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo is back after a 12-year absence to the West End, as D…

SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 5am (Broadway Time)
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‘Tartuffe’ Gets a Colorfully Modern Makeover by Tim Teeman

With its profanity-laced script, Lucas Hnath’s Molière adaptation, starring Matthew Broderick, is a mischievous clash of the old and the new.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 3am (Broadway Time)
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Nights to remember: Tristram Kenton’s best theatre and dance shots of 2025 – in pictures by All Photographs By Tristram Kenton

The National Theatre’s Hamlet, Northern Ballet’s Merlin and the musical Scissorhandz are among the highlights of the Guardian photographer’s stage spectaculars Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 1am (Broadway Time)
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‘Tis The Season For Ticket Scams by Joe Patti

Yes, ’tis the season for ticket scams I am afraid. My venue often sees an uptick in complaints around the holidays. We often attribute it to the fact we have people attending events at our…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AM

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