Presenting more local productions across Victoria

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A Sign of the Times by Joel Benjamin

This York Theatre Company production at the New World Stages, following a presentation at Goodspeed Musicals in 2016, shoehorns these songs into a book by Lindsey Hope Pearlman from a story …

At Bas Bleu, ‘The Open House’ is a tough nut to crack by Kari Redmond

Be thankful your family isn’t as dysfunctional as the one in Will Eno's bizarre and clever play The post At Bas Bleu, ‘The Open House’ is a tough nut to crack appeared first on OnStage…

From New Haven: A Compassionate View From an Actual Bridge by Bob Verini

★★★★☆ Long Wharf goes on the waterfront to play Arthur Miller's melodrama for all it's worth The post From New Haven: A Compassionate View From an Actual Bridge appeared first on N…

Bliss Street Releases Cast Album by Sandra Mardenfeld

    While theater is an art form with a shelf life — sometimes a show outlives its closing. Such is the story with Bliss Street, an Off-Broadway show at Theater for the New City th…

Jelly’s Last Jam final bows at New York City Center by bwaySHO

Watch the all-star cast of Jelly’s Last Jam at New York City Center Encores! See you at the SHO!

“Chicago The Musical” comes to Pantages in March by Pauline Adamek

With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, CHICAGO is the #1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history — and it still …

Hollywood Pantages announces its 2024-25 Season by Pauline Adamek

Featuring six Los Angeles premieres and the return of two blockbuster favorites, BROADWAY IN HOLLYWOOD (aka Nederlander Organization) is thrilled to announce their new Hollywood Pantages 202…

Northern Lights: Canadian Theatre Now by American Theatre Editors

This month the editors explore a vibrant, multilingual scene just across the border.

Talent abounds in national tour of ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ by Alan Smason

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Producers of Broadway shows that performed reasonably well on the Great White Way have largely been upping their game in the yea…

This Week on Broadway for March 3, 2024: Oh, Mary! @ The Lucille Lortel by James Marino

James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson talk about Oh, Mary! @ The Lucille Lortel Theater, The Connector @ MCC, The Seven Year Disappear @ New Group / Signature Center, The Almeid…

Watch Four Songs from Suffs - YouTube

Comments ; Andrew Barth Feldman and Kuhoo Verma Sing "Tell Her" from 13. Playbill · 135 views ; Julia Lester Performs "Miss Marmelstein" from I Can Get ...

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Madison Kopec Performs "Unlikely Animals" from How to Dance in Ohio. Playbill• ... Playbill•533 views.

'Abbott Elementary' Just Had Its Best Character Moment - Collider

The actress' resume is available to view on Playbill.com and is filled with esteemed Broadway credits. 'Abbott Elementary' Season 3 Allows for ...

How to Build a Universe review – sci-fi dance-theatre show aims high but lands low by Lyndsey Winship

The Place, LondonHumans keep making the same mistakes as five survivors of an apocalyptic event try to build a new civilisation How to Build a Universe is a high-concept show. Imagine you we…

February 2024: Demons Mental and Literal by Nicole Serratore

I've had a bit too much time on my hands and have been watching too much TV. Some shows were not even worth finishing. I'm listing them for completeness.  But 12 shows in one month is too m…

‘Getting Ready’ for one-night-only concert of 13: The Musical! by bwaySHO

Review: In ‘Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad,’ an S.F. native tries to take her city back by Lily Janiak

Ashley Smiley’s Magic Theatre world premiere is SOS alert and valentine, high-tech heist and keenly observed family portrait.

Hooray for Heidi Swedberg: Seinfeld’s Susan is Now Sukey with a Ukey by Trav S.D.

I just…had to do this. It’s only right. A couple of years ago I binged Seinfeld (1989-1998), because I had only caught it sporadically during the original run, though I did manage a pret…

Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens by Michael Billington

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful? Dickens…

This classical ensemble is tuned in to today's headlines by Neda Ulaby

The Apollo Chamber Players in Houston, Texas, create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. Thousands of people attend their perfor…

Theatre Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Anne Valentino

The sheer staying power of three actors playing countless characters over the course of three and a half hours is perhaps the most astounding part of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s producti…

Richard Holbrook: Twenty + Four in 2024 by Sandi Durell

Cabaret Review By Melissa Griegel . . . . 54 Below was a veritable who’s who of cabaret and Broadway, as stars packed the house to see Richard Holbrook and the Tom Nelson Trio on February …

Exclusive: Oh My Pod U Guys- Sir Robin Looks Sexy With His Hair Pushed Back with Jonathan Bennett

I am joined by actor Jonathan Bennett to talk all about his incredible career. Jonathan shares his excitement at making his Bway debut as Sir Robin in Spamalot, and how he has always been a…

The Broadway story behind this rainbow watercolor desk by bwaySHO

Artsy weekend with Ryan with inspiration by The Notebook on Broadway! We stopped a desk and turned into a gorgeous piece of furniture!!! #DIY #bwaysho #thenotebook #stoop #nycstoop #note…

Elaine Paige on Sunday Offers a Musical Celebration of World Wildlife Day 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, Paige presents an assortment of show tunes and…

OVERWINTER (Azuka): A laboratory for important ideas by Toby Zinman

Azuka Theatre presents Overwinter, an interesting new play by local playwright Mackenzie Raine Kirkman; it’s about important ideas, making it a welcome change from the… The post OVERWIN…

Pescador (Fisherman) by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen March 4, 2024: An old fisherman (puppet) grey, frayed, pulpy, has lived his life married to the sea. The relationship is powerful, symbiotic. Sometimes she gives, sometimes…

Video: Andrew Lloyd Webber Tries Peanut Butter for the First Time at Age 75

Watch Andrew Lloyd Webber try peanut butter for the first time at 75 years old in the TikTok video here!

Theater review: A peppy ‘Annie’ at the Shubert is true to its 1930s setting by Christopher Arnott

Jenn Thompson, a regular director at the Goodspeed Opera House, helms a superior national tour of the classic musical "Annie." It's the first tour of the show to visit Connecticut in years.

Video: Watch Fran Drescher Interview Barbra Streisand for SAG/AFTRA's ACTOR TO ACTOR

SAG- AFTRA's President Fran Drescher sat down with 2024 Life Achievement Recipient Barbra Streisand to discuss her legendary career as an actor, director, and recording artist in the video h…

Broadway Rush and Lottery for Spring 2024 Shows by Jonathan Mandell

Eighteen shows are opening in the final eight weeks of the 2023-2024 Broadway season, each of which offers discounts of one kind or another — rush, lottery, digital rush, digital lottery. …

A Monument to Harold J. Stone by Trav S.D.

Today, a brief remembrance of character actor Harold J. Stone (1913-2005). I associate Stone with crook and thug characters but he also played doctors, generals, and other rough-hewn authori…

Murderer, manipulator… or not that bad at all? The reframing of Richard III by Holly Williams

More than 500 years after his death, the monarch most reviled by Shakespeare is still courting controversy – over whether non-disabled actors should ever be cast in the role, and with a ne…

‘Without craft, an actor is a liability’: how row over teaching standards is causing a rift in UK theatre industry by Dalya Alberge

Royal Shakespeare Company steps into dispute at Guildhall drama school after senior teacher quits in protest over methods “O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated …

‘She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist by David Barnett

Saalumarada Thimmakka’s story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about her life When she was a teenage girl, Saalumarada Thimmakka planted her first…

Bhangra Nation: A New Musical review – big, bright and bursting with energy by Clare Brennan

Birmingham RepA university bhangra dance team is torn apart by cultural differences, seamlessly expressed through music and movement, in this zinger of a show Councillor Liz Clements cried l…

Broadway Theaters Will Dim Marquee Lights for Hinton Battle

‘The Cher Show,’ coming to The Bushnell, features three Chers, one Sonny Bono and lots of costumes by Christopher Arnott

The national tour of "The Cher Show," a musical in which the superstar is played by three different women wearing an array of elaborate costumes, is at The Bushnell March 5-10.

‘Escaped Alone,’ an abstract drama about tea and catastrophe, gets first U.S. production at Yale Rep by Christopher Arnott

The first U.S. production of Caryl Churchill's "Escaped Alone" is being directed by Liz Diamond at the Yale Repertory Theatre March 8-30. The hour-long modern drama features four women in th…

The week in theatre: Shifters; The Human Body; Nachtland – review by Susannah Clapp

Bush theatre; Donmar Warehouse; Young Vic, LondonBenedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encou…

Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty; Dimitris Papaioannou: Ink – review by Sarah Crompton

Birmingham Hippodrome; Sadler’s Wells, LondonCarlos Acosta’s BRB revels in an expansive revival of Peter Wright’s 80s classic, while the Greek choreographer’s sensational-looking Ink…

Audrey or Sorrow review – darkly comic tale of ghosts and grief by Helen Meany

Abbey, DublinThe black humour gets grimmer as two parents grieve the sudden death of their baby and a disturbing family history emerges There are three kinds of sorrow, one character explain…

Jack Davenport: ‘What would Shakespeare make of a trigger warning?’ by Patrick Smith

The star of ‘This Life’ may hate actors ‘sounding off’ about politics, but he has strong views on everything from Brexit and Andrew Tate to soaring London ticket prices. As his new p…

Broadway's Appropriate Completes Run at Hayes Theater March 3; A Commercial Transfer is Next by Margaret Hall, Molly Higgins

The Second Stage production will play a 13-week limited engagement at the Belasco beginning later this month.

Lucy Prebble's The Effect Begins Limited Run at The Shed March 3 by Logan Culwell-Block, Molly Higgins

Jamie Lloyd directs the revival, which played London's National Theatre last year.

Joshua Harmon's Prayer for the French Republic Completes Extended Broadway Run March 3 by Logan Culwell-Block

David Cromer directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production, an Off-Broadway transfer.

Jelly's Last Jam at New York City Center Encores! Completes Run March 3 by Logan Culwell-Block

Nicholas Christopher leads the cast as legendary jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton.

Immersive Priscilla the Party! Begins Performances in London March 3 by Meg Masseron

The new production turns the Olivier-winning musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert into a dance party with dining options, a bar, and more.

13: The Musical Concert, With Elizabeth Teeter, Andrew Barth Feldman, More, Presented March 3 by Andrew Gans

The Long Island concert of the Jason Robert Brown musical benefits the Barbra Barth Feldman Performing Arts Center.

Louise Dearman and Rachel Tucker Star in London Side Show Concert March 3 by Andrew Gans

Emma Butler directs the Henry Krieger and Bill Russell musical at the London Palladium.

Mallory Portnoy and Nick Blaemire Re-Create A Party With Betty Comden and Adolph Green at Café Carlyle March 3 and 4 by Logan Culwell-Block

The Broadway alums played the famous writing team in the Oscar-nominated Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro.