From the archives.
Here is my interview with artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and actor Jeffrey Wright, obtained at the Venice Biennale and first published in October, 1996.
Walk…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:48PMThe musical, based on the life of Alicia Keys and featuring her music, is running on Broadway and begins a national tour this fall.
SOURCE: Google at 10:47PM... Broadway shows (the third consecutive year that only Broadway cast recordings have been nominated in the category.) producers Adam Blackstone and ...
SOURCE: Google at 10:47PMBroadway's 'Come From Away' will debut in Philly Feb. 4 -9th at the Academy of Music. Actress Tyler Olshansky-Bailon dishes on what the audience ...
SOURCE: Google at 10:47PMHear from Adam Blackstone and Brandon Victor Dixon on the win for the original Broadway cast album of the Alicia Keys musical.
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The Alicia Keys musical continues at Broadway's Shubert Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:54PMThe stage version of the theatrical Apple TV+ series is making its world premiere at the D.C. venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:54PMSkilled and experienced at comedy and drama, Broadway vet Ashley Blanchet says there's a big difference between the two. She explains . . .
SOURCE: Google at 07:47PMIsn’t it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? — John Leonard, American critic Appropriate won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the 2024 Tony Award for Best Rev…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:47PM★☆☆☆☆ Hawkish comedy is strictly for the birds
The post Pecking Order: Fowl Play Is Foul Play appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:31PM★☆☆☆☆ Two infamous New York–dwelling red-tailed hawks serve as the ostensible inspiration for a flighty new comedy
The post Pecking Order: Fowl Play Indeed appeared first on New …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PMHells Kitchen has won the 2025 best musical theater album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMHell's Kitchen has won the GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album at the 67th GRAMMY Awards! The GRAMMY will be awarded to...
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Anything goes at Carnegie Hall when The New York Pops performs the songs of Cole Porter. Tony DeSare and his guests Bria Skonberg and John Manzari ...
SOURCE: Google at 06:52PMBroadway says goodbye to two limited run productions. Left on Tenth takes its final bow at the James Earl Jones Theatre following 29 previews and ...
SOURCE: Google at 06:52PMADRIENNE WARREN IS, INDEED, SIMPLY THE BEST The second of a three Beyond Broadway concert series was headlined by Tony-winner Adrienne Warren. I have followed Warren since 2016 when I saw he…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:52PMDIRECTOR AND PLAY: A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT, INDEED On February 6, The Bent in Palm Springs is opening Perfect Arrangement, a biting and timely comedy by Topher Payne. Set in 1950 during the he…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:52PMWinners of the 2025 Grammys were announced on Sunday, Feb. 2. The gramophone trophies were doled out across two different ceremonies featuring 94 categories. Most of the awards went out duri…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:52PMThe music industry’s biggest night is underway Sunday, as the 2025 Grammys award some of the world’s biggest artists. Beyoncé led the way with 11 Grammy nominations, a career-high, for …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PMThe stage version of Schmigadoon!, based on the Apple series, has made its world premiere at the Kennedy Center. Check out photos from the production now!
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By: David Sheward
January 29, 2025: When Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day opened Off-Broadway in 2019, the dark comedy about the vaccination debate at a high-toned private school in Berkel…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:53PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
January 31, 2025: Anyone who’s ever struggled to master a foreign language in private classes will find something to appreciate in English, Sanaz Toossi’s fitfull…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:49PMBy: David Sheward
January 24, 2025: If you’re looking for the perfect date night show—or just want a massive injection of laughs—then head over to the Hudson Theater for All In: Come…
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Last night, Saturday, February 1st, MJ the Musical celebrated its 3rd anniversary on Broadway. Check out photos of current MJ Elijah Rhea Johnson and the rest of the cast from the celebrati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMSarah Silverman’s The Bedwetter – A New Musical is currently in rehearsals at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. See what stars Shoshana Bean and Liz Larsen have to s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMWell, what do you know about that? A theme of sort emerges today. February 2 is the birthday of Betsy Gay (b. 1929), a cornfed child performer who sang, danced and yodeled, and it’s also t…
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Sanaz Toossi's heartbreaking play is about the way language can fracture and separate us from ourselves. Nicole Serratore reviews.
The post Review: English at Todd Haimes Theatre appeared f…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 12:56PMBroadwayWorld has learned that Idina Menzel will be out of Redwood for the Sunday, February 2nd matinee performance due to illness. Standby Jessica Phillips will be on for the performance.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMJoin us at the Orpheum Theatre on Monday, March 17 and be the first to discover our 2025-2026 Broadway Season lineup.
SOURCE: Google at 12:29PMJon M. Chu's musical "Wizard of Oz" riff "Wicked," based on the pop-u-lar Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, wasn't terribly ...
SOURCE: Google at 12:29PMDirect from Broadway, The Great Gatsby is the Tony Award-winning smash hit new musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel. The epic ...
SOURCE: Google at 12:29PMDestiny Child's Michelle Williams on her new Broadway role in 'Death Becomes Her,' Beyoncé, Kelly and the other Michelle Williams.
SOURCE: Google at 12:28PMThe 68th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes ...
SOURCE: Google at 12:28PMThe winners of the 2025 Obie Awards, celebrating excellence in off- and off-off-Broadway theater, were announced on February 1.
SOURCE: Google at 12:28PMNew York City's theater scene extends far beyond Broadway, with some of the most exciting and groundbreaking work happening off- and off-off ...
SOURCE: Google at 12:28PM... Broadway and off-off-Broadway theater, considering more than 300 productions each season – this time for shows that opened between September 1 ...
SOURCE: Google at 12:28PMTHERE’S A HOT HIT COOKING IN ROSS In ancient biblical texts, Gilead is not only a place of final peace, but also invokes healing and hope. How appropriate that playwrights James Valcq and …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:28PMA SEARCH FOR MEANING BROUGHT TO GLORIOUS LIFE BY A PUPPET Based on the Booker-prize winning novel by Nobel-laureate South African J.M. Coetzee and adapted and directed by Lara Foot in collab…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:28PMKEEPING MEMORY ALIVE Memoryhouse, which premiered in 2023 as the first full-length ballet directed by Los Angeles Ballet’s new Artistic Director Melissa Barak, is an abstract work compose…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:28PMSIX DEGREES SPOOFS UPPER-CLASS PRETENTIONS Sonoma Arts Live (SAL) has launched an ambitious production of Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare’s now-classic tale of belief and deception a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:28PMIt was hard not to feel that Kenny and I were making our way together, that with his help I’d arrived at a special place in the hierarchy of worldly things.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:28PMWhen the old offensive social media posts by Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón went viral on Thursday, one awards strategist thought of a past Oscar contender who was in a similar sit…
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In an interview with Parade magazine, Idina Menzel, who previously voiced the role of Elsa both Frozen and Frozen 2, revealed that she hasn't received a script for Frozen 3 yet.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMI chose the photo above to head this post on Emmett Miller (1900-1962) because it’s the one I could find that will be least offensive to modern sensibilities. Notwithstanding, Miller was a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:12AMTo read PART I of this interview, go to this link. Collective Interview with V4 Improv Connect Team (Hon Chong (actor, director – Slovakia), Zdravko Stojmirov (actor-Macedonia), Paulina…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:06AMCollective Interview with V4 Improv Connect Team (Hon Chong (actor, director – Slovakia), Zdravko Stojmirov (actor-Macedonia), Paulina Prokopiuk (actress, director – Poland), Lukasz Wojt…
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The Reading Room Festival at the Folger Theatre kicked off Thursday with a deep dive into the historic-minded Shakespeare. Artistic Director Karen Ann Daniels invited a few friends to help h…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:48AMSoho theatre, LondonThe Yorkshireman’s half-banal half-profound ruminations on the subject of sight won me over
A career that might be more successful if only he could describe to people w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMPurv Pullen (Almy Purves Pullen, 1909-1992) was a voice-over artist for animated films, radio and records, a comedian, ventriloquist, and puppeteer. His specialty was bird calls, which had b…
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SOURCE: Google at 06:36AMThe Royal Ballet principal on her late career debut, taking her daughters to work, and playing goodies and baddies
Born in Devon in 1984, Lauren Cuthbertson joined the Royal Ballet School ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSadler’s Wells; Linbury theatre, LondonContenders for two new dance prizes include Kyle Abraham’s buoyant celebration of Black life and an intriguing twist on Georgian folk dance. Elsewh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMOur theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK, from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about working p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMFruitmarket, Edinburgh Multi-art form company Magnetic North celebrate 25 years with a drifting musical journey that moves from isolation to belonging
Scottish theatre company Magnetic North…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMThe Place, LondonSean Gandini’s intricate and artful show about magic shows plays with the audience and the malleable sense of reality
There’s a quote, Sean Gandini tells us, from the Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMWyndham’s; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonSteve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith turn into their own live tribute act; plus, a bold attempt to make sense of Shakespeare’s wayward late trag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSouthwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonThe hit LA fringe show is given a West End makeover of Radiohead, Leona Lewis, Tom Jones and more that doesn’t always work, but the cheeky charm still c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMThe new version of the 70-year-old musical "Peter Pan," at The Bushnell Feb. 4-9, is set in modern times with care taken to discourage outdated stereotypes.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Paper, Color, Line" is on display through April 27 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, features over a thousand European works that span more than 500 years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy DEEPA BHARATH PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press Amy Schumer leading the R-rated comedy “Kinda Pregnant” and “Yellowstone” star Kevin Costner narrating a docuseries about Yosemite National Park are some of t…
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Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu’s ‘Our Mighty Groove’ brings the party to new £1.1bn East Bank development, writes Lydia Spencer-Elliott
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:12AMCapsule reviews of five new musicals that opened this month on Broadway.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AMA story of divorce and self-discovery may be worth telling, but it suffers when it is interwoven with a life narrative that is clearly weighter.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AMBoth Stereophonic and Babemake compelling drama out of the volatile world of pop music-making.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AMA staging of "The Thanksgiving Play" needs to be rooted in the dramatist's demand that the script shock: it should traumatize the ancestors of the perpetrators.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AMOnce again, Revels has pulled together a varied and diverse cast of amateurs and professionals to amplify a valuable lesson: it’s important to stop and take stock of our lives during the l…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AMAt its best, this script offers an opportunity for audiences to cast a backward glance at the first stirrings of dramatist Lynn Nottage’s prolific canon.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AMOur critics salute the year's outstanding productions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AMFew could doubt this satire's relevance, given the alarming results of November’s election: a convicted felon, whose minions lean into racist and sexist tropes, is back in the White House.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06AMIn a production filled with emotional intensity, Audra McDonald delivers a powerhouse portrayal that elevates a somewhat uneven staging.
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