Monday, April 27, 2026
Acclaimed stage and screen actor has taken part in Washington DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library residency program during a troubling time for the CapitolAddressing an audience at the Folger …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Fauci was joined by actor Jesse Eisenberg and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer in reading for DC Climate WeekWhen Anthony Fauci put on a pair of sunglasses, the hall erupted in cheers and a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2025
The victories and tragedies of the famed British fashion designer make the basis of probing off-Broadway play House of McQueen
"You have always made the most beautiful things out of absolute…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
The theatre legend talks his feelings on Trump, the fall of the Kennedy Center and why he finds it hard to trust straight men
Harvey Fierstein is sitting here bleeding to death, he announces…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC
Mark Horowitz had done his homework before Ste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
The tuxedo-clad US president promised a 'golden era' for the US at his first Kennedy Center production in Washington
"Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2025
Priyanka Shetty combines personal and political in #Charlottesville, a play that explores the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally
She had moved from India to live the American dream. Priyank…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The president has demanded that the National Endowment for the Arts denies grants to projects promoting 'gender ideology', leading to protest and legal action
"We now, as a community, have t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2025
The esteemed bipartisan cultural institution has fallen into the hands of the returning president leading to chaos, confusion and a celebrity exodus
America's biggest annual gathering of con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Manuel Oliver's son was murdered at school in 2018 and he's been telling his devastating story at theatres across the US
Night after night, in a darkened room full of strangers, Manuel Olive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2024
The actor, known best for TV roles in Quantum Leap and Star Trek, plays the well-loved president in a one-man show
Scott Bakula has just finished a noon student matinee. The audience include…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2024
Created in 1968 and making groundbreaking strides, the organisation is looking to further expand
Home is where the heart is but it also brought hardships for the National Black Theatre (NBT)…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2024
The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world's biggest collection of the Bard's printed works
When Owen Dodson cast Earle Hyman as Hamlet in a producti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
In her new play, based on WhatsApp correspondence, Sasha Denisova uses her 82-year-old mother Olga to tell a vital story of resistance and survival
For a year Sasha Denisova didn't tell her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
The legendary playwright's humble beginnings and Pulitzer-winning career are explored in the first authoritative biography of him
The host was Bill Moyers, former White House press secretary…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2023
With audience attendance still down, many theatres across the US are struggling to adjust to a post-pandemic landscape
In his four years as US president, Abraham Lincoln was said to have at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 15, 2023
Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical is set for its final performance in New York, leaving behind an intense fanbase
He is used to having the worst seat in the house. Playing trumpet in the orc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 14, 2023
A slew of well-reviewed productions have closed with poor ticket sales while blockbusters dominate the market
With ineffable talents and six Tony awards, Audra McDonald is box-office gold. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2022
Jordan E Cooper became the youngest Black American writer to have a show on Broadway but Ain't No Mo is set to close after only 17 days
It is the call that every playwright dreads. Jordan E …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2022
A new stage production tells the stories of women and their bodily autonomy, or lack thereof, as part of the fight to reverse the supreme court decision to restrict abortion
Theirs was a sec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 30, 2022
American Prophet, focusing on the abolitionist, orator and polymath, is the latest marker of a Douglass renaissance in popular culture
For Kenneth Morris, sitting in a darkened theatre among…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 10, 2022
After a successful reopening, Covid-19 has yet again forced many hit shows to either take a hiatus or close for good but industry insiders are optimistic
At the curtain call, Hugh Jackman pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 14, 2021
The long theatre shutdown in New York has taken its toll on the industry but a renewed and reinvigorated outlook towards diversity could have a major impact
When Ruben Santiago-Hudson walks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 6, 2021
To the author Jeffrey Wilson, the former president is Caesar, Lear, Bottom and more, all rolled into one
The time is out of joint. When lost for words, as many have been over the past five y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Playwright Eduardo Machado discusses his revealing new play that looks at the relationship between the Cuban revolutionary and Celia Sánchez
Fidel Castro is back in the news. Senator Bern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2019
Dean Cain heads up a dramatic retelling of the controversial anti-Trump FBI texts aimed at a rightwing audience
It was not your typical Broadway or West End crowd.
On Thursday night, audienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2019
In his new role as artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, the National Theatre and RSC star talks about swapping Brexit for Trump
As Donald Trump surged towar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2019
In the new show Kleptocracy, a House of Cards writer takes us back to a pivotal moment in history and shines a light on the Russian president's interior lifeThere is a bear in the woods. Vla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
In retelling the story of students dismantling a colonialist statue in Cape Town, a vibrant dance-filled production carries prescience for contemporary America"Rhodes was suspended in the ai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2018
Hit musical, which vice-president was booed at during a 2016 performance, opened at Kennedy Center for three-month runThe mega-hit musical Hamilton made a triumphant debut in Washington on T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Composer and lyricist Jeremy Schonfeld has created a multimedia event to pay tribute to his father's journey in AuschwitzStories of the Holocaust have been told in memoirs, novels and films.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE] 
