1922’s Forbidden! — First Major Gay Play Seems Contemporary
What do you do when who you are threatens to make you an outcast and shatter your family? That’s the question bedeviling a young man facing his homosexuality in Forbidden!, a 104-year-old …
What do you do when who you are threatens to make you an outcast and shatter your family? That’s the question bedeviling a young man facing his homosexuality in Forbidden!, a 104-year-old …
Every August, millions gather in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Fringe, the world's largest performing arts festival. This year's festival features a sauna.
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 is putting a pep in your step with show t…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Chicken Shop Date co-writer gives a gossipy, erudite account of his relationship with how he looks in this assured debutAt a fringe noticeable for the polis…
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Assembly George Square studios, EdinburghWriter and actor Alaa Shehada turns a simple bus trip from the West Bank into a vivid tale of bureaucracy, humiliation and resistanceIt is the simpli…
Edinburgh PlayhouseSan Francisco Ballet brings a spectacular collision of dance, music and digital wizardry to the Edinburgh international festival in this bold reimagining of Pandora’s bo…
Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland’s latest show sold out its entire run at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before the festival even began, with interest piqued by their three previous sold…
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Edinburgh Fringe Review: GAMEPLAY at Pleasance "I was steadily pulled into its complex web of ideas and reflections on the power of human imagination." The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: GAME…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Horrorshow at Summerhall "Joe Matty as Ollie is undeniably the standout" The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Horrorshow at Summerhall (Anatomy Lecture Theatre) appeare…
Studio theatre, Edinburgh Groupwork’s physical theatre show captures the real story of a midwest mystic from the 50s and the followers she drew, in all their eerie ordinarinessIn the early…
September arrives with the U.S. Open in full swing at Flushing Meadows, followed almost immediately by Fashion Week, Broadway Week, major art fairs, Harry Styles taking over Madison Square G…
Winner of 10 Awards, including Best Musical, the hit production opened at the Hirschfeld in 2019.
When I saw Wendy Wasserstein’s seminal play The Heidi Chronicles 11 years ago, I left the theater feeling something I hadn’t felt in a long time – seen. A newly single 31-year-old work…
off-Broadway – Initiative Productions at CSC space’s Lynn Angelson Theater: 136 East 13 Street. Aug. 24-Sept. 19, 2026. Comedy-Drama. Author/Director: Laura Strausfeld adapting Anton Che…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic’s unique tale of assimilation and romance-related limbo has a high joke rate and emotional intelligenceI want to tell Omar Badawy to take a breath. …
Insight Colab Theatre's inventive radio-play format brings a real family cold case to life, even if the ending never surprises
(Annie Levin’s article appeared in the Compact, 8/27; Photo: Joan Marcus/ The Public Theater.) For decades, the free outdoor summer performances put on by Manhattan’s Public Theater have…
The marquee at Broadway’s Booth Theatre appears to confirm the rumors: Bruce Norris’ acclaimed and controversial play Downstate will take up residence at the venue in an upcoming product…
It’s been 25 years since the horror rock musical Bat Boy flew into New York City and opened on March 21, 2001, at Off-Broadway’s Union Square Theatre. Featuring a book by Keythe Farl…
In the final schweaty days of August, may I recommend two refreshing stage diversions Off-Off Broadway?
Magicians don't just perform on Broadway - they also act as theatrical consultants to create spooky or magical illusions in plays and musicals
By SHARON EBERSON Explorations of art and class, aging and death, lives well-lived and -loved, the good, the bad and the funny, are rolled into the Becoming Arts Collective’s second annual…
Assembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghFour clowns stir up a strange stew of ideas about faith in this playful and highly physical comedy‘Anyone ever been born before?” That’s a rare…
The film franchise makes the jump to Broadway in a frightfully fun production that's causing audiences to jump in their seats.
There are plenty of laughs in Paranormal Activity, a play that just might be Broadway’s scariest horror story ever, but they’re not the lighthearted jolly chuckles of, say, Titanique or …
Frontmezzjunkies reports: Part two of my TIFF planning adventure, where the tickets are purchased, the press screenings are scheduled, and there are still far too many films I want to see By…
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Winter, who costarred with his old Bill & Ted partner Keanu Reeves last year in the Broadway revival of Waiting For Godot, will return to the New York stage next year in …
At the newly reopened King’s theatre in Edinburgh, as part of the international festival, Geoff Sobelle’s Clown Show is a dizzying whirl through US historyClown Show review – the Ameri…
The ‘Golden girls of Eastbourne’ first crossed paths more than 50 years ago. They recall flammable feather head-dresses, wardrobe malfunctions and topping the bill over the BeatlesI hear…
Nominated in three previous years, the rambunctious standup – one half of The Delightful Sausage – wins the prize for his show Rewilding while Marty Gleeson is named best newcomerThe ann…
The Great Gatsby's Kurt Csolak is taking over our Instagram today! Follow along here as the production's dance captain takes our Instagram followers behind-the-scenes of the hit Broadway mus…
This week, magician Carisa Hendrix joins panelists Peter Grosz, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Tig Notaro to talk fire-eating, drag, and cheetos.Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks f…
As Fringe enters its final weekend, it's time to share Theatre Weekly's Best of the Fest 2026, our annual celebration of the productions that have made this year's Edinburgh Fringe unforgett…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Wreck at Summerhall "This show’s aesthetic is perfection itself" The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Wreck at Summerhall (Old Lab) appeared first on Theatre …
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Goodbye Dandelion at Underbelly (Belly Dancer) "it is the most emotionally affecting work I have seen at Edinburgh this year" The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Goodb…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Amnesia at Pleasance "Hart-Simpson holds a magnetic stage presence" The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Amnesia at Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2) appeared first on The…
A Scottish woman sings Arirang. A Korean man dances in a ceilidh. Both words were new to me – the first a traditional Korean folk song; the second a traditional Scottish gathering that fe…
Summerhall, EdinburghAngele and Malcolm Galea’s two-hander cycles through grief and sorrow as a broken-hearted hero is trapped in purgatoryA fairytale plunges the reader into a dilemma the…
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Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghCantrill shares his struggles descending into middle age and his awkward interactions with fellow villagers in a fun showNow a four-time nominee for the Edinbu…
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“Dusting off the old robes. New York — see you all in February,” Grint announced on Instagram. It took 25 years, eight films and one very famous redheaded wizard, but Rupert Grint is h…
Broadway history, Marc Shaiman and the man who apparently invented that little tab on your coffee-cup lid walk into a theatre. No, this isn’t the beginning of a joke. It’s what’s happe…
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