Inspiring Midwest Quirky Art Stories by Joe Patti

I mentioned last week that Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter recently. In addition to the laundromat turned laundrobar in Columbus, OH that has taken a place in that city’s…

Carmen de Lavallade, Beloved Dancer and Choreographer, Dies at 94

Isiah Whitlock Jr., Spike Lee Collaborator and The Wire Co-Star, Dies at 71

Broadway: “Stranger Things” Play Breaks Box Office Record Thanks to Show Finale, Tom Felton Casts $3 Mil Spell Over “Harry Potter” by Roger Friedman

Broadway is suddenly booming, which is good news for everyone. “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” was doing lackluster business all year until… The TV series ends tomorrow night. New …

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for December 30, 2025 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for December 30, 2025 are about Patti Smith, and a wrap-up of those we lost in 2025. There are a large number of rock and rock adjacent births on December 30.…

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Grosses analysis: Broadway does big business during Christmas 2025 by Ruthie Fierberg

For the week ending Dec. 28, the 33 running productions grossed $54,251,856.

Wicked Soars Back to the $4 Million Club, and More From Last Week's Broadway Grosses by Logan Culwell-Block

Christmas week sent theatregoers to Broadway in droves, driving up cumulative grosses to over $50 million.

Broadway Box Office: ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Harry Potter’ Break Records During Holiday Week by Caitlin Huston

'Wicked' jumped back up to the highest grossing spot with $4.4 million across nine performances.

WAITING FOR GODOT Enters Final Week of Performances on Broadway

There are only 7 performances left to see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Jamie Lloyd’s Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting For Godot. The revival is playing a st…

Jasmine Amy Rogers Leads With Vulnerability in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Jonah De Forest

“We were all children once,” says Jasmine Amy Rogers, who plays the sensitive and preternaturally talented preteen Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. “It's …

How to Put a Celebrity at Ease? Make a Pizza. by Sarah Bahr

Times Cooking’s Pizza Interview series introduces a note of nostalgia to encourage stars to open up.

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 12/28/25 - WICKED Reclaims Top Spot During Holidays

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/28/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical…

People, Places, and Things We Lost in 2025 by Trav S.D.

I won’t mince words. The top things we lost in 2025 weren’t mere individuals, they were institutions that once served American society: democracy, rule of law, the U.S. Congress and Supr…

Actor Mickey Rourke faces eviction from LA home over $60,000 in unpaid rent by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — Actor Mickey Rourke faces eviction from his Los Angeles home after failing to pay rent. Rourke, whose birth name is Philip Andre Rourke Jr., received a three-day notice to pa…

Artists Continue to Cancel Performances at the Kennedy Center

See SIX's Limited Edition Anniversary Playbill Cover for January by Margaret Hall

The fan-favorite musical is celebrating its sixth anniversary on Broadway with a series of special Playbills.

Top Viral Moments on Broadway in 2025: BOOP!, 'Hamilten,' & More

Every year, some moments on Broadway leap off the stage and onto social media, becoming international news stories after a viral surge. From Rachel Zegler's balcony performances in Evita to …

Year End Theater Quiz: A Look Back at 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

How much do you remember of this year in New York theater? Answer these 10 questions to find out. Loading…

Episcopalian Goy Keeps Yiddish Alive-Shane Baker/Talkline With Zev Brenner

America's leading Jewish program with newsmaker guests and celebrity interviews.

Matt Doyle Will Celebrate a New Beginning in NYC Concerts by Andrew Gans

The Tony winner will return to 54 Below in February.

10 Most Memorable Broadway Debuts of 2025 by Playbill Staff

Here are the artists whose work we're still buzzing about months later.

Watch the Trailer for the Stranger Things Series Finale

WICKED: FOR GOOD Now Available to Own or Rent on Digital

Ring in the New Year with Wicked! After recently surpassing $500 million at the global box office this past weekend, the musical adaptation is now available exclusively on digital platforms …

Report From New York: Re-Re-Re-Revamped Chess For Existing Fans Of The Score by Bill Hirschman

The new, improved Broadway musical Chess -- based on the procession of earlier edtiond --- is indeed new and improved. Whether that’s enough to get you to buy a ticket to the run at the I…

Carmen de Lavallade, Dancer Whose Career Spanned the Arts, Dies at 94 by Julie Bloom

Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes de Mille and Harry Belafonte.

Boca Raton’s Willow Theatre Hosts Sixth ‘To Life’ Tribute to Jewish Composers and Artists by Dale King

From Arlen and Harburg (“Over the Rainbow”) to Bacharach and David (“Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”); from Rodgers and Hammerstein (Carousel) to Jerry Herman (La Cage Aux Folles)…

2026 Broadway preview: From ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ to ‘The Lost Boys,’ here’s what’s treading the boards next year by Jessica Derschowitz

Giant, Death of a Salesman, and Dreamgirls are also expected to make their debuts.

RAGTIME Breaks Box Office Record at Lincoln Center Theater

Lincoln Center Theater’s 2025 revival of Ragtime, directed by Kewsong Lee Artistic Director Lear deBessonet, has broken the record for highest weekly gross in the history of Lincoln Center…

Patti Smith: Godmother of Punk by Trav S.D.

Patti Smith (b. 1946) hits a much rounder birthday next year, but I have multiple reasons for wanting to visit this topic now, among them: 1) the fact that Smith’s debut LP Horses turned 5…

Watch Nicole Scherzinger Belt Out 'Maybe This Time' at Carnegie Hall by Andrew Gans

The Sunset Blvd. star performed the Cabaret classic during her debut at the famed Manhattan venue.

Broadway Star Derek Klena Joins the Savannah Bananas

Poetry in Drama: Sutzkever’s Stories Come Alive on the Stage by Shalom Berger

The vocabulary of the stories utilizes the palette of the art world, Jewish life and the underworld.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Launches Exhibit on History of Magic Performance

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, located at Lincoln Center, has announced a new exhibition highlighting the history of magic performance. The exhibition, Mystery and Wond…

STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW Breaks Marquis Theatre Box Office Record

The Tony Award-winning Broadway production of STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW broke the 9-performance house record at the Marquis Theatre with a gross of $2,510,948.00 for the week ending …

STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW on Broadway Breaks Marquis Theatre Box Office Record

Stranger Things: The First Shadow broke the 9-performance house record at the Marquis Theatre with a gross of $2,510,948.00 for the week ending Sunday, December 28, 2025. The most Tony Award…

‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’, ‘Ragtime’, ‘Just In Time’ & ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Smash Broadway House Records by Greg Evans

Christmas week was reliably bountiful for Broadway, with early reports of record-breaking grosses for the holiday period coming in hours before the official numbers are released by the Broad…

Video: STRANGER THINGS Performs at Red Bucket Follies 2025

The cast of Stranger Things: the First Shadow took Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to the Upside Down with a special performance at this year's Red Bucket Follies! The performance featured…

The Grandest Princess Ball Ever!

Sitting Around Baker’s Table: An Edward Allan Baker Showcase.

Steve Budd: Oy, What They Said About Love

MY DYING CITY VOL. II

THE MEMORY OF WATER, by Shelagh Stephenson

LOVE ALWAYS: Celebrating the Romance of Nat King Cole

NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERTS AT KENNEDY CENTER ARE CANCELED by Robert Shuman

​​(Adam Nagourney’s and Neil Vigdor’s article appeared in The York Times, 12/29​; Photo: The head of Doug Varone and Dancers called the decision to cancel two performances at t…

Of Lenny Kaye and “Nuggets” by Trav S.D.

December 27 is the birthday of Lenny Kaye (Lenny Kusikoff, b. 1946). Kaye is a man of many accomplishments, but I am going to tout one in particular. The nephew of Hollywood songwriter Larry…

Video: Derek Klena Joins Dancing Baseball Team, Savannah Bananas

Broadway's own Derek Klena has joined the Savannah Bananas, a baseball team that combines the game everyone knows with choreographed song-and-dance performances. Baseball isn't new to Klena,…

Acclaimed stage, TV and movie actor to star in ‘Death of a Salesman’ at Hartford Stage by Christopher Arnott

The production, running Feb. 27 through March 29, will star Peter Jacobson, best known for his roles in TV series such as "House" and "The Americans."

When Sammy Davis Jr. Knocked Out Broadway by Laurence Maslon

The entertainer, who would have turned 100 this month, reinvented himself by starring in the musical version of Clifford Odets’s prizefighting drama “Golden Boy.”

In ‘Ann Lee,’ Dance Is the Fuel for a Godly 18th-Century Rave by Gia Kourlas and Lila Barth

“The Testament of Ann Lee,” starring Amanda Seyfried, tells the story of the Shakers and their feminist leader. Dance and music are its vital, mystical language.

Wake Up With BroadwayWorld December 30, 2025- Win Opening Night TITANIQUE Tickets and More

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 30, 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, Personalized…

A Ghost Story Whispers for Christmas Eve: “The Woman in Black” at the CAA Theatre by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black By Ross “It was 9:30 on Christmas Eve.” Arthur Kipps cannot quite get the line out before he is gently, then firmly, interru…

Important- Postmark Will No Longer Reflect The Day Mailed by Joe Patti

Totally off my radar until I saw a LinkedIn post by April Clark. Starting December 24, 2025 your local post office will no longer postmark outgoing mail. The postmark will be places on the m…

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ABRA Cadabra

2026 BABCC FINALS

2022 2 Across

Comedy Night: Colin Quinn

MCP’s “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” (2024)

City Hall Auditorium Arts Center

A Mortal Thing

Juice–A Secret Revealed

Broadway Shockers 2025: The (Ir)Resistible Return of Scott Rudin

A Town, a Bully, and the Moment Everything Breaks: Kenrex at The Other Palace by Ross

‘911, what’s your emergency?’ ‘My husband… they shot him… they all did.’ It’s July 10th, 1981, Missouri, and in that sharp introduction, Kenrex at The Other Palace arrives li…