Protein Dance: The Magic Flute review – charming family show conjured out of Mozart opera by Lyndsey Winship

DanceEast, Ipswich This colourful quest story is stylishly simplified for a young audience and an energetic cast of just four, choreographed by Luca Silvestrini to a melodious Frank Moon sco…

A Huge Hugh Jackman Surprise on This Week's Elaine Paige on Sunday 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 has an array of festive and non-festive …

The State of Alabama by Trav S.D.

My son, who takes great pictures, snapped the one above about a month ago during our trip to visit to family homelands in Alabama. Today is Alabama Statehood Day, so I thought I would do a p…

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for December 14, 2025 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for December 14, 2025 include ones on DeFord Bailey, the Addrisi Brothers, and National Alabama Day. Earlier Travalanche posts for December 14 (in no particu…

Goodbye You Big Cheese in the Sky (We Won’t Forget You)

New Year’s Eve With Orfeh!

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Big Lux and The Hype

Sam Keedy NY Sextet

DRAG BRUNCH at Chelsea Table + Stage

The Return and Reconstruction of “Marjorie Prime” by Ross

The Broadway Theatre Review: Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime By Ross There is something quietly devastating about returning to Marjorie Prime in 2025. What once felt like speculative fict…

DeFord Bailey: The First Black Country Singer by Trav S.D.

I first became aware of DeFord Bailey (1899-1982) just a few weeks ago, when researching my post on The Grand Ole Opry, which just turned 100, and which I just visited. Bailey was one of the…

Meet the Indigenous women behind Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s ‘most stylish’ looks by The Associated Press

By FERNANDA PESCE and MARIA VERZA SAN ISIDRO BUEN SUCESO, Mexico (AP) — In the Mexican mountain town of San Isidro Buen Suceso, Virginia Verónica Arce Arce begins her days as she has for …

Worldly new age ensemble provides the soundtrack to the winter solstice with concert at Yale by Christopher Arnott

Connecticut-based composer Paul Winter, a lover of nature and a pioneer of world music, brings his Paul Winter Consort to Yale's Woolsey Hall on Dec. 19.

The Addrisi Brothers’ Great Leap by Trav S.D.

The Addrisi Brothers are not exactly household words. Songwriters, even successful ones, seldom are. As it happens, they wrote one of my favorite songs in the world, though you may wretch wh…

Old-fashioned style toy store coming to destination CT town. ‘It was a way to create something’ by Pamela McLoughlin

The goal has been "very thoughtful" in carrying the "hottest items to tireless classics."

Tom Hanks on the Electrifying (and Terrifying) Experience of Writing a Play by Tom Hanks and Thomas Prior

The actor also stars in the Off Broadway production of “This World of Tomorrow,” a yearslong project at the Shed through Dec. 21.

Great playwrights we lost in 2025 had a major impact on CT theater. Here’s how. by Christopher Arnott

Four monumental talents left their mark not just on Broadway and London’s West End but on the thriving Connecticut regional theater scene.

Bah, hungry! Our theatre critic tucks into immersive banquets inspired by Charles Dickens and The Nutcracker by Arifa Akbar

Festive theatrical feasts serve audiences a slap-up dinner with their entertainment. But is what’s on stage as appetising as what’s on your plate? In west London, a line of smartly dress…

CLASS: 2026 3-Day Classical Monologue Intensive | Exploring Verse

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Marjorie Prime: Memory, AI, and the Echoes We Leave Behind by Suzanna Bowling

In the quietly futuristic revival of Marjorie Prime, playwright Jordan Harrison asks a haunting question: What if memory itself could be edited—and preserved—through artificial intellige…

The Art of Leaving Should Consider a Rewrite by Suzanna Bowling

The Art of Leaving, a new play by Anne Marilyn Lucas now playing at the Pershing Square Signature Center, may be fresh to the stage, but it arrives feeling strangely fossilized—as though u…