Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher to Lead a Broadway Revival of Chess by Hayley Levitt

Chess, the ABBA-scored musical set set around a Cold War-era chess tournament, will return to Broadway in a revival directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer and choreographed by Lorin Lat…

Edith Massey: Back to the Egg by Trav S.D.

May 28 was the birthday of Edith Massey (1918-1984) the dentally challenged oddball at the heart of most of John Waters’ early movies, best known for her egg-sucking scene in Pink Flamingo…

Theatre Review: ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful’ at Everyman Theatre by Lynne Menefee

The term “penny dreadful” describes cheap publications, popular in Victorian England, that were often sold for a penny and featured lurid stories about crime, adventure, or the supernatu…

Theatre Review: ‘Footloose’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Danielle Comer

Everybody’s cutting “Footloose” at NextStop Theatre Company’s production of the 1998 musical based on the beloved 1984 film of the same name. With music by Tom Snow, lyrics by Dean P…

Inside the Swept Away Reunion Concert at the Bowery by Playbill

A pair of sold-out reunion concerts of Broadway's Avett Brothers musical, Swept Away, was held April 28 at Bowery Ballroom. The concerts featured the full original Broadway cast, led by Tony…

Video: Kevin Bacon Revives Iconic 'Footloose' Performance at Stagecoach

On Sunday, the Footloose star took the Stagecoach Festival stage to perform Kenny Loggins' title number from the 1984 musical classic, alongside his brother Michael Bacon. Watch a clip of th…

Shake & Stir Theatre Co announces cast for epic nationwide tour for Orwell’s 1984

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Renee Goddard obituary by Julia Pascal

Actor and script editor who oversaw programmes at ATV and introduced foreign drama to Channel 4 Renee Goddard, who has died aged 102, came to Britain from Germany in 1934, with little educat…

Friday 5: Two Ladies: Shows With 2 Female Leads by JK

"Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, I like it, Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, We like it, Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, This two for one!" So sings the giddy Emcee in Cabaret. We all know what that song su…

Torvill & Dean: Our Last Dance review – Olympic champs’ classy glide down memory lane by David Jays

OVO Arena, Wembley, LondonThis highlight reel of totemic routines interspersed with some dazzling cast numbers showcases the couple’s former greatness and timeless elegance A painfully mir…

John Pizzarelli Trio - "Tea for Two" | Live at The Kennedy Center by The Kennedy Center

Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli has been hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” He’s expanded his repertoire by incl…

Glengarry Glen Ross by Carey Purcell

Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk I lost track of the number of times I thought, “It was a different time,” while watching G…

Glengarry Glen Ross ***, Deep Blue Sound **** by Barry Gordin

By David Sheward April 5, 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s savagely funny takedown of cutthroat Chicago real-estate salesmen, has been a magnet for male actors to prove their thea…

Glengarry Glen Ross ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter April 5, 2025. First seen on Broadway 41 years ago (March 25, 1984), and revived three times since then (2005, 2012, and now, at the Palace), David Mamet’s Glengarry G…

Star-Struck on Broadway: "Glengarry Glen Ross," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Othello" and "The Picture of Dorian G by Jan Simpson

As everyone knows, big name movie and TV stars have been invading Broadway this spring (click here for a rundown of who is doing what) and theatergoers are paying big bucks for the bragging …

Movie review: ‘The Luckiest Man in America’ goes behind scenes of game show scandal by Tribune News Service

“The Luckiest Man in America” is an ironic title for the story of Michael Larson, the Ohio man who managed to win over $110,000 on a 1984 episode of the game show “Press Your Luck.” …

Glengarry Glen Ross review – David Mamet’s masterpiece still dazzles on Broadway by Jesse Hassenger

Palace Theatre, New YorkKieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr lead an impressive new staging of the bleak yet darkly funny drama The new revival of David Mamet’s seminal play Glengarry…

‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Theater Review: Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr Bristle With Cutthroat Rivalry in Punchy David Mamet Revival by David Rooney

Michael McKean also stars in Patrick Marber’s Broadway production of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner about Chicago real estate hucksters driven to desperate measures.

On March 25, 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross Premieres on Broadway by Logan Culwell-Block

Currently enjoying an all-star revival, the David Mamet play won the Pulitzer and the Tony when it debuted.

1984 – The REAL Big Brother is back!

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Becoming Ricky Roma: Joe Mantegna on Originating the Cutthroat Charmer of Glengarry Glen Ross by Darryn King

A little over four decades ago, theater audiences first met Richard Roma, the strutting, soliloquizing top-dog salesman of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. In the hands of the actor Joe…

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The Sam Peckinpah Centennial by Trav S.D.

Born 100 years ago today, Hollywood’s original poet of violence, Sam Peckinpah (1922-1984). I reckon it was always forgone that Peckinpah would not live to see this day. The man consumed v…

Churchill in Moscow review – the British bulldog’s gripping meeting with Stalin by Mark Lawson

Orange Tree theatre, LondonThere are laugh-aloud gags and spiky dialogue as Roger Allam and Peter Forbes star in Howard Brenton’s play about the 1942 encounter In the 1970s, Howard Brenton…

ON KIM STANLEY’S 100 BIRTHDAY by Ron Fassler

Actress Kim Stanley (1925–2001).February 11, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler The actress Kim Stanley (born Patricia Reid) was born 100 years ago today. On Broadway in 19…

Stephen Petronio Is Disbanding His Dance Company by Brian Seibert

The company, founded in 1984, has struggled with finances since the pandemic.

Ballerina Lauren Cuthbertson: ‘There’s a saying that dancers die twice, the first time when they stop dancing’ by Sarah Crompton

The 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…

The Lonely Londoners, Kiln Theatre review - Windrush Generation arrive in a London full of opportunities, but not for them by Gary Naylor

★★★★ THE LONELY LONDONERS, KILN THEATRE A beautifully realised stage adaptation Memories, frustrations and hopes in a city emerging from post-war austerity As something of an immig…

Lynne Taylor-Corbett Dies: Choreographer For Hollywood’s ‘Footloose’, Broadway’s ‘Titanic’ Was 78 by Greg Evans

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Broadway’s Swing and Titanic who also left an indelible mark on Hollywood by guiding Kevin Bacon through his famed solo danc…

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Tony-Nominated Choreographer of Swing! and Footloose, Dies at 78 by Darryn King

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, a Tony-nominated choreographer who also choreographed the iconic steps for the 1984 movie Footloose, has died. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Shaun Taylor-C…

Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett, who worked on Broadway's "Swing!" and the 1984 ... - Threads

Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett, who worked on Broadway's "Swing!" and the 1984 "Footloose" film, has also passed away. @playbill ...