Friday, August 22, 2025

Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Friends: Kool Story Bro review – eccentric improv antics by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nude life-drawing class to a Colombian kidnapping, with help from his Ghosts co-star Lolly Adefope, Smith-Bynoe uses audience members’ stories to comic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Julio Torres: Color Theories review – prismatic brilliance from comedy’s most vibrant absurdist by Ryan Gilbey

Soho theatre, LondonThe nonconformist TV writer, film-maker, children’s author and standup is hired to find a new colour in this charismatically surreal hour Fans of the former Saturday Ni…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03AM
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Ways of Knowing review – foggy forecast from weather pioneers, mystics and scientists by Mark Fisher

Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh The performers of Emergency Chorus play comic scenes, do a long syncopated dance and throw shapes in an odd two-hander Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit giv…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM
Monday, August 11, 2025

Well, I’ll Let You Go **** by Barry Gordin

By Isa Goldberg August 11, 2025: Oddly, Bubba Weiler’s new play at the Irondale Brooklyn, Well, I’ll Let You Go, begins where the story ends …after Marv’s death. Being iconoclastic…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:04AM
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Red Like Fruit review – this shocking tale of sexual violence is a puzzle by Arifa Akbar

Traverse theatre, EdinburghIn Hannah Moscovitch’s powerful play, a journalist’s triggered memories of abuse are voiced by a man This two-hander about consent, abuse and the doubt cast ov…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AM
Friday, August 8, 2025

Video: HADESTOWN Celebrates 2000th Performance Featuring Alumni

The current cast of Hadestown and special Hadestown alumni surprise guests celebrated the 2000th performance of the musical on Broadway last night, August 7. Following curtain call, the cast…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AM
Thursday, August 7, 2025

House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals ('60s / '70s Soul Version) ft. LaVance Colley by Postmodernjukebox

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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:00PM
Monday, August 4, 2025

Jesus Christ Superstar review – Cynthia Erivo leads rousing LA revival by Tammy Tarng

Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles There are spotty moments in the much-discussed Andrew Lloyd Webber revival but by the time the final song kicks in, you’ll be a believer Much like its namesake…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Beanie Feldstein Joins Ariana Grande in MEET THE PARENTS Sequel FOCKER-IN-LAW

Broadway's Beanie Feldstein has joined the cast of Focker-In-Law, the upcoming fourth installment in the Meet the Parents comedy series. Feldstein will star in the movie alongside Wicked sta…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PM
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Photos: Princess of Thailand Visits HADESTOWN on Broadway

Last week, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi of Thailand visited Hadestown on Broadway. She attended the show to visit Hadestown cast member Myra Molloy, who plays Eurydice…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PM
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Kennedy Center Drama Continues as Trump Wants Opera House Renamed for Melania, Deadline for Honors Inductees Pending by Roger Friedman

Donald Trump wants to end the opera component at the Kennedy Center. He’s trying to push through a plan rename the opera house after First Lady Melania Trump. If Congress votes for this, t…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:36PM
Monday, July 21, 2025

Baayork Lee Speaks With Richard Jay-Alexander About A CHORUS LINE at 50

Celebrations for A CHORUS LINE will reverberate and be recognized across the world, where hundreds, if not thousands, of productions have been performed in 22 countries, in multiple language…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PM
Monday, July 14, 2025

Comedian John Tothill: ‘My second near-death experience? I blame the bedtime cheesy chips’ by Brian Logan

The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back? ‘In retr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AM
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Broadway Box Office Stumbles During July 4th Holiday Week, With Star Absences Hitting ‘Gypsy’, ‘Call Me Izzy’ & ‘Death Becomes Her’ by Greg Evans

Broadway wilted a bit in last week’s summer heat, with 23 of 30 shows taking a hit at the box office, some significantly. No doubt playing a part in Broadway’s overall decline last week …

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:56PM

‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Through It All Together review – Leeds United drama tackles big themes by Nick Ahad

Leeds PlayhouseChris O’Connor’s comedy-drama unites a paean to former Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa with the story of a married couple living with dementia during the club’s promotion s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM
Monday, June 23, 2025

Jordan Tyson, Gypsy's Dainty June, Is a Rising Broadway Star with New Tricks Up Her Sleeve by Kathy Henderson

Momma Rose is a difficult character to say no to. The Gypsy matriarch tramples on her loving enabler Herbie and pushes shy daughter Louise onto the burlesque stage. Only younger daughter Jun…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PM
Thursday, June 19, 2025

‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth by Ryan Gilbey

The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln When Bill…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM
Monday, June 16, 2025

The Lowest Pair - Millennium Stage (June 18, 2025) by The Kennedy Center

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb During the spring and summer of 2020, The Lowest Pair (Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee) found themselves camping and sharing songs aroun…

SOURCE: YouTube at 10:02PM
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Ali Louis Bourzgui Sings 'Epic III' in 'Hadestown' on Broadway by BroadwayWorld

Hadestown recently welcomed new stars! Check out a first look at Ali Louis Bourzgui as he sings Orpheus’s “Epic III." Hadestown is playing in its 6th year on Broadway at the Walter Kerr…

SOURCE: YouTube at 02:36PM
Monday, June 9, 2025

Some Thoughts on the 2025 Tony Awards by JK

It's been a few hours. The dust has almost settled, and I've gotten my thoughts together. The good, the bad...the baffling. Some Thoughts on the 2025 Tony Awards The Show The Tony Awards…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:42AM
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Miss Myrtle’s Garden review – immersion into a mindscape of sharp quips and memory slips by Anya Ryan

Bush theatre, LondonArtistic director Taio Lawson’s Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of a 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory In Danny James King’s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM

Kitty West: The Axe Woman of Bourbon Street by Trav S.D.

Tribute today to burlesque legend Kitty West (Abbie Jewel Slawson, 1930-2019), whose ingenious stage name plants the idea in your head that you’ve heard of her before, no doubt because it …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:24AM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Review: Real Women Have Curves by JK

Review of the Saturday, May 31, 2025 matinee performance at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Starring Tatianna Cordoba, Justina Machado, Florencia Cuenca, Mauricio Mendoza, Mason Reeves, Ariana…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AM
Monday, June 2, 2025

Review: Buena Vista Social Club by JK

Review of the Friday, May 30, 2025 performance at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City. Starring Natalie Venetia Belcon, Julio Monge, Mel Seme, Jainardo Batista Sterling, Isa Anton…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AM
Saturday, May 31, 2025

The Light in the Piazza by Jacqueline Parker

The Huntington in Boston is presenting a glorious production of Adam Guettel’s masterpiece The Light in the Piazza. Director Loretta Greco has been quoted as saying that this score is the …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:04AM
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Lear Redux: A Quantum Fantasia by Terry Morgan

I usually am somewhat wary of “new takes” or “twists” on classic plays, with cause. Changing the time period of a story or modernizing the text is no guarantee that the play will be …

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:24PM
Monday, May 26, 2025

Review: New Adam Guettel Musical "Millions" Premieres in Atlanta by Frank Rizzo

Carla R. Stewart and Keenan Barrett. All production photos are by Greg Mooney The show: “Millions,” a new musical receiv…

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:36PM
Friday, May 23, 2025

Regional Review: John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only by JK

Review of the Sunday, May 18, 2025 preview performance at Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. Starring Ben Ahlers, Jordan Boatman, Sam Huntsman, Ked Merwin, Adrienne C. Moore and Robbie Tan…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:02AM
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Embarks on UK Tour Following Award-Winning Edinburgh Run by Staff Writer

Following a sold-out, multi-award-winning debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return is set to embark on a major UK tour

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:56AM
Saturday, May 10, 2025

2025 Tony Predictions by Wendy Caster

Although we have not previously shown great acuity in Tony prediction, here we are again. Hope springs eternal! This year’s list of Tony nominees reveals a healthy, exciting season. Lookin…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:36PM

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