Friday, October 24, 2025

Aida | Oct. 24 - Nov. 2, 2025 @ The Kennedy Center by The Kennedy Center

Get your tickets now! https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida …

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Sneak Peek: Aida at the Kennedy Center | Oct. 24 - Nov. 2, 2025 by The Kennedy Center

Get your tickets now! https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida …

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:48PM
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Barrier(s) review – tender yet tough account of a queer couple’s connection by Anya Ryan

Birmingham RepStaged by Deafinitely Theatre, Eloise Pennycott’s play sets romance against a broken, unjust system Barrier(s) is a queer love story about a couple with vastly different expe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Punch by Wendy Caster

Punch completely blew me away, as it did the people I saw it with. A wild, disaffected young man, Jacob, punches another young man, James, for no particular reason. That one punch kills Jam…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:36PM

HELL’S KITCHEN To Collaborate With 92Y for Broadway Spotlight Educational Program

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) will launch Broadway Spotlight, a ten-week arts residency for New York City public high school students, developed by 92NY’s School Engagement team in co…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PM
Monday, October 20, 2025

Aida | Oct. 24 - Nov. 2, 2025 @ The Kennedy Center by The Kennedy Center

Buy tickets today: https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/aida/ Verdi’s epic drama captures a war between heart and homeland. Duty versus desire. Loyalty versus love. Aida is…

SOURCE: YouTube at 06:48PM
Thursday, October 16, 2025

New Musical Elephant Shoes Sets Industry Presentation by Margaret Hall

Performed in ASL and spoken English, the work will get a world premiere via Two River Theater and Deaf West Theater in 2026.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PM

Video: Willemijn Verkaik & Sabrina Weckerlin Perform 'That's The Way It Is' From & JULIET

To celebrate her run in the show and the passing of the torch from one Anne Hathaway to the next, Willemijn Verkaik got together with Sabrina Weckerlin to record a special duet version of 'T…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PM

No, No, No, Noah Webster! by Trav S.D.

200 years ago Noah Webster (1758-1843) finished the first edition of what we now call, many editions later, the Meriam-Webster Dictionary. The 70,000 word original, known as the American Dic…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AM

Deaf West Theatre Will Host Industry Preview Event for ELEPHANT SHOES, A New Musical

Deaf West Theatre will host an industry preview event at NYC’s Museum of Broadway on Monday, October 20, for Elephant Shoes, a new original musical with a book by Ivan Menchell, music and …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AM
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Uncovered Herbert Kretzmer Letter Reveals He Felt His Work on LES MISERABLES Was Undervalued

Letters from the late Herbert Kretzmer, recently donated to Cambridge University Library, reveal that the writer, who famously wrote the English-language lyrics for Les Miserables, felt he d…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AM

Video: Justin Peck and Patricia Delgado Talk BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB on CBS

In a recent video segment, CBS Mornings Plus co-anchor Adriana Diaz sat down with Buena Vista Social Club co-choreographers Justin Peck and Patricia Delgado, a husband-and-wife duo whose per…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AM

Theater review: Iranian drama/comedy ‘English’ speaks to the many ways people communicate by Christopher Arnott

Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, one that makes you feel OK about your own struggles to fit in, is a good start to TheaterWorks Hartford’s 2025-26 season.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Monday, October 13, 2025

John Woodvine obituary by Michael Coveney

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company John Woodvine, who has died aged 96, was a proud Tynesider and stalw…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM

After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal by Matthew Sturgis

The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon Today, Oscar Wilde is one of the most celebrated writers in English, bo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM
Sunday, October 12, 2025

The Aleister Crowley Sesquicentennial by Trav S.D.

Born 150 years ago this day, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), prophet, poet, scholar, and all around English decadent. We’ve posted twice before on this influential figure, once merely as a s…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:42AM
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Museum of Austerity Comes to the Young Vic Theatre This Winter by Staff Writer

ETT (English Touring Theatre) has announced its Winter season with the London run of Museum of Austerity, a powerful mixed reality installation exploring the human cost of austerity The post…

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 09:24AM
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Nicole Scherzinger review – raunchy gags and dazzling stylistic zigzags by Michael Cragg

Royal Albert Hall, London Riding high off Tony and Olivier wins, the Pussycat Doll turned theatre star showcases her astonishingly versatile singing chops and a standup’s gift for chaotic …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM
Monday, October 6, 2025

Maria "Do-Re-Mi" in Three Languages by Rodgers & Hammerstein

Maria can teach the magic of music in any language. 🎵 Watch "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music in English, German and Italian!

SOURCE: YouTube at 11:53AM

Photos: Classic Stage Company's THE BAKER'S WIFE Company Meets the Press

Rehearsals are underway for The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company. The production will run from October 23 – December 21, 2025 at CSC’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater, with an opening ni…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48AM
Friday, October 3, 2025

Romeo a Juliet review – star-crossed lovers divided by language by Gareth Llŷr Evans

Sherman theatre, CardiffTheatr Cymru’s bilingual version of Shakespeare’s tragedy brings intriguing complexity to the warring families but also some confusion ‘Speakest thou from the h…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM

Video: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Cast Performs 'Qué Bueno Baila Usted' on THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW

On Thursday, the Tony Award-winning cast of Broadway's Buena Vista Social Club joined The Kelly Clarkson Show for a special performance of "Qué Bueno Baila Usted." Check it out here. Earlie…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AM

Tony Winner Dame Patricia Routledge Dies at 96

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer, known for her work on stage and screen, has died at age 96. Born in Birkenhead, Englan…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54AM

English National Ballet’s R:Evolution review – a triple whammy of Balanchine, Forsythe and Graham by Lyndsey Winship

Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn a stunning evening, fearless and faultless dancers deliver a trio of classics, ending with a gorgeous yet more subdued piece by David Dawson English National Balle…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AM
Thursday, October 2, 2025

What to expect at an audio described ballet performance | English National Ballet by Official London Theatre

Check out boundary pushing ballet at Sadler's Wells this October. With audio described performances and touch tours available, there are more ways to experience the movement. Get tickets f…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:50PM

Les Misérables lyricist felt lack of credit for transforming musical to English, letters reveal by Ellie Muir

Late lyricist Herbert Kretzmer had written to producer Cameron Mackintosh to highlight that his contributions were ‘downgraded’

SOURCE: www.the-independent.com at 12:36PM
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Signs of Life in ‘Another Kind of Silence’ by American Theatre Editors

L M Feldman’s new queer love story, starting its rolling world premiere at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre, uses ASL and English for more than mere explication.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:17PM

‘Steve’ review: Cillian Murphy impresses in uneven kinetic drama by Tribune News Service

We meet Cillian Murphy’s titular character in “Steve” as he’s about to be interviewed on camera. He asks the crew to stop filming him for a moment as he tries to collect himself, but…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

From Trinity to Trinity by Tony Marinelli

Among her most haunting and meditative works is the slim yet searing "From Trinity to Trinity," an autobiographical pilgrimage undertaken in 1999 to the Trinity Site in New Mexico where the …

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06PM

Photos: On the Opening Night Red Carpet For WAITING FOR GODOT

Jamie Lloyd is back on Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. The production officially opened on September 28. Check o…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54AM

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