Sunday, June 15, 2025

Concert Review: ‘Verdi’s ‘Aida’ Conducted by [Johnathon] Heyward’ and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra by Herb Merrick

The final concert of the 2024-2025 season brought audiences a complete concert version of Verdi’s “Aida” performed in Italian with English supertitles and featuring an all-star cast: A…

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West End dads share their advice | Happy Father's Day 💙 by Official London Theatre

Happy Father's Day! To celebrate, we asked West End dads to share advice they'd give other performing dads, plus advice they'd give their younger selves. Starring Joel Montague – The Gre…

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Buena Vista Social Club — From Our Tony-Nominated Creative Team by Buena Vista Social Club On Broadway

Buena Vista Social Club is a cultural milestone. With Spanish songs, English dialogue, and soul-deep storytelling, it’s reshaping what Broadway can be. Celebrate the show that’s making h…

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Magdalena, Woman of Joy review – sex, sin and saintliness with a tour de force host by Rachael Healy

Playhouse East, LondonLily Sinko rages, writhes, provokes and teases her way through the horrifying life story of her storyteller with cartoonish abandon Magdalena appears from the dark, per…

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Monday, June 9, 2025

"So Long, Farewell" in English, Italian and German by Rodgers & Hammerstein

Ciao ciao 👋 Sing along to "So Long, Farewell" in English, Italian and German!

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IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED: THE 78TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS by Ron Fassler

Photo taken from my seat in the Front Mezzanine at Radio City Music Hall last night.June 9, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. The Tony Awards have been broadcast on nation…

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Meet the Tony-Nominated Playwrights of 2025 by BroadwayWorld

Five outstanding new plays and four equally outstanding revivals have been singled out this Broadway season! Nominees for Best Play are: English (Sanaz Toossi), The Hills of California (Jez…

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Tala Ashe Hopes 'English' Changed Peoples Minds – Tony Nominee 2025 by BroadwayWorld

2025 was a big year for Tala Ashe. In January she made her Broadway debut in the PUlitzer Prize-winning play English. Just a few months later, she is a Tony nominee for her performance! "I …

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‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott by Daniel Boffey In Kyiv

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London One of the “most English of ballets�…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Sam Pinkleton Wins 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for OH, MARY!

This is one for the history books! Sam Pinkleton has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Pinkleton beat out fellow nominees Knud Adams for English, Sam Mendes for The Hills…

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PURPOSE Wins Tony Award For Best Play

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Pr…

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Kara Young Wins 2nd Tony Award In A Row for PURPOSE

Kara Young has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Purpose. Young beat out fellow nominees Tala Ashe for English, Jessica Hecht for Eureka Day,…

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Tony Award Winners: Updating Live by Joey Moser

Best Musical Buena Vista Social Club Dead Outlaw Death Becomes Her Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical Best Play English The Hills of California John Proctor Is the Villain…

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Friday, June 6, 2025

Award-Winning Designer William Dudley Passes Away at 78

William Dudley, an innovative set and Costume Designer in the English theater scene, has passed away at the age of 78. With a career spanning more than four decades and a winner of seven Oli…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AM
Thursday, June 5, 2025

John Proctor is the Villain’s Fina Strazza on Art, Feminism and the Scariest Play She’s Ever Done by Kaitlin Stevens

Age: 19 Hometown: New York City Current Role: Fina Strazza is Tony-nominated for her performance as tight-laced but fiercely feminist student Beth Powell in John Proctor is the Villain, a …

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William Dudley, 7-Time Olivier-Winning Theatre Designer, Has Died at 78 by Margaret Hall

Mr. Dudley was one of the most prolific designers in the English theatre.

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Part 2: My Other Tony Award Predictions... by Frank Rizzo

Now for the second half of my predictions for Sunday’s Tony Awards honoring the best of the 2024-25 Broadway season — which ended at the end of April . It was indeed one of the richest…

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5 minutes with a Tony nominee: ‘English’’s Knud Adams by Ruthie Fierberg

Adams offers his best advice for other directors tackling Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Tony Awards Host Cynthia Erivo on Wicked, Dracula and Why You Shouldn’t Be Late to the Show by Paul Wontorek

Cynthia Erivo is doing the most—and somehow making it look easy. This week alone, she’s getting ready to host the Tony Awards, release her debut solo album and possibly break the interne…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

My Tony Award Predictions: A Very Competitive Season with a Maybe Happy Ending by Frank Rizzo

The 2024-25 Broadway season — which ended April 30 — was one of the richest and most competitive seasons in years. While there hasn't been been a megahit of the likes of “Hamilton” o…

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:53AM

In Praise of Love review – secrets and lies circle a family on the brink by Arifa Akbar

Orange Tree theatre, LondonAmelia Sears’ production of Terence Rattigan’s knotted drama contains warmth – and love – beneath the disappointments of married life Terence Rattigan dist…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM

Review: John Proctor is the Villain by JK

Review of the Saturday, May 31, 2025 evening performance at the Booth Theatre in New York City. Starring Sadie Sink, with Nihar Duvurri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliv…

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Meet the Tony-Nominated Directors of 2025 by BroadwayWorld

Watch in this video as we chat with directors: Knut Adams (English), David Cromer (Dead Outlaw), Christopher Gattelli (Death Becomes Her,) Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Blvd.), Sam Pinkleton (Oh, Mary…

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A Lifetime of Dreaming Has Led Marjan Neshat to a Tony Nomination by BroadwayWorld

It's been a few months since Marjan Neshat took her very first Broadway bow. After a critically acclaimed run at the Todd Haimes Theatre, Sanaz Toossi's English (and Neshat) are now Tony nom…

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Who Will Win at the 2025 Tony Awards?

The 78th Annual Tony Awards are this Sunday, June 18, 2025. It's the biggest awards show of the Broadway season and it closes out a long awards season for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals …

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Gabriel Ebert Goes Back to School, and the Tonys, with John Proctor is the Villain by Kathy Henderson

Students of Tony Awards trivia can savor a fun tidbit this year: In the spirit of Fosse and Verdon, husband-and-wife Gabriel Ebert and Danya Taymor are nominated for acting in and directing …

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BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Will Release Original Broadway Cast Recording

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB will released an Original Broadway Cast Recording digitally on June 6th. The CD will be available on July 25th, with vinyl release later in 2025. Produced by Dean Sha…

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5 minutes with a Tony nominee: ‘English’’s Marsha Ginsberg by Ruthie Fierberg

The scenic designer breaks down the elements of the play’s meticulous set.

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Juliet Stevenson admits Nicole Kidman annoyed her by claiming she popularised scientist’s story by Lydia Spencer-Elliott

English actor played Rosalind Franklin three decades before Hollywood star

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Sunday, June 1, 2025

CREATIVE TEAM (PLAYS) – Tony Predictions by Mason Pilevsky

Pages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Best Direction of a Play Knud Adams, English English was a play that required nuance in order to be understood. With the actors switching in and out of accent…

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Saturday, May 31, 2025

5 minutes with a Tony nominee: ‘English’’s Marjan Neshat by Ruthie Fierberg

Neshat made history with her Tony Award nomination.

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