Friday, September 19, 2025

Friday 5 + 2: 5 Fall Ensemblists + 2 New Fall Actors by JK

Yesterday, we shared those Leading Players we were looking forward to seeing once again this fall. This season's stacked casts are also a gold mine of both remarkable ensemble members and pe…

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Thursday, September 18, 2025

New Orleans Musical Let the Good Times Roll Heads to Broadway by Broadway.com

New York City will soon get a taste of Louisiana flavor. Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo, a new musical conceived and written by Tony winner Jack Viertel, is planning a Broadway…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM
Monday, September 15, 2025

Philly Fringe 2025: Greg Kennedy presents Architectonica by Walt Maguire

A new Fringe experience from juggler Greg Kennedy is more collaborative workshop than performance, mixing art with engineering to take the audience inside a craft that dates back to Leonardo…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:41PM
Sunday, September 14, 2025

A Crucial Disruption by Mason Pilevsky

The Essentialis’nt – 12 September 2025 Told in an art form akin to choreopoem, The Essentialisn’t is a piece that fearlessly demands that the audience sit with their discomfort and e…

SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 04:16PM

HOUSE OF MCQUEEN by Brittany Crowell

And at the end of the piece, the audience was asked to then exit through the gift shop.  I think McQueen (similarly to Banksy who so famously coined the phrase) would frown on this and task…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 12:25PM

Philly Fringe 2025: Nick Gillette presents Pennsylvania Semiconscious Liberation Army by Alaina Johns

An immersive theater experience from veteran Philly performer Nick Gillette and a large ensemble asks the audience pressing ethical questions about our American moment. Alaina Johns reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:40AM
Thursday, September 11, 2025

LONDON REPORT: “THE PRODUCERS” IS BACK — JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT! by Ron Fassler

LONDON REPORT: “THE PRODUCERS” IS BACK — JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT! Andy Nyman and Marc Antolin as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom in “The Producers” (2025).September 11, 2025: Thea…

SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 03:14PM

Ideal review – stage return for Johnny Vegas’s TV weed dealer fails to score by Nick Ahad

Lowry, Salford Reprise of Graham Duff’s cult comedy delights the series’ fans but there’s not much here for anyone else If you are a fan of the cult BBC Three sitcom Ideal, you should …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Fort Wayne Youtheatre Opens Season With DRACULA At Canterbury School

Fort Wayne Youtheatre, the fifth oldest youth theatre in the U.S., is kicking off its 2025–26 season with a chilling new production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, adapted by Don Fleming. The …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32PM
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

The play that changed my life: ‘Pinter’s Betrayal made me think: this is how I want to write’ by Hannah Patterson

In his reverse-chronology play about a married couple dealing with an affair, Harold Pinter asked the audience to find meaning in unspoken words I didn’t see Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical by Christopher "caz" Caswell

This self-aware parody depicts a show within a show, where the cast breaks the fourth wall, comes out and greets the audience, and tells us they’re about to put this thing on. With tongues…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:36AM

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical ft Darren Criss by bwaySHO

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical opening night off-Broadway! Tony winner Darren Criss was the special guest diva. Also in the audience — Adam Lambert, Frankie Grande, Jak Malone, Constantine…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:14AM
Monday, September 8, 2025

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD to Host 'Back to Magic Family Nights'

In celebration of World Literacy Day and the Back-to-School season, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and New York Cares will partner for “Back to Magic Family Nights” on Wednesday, Sept…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AM

Video: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN Ends Broadway Run With Closing Night Ritual

John Proctor is the Villain played its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, September 7. At the final curtain call, Danya Taymor led the audience in a special ritual – which included e…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AM
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Stars Set for the National Tour of Tony-Winning Play Stereophonic by Broadway.com

Casting is complete for the national tour of Stereophonic, David Adjmi's Tony-winning play about a rock band self-destructing in the studio in the '70s. The tour will kick off at the Paramo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PM
Friday, September 5, 2025

Video: Darren Criss 'Passes the Charger' to Andrew Barth Feldman at MAYBE HAPPY ENDING

Before Darren Criss departed Maybe Happy Ending earlier this week, he "passed the charger" to Andrew Barth Feldman before he took over as 'Oliver' in the Tony-winning production. Watch Criss…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PM

Jack Barrett, Emilie Kouatchou and More to Star in STEREOPHONIC National Tour

The cast has been revealed for the U.S. National Tour of Stereophonic, the 2024 Tony Award-winning Best Play. The cast will include Jack Barrett as Grover, Claire DeJean as Diana, Steven Lee…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PM

Deaf Republic review – a town under military occupation falls defiantly silent by David Jays

Royal Court theatre, LondonUkrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky’s book-length poem is a potent theatrical force of many moving parts – signing, speech, surtitles, even a drone hovering over the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PM
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Video: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Phillipa Soo Recreate Viral HAMILTON Trend

As Hamilton continues to celebrate its 10th anniversary, one of its song has gone viral social media. "Best of Wives and Best of Women" continues to pick up steam on TikTok as part of a tren…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AM

“Hamilton” (The Filmed Version) Gets It First Sing-a-long Screening as 10th Anniversary Campaign Sets Up Theater Release by Roger Friedman

The “Hamilton” 10th anniversary marketing campaign rolls on. Last night, Lin Manuel Miranda and a lot of his original Broadway cast came to Shakespeare in the Park’s Delacorte Theater …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:18AM
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

"It was electric; it was alive!" | TDF Autism Friendly Performance of Maybe Happy Ending by TDF

This August, TDF presented an Autism Friendly Performance of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Maybe Happy Ending! Stars Dez Duron and Helen J Shen told us it was "electric" and "exhilara…

SOURCE: YouTube at 09:06PM
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

White Canvas, Big Egos: The History and Broadway Return of Yasmina Reza’s Art by Kathy Henderson

More than 30 years ago, French actress turned playwright Yasmina Reza took one look at a piece of modern art purchased by a close friend and burst into laughter. Fortunately, her reaction di…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PM
Friday, August 29, 2025

Video/Photos: THE WIZARD OF OZ AT SPHERE Opens in Las Vegas

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is now officially open, and with it, new photos and video footage are available of the immersive experience. Presented in collaboration with Warner Bros. Discovery…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AM

Rehearsed Laughter: A Review of “The Chaos Theory of Everything” at The Second City by Charles Kenney

The Second City’s forty-ninth e.t.c. revue is difficult to predict, circuitous, self-referential and, at times, disorienting. It nevertheless provides reliable laughter even on nights when…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

EVERY BRILLIANT THING is a life-affirming triumph | ★★★★★ review of the West End play at @sohoplace by MickeyJoTheatre

Join my channel to gain access to exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQi6IkbVa2SJok8fUZOpKw/join 📸 production images credit: Danny Kaan • OHMYGOD HEY! The interna…

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Straight outta Stirling: the musical giving William Wallace the Hamilton treatment by Mark Fisher

Beats, rhymes and Bannockburn? The creators of Wallace explain why they used hip-hop to tell the story of Scotland’s national hero If you were to come up with a list of the Scottish playwr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM

Glenn Moore: Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore? review – a tale of two jokebooks by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith one book of classic gags and another that brings him shame, Moore delivers a show that’s heavy on the laughs if light on the charm Glenn Moore has a devi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM
Monday, August 25, 2025

JERRY ADLER: A MAN OF THE THEATRE by Ron Fassler

Jerry Adler (1929–2025).August 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. A dozen years ago, I had the pleasure of sitting across the table from the recently departed Jerry Ad…

SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:36PM

Tim Fawkes Lights The Prodigy at Glastonbury with CHAUVET Strike V by Griffin Rodgers

When lighting The Prodigy at Glastonbury 2025, LD Tim Fawkes balanced the lighting for both the audience at The Other Stage, the 21 million who watched the show on BBC, as well as the many m…

SOURCE: PLSN at 11:45AM

“Thanks for Being Here” by Ontroerend Goed, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Duška Radosavljević

The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I can no longer imagine how their work would seem to someone on first encounter anymore. Not tha…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:39AM
Sunday, August 24, 2025

July-August 2025: Summer Blur by Nicole Serratore

First Night With the Duke briefly embracing the silly novel aesthetic I was so fidgety and unhappy with dramas this summer that I hardly have notes on any of them. So bear with me this mont…

SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:19PM

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