Wednesday, April 30, 2025

David Hyde Pierce on Returning to Broadway in ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’ and Turning Down the ‘Frasier’ Reboot by Brent Lang

“I probably should try to eat a little more,” David Hyde Pierce tells the waiter who just tried to clear his plate of scrambled eggs. We’re having breakfast in a diner on the Upper Wes…

SOURCE: Variety at 09:22AM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Photos: BOOP!, SUNSET BLVD., Stars and More Join BROADWAY DREAM ROLES Benefit

A bevy of Broadway’s brightest stars - from icons Jennifer Holliday and Andrea Martin to show-stopping newcomers Tom Francis and Jasmine Amy Rogers - lit up the Al Hirschfeld Theat…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54PM

Inside Opening Night of 'Pirates! The Penzance Musical' With Jinkx Monsoon, Ramin Karimloo & More by BroadwayWorld

Get out your Mardi Gras beads and head to the Todd Haimes Theatre for a southern-style party of a revival. Just last week, Roundabout Theatre Company celebrated opening night of the reimagin…

SOURCE: YouTube at 07:02PM

CAN I SING YOU SOMETHING? John Gallagher, Jr. “The Once and Future Carpenter” - SWEPT AWAY Broadway by Broadway.com

John Gallagher, Jr. of Broadway’s SWEPT AWAY sings the musical’s finale “The Once and Future Carpenter” backstage at the musical’s reunion concert downtown with the original Broadw…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:36PM
Monday, April 28, 2025

CAN I SING YOU SOMETHING? Zachary Noah Piser Sings “Still” from Broadway’s REDWOOD by Broadway.com

Zachary Noah Piser of Broadway’s REDWOOD sings Spencer’s number from the musical “Still” backstage on Broadway. Recorded at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City, our brand-new p…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:32PM

Nicole Scherzinger ‘Sunset Blvd.’ Viral Video Bullhorn Auctioned For Charity by Greg Evans

The bullhorn used by Sunset Blvd. star Nicole Scherzinger last week when a matinee performance of the Broadway musical was canceled due to a sound system glitch was put to further good use o…

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:46PM

Video: Alicia Keys Celebrates HELL’S KITCHEN's One Year Anniversary at Curtain Call

Alicia Keys celebrated one year of Hell's Kitchen on Broadway earlier this month, making a special speech at curtain call. In a new video, Keys addresses the audience on the production's one…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AM

Review: Dead Outlaw by JK

Review of the Friday, April 25, 2025 preview performance at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. Starring Andrew Durand, with Jeb Brown, Eddie Cooper, Dashiell Eaves, Julia Knitel, Ken Mar…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 12:36AM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Fires Up a Huge Musical Showstopper by Jacob Malizio

The show’s vibe of joy and strength is crystallized in a final parade of Estela’s winningly glamorous creations (designed by Wilberth Gonzalez and Paloma Young), underlining again the af…

SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PM

My Variety Review: Broadway's 'Dead Outlaw' Musical by Frank Rizzo

All photos by Matthew Murphy Unlike the mobile British corpse in “Operation Mincemeat,” the traveling American cadaver in …

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 05:35PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm by Jacob Malizio

The melding of personas successfully transmutes Groff’s exceptional charisma and earned goodwill into the tale of a past celebrity most of the audience could not identify via photo. But it…

SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:01PM

Jonathan Groff parties like it’s 1965 in stellar Bobby Darin musical by Jacob Malizio

The audience is situated in a sumptuously imagined, sparkling silver nightclub with multiple stages and a brilliant band in back. Groff spiritedly darts around the room, jumping on tables an…

SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:01PM

Just in Time review – Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm by Adrian Horton

Circle in the Square Theatre, New York Jonathan Groff uses his considerable charisma to embody the late singer with pizzazz in a rousing yet incomplete Broadway show It is more than likely t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PM

Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet by Joy Lanzendorfer In Angel Island, California

Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’ One sunny March day on Angel Island, a hilly lan…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM
Friday, April 25, 2025

‘It’s Fleabag’s home – the audience is unshockable’: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more on 25 years of Soho theatre by Rachael Healy

The central London institution champions new talent, amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and always takes risks. With a new outpost opening in Walthamstow, artists discuss how the West End venue is not …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM

Watch: Cole Escola Is Coming for Nicole Scherzinger's Bullhorn by Logan Culwell-Block

The Oh, Mary! writer and star posted their own impromptu performance after the Sunset Blvd. actress dazzled the audience following a technical mishap.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

‘Stranger Things: First Shadow’: Louis McCartney on ‘creating a language through the movement’ to play the tortured Henry Creel by Sam Eckmann

“When I get out there, I'm not giving first,” says Louis McCartney on the exchange of energy between him and the audience each night at Stranger Things: The First Shadow. "They're there …

SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:29PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Grief Camp by Joseph Pisano

Time passes slowly during "Grief Camp" as a bunch of adolescent characters and the audience watching them struggle collectively to figure out the point of being there. Playwright Eliya Smith…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PM

CAN I SING YOU SOMETHING? Cassadee Pope Sings “If You Asked Me To” from Off-Broadway’s TITANIQUE by Broadway.com

Cassadee Pope of Off-Broadway’s TITANIQUE sings the musical’s number “If You Asked Me To” on board the set of the musical comedy. Recorded at the Daryl Roth Theatre in New York Cit…

SOURCE: YouTube at 02:12PM

High School, Dramatically: Stranger Things: The First Shadow and Grief Camp by Jacob Malizio

If The First Shadow is purely an act of fan service, at least it’s an unapologetic and, if the audience around me was any judge, satisfying one. Is it a play? I mean, yes-ish? Is it an ext…

SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:44AM

‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: Now streaming live on Broadway by Jacob Malizio

The result? A three-hour fan wiki brought to life, complete with origin stories, stilted dialogue, lame jokes, and sequences seemingly constructed only to set up the next visual effect. Yes,…

SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 12:44AM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

25th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards Set for May 29; Broadway's Biggest Fan Contest Winner Announced! by Broadway.com

The 25th annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards will be presented on May 29. Celebrating the favorite performances of the Broadway season, the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards are the…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM

‘The audience chucked food at us!’ Emilyn Claid on angry shows, her ballet shame and gardening for Martha Graham by Lyndsey Winship

As she unveils The Trembling Forest with an ensemble of clay-covered performers, the great dance disruptor looks back on decades of radical and autobiographical shows Maybe it’s inevitable…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM
Monday, April 21, 2025

IMPRESSIONS: The Martha Graham Dance Company - Americana- at The Joyce Theater by The Dance Enthusiast

"What I enjoy most about CAVE, which concluded programs A and C this season, is that the dancers do not perform for the audience, but enjoy dancing as part of a group. They seem to pe…

SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Who Tells Your Story? by Mason Pilevsky

minor.ity – 19 April 2025 minor.ity begins with a Senegalese storyteller (Ato Essanndoh) inviting the audience into a tale he’s going to tell. He pulls back the curtain to a modern-day s…

SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:43PM

Dance Review: “GIGENIS, The Generation of the Earth” by Akram Khan at The Kennedy Center by Justin Rustle

Everyone in the audience jumped.  The house lights were still all the way up as a thunderous crash reverberated through the Eisenhower. People scrambled for their seats as a second clap ech…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:13PM

Snow White/Snow White: The Sacrifice review – puts the Grimm back in the tale by Lyndsey Winship

★★★☆☆ / ★★★★☆Sadler’s Wells East, LondonBalletLorent stages two dance-theatre versions of the fairytale – one for all the family, another for mature audiences – but…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Movement In Space by Jay Reisberg

Movement In Space Jay Reisberg April 19, 2025 - 17:03 Topics Theater Review Tags dance …

SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 05:03PM

'The Friend' Is a Great (Dane) Of A Film Thanks To Bill Berloni by Frank Rizzo

When filmmakers reached out to Bill Berloni about finding and training a dog to co-star with Naomi Watts and Bill Murray in the film “The Friend,” his answer was direct. “I basically …

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:24PM

It's a Smackdown Between Show and Business in "Irishtown," "I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan" and "minor•ity" by Jan Simpson

  The ever present tension between art and commerce moves centerstage in three recently opened off-Broadway productions—Irishtown at the Irish Repertory Theatre, I’m Assuming You Know…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AM
Friday, April 18, 2025

IMPRESSIONS: Martha Graham Dance Company at The Joyce Theater by The Dance Enthusiast

"Janet Eilber, the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, is a class act. Before the curtain opens at The Joyce Theater, on April 2, she welcomes the audience and s…

SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre