Tuesday, September 16, 2025

John Lithgow Will Reprise Olivier-Winning Performance as Roald Dahl in Giant on Broadway in 2026 by Broadway.com

Two-time Tony winner John Lithgow will reprise his Olivier-winning performance as the children's author Roald Dahl in the play Giant on Broadway this season. The production will open on Ma…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:18AM
Monday, September 15, 2025

Get Ready for a Baby-Sitters Club Musical by Logan Culwell-Block

The children's book series is being adapted for the stage with industry presentations to be held in NYC later this fall.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PM
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

FINN is Coming to NAMT Festival of New Musicals Following Kennedy Center Cancellation

Following the cancellation of its Kennedy Center-produced tour, the children's musical Finn will be presented at NAMT's 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals. As BroadwayWorld previously repo…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PM
Monday, September 8, 2025
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Video: GOOD MORNING AMERICA Celebrates 60 Years of THE SOUND OF MUSIC

The Sound of Music, the 1965 hit film based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. To commemorate the occasion, Good Morning America …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PM
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Zohran Walks New York by Jonathan Mandell

While the real Zohran Mamdani began a “Five Boroughs Against Trump tour” this week,  the children’s book character does the same thing, although not explicitly against Trump. In Zoh…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AM
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Look Around, Look Around Backstage as Hamilton Marks 10 Years on Broadway by Darryn King

“History has its eyes on you,” and for 10 years, all eyes have been on Hamilton. On August 6, 2015, Lin-Manuel Miranda made his opening-night entrance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. �…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AM
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Exclusive: Kenny Ortega Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Disney's DESCENDANTS

July 31, 2025 officially marks 10 years since the debut of Disney's Descendants. The Disney Channel film, led by Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart, and the late Cameron Boyce, launc…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AM
Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Railway Children review – a real steam train is the spectacular star by Arifa Akbar

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, West Yorkshire Stupendous set design brings E Nesbit’s children’s classic to new life as a wealthy Anglo-Indian family is forced to adjust to reduced…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM
Monday, June 30, 2025

Saga of a Stage Mother: Lorelei Edwards & Her Son, Bryce by Barry Gordin

Behind every child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed first. By Alix Cohen June 30, 2025: Lorelei Edwards comes from a musical family. “I’m Irish/Italian. Everybody …

SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:29AM
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Friday, June 27, 2025

Mahabharata: Karma (Part 1) The Life We Inherit by Margret Echeverria

Fernandes and Ravi Jain boldly combine tradition, rich with layered messages and meaning, with struggles of our modern Western-dominated world.  Characters are gender fluid, feminine wisdom…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 05:35PM
Saturday, June 14, 2025

West End Star Elaine Paige to be Given Damehood

Elaine Paige, best known for her role as Eva Peron in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita, will be given Damehood. She will be given the distinction for her work in the music industry, as we…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PM
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Praise for the Reimagined Myth of "Eurydice" by Jan Simpson

In most tellings of the myth about the ill-fated love story between Orpheus and Eurydice that famously has him going to the underworld to bring her back from the dead, he gets top billing an…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:18PM
Friday, June 6, 2025

Elijah Rhea Johnson on the Lessons He's Learned After Two Years as MJ’s King of Pop by Brooke Frischer

As an eight-year-old growing up in Michigan, Elijah Rhea Johnson was introduced to the world of Michael Jackson by his father, leading him down a never-ending rabbit hole of cinematic music …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PM
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Tom Felton Returning To Role Of Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy For Broadway’s ‘The Cursed Child’ by Greg Evans

Tom Felton, who played young Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movie franchise, is reprising the role as an adult in Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The play is set 19 years a…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Video Exclusive: Alex Newell and Auli’i Cravalho 'Start the Day' on LULU IS A RHINOCEROS

Check out an exclusive new clip from Lulu Is a Rhinoceros, the upcoming musical special based on the children’s book by Jason and Allison Flom. The newly released clip features the upbeat …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

The Children by Lucy Kirkwood to be Staged at Tower Theatre by Staff Writer

The Tower Theatre Company is set to present The Children by Lucy Kirkwood from Wednesday 14 to Saturday 24 May 2025 at the Tower Theatre in Stoke Newington,

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 05:46AM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Everything’s Coming Up Moses by Rachel Shukert: A Biblical Fable based on GYPSY by Stars In The House

Everything’s Coming Up Moses by Rachel Shukert A Biblical Fable based on Based on th…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:22PM
Friday, April 18, 2025

Photos: See Production Shots From Non-Replica Frozen in Minnesota by Molly Higgins

Tiffany Nichole Greene directs the Children's Theatre Company production.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM
Monday, April 14, 2025

Everything’s Coming Up Moses! | Stars in the House, 4/15/25 @ 8 PM ET/5 PM PT by Stars In The House

Everything’s Coming Up Moses by Rachel Shukert A Biblical Fable based on Based on th…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:22AM
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Chicken Licken review – happy-go-clucky tale has charm, cheer and a fabulous fox by Miriam Gillinson

Polka theatre, London Incorporating BSL and creative captions, this musical adaptation features a gloriously long-tailed puppet With a cluster of country music songs and a delicate aesthetic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

April on the London Stage: The Oliviers Approach, Gatsby Crosses the Atlantic and a Manhunt Ensues by Matt Wolf

There’s a spring in the step of the London theater in April, as seems appropriate, with new musicals based on classic titles jostling alongside the return of a major film star to the Londo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AM
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

From Blackpool to Play School: Johnny Ball on his days as a ‘bag of nerves’ comic by Johnny Ball

An emergency at Butlin’s gave the children’s TV presenter an early break. He recalls his shaky start as a standup and what he learned from Bob Monkhouse and Les Dawson After spending the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Video: Watch Andrew Rannells, Lea Salonga, Bonnie Milligan, Nikki M. James, More Perform Finn Musical at Town Hall by Andrew Gans

The Kennedy Center national tour of the children's musical was abruptly canceled last month.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM
Monday, March 17, 2025

Andrew Rannells, Lea Salonga, Bonnie Milligan, Nikki M. James, More Perform Finn at Town Hall for Stars in the House March 17 by Andrew Gans

The Kennedy Center national tour of the children's musical was abruptly canceled last month.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AM
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Adam Pascal, Nina West, Brenda Braxton, Zachary Noah Piser, More Join Finn Performance at Town Hall by Andrew Gans

The Kennedy Center national tour of the children's musical was abruptly canceled last month.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Broadway Stars To Perform Kennedy Center’s Canceled ‘Finn’ Musical At New York Town Hall; Andrew Rannells, Andrea Martin, Kelli O’Hara, Bonnie by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Finn, the children’s musical that opened to great reviews at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. last year only to have its national tour canceled by the venue’s new Trump-l…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The Children’s Hour

The post The Children’s Hour appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:19AM
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Welkin” (“Empireo”) In Milan by Margaret Rose

Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in Italy, with productions of The Children and The Welkin currently showing in major theatres. The …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:38AM
Monday, January 13, 2025

Eureka Day by Wendy Caster

A built-in weakness in some comedies of ideas is that one side of an argument may simply be right. As someone who believes strongly in vaccines, I thought Eureka Day might have to wrestle w…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:18PM

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