Wednesday, June 25, 2025

As American as Apple Pie: Oak Park Festival Theatre Celebrates Its Fiftieth Anniversary by Mary Wisniewski

This summer Oak Park Festival Theatre is marking its fiftieth anniversary with “Twelfth Night.” Peter Andersen says that Shakespeare in the park as “American as apple pie.”

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Review: Twelfth Night at Network Theatre by Katie Shaw

Review: Twelfth Night at Network Theatre "a slightly chaotic, but comical evening"

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 08:53AM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Ian McKellen to Introduce Trans/Non-Binary Twelfth Night in London by Margaret Hall

Theatre company Trans What You Will will livestream the performance.s

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM

Ian McKellen to Open All-Trans and Non-Binary TWELFTH NIGHT Reading

Sir Ian McKellen will open a new production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night featuring an all-trans and non-binary ensemble, the theatre group Trans What You Will announced in a press releas…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PM

Colin Donnell, Shaina Taub, Nichelle Lewis, and More Join RAGTIME Cast

Lincoln Center Theater has announced additional casting and creative team for RAGTIME, incoming Artistic Director Lear deBessonet’s first production of her inaugural season. Joining the pr…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AM
Friday, May 23, 2025

Scarlett Strallen Steps in to the Cast of STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S OLD FRIENDS

Two-time Olivier Award nominee Scarlett Strallen will temporarily replace Kate Jennings Grant in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends. Grant will be stepping away from the production for approxi…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AM
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Theatre Review: ‘Twelfth Night’ at Folger Shakespeare Theatre by Teniola Ayoola

A whip, a flogger (yes, there is a difference), a feather, nipple pasties, and a fishnet-clad male striptease ending in a ballroom “death drop”—if homoeroticism be the food of love, th…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:41PM
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

THE DELACORTE THEATER: A TRIBUTE TO DEMOCRACY | The Public Theater by The Public Theater

Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park has been free for all for over 60 years. From its dedication in 1962 to today’s new revitalization, Joe Papp’s vision liv…

SOURCE: YouTube at 04:12PM
Monday, May 5, 2025

Listen: Paul Rudd Shares Crazy Stories From His Theatrical Career on SMARTLESS Podcast

Paul Rudd may be best known for his onscreen roles, but he is no stranger to the stage. Making his Broadway debut in Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo in 1997, Rudd also appeared…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AM
Sunday, April 20, 2025

People You Should Know . . . Lauryn Savela by Zack Calhoon

Lauryn Savela is an artist originally from Vancouver, Canada. She moved to New York in 2021 to attend The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA). In 2023 she graduated from their 2-year c…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:06PM
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Lee Montague obituary by Michael Coveney

Actor who toured with Laurence Olivier and Peter Brook, starred on Broadway and had a long career in film and TV The start of postwar theatre in London was signalled by the birth of the Old …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM
Friday, March 7, 2025

Friday 5: 5 Broadway Boys For Spring 2025 by JK

Back in the day, we used to celebrate Broadway beefcake with "Broadway Heat" competitions. The good news was, without fail, every "winner" and "runner-up" was a lot more that just eye candy.…

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

“Twelfth Night” at Antaeus by Terry Morgan

Antaeus Theatre Company has an excellent and longstanding reputation for being expert with classical theater work, from Ibsen to Pinter, with a particular affinity for Shakespeare. As best a…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:32PM
Friday, February 14, 2025

TWELFTH NIGHT Casting Announced by Tulis McCall

Join us to revel in the midsummer madness at the Delacorte Theater as twins Sebastian and Viola survive shipwreck, revenge plots, and the trick doors of love. The post TWELFTH NIGHT Casting …

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 03:54PM
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Junior Nyong’o to Star Opposite Sister Lupita Nyong’o in Free Shakespeare in the Park's Twelfth Night by Hayley Levitt

Additional casting and performance dates are set for Free Shakespeare in the Park's Twelfth Night, the production that will re-open the newly renovated Delacorte Theater. Directed by Saheem…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PM

Daphne Rubin-Vega, Khris Davis & More Join Free Shakespeare in the Park's TWELFTH NIGHT

The Public Theater has revealed additional cast and the production dates ahead of this summer’s production of TWELFTH NIGHT. See who is staring and learn how to attend.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PM
Sunday, January 26, 2025

The week in theatre: Play On!; A Good House; Moby Dick – review by Susannah Clapp

Bristol Old Vic; Royal Court; Barbican, LondonThe spirit of Duke Ellington pulses through a glorious musical spin on Twelfth Night; neighbourliness has its limits in Amy Jephta’s South Afr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Claire van Kampen, Tony-Nominated Playwright of Farinelli and the King, Dies at 71 by Darryn King

Claire van Kampen, a musical director and Tony-nominated playwright who frequently worked with her husband Mark Rylance, died on January 18 in Kassel, Germany. Her daughter, Juliet Rylance, …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PM
Monday, January 20, 2025

Claire van Kampen: a world-class theatre composer and bright star of Shakespeare’s Globe by Dominic Dromgoole

The pianist, director and playwright of Farinelli and the King, which starred her husband Mark Rylance, is remembered by the Globe’s former artistic director Claire van Kampen, theatre dir…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Play On! review – a warm, elegant comedy that brings 1940s swing to Shakespeare by Arifa Akbar

Bristol Old VicTwelfth Night is relocated to the Cotton Club in this sparkling musical, which luxuriates in its musicality and movement Given the important function of music in Twelfth Night…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Twelfth Night review – a musically uplifting, concept-heavy RSC production by Clare Brennan

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonShakespeare’s fleet-footed romance is somewhat constrained by Prasanna Puwanarajah’s direction, yet there are memorable moments Life and dea…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Twelfth Night, Royal Shakespeare Theatre review - comic energy dissipates in too large a space by Gary Naylor

★★★ TWELFTH NIGHT The winter comedy provides more chills than chuckles despite a funny fool Too much thinking; not enough laughing It is not just Twelfth Night, it’s Twelfth Night, …

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:42PM
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel is a sharp account of British theatre – and even pastiches my criticism | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

Our Evenings follows an actor through 60 years of treading the boards and holds up a mirror to how society has shapeshifted Alan Hollinghurst’s remarkable new novel, Our Evenings, is many …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM
Monday, December 16, 2024

The Delacorte Theater Revitalization - New Lighting Towers! by The Public Theater

Are you excited for The Delacorte to reopen this summer?! ☀️ Enjoy this special look inside our latest revitalization milestone: the installation of new lighting towers! We are one step…

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Twelfth Night review – Samuel West achieves greatness as Malvolio by Mark Lawson

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy The title Tw…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM
Thursday, December 12, 2024

TWELFTH NIGHT.      Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon by Libby Purves and Friends

PRESENT MIRTH HATH PRESENT LAUGHTER. AND MELANCHOLY. AND FALSE NOSES     In a play as familiar as this it is small touches that spring fresh life.  Like the moment when the fool Feste def…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PM
Friday, December 6, 2024

Orange Tree Theatre Announces Special Under The Orange Tree Fundraiser Hosted By Gyles Brandreth For Primary Shakespeare Project by Staff Writer

With Tom Littler’s critically acclaimed production of Twelfth Night currently in performances, Orange Tree Theatre (OT) today announces a special Shakespearean Under the Orange Tree fundra…

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 08:37AM
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Review: National Youth Theatre’s Twelfth Night at the NYT Workshop Theatre by Ke Meng

Review: National Youth Theatre's Twelfth Night at the NYT Workshop Theatre "succeeds in bringing Twelfth Night to life as a jubilant, immersive experience"

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 06:00PM

‘Twelfth Night’: High comedy & big ideas by Darleen Ortega

‘Twelfth Night’: High comedy & big ideas Darleen OrtegaReview: Shakespeare's mind-bending comedy at Portland Center Stage ripples with laughter as the play explores fascinating facet…

SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 10:59AM