Anything for the Vlog! Betsy Wolfe to Take Viewers Behind the Violet Curtain of Death Becomes Her on Broadway by Jonah De Forest

Broadway powerhouse Betsy Wolfe is no stranger to the vlogging game, having previously hosted the series “Sugar, Butter, Betsy” for Broadway.com during her stint as Jenna in Waitress. On…

Megan Hilty Extends in Broadway's Death Becomes Her By a Week by Beth Stevens

Don’t get it twisted! Megan Hilty has extended her run as Madeline Ashton in Broadway’s Death Becomes Her for one additional week. Hilty will now play her final performance on January 11…

‘Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King’ has a memorable, messy world premiere in Boulder by Toni Tresca

Feather Fall Theatre Company’s inaugural production is big swing that starts strong but loses momentum.

Review: Bat Boy: The Musical by JK

Review of the Sunday, November 9, 2025 matinee performance at New York City Center in New York City. Starring Taylor Trensch, Kerry Butler, Gabi Carrubba, Andrew Durand, Mary Faber, Alan H. …

'Music for Me Is a Means to Another End': Jeanine Tesori on Her Season-Long Celebration at Lincoln Center by Kevin Filipski

Her opera Blue will get a one-night-only concert, as well as her musical Violet.

VIOLET co-produced with Phamaly Theatre Company

Betsy Wolfe to Star as Madeline Ashton in Death Becomes Her on Broadway in 2026 by Jamie Kravitz

Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe is stepping into the spotlight as Madeline Ashton in Broadway's Death Becomes Her beginning January 16, 2026. Megan Hilty, who originated the role and earned a Tony …

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL JR. Now Available to License From MTI

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International announces 9 to 5 The Musical JR. is now available for licensing. 9 to 5 JR. is a 60-minute adaptation of the hit Broadway musical 9 to 5, whic…

You Travalanche Daily Digest for September 11, 2025 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche post for September 11, 2025, includes several new posts connecting the events of 2001 to the world of show business, including ones on Ultra Violet and her 9/11 art…

THE KNOCKOUT TOUR: VIOLET VS GOTTMIK – Los angeles

Ultra Violet and IXXI by Trav S.D.

About a week ago I did a post on Superstar Ultra Violet and learned about an art project she created in 2011 for the 10th anniversary of September 11. It made sense to me to save talk of tha…

Your Travalanche Daily Digest for September 6, 2025 by Trav S.D.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for September 6, 2025 are about Max Schreck (Nosferatu), Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, big band singer and actress Julie Gibson (who lived to be 106), and tw…

Tuning in to Ultra Violet by Trav S.D.

September 6 was the birthday of Ultra Violet (Isabelle Collin Dufresne, 1935-2014). Dufresne was a French debutante who fell into Salvador Dali’s orbit immediately after graduating college…

Jeanine Tesori Named Lincoln Center Visionary Artist by Logan Culwell-Block

The honor puts lots of Tesori programming on the arts center's newly announced 2025-2026 season, including a Deaf Broadway performance of her musical Violet.

Lincoln Center Presents 2025–26 Season | All FREE & Choose-What-You-Pay Performances by Lincoln Center

Epic productions. Intimate performances. All for FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay! The Lincoln Center Presents 2025–26 Season brings together bold artists from around the world for a year of …

THE KNOCKOUT TOUR: VIOLET VS GOTTMIK

TAKE ME OUT Playwright Richard Greenberg Has Passed Away

Broadway playwright Richard Greenberg has passed away, according to social media posts from friends and colleagues. Richard Greenberg's plays include Eastern Standard, Take Me Out, The Viole…

Video: DEATH BECOMES HER Performs 'For the Gaze' at the Tony Awards

The cast of Death Becomes Her took the stage at Radio City Music Hall earlier tonight to perform "For the Gaze" at the 78th Annual Tony Awards. Watch the performance here! DEATH BECOMES HER …

Miss Myrtle’s Garden, Bush Theatre review – flowering talent, but needs weeding by Aleks.sierz

New play about loss, love, grief and gardening is humane, but flawed   The Bush Theatre is becoming a garden centre. Earlier this year, the venue staged Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacint…

Friday 5: Two Ladies: Shows With 2 Female Leads by JK

"Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, I like it, Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, We like it, Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, This two for one!" So sings the giddy Emcee in Cabaret. We all know what that song su…

The Descent of Denise Nickerson by Trav S.D.

Denise Nickerson (1957-2019), or, as some clever soul might contract it, “D’ickerson”, is surely best known as the child actress who played Violet Beauregarde, the obnoxious gum-chewin…

One Day When We Were Young review – beautiful performances anchor romance across time by Arifa Akbar

Park theatre, LondonCassie Bradley and Barney White are vulnerable, brittle and finally tender as Violet and Leonard, in Nick Payne’s love story moving through decades Writer Nick Payne e…

Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew at the Bush Theatre: Tender And Original Debut About The Black Queer Experience by Aleks Sierz

Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s debut, Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew, currently at the Bush Theatre, written records are…

Lavender, Violet, Hyacinth, Yew | 2025 London Trailer by Official London Theatre

A world-premiere production starring BAFTA and Olivier Award nominee Omari Douglas (It’s A Sin, Constellations). Pip uncovers a jacket in the attic that’s been gathering dust. Bold, vib…

‘It’s a radical act to garden’: different queer generations find common ground in nature drama by Precious Adesina

Coral Wylie’s play Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew follows a teenager discovering themselves through horticulture and memories of an old family friend, played by Omari Douglas Gardening ca…

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…

See Sutton Foster Become Once Upon a Mattress' Winnifred, Maid of the Mire by Hayley Levitt

Broadway.com's Emmy-nominated docuseries Character Study is back, and with the actress who kicked it off 14 years ago. Sutton Foster has pulled back the curtain on her Broadway transformat…

“AUGUST” HEAT by Ron Fassler

Estelle Parsons as Violet Weston in “August: Osage Country” (2008).November 8, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler In New York City this week, an unseasonably warm Novemb…

Broadway Games: One Word Musicals by JK

Broadway Games: One Word Musicals        What's in a name? A lot, when it's doing the heavy lifting of being the title of a big Broadway (or off-Broadway) show! DIRECTIONS: Match …

Maggie Smith, Legendary British Actress of Stage and Screen, Dies at 89 by Broadway.com

Dame Maggie Smith, the Tony-, Emmy- and Academy Award-winning actress who was among the most recognizable British talents of stage and screen, has died in London at the age of 89. She was kn…

Laugh Your Faces Off | YELLOW FACE on Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company

Tony Award® winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) will make his Roundabout debut with the Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, his hilarious is-he-or-isn’t…