Saturday, August 9, 2025

Niusia review – hard family history lessons and taboo-busting humour by Arifa Akbar

Summerhall, Edinburgh Beth Paterson leads us through her discovery that the grandmother who berated her as a child was a Holocaust survivor This story, told by Beth Paterson, is about her �…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM

Happy National Book Lovers Day by Call Me Adam

Today is #NationalBookLoversDay 📚 Growing up I loved reading my favorite artists' autobiography. That is one reason why I wanted to be an author because I wanted to take you on journey. …

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Friday, August 8, 2025

Tinsley Ellis - Millennium Stage (August 13, 2025) by The Kennedy Center

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: According to Atlanta-based blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Tinsley Ellis, his new, first-eve…

SOURCE: YouTube at 04:18PM

Listen: Morgan James Drops New Hard Rock-Inspired Concept Album 'Soul Remains the Same'

Performer Morgan James, who has appeared on Broadway in shows like The Addams Family and Godspell, has released a new collection of songs, reimagining hard rock and metal tracks by artists i…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PM
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Va-Va-Voom, It’s Verna Bloom by Trav S.D.

I’ve wanted to crow my enthusiasm for Verna Bloom (1938-2019) here for some time. Hers wasn’t a household name, but she gave so many incredible performances in enough important American …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:03PM
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

HAMILTON Proshot to Hit Movie Theaters Next Month for 10th Anniversary

During last night's appearance on The Tonight Show, Lin-Manuel Miranda announced that the proshot of Hamilton, which debuted on Disney+ in 2020, will be making its way to theaters this year …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AM

People You Should Know . . . Christian Mendonça by Zack Calhoon

  Christian Mendonça is a Portuguese-American playwright whose mission is to fill the stage with unexpected tenderness, both uplifting and raw. His work has been developed and read at t…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:12AM

People You Should Know . . . William Meurer by Zack Calhoon

  Streaming August 4th-10th - tickets available https://www.roguetheaterfestival.com/digitalstreaming William Meurer is a queer and neurodivergent playwright/performer based in Manhatt…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:12AM
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Bill Condon Explains Why KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Should Be Seen in Theaters

For years, Bill Condon has been wanting to make a movie adapation of Kiss of the Spider Woman. "I finally decided to do something about it around 10 years ago," said the director in a new in…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PM

Dominic Lopenzo Creates Big Looks on Small Stage with CHAUVET Professional Rig at Grace City Summer Camp by Pr Agency

Dominic Lopenzo, Technical Director of Grace City Music and Grace City Church, recently lit Grace City Church’s Summer Youth Camp. Lopenzo wanted to create some big looks for the event, un…

SOURCE: PLSN at 01:10PM

People You Should Know . . . Francesca Bolam by Zack Calhoon

  Francesca Bolam is a British-born, Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and theatre-maker telling raw, unfiltered stories with grit and heart. She is the founder of Nice Enough Productions and t…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:36PM

Andy Cohen Reveals Why 'Real Housewives of Broadway' Can't Happen

Kristin Chenoweth is standing by her "genius" idea for Andy Cohen to produce The Real Housewives of Broadway! On a recent visit to the Bravo exec's Sirius XM Radios how, the pair revisited C…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PM
Monday, August 4, 2025

Video: It's Monsoon Season at OH, MARY!

Look out world, it's monsoon season (again!)! Jinkx Monsoon is the new Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary on Broadway! The RuPaul's Drag Race icon takes over the role today, August 4, just weeks …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PM

Video: Christopher Jackson Talks Broadway Cameos in AND JUST LIKE THAT Season 3

In addition to his return to Broadway in Hell's Kitchen, Christopher Jackson is currently starring as Herbert Wexley in the third and final season of And Just Like That... With only two more…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PM
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Andrew Keegan Interview Excerpt - The Importance of Friendship by Call Me Adam

As we celebrate National Friendship Day today, I wanted to take a moment to share a clip from my 2025 interview with Actor Andrew Keegan where we talk about how the gay romantic comedy The B…

SOURCE: YouTube at 09:00AM
Friday, August 1, 2025

Broadway-bound musical ‘Wanted’ releases studio EP by Andy Lefkowitz

The songs are performed by Liisi LaFontaine and Solea Pfeiffer.

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Listen to Solea Pfeiffer Sing 'The Way I Am' From Broadway-Aimed Musical Wanted by Andrew Gans

A five-track EP from the new musical by Ross Baum and Angelica Chéri has been released.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM

Mick Jagger Tried to Buy ROCKY HORROR Film Rights to Play Frank-N-Furter

2025 marks 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 1975 film adaptation of the stage musical, which has gone on to become a cult classic. Extremely popular among the midnight circuit …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AM

Listen: Adam Lambert's 'Heaven On Their Minds' From JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Out Now

Ahead of his opening night performance as ‘Judas’ in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl tonight, GRAMMY Award-nominated Adam Lambert teamed…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AM
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

People You Should Know . . . Natalia Shane by Zack Calhoon

Natalia Shane is an actress-writer entering her fourth year of study in ETW at Tisch Drama. You may have seen her as Hedda Gabler at ETW’s Mainstage production this past spring. She recen…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:06PM

People You Should Know . . . Carolyn Best by Zack Calhoon

Carolyn Best is an actor and theatre maker from Vienna, Virginia. She is an Ithaca College BFA Acting graduate, and her past favorite credits include playing Tracey in Sweat at Ithaca Colle…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:06PM

Video: Sandra Oh Praises TWELFTH NIGHT Cast, Recites Shakespeare on LATE NIGHT

For Sandra Oh, starring in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park is a dream come true. "I kind of feel like I'm finally having the theater career that I feel like I've always dreamt of ha…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PM

Bia Ferreira - Millennium Stage (July 31, 2025) by The Kennedy Center

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Bia Ferreira is a Brazilian singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist. When she was still a teen, Fer…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PM
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again–Get to Know the Story Behind the Iconic ABBA Musical Before It Returns to Broadway by Kaitlin Stevens

It’s been almost 25 years since Mamma Mia! made its Broadway debut at the Winter Garden Theatre, and nearly 10 years since the show had its last curtain call. But this summer, Mamma Mia! i…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:42PM

Q&A: Playwrights Natalie Margolin & Julia Randall’s Share How Their New Plays Are Reaching, Supporting & Inpirising Women

The news hasn’t been great for female playwrights as of late, but lost in the dire media rotation is that some of the most buzzed-about commercial productions in recent memory are by women…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PM

Hollywood Bowl Aims to Restore Annual Summer Musicals Following Starry JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

The Hollywood Bowl is bringing back its tradition of staging large-scale summer musicals, a programming staple that had largely gone dark in the wake of the pandemic. This weekend's producti…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PM

Go behind the scenes with the ‘Alien: Earth’ cast at Comic-Con 2025 by Tribune News Service

Sydney Chandler has wanted to attend San Diego Comic-Con as a fan for years. So it's "surreal" that the actor's first experience with the annual pop culture expo is to promote her upcoming F…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AM
Friday, July 25, 2025

Andrew Keegan Interview Excerpt - Why He Wanted Be Part of the Psychological Thriller Healing Towers by Call Me Adam

Actor Andrew Keegan is currently starring in the NEW psychological thriller Healing Towers, which is available on digital & demand platforms. In this excerpt, Andrew shares why he wanted to…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:30PM
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Inter Alia review – Rosamund Pike rules in searing legal drama from Prima Facie team by Emma John

Lyttelton theatre, London With anarchic energy, Pike plays a judge whose world is upended in a companion drama to Suzie Miller’s hit, again directed by Justin Martin Three years ago, playw…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PM

Richard Greenberg obituary by Michael Coveney

Playwright once dubbed ‘the American Noël Coward’, who skilfully poked beneath the surface of his middle-class characters’ lives The American playwright Richard Greenberg, who has die…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM

‘What if everyone didn’t die?’ The queer, Pulitzer-winning, happy-ending Hamlet by Arifa Akbar

James Ijames was told Shakespeare wasn’t for the likes of him. Yet his Hamlet revamp electrified Broadway and scooped up Tony nominations. As Fat Ham hits the UK, he talks violence, vengea…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM