Richard Burton News

On March 5, 2021, Seattle Opera presented Mozart’s Don Giovanni to its worldwide online audience. Stage director Brenna Corner notes that the 1964 Hamlet on Broadway directed by Richard Burton inspired her to do this black-and-white film production and use it to communicate the opera’s basic premise. Corner says she intended to emphasize the drama.

Today's Theater Stories features the Majestic Theatre! Learn about some of the best-known shows to grace the stage of the Majestic Theatre, including Carousel, South Pacific, Camelot, Phantom of the Opera, and many more!

Today's Theater Stories features the Gershwin Theatre! Learn about the theatre's longest running show, Wicked; the extravagant production of Starlight Express; the Theater Hall of fame featuring theater's biggest names, and more!

Asolo Rep has announced casting for its upcoming production of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot. This concert production of David Lee's adaptation previews March 17 and 18, opens March 19 and runs through March 31 on Asolo Rep's outdoor Terrace Stage, located on the front steps of the FSU Center for the Performing Arts.

Emmy Award winner Matthew Rhys's (Perry Mason, The Americans) Audible Original performance of the award-winning one-man show, Playing Burton, debuts on Thursday, January 28th exclusively on Audible. Rhys stars in this classic show about international star of stage and screen, Richard Burton.

BroadwayWorld had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Yeardley Smith, the actress who has voiced Lisa for over thirty years. Yeardley also hosts the true crime podcast 'Small Town Dicks.' 

The season kicks off with Laura Osnes in Concert on February 5 and 6, with music direction by Fred Lassen.

Painter, writer and filmmaker Doc Banning exudes through his work the importance of art as a source of healing and inspiration. His big, bold and beautiful canvases are like battlefields where the struggle ends only when an inner aesthetic is satisfied.

The American Musical Theatre was built on great songwriters whose names can't be said without their partners'. OKLAHOMA!, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and CINDERELLA might as well be credited to one hyphenated name, Rodgers-and-Hammerstein. Today, they take a look at some equally inseparable duos with an emphasis on Lerner & Loewe and their masterpiece, CAMELOT.

If you ask any theatre kid about the Golden Age of Musical Theatre, the first two people who come to mind are none other than Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Powerhouse performer, Thor Fields and his renowned Led Zep tribute band, LED BLIMPIE rise like a phoenix. Returning to the stage within social-distancing guidelines, Led Blimpie will perform Friday, October 16 at 8:00 p.m. at Milo The Meeting House, 7165 Germantown Ave. in Philadelphia, PA.

In this week's Theater Stories, we are learning about the Al Hirschfeld theater! From theater ghosts to short-lived musical sequels, this theater is home to endless amounts of history, interesting facts and more.

Former Broadway producer/publicist, David Rothenberg will be taking his autobiographical play, NAMEDROPPING, to a laptop near you on Wednesday, August 19th at 7:00 pm. 

Today we asked our readers which past Tony Awards host is their personal fave!

MHz Choice is a U.S. based streaming service featuring new and exclusive international mysteries, dramas and comedies—unedited with easy-to-read English subtitles.

Christine Ebersole and Lawrence Yurman are this week's guests on Cabaret Corner! For over 30 years two-time Tony Award winning actress Christine Ebersole has captivated audiences on the Broadway stage, in television series and specials, films, concert appearances, and recordings.

Available in the U.S. & Canada! MHz Choice is a U.S. based streaming service featuring new and exclusive international mysteries, dramas and comedies—unedited with easy-to-read English subtitles.

Nearly 50 years after The Ed Sullivan Show wrapped its final episode and charmed TV viewers for the final time on Sunday night June 6, 1971, it officially joins the streaming universe and lives on forever.

To celebrate International Dylan Thomas Day on May 14, 92Y's Poetry Center will release a never-before-seen recording of a 2014 performance of Thomas' play, Under Milk Wood, featuring actor Michael Sheen, among others.

BroadwayWorld Book Club is officially off and running! Or should we say, reading! The first BroadwayWorld Book Club selection is Jennifer Ashley Tepper's The Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 1. Tepper has just released the first volume of the book for free on Kindle!