Othello on Video - 1965

New production photos have been released from Theatre Royal Bath’s production of The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan’s 1950’s study of obsession and the destructive power of love, starring Tamsin Greig as Hester Collyer and Oliver Chris as Freddie.

 The world premiere of Extreme Acts by award-winning playwright Lynne Kaufman, which was originally announced as a two-play production at The Marsh San Francisco has now been updated to a 60-minute standalone performance.

Jeremy Blocker joins Audible Theater, marking a significant addition to the team. Discover more about this major development in the theater industry.

Step into the rehearsal room for English, Sanaz Toosi's comic and deeply moving Pulitzer Prize winning play in the video here!

It is Shakespeare's classic tragedy. Othello Retold through a hip-hop lens and so it is constant beats being spun by DJ who is present the entire time. And and the rhyme being done on top of that consistently in rhythm, just like all of Shakespeare's work was in that iambic pentameter.

Red Bull Theater has revealed details for the next presentation of its 20th Anniversary Festival: Shakespeare's TITUS ANDRONICUS, directed by Jesse Berger. Learn more bout the production and see how to purchase tickets.

The final guests for Season 49 of Saturday Night Live have been announced as Maya Rudolph and Jake Gyllenhall. Maya Rudolph will host “SNL” for the third time on May 11. The five-time Emmy Award winner currently stars in and executive produces the second season of Loot. Jake Gyllenhaal will host the May 18 season finale, returning as host for the third time. He makes his series debut as star and executive producer of “Presumed Innocent,” premiering June 12 on Apple TV+. 

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the cast of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Jude Christian.

The 14th Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSFSA) takes place from 8 to 27 May 2024 at the Star Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town. 

To kick off summer, InterAct Theatre Company will present THE CLIMB by By C.A. Johnson.

The full cast and creative team have been announced for the world première of Brandon Lambert and Martin Landry’s Fun at the Beach Romp-Bomp-a-Lomp!!

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company reveals the cast for the free Shakespeare on the Common production of THE WINTER'S TALE, running from July 16 to August 4.

Jonathan Bailey, who will be playing the character of Fiyero in the two-part film adaptation of Wicked, has joined the third season of the Netflix series Heartstopper. He will be making a cameo appearance as Jack Maddox, an Instagram-famous classicist and celebrity crush of Charlie. The announcement also came with a brief behind-the-scenes look at Bailey in costume. Watch it here!

Broadway World Award winner David Heron is set to produce and direct the American Premiere of Alwin Bully's Caribbean drama, McBEE, in Jamaica, Queens in June.

Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind will run at The Baxter Theatre in May. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Jake Gyllenhaal is coming to the small screen in a forthcoming legal thriller. Presumed Innocent, based on the novel by Scott Turow, will see its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival in New York during June 5-16. Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Jake Gyllenhaal, hailing from David E. Kelley and executive producer J.J. Abrams, and is based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Scott Turow.

Bristol Old Vic has announced the full cast for their world premiere production of Gareth Farr’s new play A Child of Science, telling the pioneering story of Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy’s creation of IVF, and the army of women whose bravery helped them achieve the impossible.

TONI STONE by Lydia R. Diamond will run at Playhouse on Park from May 29 to June 16, 2024.

Full casting has been announced for the RSC's forthcoming production of The School for Scandal.  Directed by Tinuke Craig, the show runs in repertoire in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between Saturday 2 July – Friday 6 September. 

Born from a savvy short sketch and returning to the stage following a hugely successful debut in 2023, Rock Paper, Scissors is a playful comedy of errors with a deeply dark twist. Written and directed by Chess Hayden, this farcical thriller will uncover the rawness of human nature, where the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors is used to make life-changing decisions. 

Jonathan Bailey, who will be playing the character of Fiyero in the two-part film adaptation of Wicked, may have found his next big project. According to reports, the actor is in talks to star in the next installment of the Jurassic World series. He would join Scarlett Johannson in the film, which will serve as a reboot of the franchise following the conclusion of the previous Jurassic World trilogy in 2022.

The 14th Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSFSA) takes place from 8 to 27 May 2024 at the Star Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town. 

Following yesterday's social media tease, BroadwayWorld can confirm Rachel Zegler (Steven Spielberg's West Side Story) and Kit Connor (Netflix's Heartstopper) will star as Juliet and Romeo respectively in a revival of William Shakespeare's most famous play on Broadway this fall.

New York City Ballet has revealed its 2024-25 season. See the productions and learn how to purchase tickets!

Tony Award winner Julie White will host The Acting Company’s “Fantastic Journeys” Gala honoring Stephen McKinley Henderson. See who is taking part and learn how to purchase tickets.

Shakespeare’s OTHELLO, written in the early 1600s, predates traditional notions of decoloniality and, arguably, colonialism itself. Nonetheless, it is a text that, some contend, contains a built-in decolonial perspective or, at the very least, lends itself to be staged through this lens.