Theater Erfurt Cancels Wagner's RING CYCLE Following Low Attendance & Spending Freeze
by Joshua Wright - March 13, 2024 Theater Erfurt has announced the cancellation of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, citing significant financial challenges. The company will proceed with its production of Das Rheingold for this season, but all subsequent installments of Wagner's tetralogy will be postponed indefinitely....
Photos: PERSEPHONE PALMER STEPS OUT Begins Tonight At Theater For The New City
by A.A. Cristi - June 20, 2025 With performances beginning tonight at Theater for the New City, here's a first look at Persephone Palmer Steps Out, a darkly comedic, magical-realism new play about the god-like nature of familial hierarchies....
Cast Announced for Jonathan Spector's THIS MUCH I KNOW at Hampstead Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - November 14, 2023 Jonathan Spector’s multi award-winning play, This Much I Know, will have its European premiere at Hampstead Downstairs from 13 December – 27 January (press night Tuesday 19 December, 7pm). An explosive theatrical interrogation of agency and culpability This Much I Know will be directed by Chelsea Wa...
Guy Masterson Returns to Wilton's Music Hall With ANIMAL FARM
by Stephi Wild - November 17, 2023 Due to reasons beyond his control, Guy Masterson will be reprising his globally acclaimed, West End tour de force for the first time since hanging up his trotters in 2013, after over 1000 physically demanding performances around the world over 18 years....
Photos: First Look at South Coast Repertory's Voices of America Production of APPROPRIATE
by Blair Ingenthron - February 04, 2023 The centerpiece of SCR's 2022-23 season, 'Voices of America,' runs through Feb. 26 on the Segerstrom Stage. It encompasses two plays: Lillian Helman's The Little Foxes and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate. Each play will take the stage four times a week, alternating performances. Check out the ph...
Review: THE GOLDEN RAGE, Oran Mor, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - October 17, 2022 Gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons had a readership of 75 million during the Golden Age of Hollywood. They wielded power over the careers of Grace Kelly, Orson Welles, and Charlie Chaplin. Though they could create stars, they were never afraid to break them…...
A NIGHT OF ART, SONG AND DANCE To Play Chelsea Table + Stage April 23rd
by Stephen Mosher - April 12, 2023 International Justice Mission (IJM) and the Broadway community are bringing their voices together for an evening of justice, hope and freedom....
Eclipse Theatre and Summerhall Reveal Eclipse Award Winners Performing At Edinburgh Fringe
by Stephi Wild - July 05, 2023 Eclipse Theatre and Summerhall have announced the recipients of the third annual Eclipse Award - Faizal Abdullah, Subira Joy, Lula Mebrahtu, Mwansa Phiri, Blink Dance Theatre and Jian Yi. ...
Dutch National Opera & Ballet Presents SHADOWS Next Month
by Stephi Wild - August 08, 2022 On Tuesday 13 September, Dutch National Ballet is opening its new season with an adapted programme entitled Shadows, comprising ballets about war, power and hope. The Green Table, an anti-war ballet by Kurt Jooss, is one of the most gripping works in twentieth-century dance history....
THE DELICATE TEARS OF THE WANING MOON Comes to Instituto Cervantes
by Stephi Wild - August 30, 2024 Water People Theater has announced its upcoming production in collaboration with its host institution. The play, titled 'The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon' ('Las delicadas lágrimas de la luna menguante'), is penned by Rebeca Alemán and directed by Iraida Tapias....
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance Presents Puccini's TOSCA
by A.A. Cristi - April 09, 2024 Experience the magic of Puccini's TOSCA, presented by the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance....
Review: LOBBY HERO at Penfield Players
by Colin Fleming-Stumpf - October 29, 2023 What did our critic think of LOBBY HERO at Penfield Players?...
Review: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Roxy's Downtown
by Susan Guntly - September 04, 2024 The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a tale of longing, lust, discrimination, and abuse of power in 1547 Paris, is at Roxy’s for just one more weekend. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and book by Peter Parnell. Skillfully Directed by Rick Bumgardner with Music and Assistant Direction by ...
Desi Moreno-Penson's EL BACALAO: THE CATFISH MAN to Recieve Two Staged Readings at The Flea
by Blair Ingenthron - April 08, 2023 There will be two workshop readings for EL BACALAO: The Catfish Man, a new, full-length play written by Latina playwright Desi Moreno-Penson. The readings will be directed by SDC Director KM Jones and will feature the acting talents of Jose Febus, Michael Tyler Jennings, Laura E. Johnston (Stage Dir...
Vengeance, Murder, More On Stage As Opera San José Presents RIGOLETTO, February 17- March 3
by A.A. Cristi - January 12, 2024 Opera San José's 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi's Rigoletto. Boasting some of opera's most memorable music, including the signature aria “La donna è mobile,” this gripping work follows the jester Rigoletto, his innocent daughter Gilda, and the corrupt Duke of ...
Eclipse Theatre Premieres First Season of Work Under Artistic Director Lekan Lawal
by Stephi Wild - August 09, 2023 Eclipse Theatre, one of the UK's most innovative, Black-led production companies, presents two world premières of the first productions programmed by award-winning Artistic Director Lekan Lawal, alongside an amplified return of the Eclipse Award, an initiative created by Eclipse Theatre and Summerha...
Ensemble Theatre Presents A BROADCAST COUP Next Month
by Stephi Wild - December 08, 2022 Ensemble Theatre will stage the long-awaited world premiere of writer and broadcaster, Melanie Tait’s (The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race) thought-provoking, sharp comedy, A BROADCAST COUP, from 26th January to 4th March 2023....
Desi Moreno-Penson's EL BACALAO: THE CATFISH MAN to Recieve Two Staged Readings at The Flea
by Blair Ingenthron - April 08, 2023 There will be two workshop readings for EL BACALAO: The Catfish Man, a new, full-length play written by Latina playwright Desi Moreno-Penson. The readings will be directed by SDC Director KM Jones and will feature the acting talents of Jose Febus, Michael Tyler Jennings, Laura E. Johnston (Stage Dir...
SASANA HIGH SCHOOL EURYTHMY THEATRE Comes to PJPAC This Weekend
by Stephi Wild - September 28, 2023 PJPAC's EURYTHMY THEATRE show will focus on several aspects of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: friendship, the struggle between good and evil, the abuse of power, the preservation of nature, and the search for spiritual knowledge. Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!...
How You Can Help the Immigration Service Charities Supported by HAMILTEN
by Nicole Rosky - August 06, 2025 Learn more about each of the charities that make up the We Get the Job Done Coalition here and find out how you can donate now. History has its eyes on you! ...
La MaMa to Present THE POISONER Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 11, 2024 Discover the thrilling new production, THE POISONER, presented by La MaMa and brought to life by Uncommon Productions. Experience a unique blend of drama and suspense in this captivating play....
Review: THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR, Jermyn Street Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - January 12, 2024 Betty Parris and Abigail Williams’ lives are ruled by suspicion and spiritual insulation, where even playing is considered a sin. Everything changes when the latter starts working on John Proctor’s farm. Part of Jermyn Street Theatre’s Footprints Festival, The Good John Proctor bookends The Crucible...
Review: SORRY WE DIDN'T DIE AT SEA, Park Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - September 15, 2023 At its core, Sorry We Didn’t Die at Sea is a tad too simplistic to make a proper splash. It has a Beckettian aura to it, but this is, sadly, left unexploited. Absurdist black humour shape-shifts continuously into smart thriller and back in engaging flourishes that explode in often magnetic moments. ...
BBC Writersroom and Popcorn Group Reveal Edinburgh Longlist for Popcorn Writing Award 2023
by Stephi Wild - August 04, 2023 Popcorn Group, a film, television, and theatre production company founded by filmmaker Charlotte Colbert, has again partnered up with the BBC Writersroom and eight renowned Edinburgh theatre venues to shortlist the best of new writing coming to this year’s Fringe Festival....
Review: COVEN, Kiln Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - November 12, 2025 Directed by Miranda Cromwell, it’s a mixed bag: invigorating and galvanising on one hand, sermonic and overly explanatory on the other. Exquisite performances deliver generally mid songs that have a tendency to come up short on poetic narrative, but overdo it on the clichés. A more decisive tonal ap... |