Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Providence Performing Arts Center
by Christopher Verleger - Dec 3, 2025
Providence Performing Arts Center presents “Water for Elephants,” a moving, spectacular musical based on Sara Gruen’s bestselling historical romance novel and the 2011 movie adaptation starring Reese Witherspoon. With music and lyrics by Pig Pen Theatre Co. and book by Rick Elice, “Water for Elephants” debuted on Broadway in 2024 and was nominated for seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS National Tour Comes To Playhouse Square March 2026
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 13, 2025
The North American tour of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS has announced full casting ahead of its 2026 engagement at Playhouse Square. The musical, based on Sara Gruen’s bestselling novel, features a book by Rick Elice and music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co.
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
by Albert Gutierrez - Nov 5, 2025
The 2024 production earned seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, which I feel is an earned acknowledgment that speaks more to the craftsmanship, the ambition, and the emotional journey present in the show. The stage production’s direction, choreography, puppetry design, and ensemble synergy create moments of theatrical awe that are impossible to deny. What the songs lack in dramatic momentum, the production more than makes up for in its combination of narrative intimacy with large-scale visual storytelling.
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Straz Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - Oct 30, 2025
This was a breathtaking circus of beauty, brutality, and heart. This is one of those musicals that you will be talking about on the drive home - how the actors transformed seamlessly from present to past, the music, and simply the beauty of a simple set.
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Peace Center
by Elizabeth Cortes - Oct 26, 2025
Circus fans of all ages, step right up to the latest Broadway national tour to hit downtown Greenville! Water for Elephants is a new adaptation of the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, which was also brought to the big screen in 2011 by Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence.
Video: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS on Tour First Look
by Joshua Wright - Oct 24, 2025
Get a first look at the North American Tour of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS in this all-new video. The tour is led by Zachary Keller (Jacob), Helen Krushinski (Marlena), Robert Tully (Mr. Jankowski), Connor Sullivan (August), Javier Garcia (Camel), Ruby Gibbs (Barbara), Grant Huneycutt (Wade), and Tyler West (Walter).
Video: Meet The Cast of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS on Tour
by Joshua Wright - Aug 20, 2025
Meet the cast of the North American Tour of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, which begins performances beginning on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, MD in this all-new video.
Wake Up With BroadwayWorld August 11, 2025
by - Aug 11, 2025
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 11, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Review: CAMELOT at Barrington Stage Company
by Marc Savitt - Jul 1, 2025
I confess, it was difficult to leave the house on a truly glorious summer Sunday to attend the opening of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot. That said, I had been anticipating this production since it was announced as the first musical of the 2025 season and I believe that it does not disappoint.
Photos: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Opens at The Argyle Theatre
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Sep 19, 2022
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is the final show of the season for Long Island's largest year-round professional theatrical venue, The Argyle Theatre. Check out photos from opening night below!