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Reviews are in for Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular, now playing at Radio City Music Hall through August 9. Check out photos from the production below!
Reviews are in for The Saviors, the world premiere drama by Bubba Weiler. Starring Crystal Finn, Ivan Howe, Julius Rinzel, and Stanley Simons, the production is now playing at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater through August 15.
Reviews are in for Broad Strokes, Cat Cohen's autobiographical one-woman musical comedy about mortality, recovery, and self-discovery. The limited Off-Broadway engagement continues through September 5.
Debra Winger and Arliss Howard star in a unique new production of D.L. Coburn’s The Gin Game at New York’s iconic Housing Works Bookstore. Directed by David Blum, this revival transforms the store into an intimate theater where audiences sit just feet away from the action. Check out what the critics are saying about the new production...
Following its premiere at Tribeca Festival earlier this summer, the live theater capture of the Tony Award-winning hit musical Hadestown, shot in the West End last year, will be released in North America for five nights only. Read the reviews here.
1965, New York City. Trevor Copeland and Arthur Brightman’s romance is against the law. In their secret nightclub act, “Midnight,” they perform love songs in an act of defiance of a world that demands they stay hidden. As tensions rise at the start of a historic movement, Trevor and Arthur are torn between their own surreptitious affair and the oncoming storm of social revolution. What did the critics think?
The Muny’s Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations is an example of how a jukebox musical can transcend the music into something much greater. This production, the directorial vision, the performances, and the technical execution all blend to create an engaging, historically accurate, and entertaining true-life narrative.
For the final production of its 27th season, Company One Theatre (C1), in partnership with the City of Boston Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture. is presenting the powerful world premiere of “A New Era,” a drama by Boston playwright Miranda Austen ADEkoje, at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre, through August 8.
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas continues to prove that it is one of Arkansas' most vibrant artistic destinations with its delightful production of Shrek the Musical, running through Sunday, August 2.
I have been attending the International Black Theatre Festival since 2009, and it has yet to disappoint me. The week promises an extraordinary lineup of world-class theatrical productions, educational workshops, The Garland Lee Thompson, Sr. Readers' Theatre presentations, celebrity appearances, networking opportunities, and cultural experiences for theatre lovers of every generation.
José Sacristán, José María Pou, Javier Cámara, Charo López, Pepón Nieto y Carlos Hipólito forman parte de una temporada que arrancará el próximo 12 de septiembre.
La publicación recorre el legado de los compositores de clásicos como MARY POPPINS, LA BRUJA NOVATA, LA SIRENITA, LA BELLA Y LA BESTIA, POCAHONTAS y EL JOROBADO DE NOTRE DAME.
Do get a ticket to this beautiful piece of theatre.
What did our critic think of INTO THE WOODS at Community Theatre Of Cabot?
From June 29 to July 4, Camp Broadway Indonesia’s (CBI) Mainstage program returned, offering a 6-day musical theater training for youths aged 9-17 and led by Broadway professionals. On the last day, the campers held a showcase featuring scenes and songs from THE ADDAMS FAMILY at Beacon Academy Theatre.
This production of Macbeth took a classic play and, through the use of minimal stage design, presents it in a unique way. Macbeth draws the audience in from the moment the lights go down, and has you on the edge of your seat until curtain call.
Good theatre can take place practically anywhere if you know what you want out of the experience. Since 2008 Ford’s Theatre has been conducting walking tours under the banner of History On Foot. The tour takes you around to several places that all have some kind of connection to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865.
Molière is a surprising figure to hold such a central position in French culture. The image of France as sophisticated, understated, and elite extends only partially to his oeuvre. In practice, Molière’s theatre appropriated and elevated the popular Italian tradition of commedia dell’arte.
Some performances in Avignon require me to put on my Euro-goggles. Sometimes the adjustment is one of taste: comedy, for instance, varies dramatically between American and continental European sensibilities. Other times, it is a matter of social vocabulary. Race functions very differently in American and European public discourse.
Across the Rhône from Avignon, in the picturesque town of Villeneuve, sits Villeneuve en Scène. The site, usually associated with the Festival “Off,” contains food trucks, a bar, picnic areas, and small courts where locals play rounds of boules. Toward the back of the festival grounds stands a green circus tent.
In a BBC interview, famed director Katie Mitchell calls for fewer productions of Hamlet. She is tired of attending plays about “misogynistic, angry, depressed men.” I respect any artist defining the boundaries of what interests them.
In his podcast, political commentator Ezra Klein has examined a curious conundrum within the modern elite: the pursuit of extraordinary qualities divorced from their original purpose. Looksmaxers have become sterile in their pursuit of superhuman beauty.
With its generous public funding for culture, France's Festival d'Avignon can produce theatrical spectacles on an extraordinary scale. Its directors regularly push the formal limits of the art form with enormous casts, technological innovation, and elaborate stagecraft.
In Christiane Jatahy and Wagner Moura's Un Procès Après l'Ennemi du Peuple, now performing at the Festival d'Avignon's Gymnase du Lycée Aubanel, Thomas Stockmann finally gets his day in court. Reimagining the events of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in contemporary Brazil, the production transforms the drama into a modern courtroom trial.
Tina Fay’s MEAN GIRLS, with the right level of farce can be a delightful experience. Beck’s staging, inspite of a talented cast, was pleasant. It could have been great with the right concept. Go?, Of course! Most audience members, as displayed by the standing ovation at the end of the performance I attended, displayed their like-level of enjoyment.
What better way to close out the Festival d'Avignon than with a love letter to the theatre? At the conclusion of Casting Lear, now performing at the Opéra Grand Avignon as part of the Festival, creator and performer André Jiménez makes an impassioned case for the art form.
