Full Cast Set for Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre 2026 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 18, 2026
Storyhouse has announced full casting for its Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre season, featuring two world premieres: OUTLAWS: A ROBIN HOOD STORY and LET THE SUN SHINE!, alongside a company of ten actors and four trainees.
San Francisco Symphony Will Present SUMMER WITH THE SYMPHONY at Davies Hall & Beyond
by A.A. Cristi - May 8, 2026
The San Francisco Symphony announced its summer season, featuring classical programs, film concerts, and performances with Andrew Bird, Sutton Foster, Kelli O'Hara, A.R. Rahman, and St. Vincent at venues including Davies Symphony Hall, Shoreline Amphitheatre, and Sigmund Stern Grove.
Darlington Operatic Society to Stage JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
by Stephi Wild - Mar 20, 2026
Darlington Operatic Society is gearing up to present a new production of the beloved musical JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Darlington Hippodrome.
Photos: Harki Bhambra, Michelle Bonnard, and More in LIVING at Sheffield Theatres
by Stephi Wild - Mar 18, 2026
Sheffield Theatres has released production images for the world premiere of LIVING from award-winning Sheffield playwright, Leo Butler (Redundant) and directed by Abigail Graham (Merchant of Venice - The Globe). Check out photos here!
HAIR THE MUSICAL Comes to Theatre Royal Sydney in June
by Stephi Wild - Feb 25, 2026
The iconic rock musical HAIR will be staged at Theatre Royal Sydney, bringing its vibrant celebration of 1960s counterculture to Australian audiences. Learn more here!
THE MESSENGER West Coast Premiere Comes to Chance Theater
by Stephi Wild - Feb 20, 2026
Chance Theater will present THE MESSENGER, a new play by Jenny Connell Davis, exploring themes of memory and resistance, from March 27 to April 19, 2026.
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR SHOW Adds New Dates On UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - Feb 13, 2026
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR SHOW will extend its UK tour, bringing the beloved children's book to life on stage in additional cities across the country. Learn more here!
HAMILTON, MAYBE HAPPY ENDING and More Set for 2026-2027 Broadway on Hennepin Series
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 3, 2026
Hennepin Arts has announced the 2026-2027 Broadway on Hennepin series, bringing 12 Broadway shows to Minneapolis for 14 weeks including Tony Award Best Musical winners The Outsiders, Maybe Happy Ending and Hamilton
Cast Set For LIVING At Sheffield Theatres
by Stephi Wild - Jan 22, 2026
Sheffield Theatres has announced the cast for the upcoming world premiere of LIVING, set to debut in January 2026. The production will feature a dynamic ensemble of actors. Learn ore here!
Review: CROSSWORDS at AS220 Blackbox
by Jay Pateakos - Nov 10, 2025
What did our critic think of CROSSWORDS at AS220 Blackbox? How well do we know really know our significant other? Really really know them? Those doubts take center stage in this wonderful World Premiere Production of A.J. Rose's Crosswords at AS220's Black Box Theater.
Review: THE LION KING Reigns Supreme at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
by Albert Gutierrez - Apr 25, 2025
Life's greatest tragedy is the passage of time. It is a lesson we all must learn eventually. Within the proverbial circle of life, there is only a beginning and an end that occurs in the immediacy of our own lifetime. Yet, the cyclical nature of birth, death, and rebirth ensures that our spirit will carry on in legacy rather than in flesh. If we are loved, then we are remembered. And if we are remembered, then we live forever. Disney’s The Lion King transposes this message from screen to stage through an international collaboration of talent that supercedes the strength of the 1994 animated film from which it came.
Review: SHUCKED at Bass Concert Hall
by Joni Lorraine - Nov 13, 2024
Y’all, SHUCKED is in town and it’s just as corny as you might imagine. It’s full to the brim with dad jokes, groan worthy puns, a-maize-ing talent, and a sweet little universal plot. It’s a strange but pleasant marriage between Broadway and corn-try music. An unapologetically silly display of rural Americana, SHUCKED is a timely fresh breath of fun.
Student Blog: BACK TO SCHOOL - Missing Summer, Managing Stress at School, Audition Season, and More!
by Student Blogger: Ethan Ramos - Oct 5, 2024
In this blog, we reminisces on our summer activities and discuss how it might feel getting back into a routine with school. Often in high school, as students we find there can be a ton of stress that surrounds us and we discuss ways to focus on ourselves. We also discuss the 'audition season' process for my high school theatre!! Enjoy!!
Photos: Inside Look at Ron Sossi and the Odyssey Theatre Ensmeble's Production of WAKINGS!
by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 30, 2022
Sleep, awakeness, psychosis, enlightenment, coma. How thin is the veil that separates them? Odyssey Theatre Ensemble artistic director Ron Sossi explores some of the many states of human awareness with an evening of short “mind excursions” by Harold Pinter with Robert Coover and Hermann Hesse. Collectively titled Wakings!, the metaphysical adventure begins Saturday, April 30, with performances continuing through June 5.
Photo Flash: First Look At TexARTS' THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES: DREAM ON
by Stephi Wild - Feb 17, 2020
The Marvelous Wonderettes return to TexARTS in an all new show! It's 1969, and The Marvelous Wonderettes are back at Springfield High to throw a retirement party for their favorite teacher. As the girls sing their way through the greatest girl-group hits of the '60s and bid Ms. McPherson a fond farewell, one of the Wonderettes reveals she'll also be saying goodbye to search for success and happiness on her own.
Review: THE UNSEEN HAND and KILLER'S HEAD Showcase Sam Shepard's Loners in the Middle of Nowhere or at a Dead End
by Shari Barrett - Feb 4, 2020
Sam Shepard, who left this world in 2017, was an American playwright and actor whose plays adroitly blend images of the American West, pop motifs, science fiction, and other elements of popular and youth culture. His settings are often a kind of nowhere, notionally grounded in the dusty heart of the vast American Plains. His characters are typically loners, drifters caught between a mythical past and the mechanized present; his work often concerns deeply troubled families, lovers or friends. Two of his plays centering on loners at the end of their rope, THE UNSEEN HAND coupled with Shepard's gritty and audacious KILLER'S HEAD, joins Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's 50th Anniversary a?oeCirca '69a?? Season of significant and adventurous plays that premiered around the time of the company's inception.
Review: American Tribal Rock Musical HAIR is Still Relevant After 50 Years
by Shari Barrett - Oct 30, 2019
HAIR was written more than 50 years ago by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermot and broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of 'rock musical' as well as using a racially integrated cast and inviting the audience onstage to join in the a?oeBe-Ina?? finale. But at the time it opened off Broadway at the end of 1967, it seemed unlikely that HAIR would be relevant five decades later. A product of the hippie counter-culture, sexual revolution, and Vietnam War protests of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-war movement, while its profanity, depiction of the use of illegal drugs, treatment of open sexuality, irreverence for the American flag, and full-frontal nude scene caused much comment and controversy at the time. Yet today it seems what was shocking has become so common place that even a few children were in the audience at the performance I attended.
Review: Quintessential Clown Bill Irwin ON BECKETT Showcases the Humor and Pathos of the Irish Playwright
by Shari Barrett - Sep 21, 2019
While I find Beckett's plays often too intensely intellectual for my comprehension, this was not the case with Irwin's seemingly effortless way of donning a bowler hat (or 2 or 3), juggling them until the perfect one is atop his head, and then going on to flop around the stage in his baggy pants and oversize shoes as a quintessential clown while explaining his interpretation of passages reflecting a?oethe noise of lifea?? in Beckett's a?oeText for Noting,a?? a?oeWatt,a?? a?oeWaiting for Godot,a?? a?oeEndgame,a?? and a?oeThe Unnamable.a?? It was an extraordinary evening of watching a master of the stage interpret the life and brilliance of a theatre legend.
Photo Flash: Folger Theatre Opens The 2019/20 Season With 1 HENRY IV
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 4, 2019
Folger Theatre opens the 2019/20 season with 1 Henry IV, Shakespeare's richly layered coming-of-age tale of power, rebellion, honor, and redemption. The production is directed by Rosa Joshi (co-founder of Seattle's upstart crow collective theater company in Seattle; Henry V and As You Like It at Oregon Shakespeare Festival), who makes her DC directorial debut at the Folger.
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Brings Entertaining Fun to the James Armstrong Theatre
by Shari Barrett - Jul 23, 2019
First recorded in 1969, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT with music and lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, finally opened Off-Broadway in November 1981 and then moved to The Great White Way in January 1982 where the production received six Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, Book and Score. This ever-popular musical based on the a?oeCoat of Many Colorsa?? story from the Bible's Book of Genesis failed to win even one Tony, but has gone on to be one of the most popular, family-friendly stories with actors of all ages involved in the big-scale production performed around the world. Now being presented as the 40th production by The Aerospace Players, directed by John Woodcock and Angela Asch (who also choreographed the show), the dedicated (and all volunteer) cast features stand-out performances by many in the leading roles who make the story as fun to watch as it is entertaining.
BWW Review: Joe Orton's Dark Comedy LOOT Satirically Examines Societal Stupidity
by Shari Barrett - Jul 15, 2019
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble kicks off its 'Circa '69' season of significant and adventurous plays that premiered around the time of the Odyssey's 1969 inception with Joe Orton's darkly comic masterpiece LOOT, which asks us to wipe the fluff from our eyes and see society the way he sees it. And as a gay man during a time when British society forced artists into the closet, his farce comically examines a sort of rigged system that benefits bullies and oppressors and controls anyone stupid enough to go along with the lies. As directed by Bart DeLorenzo, this tale of corrosive wit, dizzying intrigue and classic farce suggests that the only acceptable alternative is to become a criminal, with Orton supplying laughs at everyone's expense along the way.
Review: ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST Challenges Modern Sensibilities via the Mind of a Maniac
by Shari Barrett - Feb 22, 2019
The Actors' Gang is presenting ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST by Dario Fo, directed at an incredibly fast and mind-boggling pace by Will Thomas McFadden, on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, through March 9th. Fo's works are characterized by criticisms of organized crime, political corruption, political murders, Catholic Church doctrine and have employed topics from current news. In this piece of classic international theatre from 1970, Fo writes of a madman who invades a police station interrogation room where an anarchist accused of bombing a railway station has recently 'accidentally' fallen out of a window. Donning various disguises and voices, the madman manipulates policemen into a truth-inducing hysteria in his attempt to discover what really happened.
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