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New Play CASSATT to Open May 29 at Theatre West

by Gillian Blum - Apr 12, 2026

The new play Cassatt, written and directed by Arden Teresa Lewis, will run May 29-June 28 at Theatre West in Los Angeles, with performances at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. on Sundays.

Tamara Lawrance, Jamael Westman Will Lead AN IDEAL HUSBAND at Lyric Hammersmith

by Stephi Wild - Apr 1, 2026

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre announced the cast for AN IDEAL HUSBAND, directed by Nicholai La Barrie, running May 7–June 6, 2026, before transferring to Bristol Old Vic June 10–20.

The Orinda Starlight Village Players Will Perform Agatha Christie's THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD

by Stephi Wild - Mar 31, 2026

The Orinda Starlight Village Players will open their 43rd season with the Bay Area premiere of Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd on June 5th.

The Atlanta Opera Will Perform TURANDOT in Centennial Performance

by Stephi Wild - Mar 30, 2026

THE ATLANTA OPERA will stage a new production of TURANDOT, featuring a reimagined ending, opening April 25 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The production marks the centennial of the opera's premiere.

Denville Hall Marks 100th Anniversary with New Presidents and £26M Appeal

by Stephi Wild - Feb 19, 2026

Denville Hall announces a £26 million centenary appeal and appoints Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Ian McKellen, and Daniel Radcliffe as new presidents in celebration of its 100th anniversary.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK To Be Presented By Birmingham Village Players

by A.A. Cristi - Feb 9, 2026

Birmingham Village Players will present THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, featuring a new adaptation that highlights Jewish identity and historical context. The show, starring young talents, runs from March 6-22, 2026.

Cast Set for MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at Goodman Theatre

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 9, 2026

Ma Rainey and her band return to The Goodman this spring in a major revival—and a reunion of two Chicago theater legends. Goodman Family Resident Director Chuck Smith directs August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom with Associate/Music Director Harry J. Lennix.

Interview: Paul Slade Smith of THEATRE PEOPLE at Westport Country Playhouse

by Sherry Shameer Cohen - Mar 19, 2025

A Season of Laughter continues at the Westport Country Playhouse with Theatre People, a new adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s 1924 three-act farce, Play at the Castle (Játék a kastélyban).

Photos: First Look At DARK LADIES Off-Broadway

by A.A. Cristi - Sep 27, 2024

Be Bold! Production of Dark Ladies: Ghostly Tales by Gothic Ladies is continuing its Off-Broadway run at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village after opening this past weekend. The play runs through November 3, 2024. See photos from the production.

Photos/Video: Jay Leno Celebrates Reopening of Bergen PAC with Historic Drive and Ribbon Cutting

by Blair Ingenthron - Apr 9, 2023

Jay Leno celebrated Bergen Performing Arts Center's (bergenPAC's) reopening of the theater in Englewood, N.J., with a historic drive through town and ribbon cutting. Jay Leno attended the private reception at Benzel-Busch Mercedes-Benz Automotive Dealership in Englewood, N.J. for a private reception taking photos with the Mercedes-Benz 1955 Gulfwing and the all-new AMG EQS Sedan from Benzel-Busch to bergenpac to cut the ribbon before his performance to a sold-out audience of over 1300 people. Check out photos and video here!

Photos: First Look at THE WILD PARTY at Jennie T. Anderson Theatre

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 20, 2022

Cobb PARKS and the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre are continuing their 2022 concert series with the hit Andrew Lippa musical, THE WILD PARTY. Based on the 1926 poem by Joseph Moncure March, this roaring production features a cast of 13 actors and 9 musicians, and will be available to stream June 17-19.

Photos: First Look at the New Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre

by Stephi Wild - Jul 6, 2021

The new Garden Theatre will open this Summer with a reconceived version of The Comedy of Errors, one of Shakespeare’s earliest and arguably funniest plays, running from 13 July – 26 September. The production, directed by Phillip Breen, was due to be part of the RSC’s 2020 season, but was postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photo Flash: Glen Tetley Legacy Completes its First Virtual Ballet Staging THE RITE OF SPRING

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 9, 2020

Glen Tetley Legacy completes its first virtual ballet staging. The Rite of Spring (1974) one of choreographer Glen Tetley’s most technically difficult works received its premiere engagement by Suzhou Ballet Theatre on September 12, 13, 2020 in China at the Suzhou Culture and Arts Center before a live audience.

BWW Review: CAN'T PAY? DON'T PAY! Comically Reflects the Growing Social and Economic Divide Plaguing America

by Shari Barrett - Feb 22, 2020

This wildly funny satirical farce questions why, in a world of bailed-out banks and overpriced prescription drugs, theft is only a crime when it is committed by those truly in need, centering on humble housewife Antonia (Kaili Hollister) who joins a revolt of women at the local supermarket as they are all hungry and fed up by rising prices and stagnant wages. Determined to live with dignity and rejecting an austere diet of dog food and birdseed which is about all Antonia can afford to buy on her husband Giovvanni's (Jeremie Loncka) wages working on the production line at a local factory, the women's protest escalates and looting ensues.

BWW Review: MARTHA GRAHAM'S LEGACY CONTINUES, MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER at The Soraya

by Valerie-Jean Miller - Mar 8, 2019

At the elegant Soroya Theatre in Northridge, CA, Martha Graham's Dance Company, under Artistic Director Janet Eilber's seasoned guidance, performed a most incredible group of works. Some were originally created approximately 80 years ago, by Martha Graham, a true icon in the Dance world. The EVE Project, as this evening, March 2nd, 2019 was entitled, gave us a wide variety of themes within a theme, that being Women and their significance, their power, their passion and their strength. It was polished to perfection, and each piece carried many meanings and concepts and was just so beautifully performed and articulated. The Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest contemporary dance company in the United States, founded in 1926. Since it's inception it has explored and encompassed political and humanitarian issues, as well as affairs of the heart and human interactions, while creating a prolific dance technique that is unequaled in it's scope. Graham created a total of 181 ballets during her long career, and is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century, being named in 1998 as 'Dancer of the Century' in Time magazine, and labeled one of the female 'Icons of the Century' by People Magazine.

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.

Review: SEX Sells the Bawdy Humor of Boundary-Breaking Blonde Bombshell Mae West

by Shari Barrett - May 22, 2018

Mae West was definitely a woman who played by her own rules in all aspects of her life. She dismissed barriers, boundaries, fears, judgements and prejudices and always believed women needed to be in charge of their own lives. Her play SEX was both outrageous and pornographic in 1926, full of playfulness and lots of camp as well as topical storytelling about the battle of the sexes. As the show's director Sirena Irwin shares, "SEX is a story of survival, imprisonment, fear, revenge, transformation, freedom, and love. It is a feminist perspective from nearly 100 years ago that invites us to reflect on where we've progressed and where we've stagnated. Mae West, in her wisdom, tried to open minds with humor and heart."

Photo Flash: Remembering Jerry Lewis

by Walter McBride - Aug 23, 2017

As BroadwayWorld sadly reported earlier this week, comic legend Jerry Lewis died at 91 years old at his home in Las Vegas.

BWW Preview: 2017 Season is About to Raise the Curtain at the Shaw Festival

by Roy Berko - Apr 5, 2017

Those nice people from the North who are getting ready to create great theater are beaconing people from CLE to be their guests.

Photo Flash: Disney's LITTLE MERMAID Set to Dazzle at Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale

by Julie Musbach - Feb 11, 2017

A spectacular new production of Disney's The Little Mermaid kicks off at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 for a limited two week run. Featuring the critically acclaimed work of Director Glenn Casale, this beloved tale of a young mermaid's coming-of-age adventure is told like never before. Previously announced casting includes Diana Huey as Ariel and Matthew Kacergis as Prince Eric, with Broadway's Jennifer Allen as Ursula and Steven Blanchard as King Triton. Melvin Abston, Connor Russell and Jamie Torcellini join the cast as Sebastian, Flounder and Scuttle.