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Review: HAIRSPRAY at Broadway Dallas
by Emily Short - Jun 22, 2024


Don't miss out on an energetic evening of singing, dancing, fun, and reflection. HAIRSPRAY is at Music Hall at Fair Park June 18-30.

Kelli O'Hara, Alex Newell & More to Star in Lyrics & Lyricists 2024/25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 20, 2024


The 92nd Street Y, New York has revealed the new Lyrics & Lyricists season and a slate of American Songbook concerts. Learn how to purchase tickets.

COME FROM AWAY & More Set for Harris Center for the Arts 24-25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 12, 2024


Folsom’s Harris Center for the Arts has revealed the Harris Center Presents 2024-2025 Season. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

BWW Q&A: Sandy Cox on Anything Goes at TexARTS
by Joshua Wright - Jun 12, 2024


We talk with Sandy Cox about Anything Goes at TexARTS. Founded in 2005, it has produced 100s of critically acclaimed professional musicals and plays as well as youth theater.  TexARTS Academy has educated 1000s of students, many of whom have gone on to careers in the arts and can be seen on International tours, on cruise ships, in LA, on Broadway and at esteemed educational institutions both on stage and behind the scenes.

Review: THE GOAT is Brilliant Comedy at The Stage At Burke Junction
by Courtney Symes - Jun 8, 2024


Edward Albee, whose odd middle-aged characters have fascinated American theatre-goers since 1962’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, explores what is perhaps his most interesting family dynamic in the 2002 Tony Award-winning play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? The play is, as you might imagine, about a goat. This is not just any goat, though; this is a home-wrecking goat. Now, you might wonder how a farm animal could possibly drive a wedge in a solid family unit. Well, I’m here to tell you that it does so in a provocative and gut-busting script of genius and absolute hilarity.

Interview: Greg Kalafatas of HAIRSPRAY at BROADWAY AT THE HOBBY CENTER
by Brett Cullum - Jun 4, 2024


There's this obvious fantasy of the character in that we're in mid-century pinks and blues and teals and aquamarines and this whole color palette and it's a musical, and it's songs, and it's a man dressed up as a woman. But the thing the reality is that Edna turns out as a woman, and you're playing a mom, and she's and that's what she is.

Review: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF at The Lantern Theatre
by Theresa Bertram - Jun 2, 2024


What did our critic think of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF at The Lantern Theatre?

Review: Seth Rudetsky presents Tony Winner Lillias White at OC's Segerstrom Center
by Michael Quintos - May 31, 2024


To close out their 2023-2024 Series, Segerstrom Center welcomed theater aficionado Seth Rudetsky to serve as an interviewer/pianist for Tony Award winner Lillias White for three shows May 16-18, 2024 in one of the most incredibly wonderful, fan-favoring shows that the OC arts campus has ever hosted at the intimate Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa, CA.

Review: TOMATOES TRIED TO KILL ME BUT BANJOS SAVED MY LIFE at Foulds Theater
by Fran Thomas - May 31, 2024


What did our critic think of TOMATOES TRIED TO KILL ME BUT BANJOS SAVED MY LIFE at Foulds Theater?

The Exchange Will Award $404,000 to Local Arts Groups and Students at Its Annual Grants Celebration
by Stephi Wild - May 31, 2024


The Exchange will award $404,000 to 25 regionally based arts and cultural organizations and 10 high school and college students. Additionally, seven organizations are recipients of the recent Elizabeth Lindsay Arts in Education grant.

Review: TO BARBRA, WITH LOVE Was a Swell Streisand Salute at 54 Below
by Rob Lester - May 31, 2024


Barbra Streisand's songbook gets paged through by admiring talents in this Streisand salute on May 23rd

Hal Linden and Marilu Henner to Star in THE JOURNALS OF ADAM AND EVE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 30, 2024


Hal Linden and Marilu Henner are set to star in The Journals of Adam and Eve, a new comedy by Ed. Weinberger. See where and when you can catch the new show!

Buck Creek Playhouse to Present INTO THE WOODS in June
by Blair Ingenthron - May 25, 2024


Buck Creek Players will present the final show of our 50th season with this musical on our mainstage. Join us for the eight live in-person performances at the playhouse starting Friday, June 14th and running through Sunday, June 23rd. 

Games, Books, and Collectables Belonging to Stephen Sondheim Will Be Auctioned in June
by Nicole Rosky - May 23, 2024


Memorabilia includes his gold record for West Side Story, custom-embroidered asylum coat from Sweeney Todd and more, including antiques of the Victorian and Edwardian as well as early puzzles, games, rebuses, coin-operated machines and more.

How Often Do Shows Tour Before Coming to Broadway?
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - May 26, 2024


This time, the reader question was: How often do shows like The Wiz start on tour before coming to Broadway?

Cast Recording Will Be Released For I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE Starring Santino Fontana
by Stephi Wild - May 13, 2024


A cast recording will be released this fall for the Classic Stage Company’s acclaimed 2023 revisal of I Can Get It For You Wholesale, starring Tony Award® winner Santino Fontana, alongside Rebecca Naomi Jones and Tony nominees Judy Kuhn and Julia Lester, among others.

Book Review: A SENSE OF THEATRE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S NATIONAL THEATRE, by Richard Pilbrow
by Cheryl Markosky - May 13, 2024


In the summer of 1962, Sir Laurence Olivier invited lighting designer Richard Pilbrow to 'sort out the bloody awful lighting' at Chichester Theatre two days before it opened. Pilbrow replied there was nothing he could do in so short a time. 'Well, you're no bloody use, are you?' Olivier quipped.

BOEING BOEING Comes to the Alhambra in June
by Stephi Wild - May 9, 2024


The Alhambra Theatre & Dining will open its comedy, Boeing Boeing on May 23, 2004.  Set in the 1960’s, Boeing Boeing is a whirlwind of a farce revolving around American journalist Bernard Lawrence, who has his hands full in the romance department: he has three girlfriends, all stewardesses.

James Ijames' GOOD BONES, Delacorte Theater Reopening & More Set for The Public Theater 24-25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 7, 2024


The Public Theater has revealed the line-up for The Public’s 2024-25 Season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Broadway Buying Guide: May 6, 2024- See the Tony-Nominated Shows of 2024
by Team BWW - May 6, 2024


Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, May 6, 2024.

Undermain Theatre Announces EXIT THE KING And More for 2024-2025 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 30, 2024


UNDERMAIN has announced its 41st 2024/2025 Season The Season of Identity.

Rialto Center for the Arts Closes in on Fundraising Goal
by Stephi Wild - Apr 30, 2024


One year after restoring connections to its roots as a downtown movie palace, the Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University has announced successes from its first year of operation featuring the historic venue’s new Digital Cinema Projection (DCP) projector and larger Stewart cinema screen.   

Broadway Buying Guide: April 29, 2024- New Shows Top the Week
by Team BWW - Apr 29, 2024


Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, April 29, 2024.

Photos: First Look at Great Lakes Theater's ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE
by Blair Ingenthron - Apr 28, 2024


Great Lakes Theater (GLT) concludes its 62nd season with a musical celebration of country legend Patsy Cline in Always…Patsy Cline, performing in the company's intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square, through May 19, 2024. Check out production photos here!

Review Roundup: MOTHER PLAY Opens On Broadway, Starring Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons & Celia Keenan-Bolger
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 25, 2024


Tony Award winner Celia Keenan-Bolger, Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award winner Jessica Lange, and Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Jim Parsons return to Broadway in the Second Stage's production of Mother Play. Read the reviews!

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