From Up Here - 2008 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 1

Comedian Dusty Slay will launch an extension of his THE NEIGHBORHOOD GUY Tour across 25 new U.S. and Canadian markets, including a performance at Boston's Boch Center Shubert Theatre.

BroadwayWorld talks to Bay Area theater luminary and Pinter specialist Carey Perloff about finally getting the chance to direct Pinter's 'Betrayal.' The production runs at Marin Theatre October 22 through November 15.

STATE RADIO announced a 2027 winter tour performing their album US AGAINST THE CROWN across the East Coast and Chicago, with stops in Washington, DC; Chicago; Philadelphia; Brooklyn; and Boston beginning in January.

Friday, November 6, 2026 $75 Advance | $80 Day of Show [all-in pricing, no additional fees] Doors 7pm | Show 8pm JASON ROBERT BROWN is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor…

A recent audience disturbance at Wicked on the West End caused the performance to be paused for an hour. Unruly patrons were singing along, talking loudly, sneaking in their own alcohol, and generally creating an unpleasant experience for their fellow theatergoers. They were finally ushered out of London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre successfully by the heroic front of house and security teams. The situation went viral thanks to TikTok, with theatre fans and professionals around the world weighing in on what happened at the show.

Jack Wolfe will perform at the Rufus & Martha Wainwright benefit concert at Town Hall, featuring Cyndi Lauper, Alice Phoebe Lou, and family members. Proceeds support Folk Cancer: The Kate McGarrigle Project.

NOSTALGIA BAIT was an excellent night of fun that celebrated growing up as a theater kid in the early 2000s. Creative choices were made that enhanced the show into a full production.

Comedian and Emmy Award winner Craig Ferguson will record special tapings at Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado. Tickets are currently available.

Dark-alternative duo SHE WANTS REVENGE launches their fall tour starting Oct. 10 in Ventura, CA, with multiple sold-out dates across North America. The band plans to release new music soon.

As All Hallows’ Eve approaches when the witching hour will be upon us, there’s no more appropriate seasonal spookiness than Helen McKenna-Uff’s riveting one-woman show at the Ritz Theatre, Tell-Tale Poe, in which she is eerily transformed beyond recognition into Edgar Allan Poe (and Sarah Helen Whitman, a poet who was briefly his fiancée). 

Swedish duo First Aid Kit announced a UK and Ireland tour. Tickets will go on sale in October 2026.

Versatile character actress returns to play a favorite role in 5-Star Theatricals' production of 'Les Miserables,' beginning October 9

Sacramento rockers OLEANDER sign with SBG Records just days before their Aftershock Festival show on October 4th. Get the details on their new chapter.

Recently, we had the chance to chat with Lindsey Coulson about playing Eileen in Ilford Boy. We discussed the rehearsal process for a new piece of work, what it has been like returning to theatre after more recent performances for television and what she hopes audiences will take away from the play.

54 Below will present performers from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and entertainment, including artists in October, including Jenn Colella, Ali Ewoldt, Christine Ebersole and more.

The upcoming production of the 1955 musical written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (music and lyrics) and Douglass Wallop and George Abbott (book) will star Neil Patrick Harris as Applegate, Julianne Hough as Lola, and Austin Scott as Young Joe Hardy. It will play Broadway’s Marquis Theatre, which incidentally, hosted the first revival of the show from 1994-1995. The 2027 production will be the second Broadway revival for the perennially popular property which has been a favorite in schools and communities since it made a splash during musical theatre’s Golden Age. 

FRIGID New York will present the 15th annual Gotham Storytelling Festival, featuring personal narratives centered on displacement and belonging, with performances by storytellers including Marsha Brown, Dipti Bramhandkar, and Brad Lawrence.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will present nightly performances throughout October, featuring The Hot Sardines, Ron Carter, and birthday celebrations for Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.

Tom Morello released his first solo rock album EVERYONE GETS EVERYTHING THEY WANT via Mom + Pop Music, featuring collaborations with Serj Tankian, Kneecap, and Beartooth, alongside his son Roman on guitar.

Melissa Greenspan's one-person comedy about a mother's struggle to let go of her daughter opens at the Matrix Theatre. The play explores the parent-child dynamic through humor and heartfelt moments.

The discourse surrounding reasons for reviving musicals on Broadway is a relatively recent phenomenon. These days, if a show is announced for a revival, a sentence that often follows is: “Why are they reviving it?” 

There are shows you see once, treasure, and file away as an artifact of a particular downtown moment that could never happen again. And then, every couple of decades, one of them proves you wrong. Arias with a Twist, back at HERE Arts Center in the very theater where it detonated in 2008, is not a nostalgia trip. It is a resurrection, and it is glorious.

'Evita' is making its way back to Broadway, but it’s been more than four decades since Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Tony Award-winning musical first arrived in New York City. BroadwayWorld looks back at the original cast.

Japan Society will present a multimedia puppet theater work by Maiko Kikuchi based on Japan's oldest chronicle of origin myths. The production features puppets assembled onstage from everyday objects.

Conductors, choirs and vocal soloists announced for the 25th anniversary UK and Ireland arena tour of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING IN CONCERT, featuring 239 musicians performing Howard Shore's Oscar-winning score live to the film.