Robespierre

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL is a perennial Utah favorite, but the new production on Hale Centre Theatre's Centre Stage perhaps shines brighter than any other.  It is a lush spectacle with emotional heft from soaring performances.

Anna Camp talks about Dolly Parton's reaction to her singing in 'Perfect Harmony.'

Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia's professional classic repertory theatre, is set to livestream Shout into the Void, a virtual play reading festival from October 12 a?" November 9, 2020. Scheduled to be presented during the run-up to this year's presidential election, each of these enduring classics explores power, politics, and prejudice in ways that enable penetrative contemporary insight and conversation.

Created by and starring Pete Holmes, the comedy series CRASHING returns for its eight-episode second season SUNDAY, JAN. 14 (10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) has announced initial casting and leadership for their concert performance of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's musical comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia's professional classic repertory theatre, is set to livestream Georg Büchner's Danton's Death on November 2, as part of Shout into the Void: A Virtual Play Reading Festival.

Andrea Chenier is a feast for eyes and ears with Roberto Alagna, Sondra Radvanovsky and Dimitri Platanias magnificent in the tale of the poet who stays true to love as the world descends into madness.

Get all the scoop on Coming Up On CRASHING Season Finale On HBO, airing on CBS on Sunday, March 4, 2018!

New Jersey Theatre Alliance has announced their inaugural cohort of Career Accelerator Fellows: Amoria Burks, Jamie Goodwin, and Dez Wesley.

The Max Original AND JUST LIKE THAT…, the new chapter of the groundbreaking HBO series “Sex and the City,” starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Sara Ramírez, Sarita Choudhury, Nicole Ari Parker, Karen Pittman, Chris Noth, Mario Cantone, David Eigenberg, Willie Garson, and Evan Handler.

This week the Talkhouse Podcast presents a conversation between post-punk legends, with Television's Richard Lloyd speaking with Talking Heads' Chris Franz recorded live at NYC's The Strand.

 Fresh Ground Pepper (FGP), a New York City based arts incubator in its 10th season of instigating and presenting new work, is proud to announce its first ever multi-week emerging arts festival at The New Ohio Theatre from April 10 through 21, 2018. The inaugural FGP Festival will present art parties, new works-in-progress, and workshop productions that span genre, form, and interactivity, including new works of performance, visual art, comedy, music, immersive theatre, board gaming, and literature.

The antiracist theater collective will present its first season at Tribeca's Flea Theater, as the organization's Key Resident Company-a reparative grant and partnership offered to a nascent company that centers Black, Brown and Queer artists.

The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America's longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates its 58th season July 26 - August 9, 2020, with a remarkable season of timely, topical, and thought-provoking new works.

Poeta, periodista, abogado, político e ideólogo liberal, Ignacio Ramírez El Nigromante, es considerado uno de los escritores más influyentes de su época, defensor de los derechos de los indígenas y colaborador en casi una decena de periódicos, fue promotor de la Biblioteca Nacional.

The Joust Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the four playwrights selected for the 2019-2020 WRITER'S ROUND TABLE. The Writer's Round Table is a developmental writers' group comprised of four carefully selected playwrights whose work challenges andor reimagines systemic norms

The Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater will present a world premiere staging of Shakespeare’s Pericles, a rarely-seen tragicomedy that explores themes of healing, redemption, and reconciliation.

Scoop: Coming Up On HBO's CRASHING This February

This week at Talkhouse, American Folk writer/director David Heinz and star Amber Rubarth write about their experiences filming their critically acclaimed new movie (read it HERE), filmmaker Michael Lehmann (Heathers, “American Horror Story”) revisits his overlooked second feature film Meet the Applegates (

Coming Up Next Month on CRASHING

This week at Talkhouse, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo writes about singer/songwriter Circuit Des Yeux's Reaching for Indigo (read it HERE).

This week on the Talkhouse Podcast, chef Vivian Howard and filmmaker Cynthia Hill creators of PBS' A Chef's Life discuss bringing the food and culture of rural North Carolina to the rest of America via their Peabody- and Emmy-winning series

This week on the Talkhouse Podcast, critically acclaimed electronic artist and composer William Basinski speaks with fellow rising electronic musician JLIN. Also at Talkhouse this week, rising artist Briana Marela writes about novelist Ursula Le Guin and singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus reviews Belle and Sebastian's How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 2.

In just two weeks, Manhattan Concert Productions will present a concert performance of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's musical comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Gabriel Barre (Stage Director) and Jason Howland (Music Director) reunite to lead the cast and creative team in this concert performance of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The performance will feature a chorus of over 200 singers from the across the United States, a professional cast and creative team, and the New York City Chamber Orchestra.

The title of this show is taken from Robespierre's pseudo-epitaph: “Passing by, do not cry for my death, if I lived you would die.” The passer-by and Robespierre cannot be alive at the same time and yet that is what playwrights and actors roughly do in theater: the playwright dies, and the actor resurrects him without dying himself.

Complete casting and creative team has been announced for Manhattan Concert Productions' concert performance of Tony Award-nominated musical The Scarlet Pimpernel, on February 18, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Gabriel Barre (Stage Director) and Jason Howland (Music Director) reunite to lead the cast and creative team in this concert performance of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The Broadway Series is an unparalleled rehearsal and performance experience that brings students, industry professionals and the New York City Chamber Orchestra together in a full-concert performance at a legendary venue.

Scoop: Coming Up On CRASHING This March On HBO

Pasadena Playhouse, the State Theater of California, announces a new Hitchcock-style drama Belleville by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Amy Herzog.  Performances run from Wednesday, April 18 to Sunday, May 13; the press opening is April 22. 

Sam Smith has teased their appearance on the second season of HBO Max's popular Sex and the City revival, And Just Like That. 'Up to something unholy on set,' Smith revealed posing near their trailer on set. The photos were also shared by the series' official Instagram account. Check out the photos now!

This week the Talkhouse Podcast revisits its conversation between musical collaborators and friends Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries and The Smiths' Andy Rourke in memory of O'Riordan. Also at Talkhouse this week, JD Samson of Le Tigre writes about tUnE-yArDs while Girlpool's Harmony Tividad discusses Fall Out Boy.

On February 18, Manhattan Concert Productions presented a concert performance of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's musical comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. BroadwayWorld was there last night and you can check out photos from the concert below!

Just last night, Manhattan Concert Productions presented a concert performance of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's musical comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Gabriel Barre (Stage Director) and Jason Howland (Music Director) reunited to lead the cast and creative team. The performance also featured a chorus of over 200 singers from the across the United States, a professional cast and creative team, and the New York City Chamber Orchestra.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Happy Monday! Kick off a brand new week by catching up on the latest Broadway news!

Cynthia Nixon will return as a director for the second season of AND JUST LIKE THAT... Season one starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Sara Ramírez, Sarita Choudhury, Nicole Ari Parker, Karen Pittman, Mario Cantone, David Eigenberg, and Evan Handler. The second season will also feature the return of John Corbett as Aidan, plus Tony Danza.

The Joust Theatre Company is thrilled to introduce The Writer's Round Table, a new developmental writers' group comprised of four carefully selected playwrights whose work challenges and/or reimagines systemic norms. These four playwrights will join us in a 9-month developmental process to exchange ideas and develop their plays which will culminate in each play receiving two public workshop performances, presented in repertory in the Spring and Fall of 2018. Specific dates and locations of these workshops will be announced soon.

On February 18, Manhattan Concert Productions will present a concert performance of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's musical comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Gabriel Barre (Stage Director) and Jason Howland (Music Director) reunite to lead the cast and creative team in this concert performance of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The performance will feature a chorus of over 200 singers from the across the United States, a professional cast and creative team, and the New York City Chamber Orchestra.

On February 18, Manhattan Concert Productions will present a concert performance of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's musical comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Gabriel Barre (Stage Director) and Jason Howland (Music Director) reunite to lead the cast and creative team in this concert performance of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The performance will feature a chorus of over 200 singers from the across the United States, a professional cast and creative team, and the New York City Chamber Orchestra.

On February 18, Manhattan Concert Productions will present a concert performance of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's musical comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Gabriel Barre (Stage Director) and Jason Howland (Music Director) reunite to lead the cast and creative team in this concert performance of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The performance will feature a chorus of over 200 singers from the across the United States, a professional cast and creative team, and the New York City Chamber Orchestra.

On February 18, Manhattan Concert Productions will present a concert performance of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's musical comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Gabriel Barre (Stage Director) and Jason Howland (Music Director) reunite to lead the cast and creative team in this concert performance of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The performance will feature a chorus of over 200 singers from the across the United States, a professional cast and creative team, and the New York City Chamber Orchestra.

This week on the Talkhouse Podcast, former Saturday Night Live cast member Sasheer Zamata speaks with fellow SNL alum No l Wells about Wells' debut feature as writer-director and star, Mr. Roosevelt.

The Joust Theatre Company will present the NYC workshop premiere of Gina Stevensen's Book of Esther.

Fresh off of his two-month college comedy tour, Pete returns to New York City with newfound confidence in his comedic abilities. While growing more assured, he continues to struggle over what he really wants out of comedy and how to find a happy balance between his old, faith-based self and the new, more ambitious comic he's becoming.

The ten-episode Max Original series And Just Like That…, from executive producer Michael Patrick King, debuted with two episodes on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9 on HBO Max. The following eight episodes premiere weekly on subsequent Thursdays. Watch a new clip, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Sara Ramirez, now!

Hale Centre Theatre's season-opening production of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, directed by the inimitable Cambrian James ~ is two and a half hours of spirited story-telling, featuring a bravura performance by Austin Delp as the heroic Sir Percy Blakeney. Show runs through October 6th.

Opening at Hale Centre Theatre on August 24, 2018 and playing through October 6, 2018 is the acclaimed Broadway musical The Scarlet Pimpernel. Directed and Choreographed by Cambrian James, with Musical Direction by Lincoln Wright, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a swashbuckling, romantic, and highly-entertaining family-friendly Broadway musical with music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics and book by Nan Knighton (Jekyll & Hyde, Civil War). The show is based on the novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy. About this show, Producers Dave and Corrin Dietlein said, "Eleven years ago, when we first produced The Scarlet Pimpernel, we knew the show was good, but we didn't know quite what to expect or how audiences would receive it.

John Corbett will return to his Sex and the City role of Aidan Shaw for the second season of And Just Like That... Corbett will have a multi-episode arc on the second season of the series, reprising his role as Carrie Bradshaw's on-and-off-again boyfriend. The new season will also feature Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.

Opening at Hale Centre Theatre on August 24, 2018 and playing through October 6, 2018 is the acclaimed Broadway musical The Scarlet Pimpernel. Directed and Choreographed by Cambrian James, with Musical Direction by Lincoln Wright, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a swashbuckling, romantic, and highly-entertaining family-friendly Broadway musical with music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics and book by Nan Knighton (Jekyll & Hyde, Civil War). The show is based on the novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy. About this show, Producers Dave and Corrin Dietlein said, "Eleven years ago, when we first produced The Scarlet Pimpernel, we knew the show was good, but we didn't know quite what to expect or how audiences would receive it.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Alexander Sage Oyen and Nora Brigid Monahan with Stockton University Theatre students in “Maximilien Robespierre Did Nothing Wrong” on Thursday May 12th at 9:30pm. A brand-new musical based on the French Revolutionary's “Jacobin Club” and their leader, Maximilien Robespierre. Is “Max” truly only a villain as the history books have made him out to be? And how revolutionary is he willing to be in order to make a revolution?

City Circle Theatre Company of Coralville will present the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel on May 3-5 and May 10-12 at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. Performances are May 3, 4, 10 and 11 at 7:30 pm and May 5 and 12 at 2:00 pm.

On April 13, megastar Dwayne Johnson returned to the big screen in the highly anticipated new film Rampage.