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See photos of Chloe Misseldine and Isabelle Fokine at Ballet Support Foundation's open studio preview of LEGENDARY WOMEN, a new production celebrating influential women through dance.

Troy Sussman discusses playing Tevye in Jordan Fein's Olivier Award-winning FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, playing Brisbane's QPAC from 9 October before touring to Melbourne and Perth.

On Saturday, October 3rd, I had the pleasure of seeing a phenomenal performance of one of my absolute favorite musicals of all-time, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, performed by Fairfield Center Stage at City Wide Church in Bridgeport, CT.  Director Joel Fenster, Choreographer Lindsay Johnson, and Music Director Clay Zambo combine their talents to help bring out the best in this first-rate ensemble cast! With book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, this show continues to entertain audiences for over half a century! This musical is packed with a multitude of first-rate songs, no cheap fillers!

The Broadway grosses provide valuable information that can give insight into everything from what producers and investors choose to bring to Broadway next to what show might have a discounted ticket available for the average theatergoer. Historically, this data has been tracked for over a century. The collective data of many shows’ grosses over previous seasons presents patterns which contribute to ticket pricing decisions and scheduling decisions, such as when a limited run should plan to open and close. The grosses guide Broadway marketers and advertisers in every day decision-making as well, giving data to base spends and new placements on.

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. 

The Union Avenue Opera gives us brilliant voices in an intimate space.  It’s done that for thirty-two years now.  Their current production is an enormously gratifying Fiddler on the Roof.  

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF now playing at the Bellevue Little Theatre is a big production in a small space and it does not disappoint! Director Laureen Pickle with her creative crew has pulled off an incredible piece of theatre with all the heart and soul of a big Broadway production. You need to see it to believe it.

Splendid new adaptation of a play that can be seen as a respectful response to The Cherry Orchard

It was “The Way We Were” and the way we are during another scintillating afternoon at the Dutch Treat Club on Tuesday, February 17th where the talk and song was all Hollywood and the theme was A STAR IS BORN! See photos of the event.

The full lineup of titles and artists has been revealed for Seattle Opera's 2026/27 season. An exploration of love in all its facets, the company's 63rd season features two classic operas returning to Seattle for the first time in a quarter century.

BroadwayWorld talks to Bay Area theater luminary Carey Perloff about her production of Chekhov's classic tragicomedy 'The Cherry Orchard' running at Marin Theatre January 29 to February 22.

Kelly Slawson brings a dazzlingly powerful, beautiful voice to the title role.   It’s an unforgettable triumph in a real tour de force.

At the age of fifteen Solomon Rabinovich adopted the pseudonym  “Sholem Aleichem,” a Yiddish variant of the Hebrew expression meaning 'peace be with you' and used as a greeting.

Daniel Gerroll has spent the last five years shepherding one of Sweden’s most notorious psychological dramas from page to stage. In 1905, Hjalmar Söderberg’s novella Dr Glas shocked its original readers; now, under Jeffrey Hatcher’s first serious English-language adaptation, Gerroll brings the physician’s fraught moral journey and forbidden obsession to life as a solo performance.

Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing Chef Jack Logue about his career, The Lambs Club and his newest venture opening this summer, Buchette del Vino NYC.  Both of the venues are located in the heart of the Theatre District.

Even without an over-the-top production—and the Met has had a couple of those—Richard Strauss’s SALOME has been outraging audiences for more than 120 years. This week’s new take by director Claus Guth in his Met debut was no exception.

The Liverpool Olympia is set to celebrate its 120th birthday with a spectacular night of live music headlined by British rock favourites Embrace. The landmark live entertainment venue on West Derby Road will mark the anniversary.

​​​​​​​Based on Tevya and His Daughters, a collection of stories by Sholem Aleichem, Fiddler on the Roof is set in the small Russian village of Anatevka in 1905. This 1964 award winning musical, with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, strikes a chord as much today as it did during its record-setting run on Broadway.

The people at Heartbeat Opera--that dazzling reinvention-machine for taking works that you think you might have heard one time too often and making them compelling--must have had a crystal ball when they programmed Strauss’s SALOME long before the current, decadent regime took control in US politics.

JUST IN TIME FOR JULE STYNE at Dizzy's was another 'Songbook Sundays' soiree celebrating a Great American Songbook writer. A night of Jule Styne's music curated by Deborah Grace Winer 'makes someone happy.'

As a part of its 2024-25 Season, The Billie Holiday Theatre - one of the nation's preeminent arts and culture organizations - will launch the inaugural “Black Narrative” theater series.

This time, the reader question was: What is the history of Romeo and Juliet on Broadway?

I couldn’t help but wondering whether the scheduling last week of two recent productions at the Vienna State Opera, Claus Guth’s TURANDOT and Cyril Teste’s SALOME, on subsequent nights had anything more than the availability of the stars behind it. After all, both portrayed the title characters as abused women scarred by powerful men—not exactly the business-as-usual for these works by Puccini and Strauss, respectively—in pared-down productions that hearkened to the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, as well as to #MeToo.

Boston Symphony Orchestra has revealed its 2024-25 season.

Desert Theatricals 'Fiddler' stands tall and breathes LIFE into old TRADITIONS.