The organisation set up to deliver Hull UK City of Culture 2017 is to carry on as a permanent national arts company based in the city, it has been announced today.
The UK Tour of Tim Firth's new British musical, THE BAND, with the music of Take That, celebrated its opening night at Manchester Opera House last night, 26 September. The show runs at Manch…
We were in the closing moments of my talk with Michael Kahn, then in the midst of directing two Pinter one acts. Given his recent announcement that he will leave Shakespeare Theatre Company …
When I saw the movie adaptation of Robert James Waller's book, “Bridges of Madison County,” I wept at the beautiful simplicity of the story. When I saw the musical version on…
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, director Alexandra Spencer-Jones's electrifying, critically-acclaimed stage adaption of Anthony Burgess' 1962 literary masterpiece, opened in its New York Premiere produc…
Gather 'round, Droogies! A Clockwork Orange opened on September 25 at New World Stages. Jonno Davies, Matt Doyle, director Alexandra Spencer-Jones and the entire cast hit the red orange …
Continuing its 2017 2018 Season, Shakespeare Theatre Company STC presents Twelfth Night. Directed by internationally acclaimed director Ethan McSweeny and featuring Antoinette Robinson previ…
Delaware Theatre Company sets its sights on Broadway, right past its own audiences, with a high-tech adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic novel 'Something Wicked This Way Comes.' Mark Cofta …
Hello and welcome to our weekly roundup of the top news from stage and screen. The week just gone saw the first Debut Awards from The Stage, news of a gender-swapped Sondheim, buzz over a ne…
SOURCE: Backstage at 8:00am on September 26, 2017☆⚑
Forty of the UK's top young dancers take sequences from their latest Sadler's Wells production to various locations around Hull, this year's UK city of culture. The National Youth Dance Comp…
Following the success of four previous West End REP Seasons, the NYT Rep Company will return to the Ambassadors Theatre for a fifth year in September with a brand new female-led adaptation o…
What's the most impressive technical production in the area? What's just as astounding as Disney World or any show on Broadway? It's Delaware Theatre Company's Something Wicked This Way Come…
On this episode of BroadwayRadio's 'Tell Me More,' we talk to the co-Managing Partner of The Reduced Shakespeare Company, Austin Tichenor. With 25 years as a member of the theatre's preemine…
TOO BIG FOR ITS BRITCHES With his touching screenplay as a basis, Lee Hall adapted the 2000 indie Billy Elliot for the stage, setting his moving lyrics to Elton John’s music. There&…
The Bridges of Madison County turns out to be an ideal musical for an ambitious youth theater looking to build bridges to a wider audience of grown-up fans. A sensitive, artfully realized pr…
If you open the dictionary and look up the word 'life,' one entry reads: 'a period of animate existence.' Composer Troy Herion gives this explanation for the title of Pig Iron Theatre Compan…
If you enjoyed the historical gravitas of The Homestead Strike of 1892, get ready for a whole group of productions spearheaded by that show’s playwright, Mark Clayton Southers. He is the…
Dancers from the Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico are boycotting rehearsals for the company's production of The Nutcracker, and claim that the company is recruiting replacements for them…
SOURCE: Playbill at 8:17am on September 23, 2017☆⚑
