Outrage " the hallmark of 21st-century discourse " still exists, but the radio flip-flop on banning indicates the paradigm may be shifting toward a reasonable middle ground, with space for t…
There's a happy ending, beginning and indeed, middle, as Jack and the Beanstalk gets a Musselburgh makeover at the Brunton Theatre this festive season.
John Rosenberg's new play 'And Then One Feels Great Anxiety' features a solo performance by Jenna Kuerzi and helps re-establish Kensington's Hella Fresh Theater. Mark Cofta reviews.
In Like Mother, Like Daughter, real-life moms and daughters ask each other sometimes deep questions. Themes like the sacrifices that moms make rang true for Carly Maga's mother.
My challenge is to bring an opportunity to British playwrights who have a play which deserves to be published and licensed around the world.
The Fairy Princess heard about two upcoming concerts that she is unable to attend and she wants you all to know about them and attend FOR her – tweet back at me and tell me how much it…
As word about a scuffle over a theatre production at Mitchell High School in Mitchell County NC has started to make its way beyond the local North Carolina media, accounts seem to be placing…
A theatre group was performing – with edits – a high school version of The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged,” …
A 20-foot-tall, 2,000-pound gorilla comes to life (though not much else) in the live stage version of the classic film.
Laura Benanti always wanted to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. To get there, she just had to give up on that dream first. Back when the Lincoln Center Theater's revival was first annou…
Every effort should be made for every show to start on time. Shows run late far too often and I reckon that's usually avoidable.
WASHINGTON ' Actor Robert Hooks has had quite a month: On Oct. 18, Washington Mayor Muriel E. Bowser proclaimed it "Robert Hooks Day," complete with a ceremony at city hall and a reception. …
D.C. honors the founder of the DC Black Repertory Company on troupe's 47th anniversary.
by JK Clarke The experience of growing of black in an all, or mostly-white community in the United States is one that very few white Americans understand. Even am…
South Park Theatre is a bit of a drive from Pittsburgh proper, but I recently caught their production of Now & Then by Sean Grennan. This show, directed by Allison M. Weakland, was an in…
Bess Wohl's touching play follows four young siblings as their childhoods are upended and tracks how moments from our youth resonate with us forever.
Rehearsals commence today for the new Broadway production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song, which will play Broadway's Hayes Theater 240 West 44th Street, the same Broadway stage where the T…
Now & Then, a world premiere musical in Wilton Manors, is a quiet gentle love story told with an inventive twist. But it's a tale tracing the episodes of an arc so familiar that it migh…
And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank doesn't allow us to shrug it off so easily, though " in no small part because the production was personally requested by Holoca…
I often wish August Wilson would come back to life to help us all make sense of our riven America. I walked into the Court Theatre on Saturday night just hours after watching the Serena Will…
In "Babylon," the prizewinning French playwright and author explores the dark undercurrents of domesticity and marriage.
On this week's episode, performer Amanda Duarte fills in for Terry Teachout and talks about her controversial article about theatre etiquette.
Though he remains the greatest American comic playwright, Mr. Simon was standing over a fault line in the culture that eventually pulled him down.
Schwartz sat down with Playbill before Rags opened August 21, 1986, at the Mark Hellinger Theatre to talk about the new musical and in some ways continuing the story begun in Fiddler on the …