A wide-ranging group of theater artists will hold a town hall Monday night to address authors' rights and equitable casting in stage productions. The gathering "is a call-to-action and a res…
This Douglas Turner Ward "satirical fantasy" from 1965 has been revived by the Negro Ensemble Company, performed largely by black actors in whiteface.
Wonderful Town Reviewed by Julio MartinezDorothy Chandler PavillionClosedIn the late 1930s, Ruth McKenney wrote a series of short stories that were published in the New Yorker and revolved a…
Two collaborations between artists of color and cultural organizations in Chicago have each won $50,000 [...]
It’s a new twist on the meaning of ‘dinner theatre’. It’s not so much that you are sat back, relaxed and enjoying a delicious three course meal while watching the…
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell will reunite with their Broadway cast for a one-night-only performance.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas as The British Players kick off the holiday season with the Pantomime “Merlin.” In true British eccentric and slightly naughty s…
The centennial of Leonard Bernstein's birth is not until the summer after next, but the West Coast has already gotten a jump-start over Broadway with the musicals. Michael Tilson Thomas last…
Today Shoreditch Town Hall announces an immersive double-bill of Philip Ridley plays, including the world premiere of Killer and a new production of Ridley's contemporary classic The Pitchfo…
Jamie Lloyd is to direct a double bill of Philip Ridley works at Shoreditch Town Hall next year. Immersive productions of the
The director will stage the pieces in the basement spaces at the east London venue
After the recent political season we have all just made it through, the song "We Need A Little Christmas" has never seemed more apropos. So you won't find this guy bemoaning yet another holi…
From 2006: I lost my mother in Wal-Mart last Friday. This sounds less like a true-life event than the first line of the sort of song you might hear on the radio in Smalltown, U.S.A., but it …
Augie Praley's new play, entitled Looking Back, It May Not Have Been Ridgefield High's Best Production of Our Town, will run December 4-January 15.
"People need some lightness in their lives."
Faith Prince has forged a four-decade Broadway career of drama and, especially, musical comedy, stitching quirk, nuance and an eye to mining laughs. To best understand what makes her marv…
"I was born on the other side / of a town ripped in two. I made it over the great divide / now I'm coming for you." "Â "Tear Me Down," from "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" When the "internatio…
Uncalled Four, a Denver comedy game show inspired by the profane Cards Against Humanity party game, announced a contest to nominate "Denver's Worst Person" for a one-way ticket out of the ci…
The Revolution will not be televised.” – Gil Scott Heron It’s 7:43 on a Sunday morning and I’m in a Hampton’s Inn hotel room in Pensacola Florida. Last night wa…
The new season at the Open Air Theatre has been announced
Also announced is a new play adapted from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Choreographer Drew McOnie will direct a revival of On the Town at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for the venue's 2017
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre have today announced details of Timothy Sheader's 10th season as Artistic Director, which includes a Drew McOnie's major new production of Broadway classic On …
Another reason to visit Regent's Park next summer. Not only will artistic director Timothy Sheader's Evening Standard Award-winning revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar re…