3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (536+ words) The Directors Company presents Damon Horowitz‘s Shakespearean experiment at Five Angels Theater. If I had to choose only one character from Shakespeare who most speaks for contemporary theater audiences, it would be King Lear. But if I could select…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (251+ words) The stage performance was filmed in London over the summer. HBO will debut the film capture of Cole Escola’s hit Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! in 2027. An exact release date has not been announced. Oh, Mary! is Escola’s dubious history play…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (128+ words) Whitney White directs this world premiere at the Shed. A co-production with National Black Theatre, Imitation of Life is based on Fannie Hurst’s 1933 novel about two single mothers, one Black and one white, building a shared life with their daughters…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (100+ words) theatermania.com What happens when popularity, ambition, and cultural identity collide? Here, playwright Jocelyn Bioh, director Whitney White, and stars Jasmine Amy Rogers and Patina Miller take us inside School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play. The creatives share…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (169+ words) Letts makes his UK stage acting debut in Rebecca Frecknall’s new production. Tracy Letts will make his UK stage acting debut in a new production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, running at the National Theatre of London’s Lyttelton…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (180+ words) The actor and director return to the Pasadena Playhouse with their take on Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit. “I’ve been waiting to do this play professionally for 40 years,” says Tresnjak. “I read it as a teenager, directed it in college and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (125+ words) Phyl follows Phyllis Chester, a governess trapped in a solitary existence and walled off from the life she craves—until a moment of lost temper leads her to risk everything. Phyl premiered in Manchester instead. The Manchester Courier review ran…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (116+ words) You Had to Be There arrives in cinemas nationwide this month. You Had to Be There, a new documentary about the legendary 1972 Toronto production of Godspell, which launched the careers of Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, and others, will…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (143+ words) Experience The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote, the acclaimed one-person play by Mike Broemmel, starring NYC United Solo Best Actor Eddie Schumacher as Truman Capote. Directed by Bobby Peatman. More than a biography, The Wind Is Us…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (86+ words) Poe has even more to say this season with two new tales of terror, “The Black Cat” and “The Devil in the Belfry.” The production will alternate these two stories with “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Angel of the…...