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​Pioneer Theatre Company will present the feel-good, beloved bio-musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in February. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

The Goodman’s FAT HAM is an intelligent, uproarious adaptation that explores and celebrates Black joy and resilience. The co-production with Definition Theatre has already been extended through March 2.

Those who knock Shakespeare like to say that his plays aren’t relevant to our lives or our society – what I think they really mean is that the language he uses is challenging for us, and thus doesn’t seem relevant, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.  Rather than point them to Anthony Jeselnik’s infinitely tasteless (so I’m not linking to it) but wildly funny response to this complaint (which they rarely appreciate), I now instead ask them about Measure for Measure.

FRIGID New York will present the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival at UNDER St. Marks, wild project, and the Chain Theatre this April. Learn more about the festival here!

Following a New York run, a box office record-breaking two-week run at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and a six-week London run—Tony Award-nominated Eddie Izzard will bring her acclaimed solo performance of Hamlet to San Francisco! Learn more.

This March, The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio will produce James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning and five-time Tony nominated Fat Ham, a witty take on Shakespeare's Hamlet where the only real death is the patriarchy.

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical made history yesterday when cast member James T. Lane performed “What a Wonderful World” at halftime at the New York Knicks home game on Monday, January 20 at Madison Square Garden. Check out photos from the event!

See first look photos of A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS at Theatre Royal Bath where it plays until 25 January 2025, before touring to Chichester, Malvern, Cheltenham, Oxford, Guildford, Canterbury, and Richmond. 

Theater maker and director Robert Lepage and principal dancer and choreographer Guillaume Côté now tackle a monument of literature : Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Welcome to my 2024 Broadway World Year in Review. It’s been a busy year, and I’m having a great time. This year I’ve written 174 articles (175 counting this one), which is up 30 articles from last year. Thank you for allowing me into your world and entertaining me.  

I will start off straight away by saying you have to see FAT HAM. And I hope you are lucky enough to see it at Dezart Performs. This cast, in the hands of Michael Shaw, and AD Chuma Gault, form a very realistic, very dysfunctional family coming together at a backyard barbecue in North Carolina resulting in awkward situations and non-stop laughter in the James Ijames play aptly described as “Hamlet at a Southern BBQ”.

A year after his death, JW3 is celebrating the extraordinary life and works of the vital Jewish voice of Bernard Kops on Sunday 16 February at 7.30pm.The evening will include extracts from his fantastical and surreal poems and stage plays including his defining The Hamlet of Stepney Green.

A year after his death, JW3 is celebrating the extraordinary life and works of the vital Jewish voice of  Bernard Kops next month. Learn more about the upcoming event here.

RUBICON THEATRE has announced a three-play WinterFest as part of the company's 2024/2025 “Dare to Dream” season. The first two plays in the festival celebrate a new collaboration between RUBICON THEATRE COMPANY and THE ACTING COMPANY (TAC) of New York. 

Folger Consort, the award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, invites audiences to celebrate music, love, and poetry with four concerts of The Love Birds: Chaucer's A Parlement of Foules.

Two River Theater has revealed the cast and creative team for the stylish thriller that inspired a Hitchcock classic, Dial M for Murder, adapted by  Jeffrey Hatcher. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

The full cast has been announced for the upcoming world première of brand-new musical Wild Rose, written by Nicole Taylor and directed by John Tiffany. Learn more here!

In February, Canadian Stage will present the 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, James Ijames’ FAT HAM. Learn more about the upcoming performance and find out how to get tickets here!

The Barbican Centre has announced four further productions, presented by the Barbican Theatre, to complete its spring season drawing on themes of gathering and renewal.

Visitors will have the chance to read an excerpt of a famous play with an actor based at the National Theatre in London, live through a big screen in the middle of the shopping centre, from the comfort of one of Vue's luxurious recliner seats.

ETT has announced full casting for Artistic Director Richard Twyman’s version of Macbeth, which has been reworked for 2025 for a limited run at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.

Red Bull Theater has announced that John Douglas Thompson will be presented with the Matador Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Classical Theater at the Running of the Red Bulls Gala Benefit.

The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts for a Challenge America award of $10,000. Learn more about the organization and the grant.

Wiltshire Creative has announced the full cast for Patrick Barlow's stage adaptation of John Buchan's novel The 39 Steps. Learn more about the show and find out who is starring in the show here!

54 Below will present a special edition of Backstage Babble Live celebrating under-appreciated musicals, including those on the iconic “flop wall” at Joe Allen Restaurant.