Speed 2024

What do Shakespeare and James Cameron have in common? Before Rupert Goold took hold of the Bard’s tragic masterpiece, the answer would have been ‘nothing’. The soon-to-be artistic director of the Old Vic returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company after 14 years to offer a blockbuster Hamlet. Elsinore becomes a royal battleship and everything happens in less than one night in April 1912. Goold makes some daring choices, placing a lot of faith in his public and letting them interpret and assume certain twists in his vision.

The current production at the Paramount Theatre is the musical Waitress based upon the motion picture. When it opened, it was the first all-female production team on Broadway. Director and choreographer Katie Spelman gives the audience an evening of laughter, some tears and love. Sarah Bareilles’ music played by the Paramount Orchestra under the direction of Celia Villacres, fills the theater with the beauty of the different styles.

Entertainment is rotten business. Never mind all the allegations against big (normally male) names that regularly appear on our screens, superstardom is a road paved with dubious morals and forced subduedness. From Demi Lovato to Miley Cyrus, from One Direction to Boyzone, regardless of your gender, the industry will chew you up and spit you out.

Michael R. Jackson, Judy Kuhn, Katie Erbe, Jen Tullock, Tina Satter, Sam Kissajukian, Josiah Davis, Sarah Gancher and Jared Mezzocchi have been added to the line-up of stars set for Vineyard Theatre's 2025 Gala.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) in association with Write Act Repertory, will present The TRU Virtual Audition Conference for Theater 2025 (ACT25) on Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27, 2025 on Zoom from 11:30am to 6pm ET.

The full cast and creative team have been announced for Speed a break-neck journey through the daily annoyances and deep-buried secrets that leave us spinning which opens at the Bush Theatre in April.

DIETRICH, written by Willard Manus, starring Cindy Marinangel, Chicago Second City Conservatory graduate, directed by Glenda Morgan Brown and produced by Sea Angel Productions., LLC is based on a true story. Set in May 1960, the play takes place when the actress returned to the Berlin stage for the first time since fleeing the Hitler regime in the 1930’s. Inside her dressing room at the Tatania-Palast Theater, Dietrich weighs whether to go through with the live performance despite threats on her life by Nazi sympathizers who resented her for having spent much of World War II entertaining American soldiers on the front lines. To them, Dietrich is a turncoat; a traitor who deserves to be shot and killed on stage.

Small Boat Productions will present SHAKESPEARE, SUDDENLY at The Brick this weekend. 10 actors. 1 Day to rehearse. The catch? You don't know what show it is until they start reading.

Campbelltown Arts Centre will present High Octane, a daring new dance theatre performance from visionary artist Emma Harrison, from Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th March 2025. 

Well-acted and utterly fun, Shucked lives up to the hype. The straightforward plot relies on shrewdly timed jokes, jangly music and polished wordplay, sprinkled with social commentary, to provide laughs and moments of endearment.

The world premiere of a new adaptation of The Passenger by Nadya Menuhin, is being presented at Finborough Theatre. See what the critics are saying about the production and read the reviews.

As someone with a love for musicals and comedy who grew up with an odd fascination around the Titanic and its tragic end, you can only imagine the excitement I felt seeing the press release for Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle. A comedy looking at the commodification of the Titanic that also has some musical aspects? It sounds too good to be true. Unfortunately, in quite a few ways, it is.

Campbelltown Arts Centre will present High Octane, a daring new dance theatre performance from visionary artist Emma Harrison in March. Learn more about the show here!

Desperation, desire and dance in a drowned world

Campbelltown Arts Centre will present High Octane, a daring new dance theatre performance from visionary artist Emma Harrison. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

The Huntington has announced the cast and creative team of The Triumph of Love, the classic romantic comedy written by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated by Stephen Wadsworth, and directed by Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco (Prayer for the French Republic at The Huntington).

Center Theatre Group is presenting the world premiere of Fake It Until You Make It, a farce by LA based Larissa FastHorse (pictured), the first Native American playwright to be featured at the Mark Taper Forum through March 9. I decided to speak with her about her life in the Sicangu Lakota Nation and the creation of the play.

There is no better time than now for Music Theatre of Connecticut’s production of Moon Over Buffalo. Or maybe playwright Ken Ludwig should have called it Loons Over Buffalo. This slapstick comedy is sidesplittingly funny about a fading stage couple who still dream of fame and fortune but are reduced to performing repertory in slumping venues.

Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. The Playhouse is presenting a new play, Speed Dating, starting February 26, 2025.

You are going to need the luck of the Irish if you postpone buying tickets, word of mouth is going to make this a very popular show.

The initial line-up of stars has been set for Vineyard Theatre's Annual Gala. The Gala will honor Emmy Award-winning actor and longtime Vineyard artist Joe Morton. See who is taking part and learn how to purchase tickets.

Warner Records and affiliated labels have announced exclusive vinyl releases for Record Store Day, set for April 12. Warner Records has been a proud official sponsor of Record Store Day since its inception. 

Legendary performer Debbie Allen hosts free dance classes for victims of the LA wildfires, aiming to uplift spirits with her initiative 'Dancing in the Light: Healing Through the Arts' at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy.

Playwrights Horizons just celebrated opening night of its world premiere of The Antiquities, written by Jordan Harrison and co-produced by the Vineyard Theatre and the Goodman Theatre. Check out what the critics are saying about the new play.

The latest offering from Washington Stage Guild, “Escape from the Asylum: A Madcap Mystery,” is a sequel to the Patricia Milton play presented there last season, “The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective.”