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Nominations also include recognitions for actors including Nathan Lane and Luke Evans while stars such as Lea Michele and Ayo Edebiri were snubbed The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! lead this year’s Tony nominations with 12 nods each. The original musicals, based on the 80s vampire movie and cancelled Apple TV comedy respectively, will face off against each other in the category of original musical u…

Playwright and Notre Dame alumna Dolores Díaz returned to campus for a staged reading of her play, George Washington’s Mexican Birthday, and a day of conversation with students and faculty.

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange The timeless parable of a 16th-century horse dealer turned violent protester questions the personal cost of resistance in this awe-inspiring production from Omar Elerian It starts and ends with a circle. Arinzé Kene stands, runs or speaks inside it. For his 16th-century horse-dealer protagonist, Michael Kohlhaas, its circularity represents a world in which all is in or…

After an acclaimed, Olivier-winning run on the West End, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical revival will transfer to New York After months of speculation, the award-winning Evita revival will officially transfer to Broadway in spring 2027. The West End run starred Rachel Zegler in the lead role, winning the actor an Olivier award, and she will follow the revival to New York. The triumphan…

Avant-garde theater legend Robert Wilson’s final work was a bold reimagining of Melville’s classic. His collaborators explain bringing it to the Brooklyn stage Not far into Herman Melville’s 1851 epic novel Moby-Dick , a shipowner describes the man who will take their whaler on a tragic quest. Captain Ahab, he says, is “a queer man … a grand, ungodly, godlike man”. The same might be said of Rober…

Broadway reviews of Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in “The Fear of 13,” Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in “Death of a Salesman,” Jon Bernthal and Ebon-Moss Bachrach in “Dog Day Afternoon” and John Lithgow in “'Giant.”

Stephen Dillane and Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson set to co-star in Robert Icke’s production based on the German film this autumn Keira Knightley will return to the West End stage for the first time in 15 years in an adaptation of the Oscar-winning German film The Lives of Others . The play, adapted and directed by Robert Icke and with music by Max Richter, will open at the Adelphi theatre in London…

Palace theatre, New York Joel Schumacher’s much-loved movie gets a splashy stage transfer which might be technically impressive but the songs never come to life Brand-dependent mega-musicals aren’t hitting Broadway any less often. But they might be getting a little more respectable. Maybe it helps that some recent adaptations haven’t focused so heavily on stone cold classics. It might be a stretc…

Hannah Khalil’s new play sprang from her surprise at seeing the great Egyptian actor had performed at the Festival theatre in the 1980s. She explains how it entwined with a story of her mixed-heritage identity A few years ago the playwright Hannah Khalil was queuing for the loos at Chichester Festival theatre when she spotted Omar Sharif, in a prince’s costume, on the wall. The photograph was par…

Actor and writer who confronted his motor neurone disease diagnosis in his work, and went on to play Richard III When Michael Patrick became the first actor in Ireland’s theatrical history to portray Richard III as a wheelchair user, he was determined that neither his nor his character’s disability be seen as part of the play’s inherent tragedy. Instead, as he explained in an interview with the G…

Marylebone theatre, London A tremendous cast lifts what might have been a formulaic drama into a compelling examination of contested memory Arthur Miller is evidently speaking to the moment. Several revivals have surged on to London stages, almost at once, all refracting the corruptions of power, wealth and conformity in our current world. This odd, explosive drama about two estranged brothers fo…

Jermyn Street theatre, London Deft production follows six friends as they morph from truth-blurting children into weary midlifers in effortless and capable performances Read Virginia Woolf’s experimental 1931 novel, The Waves, and the challenges of stage adaptation hit you like thundering surf. There’s its form: a patchwork of six friends’ highly lyrical inner monologues spanning childhood to mid…

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York Rabbit Hole writer David Lindsay-Abaire takes on a list of modern American conflicts in a fun, if ultimately underdeveloped, comedy drama Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire has an impressively eclectic bibliography that includes the Pulitzer prize-winning play Rabbit Hole , the Tony-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo , and providing book and lyrics for a singing and …

Adaptation of Stephen Merchant’s 2019 film about WWE champ Saraya-Jade Bevis ‘will be an absolute blast’, says one of the film’s stars, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Stephen Merchant’s wrestling film Fighting With My Family has inspired a stage musical. The new adaptation of the 2019 biopic about Saraya-Jade Bevis AKA Paige, who became a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champ, will feature a book …

Trans playwright Olivia Dufault tackles the taboo of zoophilia in the Echo Theater Company world premiere of 'For Want of a Horse' at Atwater Village Theatre.

An interest in spiritualism drew the escapologist and the Sherlock Holmes author together but, as actor-playwright Haig’s drama Magic shows, also threw them into conflict It’s the question most often posed to artists: where do you get your ideas from? David Haig’s answer is: I ask Google. Preserve the mystique, man! Haig is celebrated both as an actor ( Killing Eve , The Thin Blue Line) and playw…

Gadd and Jamie Bell are so frank they’re almost feral in a show so violent you’ll think you can taste blood in your mouth. This man can hit a nerve like no other Part of the thrill of Baby Reindeer was the feeling of watching the birth of a monster. Comedians starring in their first scripted drama tend to base their characters gently on themselves, prodding at their own foibles without doing prop…

"'Master Harold' … and the Boys," Athol Fugard's classic drama set in apartheid South Africa, opens at the Geffen Playhouse in a production starring John Kani, a Tony-winning interpreter of Fugard's work.

Booth Theatre, New York The Bear star and Don Cheadle are lost in a new take on David Auburn’s family drama but a standout performance from the two-time Tony winner does some heavy lifting If one was a theater student in the early 2000s, there is a good chance one encountered David Auburn’s Pulitzer-winning play, Proof, a work of tidy structure, elegant rhyme and, not for nothing, commercial appe…

West End spectacular about Michael Bond’s beloved bear wins seven prizes, while Rachel Zegler, Rosamund Pike, Paapa Essiedu and James Graham are all recognised It was a night of sweet victory for Michael Bond’s marmalade-loving bear as Paddington: The Musical dominated the Olivier awards on Sunday. Amid the tuxes and gowns of a glittering ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the duffle co…