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Feb 13, 2024 | 
playbill.com | Margaret Hall |Leah Putnam
New musical Austen's Pride will release a live cast recording of its one-night-only concert at Carnegie Hall, held last year.
Featuring a book, music, and lyrics by Lindsay Warren Baker and Amanda Jacobs with orchestrations by the latter, Austen's Pride puts a musical spin on the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice. But, there's another twist: Jane Austen enters her own love story, going on a journey that shows her there's more to the story—and herself.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
playbill.com | Margaret Hall |Leah Putnam
Production Photos Photos: Get A 1st Look at Alan Cumming's Solo Show Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age The show covers the classic topics of sex, death, and debauchery with a set list that ranges from Kander and Ebb to contemporary favorites and songs written by Cumming himself.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
playbill.com | Margaret Hall |Leah Putnam
As the new year gets underway, the Fringe Society has officially opened show applications for this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which will run August 2-26. Taking place every August, the festival is a veritable cornucopia of theatre; last year's festival comprised 3,535 shows.
In order to register with The Fringe Society, artists must already have a venue contract in place. To be included in the first on-sale date February 22, artists must submit registration by February 5.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
playbill.com | Leah Putnam
The York Theatre Company is honoring Patti LuPone with the 2023 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theater. The three-time Tony winner receives the award at the company's 31st Oscar Hammerstein Gala November 13, which is also honoring producer Jamie deRoy with the company's Founders' Award. The gala is being held at The Edison Rooftop.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
playbill.com | Leah Putnam
The National Theatre's production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane return to London's West End at the Noël Coward Theatre beginning October 11. The seven-week encore run, which follows a U.K. and Ireland tour, will continue through November 25.
Joel Horwood adapted the Neil Gaiman novel, the work's first major stage adaptation. Magic and memory blend in this story about a childhood that was once forgotten. 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the novel's publication.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
playbill.com | Margaret Hall |Leah Putnam
Olivier winner Andrew Scott (Present Laughter, Hamlet, Fleabag, Sherlock) is back in London's West End, this time in a new solo adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic play Vanya. The production officially opened at the Duke of York's Theatre September 21, after beginning previews September 15, and the reviews are rolling in.
Simon Stephens (Sea Wall/A Life, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) penned the new take, which continues through October 21. Sam Yates is at the helm.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
playbill.com | Leah Putnam
Olivier winner Andrew Scott (Present Laughter, Hamlet, Fleabag, Sherlock) is back in London's West End in Vanya—a new solo adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic play—officially opening at the Duke of York's Theatre September 21 after beginning previews September 15. Simon Stephens (Sea Wall/A Life, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) penned the new take, which continues through October 21. Sam Yates is at the helm.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
playbill.com | Logan Culwell-Block |Leah Putnam
You could say this was a"larger than life" visit. Backstreet Boys member A.J. McLean dropped by Broadway's & Juliet at a recent performance, and spent some time on stage with Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe!
The jukebox musical, continuing its run at the Sondheim Theatre, looks to the song catalogue of Max Martin for its score.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
playbill.com | Leah Putnam
Olivier winner Andrew Scott (Present Laughter, Hamlet, Fleabag, Sherlock) is back in London's West End in Vanya, a new solo adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic play beginning previews at the Duke of York's Theatre September 15. Simon Stephens (Sea Wall/A Life, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) penned the new take, which opens September 21 and continues through October 21. Sam Yates is at the helm.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
playbill.com | Meg Masseron |Leah Putnam
At The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, Emma Horwitz's Mary Gets Hers makes its world premiere September 11. The tragicomedy, directed by Josiah Davis (Mr. Saturday Night), runs through October 7. Playwrights Realm presents and produce the play, the company's first production since 2020.
Inspired by Hrosvitha of Ganderesheim's Abraham, or the Rise and Repentance of Mary, Mary Gets Hers is set in a slapstick take of 10th century Germany in the midst of a plague.
