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Play is one of eight world premieres in programme with global conflict and political upheaval at its heart A new play about John Major’s rise to power, written by James Graham, will premiere at the National Theatre in London next year, as part of a season that puts political upheaval and global conflict at the heart of its programme. Major reunites Graham with Jeremy Herrin, the director behind t…

Audiences know the name Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but far fewer know the story of his sister, Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart, a gifted musician and composer whose talents rivaled those of her famous brother. Her story takes center stage when “The Other Mozart,” an acclaimed one-woman play created by Sylvia Milo, comes to Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 as part of the William & Mary P…

The uplifting, award-winning show about a girl aging four times too fast electrified New York. As it hits the UK, co-creator Jeanine Tesori talks about being inspired by the Aids crisis and all her friends who died young Jeanine Tesori is thinking about her mother back home in the US. “She’s 95,” says the composer, “and she’s not been well. But she would look in the mirror and be like, ‘I can’t b…

John Horgan
7/3/2026

I watched Shakespeare’s brutal play in this lovely new theater of Hudson Valley Shakespeare . HOBOKEN, JULY 3, 2026. Before the play begins, I’m in a nostalgic, pleasantly melancholic mood. Then that opening scene whacks me across the face, as if to say, Wake up, you old fool, pay attention! I saw King Lear last Sunday in Garrison, New York, a hamlet on the Hudson River. I lived in Garrison with …

CrazySexyCool, the celebrated playwright’s new show in DC, is a vibrant love letter to the hits and sisterhood of the R&B trio CrazySexyCool, an ambitious new musical about the visionary 90s trio TLC at Arena Stage in Washington DC, aspires to make good on its title and then some. Crammed with platinum sing-alongs and tabloid-chronicled plot twists, it follows the legendary girl group – Lisa “Lef…

Donmar Warehouse, London Tovey plays a lone officer in a control room dragged into a mysterious case in this gripping drama directed by Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett The Donmar has had mixed results adapting leftfield films such as Force Majeure and The Fear of 13 . But this production, based on the 2018 Danish movie Den Skyldige (by Gustav Möller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen), is a fantastically thea…

STEM Education Works
6/30/2026

STEMgineer’s Guide to Problem Solving Workbooks Theater is the ideal example of STEAM. STEM fields and art are not as separate as many people believe. […] The post What role does STEM play in entertainment? appeared first on STEM Education Works .

Helen Hunt and Kristin Scott Thomas are leading revivals of the Russian classic whose blend of comedy and tragedy is baked into our own dramatic heritage What kind of play is The Cherry Orchard? As a new production starring Helen Hunt and Kenneth Branagh beckons in Stratford, I am reminded that it is a question people have been asking since the play’s inception. Chekhov himself wrote that what ha…

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