Every Brilliant Thing review – Daniel Radcliffe sells tricky Broadway transfer

The hit one-man show about depression suffers from plain and often corny writing yet is saved by an exuberant turn from the Tony-winning Harry Potter star

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Sondra Lee, Broadway star of Hello, Dolly! and Peter Pan, dies aged 97

The Broadway actor’s nine-decade career included beloved screen roles and coaching Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda

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‘It’s a fun cocktail!’: the Wooster Group’s head-spinning blend of high and low art https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/feb/03/wooster-group-avant-garde-theatre-new-york-seance #Stage #Theatre #Culture #UsTheater #WillemDafoe #Film
‘It’s a fun cocktail!’: the Wooster Group’s head-spinning blend of high and low art

In wonderfully bewildering shows, New York’s venerable avant garde theatre company mash together everything from baroque opera to sci-fi B-movies. Their next trick? A seance-style tribute to an old friend

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‘A new form of theater’: can Ian McKellen, 52 cameras and ‘mixed reality’ reinvent a medium? https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jan/21/an-ark-the-shed-play-ian-mckellen #UsTheater #IanMckellen #Culture #Stage #Theatre #ArinzKene
‘A new form of theater’: can Ian McKellen, 52 cameras and ‘mixed reality’ reinvent a medium?

At the Shed in New York, attendees wearing enhanced glasses are witnessing an experimental new play where actors appear in video form

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Bug review – Carrie Coon brings intensity to paranoid Tracy Letts revival

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New YorkThe White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts’ 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaks

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Dolly, Dreamgirls and Daniel Radcliffe: the biggest Broadway shows of 2026

After a record-breaking season, big stars and big revivals hope to lure in New York audiences over the next 12 months

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Unseen Tennessee Williams radio play published in literary magazine

The Strangers, a horror tale written during the playwright’s college days, appeared in the Strand magazine this week

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Marjorie Prime review – Cynthia Nixon steals sad, and spotty, sci-fi revival

The return of the 2014 play, now starring June Squibb as an octogenarian using a tech program to speak to her dead husband, veers between poetry and cliche

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Playwright Jeremy O Harris arrested in Japan for alleged drug smuggling

The writer of the Tony award-nominated Slave Play remains in custody after authorities say they found MDMA in his bag

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‘A nucleus of a community’: the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/25/dungeons-and-dragons-play-initiative #Boardgames #UStheater #Culture #Stage
‘A nucleus of a community’: the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons

In Initiative, a group of young people in the early 2000s finds themselves via the role-playing game, the latest example of its undying popularity

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