Theater

Chicago supports a robust musical theater ecosystem built on training, rehearsal, and performance venues that shape working actors’ careers. This guide explains typical pathwa...

The original Broadway cast of The Color Purple brought unforgettable performances to the stage in its 2005 premiere, shaping a landmark musical that redefined contemporary music...

Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway centers on Seymour, an ambitious floral assistant, and the sentient plant Audrey II that feeds on human blood. The original 1982 production, b...

James Earl Jones is one of the most distinguished voices in American theater, with a Broadway career that spans decades and includes defining performances in classics and modern...

Fantasia Broadway shows represent a landmark fusion of classical music, visual storytelling, and theatrical innovation on Broadway. This guide examines the history, creative tea...

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s landmark tragicomedy, has appeared on Broadway in notable revivals that define modern theater. First staged on Broadway in 1956 with Bert L...

Real Women Have Curves is a stage adaptation of Josefina López’s play, centering on young Ana García and her working-class Mexican American family in Los Angeles. When the s...

Hamilton Seattle brought the landmark Lin-Manuel Miranda musical to the city’s theater scene, featuring a talented cast that interpreted the show’s dense book, rap-driven sc...

Latinx theater in Phoenix describes work by and about Latinx communities staged across the metropolitan area, encompassing community-based troupes, experimental ensembles, and p...

In the musical Wicked , Dorothy’s slippers are not red because the show follows the original book by Gregory Maguire and the 1939 film’s black-and-white Kansas sequences, no...