David Roberts

Pennsylvania Theatre News: Philadelphia Theatre Company Announces Its 2025/2026 Season with Three Mainstage Productions

Philadelphia Theatre Company announces its 2025/26 season featuring three mainstage productions, special programming, and single tickets now on sale. The season features three mainstage productions: “Primary Trust,” “Caesar,” and “Wilderness Generation.” Single tickets priced from $25 to $55 are now available, and the season includes additional programming such as concerts and youth productions. The season opens with “Primary Trust,” the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Gene & Gilda” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday, September 7, 2025)

Loving Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner is easy. Making an audience care about them theatrically? That is the challenge “Gene & Gilda” never manages to meet. Any play about such strong and well-known characters must earn that emotional investment through good writing, strong performances, and compelling staging, regardless of how much audiences might adore Gene and Gilda in real life….

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Off-Broadway Review: “Rolling Thunder” Fails to Deliver at New World Stages – Stage 3 (Closed Sunday, September 7, 2025)

Unless your bucket list includes testing the limits of your eardrums before they tear beyond repair, after exposure to unbearable decibels, it would be prudent to avoid the new jukebox musical “Rolling Thunder” which is currently playing at New World Stages – Stage 3. With book by Bruce Hallett and directed by Kenneth Ferrone, “Rolling Thunder” describes itself as “raw…

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Off-Broadway News: “Exorcistic: The Rock Musical” to Play at the Asylum NYC with Surprising Broadway Guest Stars

“Exorcistic: The Rock Musical” is set to make its triumphant return Off Broadway at The Asylum NYC for a limited engagement beginning August 25th, 2025. This bold, high-octane horror-comedy has already garnered accolades, including the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Music and Lyrics in 2023 and the Broadway World NYC Award for Best New Musical Off-Off Broadway in…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Duke & Roya” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Closed Saturday, August 2, 2025)

The producers of “Duke & Roya” have announced the unexpected closure of Charles Randolph-Wright’s engaging dramatic examination of how the ravages of war affect the lives of two disparate characters caught in making choices that profoundly affect their futures and the futures of those close to them. Sandwiched between thirty-something hip hop star Duke’s 2025 interview “on an unplugged type of…

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Festival News: Under the Radar Returns for Its 21st Edition January 7-25, 2026

Under the Radar returns for its 21st edition January 7–25, 2026, serving as a singular catalyst for the city’s performing arts organizations to introduce the best of U.S. and international experimental performance—what festival organizers refer to as the “global downtown”—to New York City. Since its reemergence in 2024, Under the Radar has gathered artists, audiences, and theater industry experts around…

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Theatre News: Abingdon Theatre Company Announces Two-Time Tony Award Winner Christine Ebersole As Their 33rd Anniversary Gala Honeree

July 23, 2025 | News > | Abingdon Theatre Company, Abingdon Virtual, Around the Table Series, Chad Austin, Christine Ebersole, David Roberts, Drama Desk Award, Eastern European Film Festival, Estelle Parsons, Mainstage Productions, New York Theatre Reviews, NYT Critics’ Pick, One Night Only Series, Outer Critics Circle Award, Prague International Short Film Awards, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Vivian Robinson Audelco Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre

Abingdon Theatre Company (Chad Austin, Producing Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce two-time Tony Award Winner Christine Ebersole as their 33rd Anniversary Gala Honoree. Kicking off their 33rd season, Stronger Still, Abingdon will honor Ebersole on Monday, October 27, 2025, at the Edison Ballroom (240 West 47th Street). The evening will include cocktails, dinner, and a live performance of timeless…

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Playwright Rishi Varma Unveils New Play “Sulfur Bottom” at The Theater Center on Sunday, August 13, 2025

July 21, 2025 | Off-Broadway > | "Sulfur Bottom", David Roberts, Manhattan Theatre Club, Megumi Nakamura, New York Theatre Reviews, Northwestern University, Rishi Varma, The Jerry Orbach Theater, The Theatre Center, Theaterlab, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Urban Stages

Playwright Rishi Varma announces the debut of his new play “Sulfur Bottom,” set to take the stage at The Jerry Orbach Theater at The Theater Center located at 210 West 50th Street. The play will have previews on Wednesday, August 13th and Sunday, August 16th with an opening date of August 20th, The schedule will play Wednesdays at 7:30 PM…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Weir” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Closed Sunday, August 31, 2025)

The characters in Conor McPherson’s “The Weir,” currently running at the Irish Repertory Theatre, tell ghost stories and stories of the supernatural to newcomer Valerie (Sarah Street) at the local bar in Northern Ireland owned by Brendan (Johnny Hopkins). Before Valerie’s arrival with Finbar, Jack (Dan Butler), Jim (John Keating), and Brendan chat about the weather, selling Brendan’s bar, and…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Prince Faggot” at Playwrights Horizons (Closed Sunday, August 3, 2025)

Currently running at Playwrights Horizons and co-produced with Soho Rep, “Prince Faggot” is a story within a story within a story about a fictional British Prince George/Pips (a hapless John McCrea) who is queer and meets and falls in love with Dev (a riveting Mihir Kumar) a South Asian Brit from a colonized nation George meets at Oxford. Performers 1…

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