From the fantastic to the unfortunate, here’s a look back at what’s most memorable from this year’s professional productions.

What on earth is happening with West End ticket prices? - Seeing a central London play can set you back hundreds of pounds and the costs are only going up. Vicky Jessop investigates why and whether an ...

This was a year of transition for Canadian theatre. Behind the scenes, numerous companies saw change-ups in their leadership. Onstage, artists pushed the boundaries of live performance, often using ...

Despite lucid central performances from the starry trio of David Harewood, Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald, this Othello feels strangely old fashioned. What we have here is stately West End ...

In 1997, David Harewood was – shamingly, given the lateness of the date – the first Black actor to play Othello at the National Theatre. It’s his misfortune that in returning to the part some three ...

On the afternoon of May 29, 1935, The “merrie England”-style, open-air Globe Theater welcomed its first audience for a performance of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” at the California ...

The Old Globe, San Diego’s oldest and largest theater, turned 90 years old in May 2025. With an annual budget of $40 million, it’s the county’s second-larget arts nonprofit after the San Diego ...

The Writers Theatre production of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” was the most feted production at the 2025 Jeff Awards, winning five awards, including for best large musical, musical ...

The Globe Theatre in Bertram opened to great fanfare on August 20, 1935. Ninety years later the movie house survives with a warm, nostalgic atmosphere. Built with locally quarried pink granite, the ...

Timothy J. Shields. (Photo courtesy of the Old Globe Theatre) Old Globe Theatre Managing Director Timothy J. Shields will retire next year, after a 47-year career in nonprofit regional theater. A ...

The Old Globe Theatre announced that actress Katie Holmes will headline its 2026 in a bold new production of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. The reimagined version of the classic play is by Erin Cressida ...