Complete casting has been announced for the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' production of Side Show, which will be presented June 14-July 13 in the Eisenhower Theater.
Linked From Playbill at 01:23PMThe Broadway premiere of the John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, opened on Broadway April 22 foll…
Linked From Playbill at 01:23PMDavid Cunningham finds much to enjoy about The Rite of Spring and Petrushka.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:23PMRuth Lovett enjoys this flawless new musical celebrating the life, loves and talent of Marc Bolan.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:23PMJames Graham's latest play, looking at the collection and use of our personal data, opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:23PMMCC THEATER will present Greta Gerwig, Max Baker, Jason Butler Harner, Lucy Owen, Cara Seymour, and Scott Shepherd in the American premiere of Penelope Skinner's celebrated play The Village …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMTony Award-winner Julie White The Little Dog Laughed is set to host the Spring Benefit for the Off-Broadway theatre company Page 73 Productions on Friday, April 25, at City Winery, 155 Varic…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMOn the new THEATER TALK, Denzel Washington, star of the hit Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, gets together with an old friend, Woo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMEarlier today, Judith Light amp Christopher Sieber announced the 80th Drama League Award Nominees for Distinguished Play, Distinguished Revival of a Play, Distinguished Best Musical, Disting…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:23PM'Lady Day' Producer Jeffrey Richards and actor Will Swenson wowing audiences as 'Javert' in the Broadway revival of 'Les Miserables' were sad because the late great Al Hirschfeld was not her…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMThe Bridges of Madison County, the original Broadway cast recording of the new romantic musical from Ghostlight Records has debuted as the 1 Cast Recording on the Billboard chart and hit 53 …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMBy HowlRound TV. South Coast Repertory's 17th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival in Costa Mesa, California presents the panel "What is the role of the playwright?" livestreaming on the glob…
Linked From HowlRound at 01:19PM…so don’t miss the worm! Join plenary speakers like celebrated theatre artist Taylor Mac and trail-blazing game designer Jane McGonigal at the 2014 TCG National Conference: Cross…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 01:13PMIn this second-to-last installment of “Chimes at Midnight,” Stacy reflects on a busy week which saw the opening of the two shows in the Henry IV repertory, as well as the city and indust…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:13PMConcreteness, compactness, concision--put it any way you like--is something that good writing is based on. Or you may call it, as Jacques Barzun did in the title and content of an important …
Linked From John Simon at 01:06PMIan Bartholomew and Anna Carteret have been cast in the West End stage adaptation of Shakespeare in love. They will appear as Tilney and Queen Elizabeth, respectively and join the previously…
Linked From The Stage at 01:02PMAdapted from award-winning author Tom Drury's novel of the same title, The Driftless Area will be directed by Zachary Sluser, who co-wrote the screenplay with Drury.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMNeil Patrick Harris officially returned to Broadway last night at the Belasco Theatre, in the new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the musical with book by John Cameron Mitchell and …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMTommy Tune, the nine-time Tony Award-winning singeractordancer, will make his Cafe Carlyle debut with More Taps, Tunes and Tall Tales, through May 3. The show features Musical Director Micha…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMJames Franco, Chris O'Dowd and Leighton Meester stopped by ABC's THE VIEW this week to talk about being on Broadway for the first time in 'Of Mice and Men.'
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:02PM54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, recently featured Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young in 'Samson amp Delilah, A Love Story'- an evening of songs from the Broadway Records album containing songs fr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced complete casting for its production of Side Show that runs in the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater from June 14 to July 13…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMEarlier today, Megan Hilty, Justin Long and Raven-Symone announced the 78th Drama League Award Nominees for Distinguished Play, Distinguished Revival of a Play, Distinguished Best Musical, D…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMThe show features a book and lyrics by Bill Russell and music by Henry Krieger.
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Variations Theatre Group announced a limited engagement of BOOGOE STOMP! direct to New York City from the production’s sold-out tour of Russia. Performances will begin May 8, with opening …
Linked From The Queens Gazette at 12:40PMCASA VALENTINA, the new play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, opens tonight, April 23 at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theat…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:24PMSam Mendes
and Rob Marshall's Tony Award-winning production (Best Revival, 1998) of Cabaretreturns to Broadway.
Alan Cumming stars in his Tony-winning role as Emcee opposite three-time A…
Linked From Playbill at 12:21PMJohn Kander and Twyla Tharp will be special guests at the 2014 Live Design Broadway Master Classes, where they will join in lively discussions with two of the top designers working on Broadw…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMThe soundtrack to Disney's FROZEN continues its epic journey, earning its biggest sales week thus far and holding at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the non-consecutive 11th week
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMBroadwayWorld recently chatted with featured performer Capathia Jenkins about her upcoming appearance in the special celebration
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMOn a farewell tour, the Idaho-based troupe performed at Northrop.
Linked From StarTribune at 12:21PMJudith Light and Christopher Sieber announced the nominees for the 2014 Drama League Awards, which celebrate productions both on and Off-Broadway, April 23 at Sardi's Restaurant.
Linked From Playbill at 12:20PMTo mark this special event, we asked you which of the great bard's words inspired you most, here are some of the results
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:20PMThis new work by Tony Ramsay is a play with a difference, as its director Naomi Jones explains.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:20PMThe Drama League (Executive Director, Gabriel Shanks) has announced the 2014 Drama League Awards Nominees for Distinguished Play, Distinguished Revival of a Play, Distinguished Musical, Dist…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:18PMWe always knew If/Then star Idina Menzel was a woman of power, but Variety made it official in their newest issue! The Tony winner is looking sleek and professional in a white blazer on the …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:13PMNominations for the 80th annual Drama League Awards were announced on April 23 by Judith Light and Christopher Sieber. The awards ceremony will take place on May 16 at the Marriott Marquis T…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:13PMAlan Cumming got up bright and early on April 23 to chat with Today's Matt Lauer about reprising his Tony-winning performance in Cabaret. The star revealed that being asked to dance…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:13PMThe spring season is firing along on all cylinders. Six shows are opening this week. The Outer Critics Circle announced its nominations yesterday (click here to see them), the Drama League l…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 12:09PMWatford PalaceThe in-demand Mike Bartlett provocatively questions our responsibilities as friends and citizens in this two-handerHe's a clever one, that Mike Bartlett. Not only does he have …
Linked From The Guardian at 12:01PMOn Monday, April 28, 2014, Broadway Inspirational Voices BIV, under the direction of Michael McElroy TONY Award Nominee, Big River, will be joining the The New York Pops as it marks its 31st…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMArts Council Wales is to develop a national scheme that will give disabled people and their carers concessions on ticket prices for theatres and arts centres throughout the country. The deve…
Linked From The Stage at 12:00PMManchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre has revealed its first season under the sole leadership of artistic director Sarah Frankcom, including a revival of Little Shop of Horrors and the premi…
Linked From The Stage at 12:00PMAnd now… Effie Trinket What do you think of this week’s battle? Did your favorites win? Comment below! New battle pairings… FRIDAY!
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 12:00PMThe store will feature exclusive merchandise and experiences for Broadway fans.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe largest-ever Fiddler reunion will be cochaired by Harvey Fierstein, Harold Prince, and Frank Rich.
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Opera House, Manchester: There is a feeling of foreboding in the early stages of this new production of 20th Century Boy - a biographical, jukebox musical dedicated to the life and career of…
Linked From The Stage at 11:52AMHere are this year’s Drama League Award nominations: OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY PLAY All That Fall All The Way Casa Valentina Domesticated Mothers and Sons M…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:29AMBelow are the nominations for the 20014 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also gives special awards. Although founded way back in 1922, this is t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:22AMLouis-and-Ella!, a new jazz musical by Trent Armand Kendall, will receive a developmental table reading April 24 in Manhattan.
Linked From Playbill at 11:20AMLinda Eder: Night After the Tonys, featuring original Jekyll & Hyde star Eder, will play the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre June 9 at 8 PM.
Linked From Playbill at 11:19AMCast members from the national tour of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess will be Inspired By Love May 12 Upstairs at Vitello's.
Linked From Playbill at 11:19AMOscar winner Rachel Weisz, who made her Broadway debut in this season's Betrayal, and Tony Award nominee Toni Collette are attached to star in the comedy-drama "Miss You Already,&qu…
Linked From Playbill at 11:19AMRelativity has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for the comedy "Hector and The Search For Happiness," according to Deadline.com.
Linked From Playbill at 11:19AMBilly Porter, the Tony-winning star of Broadway's KINKY BOOTS stopped by GOOD DAY NEW YORK yesterday to perform his rousing rendition of 'I Am Changing' from his new album, 'Billy's Back on …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMCo-Hosts Judith Light and Christopher Sieber announced the nominations for the 2014 Drama League Awards, including Distinguished Production of a Play, Distinguished Production of a Musical, …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMROCKY's Tony Award Winning composing team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty will join the Drama League's Up Close Series on Wednesday, April 23rd at 700PM at the Drama League Theatre Center 3…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMThe first National Tour of Motown The Musical begins performances tonight at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago before continuing to cities across the country. Motown The Musical is scheduled…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:16AM54 Below has become the hottest spot in town, featuring dozens of stage stars strutting their stuff every week. Take a look below at just a taste of the venue's recently-announced sets a…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:12AMLift up your hands! In honor of their official opening night on Broadway, Neil Patrick Harris, Lena Hall and the Hedwig and the Angry Inch crew had a starry bash for their family and fr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:12AMWe live in an era of unprecedented public and private surveillance. As Edward Snowden showed, our every move – whether physical or electronic – is being watched and recorded. An…
Linked From The Stage at 11:09AM Hervé Birthday? Happy Hervday? At any rate, as if to either reaffirm or retract our last post (I can’t decide which) we write now to celebrate the late Hervé Villechaize (1943-…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 11:09AMI’m jealous of the West End. They’ve got lower costs for labor, crowdfunding, and they let you eat ice cream in your seats. And they have also gotten their hands on some very pop…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:06AMHoly balls. Holy fat, sweaty, icky, stinky, stinky, stinky balls… I was on a train for 3 days. I spent all 3 days wide awake… my total sleep count for all three days was 9 hours. I’m a…
Linked From newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AMChristopher Wheeldon has staged a Winter's Tale to rival the many Romeo and Juliets. But as Shakespeare turns 450, which of the great adaptations still have legs? The Winter's Tale review a…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:00AMGate, DublinMuch has dated in Oscar Wilde's 1895 political melodrama, but his treatment of marital politics still stings todayA hall of mirrors is a well-chosen image for the stage set for O…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:00AMJoshua Bell, Frank London, Austin Pendleton and Jackie Hoffman have joined the lineup for Raising the Roof - an all-star benefit concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Fiddler on the Ro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMMatt Bomer has revealed the joyful news that he and his partner, Simon Halls were secretly wed three years ago
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMJessica Chastain will take on the role of screen legend Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik's upcoming biopic, BLONDE.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMThis week has been super exciting, so far It started with a meeting with award winning composer, musical director and all around awesome guy Steven Jamail. We are happy to announce that he w…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMNew York City Ballet dances Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free in 1986. The score is by Leonard Bernstein: (This is the...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:00AMLondon’s Menier Chocolate Factory is to once again stage comedy revue Forbidden Broadway. The spoof show will be presented as a new version, seen for the first time in the UK with addition…
Linked From The Stage at 11:00AMThe annual event benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Name: Ben OttoHometown: Glastonbury, CTEducation: BA in English from Fordham University, Minor in Creative WritingSelect Credits: Pipeline Theatre's BYUIOO, Fresh Ground Pepper's Shoot the F…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 10:58AMNicky Silver is back with a new play about a celebrated actress, played by Linda Lavin, having a whole lot of trouble with the pressure of playing Medea.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMRSC broadcasts the plays this summer ‘Live from Stratford-upon-Avon’ in partnership with Picturehouse Entertainment The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV Part I and Henry IV Part …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:32AMThe late theater titan Moss Hart is in the spotlight in the new Broadway play "Act One," a work based on Hart's autobiography of the same name.
Linked From NY1 at 10:24AMCharlotte Cornwell is to star in the world premiere of Between Us, a new play by Sarah Daniels that will begin performances at London's Arcola Theatre (which also commissioned the play) …
Linked From Playbill at 10:19AMNew cast members will join the original London production of Mamma Mia!, now running at the Novello Theatre, beginning performances June 9.
Linked From Playbill at 10:19AMThe fall season at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, which marks the first full season that Sarah Frankcom has been sole artistic director for, will include Maxine Peake starring in t…
Linked From Playbill at 10:19AMForbidden Broadway, previously seen at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in 2009 and before that in seasons at Jermyn Street Theatre and the West End's Fortune Theatre, is to return …
Linked From Playbill at 10:19AMProducers Will DeCamp and Alex Rapson announced that Jean Anouilh's Becket, the 1961 Tony Award winner for Best Play, will begin performances June 18 at the East Village’s Gene Fr…
Linked From Playbill at 10:19AMFurther casting has been announced for Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the hit film of the same name that playwright Lee Hall (Billy Elliot, The Pitmen Painters) is adapting from Mar…
Linked From Playbill at 10:19AMTeal Wicks, who has starred on Broadway in Wicked and Jekyll & Hyde, will make her solo cabaret debut May 8 at the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below.
Linked From Playbill at 10:19AMTony Award winner Alan Cumming stopped by this morning's TODAY show on NBC to chat about starring alongside Hollywood actress Michelle Williams in the acclaimed musical CABARET
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMIn 2010, Tony winner Menzel co-created A Broader Way, an arts centered program for urban girls.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMJames Graham's new play opened at the ████████ last night
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:19AMAs reported here yesterday, Monday morning, Woolly Mammoth Theater announced the cancellation of their upcoming festival of work from Russia. The withdrawal of Moscow municipal funds crucia…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMNeil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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The colorful title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be described as many things, but loveable is not usually …
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"In fine, caricature is rough truth." George Meredith, The Egoist...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:59AMAt this point, violinist Xiang Yu sounds like a mature artist ready to commence a major career.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 09:59AMNeil Patrick Harris officially returned to Broadway last night at the Belasco Theatre, in the new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the musical with book by John Cameron Mitchell and …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMThis year's East Bonnet competition was filled with delights, from a hilarious opening number with Rory O'Malley as an ambitious actor and Michael Riedel as Satan, to the roof-raising finale…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 09:57AMOur meta take on D.C.'s theater prom: The Helen Hayes Awards Awards (no, that's not a typo) [Arts Desk]
The latest Captain America movie features a scene in the National Air and Space Museu…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 09:55AMWilliam Shakespeare's 450th birthday falls on Wednesday, per historians' best reckoning in the absence of ironclad documentation. It’s time to remember that “in delay there lies …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:55AMI am not inclined to gush, but gush away I shall over the most delightful new musical in many a season, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, which blew onto the stage of the Seattle Repertory Theatre…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:30AMAustralian Cast of Rocky Horror Show perform 'Time Warp/Sweet Transvestite'
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Linked From Theatre People Australia at 09:22AMThe generosity of theatre fans during six weeks of fundraising by 57 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies helped push the 28th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition to another re…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMWatch The Drama League's 2014 Awards Nomination announcement, this morning at 1100 AM, by Judith Light and Christopher Sieber. The pair will announce the for Distinguished Production of a Pl…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMThe Tony Awards will unveil the first ever Tony Awards Pop-Up Shop at the Paramount Hotel on Friday, April 25th. The Tony Awards Pop-Up Shop, located at the Paramount Hotel in the heart of…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMOn April 25, the Tony Awards unveils its first-ever pop-up shop, at NYC’s Paramount Hotel.
Linked From Tony Awards at 09:07AMI and progeny had a great time over Easter weekend, with a day trip down to Philadelphia and a pilgrimage to a place I’d long wanted to visit, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:05AM
The show opened last night to rave reviews, and a screaming standing ovation from a star-studded opening night audience. Scroll down as Walter McBride brings you full coverage of the night, …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMDisney and Sonia Friedman Productions are delighted to announce casting for the forthcoming stage production of Shakespeare in Love. The announcement coincides with the 450th anniversary of …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMWSC Avant Bard’s next production, Nero/Pseudo, is world premiere glam rock musical—with book and lyrics by Richard Byrne, and original music by two indie rock luminaries: Jon Langford (o…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31AMShakespeare's Globe Theater aims to take the Bard's iconic play to every country in the world. They'll perform everywhere from prestigious theaters to Pacific island beaches.
Linked From National Public Radio at 08:30AMGuy Mignault mixes eras in costumes, music and sets for Théâtre français de Toronto’s Les Précieuses ridicules, opening April 25 at Berkeley Street Theatre
Linked From Toronto Star at 08:30AMKhovanskygate is a version of Mussorgsky's opera with irresistible imaginative panache, says Rupert Christiansen
Linked From The Telegraph at 08:17AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news the 2014 Drama League nominations will…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:17AMA big-screen adaption of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine Broadway classic Into the Woods is scheduled to be released this Christmas, but that had little to do with NextStop Theatre Company…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 08:10AMEpisode 89: Make a Mission Statement for Your Drama Classroom Discover drama teacher Amy Patel’s process for creating a mission statement with her students. Show Notes Free Live Training &…
Linked From Theatrefolk at 08:00AM
On the Bard's 450th birthday, find out how Shakespeare became Shakespeare. A new play based on the film Shakespeare in Love, adapted by Lee Hall, has its world premiere in the West End in Ju…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMOn Shakespeare's 450th birthday, Dominic Cavendish reveals 10 little-known facts about two of the Bard's most famous plays
Linked From The Telegraph at 07:55AMA little late here, but Happy Easter everybody! Easter time is a very exciting time to the Broadway community. Each year around this time, the theatre community comes together for an inc…
Linked From BroadwayAudience.com at 07:40AMA game, entertaining, but clunky version of a Dickens classic, with songs, dance and a cast of thousands. By Joel Benjamin The Royal Shakespeare Company...…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 07:18AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:16AMThe upcoming shows include the UK premiere of a Noel Coward work, new shows from the US and some rediscoveries
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:15AMFrom Cleopatra to Richard III, find out which characters they chose
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:15AMConstellation Theatre, which has built its reputation on authentic stagings of classical plays, announced that its three-play 2014-2015 season will consist of two relatively modern plays and…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:09AMToday is the anniversary of the release date of the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle short The Butcher Boy (1917). This unremarkable little short is nowadays somewhat unduly enshrined i…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 07:05AMA V&A Museum competition to find the best Shakespeare cake has led to Much Ado About Muffin
Linked From The Telegraph at 07:04AMBy Aaron Hunt In her autobiography, “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,” Maria von Trapp wrote of her confusion when the Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey encouraged her to forsake her…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 07:00AM
Gandini Juggling's witty circus show Smashed opens at the Udderbelly in London tonight. To celebrate, here's a selection of clips showing great jugglers operating at full stretchSome years a…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:55AMThis musicalised adaptation of Oscar Wilde novel is a theatrical stinker, says Dominic Cavendish
Linked From The Telegraph at 06:55AMNeil Patrick Harris brings Broadway pizazz to downtown rock musical
Linked From CurtainUp at 06:43AMJames Graham's latest play examines the issues with online privacy
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:15AMAs the Bard reaches his 450th birthday, more names for the upcoming stage-to-screen adaptation have been unveiled
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Linked From New York Magazine at 06:15AMNeil Patrick Harris spectacularly destroys the shackles of “Dougie Howser, M.D.” and triumphs as East German transgender rock star Hedwig.
Linked From geeksout.org at 06:05AMA TOOTHLESS LION James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter is a brilliant study in castle intrigue laced with deceit and deception, alliances and allegiances, backstabbing and double dealing. The…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:05AMUNBEREAVABLE Bekah Brunstetter’s Be a Good Little Widow is awash with structural issues (ambiguous timeline, disconnected scenes), trite themes and relationships, and a refusal to penetrat…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:05AMEight days before the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced, the Outer Critics Circle have weighed in with contenders for their kudos. Winners will be revealed on May 13 and fe…
Linked From Gold Derby at 06:05AMNominees for the 63rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on April 22. (Read full report here.)
Winners will be revealed on May 13 and feted at Sardi's on May 22. …
Linked From Gold Derby at 06:05AMAs New York's museums are once again starting to present dance performances, choreographers are finding that they are not easy spaces to adapt to.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:04AM Today is the birthday of Lee Tung Foo (1875-1966). Born in California, Lee was a Chinese American singer in vaudeville from the mid 1890s through around 1890. Lee was formally trained, an…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 06:04AMProducer Jeffrey Finn (“Seminar,” “Scandalous,” “Dead Accounts”) will shepherd new play “An Act of God” to Broadway, where the show — ba…
Linked From Variety at 06:03AMYou could forgive John Cameron Mitchell for feeling a sense of ownership of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the 1998 musical he and Stephen Trask wrote. He also created the title r…
Linked From Variety at 06:03AMSHAKESPEARE: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Director Michael Fentiman, actors Katy Stephens (Petruchio) and Forbes Masson (Katherina) talk to Judi Herman about the RSC's First Encounters version of…
Linked From Theatre Voice at 06:03AMActor-director, who's 'obsessed by Shakespeare,' doing one-night solo show as rehearsals for new musical 'Dog and Pony' begin.
Linked From The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:02AMNEW YORK - By now, some young musical-theater fans have received an email from Stephen Schwartz asking them to stop illegally downloading sheet music from any of his shows.
Linked From Philly.com at 06:02AMIn “The December Project,” legendary “Kabbalah and LSD”-rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi talks about being old through the voice of Sara Davidson.
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Birmingham Repertory Theatre will be the home of this year’s Be Festival, which celebrates European culture, after the event was forced to relocate from the factory it previously occupied.…
Linked From The Stage at 05:54AMHow do we balance the right to privacy with the demands of security, in a post-Snowden age? An age where we also, quite voluntarily, upload reams of information about ourselves every day? Pr…
Linked From The Independent at 05:54AMDonmar Warehouse, London: For once, you are requested to leave your phone on at the theatre. It will become an integral part of the first act of Privacy, James Graham's interactive new …
Linked From The Stage at 05:53AMCrazy Coqs, London: While singer/songwriter Amanda McBroom is no stranger to London audiences, this is the first time that she has performed in the capital with husband, the singer George Ba…
Linked From The Stage at 05:53AMRoyal and Derngate, Northampton: James Dacre's inaugural season as artistic director at the Royal and Derngate continues with Tamsin Oglesby's new version of George Feydeau's …
Linked From The Stage at 05:53AMPalace Theatre, Watford: A smart two-hander, An Intervention begins with a drink-fuelled confrontation between A, a young woman who has just been on an anti-war protest, and her best friend,…
Linked From The Stage at 05:53AMThe Broadway premiere of the John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, opened on Broadway April 22 foll…
Linked From Playbill at 05:16AMAdapted by Linnie Reedman and with music by Joe Evans, Oscar Wilde’s only novel – the more scandalous original version serialised in 1890, which Wilde himself later expurgated – finds …
Linked From The Arts Desk at 05:11AMI hardly knew anything about Shakespeare as a schoolboy and it was only when attending my first acting classes, when we sallow and uncouth students were required to do a speech each week to …
Linked From The Arts Desk at 05:11AM...The weaver in A Midsummer Night's Dream from the constable in Measure for Measure, that is. Test your Shakespeare knowledge
Linked From The Telegraph at 05:00AM
This St George's Day marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. To mark the occasion, take a look behind the scenes at the Royal Shakespeare Company's rehearsals for He…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:53AMCould Richard III handle Hamlet in a punch-up? Is Benedick more fanciable than Beatrice? Is Falstaff craftier than Cleopatra? Celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday by pitting his characters…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:53AMWe asked readers to record themselves reading their most treasured lines from Shakespeare's plays. Here are our favourite responses what other quotes would you add?To mark the 450th anniver…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:53AM“Nobody told me it was going to be this noisy going deaf.”
Linked From The Idiolect at 04:23AMWhy’s Wondy suddenly an enemy of the people? Because Amazons Attack!
Linked From The Idiolect at 04:23AMThe Parricide traverses the life of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and exposes the torment of a writer forced to choose between passion and love.
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Linked From Theatre People Australia at 04:15AM
Internationally renowned, Cyrille's vocal stylings are synonymous with musical genius. Her culturally rich background has supplied her with the driving force of Dominican rhythm and the incr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMIn celebration of William Shakespeare's 450th birthday today, April 23, 2014, the Broadway League has announced a series of joint activities with World Book Night U.S, a non-profit campaign …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMThe company of the first North American tour of Wicked will welcome Emma Hunton as Elphaba today, April 23 in Richmond, VA.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMThe worldwide celebration of Shakespeare's 450th Birthday comes to New York at 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, in a concert of the award-winning Like You Like It, the musical based on the …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMThe Broadway Green Alliance BGA is sponsoring a textile drive for the theater industry and fans today, April 23rd from 1100am - 200pm in Duffy Square at 46th Street and Broadway. The collect…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMThe new Broadway play Mothers and Sons from 4-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, now playing at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street, will hold a special talkback tonight, April 23r…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMLessons Learned by Bebe Neuwirth will be featured on the next THE ARTS PROJECT WITH MADDIE ORTON, airing tonight, 423 at 8pm.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMStrindberg's African Dance of Deathby Chad DembskiYaël Farber is a multiple award-winning director and playwright of international acclaim. Her productions have toured the world extensively…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 01:02AM“Paul Robeson,” which starred James Earl Jones and opened on Broadway in 1978, was considered by black intellectuals to be insufficiently complex and eventually derailed the writer’s c…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:01AMLindsay, Maxamoo’s founder, and Nicole, from Mildly Bitter’s Musings, chat about the latest goings on in New York City theater, what was great, what was awful, and what we reco…
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Patrick Page and John Cullum star in this production from Manhattan Theatre Club.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:24AMThe new comedy will take on the Great White Way.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:24AMShakespeare's greatest drama, King Lear, takes some of the most prestigious stages in New York, with more than five productions scheduled for 2014.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:24AMJohn Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's rock musical is directed by Michael Mayer.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:24AMBroadway superstar and recognizable crossover entertainment personality Idina Menzel joins with director Michael Greif and bookwriterlyricist Brian Yorkey for a discussion of her new origina…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:12AMCASA VALENTINA, the new play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, began performances on April 1 at Manhattan Theatre Club's S…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:12AMRecognizable small screen star Matt Bomer shares his enthusiasm and passion for the new stage-to-screen iteration of Larry Kramer's acclaimed drama THE NORMAL HEART as part of a new intervie…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:12AMA first look at the talented cast of the new arena tour production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR was presented last week and a first look at Destiny's Child me…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:12AMProducer Jeffrey Finn Seminar, The Realistic Joneses announced today An Act of God, the stage adaptation of The Last Testament A Memoir By God, is headed to Broadway. The new Broadway comedy…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:12AMThe original Broadway cast recording for new musical IFTHEN, starring Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, is now available for pre-order.
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Linked From New York Magazine at 12:12AMPlaybill.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
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Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Judith Light and Tony Award nominee Christopher Sieber announce the 2014 Drama League Awards nominations April 23 at 11 AM at Sardi's.
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMThe concert version of the award-winning musical Like You Like It, based on As You Like It and set at a mall in the 1980s, is held April 23 at 54 Below in celebration of William Shakespeare&…
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMAward-winning composers Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty participate in the Drama League's Up Close series April 23 at 7 PM.
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMThe New York premiere of The Few, by award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter, begins performances at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater April 23 prior to an official opening May 8.
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMThe New York premiere of Tough Titty, by the late, award-winning playwright Oni Faida Lampley, is presented April 23-May 11 at the Paradise Factory in the East Village.
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMIrish Repertory Theatre concludes its 2013-14 season with a revival of Gardner McKay's Sea Marks, with performances beginning April 23.
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMThe company of the first North American tour of the hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Wicked welcomes Emma Hunton as Elphaba beginning April 23 in Richmond, VA, at the Altria Theat…
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMCasa Valentina, a new play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein about an upstate colony where heterosexual men dress as women, officially opens on Broadway April 23 at M…
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMThe Soho Rep world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon begins performances April 23 prior to an official opening May 4.
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMThe gangsters in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate implore the audience to "Brush up your Shakespeare." In honor of William Shakespeare's 450th birthday, Playbill will help reade…
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMWhere the principals of the Broadway play Casa Valentina pursued their college studies.
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMAn Act of God, a stage adaptation of the satirical publication "The Last Testament: A Memoir By God," will bow on Broadway in 2015, producer Jeffrey Finn announced April 23.
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Robin De Jesus, Teal Wicks and Natalie Weiss are among the performers set for Putting the Pieces Together: Volume 2, a benefit concert for autism awareness, April…
Linked From Playbill at 12:11AMGod is making His official Broadway debut, and it’s not in Mormon! A stage adaptation of The Last Testament: A Memoir By God by The Daily Show head writer and executive producer D…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:06AMHey, fellas! Pack up your dresses and eyeshadow, because Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina celebrates its Broadway opening on April 23 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The Manhattan …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:06AMWe don't often put up "process" videos for productions as our Video of the Week but this one, for Company Theatre's Belleville, is so quirky and endearing we had to share.(Read our review of…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:02AM Meryl Streep was honored with the 14th-Annual Monte Cristo Award at Edison Ballroom last night, presented by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 12:01AMThe new play by Emmy-winning former "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" writer David Javerbaum is based on his critically acclaimed book, "The Last Testament: A Memoir by God."read more
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