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 07:56AMHere 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…
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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 06:55AMNeil 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.
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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 …
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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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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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