Bree Greig, Veda Hille, J. Cameron Barnett, Selina Martin, Barry Mirochnick, Dmitry Chepovetsky in Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata. Photo by David Cooper. Another Hit Musical in BCBut is it t…

  In the classic 40s movie All About Eve, Bette Davis as Margo Channing utters the famous line, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” That’s pretty much the tone of Kimberly Demm…

Another night, another interesting triple from the New York City Ballet. I do wish they'd stop putting out a continuous, near unbroken stream of Balanchine, they have so much more variety in their rep, but on t…

Joins "Guiding Light"'s Kim ZimmerJohn Bixler (CRT's "Guys and Dolls") and Jan Radcliff (numerous roles at Michigan's Purple Ropse Theatre ) are the Equity actors joining  "Guiding Light" star Kim Zimme…

Ravi and Asha Jain’s comedy about the mismatched aims of an Indo-Canadian family’s visit to the homeland, a kind of parent-child dual memoir, is wry and enlightening theatre

NBC has picked up The New Normal, a comedy project from Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler, according to Deadline.com. As previously reported, Tony Award nominee Andrew Rannells will play one of the lead roles. The…

Nick Jonas Sings "I Believe in You" on Broadway http://www.howtosucceedbroadway.com Watch Nick Jonas sing "I Believe in You" in the hit Broadway musical HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT…

Operatic soprano and Tony-winner Patricia Neway, best known for her associations with Gian Carlo Menotti and Rodgers and Hammerstein, died peacefully in her home in Corinth, Vermont on January 24, 2012 of natur…

Additional casting has been announced for February installments of Celebrity Autobiography, to be performed in various locations around the country. Created by Eugene Pack and developed by Pack and Dayle Reyfe…

The originality of Fleur Elise Noble’s show lies in the fact that it plays with perception and is constantly breaking boundaries, writes Sarah Hemming

Tim Albery directs a sober, severe production and his vision, like Handel’s, is at its most concentrated in solo arias, writes Andrew Clark

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The reliable, ubiquitous Beth Leavel pours so much physical and vocal energy into the role of Berthe that one wonders how she can possibly do it eight times a week even for this limited run.

NICK JONAS, who is currently starring in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, visited Kelly Ripa and guest host Cat Deeley on Live! with Kelly yesterday.  Watch the videos below to see Nick show …

Roundabout Theatre Company recently announced the theatre organizations permanent archives, which document the companys illustrious 46-year production history. The archives are a resource for the theatre commun…

Cynthia Nixon gives a fearless, heartfelt performance as a stage-four cancer patient.

I've been looking forward to "The Enchanted Island" for ages. Fans may mock Peter Gelb for suggesting modern audiences aren't particularly responsive to four hour Baroque epics, but by and large I think he's at…

An Argentinean tour de force about dreaming and loss closes the monthlong Out There series.

Honey 2 - Katerina Graham Dancing - Official Dance Scene Official dance scene from Honey 2 featuring Kat Graham dancing to Claude Racine's "Back Up." Blu-ray/DVD Release Date - February 21, 2012…

    City Garage’s controversial production of Neil LaBute’s 1989 play, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: Scenes of Intolerance is ongoing at their gallery-of-residence at Bergamot Station. C…

Because "Green Porno" and "Botany of Desire" were already taken...

The Road to Mecca - Opening Night Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca opened at the American Airlines Theatre on January 17, 2012. Tony Award®, Emmy Award® and Golden Globe Award® winner Rosemary…

Echo Theater Company will present a special performance of Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear to benefit Peace Over Violence, a social service agency dedicated to the elimination of sexual and domestic violen…

Opera legend Placido Domingo will play the title role in Opera Orchestra of New York's presentation of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday, March 7 at 8pm. Alberto Ver…

Frances Ruffelle, Amanda Seyfried, and Colm Wilkinson will appear in the upcoming film adaptation of the musical Les Miserables, according to published reports. Ruffelle, who originated the role of Eponine in …

Over the years, Julia Murney (Wicked, Lennon) has had a bevy of unique experiences in the theatre. Whether it's an argument with an all-too-observant fan over whether or not she was wearing a wig in The Wild…

Meet the first-nighters at the opening night of the Broadway premiere of Margaret Edson's Wit starring Cynthia Nixon.

Meet the first-nighters at the opening night of the Broadway premiere of Margaret Edson's Wit starring Cynthia Nixon.

Caroline, or Change Tonya Pinkins of the original Broadway production performs "Lot's Wife" at the Tony Awards. No copyright infringement intended. http://www.songsfromthemusicals.com From: sftM…

Anything Goes - The Perfect Broadway Getaway! Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony Award winning Anything Goes makes for the perfect Broadway getaway! Now playing at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre! For more i…

THEATER REVIEWS: 2012 Rhinoceros Theater Festival's "American Drink Book" ★★★½ and "I Love You Permanently" ★★½ NINA METZ reviews 2012 Rhinoceros Theater Festival's "American Dr…

THEATER REVIEW: "Love and Money" at Steep Theatre ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Love and Money" at Steep Theatre ★★★½ ... Most of us know someone who has been laid off. And many o…

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn was feted in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning for his support of the arts by Americans for the Arts , a nonprofit arts-advocacy group.

THEATER REVIEW: "Clutter: The True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out" at the Greenhouse Theater Center ★★ THEATER REVIEW: "Clutter: The True Story of the Collyer Brothers W…

THEATER REVIEW: "Invisible Man" at Court Theatre ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Invisible Man" at Court Theatre ★★★½ ... If Ralph Ellison's anti-hero comes to any conclusions after…

The City Lit Theater Company , a long-established Chicago theater company that has been most recently performing in the Edgewater Presbyterian Church, is eyeing a move to Evanston.

THEATER REVIEW: "Black Pearl Sings" at Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Black Pearl Sings" at Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★½ ... Seeing E. Faye Butler walk out on s…

THEATER REVIEW: "Race" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Race" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ ... There is no shrewder scribe than that ideologically slippery writ…

William Shatner is headed to Chicago. The former "Star Trek" star, Shakespearean, recently deceased Priceline.com spokesman, and all-around living iconoclast is to tour his upcoming Broadway solo show to severa…

THEATER REVIEW: "The Girl in the Yellow Dress" at Next Theatre in Evanston ★½ THEATER REVIEW: "The Girl in the Yellow Dress" at Next Theatre in Evanston ★½ ... In this talky, clunky and pretentio…

THEATER REVIEW: "Mamma Mia!" at the Oriental Theatre ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Mamma Mia!" at the Oriental Theatre ★★½ ... It will be 13 years in April - oh, the horror of it! - since I fi…

THEATER REVIEW: "The Feast: An Intimate Tempest" ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "The Feast: An Intimate Tempest" ★★½ ... Imagine that William Shakespeare's masterpiece,"The Tempest," contained n…

THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½ ... If you like your Mamas Ro…

Lynne Taylor-Corbett will direct writer/performer Joanna Rush in her solo show, Asking For It at Lincoln Center at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on Thursday, March 29 at 8:30pm. The piece -- wh…

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Big River A video montage featuring the 2003 Broadway revival production of Big River. No copyright infringement intended. http://www.songsfromthemusicals.com From: sftMusicals Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 0…

Colm Wilkinson, who originated the role of Jean Valjean in both the London and Broadway productions of Les Miserables, will play the role of the Bishop of Digne in the upcoming film adaptation of the musical, a…

It feels odd to recommend a play where the character dies and we know that before we enter the theatre. (Come to think of it we do that all the time with Shakespeare….) Nevertheless, get thee to this theatre…

Why doesn’t Spider-Man proclaim in its ads that it’s in its “Second Smash Year!”? Or does management feel that it can’t use that line until June, which will be the first anniversary of its opening?

Matt Bomer, who recently signed on to play Felix Turner in the film adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, is in negotiations to guest star on the Fox hit series "Glee," according to TVLin…

A look at what "Naked Boys Singing!" leaves behind when it closes Off Broadway after 13 years in New York.

Stage and screen star David Arquette will guest star in the Season 3 finale of the ABC comedy, Cougar Town, according to TVLine.com. Arquette appeared opposite Annette Bening in the Geffen Playhouse's pro…

The Anything Goes star discusses his new role in City Center Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along

BroadwayWorld reported yesterday that when the highly anticipated movie version of LES MIS opens in theaters later this year, original cast members Colm Wilkinson and Frances Ruffelle, who created the roles of …

When we last left the 63 casts of students participating in this year’s Junior Theater Festival, they were off to one of seven rooms. In each, they’d perform what could be called junior versions of Broadway…

Public Talk at Yale Rep LoungeJohn Freedman , theater critic of The Moscow Times , and an expert on contemporary Russian theater, will be visiting Yale School of Drama next Thursday and Friday, Feb. 2 and 3.…

John Hurt has been named as the recipient of The British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award, which will be presented to him at BAFTA's Orange British…

There's not much time left in the Broadway run of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish. I understand that a West Coast tour will happen later this year, followed perhaps by a movie.

When I see a play like this, once I get over the shock, I think about all the people who worked on it, how they stepped up to the plate and gave it their best. Because the one thing you can say about theatre i…

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle's opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics will be inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, according to published reports. Boyle's theme is "…

New York's "other Met" offers a rare opportunity to see the Menotti's opera which actually opened on Broadway and nabbed a Pulitzer Prize as a DramaCritics Circle award for best musical of 1950

Starlight Express The original Broadway company perform "Starlight Express" and "Light at the End of the Tunnel" at the Tony Awards. No copyright infringement intended. http://www.songsfro…

These days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message boards main and local, we…

The national tour of Broadway's The Book of Mormon has announced that it will play a two-week engagement, February 5-February 17 of 2013, at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. The winner of nine Tony Awa…

Thom Fogarty will direct his own adaptation of Ten Tall Tales About the Men I Love, based on the short story collection of the same name by Ronn Smith, to be presented at Judson Memorial Church on February 24 a…

There is nothing more thrilling than watching paint dry in Red, the riveting bio-drama by John Logan about the cerebral abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and his determined young assistant. The Ton…

The national tour of the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon will play a two-week engagement at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, February 5-17, 2013. The winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, T…

What’s The Matter With Henry?, featuring music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen (The Opposite of Sex) with a book and lyrics by Dan Elish (13), will be presented Feb. 2-3 in invitation-only staged readings …

Ari Butler, Geraint Wyn Davies, Natalie Kuhn, and Liza Vann will star in Jack Canfora's Poetic License at 59E59 Theaters. Evan Bergman will direct the production, which will receive its New York City premi…

Pacific Overtures Mako and the original Broadway company perform "Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea" at the Tony Awards. No copyright infringement intended. http://www.songsfromthemusi…

Tony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs will debut their new comedy cabaret, Let's Pretend We're Famous, at Plays & Players Theatre, March 6-25. Owen Robbins will serve as musical director. A follow…

They're Playing Our Song Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz of the original Broadway production perform the title track "They're Playing Our Song" at the Tony Awards. No copyright infringement int…

Bernadette Peters, Will Chase, Michael Mayer and more joined the stars of the new hourlong drama-with-music "Smash" for a world premiere event held Jan. 26 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wit, Margaret Edson's play about a starchy poetry professor facing cancer and mortality, premiered at the Friedman Theatre this week. And it's as big a critical hit on Broadway as it was Off-Broadway 14…

After premiering to acclaim on Broadway Feb. 24, 2011, The Book of Mormon, as previously reported, will begin its national tour Aug. 14 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, CO. It will continue through …

Earlier this week, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING welcomed Nick Jonas in the role of J. Pierrepont Finch and Michael Urie as Bud Frump In the video belowthe duo quizzes eachother on how much t…

After reports in the Daily Mail that Frances Ruffelle and Colm Wilkinson have joined the cast of Les Miserables' upcoming screen adaptation, rumours are now rife that more original cast members could sign up fo…

On The Twentieth Century John Cullum, Judy Kaye, Imogene Coca, Kevin Kline and the original Broadway company perform "On The Twentieth Century" at the Tony Awards. No copyright infringement intended…

Jokes fly and hidden agendas unfold as two vastly different generations of characters tip-toe the delicate dance of social politics, pitting race against real estate at the crux of two seminal events - 50 years…

New York Interart Theatre and Royal Family Productions RFP will extend Gary Duggans Dedalus Lounge, directed by RFPs Chris Henry, with original musical by Anthony Rapp and Daniel A. Weiss and choreography by Jo…